sis. not a sister, but a sis. it means the sex of the body i was born with the endevery i was asigned at birth and my personal identity all match. that doesn t make me normal or natural? it just makes me, well, sis. i point this out, because the idea of one s gender not matching one s sex is novel and assumed to be ab normal. that means many transpeople have to endure widespread you ignore answer and intolerance. when we see people like chaz bono and others, we are encouraged to see the spectacular and not others. when amanda simpson was named to the u.s. commerce department, she was the first transgendered person appointed to a presidential cabinet. being the first sucks, and i d rather not be the first, but
administration has been surprisingly good at in health care, in housing, you know. i iraq. and other issues. very workmanlike administrations. one of the contracts, barack obama, rhetorically powerful. when he wants to be. when he did the speech on race during the campaign. we will get this done. they arer ins. they are nertds. they belong in nerdland. you do need both. and i hate to use this term. you need to have the branding campaign with it. you do this agregressive work behind the scenes and it sort of magically appears, people don t know to give the obama administration credit for something like that, and they see he doesn t sign this executive order and that s very public, and you are just fighting us now, not helping anymore. it impacts what policy gets
fund to get their apparatus in power to not be regulated. i have to disagree on one point. no policy in the obama administration, bought there was a policy under bush. i know, i worked there. weren t you there? i should have brought my prop. it called the national energy plan. started writing it in january 2001 and launched it in may of 2001. took five months to write. we had recommendations, which included relaxing some of the extreme regulatory environment that was going on at the time, and we had executive and legislative branch prescriptions, for every cycle issue, whether it was conventional uses of energy, nuclear energy, or renewable energy, and we followed that plan to a t. so we had a plan. but i ve got to say, this is one of the things that is really hard for me as someone living on the gulf coast. the issue of gas and oil is very much about jobs. about life-style, all those things, and then bp, which will
shelter and if they get hud money, you can t discriminate, pe obama administration bans discrimination from housing entities, getting government money and a month or so later, another aspect of the administration doesn t ban it the hud rule is meaningful policy change, one that might get them in a lot of trouble and the failure to sign the executive order, feels like, well, a failure. how do we assess the us are kai wright, author of drifting toward love. and mara keisling, joy-ann reid, and allison kilkenny, reporter. all right, folks. is there the obama administration succeeding or
really loved that one. with the whales singing and stuff. awesome. totally odd. okay. last one, last one here. i tasted a beer and tried a cigarette once as a wayward teenager but i never did it again. yes. our friend mitt. somehow wish could have had, you know, more than one. he won t be holding any beer summits? no beer sumited. an iced tea summit. a little tough on our friend mitt and mr. spock. one other graphic i wanted to share. in putting together, lorena and i decided that, yes, perhaps mitt and spock are very similar. but another surprising similarity in american politics and that is between captain kirk and president clinton. totally. clearly we could, in fact, do this same game with the two of them. you re absolutely right. they are both aging nicely. yeah, they are both aging