In my book, Warren is the REAL THING!
No more than Sanders, though! My
fantasy is a Sanders/Warren ticket. Many
of my so-called fantasys about elections
have evolved, so I am just hoping here!!!
She has a way with words, she does.
Sort of like presidential candidate Senator
Bernie Sanders,Elizabeth Warren (D-
MA) gets to the point without apology and
holds nothing back. It was no different
when she spoke on Monday before Congress." CLICK TO READ MORE!
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Sunday, August 9, 2015
"WHAT DO THE KOCH BROTHERS WANT?"
What Do the Koch Brothers Want? (From Bernie Sanders' site, and fact-checked)
As a result of the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision, billionaires and large corporations can now spend an unlimited amount of money to influence the political process.
Perhaps, the biggest winners of Citizens United are Charles and David Koch, owners of the second-largest privately run business in America Koch Industries.
Among other things, the Koch brothers own oil refineries in Texas, Alaska, and Minnesota and control some 4,000 miles of pipeline.
According to Forbes Magazine, the Koch brothers are now worth $80 billion, and have increased their wealth by $12 billion since last year alone.
For the Koch brothers, $80 billion in wealth, apparently, is not good enough. Owning the second largest private company in America is, apparently, not good enough. It doesn’t appear that they will be satisfied until they are able to control the entire political process.
It is well known that the Koch brothers have provided the major source of funding to the Tea Party and want to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
David KochWhat else do the Koch brothers want?
In 1980, David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party’s vice-presidential candidate in 1980.
Let’s take a look at the 1980 Libertarian Party platform.
Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980:
“We urge the repeal of federal campaign finance laws, and the immediate abolition of the despotic Federal Election Commission.”
“We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs.”
“We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to provide health services, including those which finance abortion services.”
“We also favor the deregulation of the medical insurance industry.”
“We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressive Social Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in Social Security should be made voluntary.”
“We propose the abolition of the governmental Postal Service. The present system, in addition to being inefficient, encourages governmental surveillance of private correspondence. Pending abolition, we call for an end to the monopoly system and for allowing free competition in all aspects of postal service.”
“We oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes.”
“We support the eventual repeal of all taxation.”
“As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax evasion should be terminated immediately.”
“We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.”
“We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.”
“We condemn compulsory education laws … and we call for the immediate repeal of such laws.”
“We support the repeal of all taxes on the income or property of private schools, whether profit or non-profit.”
“We support the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.”
“We support abolition of the Department of Energy.”
“We call for the dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the Department of Transportation.”
“We demand the return of America's railroad system to private ownership. We call for the privatization of the public roads and national highway system.”
“We specifically oppose laws requiring an individual to buy or use so-called "self-protection" equipment such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.”
“We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration.”
“We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration.”
“We support an end to all subsidies for child-bearing built into our present laws, including all welfare plans and the provision of tax-supported services for children.”
“We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and ‘aid to the poor’ programs. All these government programs are privacy-invading, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient. The proper source of help for such persons is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals.”
“We call for the privatization of the inland waterways, and of the distribution system that brings water to industry, agriculture and households.”
“We call for the repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.”
“We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.”
“We support the repeal of all state usury laws.”
In other words, the agenda of the Koch brothers is not only to defund Obamacare. The agenda of the Koch brothers is to repeal every major piece of legislation that has been signed into law over the past 80 years that has protected the middle class, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the most vulnerable in this country.
It is clear that the Koch brothers and other right wing billionaires are calling the shots and are pulling the strings of the Republican Party.
And because of the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision, they now have the power to spend an unlimited amount of money to buy the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the next President of the United States.
If they are allowed to hijack the American political process to defund Obamacare they will be back for more.
Tomorrow it will be Social Security, ending Medicare as we know it, repealing the minimum wage. It seems to me that the Koch brothers will not be content until they get everything they believe they are entitled to.
Our great nation can no longer be hijacked by right-wing billionaires like the Koch brothers.
For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, for the sake of our economy, we have got to let democracy prevail.
Friday, August 7, 2015
Why Jeb Bush's Pitch to the Koch Brothers Should Scare You | Alternet
"Private companies are great, Bush said, 'because they can do whatever they want.' As president, he’d help them do just that." WHAT???
How scary is that? Well, perhaps secondary to his claiming, "My father is the greatest man alive."
A son's loyalty to his father is great to see. However, one wonders if "Jeb" is operating from a sense of reality. His calmly stated, lluminati-gilded, silver spoon presentation also thinks that "poor women should get their life together and find a husband". And then there's this:
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How scary is that? Well, perhaps secondary to his claiming, "My father is the greatest man alive."
A son's loyalty to his father is great to see. However, one wonders if "Jeb" is operating from a sense of reality. His calmly stated, lluminati-gilded, silver spoon presentation also thinks that "poor women should get their life together and find a husband". And then there's this:
Character? Hmmmmmm. I'll say no more. This man is one of many buffoons currently in the GOP lineup. Critical thinking skills are clearly not present in this man. Possession of those would indicate the man's abilty to have clarity about all sides of a question.
Ironically, Bush confronted Trump about Trump's sexist ideas! Just another kid, who either has no real clue about his father's history, or is in complete denial.
Winston Churchill once said, "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
Well, since Bush represents a percentage of the polls/voters, their votes clearly exemplify this quote!!!
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Cracking the code on curiosity | GreatKids
One father dives into curiosity research to help spark his daughter’s passion for distant sciences — and finds a link to intelligence development.
by: Hank PellissierCLICK HERE TO READ MORE
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
HO'OPONOPONO...The essential meditation and therapy.
I did not discover Ho'Oponopono until some years into my clinical profession. Simply pronouncing the word seemed somewhat odd; seeing it as a therapy tool seemed even a bit of a stretch. A stretch, I thought, especially when working primarily with adolescent males, to whom "touchy feely" or anything akin to meditation was eyebrow raising. These young men had histories of abandonment, assaults on their abilities to feel espcially in front of peers, and a fundamental lack of belief in their inherent goodness.
Once, when I was unprepared for a group due to a plethora of crises on a unit, I thought I would present Ho'Oponopono in a simple form. My guilty expectation was that it might fall flat with them. But...the group and evening turned out quite differently.
Initially, they were cautious, glancing at other group members to evaluate each others' responses ... as only teens can do (!). In my corner was the fact that this was the last group before their bedtime, so a slight sense of the day's closure was present.
They responded like they loved it. I, somewhat more skeptical, thought it would be interesting to see what evolved in their chatter after that.
There was no chatter. Egoistically, I thought, I was right.
But two minutes into group, they asked if we could do "that 'HoPo' again"...And night after noight, the same. It became an anticipated ritual. It was one that was completely compatible with their individual senses of faith. But more than that, the exercise is about culpabilty and personal responsibility
with a deepest of reverence for the human.
Ho'oponopono means to make right. Essentially, it means to make it right with the ancestors, or to make right with the people with whom you have relationships. We believe that the original purpose of Ho'oponopono was to correct the wrongs that had occurred in someone's life including Hala (to miss the thing aimed for, or to err, to disobey) and Hewa (to go overboard or to do something to excess) which were illusions, and even 'Ino (to do harm, implying to do harm to someone with hate in mind), even if accidental.
This description is by no means a complete training in how to do Ho'oponopono. While appropriate to do for yourself, for yours and others safety, it should not be done with someone else without training.
For example, let's say your five-year-old grandson punched another five-year-old intentionally with hate in mind. If asked, then the one who was punched would forgive the other immediately, because it is inappropriate for anyone to carry guilt any longer than they had to, if it were not necessary.
We call this the Hawaiian Code of Forgiveness, and it's an important thought, because when we forgive others, who are we forgiving? Ourselves, of course.
If you are familiar with Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), there is a saying, "People are only doing the best they can with the resources they have available." If you've heard that before, it has to do with forgiveness. Think about it. As you do consider that you are included in "people."
In the Eastern traditions, too, there is a real tradition of being aligned with and cleaning up relations with the ancestors. In Japan, China, as well as the Hawaiian tradition, it is thought to be important to align and clean up any past problems that you've had in relationships, especially with relatives.
At the same time, perhaps there are family patterns you do not want. Certainly you have heard the saying, "We just don't do that in our family," or "That's the way it is in our family." What happens then, is that certain generational themes get passed along in families, like sadness or any number of different traits. Ho'oponopono will allow you to clean this up.
THEORY: We carry inside us as parts of the Unconscious Mind, all the significant people in our lives. (These parts of us often look very much like Carl Jung's archetypes.) Ho'oponopono makes it "all right" with them. The process of Ho'oponopono is to align with and clean up our genealogy as well as to clean up our relationships with other people in our lives.
The Process of Ho'oponopono:
- Bring to mind anyone with whom you do not feel total alignment or support, etc.
- In your mind's eye, construct a small stage below you
- Imagine an infinite source of love and healing flowing from a source above the top of your head (from your Higher Self), and open up the top of your head, and let the source of love and healing flow down inside your body, fill up the body, and overflow out your heart to heal up the person on the stage. Be sure it is all right for you to heal the person and that they accept the healing.
- When the healing is complete, have a discussion with the person and forgive them, and have them forgive you.
- Next, let go of the person, and see them floating away. As they do, cut the aka cord that connects the two of you (if appropriate). If you are healing in a current primary relationship, then assimilate the person inside you.
- Do this with every person in your life with whom you are incomplete, or not aligned.
The final test is, can you see the person or think of them without feeling any negative emotions. If you do feel negative emotions when you do, then do the process again.
Friday, July 31, 2015
How Donald Trump Is Causing the 5 Stages of Republican Grief | Alternet
While once thought of as a flash in the pan, Trump’s candidacy has proven to be a far bigger problem for the Republican Party than establishment figures ever expected. In coping with such a colossal headache, the Party seems to be following the Kübler-Ross model of grief – the model frequently used to describe how people come to grips with the death of a loved one.
Let’s observe:
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Cheney's Halliburton killing babies. Where are the pro-life rallies?
"In most places, detecting a grave risk to children would inspire people to name a street for you. But in Vernal, a town literally built by oil, raising questions about the safety of fracking will brand you a traitor and a target."CLICK TO READ MORE
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
"How to catch a falling son" | GreatKids
Empathy's poster child | GreatKids
Vivienne Harr was 8 years old when her parents brought home a book featuring photographs of modern day slaves. She looked at the pictures of the bodies, bent and weathered, eyes gazing out at her from realities far from her sun-dappled yard in Fairfax, California. In one picture, two boys her age carried flat stone slabs as large as their bodies strapped to their heads. According to her father, Vivienne’s response was childlike. They shouldn’t be working like this; they should be playing. We have to do something.
It was a momentary expression of feeling by a naïve little girl, and yet it became the pivotal event that changed the trajectory of her family’s life forever.....CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
The Koch Brothers are About to Destroy Veterans' Health Care and No One Knows About It
"The war on workers' rights has shifted to a new and unlikely battleground this week: the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. And for the more than 350,000 employees and the veterans they serve, the stakes could not be higher.Let me explain. In the wake of last year's "secret waitlist" scandal - where VA managers rigged the scheduling system to make it appear that more veterans were being seen than actually were - Congress passed a law giving VA Secretary McDonald the authority to fire bad managers and the resources to hire enough staff to care for the massive influx of new vets into the VA system. Were it not for the brave VA employee whistleblowers who put their careers on the line to speak out and expose the list-rigging, we never would have known the problem existed." The Koch Brothers are About to Destroy Veterans' Health Care and No One Knows About It
Sunday, July 26, 2015
Paul Krugman: Republicans are “determined to learn nothing from experience” - Salon.com
GOP "responded to the utter failure of free-market orthodoxy by digging in even deeper"......
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Thursday, July 23, 2015
Men who harass women online are quite literally losers, new study finds - The Washington Post
Here’s a research finding that should surprise no one: The men most likely to harass women online … are the men most likely to have their own problems.....CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING
Saturday, July 18, 2015
PLEASE GO TO THIS SITE, AND SIGN for protection for our troops!
WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
To allow military active duty, and veterans as well to be allowed to carry concealed firearms for protection.
We the people of the United States of America having witnessed to many killings of our men and women in the U.S. Military do hereby request that the laws of the land be changed to allow Active Duty, Veterans, and those allowed by local and state laws, be allowed to carry firearms on military bases, either openly or concealed.
Blood has been drawn to many times and too many of our military members have been killed without being able to defend themselves after having been disarmed by laws that do nothing but make them targets of those that wish to do them harm.
We need laws to be changed or created that allow our men and women to arm themselves, having been trained in the use of arms as part of their jobs, to protect themselves and those around them should they become targets for terrorist
Published Date: Jul 17, 2015
Issues: Defense, Firearms, Veterans and Military Families
SIGNATURES NEEDED BY AUGUST 16, 2015 TO REACH GOAL OF 100,000
92,182
TOTAL SIGNATURES ON THIS PETITION
7,818
The Minds of Abused and Alienated Children | Psychology Today
"As I continue to read first-hand accounts of individuals who have been abducted, I gain increasing insight into the mind of abused and alienated children. The need for comfort and human interaction is hard wired into us for survival purposes, to such a great extent that if the only adult available to comfort a child is the abuser, the child will look forward to and try to seek approval and a human connection from that person...." CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
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