Sunday, August 10, 2014
War is Not Healthy
Posted on FB 10/3/12: International Day of Peace's photo:
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." ~ Bertrand Russell
GOPs: Please Send Away the Clowns
First posted on FB 9/18/12:
Republicans friends and kin. I can no longer stand to watch your disgraceful self-destructive path. You have now hit rock bottom. Please get into rehab and heal thyself. Stop being the party of hate and no. President Obama may not be the best president in history, but he's far from the worst. How can we do better as a nation if you insist on running corrupt clowns for candidates who are hell bound on destroying our economy for the sake of partisanship? Please focus on ideas to improve our country not to tear it apart with this constant temper tantrum of what you are against and this class war that disproportionately benefits the rich at the expense of everyone else. Kick the moronic anti-science, anti-education Tea bagger hyperbole to the curb and restore fiscally responsible conservative values. This means that rich bums like Romney also have to pay their fair share. I was raised in a can do family, that believed in hard work and American ingenuity. I believe we can make America self reliant in terms of our energy needs and that we can learn to live more balanced, sustainable lives that are more in tune with the earth and other peoples of the world. The United States can once again be number one in education, science, the arts and technology. But we conservatives and progressives BOTH need to do a better job of thinking positively, advancing our very best ideas, and consistently striving to achieve excellence. We need to stop settling. Send away the clowns.
Republicans friends and kin. I can no longer stand to watch your disgraceful self-destructive path. You have now hit rock bottom. Please get into rehab and heal thyself. Stop being the party of hate and no. President Obama may not be the best president in history, but he's far from the worst. How can we do better as a nation if you insist on running corrupt clowns for candidates who are hell bound on destroying our economy for the sake of partisanship? Please focus on ideas to improve our country not to tear it apart with this constant temper tantrum of what you are against and this class war that disproportionately benefits the rich at the expense of everyone else. Kick the moronic anti-science, anti-education Tea bagger hyperbole to the curb and restore fiscally responsible conservative values. This means that rich bums like Romney also have to pay their fair share. I was raised in a can do family, that believed in hard work and American ingenuity. I believe we can make America self reliant in terms of our energy needs and that we can learn to live more balanced, sustainable lives that are more in tune with the earth and other peoples of the world. The United States can once again be number one in education, science, the arts and technology. But we conservatives and progressives BOTH need to do a better job of thinking positively, advancing our very best ideas, and consistently striving to achieve excellence. We need to stop settling. Send away the clowns.
Poll Watcher
First posted on FB 9/11/12:
Once again on election day I will be a poll watcher and I will be observing not only the polls but the potential vigilantes and I will do my small part to ensure that any would be intimidation is kept at a distance from American citizens performing their civic duty. The idea that there is a concerted effort on the Right to disenfranchise voters in order to steal an election still blows my mind. I recognize not all Conservatives are involved but their leaders are tolerating, even encouraging it. So I will stand watch in solidarity with the new citizen and the elderly person who hasn't driven for years and the person who's polling place has changed because they lost their home to foreclosure and the young first time voter because freedom has never been free.
Response to:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/
Once again on election day I will be a poll watcher and I will be observing not only the polls but the potential vigilantes and I will do my small part to ensure that any would be intimidation is kept at a distance from American citizens performing their civic duty. The idea that there is a concerted effort on the Right to disenfranchise voters in order to steal an election still blows my mind. I recognize not all Conservatives are involved but their leaders are tolerating, even encouraging it. So I will stand watch in solidarity with the new citizen and the elderly person who hasn't driven for years and the person who's polling place has changed because they lost their home to foreclosure and the young first time voter because freedom has never been free.
Response to:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/
Let's Be Clear
First posted on my FB page 8/24/12:
LET’S BE CLEAR AND FACE FACTS:
It’s NOT Job-Killing Obama Care but LIFE SAVING HEALTH CARE;
Millions more have access to life saving health care because of ACA. That’s a fact.
1% DON’T CREATE JOBS, THEY KILL JOBS; Big Corporations cut jobs and export them overseas to improve their bottom line and appease stock holders.
MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS ARE THE REAL JOB CREATORS; We create demand, by living, working and consuming locally, driving the need for services and consumer items.
GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT A HOAX, IT’S HAPPENING; DEAL WITH IT.
Because of Congressional Obstructionists we have done nothing to prepare for changing climate, our farmers are suffering, more than 50% of all counties in the U.S. have been declared disasters, our food supply is in critical danger and still
CONGRESS FAILS TO ACT.
IT’S NOT OBAMA’S FAILED ECONOMIC POLICIES; IT’S CONGRESS FAILING TO ACT.
The stage was set by failed trickle down policies of Republicans Obstructionists and the 1%, and Deregulators collaborating with Clinton, Bush and Congress; ALL THESE FAILED LAISSEX FAIRE NEO-LIBERAL POLICIES CREATED THE CURRENT ECONOMIC RECESSION AND MORE OF THE SAME WILL NOT FIX THE PROBLEM.
President Obama has proposed a JOB ACT and numerous other measures over the last 3½ years but CONGRESS HAS FAILED TO ACT WITH THE STATED PURPOSE OF SACRIFICING OUR ECONOMY FOR THE SAKE OF RECLAIMING POLITICAL POWER.
Governor Romney proposes a continuation of the FAILED TRICKLE DOWN POLICIES and REPEAL the few strides Americans have made over the last 4 years, i.e. repeal of Affordable Care Act, raise interest rates on student loan, reduce Pell Grant eligibility, and bring back middle man loan agents in the student loan process (the latter has led to college students and recent graduates being $1 trillion in debt).
Despite what people may think, it took over a decade to recover from the Great Depression. It took a huge Jobs Program (WPA) to keep us from going under and we still didn’t really turn the corner into prosperity until millions of Americans returned home from War and were given opportunities for education and home ownership through government programs. This was NOT FREE HANDOUTS but opportunities to work for a living and to qualify for loan and grant programs with eligibility based on time served in our military. We can do this again, but we need Congress on the side of Middle Class American people, NOT the 1%.
FIRE CONGRESSIONAL OBSTRUCTIONISTS SO WE CAN REBUILD OUR ECONOMY AND GET MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS BACK TO WORK FOR THE SAKE OF OUR GREAT NATION’S FUTURE.
LET’S BE CLEAR AND FACE FACTS:
It’s NOT Job-Killing Obama Care but LIFE SAVING HEALTH CARE;
Millions more have access to life saving health care because of ACA. That’s a fact.
1% DON’T CREATE JOBS, THEY KILL JOBS; Big Corporations cut jobs and export them overseas to improve their bottom line and appease stock holders.
MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS ARE THE REAL JOB CREATORS; We create demand, by living, working and consuming locally, driving the need for services and consumer items.
GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT A HOAX, IT’S HAPPENING; DEAL WITH IT.
Because of Congressional Obstructionists we have done nothing to prepare for changing climate, our farmers are suffering, more than 50% of all counties in the U.S. have been declared disasters, our food supply is in critical danger and still
CONGRESS FAILS TO ACT.
IT’S NOT OBAMA’S FAILED ECONOMIC POLICIES; IT’S CONGRESS FAILING TO ACT.
The stage was set by failed trickle down policies of Republicans Obstructionists and the 1%, and Deregulators collaborating with Clinton, Bush and Congress; ALL THESE FAILED LAISSEX FAIRE NEO-LIBERAL POLICIES CREATED THE CURRENT ECONOMIC RECESSION AND MORE OF THE SAME WILL NOT FIX THE PROBLEM.
President Obama has proposed a JOB ACT and numerous other measures over the last 3½ years but CONGRESS HAS FAILED TO ACT WITH THE STATED PURPOSE OF SACRIFICING OUR ECONOMY FOR THE SAKE OF RECLAIMING POLITICAL POWER.
Governor Romney proposes a continuation of the FAILED TRICKLE DOWN POLICIES and REPEAL the few strides Americans have made over the last 4 years, i.e. repeal of Affordable Care Act, raise interest rates on student loan, reduce Pell Grant eligibility, and bring back middle man loan agents in the student loan process (the latter has led to college students and recent graduates being $1 trillion in debt).
Despite what people may think, it took over a decade to recover from the Great Depression. It took a huge Jobs Program (WPA) to keep us from going under and we still didn’t really turn the corner into prosperity until millions of Americans returned home from War and were given opportunities for education and home ownership through government programs. This was NOT FREE HANDOUTS but opportunities to work for a living and to qualify for loan and grant programs with eligibility based on time served in our military. We can do this again, but we need Congress on the side of Middle Class American people, NOT the 1%.
FIRE CONGRESSIONAL OBSTRUCTIONISTS SO WE CAN REBUILD OUR ECONOMY AND GET MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS BACK TO WORK FOR THE SAKE OF OUR GREAT NATION’S FUTURE.
Iraqi Refugees Caught in Limbo
From my FB page first posted 8/23/12:
Reposted from wagingnonviolence.org: "From the Frying Pan into the fire:
"To be sure, the cost was high — the blood and treasure of the United States and also of the Iraqi people. But those lives have not been lost in vain — they gave birth to an independent, free and sovereign Iraq. And because of the sacrifices made, these years of war have now yielded to a new era of opportunity … We may have ended the war, but we are not walking away from our responsibility." ~ Obama. Sure, it was Bush's war, but history will show that most Americans supported it and then we as a nation failed to take responsibility for the aftermath. This story is about Iraqi refugees caught in limbo because of our actions and inactions:
http://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/08/
GAME CHANGER
GAME CHANGER:
FOR A SERIES OF YEARS I STARTED POSTING ON FB INSTEAD OF HERE. SO I WILL DRAW FROM MY MOST EARNEST AND THOUGHTFUL POSTS FROM AUGUST 2012 TO AUGUST 2014
FOR A SERIES OF YEARS I STARTED POSTING ON FB INSTEAD OF HERE. SO I WILL DRAW FROM MY MOST EARNEST AND THOUGHTFUL POSTS FROM AUGUST 2012 TO AUGUST 2014
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