| If last week’s election results are any indicator, we’re about to see some big changes in Congress — and not for the better. Ask Obama to protect the critical Arctic Refuge as a National Monument before new oil-hungry Reps can attack it with drills.
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Dear friend of Alaska wilderness,
Election night confirmed it: The U.S. Congress is about to change dramatically. To the new extremists in power, the tragic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is long forgotten. Don’t think for an instant that “Drill, baby, drill” isn’t on the tip of their tongues – or at the top of their agendas. The attacks on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will begin immediately. They will be brutal and constant. But what if I told you that we could protect the Arctic Refuge before Congress ever bangs a gavel next year? Click here now: Tell President Obama to protect the Arctic Refuge as a new National Monument! Congress sure has some crazy ideas for the Refuge, but we’re keeping it wild! Today, we’re launching a massive online effort called “Keeping It Wild!” to convince President Obama to declare the Arctic Refuge our newest National Monument. It’s both a stepping stone to future protections and a maneuver to help shield the Refuge from congressional attacks. The Arctic is one of our last refuges for wildlife – invaluable, iconic and alive! Big mammals still roam this land and millions of the world’s birds feed and nest on the plains. They come here each year, seeking refuge from a world of encroaching hazards to receive their most sacred needs: sustenance and safe harbor for bearing their young. For 50 years, this cycle has remained unhindered by human development, so life in the Arctic Refuge has continued to thrive. As Americans, we have a moral and civic duty to ensure that this cycle is not broken – not on our watch. The time for action is now: with Congress poised to change significantly and the Refuge’s 50th anniversary only weeks away, President Obama can make a real statement that America will not submit its greatest treasures to the follies of the past or the whims of the present. Tell the President: Protect the Arctic Refuge as a National Monument! Alaska Wilderness League is the first line of defense for the Arctic Refuge. We’re keeping it wild – but we can’t do it alone. Thank you for all that you do, Cindy Shogan |
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Urgent Action for Women and Families
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On November 16, the House and Senate will reconvene for a lame duck session to complete the business of the 111th Congress. On the agenda are issues of great importance to women and families. The National Women’s Law Center is pulling out all the stops to get a just and fair outcome on these critical issues. Please make an emergency donation for women and families today. Here are some of our urgent lame-duck session action items: 1. Responsible Taxes The Bush-era tax cuts will expire on December 31 unless Congress acts. The Center is working to ensure that cuts for individuals earning more than $200,000 and couples earning more than $250,000 a year expire as scheduled and that recent improvements in tax credits for working families are renewed. Otherwise, a single mother with two children working full-time at the minimum wage will lose nearly $1,500 and the very wealthy will receive an average tax cut of more than $100,000. 2. Pay Equity Women in America still make only 77 cents for every dollar men earn. To narrow the wage gap and strengthen wage discrimination protections, the House passed the landmark Paycheck Fairness Act in January 2009. We expect the Senate to take the bill up next week. Your support will help us mobilize even more women and men to tell the Senate that Women are Not WorthLess and that it should pass the Paycheck Fairness Act now. 3. Unemployment Insurance Coverage The federal emergency unemployment insurance program for workers out of a job more than 26 weeks expires at the end of November. More than a million people will face cutoffs in December alone if Congress does not act quickly. With your support, we will urge Congress to extend this emergency program. 4. Child Care and Head Start Congress must complete a final spending bill to prevent funding cuts to child care, Head Start, and other essential programs. If Congress fails to act to preserve recent increases in funding, newly opened classrooms will be forced to shut down, child care providers may find themselves out of business, and parents will lose essential child care. We’ll press policymakers to pass a spending bill that averts these devastating consequences. _________________________________ Our experts are working round the clock to urge Congress to act on these and other critical fronts, including confirmation of 23 highly qualified judges who have been waiting for months for a floor vote and lifting a ban on abortion care for U.S. servicewomen using their own private money in military health facilities overseas. Only days are left to enact these urgent measures. For women and families across the country, please make an emergency donation today. Sincerely, |
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Update: Shirvell dismissed from MI Attorney General’s office
CNN Wire Staff
(CNN) – An assistant Michigan attorney general has been fired for harassing the openly gay president of the University of Michigan student body, Attorney General Mike Cox said Monday. Andrew Shirvell “repeatedly violated office policies, engaged in borderline stalking behavior and inappropriately used state resources,” Cox said.
Related: Michigan employee with blog on gay student takes leave of absence
Earlier: Michigan attorney general defends employee’s right to blog
Earlier: Assistant attorney general blogs against gay student body president
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Weekend rants …&some News
Sunday buzz… Fall back y’all and we did. The President and Mrs. Obama are out of town so to speak. While here in the States we have to hear the continuous drone from the Republican Tea Party who think Americans want repeal HCR, Wall Street reform, cut Education by 20%, replace and eliminate social service programs that women, vets, older folks and the new poor use. If Republicans decide to go after these things instead of JOBS it would definitely be a recipe for trouble, likely force into a deeper recession and will be the reason they will become unemployed. The current rhetoric has absolutely nothing to do with JOBS or the Economy …If people are listening they have no intention of cutting spending unless it is on the backs of the Middle and Lower classes people …get that in your head!!! The RTP will be in control for about a minute and what we as Democrats need to remember is that we have to call Republicans out on every move they make to ruin the current President instead of focusing on Jobs. I have to say anyone with any common sense knows that the top 2% will not spend their tax cuts to create an environment so that people will be hired or create jobs and if they do it will be to outsource them for lower wages in China, Mexico etc. If you do not believe it, just tune into CNBC and hear the words coming from various CEO’s being trotted out on any given day by Kudlow and associates.
I hope everyone is asking their Republican member of Congress what exactly the top 2% did with the Bush giveaways because it could not have been on hiring and creating jobs or we would not be in or see the mess all around us. I feel that after twenty months of gridlock from the Republican Tea Party of No things are about to get heated within their own Family Values Platform party. Anyway –
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” –George Orwell
I personally do not want to go back to colonial days we must move forward stay in the present so discrimination fails …the past fails and equal rights for all prevails.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the World. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” –Margaret Mead
Jus sayin
Other News …
Tomas is still being a stubborn storm
Texas border is suffering from shoot outs
Obama pays tribute to Gandhi
In India, Obama pushes U.S. jobs
Man in Sweden has been arrested for the shooting of immigrants -his target
The Pope urges Spain to shun secularism
Trader Joes recalls products that have cilantro
Counting begins in Myanmar election
Israeli police raze mosque amid protests
Weekly Addresses
Saturday ...It was great to see President and Mrs Obama get off the plane in India as well as hearing his great speech …it was early …great time to do laundry…coffee -sad Haiti just cannot get a break
The news about the recent move by Griffin to suspend a valuable employee named Keith Oberlmann has not only grabbed the attention of at least 200 thousand people they all have signed a bring back Keith petition that you can find on Facebook and or twitter. This man has among other things given the public a platform to truly help others with the free clinic spot he made available to his viewers. It was a rude awakening to see so many people needing healthcare while our Republican members of Congress probably with constituents in those lines object to HCR that they have for their own families. The free clinic and of course the news delivered only the way Keith did will be missed if he decides to leave. I will admit and say that if Keith’s contract states ALL employees must read and abide by the rules with those rules clearly listed in an obvious way applying to ALL employees then he broke the rules and should be reprimand but if msnbc is singling him out then something smells. I think Keith needs to decide what is important, his 950 thousand viewers all understand what pride is all about, so, if he chooses not to come back we will understand. I hope he knows that there are only a few News guys like him who dems, libs and all those left of center feels is giving the adequate information we need, crave, maybe a pep talk as well as great interviews with Politicians, entertainers etc that share our way of thinking. The fact that 950 thousand people choose to tune in to hear Keith O he has made it possible for people donate to the free clinics Keith has brought great awareness to on his show because we are in fact our brothers and sisters keepers. It is a fresh and great use of time instead doing a pledge show for politicians. I believe Keith and a few other News reporters have made it ok to help your fellow man even if they are American Muslims, Hispanic, Gay, Asian Straight, believe in freedom of religion and still be an American, want the right to choose, be Black or Latino because most democrats/libs have a different ideology than the RTP. This is not to say Keith O’s show is the end all be all but he is important to over 950thousand people. While most will continue to tune in for left of center News at least 175 thousand have signed a protest petition, a few have stopped their twitter msnbc follow or have decided to boycott msnbc because the reasons behind the suspension seemed unfair . If the rumors surrounding the suspension turn out to be true it would seem a co-worker donated to Republican candidates and received no suspension at all. The first reports were that the other guy dealt with opinion News while Keith was a News reporter which seemed strange because he never asked for donations from anyone during the midterm campaigning. The notion that the other guy who is a Republican, an ex-member of Congress giving donations to fellow Republican Politicians as being acceptable while Keith who reports the News and as a private citizen donated to a Democrat is absurd and offensive. It is my hope that msnbc will see the error their ways and bring him back on given other employees have done so in the past without similar outcomes. The News can be subjective instead of objective to the point that we scream shout and sometimes throw stuff at it especially when the viewer knows the person sitting there reading off the prompter is being paid to lie, stir up trouble and in a lot of cases race bait. Again, I am willing to admit that Keith’s spot does not completely counter a whole freakin station like faux news but he has helped tamper the ugly nasty sometimes racist noise coming from the right on any channel. It is important to feed both sides of any issue, maybe deliver some real News with truth and facts splashed with some good ole fashioned humor as well.
Later in the day -I could not help but read the various comment boards about Keith O’s suspension and it appears as if those on the right responded with the most and usual hater remarks so i had to put my 2cents in as well… It seems like the group on here making comments are all viewers of Fox News… funny …putting the name Fox and News together is such a joke to me. I do not tune into fox very often but sometimes you just have to see what all the fuss is about, hear the ugly nasty words they say without flinching. I have to say I would never let my kids see that show because they teach fear and hate. The fact that fox is a far right of center activist cable station that allows their employees to seemingly spew hate, promote fear and if you are a person of color the comments seem just shy of outright racism and take the whole we are using our 1st amendment rights thing too far for me. The fact that Fox obviously donates thousands of dollars to candidate’s right of center is unseemly at best, no station should be too left or right of center in my opinion. Fox is the only station I know that promotes right of center opinion ideas or so-called news. It is offensive to watch them use their station to campaign for Republicans at all let alone for those that clearly have an extreme agenda. In addition, when these entertainers grab a story without fact checking it look into the camera and tell the viewer the President is going to India with 34 war ships, 3000 staffers so on and so forth it makes you wonder when someone will make them stop.
There were reports that Keith stated he would not be coming back -we will miss him.
CSPAN …
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