LAST NIGHT

A quick note as I have no time to write more, however, if you did not see the DNC last night you must see a replay of it by any means necessary!

The president's speech was nothing short of MAGNIFICENT as he made the case for Hillary and against the loathsome Trump and more. (Trump stood on the edge of treason with his Putin statements yesterday but that's another story.) The president spoke great oratory in the mode of FDR, Teddy Roosevelt and Lincoln. I heard it all but It went on so late I could not listen to all of the MSNBC commentary of Rachel, Larry O'Donnell, Steve Schmidt, Joy Reed and others (who were wonderful.) Even Schmidt the conservative commentator was overwhelmed the speech was that good.

Moreover, if you get a chance to hear the two others before the president, Michael Bloomberg the former mayor of New York who spoke in support of and why Hillary do see it. And Leon Panetta the former CIA head too gave a wonderful speech making the case for Hillary and against Trump. It was a little marred by a few rude anti-war protestors in the back. These people who do that are insane, rude and UNNECESSARY. We are in the company of allies! Enough criticism, that was minimal compared to the rest.

GREATEST broadcasting event I have ever heard and seen in my life. There is a surprise at the end which I won't spoil if you have not seen it. How Hillary is going to exceed that tonight I do not know. She will do the best she can as no one has the oratory skills of the president. I LOVE the president more than I can say. I wish he were in four more years!!! If I am blessed with nothing else in life I am blessed experiencing that age of Obama! There will never be another one like it.

A PLACE CALLED HOPE

I came from a staunch Republican father. I sported Nixon/Agnew stickers on my 1960 school binder and I was, then as a 12 year old, disappointed when our guy Nixon lost. Yes, now as the cigarette told me then, I've come a long way baby. My politics was transformed by the late 1960's. Soon my father and I would have political Ali/Frazier angry confrontations as I was sure I was on the side of the angels. Guess what? I was. Government, as FDR decades before me showed, had a place at the table of survival and still does helping those who cannot help themselves. Government can work as it worked for me, a polio survivor. It helped me with rides to school before even the American With Disabilities Act was reality. It helped me with other things my small business family could not afford. I am forever grateful. It cemented my philosophy that we must all be in this together or face the vicissitudes of life alone.

I love the Democratic Party, I love everything for which it stands, I love the myriad of skin colors and variety of human beings of all types it reflects. It tells me that this is the nation I thought it was rather than looking at a Republican opposition drowning in a sea of white. Because our demographics are changing it will reflect that change when Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic first-woman presidential nominee, wins the White House. She will, in November, kick her odious, malodorous and mendacious Republican opposition, Trump, to the curb on his way to the ash bin of history to reside with the other ugly merchants of hate in our nation.

The Democratic National Convention was fabulous despite its division or maybe even because of it. I loved it and could not stop watching. I loved the speakers -- all of them -- including former president Clinton. I loved the testimonies and the killer damage blows to the body of Trump. If you did not think him noxious before you watched the convention you must now. Testimony by a 9/11 survivor with 82% of her body burned whom Hillary visited and never forgot as she never forgot a seven year old now an adult afflicted with severe dwarfism deformity. She has a special place in her heart for the disabled, a far cry from Trump who mocks the disabled as he mocked Senator McCain's military capture. Shame on Trump!
 
New York Senator Hillary Clinton came though for the 9/11 survivors and their families to help with their long-term survival. Almost worse than all of Trump's faux business ventures was the devastating story of the 9/11 first responder who told of Trump's naked greed. He asked where was Trump on 9/11? He was making up dastardly lies of Muslims cheering as the towers fell and of Trump taking money ear-marked for 9/11 small business reconstruction. Trump took funds he never should have ethically received; funds that should have gone to the little guy trying to recoup his small business after the devastating 9/11 ruination of it. Trump did not need the money but took it anyway because he could and because that is who Trump is.

Along with Trump fraud University and Trump fake Institute comes a story through conservative columnist George Will which speculates that Trump's refusal to release his tax returns may be linked to business ties with Russia and a possible connection to Russia hacking of the DNC email. We cannot know if this is true because we cannot see the evidence for it as Trump will not release his tax returns. Does Trump have business ties to Putin? We do not know but would surely like to. Trump is about one thing -- Trump. His children are window dressing glitter on his suit. Trump is unfit for the office of President. Hillary Clinton is infinitely more experienced and more qualified than he. One must simply look at how much experience she has gleaned over decades for its proof and one will know Trump must be roundly defeated in November.

One of President William Jefferson Clinton's most famous remarks is "I still believe in a place called Hope." Now his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, poised to become the next and first female president of the United States is saying the same thing.

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ TO RESIGN! Kudos to Secretary Clinton, the president and the DNC.

I do NOT have delusions of grandeur. This a.m., though, I put my money where my mouth is and called the Hillary campaign expressing vociferously my anger at the email someone at the DNC sent to try to make hay out of Bernie's religion or lack of it to try to win the primaries in W. VA and Kentucky. I do not let things go that I think are important and this leaked email trying to find out about Bernie's religion or lack of it to get W. VA or Kentucky for Hillary in the primaries made me see RED. I was furious. Maybe someone heard.

It played into just what the Bernie people were saying that the game was rigged in favor of Clinton. It should NEVER EVER EVER have been written by anyone connected with the DNC. If you are vying for high office hackers in our age pose a risk and will nail you on it if they get the chance. You NEVER EVER if you are running especially for high office send an email you would not want seen on the front page of a newspaper.

KUDOS to Secretary Clinton and to the president if Wasserman Schultz resigns. The bull was immediately taken by the horns and SWIFTLY taken down. NOTHING but NOTHING can give Trump even one smidgen more of a possibility that he will win in November!! Tip of the hat to the Dems if in fact Schultz resigns!

Daily Kos does it again. They won me with this article!

VERY convincing Article in the Daily Kos! I was going to protest to Hillary a bit because of Kaine's deregulation bank leanings. Now I'm not. I get it. Read the article above to get it too!  Trump off the tracks train MUST be stopped!!

http://www.dailykos.com/…/-Kaine-Is-Not-Safe-Pick-Hillary-I…

Kaine Is Not "Safe" Pick - Hillary Is Going For A Rout

The auto-correct on every article/post/tweet on the choice by Next President Hillary Clinton of Senator Tim Kaine to be her Veep has been “safe choice who will work well with her”… BALDERDASH !! (said with a “harrumph”) Sen. Kaine was…

New Republic: Ignore the Polls. Trump’s Campaign Is a Hot Mess, and That’s All That Matters.

Here or below

https://newrepublic.com/article/135114/ignore-polls-trumps-campaign-hot-mess-thats-matters

Donald Trump is a Sociopath--Article New Yorker Magazine by Jane Mayer

Read and Heed the "New Yorker Magazine" article by respected author Jane Mayer


http://www.ibtimes.com/donald-trump-sociopath-art-deal-book-ghostwriter-says-new-yorker-feature-2392338

An EXPLOSIVE interview about the ghost writer of the Art of the Deal Tony Schwartzl!!! Chilling

Interview with Rachel Maddow about Jane Mayer's article in the "New Yorker Magazine" I would love to get that article. You're jaw will drop.    OMG!!!

http://www.msnbc.com/…/art-of-the-deal-ghostwriter-speaks-o…

'Art of the Deal' ghostwriter speaks out

Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter for Donald Trump's book

msnbc.com

A first and last time kudo -- the Republican Party in Chaos!

I, no surprise, ABSOLUTELY LOATHE MOST EVERY CANDIDATE in the Republicon Party with the exception MAYBE of John Kasich and even he I find little about which to support. I will say one thing about him, though, he stayed away from the Asylum Party's unconventional convention ... so far. Kudos at least for that.

I, NEVER support anything Ted Cruz says, does or about which he is BUT this one time I will say the man had the courage of his convictions, in his address to the convention, to NOT support Trump! I applaud him for that.

Good for you, Ted Cruz, after what that orange faced hairless nincompoop gorilla (apologies to gorillas) along with all of Trump's frauds, lies, cruelty and psycho pathology, adding the terrible insulting things he said about you, your wife, as well as having the temerity to say your father was involved with Lee Harvey Oswald in the assassination of JFK, I congratulate you for upholding at least their honor by not endorsing the most DESPICABLE candidate, a dangerous candidate and a worse man that ever existed on the US historical landscape.

The fact that Cruz had the fortitude to stand up to this little man Trump, a man of NO ethical worth, a man of fraud, tax evasion and Machiavellian cruelty makes me think Cruz may be a smidgen better than that which I always thought he was. So, Ted Cruz, kudos are in order. Cruz did the right thing by not being a lap dog for the worst most embarrassing candidate for the presidency in the history of this nation, Donald J. Trump.

May Trump lose an embarrassing and utterly CRUSHING loss landslide I suspect (or at least HOPE) he now will to the MOST qualified and unfairly (to say the least) maligned candidate in US history, Hillary Rodham Clinton and may the Republicon Party of racist and misogynist white supremacy be ultimately relegated to the ash heap of history.

TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED -- ON TO PHILADELPHIA NEXT WEEK AND LET'S WIN IT FOR THE DEMOCRAT HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON!!

For those of you who have

Netflix I recommend a WONDERFUL documentary entitled "Citizen Koch."  Yes, it is the same film the Koch Brothers allegedly were successful in squashing when PBS, once a great public education network but now Koch Brothers and their minions controlled, did NOT want to air it.  PBS caved and never did show the film BUT Netflix is carrying it. 

If you want to know just how big the corporatist agenda is and how they hoodwinked middle and working class white America watch this film.  The majority of the tea baggers that are screaming in the insanity to elect Donald Trump have fallen for the effort of the 1%.  Why?  I have my opinions. 

After the election of Barack Obama, the first black president, the Republican Party in their voracious zeal for wealth and power co-opted these millions of middle and working class white voters into supporting them because they knew those voters could not stand our first black president.  Yes, in my opinion, it is all about race and the desire, by any means necessary, to deny the person of color power by super paks financing elections to elect Republicans, gerrymandering districts to ensure Republicans are elected, controlling state legislatures, cutting voting areas in Democratically minority districts, cutting the times and days one can vote, requiring Voter IDs thereby denying minorities the RIGHT to vote by making it harder TO vote for mainly persons of color and Democrats. 

Moreover, Governor Scott Walker's cutting of public unions through Right to Work legislation eviscerated the Democratic vote further.  He gave tax cuts to the wealthy, cut jobs and pensions from public workers and drove the state into debt.  His Right to Work affinity is in truth the right of state workers to be unemployed!  So called "right to work" is camouflage for anti Union.  Unions protect the rights of workers, their salaries and benefits through collective bargaining.  It is an old story and one with historical legs.

Republican goals now are to scathingly and vituperatively demonize Hillary Clinton so that the keys to the Supreme Court kingdom will be handed to a court FILLED with those of a right wing ideological bent of the deceased Anton Scalia, and NOT in the interests of the middle class, the working classes and the poor.  It will be slanted rightwing extremist for generations.  And there are the social issues too.

If you have Netflix or can find this documentary film in other venues watch it and see how the Koch Brothers, their supporters and political operatives control the reins of power by manipulating those who either do not know any better or who are dedicated to the elimination of all minority influence thereby usurping power.  Do NOT be deceived.  The 1% wealthiest like Donald Trump are NOT in  any way about any of us!

GET OUT THE TRUTH AND THE VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON!

State Department Declares FBI Director Was WRONG About Clinton’s Emails, They Were NOT Marked

Again, just how rancid can the GOP be and just how destructive and erroneous was Comey's assessment of Hillary Clinton? If I were Hillary I would ask for a public hearing with both Comey and her in attendance. Get the truth out and restore Hillary Clinton's name to its rightful truthful place of honor. Or better still she should sue the bastards!


http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/19/1549705/-State-Department-Declares-FBI-Director-Was-WRONG-About-Clinton-s-Emails-They-Were-NOT-Marked

Melania's Plagiarized Speech

Why should Melania's plagiarism surprise us? I am sure Trump had control over every word she spoke and lifted those parts from Michelle's Obama's DNC speech without Melania's knowledge -- just a hunch. That would be no surprise, indeed. In fact, Trump lifted paragraphs of the book on his Trump Institute alleged corporate fraud business venture from "Real Estate Mastery System" published by Success Magazine linked here from which he bilked millions of bucks from unsuspecting eyes of those who would read about his "course" and sign up. Moreover, I will not go into the infamous detail of Trump University now under investigation for fraud by the New York Attorney General's office. Google it and read about that.

The nearly entire first night of the the Republican National Convention was FILLED with discord, spectacle and lies. Fact check every single speaker ESPECIALLY the famous like the histrionic explosive Rudy Giuliani and even those not famous who tragically suffered loss of their loved ones in Benghazi like Pat Smith. Her speech eviscerated Hillary unjustifiably. As much as I sympathize with Pat Smith's heartache it does NOT give her the right to tell untruths about Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton was NOT I repeat NOT responsible for her son's death. How much will these appellations of "Crooked Hillary" that are FALSE stick in the minds of those who question nothing? We are talking about the American presidency and the nominee of one major Party, a man who will control all the weapons of annihilation. I suggest one question everything spewed from the filled-with-mendacity speakers at the Republican Convention who utter at best half truths at worst downright lies of nearly all they say especially about Hillary Clinton and the president. Question the content of all those who will speak in the days to come.

The Republican Legislative Committee for the Investigation of Benghazi did multiple investigations of Secretary Clinton on Benghazi and found NOTHING on which to indict her. As much as we sympathize with Pat Smith's loss of her son it cannot be a justification to erroneously place the blame on an individual who was not at fault for her son's death simply because one cannot accept his fate fighting in a violent nation at secular war as the cause of his death.

In addition, I also link below the story of Melania's plagiarized speech from Huffington Post. Read it and know. Then pass this on to whomever you want. Get the word out that the Republican National Convention speakers fill their verbiage with half baked truths and lies especially about Hillary Clinton and the president! I list one Fact Check example below along with another link about Melania Trump's plagiarism.

The spectacle after Melania's introduction of Trump of his emerging from the mist of white clouds like who? God? This was preposterously staged theater of what should be thought a serious event by the nominee. If a Democrat did that they would be pilloried.

And one more thing illuminated by a blogger: "Jail time for Hillary Clinton?" How about the entire Bush Administration for starting the Iraqi War under the false pretense of WMD that were never found. How many investigations were conducted and how many lives were lost? Feb 2003 I was at Ft Lewis Washington training to go to Iraq." I rest, for now, my case.

Fact-Checking the First Night of the Republican National Convention

by Mark Murray , Alexandra Jaffe, Carrie Dann and Jane C. Timm

CLAIM (Rudy Giuliani): "Hillary Clinton's answer to Congress about the death of these four brave Americans [in Benghazi] because of her failures as Secretary of State was 'what difference at this point does it make?' Watch the video for yourself and see the arrogant disregard for American lives lost unnecessarily. Make up your own mind."

THE FACTS: According to the video of Clinton's congressional testimony, Clinton's "what difference at this point does it make" was over whether the violence in Benghazi was inspired by anti-Islam video or not. "With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they'd they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, senator."

To quote a relative: "The majority of November voters are going to see this fiasco for what it is: a cheap, name-calling, undemocratic melodrama, tawdry and sullied as is the clown with the "Big Brain" that orchestrated it. I am encouraged that the GOP is giving us a huge boost. And unless there is some horrific violence that will get Trump the sympathy vote for a short while, I predict there will be no bump from this charade."


http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/fact-checking-first-night-republican-national-convention-n612081

Plagiarized Melania speech.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/melania-trump-speech-plagiarized_us_578da752e4b0a0ae97c33675

Fiddler on the Roof

Some black nationalists and mostly white Republicans, of course, are blaming our current social discord on President Obama and, naturally, his ally and Democratic presumptive presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. I think the blamers insulting and wrong.
 
Obama tried to legislate with an obstructionist Republican majority Congress in both Houses. He is NOT a monarch. He needed the acquiescence of our first Constitutional branch, the Legislature. It is not that he did not want to pass, for example, the Dream Act. HE DID but could not get it passed so he resorted to Executive Orders and did the best he could. He saved SCOTUS which if Trump is elected will wax conservative for generations eradicating progress in race relations achieved over centuries. Obama took insult after insult he did not deserve. He did, I WHOLLY believe, NOT mean this discord to be so. In response to the Dallas and Baton Rouge killings of police Obama was at his finest. His addresses to the nation after these ugly tragedies were magnificently and eloquently written into history among the presidential best.

In my opinion, the one thing the president did in error that brought him an utterly disloyal obstructionist Republican Congressional majority is he did not sell his Affordable Care Act well enough. Republicans poisoned the well and then in 2010/2012 took back the Congress. The Financial collapse, the rescuing of the big banks and CEO’s handing themselves bonuses while the middle class died created anger and resentment that, in truth, belonged in Republican laps as the collapse did not happen on Obama’s watch. I will not countenance eviscerating this president without objection because he saved the nation against incredible odds!

We now, it seems, know the hater and killer of the Baton Rouge police had a Sovereign Citizen government loathing philosophy but, in fact, rare for that usually white right wing extremist group, he was a person of color. Trump will and is indicting both Obama and Hillary as responsible for the discord that hovers over our nation like a shroud. Again, Trump and his minions lie, lie, and lie some more trying to appeal to the lesser angels of our nation’s nature. The president has tried to unite. His voice of unification is magnificent.

The words that initially brought him into the national vision were unforgettable. He said at the 2004 Democratic convention in Obamian cadence: "This is not a white America. This is not a black America. This is the UNITED STATES of America!" Obama is the uniter-in-chief. I do not know what these Republican merchants of hate want from this man or, for that matter, Hillary but I HOPE their mendacity will not be a poison pill swallowed by the nation. Trump, if elected, will be the DIVIDER in chief.

I believe President Obama has been one of our greatest presidents who was placed in untenable situations not of his making. Despite this, he saved our nation from total collapse, rescued the auto industry, reduced unemployment, improved the economy and tried to end the war in Iraq. If he did not perfect his entire agenda successfully, as the psychiatrist, Robin Williams, said to Matt Damon, his patient for suppressed hauntings of an abusive father in the film Good Will Hunting, it was “NOT your [his] fault.”

Our nation stands by a single thread – the consent of the governed – but it is NOT an indestructible tie. Our democracy, imperfect but free, stands like the proverbial fiddler on the roof balancing his safety while playing a fiddle on top of a slanted roof. He risks his life if a wind blows, his balance compromised, and he falls. This is a metaphor for our nation in our time. If the precarious balance of this huge nation is destroyed by the true forces of division, perhaps then, we will realize just how much we have lost. 

REDUNDANTLY I KNOW: GET OUT TO VOTE DEMOCRATIC UP AND DOWN TICKET.  TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO DO THE SAME.  YOU MAY SEND THIS OPINION TO ANYONE YOU CHOOSE!

Mike Pence doesn’t believe smoking causes deaths?

FROM HILLARY CLINTON

Trump’s new running mate, Mike Pence, has an atrocious record of anti-woman, homophobic, extreme conservative governance.

He also has some absolutely absurd ideas that make him a natural partner for the Trump ticket. To wit:

Mike Pence doesn’t believe smoking causes deaths. He wrote on his website, “smoking doesn't kill. In fact, two out of every three smokers does not die from a smoking related illness.” … last time I checked, that means one out of every three smokers DOES die from a smoking-related illness, right?


Mike Pence thinks climate change is a hoax. Again, in his own words: "Global warming is a myth. The global warming treaty is a disaster. There, I said it."

Mike Pence shut down the only HIV testing center in Scott County, Indiana -- in the name of preventing HIV/AIDS. In a huge surprise, that county later experienced what the press called “an exploding HIV outbreak.”

Mike Pence might not think smoking, climate change, or HIV pose serious threats -- but one thing is absolutely clear:

Mike Pence himself is a pretty serious threat to the American people.

Between the two of them, Trump and Pence could well be the most extreme right-wing ticket in the modern history of American politics -- and they’re just days away from accepting the Republican nominations.

The Tsunami Trump

http://www.nytimes.com/…/…/opinion/the-gop-partys-over.html…

The (G.O.P.) Party’s Over

The Republican Party hasn’t been a productive part in a two-party democracy for a long time, but a crushing loss this fall could force it to change.

nytimes.com|By Thomas L. Friedman

I am praying for and writing about the same things Tom Friedman states in his wonderfully written editorial linked above. Until this very moment I thought what he said and its reality would prevail. The networks cannot, however, stop their blather talking Trump 24/7. They say the polls in swing states are drawing closer. If God forbid this monstrosity Trump who loves uneducated people and white supremacists wins I will be, unusual for me, at a loss for words to describe the disastrous and monumental tsunami that will befall our nation. 

Benjamin Franklin said after the Constitution was formed and he was asked what type of government they had created. He answered famously "A Republic IF you can keep it." This is the most profound question of our time to see if in fact in an age of Trump we can. Our Republic with a Donald Trump at the helm is clearly is at risk. Will we keep it? Of that I am not so sure!

MAGNIFICANCE

If you did not hear the president's speech do so if you can.  It was in the magnificence of Abraham Lincoln and FDR.  Give yourself the pleasure of listening, emphasizing, and walk in the shoes he gives you to make thing better in this nation!

READY, AIM ... PEACE

Gunman Opens Fire At Candlelight Vigil For Baltimore Shooting Victim.  The story is linked below

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox?compose=155def7eb83fd205

A blogger's response: We have a culture of violence in this country and we need brave politicians who won't be afraid to use some truths about ourselves. We are a violent nation a violent people who have a callous disregard for life. We need to promote a culture that respects life.

My Response: I have been saying that for years. Yet, there is another humane side to our country. One cannot deny that. To assess it, generally -- since the dawn of notated history we are no different than other nations that have usurped power.  In modernity Europe, of course, in the 20th century millions, perhaps even hundreds of millions were killed. Germans of WWII fame on their way to world conquest killed many millions of innocents. Vietnam killed a million Vietnamese and 50,000 US soldiers wounding tens of thousands.  The War in Iraq needs no statistical analysis.  One word sums it up: AWFUL.

Our nation, I think, is no exception to the general rule. The difference is that most of the electorate THINKS we are the most exceptional nation and those who hold power dupe others through a nationalist "conservative" fantasy land trying to sell that "exceptionalism" not only to those here who buy it but to the world many of whom do not. There is, too, the ever-present money that is made from war at the expense of middle and lower class bodies who share only in the wounds and death it bestows.  The media and social media peddles it.

The mayhem in the Middle East is a direct result of the US Iraq invasion based on lies for power's own nefarious, mendacious and self-aggrandizing reasons. Our nation dismembered a Middle East tinderbox placing sects who were once at a strong-arm controlled peace with each other now in torturous never-ending eternal sectarian war.

We can choose to emphasize the better angels of our nature, eschew eternal war, stop the murder of each other and concentrate on those things that really DO advance mankind. Human beings do better when they work with one another and care about each other. No one can live in constant mayhem.  Death and destruction will be its legacy.  Let us emphasize that which can advance humankind and NOT destroy it!

IF THERE IS A FALSE PROPHET TRUMP IS HE.  IF HE IS ELECTED END TIMES CHAOS IS WITHIN SIGHT, THE GIFT OF THIS UGLY TROJAN HORSE.  CLIMATE CHANGE DESTRUCTION WILL BE HIS BESTOWAL.  HIS WORDS ENGENDER NOTHING BUT HATE AND CONFLICT PITTING ONE TRIBE AGAINST THE OTHER TO ACHIEVE THE NARCISSISTIC POWER FOR WHICH HE THIRSTS. HIS THIRST WILL NEVER BE QUENCHED.  HE NEEDS TO BE RELEGATED TO THE ASH BIN OF HISTORY AND HILLARY CLINTON NEEDS TO BE ELECTED TO THE APEX OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY!  THERE IS NO OTHER CHOICE.

IF I COULD TALK / BEST DOG FILM SHORT Director

This is a gorgeous short film about a man and his rescue of a blond lab puppy that had been placed in a garbage bag and thrown into the water. He keeps the dog and the short film is about the dog's lifelong relationship with that man and ultimately his family. It's

called "If I Could Talk" and shows what the dog would say to the man if he could.

The thoughts the dog has not only are applicable to dogs and animals we love but really to anyone we love. It is beautiful in its simplicity and emphasizes why we need to love those we love and say so as much as we can as time goes by and our lives together grow short.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuOCeJSQCTs

Thank You!

I wrote a note to my police chief yesterday thanking him for those first responders who helped me when I needed them and thought of my beloved town that educated me for free, that provided for me, who needed it then, transportation to school. I wished I could thank the many teachers who educated me and provided inspiration for higher education.  I wished I could thank, too, all those persons of color, Hispanics and other immigrants who helped me when hospitalized not once, not twice but three times after post polio issues presented life as a climb up Everest. They carried my food to me, they carried other things for me that are part of life and I thanked God or fate that they were there for me. Yes, it takes a village to help all of us survive.

 

We do not know the day nor the hour that all of us will, at some time, need the help of a stranger who may have come from a strange land.  We need both the doctor and the custodian, the teacher and the sanitation worker, the physics professor and the carpenter necessary to keep the wheels of life turning.

We must appreciate all those who may not be famous but are the necessities of our lives. The great sages teach us love and not hate.  We are in this together and we MUST learn to live together or we shall all die separately and alone.

IF THE UNIMAGINABLE VIOLENT EVENTS OF THE PAST FEW DAYS IN OUR NATION TELL US WHY THE ELECTION OF HILLARY CLINTON IS SO MANDATORY AND THE RESOUNDING DEFEAT OF A DONALD TRUMP, THE ESSENCE OF HATE, IS SO NECESSARY THEN NOTHING CAN.  PLEASE, PLEASE GET OUT THE VOTE FOR THE ONLY ONE FOR PRESIDENT CAPABLE IN OUR VIOLENT TIMES, HILLARY CLINTON AND ALL DOWN TICKET DEMOCRATS.  THE ELECTION OF THE MESSENGER OF DIVISION AND HATE, TRUMP, TO THE PRESIDENCY IS POURING SALT INTO OUR MOST LIFE-THREATENING WOUND. 

The True Face of Terror.

http://www.dailykos.com/…/-Ex-Congressman-calls-for-revenge…

Ex Congressman calls for revenge against President Obama and Black Lives Matter for Dallas shooting

 
Former Tea Party congressman, Joe Walsh has been pretty actively a terrible person for many years now. He’s a deadbeat dad, and a racist, and everything you expect from the extreme right. Tonight with the horrible events in Dallas unfolding, Walsh...
dailykos.com

The TRUE face of terror. Rightwingnuts are mean, they are violent and are simply dying to create a race war. Does he even realize there are whites who mourn both the black people shot for nothing and the officers deaths as well. His verbiage is meant to inflame and incite what they really want is race war. Do not give it to them. Turn your other cheek and be kind to one another. That is the BEST offense we can present!

If Trump becomes president -- listen and heed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVqO3r3ugVo

IT IS QUITE OBVIOUS WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE IF THE DISASTROUS TRUMP ASSUMES THE PRESIDENCY. YOUR CHILDREN, YOUR GRANDCHILDREN AND EVEN POSSIBLY OUR GENERATION WILL NOT LIVE TO HAVE OUR LIVES COME TO A NATURAL END. SPECIES ARE ALREADY DYING FROM CLIMATE CHANGE AND THERE IS MORE THAT IS DEVASTATING ABOUT A TRUMP PRESIDENCY. LISTEN TO THIS YOUTUBE AND KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO SEE THAT TRUMP NEVER GETS NEAR THE OVAL OFFICE!

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