I wrote this comment at the New York Times:
I'm almost done reading "Fear, Trump in the White House" by Bob Woodward. This priceless book repeatedly explains why Trump is not qualified to president. I can't imagine anything more important than getting rid of this terrible mistake.
I am convinced Michael Bloomberg is the best person for the job and I'm voting for him. If the Democrats nominate anti-business liberal extremists like Senator Elizabeth Warren or Senator Bernie Sanders then Trump would be president for 4 more years.
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Somebody else wrote this comment:
Of course Bloomberg would make a better president than Trump. The neighbor's cat would make a better president than Trump.
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Mayor Bloomberg Stands Up for Atheists
Monday, 08/01/2011
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg did something on Friday that few mainstream American politicians ever take the opportunity to do: he publicly acknowledged nontheistic Americans and their equal rights before the law.
Responding to criticisms of the recent lawsuit filed by American Atheists, an SCA member organization, to prevent a pair of cross-shaped steel beams found in the World Trade Center ruins from being included in the government-funded National September 11 Memorial and Museum because of its treatment as a religious symbol of Christianity, Bloomberg said the following:
"You've got to be careful in criticizing people. No. 1, they [American Atheists] have a right to sue, and we'll see what the judge says. This group of atheists, they're free in our country to not believe and not practice, and we should defend their right to do that, just as we should defend individuals' rights to practice and to believe."
This is exactly the kind of thing SCA hopes more officials will stand up and say about nontheistic Americans. Notice how Bloomberg isn't saying he agrees with the lawsuit. He's simply making the point that atheists are Americans, too. We are part of the cultural fabric, we have equal rights before the law, and our fellow citizens should not only respect but defendthose rights -- as we will theirs.
Sadly, not all Americans have followed Bloomberg's example. Some people have even taken to posting violent wishes and death threats targeted at American Atheists on Facebook. How Christian of them.
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Washington Post: Bloomberg takes stand on church v. state
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
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