THANK YOU, Mr. President.
From the moment he ran through tremendous opposition and controversy to
now directly after one of the most hate-infused constitutional changes in
the North Carolina vote sowing discrimination into their state
constitution, I say Mr. President thank you so very much. I ask the gay
community and ALL those who are friends, parents and co-workers of
LGBT persons to come out en masse and support the president in
November.
He has shown time and again whether it's in the area
of foreign policy or now supporting a huge number in his constituency
and base the steel that Joe Biden said the president has in his spine.
Thank you again, Mr. President, you are saving lives. I think the arc of
the moral universe bends toward justice today and, in pertinent part to
your election as the first black president, there are many who are even
prouder to be Americans today.
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Not voting is NOT an option
Yesterday's election results tell a bone chilling story. If gay groups, unions, students, young people, Democrats, Independents
for rational thought and god knows how many other groups for progressive
change, do NOT come out STRONGLY in any way possible whether it's
marches, joining the 99% group, contributions, in the media or any other format one can think of to organize, then we deserve the fate we
will get. We will get a nation that is in character as it was in 1898 except the technological control these rancid reactionary fascist-like groups will have will be stunning.
Power harnessed by the Tea Bag and other Republicans could cost the president his office and it ultimately could cost lives. Make no mistake about if you belong to any of the above mentioned groups the life risked whether its through no health care, no job, no home, no education and little representation in both state and federal congresses and a Republican presidency, the life cost may be yours!
We cannot, We MUST NOT retreat but we must -- to use a Palin phrase (sorry) -- RELOAD!
Power harnessed by the Tea Bag and other Republicans could cost the president his office and it ultimately could cost lives. Make no mistake about if you belong to any of the above mentioned groups the life risked whether its through no health care, no job, no home, no education and little representation in both state and federal congresses and a Republican presidency, the life cost may be yours!
We cannot, We MUST NOT retreat but we must -- to use a Palin phrase (sorry) -- RELOAD!
Please consider--PLEASE read
I know times are hard, they are hard for so many including yours truly. STILL the election in Wisconsin to recall its Republican Governor Scott Walker is vitally important to us all. He has
ruined Wisconsin by driving up unemployment to Tower of Babel heights. Walker and so many other Republican politicos in our nation have fired thousands of
firemen, police, teachers and other public employees so necessary for a
functioning nation and he will do more destructive things if he is not defeated. Many other
Republican governors have ruined their states too taking tyrannical control
of towns especially towns that vote Democratic. These Republicans are
an assault on our democratic way of life.
Millions of signatures were collected from all strata of Wisconsin voters to call Walker back. The recall vote will be taken June 5 so there is little time to spare. If you are politically savvy at all you know this has HUGE ramifications for those of us who call ourselves progressive, Democratic, Independent and many others who know the Republican Party is toxic for our nation. It will send shock waves across the nation if Walker is defeated.
Millions of signatures were collected from all strata of Wisconsin voters to call Walker back. The recall vote will be taken June 5 so there is little time to spare. If you are politically savvy at all you know this has HUGE ramifications for those of us who call ourselves progressive, Democratic, Independent and many others who know the Republican Party is toxic for our nation. It will send shock waves across the nation if Walker is defeated.
We ALL have a vested interest in seeing Walker recalled. I ask IF YOU CAN PLEASE make a contribution through the sites below as I have felt compelled to do. It does not have to be much at all. It can be as little or as much as you can afford.
If Walker is recalled by electing the Democratic candidate Barrett it will send a chilling message to Republicans that reverberates for ALL of us. Republicans are doing things not seen since post Reconstruction. They are using all means illegal and legal to cut the vote of the poor the disabled, the sick, and the elderly through voter suppression techniques and voter ID laws. The money Walker has raised from outside groups is STAGGERING. We can beat them at their ugly game because we have the REAL force -- PEOPLE POWER.
Please consider no matter how small (or large) making a donation to this worthy cause! Recall Walker NOW, ask me how by scrolling below or merely Google Tom Barrett Wisconsin Recall.
Best,
Nat
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Tate, Recall Walker HQ
To: Natalie Rosen
Sent: Wed, May 9, 2012 12:16 am
Subject: FWD: 28 days to defeat Walker
From: Mike Tate, Recall Walker HQ
To: Natalie Rosen
Sent: Wed, May 9, 2012 12:16 am
Subject: FWD: 28 days to defeat Walker
Natalie --
I wanted to pass along this message from our next governor, Tom Barrett.
After months of historic division, job loss, criminal corruption and
partisan power grabs at the hands of Scott Walker, Tom Barrett will
offer Wisconsin a new start at healing our great state and beginning the
long job of repairing the devastation wrought by 17 months of
irresponsible rule.
In solidarity,
Mike Tate, Chair
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tom Barrett
Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:15 PM
Subject: 28 days to defeat Walker
To: Mike Tate
Mike --
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Tonight, I am humbled by and grateful for the support of Wisconsinites across our great state.
Since we began our campaign, I've traveled all across Wisconsin -- never once leaving our state -- to listen to the people.
What I've heard from Wisconsinites is that they want an end to the
political turmoil caused by Scott Walker, and they want their needs
placed first.
With you standing with me, that's what I plan to do. In the next 28
days, I'll work overtime fighting for the interests of Wisconsinites,
but to do so, I need your urgent help right now to kick-start our
neighbor-to-neighbor program.
Defeating Scott Walker and his entrenched, out-of-state special
interest allies will not be an easy task. Right now our campaign is up
47% to 46% in the polls, but we know that Walker and the Koch brothers
are ready to unload everything in their right-wing arsenal in a
desperate attempt to bring us down.
Scott Walker's failed agenda has led to unprecedented political turmoil
and a sputtering Wisconsin economy that leads the entire nation in job
loss.
But while we've been campaigning across Wisconsin, Walker has been
flying all over the country raising a record $25 million from right-wing
billionaires and lobbyists who want their interests placed ahead of
working people in our state.
Big money isn't going to win this fight. You are.
To win on June 5, we will need everyone who participated in this
improbable, people-powered movement to band together and work double
time talking to their friends, family and neighbors about the choice in
this historic election.
With your contribution of $12 right now,
you'll help us defeat Scott Walker and his corporate cash with an
unparalleled neighbor-to-neighbor program of people talking to people in
their front lawns, in their kitchens, and in their living rooms about
the future of our state.
It's time to put Wisconsin first so we can focus on jobs, on education,
and on restoring our tradition of open, honest government.
In the last 15 months, you've proved that winning this fight for
working people is possible, and I can't wait to see what you'll do in
the next 28 days to lead us to victory.
Thank you,
Tom Barrett
Authorized and Paid for by The Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Michael J. Tate, Chair
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Bomber in Plot on U.S. Airliner Is Said to Be a Double Agent
My Comment in relation to NYT article and post are here
If this proves to be true, the ever so capable president Obama adds another feather to his cap. I cannot think of one other president Democrat or certainly Republican who has been so foreign policy effective and right on the mark. From taking out of the Somali pirates, retrieval of two innocent women from N. Korea, to the killing of Alawaki, and the mother of all terrorists bin Laden I trust the president with my life and can EASILY vote for him another term. This is how foreign policy is conducted when you have BRILLIANCE at the helm.
On the economy too CLEARLY it is improving naturally not fast enough for the McDonald's generation American public. IF we had not had such a cruel, mean, and often racist Republican controlled House our economy would be in even better recovery. If not for one of the worst conservative five on the Supreme Court to possibly strike down the president's necessary and crown achievement health care the president's election would be assured. Defeat of any these things, however, will not matter because defeat will be hung around conservatives' necks.
My Point: The president is a STAR and the Republican party of old white men and some white women cannot admit this is so. But it does not matter what they admit. The US knows when it has elected a sterling example of leadership.
Good luck, Mr. President, this white woman's Jewish heart and my prayers are with you. My bet is on YOU to prevail!
If this proves to be true, the ever so capable president Obama adds another feather to his cap. I cannot think of one other president Democrat or certainly Republican who has been so foreign policy effective and right on the mark. From taking out of the Somali pirates, retrieval of two innocent women from N. Korea, to the killing of Alawaki, and the mother of all terrorists bin Laden I trust the president with my life and can EASILY vote for him another term. This is how foreign policy is conducted when you have BRILLIANCE at the helm.
On the economy too CLEARLY it is improving naturally not fast enough for the McDonald's generation American public. IF we had not had such a cruel, mean, and often racist Republican controlled House our economy would be in even better recovery. If not for one of the worst conservative five on the Supreme Court to possibly strike down the president's necessary and crown achievement health care the president's election would be assured. Defeat of any these things, however, will not matter because defeat will be hung around conservatives' necks.
My Point: The president is a STAR and the Republican party of old white men and some white women cannot admit this is so. But it does not matter what they admit. The US knows when it has elected a sterling example of leadership.
Good luck, Mr. President, this white woman's Jewish heart and my prayers are with you. My bet is on YOU to prevail!
Foreign Affair -- Mitt Romney's Waterloo
I send the following quote from
Huffington Post to our friends and allies who desperately want the re-election
of the president. This is, I believe, one of Romney’s most damning
indictments and in my mind HIS Waterloo
At
a town hall-style meeting Monday in Cleveland
"I'm
not familiar with that," Romney told the man who asked. The crowd booed.
"I didn't think I paid any foreign income taxes, but I'll be happy to take
a look at it."
In fact,
Romney and his wife, Ann, paid more than $1.2 million in foreign taxes on
so-called passive investments from 2000 through 2010, and paid about $800,000
in taxes on general income to unspecified countries. That's according to the
couple's own tax returns.
Their
foreign tax bills entitled them to more than $1.5 million in tax credits in the
United States
This tax avoidance scheme is yet
another in the hundred perhaps thousands of ways corporations and the mega
rich, with their sophisticated tax attorneys, snake around paying their fair
share to our government and then tax the middle class here to pay for their
avoidance over there. This issue, I
believe, should be the most important attack against this valueless empty suit,
Romney and his Republican Party. The flip-flopper-in-chief times
10, is worse than any other candidate by far through his own economic
slither to avoid paying taxes in our country.
Receiving a tax credit in our country and paying taxes to foreign countries is without a doubt revolting. If these know nothing Republicans want to talk about treason insulting the president (including Romney’s assent to it by his silence) then they should look to Romney, a presidential candidate, giving money to foreign countries but depriving the US, the country he SAYS he loves, of its rightful share. It is an abomination! He did not have to set up his investments that way. It would not have made him significantly poorer but would have helped OUR country in its effort to emerge from the GREATEST RECESSION/DEPRESSION EVER, CREATED BY MOSTLY REPUBLICANS. The fact that he CAN do this and Romney, et al would never change it, is testament as to just how skewed the tax system is to the ultra rich. Republicans have a vested interest to keep it that way while we the 99% go without jobs, without health care and some day, if the Ryan bill Romney loves so much becomes the law of the land, with deep cuts to social safety net programs like Medicare, Medicaid and even ultimately Social Security.
Receiving a tax credit in our country and paying taxes to foreign countries is without a doubt revolting. If these know nothing Republicans want to talk about treason insulting the president (including Romney’s assent to it by his silence) then they should look to Romney, a presidential candidate, giving money to foreign countries but depriving the US, the country he SAYS he loves, of its rightful share. It is an abomination! He did not have to set up his investments that way. It would not have made him significantly poorer but would have helped OUR country in its effort to emerge from the GREATEST RECESSION/DEPRESSION EVER, CREATED BY MOSTLY REPUBLICANS. The fact that he CAN do this and Romney, et al would never change it, is testament as to just how skewed the tax system is to the ultra rich. Republicans have a vested interest to keep it that way while we the 99% go without jobs, without health care and some day, if the Ryan bill Romney loves so much becomes the law of the land, with deep cuts to social safety net programs like Medicare, Medicaid and even ultimately Social Security.
The Democratic Party and many
others who want the president re-elected should get the message out, take
advantage of savvy liaisons they may have with the press and crush Romney’s candidacy
for the presidency in pertinent part because of the taxes he paid or more
precisely DID NOT pay to our country!
Sunday, May 06, 2012
For Better or Worse--Football's Concussive Reality
I am one of the growing number of female football fans. Why do I love it? I love it because I see men doing things my body never could do even when I was 20! I love the bodily contortions, I love the long forward pass, I love the surprise break-aways; moves one did not expect and cannot believe.
Man has always loved sport (Romans throwing others to the lions comes to mind) and most especially we love a bruising sport like football where one sits in the safety of the room, behind the TV or in a seat at the stadium while others take the bashing and we safely watch it.
Someone -- maybe some lefty of the 60's -- said "The personal is political" so excuse me if I wax so. We are a country made up of policy which ROUTINELY goes to war -- read Rachel Maddow's book "Drift" and you will get MY drift. We have gone to war in ALL venues nearly at ALL times in our history. Man has always gone to war, I know, but it is different now. Not only can we watch from our living room but the perpetrators of war can conduct it with drones in depersonalized safety close to home 6000 miles away from the front. We love war most especially when we are so removed from it.
War is on the evening news or even on a TV set-up at work shown as entertainment for those who do not have to physically suffer its consequences. War is nasty and brutal. We sit in the comfort of our living room while newscasters describe the shock, awe and mayhem of battle. It looks like the 4th of July BUT it's not. The camera rarely goes behind the scenes to show just who the bombs hit, the family's limbs exploding or its many dead. Rarely are we shown wars' aftermath or if we are we often do not look. It is the way of war doncha know. War is hell; as if we could not have figured that out.
Football IS a type of war. We watch, cheer and feel good in the safety of our home, seats in a barroom or at the game. We gorge on food and drink and merriment while our fellow man has his body crushed, his brain compressed, his bones ruined and sometimes the grim reaper pays a visit. It is the way of the world. War and often sport, especially football, are brutal.
I am not exactly sure how after thousands of years of evolution we can change man's hard wired drive but we ought to try. We watch war and sport on the HDTV screen while we swig the next beer or swallow the next piece of pizza. It's in our DNA and it's the way we have been for millennia for better and, I believe, mostly for worse!
Saturday, May 05, 2012
Smelling the thrill of victory--a stream of consciousness
If
you heard the president as I did today in Ohio, he was MAGNIFICENT.
He spoke to a HUGE crowd. He was the Barack Obama I knew and loved. I
STILL know and love him. The second term will be even better than the
first IF the rotten red congressional House turns blue. We MUST help
throw the Republican wingnuts OUT. Get the president some support. I
am feeling better every day, more positive by the moment. Romney no
matter how much money it will not matter. He is an empty suit and
throwing overboard this guy Grennell was his first BIG error. It shows
you how horrendous Romney is. He threw a long time loyal Republican
supposedly expert (well I challenge that but just saying) in foreign
policy overboard Grennell who was gay because some two bit racist bigot
religious fanatics scared the *&^% out of him shows you what this
guy is and what the party has become. It is OVER for Republicans. This
is their
last gasp. The complexion of the country is changing and they will all
too soon be irrelevant. Cannot happen fast enough for me.
Romney has got to be the worst of the worst Republican candidates EVER. I never thought I would say that after the McCain debacle of 2008 but the Republicans outdid themselves this time with the bottom of the barrel candidate. He is just AWFUL. He could have God as his running mate and it would not help. WOW Romney is so out of touch, he is so UNPRINCIPLED, and it is almost painful to watch him squirm in his own skin. He is just a shill for the out on a limb extremists who have taken over the soon to be dead Republican Party. What will be left of it? NOTHING I HOPE! They will NEVER EVER be able to win national elections with an extremist not only base but entirety...EVER. Throwing overboard Grennell was just a metaphor for how much of an empty suit Romney is. There is NO comparison between Obama and him. Obama is SO SO SO far superior it's not even funny. How does a party do that to itself? It's committing suicide right before our eyes and Rubio or ANYONE will NOT help!
We must be buoyed up by the HUGE crowd today in Ohio. Polls I am reading are looking so far good for all the swing states except Florida which is neck and neck. I have a feeling it will turn to us...I hope. BUT in NO WAY be smug just be ENTHUSIASTIC again. Our lives and your children's lives are at stake.
Obama 2012 -- work for his re-election
p.s. Pray and help Scott Walker's DEMISE in Wisconsin. I feel he is going down. One by one we take the nation back. Brick by brick we build a new nation from the bottom up!
Forward
Natalie
Romney has got to be the worst of the worst Republican candidates EVER. I never thought I would say that after the McCain debacle of 2008 but the Republicans outdid themselves this time with the bottom of the barrel candidate. He is just AWFUL. He could have God as his running mate and it would not help. WOW Romney is so out of touch, he is so UNPRINCIPLED, and it is almost painful to watch him squirm in his own skin. He is just a shill for the out on a limb extremists who have taken over the soon to be dead Republican Party. What will be left of it? NOTHING I HOPE! They will NEVER EVER be able to win national elections with an extremist not only base but entirety...EVER. Throwing overboard Grennell was just a metaphor for how much of an empty suit Romney is. There is NO comparison between Obama and him. Obama is SO SO SO far superior it's not even funny. How does a party do that to itself? It's committing suicide right before our eyes and Rubio or ANYONE will NOT help!
We must be buoyed up by the HUGE crowd today in Ohio. Polls I am reading are looking so far good for all the swing states except Florida which is neck and neck. I have a feeling it will turn to us...I hope. BUT in NO WAY be smug just be ENTHUSIASTIC again. Our lives and your children's lives are at stake.
Obama 2012 -- work for his re-election
p.s. Pray and help Scott Walker's DEMISE in Wisconsin. I feel he is going down. One by one we take the nation back. Brick by brick we build a new nation from the bottom up!
Forward
Natalie
Thursday, May 03, 2012
Religious orthodoxy the Hemlock of our time--Hassids throw off your chains!
A HIGH FIVE to this brave woman. Kudos times many. This is a wonderful and in my opinion a GREAT story. As I have said many times I am adamantly opposed to all religion which requires one to lock up one's brain and throw away the key.
http://www.aol.com/video/youve-got-deborah-feldman/517355132/?ncid=wsc-video-cards-image
http://www.aol.com/video/youve-got-deborah-feldman/517355132/?ncid=wsc-video-cards-image
Homosexual Hate -- The Republican Party and the true new Nazis
I dislike throwing the word
Nazi around like a game of Wonder Ball. If every political group and
person to whom one objects is labeled Nazi then no one truly is. Yet
there are unique times where the comparison is apt.
Last evening MSNBC'S Larry
O'Donnell carried a segment about the despicable anti-homosexual hate-filled
violence infused “sermon” preached last Sunday by a North Carolina Baptist
pastor. It stunned me into catatonic
incredulity so much so that I had to decompress from the poison circulating my
system. I post the segment here and below for your review. If you view it please view both "Pastor" Sean
Harris's sermon and Larry O'Donnel's well crafted response.
Harris's loathsome
violent-to-children-who-appear-to-be-gay rant spewed his venom to a
sparse congregation in North Carolina.
It included such sweet suggestions as breaking a child's "limp" wrist
if that “limp” wrist belonged to a male. Nonetheless, many cheered and
clapped. I do not know from under what rock these intellectually mind-frozen
inhumane malcontents emerge but this is why the plethora of allies in and of
the LBGT community are so important.
Time and again I give kudos to Rachel Maddow for her work, her honesty about her own life and her representation of it which does more, in my opinion, than all the gay rights marches of yesteryear one could attend. I believe all those who publicly stand up to defend the innocent other save lives. Everything, though, is important to fight this systemic true evil that courses through the life blood of our nation. The Republican Party has morphed into something unrecognizable to those who were the true respectable Republican intellects of their time. The Republican Party, now the party of hate, is infused with right wing extremists no Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Nelson Rockefeller, Gerald Ford and even the Republican idol Ronald Reagan could understand.
Time and again I give kudos to Rachel Maddow for her work, her honesty about her own life and her representation of it which does more, in my opinion, than all the gay rights marches of yesteryear one could attend. I believe all those who publicly stand up to defend the innocent other save lives. Everything, though, is important to fight this systemic true evil that courses through the life blood of our nation. The Republican Party has morphed into something unrecognizable to those who were the true respectable Republican intellects of their time. The Republican Party, now the party of hate, is infused with right wing extremists no Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Nelson Rockefeller, Gerald Ford and even the Republican idol Ronald Reagan could understand.
The firing of homosexual
Richard Grennell, Romney's adviser on foreign policy, shouts loud and clear
where the Republican Party has taken itself and how its soon-to-be-leader and Republican
presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, once a supporter of gay rights, now melts
into a pile of putty in the face of opposition from the party's most extreme
base. He acquiesced to the utterly hateful Bryan J. Fisher the Director of Issues Analysis and to Tony Perkins
president of the malodorous anti-gay American Family Association. Romney
hurts a man who was loyal to the Republican Party for years. This is the stuff of which
the noxious chameleon Willard Mitt Romney is made. I hope this gives
Grennell pause to realize the morphed Republican Party to which he has
associated himself is the pure and unadulterated party of hate which will make
no room for him or other so-called Log Cabin Republicans who are gay.
There is sad simile to the German Nazi Party's
rise to power, which would ultimately murder millions in modern time. The
German party of 20th century history would plunge the world into one of its
greatest war killing machines human kind has ever known. Many Jews during
the anti-Semitic Nazi Party's assent were told to get out of Germany because
the words and essence of the Nazi party's leadership put the handwriting on the
wall for them to read. But many did not read them and most did not
leave. Many thought it only a phase. It will end, some
thought. It was only a transitory minority element within the party that
will fade with time. But it never did fade with time until it was too
late and the other everywhere was ground into dust by an element in a movement
many thought was merely going through harmless growing pains.
The rise of the Nazi Party began with a simple speech, a book, a movie, a burning, a purge but it ended with the slaughter, the purging and the burning of millions. It is why I make the comparison between its rise and the rise of our own disloyal opposition. In truth, this Republican Party of hate includes in its ranks the most extreme right wing virulence that party has ever known which is too close for comfort to the appellation of Nazi for me.
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
A PATHETIC PRESS: FAILURE TO COVER ELIZABETH WARREN
Elizabeth Warren was in Marlboro, Massachusetts
last Sunday. Did you see it reported by television, cable and local
news organizations? If you answered no I will say I did not see her either. The
media coverage of Elizabeth Warren is a DISGRACE.
This is the biggest and I aver one of the most important senate races in the country. If Elizabeth wins it will be HUGE and right now the polls show a close race. Hopefully once Massachusetts gets to see and hear her they will fall in love with her candidacy as I did. My hope is that she will win and have as positive impact on the state as Teddy Kennedy did for decades but she cannot do it if she does not get press coverage while her opponent simply has to drive up in his truck and brown jacket and a camera is in his face! It is simply unfair.
The press does a disservice to the State of Massachusetts and a disservice to the nation with its pathetic lack of coverage of this price-above-rubies candidate, Elizabeth Warren. We live in crucial electoral times calling for crucial votes for the 99%. Elizabeth will be on our side as her opponent will be for the top 1% richest.
A large segment of the press has been accused of being in the pockets of big corporate everything skewing the election red and buying up power with Karl Rove's deep pocket bucks making our nation into the oligarchy that many say it is. When the press does NOT cover someone like Elizabeth Warren then I can surely see what they mean!
This is the biggest and I aver one of the most important senate races in the country. If Elizabeth wins it will be HUGE and right now the polls show a close race. Hopefully once Massachusetts gets to see and hear her they will fall in love with her candidacy as I did. My hope is that she will win and have as positive impact on the state as Teddy Kennedy did for decades but she cannot do it if she does not get press coverage while her opponent simply has to drive up in his truck and brown jacket and a camera is in his face! It is simply unfair.
The press does a disservice to the State of Massachusetts and a disservice to the nation with its pathetic lack of coverage of this price-above-rubies candidate, Elizabeth Warren. We live in crucial electoral times calling for crucial votes for the 99%. Elizabeth will be on our side as her opponent will be for the top 1% richest.
A large segment of the press has been accused of being in the pockets of big corporate everything skewing the election red and buying up power with Karl Rove's deep pocket bucks making our nation into the oligarchy that many say it is. When the press does NOT cover someone like Elizabeth Warren then I can surely see what they mean!
Sunday, April 29, 2012
A Dignified Death
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I vote a resounding yes to death with dignity or assisted suicide for TERMINALLY ILL patients. Both from tortured personal experience and the experience of many friends and relatives it is UNBELIEVABLE how horrendous it is for the patient to endure debilitating and freedom depriving terminal illness and how easy it is for others to deny themselves that freedom of choice. Moreover, by doing so they deny it to everyone else as well. It is an understatement to say a terminal illness is a horror of the greatest magnitude to endure and that it should be up to the person suffering it to make the ultimate decision for him or herself either by a health care proxy or, if possible, by oneself to either endure the suffering or end it. One's body is one's own. The suffering major religions require a human being to endure is unconscionable. I would even aver that religion is in the business of suffering and it is in its own vested and monetary interest to encourage one to endure unspeakable pain because then one goes to it for relief. I do not believe anyone can make that life or death decision for me but me.
The link here is to the Boston Sunday Globe article "Dying Wishes" which is about a little discussed topic of death with dignity. In addition to explaining what Death with Dignity means it offers the reader the ability to vote yea or nay to this procedure if it were put to a vote. Very few want to discuss this but I believe in speaking truth and looking reality in the face.
I vote a resounding yes to death with dignity or assisted suicide for TERMINALLY ILL patients. Both from tortured personal experience and the experience of many friends and relatives it is UNBELIEVABLE how horrendous it is for the patient to endure debilitating and freedom depriving terminal illness and how easy it is for others to deny themselves that freedom of choice. Moreover, by doing so they deny it to everyone else as well. It is an understatement to say a terminal illness is a horror of the greatest magnitude to endure and that it should be up to the person suffering it to make the ultimate decision for him or herself either by a health care proxy or, if possible, by oneself to either endure the suffering or end it. One's body is one's own. The suffering major religions require a human being to endure is unconscionable. I would even aver that religion is in the business of suffering and it is in its own vested and monetary interest to encourage one to endure unspeakable pain because then one goes to it for relief. I do not believe anyone can make that life or death decision for me but me.
I never want to give my hard earned bucks to a disgusting nursing home. The nursing home business is a multi-million buck scam as is the cancer pharmaceuticals business. The drug companies do not want cures
for cancer by funding stem cell research, DNA research or environmental contributors to the cancer albatross around everyone's neck to once and for all end that multifaceted malodorous malady. Slashing, burning or poisoning is the still, after decades, the treatment de jour for cancer.
The so called "war on cancer" is over thirty years old and there is, as in other wars our nation fights, no end in site. The so called "walk for the cure" of Komens does not want a cure they want people to give money to Komens for Komens. It's a big business and it translates in to BILLIONS for the cancer industry while it sucks dry those who are unlucky enough to get the disease or have a close family member that does. Even if they can buy some time if treatment is available they are often not rich enough to treat it effectively and insurance companies, naturally, will not pay for much of it and most especially will not pay for experimental treatment.
If our culture euthanizes beloved pets because it is the humane thing to do is it no less so for a human being? I will vote yes for a death with dignity bill if it appears on the Massachusetts ballot in November! You can accept this difficult decision or reject it as you choose but leave that choice up to me.
If our culture euthanizes beloved pets because it is the humane thing to do is it no less so for a human being? I will vote yes for a death with dignity bill if it appears on the Massachusetts ballot in November! You can accept this difficult decision or reject it as you choose but leave that choice up to me.
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2012/04/29/death_with_dignity_act/
My Namesake on Meet the Press
My namesake Hillary Rosen and Rachel Maddow were on Meet the
Press this morning. Both are blessings to progressives everywhere.
Rachel in particular was her usual perfect defending our cause against two
Republican heavy weights, Vice Chair of the House Republican Conference Rep.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), and Republican strategist Alex
Castellanos.
Rachel was wonderful, passionate and absolutely 100%
correct. I thought she and Hillary Rosen knocked it out of the park and
the Republicans on their behinds. I was particularly thrilled Rosen had
the opportunity to better explain her views which were originally, I believe,
misinterpreted. She was NOT against Ann Romney or stay-at-home
mothers. Who could be? BUT those in the 1% cannot in ANY way be
compared to those in the 99%. How middle class mothers and poor mothers juggle
a job and children is infinitely different. Ann Romney probably has NO
idea what a head of lettuce or even a gallon of gasoline costs. Why
should she? She doesn't HAVE to. Her husband’s Republican policy
reflects just that point when he wants to take away the earned income tax credit but cut taxes for the top 1%. Fairness is not in the Republican vocabulary.
Rachel is right when she said state legislatures that turned
Republican in the 2010 election catastrophe show EXACTLY what happens when
Republicans rule -- high unemployment, the emasculation of unions, no health
care and no jobs. Who are Republicans kidding?
Republicans indicting Democrats as the dividers is a
joke. Republicans are the ones who will NOT compromise, Republicans are
the ones who are virulently anti choice, anti birth control and thereby anti
women. Republicans are the ones to introduce
religious beliefs which should be separate and apart from the big government
Republicans CLAIM they loathe so much. I don't say it, Rachel doesn't say it,
Hillary doesn't say it but the CONSTITUTION says it and Republicans are blind
to that too.
Rarely does Rachel Maddow say anything in error and if does
she apologizes and corrects it immediately. That is infinitely more than
Republicans do unless their arm is twisted into an unnatural position!
My channel in the evening is stuck on MSNBC!
If you are interested in Meet the Press and did not see it Sunday, April 29 I link it below.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Frontline "Money, Power and Wall Street (Part One)."
If you have not seen it I enclose here
the link to the PBS Frontline program aired yesterday, April 25, 2012
entitled "Money, Power and Wall Street (Part One)." It is wonderful.
In case our economic near collapse in 2007 is not inscribed permanently
in your synaptic cerebral connections and you have forgotten many of the
reasons for it, or if the subject is downright mind numbing,
shattering, and boring I link the segment to it below as well.
Frontline reduces the explanation of highly complex economic realities
to a very understandable narrative. It is, as usual, entertaining as
well.
If you have time to view it I highly suggest you do lest we all forget why our country is so far into the economic hole that we are and who the real sowers of this utter catastrophe and near world economic collapse were. The fault lay NOT with President Obama but those who obstruct policies he would enact which offer the faster cure for this lethal malady. You will be able to see how far he has had to crawl into the mostly Republican (but not all) sewer to rescue and resuscitate this nation and how difficult a process it is.
Put the blame where it should be NOT on the 99% but on the 1% wealthiest of this nation. Do NOT elect Willard Mitt Romney yet another member in good standing of the 1% who did not give a damn about you, about me, and about the nation they claim to love so much!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/
If you have time to view it I highly suggest you do lest we all forget why our country is so far into the economic hole that we are and who the real sowers of this utter catastrophe and near world economic collapse were. The fault lay NOT with President Obama but those who obstruct policies he would enact which offer the faster cure for this lethal malady. You will be able to see how far he has had to crawl into the mostly Republican (but not all) sewer to rescue and resuscitate this nation and how difficult a process it is.
Put the blame where it should be NOT on the 99% but on the 1% wealthiest of this nation. Do NOT elect Willard Mitt Romney yet another member in good standing of the 1% who did not give a damn about you, about me, and about the nation they claim to love so much!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
The editorial by Jeff Jacoby in the Sunday April 22,
2012 Boston
You know, Jeff, I haven't
read your editorials in quite some time because frankly I thought you were not
worth enough to raise my blood pressure to Plutonian heights. So why did
I read your utterly heart attack inducing article, "Obama a unifying
force? Hardly"? I have no idea. I know I came to the end
wanting to scream YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!
What planet to you live on,
Jeff? You are proclaiming to your readers it's Obama fault for not
uniting us? After ALL the compromising that man has tried to do you have
the unmitigated gall to say that? After the pretzel the president has
turned himself into to TRY to negotiate with and placate Republicans who
ultimately would give him NOTHING you can utter such a lie? After
Republicans insulted him on numerous occasions and even courted world economic collapse
rather than raise a debt ceiling something universally done by all former
presidents you can say such things?
The president WANTED to live out what he said in his Grant Park Speech and the myriad of speeches he has given advocating unification of the body politic but sickening Republican Tea Bag politics racist, uncompromising and extreme would not give this black man an inch. God forbid what he wanted to do would work and show them up for the charlatans most in the Republican Party are.
This well meaning man will
reign supreme over the race baiters, the Wall Street banksters and those who
would not give him credit for even killing bin Laden. You say things are
that are not, you say things are black when they are white, you dismember
history’s truth, and have no memory of what actually in reality occurred.
The fault for the
irretrievably divided broken down Washington politics dear Brutus is NOT in the
president but in the Republican Party for which you seem to advocate.
McConnell admitted the Republican Party's ONLY goal was to tear Obama
down. The president could ask for the cherry blossoms to bloom longer and
your Republican Party would say some non sequitur like see I told you he was a
Muslim, see I told you he was not born here, see I told you he is a socialist,
a Nazi, a Communist. The political spectrum ignorance of people in the
Republican Party is astounding.
The president can merely say
he could have a son who looked like Trayvon and oh my god how racist that is
they proclaim. Or gee maybe the Cambridge
The reason Richard Nixon
could not bring us together was he was corrupt, did NOT bring Vietnam to an end but rather invaded Cambodia
It is people like you who
will be held accountable if the life of this president is threatened. He has
received more threats than any president in US
Monday, April 23, 2012
Another Letter to the Hispanic Community
Mitt
Romney knows and was caught off guard saying that if he
does not capture the Hispanic vote they will lose and he is correct they
will. We MUST emphasize to the Hispanic community that those
Republicans saying they are for them are certainly not. This is the same
man who said on tape Arizona's "Paper's Please" anti civil liberties
anti immigrant policy in Arizona is a model for the nation and is what
he would do if elected president. He is NOT kidding. Now he's trying
to figure out a way to persuade Hispanics that he was merely referring
to computer job look up (e-verify) of citizenship. DO NOT be duped as I feel certain you will not be.
Romney, as he is SO adept at doing, will flip flop and turn himself into a salamander to make his ideology of the day (because it changes EVERY day) into that which he thinks will get him elected. Once in office he will NEVER be the immigrant's friend, will NEVER support the Hispanic community but will do the opposite.
The president in a second term and IF the obstructionist Congress is thrown out, I am confident WILL try to enact infinitely more immigrant friendly policies, will craft sensible immigration law and NOT leave Hispanics out of the American Dream. He cannot, however, do this alone. He needs our help and he needs our vote.
Republicans, if they gain power, will capture and/or even kill undocumented workers en masse. As I said in an earlier email the Republican Party advocates for border vigilantism. Moreover, they gerrymander districts as well as enact voter ID suppression laws to diminish the impact of the minority vote because they KNOW that vote is usually cast for Democrats.
Therefore, I ask you, no I plead with you, NOT to fall for the Republican Trojan Horse. Mitt Romney and Republicans are NOT for the elderly, not for the disabled, NOT for the poor, NOT for health care and NOT for you. Do NOT be FOOLED--No se deje enganar. The Republican Party is NOT about you. They merely want you to THINK they are.
Romney, as he is SO adept at doing, will flip flop and turn himself into a salamander to make his ideology of the day (because it changes EVERY day) into that which he thinks will get him elected. Once in office he will NEVER be the immigrant's friend, will NEVER support the Hispanic community but will do the opposite.
The president in a second term and IF the obstructionist Congress is thrown out, I am confident WILL try to enact infinitely more immigrant friendly policies, will craft sensible immigration law and NOT leave Hispanics out of the American Dream. He cannot, however, do this alone. He needs our help and he needs our vote.
Republicans, if they gain power, will capture and/or even kill undocumented workers en masse. As I said in an earlier email the Republican Party advocates for border vigilantism. Moreover, they gerrymander districts as well as enact voter ID suppression laws to diminish the impact of the minority vote because they KNOW that vote is usually cast for Democrats.
Therefore, I ask you, no I plead with you, NOT to fall for the Republican Trojan Horse. Mitt Romney and Republicans are NOT for the elderly, not for the disabled, NOT for the poor, NOT for health care and NOT for you. Do NOT be FOOLED--No se deje enganar. The Republican Party is NOT about you. They merely want you to THINK they are.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Flip Flopper in Chief
Click here to see how much Willard Mitt Romney has flipped his positions. He has COMPLETELY changed his views on every single issue of import in the modern era. Click where it says "here" on link to see his
positions in 1994 when he was running against Ted Kennedy and now when
he needs the wingnut religious fanatics and the Tea Party to win the
Republican nomination this chameleon morphs into something
unrecognizable. Or you can click on the link below.
AMAZING!
http://www.republicansforobama.org/node/10060
AMAZING!
http://www.republicansforobama.org/node/10060
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Meet the Chicken Hawks
VERY
interesting link. You would be AMAZED (or maybe you wouldn't) how many
of those Republicans who sound the drum beat of war, love war, support
war AS LONG AS THEY do not serve. Click here
(or on the link below) if you want to see who has served and who has
not. I think I am correct when I say more -- many more -- Republicans
hid from the draft, got deferments or did not serve while they did and
still do their damnedest to make sure other less powerful people's
children fight and die on the battlefield. It is scandalous to say the
least.
Oh yes, where was our CLASSLESS candidate Romney during the Vietnam
War? Mitt Romney Spent the Vietnam War in a French Palace! Click here (or on the link below) for that web site.
http://liberalslikechrist.org/about/chickenhawks.html
http://www.nationalmemo.com/strange-true-mitt-romney-spent-vietnam-war-french-palace/
Contemplating the Alternative
Make NO mistake about it electing racist Know
Nothing religious extremist irrational science deniers will mean a country will
be reduced to near third world status where the rights of women, minorities,
the disabled and the poor are reactionarily eviscerated. It will mean the
steady decline and obliteration of the environment. It will mean a right wing extremist Supreme
Court the likes of which our country has not seen since the 1857 Justice Taney Dred Scott Supreme Court decision ruling
the black man was property and not a person.
This time the court will overturn a woman’s right to choose. It will keep corporations as people and will
ensure the oligarchy that exists today will remain in place for God knows how
many generations. It will mean the 99%
will not overcome the economic forces of the richest 1% evil that smother them
by keeping a larger and larger piece of the economic pie through nefarious,
illegal and immoral means while the majority eat cake, develop diseases we
cannot afford with no health care to treat them and no one TO care. Only
death will await.
This is the most important election I have ever witnessed in my decades of witnessing many. Defeat of the president is NOT an option. The Republican opposition MUST be defeated by all means necessary for you, for me, for your children and for their children! There is, indeed, too much at stake to even contemplate the alternative.
This is the most important election I have ever witnessed in my decades of witnessing many. Defeat of the president is NOT an option. The Republican opposition MUST be defeated by all means necessary for you, for me, for your children and for their children! There is, indeed, too much at stake to even contemplate the alternative.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Dastardly Speech: The violent, ugly, and filthy
comments of the disgusting hard rocker right wing extremist, Ted Nugent, were
WORSE than anything that was said by Rev. Wright in his sermon for which the
right wing screamed critical of then candidate Obama. Wright's speech was mild
in comparison to the THREATENING vitriolic speech of Nugent, a man Mr. Romney
gleefully accepted as a supporter and, indeed, went to him for support.
At least the president, good human being that he is, addressed Wright's unacceptable comments, gave a speech about it and eschewed the vitriol of it. Mitt Romney sends a message of so called "civility" through an emissary. He did not even have the COURAGE not to mention courtesy to disavow what that violent, profane and repellent Nugent had to say.
I am happy that the Secret Service is investigating Nugent. They should but that a presidential contender with gravitas and class merely had an aid craft a mild note is UNFORGIVABLE and insulting to the country itself including the presidency that represents it. One should think twice before supporting this candidate-for-president, Mitt Romney. He is an unprincipled man based on how Mitt Romney handled this potentially criminal threat directed at the president of the United States by someone Romney not only accepted but his sons waxed effusive in accepting the scurrilous Nugent endorsement.
At least the president, good human being that he is, addressed Wright's unacceptable comments, gave a speech about it and eschewed the vitriol of it. Mitt Romney sends a message of so called "civility" through an emissary. He did not even have the COURAGE not to mention courtesy to disavow what that violent, profane and repellent Nugent had to say.
I am happy that the Secret Service is investigating Nugent. They should but that a presidential contender with gravitas and class merely had an aid craft a mild note is UNFORGIVABLE and insulting to the country itself including the presidency that represents it. One should think twice before supporting this candidate-for-president, Mitt Romney. He is an unprincipled man based on how Mitt Romney handled this potentially criminal threat directed at the president of the United States by someone Romney not only accepted but his sons waxed effusive in accepting the scurrilous Nugent endorsement.
Romney is an EMBARRASSMENT to this country he says he loves. He would not know a principled thought if it stood directly in front of him. He says ONLY that which is politically expedient and changes his views more often than a chameleon sheds its skin. SHAME ON HIM for not personally and strongly rejecting Nugent's dastardly threatening comments. It shows one who the significantly better candidate is; one who hides under the table in the face of a challenging event or one who addresses it head on like the intellectually and principally superior person President Obama is.
Mitt Romney, if anything God forbid happens to our president YOU and your Republican Party of mean, racist intrinsic evil WILL be held accountable at least by the God you profess to believe in so much!
Friday, April 13, 2012
The UNRELATABLE ANN ROMNEY
A stream of conscious:
The Hillary Rosen controversy was the NO controversy controversy. Why didn't Hillary Rosen speak
UP for herself? Ann Romney knows about sacrifice like Lloyd
Blankfein's wife knows about sacrifice -- NOT. Ann Romney did not have
to sleep in motel rooms because her house was foreclosed on by a
bankster. Ann Romeny could pick and choose ANYTHING she wanted. She was
not a single mother she was the MULTI hundreds of million dollar wife of
a 1% er. She knows NOTHING about sacrifice. She could have had 20
children and she could not be compared to an economically disadvantaged
woman with two.
The economically disadvantaged jobless woman and family have issues with the rearing of children Ann Romney could NOT even think about. Moreover, Ann Romney did not HAVE to work. Economically disadvantaged women even WITH a husband need TWO ... let me say that again for these RepublicRAT know nothings ... TWO jobs to put food on the table.
When did Ann unrelatable Romney ever fear she could not feed her family? When you are a haus frau married to a 1% er you economically worry about NOTHING.
Lower socio economic women have to worry about EVERYTHING related to survival: Food, clothing, shelter and MOST importantly HEALTH CARE. I bet Ann Romeny, who is said to have MS, did not worry ONE second as to how she could medically afford treatment.
Hillary Rosen, STAND UP FOR YOURSELF AND DO NOT GIVE IN TO THESE REPUBLICAN HYPOCRITES and Mr. President, I love you BUT why grovel at Republican's feet. They simply kick you in the face anyway. APPEAL TO THE HILLARY ROSEN'S and people like me YOUR BASE who have your back and ARE at your feet!
The economically disadvantaged jobless woman and family have issues with the rearing of children Ann Romney could NOT even think about. Moreover, Ann Romney did not HAVE to work. Economically disadvantaged women even WITH a husband need TWO ... let me say that again for these RepublicRAT know nothings ... TWO jobs to put food on the table.
When did Ann unrelatable Romney ever fear she could not feed her family? When you are a haus frau married to a 1% er you economically worry about NOTHING.
Lower socio economic women have to worry about EVERYTHING related to survival: Food, clothing, shelter and MOST importantly HEALTH CARE. I bet Ann Romeny, who is said to have MS, did not worry ONE second as to how she could medically afford treatment.
Hillary Rosen, STAND UP FOR YOURSELF AND DO NOT GIVE IN TO THESE REPUBLICAN HYPOCRITES and Mr. President, I love you BUT why grovel at Republican's feet. They simply kick you in the face anyway. APPEAL TO THE HILLARY ROSEN'S and people like me YOUR BASE who have your back and ARE at your feet!
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