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2023 – Is Summer Over Yet?


 

Just another rant

Summer is over

It’s a call to action after hearing the volume on stupid being turned up about as high, if not more, than any real American should have to put up with. We in the Democratic Party helped President Obama give Tea Publicans the boot in 2012. Now, It is up to the 81 Million plus to end the insane behavior of the Republican branches including Tea-Publicans, Freedom Caucus, and MAGARs on both the State and Federal levels. The Democratic Party in this 21st Century may disagree with each other. Still, WE need to stop the madness instead of beating up on each other and the President, get on the same page, do the people’s business, and make sure voters know that the new Republican Party, aka the MAGARs, have done nothing but run both Chambers of Congress into the ground.  If you are keeping up with what is going on in the House of Representatives, which seems to be about legislating against their own government. They must have met and decided that making it more difficult for the President would give them an edge and hope that Americans are stupid enough to think this is the American Way. FYI, it is not. We, as voters, see that working for progress has been replaced with revenge and some engage in inciting violence.  In addition, unless you have been living under a rock the President’s efforts to move the Country into the 21st Century for better standing, or status are slow if not next to nil. We must not forget when Rep. McConnell said, that his job is to make President Obama a One-Term President, which is also what most MAGARs push when they get the media to pay them attention, false impeachment reports, or use Hunter to hurt President Biden.

This man has wanted to be POTUS since he was a kid and has studied the job, changed, and evolved over time. President Biden is the epitome of the average Joe voter who with the help of friends and family pulled himself up by the bootstraps even while facing loss, pain, and hate. The Media hasn’t made the effort to give airtime to the good or great things that #BidenHarrisAdmin have done, their focus is on the extreme right and some feel they have given them a platform to pass on disinformation to poorly informed voters.  While that is not lost on us, and yes controversy is good for ratings, we the people must make sure that “the media” fact-checks the extremist candidates who seem to be spewing lies, and not only about the Biden family but the current state of our democracy which is definitely at risk, but it’s due to the possibility of an Authoritarian wannabe such as trump, and btfw we the people don’t want that as a U.S. President. The media continually points out the problems for D’s and treats some Rs as if they are not only privileged but more interesting to talk to. There are quite a few controversial possibly misinformed right-leaning politicians from the MAGARs Party running for office in various states who are not just unqualified but exhibit nutty behavior and that might be interesting fodder for the media, but they should not be allowed to hold prestigious positions of power in Congress on the state or federal level.

Reminder…

This is not the year of the Woman, but who can be the most discriminatory or racist then add in Women have no right to make their own decisions when it comes to abortion…  The fact is that a lot of women in the Republican Party are against the right to choose, which, if we listen, means giving up Autonomy; well the definition of Autonomy is as follows, and like we all know Words matter right.

So, read what errian-Webster.com says  …

The Origin of Autonomy: 

1)the quality or state of being self-governing, especially :

 the right of self-government

The territory was granted autonomy.

2: self-directing freedom and especially moral independence
personal autonomy

3: a self-governing state

Most, if not all conservative evangelical, Christians are against gays and some feel women in the Military is definitely a no no. To say these conservative family values are against the way real families live their lives is like saying we don’t have noses on our faces. They are folks who live different lives than the rest of us, and they intend to push their personal ideologies on Americans and continue to legislate them as well. En masse … Voters deserve and need to demand the freedom some on the right believe the 2nd Amendment gives them… the difference between having Autonomy means many things … Vs what an AR15 can do to families.

I certainly didn’t imagine having these kinds of people in Congress, let alone vying for the position of President. Yet, they seem far worse than anyone believed and IMO probably why paul ryan fled, now, reports are that he is seemingly all in.  We must all GOTV against a group of social conservatives that obviously are not our parents’ conservative opponents who may not share the Democratic view but, were able to come together to solve a lot of our country’s problems as Americans, putting party affiliation aside. Republicans, have taken risks since the midterm elections and are now setting their sights on the White House again like it should be part of constituent life. The idea of an American POTUS governing by religion is a big problem for me because I see religion as personal, which I would never force, push, or demand others to practice or legislate. We have freedom of religion but what the right and maybe others seem to be pushing is just wrong, it is offensive, and against the whole separation of church and state… right? 

As right-leaning Tea publicans, now MAGARS , try to out -extreme each other, we all need to be aware of their lack of real substance, solutions, or plans that would be good for ALL Americans. I am no expert when it comes to individual rights, but it is apparent that folks on the right feel Americans get too many entitlements like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The impression is, that they intend to take some if not all the individual rights from people of colour. The behavior of these so-called women on the right should be addressed on so many levels, they are helping to take Autonomy away. It continues to embarrass the rest of us, as they open up their mouths to say things that have moved from nasty sarcasm to extreme ideology to seemingly overt racism. The notion that any public figure or anyone who wants to call themselves a Public Servant and or Representative of the People should be speaking and representing one nation under god, not just a select few which if you listen closely, representing a “select few” is all I get from the conservative extreme right that support trump. The new Republicans, want Americans to accept a new way of life, which they call limited government. Unfortunately, that means and includes a ban on women’s rights, book bans, people cannot love or marry whom they want, people of colour and Muslims should not be trusted, and religion or church and state are inseparable. Our founding fathers were opposed to it.

Apparently, the new Republican Party is now against most of what our forefathers put on paper.

I don’t know about you, but if MAGARs take our government, it sounds like the end of the only Pledge that should matter to all Americans … the Pledge of Allegiance.

 

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Today is the 6th Anniversary of Katrina ….

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“The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.”

Martin Luther King, Jr., The Purpose of Education

Sunday, 8/28/2011 a dedication for the new MLK JR memorial statue with President Obama giving a keynote speech as well as some others was to have taken place but this last week was one that the east coast will never forget. On Tuesday 23 August, the east coast experienced a 6.0 earthquake, which shook up the entire coast for a few days with Governors requesting help from the government, particularly FEMA and on Friday, Hurricane Irene, fresh from beating down on Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and Florida barreled her way up the East Coast causing massive floods and several deaths.  Though if you were listening, Rep.eric cantor was so bold to say that all monies requested must or will be offset with spending cuts, which sounded as if he himself would be the decider as to which states would get help. It was definitely offensive let alone just one of many signs of how he and his group would govern if given the chance. Fortunately, President Obama performed as a President should and all those who need government help; even those Teapublicans as well as Ron Paul’s State who still rails against FEMA and government in general.

In contrast … On June 14, 2010, I found out that Glenn Beck announced that he was holding a rally on 8/28/2010, which is the day most if not all Americans remember the MLK JR “I have a dream” speech. I had to make an effort; to plead a call to action… many folks who listened to Bill Press heard this announcement and they were offended as well. It would be nice if a peaceful counter rally on that same day to honor and recognize MLK JR’s I have a dream speech. The idea of beck holding a rally on that day is just wrong, it is offensive, and it just seems like it is a moment beck has decided to exploit. Glenn beck must be upset about the fact that a Black man gave a speech so admired all over the world and at a spot as sacred as it is does not deserve to be used by him. To invite or have speakers such as Sarah Palin or Marcus luttrell who seems to be against immigrants in general; to top this very offensive thing off Jo dee messina will be there; a performer some of us use to respect, who knew the music, is nowhere related to the political leaning of this performer. If you go to beck’s website the event, slated as a non-political, non-partisan event advocating restoring honor, which given what we all know about him is definitely a conflict of word use. I believe we all have the right to freedom of speech and rally it just seems like a sham, an exploitation and a platform for the extreme right disguised as a charity event for our service people -he says to honor our heroes, our heritage and our future… by making a tax-deductible donations. I still wonder how much really went to charity, how much did Sarah Palin, jo dee messina, marcus luttrell get out of this and how much did beck really make. This year beck took his clown show to Israel and while dozens protested his small group of like minded folks on 8/25/2011, fortunately he kept quiet on 8/28/2011.

an article from Media Matters might offer some real truth about Beck’s trip to restore courage in  Jerusalem below

Beck Wildly Inflates Attendance At His Israel Rally

August 25, 2011 3:35 pm ET by Mike Burns

Yesterday, former Fox News host Glenn Beck held his much-hyped and highly controversial “Restoring Courage” rally at the foot of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Today, he whined about the skimpy coverage of the event by the media. (Hint: If a pillar of fire had appeared or if the Zechariah prophecy had been fulfilled as Beck had predicted might happen, there might have been more coverage.)

Since no prophecies appear to have been fulfilled, Beck began inflating the numbers of attendees at his rally. According to a blog post from yesterday by Yahoo’s Joe Pompeo, Beck’s spokesman said that 4,700 people attended the rally. (1,700 attendees at the spot where Beck was speaking and an additional 3,000 at a remote location where Beck’s event was broadcast live.) But by the time Beck went on the air today, Beck was suggesting that “five to seven” thousand people showed up at the remote location. He was immediately corrected by one of his aides who said there were “5,000 seats set up, and at last count, we had about 8,000 people that showed up, standing room only.” Beck then said there were “10,000 people just in these two locations alone.”

And lo and behold, in the space of one day, event attendees grew from 4,700 by Beck’s own spokesman‘s reported count, to five to seven thousand, to 10,000.

Listen:

http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/flash/pl55.swf

Of course, this wouldn’t be the first time Beck has grossly exaggerated attendance figures for his rallies. In the wake of his 8-28 “Restoring Honor” rally, Beck said he heard that the crowd had been “between 300,000 and 500,000.” But according to an outside firm hired by CBS News, the only independent and semi-official estimate of the crowd was 87,000. Beck has also made the absurd claim that the 9-12 protests that he created and hyped were the “largest march on Washington [D.C.] ever,” and said that a “really conservative” crowd estimate for that march was “500,000.” Later, his estimated number for the 9-12 crowd grew to 750,000 or a million. In fact, one unofficial D.C. fire department estimate placed the number between 60,000 and 75,000 participants.

Maybe miracles do happen at Beck’s events: The crowd size doubles (or sometimes grows by a factor of ten) without any explanation.

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Just another rant

 Summer is starting to give us all the signs of being over

 However, we in the Democratic Party have to help President Obama give Teapublicans the boot in 2012. I want the Democratic Party to stop the madness and instead of beating up on each other Democratic members of Congress and the President need to get on the same page, do the Peoples Business, and make sure those viewers know that Teapublicans have done nothing but filibuster both Chambers of Congress. In addition, unless you have been living under a rock the President’s efforts to move the Country into the 21st Century, a better standing, status and an employment number much lower than we have currently still blocked by the Teapublicans. We must not ever forget that Rep. McConnell said that his job is to make President Obama a One Term President, which is also what Bachmann, is pushing when she gets media attention. While it is obvious, the Media has made their focus on the extreme right. We all know controversy is good for ratings but we the people must make sure that “the media” fact checks the extremist Presidential candidates who seem to be throwing out lies, misinformation, and BS about the first Black President. The media continually points out the disrespectful comments President Obama has experienced while Teapublicans seem to take respect for granted or expect it as if they are privileged.  I admit there are quite a few extremely right leaning politicians from the Teapublican Party running for office in various states all over the country and there is a slight possibility of at least one woman, specifically Michelle Bachmann becoming the Republican Presidential Nomination with another extreme rightie named Sarah Palin. This is not the year of the Woman but not one of these two ladies … candidates truly represents women in their best light. The fact is most women in the Republican Party are against the right to choose, and unfortunately, Bachmann thinks submitting to her husband means having respect for him, which, if I hear her correctly would be how she would be if President; well the definition of submission is as follows and like we all know Words matter right. So, read what Merrian-Webster.com says Submission means …

The Origin of SUBMISSION

Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin submission-, submissio act of lowering, from submittere

First Known Use: 14th century

Most if not all conservative evangelical, Christians like Bachmann and Palin are against gays and some feel women in the Military is definitely a no no. To say these ideals are against family is to say i have a nose on my face. They are women who live different lives than the rest of us and if i am hearing them right they intend to push their personal ideologies on Americans and will try legislate them as well.   I certainly cannot image having these kinds of people in Congress let alone vying for the position of President. We must all GOTV in 2012 against a group of social conservatives that obviously are not our parent’s conservatives who may not share the Democratic view but were able to come together to solve our countries problems as Americans. The Teapublicans have taken risks since the midterm elections and are now setting their sights on the Whitehouse. Again, ruling by religion is a big problem for me because I see religion as a personal thing, which I would never force push or demand others practice. We have freedom of religion but what Bachmann, Palin, Perry maybe others seem to be pushing is just wrong, it is offensive, and dare i say against the whole separation of church and state… right? As right leaning Teapublicans try to out extreme, each other we all need to be aware of their lack of real substance, solutions or plans that would be good for ALL Americans.  Though I am no expert when it comes to individual rights, it is apparent that folks on the right feel Americans get too many entitlements like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and intend to take some if not all of my individual rights as a person of colour. The behavior from these so-called women on the right have embarrassed me as a woman in general on so many levels and continue to as they open up their mouths to say things that have moved from nasty sarcasm to what I consider extreme ideology to seemingly overt racism. The notion that any public figure or anyone who wants to call themselves a Public Servant and or Representative of the People should be speaking and representing one nation under god, not just a select few which if you listen closely, representing a “select few” is all I get from the conservative extreme right like Bachman, Palin and Perry.  The Teapublicans like Bachmann and Perry want Americans to accept a new way of life, which they call limited government. Unfortunately, that means and includes a ban on women’s rights, people cannot love or marry whom they want, people of colour and Muslims should not be trusted, religion and state are inseparable though our founding fathers were against it and yes, Teapublicans are against most of what our forefathers put on paper.

 I don’t know about you but the new deal sounds like the end of The only Pledge that should matter to all Americans … the Pledge of Allegiance.

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The latest events or filibusters by Republicans in both Chambers of Congress have made me wonder  if or when will the Democratic Party push back or beat back the ideology that is taking over up on the Hill. I do think a line in the sand may have been drawn when our big 3 programs came under fire and while you can see vids of Republican leaders say they got 98% of what they wanted in the debt deal, it’s obvious they change Republicans want was worth pushing possibly over the cliff. To those people who hated the deal, remember they will have to defend it, which will be interesting, especially if forced to this debt deal give full disclosure. I have to say the Debt deal and the FAA debacle proved to be a moment when we saw the Democratic Party unite against the ideology of Republicans who want to take down the entire system, as we know it. The assault on the middleclass by the Republican members of Congress is obviously very offensive and will continue until we the people get out the vote and put Democrats back in control. So, when Congress gets back from their five-week break let’s hold Republicans accountable and demand that Democrats not only stand up more but do it as a united Political Party because it makes you want to jump in and say just exactly what they are thinking but too cautious to say.

 It’s time for the Democratic members of Congress the President and We the People to get on the same page and take back our Democracy.

The temporary Band-Aid that Congress has put on the debt, deficit as well as the things filibustered, or sitting on some table in a back room somewhere in the Senate will rear its ugly head again.  Republicans are planning to bring back the Paul Ryan Budget. It is and ideological plan that should open the eyes of most if not all Republican constituents, well maybe… hey, I definitely an optimist. We all were scared about Sarah Palin becoming one person closer to being President of the US of A and thank goodness, saner minds prevailed.  In a time when millions are unemployed, more layoffs coming and Corporate America is still outsourcing and holding middle class jobs hostage. The Republican Party continues to cut slash and burn American Workers in Republican controlled states. The party of No, which used to be just a conservative pro-life scary group, is now so extreme that the slogan “taking their country back”, is no longer code but an overt statement from Republican Tea Party members. Obviously, it is about not wanting “his kind” in the White House or as other as Sarah Palin and cohorts have spewed on various occasions.  I don’t know about you but the BS about President Obama being too “other” from anyone outside of Congress is offensive but when those who took an oath to serve and protect the lives of all Americans not a select few or those who you signed that Grover Norquist pledge admit to putting ideology and pledges before the People.

 

We are all Freedom Fighters on some level every day

 

CSPAN …

U.S. Economy

117,000 Total Jobs Created in July: Unemployment Down to 9.1%

154,000 private sector jobs created

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Defense Department Faces Budget Cuts

Panetta worried about debt ceiling agreement

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a message from Robert Gibbs, Democrats.org …Last night’s spectacle


Im writing to you from Manchester, New Hampshire, where last night I witnessed a spectacle that every single Obama supporter needs to hear about.

The major GOP presidential candidates debated for the first time and made one thing very clear: They have no agenda but to take down President Obama.

They even nodded along when one called the Obama administration a “destructive force,” and they said nothing when another said the President has “embraced our enemies.”

Last night was a wake-up call to anyone who thinks they can sit tight while the Republicans battle each other for the nomination: The campaign to defeat Barack Obama and roll back his entire record is well underway. And that’s the one thing on which all of their potential candidates agree.

It was seven against one. Since the President won’t be speaking for himself at one of these debates until next year, our best response is to show the Republicans that when they attack Barack Obama, it only makes us fight back harder.

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Fundamentally, last night’s debate was about which of their candidates would turn back the clock the farthest.

They came out for re-fighting the battles they lost on Wall Street reform and the health care law. They backed reinstating “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

They even talked about abolishing the Environmental Protection Agency — and phasing out Social Security and Medicare.

They actually spent time debating whether they think Sarah Palin would have made a better vice president than Joe Biden (spoiler alert: They still think so!).

But the words “education” and “middle class” were never uttered even once.

If you were watching at home, you might have thought it was a re-run from four or eight years ago.

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