Stand with Planned Parenthood

It was a great day!!! A very enthusiastic crowd of people, men and women, of all ages showed up to stand with Planned Parenthood. It has never been more important to fund reproductive health. In many cases this is the only way some folks are getting health care. Overwhelmingly the traffic passing by honked and waved their support and enthusiasm.

Stand with Planned Parenthood

good laugh for the morning

Stephanie Miller and Thom Hartmann both told this joke the am so I assume it's going around...still, it nails it and got my morning off with a laugh...

A CEO, a tea bagger and a union member were sitting at a table with a plate of 12 cookies in the middle. The CEO reached over and took 11. He then turned to the tea bagger and said, “watch out, the union member is trying to steal part of your cookie.”

Fire Fighters Cross-off WA State Senator Ericksen

→ The photo is from Saturdays Rally to Save the American Dream in Olympia. Why is the IAFF (Fire Fighters Union) crossing off Republican Doug Ericksen?

It's because DougE has taken a step too far toward the Ultra Rightwing. He, as an obedient tool of the plutocrats conspiracy to destroy the American middle class, sponsored SB 5345.

SB 5345 is one of several Bills intended to eliminate workers rights. Those Bills were written by Billionaire-backed Ultra-Rightwing think-tanks and introduced by Republican state legislators in nearly every State in the Union.

WFSE/AFSCME
Washington Federation of State Employees

2/23/11 HOTLINE: Union urges senators to reject Indiana-style health cost increases here; where we're at after first committee cut-off http://www.wfse.org/index.cfm?zone=/unionactive/view_article.cfm&homeID=194578

[snip]WHERE WE STAND AFTER THE SESSION’S FIRST COMMITTEE CUT-OFF

Non-fiscal bills had to clear their committees by Monday. Those that didn’t can be considered when the Legislature re-convenes in 2012. Or if any exception is made or the bills become budget provisos.

With those cautions, here’s a quick rundown of bills that remain alive and those that appear to be dead for this session:

• Wisconsin-style rollback bills proposed by Senate Republicans all died in the Senate Labor, Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee without a hearing: SB 5349 (repeal collective bargaining), SB 5347 (repeal employees’ union rights) and SB 5345 (contracting out rights). [/snip]

Fortunately, DougE's Bill is dead, for this session. But, as long as he's still in the State Legislature, expect him to continue to ignore what's good for his constituents in the 42nd LD and slavishly introduce Bills written by Ultra-Rightwing outsiders.

Wisconsin and beyond....kleptocracy on steroids!!

Hopefully, we will wake up to the takeover of our united states by the greedy, selfish. Last January (2010) the supreme court opened the floodgates "citizens united" and last November served as a preview of what's coming. Wisconsin is textbook. They are stealing!! I still hope we will wake up and turn toward a future on planet Earth for those who come after.



Join Russ Feingold: Pledge to fight corporate corruption in Washington

oh and.... Wisconsin begs the question, “How's the cancerous phase of unregulated crony casino capitalism working for you?” I did not get a very friendly answer from my fox watchin' mother.

Naomi is brilliant again

Naomi understands and articulates the place we find ourselves so brilliantly. She describes the desperate practice of barbaric extraction as we try to continue the fossil fuel orgy we have been on this past century. There is no planet B. The Earth's resources are finite. We are currently stealing our descendent's future at breakneck speed.

Wake up humans!! this is 20 minutes worth investing.......

Stephen on sarah

Colbert delivers the portrait of sarah brilliantly.....

Mika Brzezinski Experiences Palin Fatigue

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The History of Unions, it's a simple story

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The history of unions is the history of working people fight back against mistreatment.


There's more (video) on the history of unions HERE

enough with the schizophrenic bashing

I am horrified when I hear people, many I have great respect for, tossing out the schizophrenic diagnosis in regard to the shooter in the recent horrible massacre in Tucsan. People who are qualified to diagnose, give this diagnosis to a very small number of our fellow humans. Most, who have this diagnosis, are not violent. As someone who has spent many years delivering healthcare in an acute psychiatric setting, I have been regularly amazed at how well people do, living productive, quality lives in spite of having what can be a debilitating diagnosis.

This person responsible for the massacre in Arizona may have this diagnosis, but I hope we will not associate his behavior with this diagnosis.

Thank You Bernie

at long last.....yesterday the heroic members of the house rejected the "take it or leave it" tax cut corporate wet dream laid down for them and today Senator Bernie Sanders is at this moment executing an old fashioned filibuster on the floor of the Senate.....check it out at C-SPAN 2 and Thom Hartmann

and here is a nice video of Bernie on the floor the other day....


you go Bernie!!!!!!


and i loved how he explained how the cutting of the social security tax is the first step toward the privatization, looting and final destruction of the social security. the same corporatists have fought social security from day one. at the very least, if this tax is to be cut, the cap should be significantly raised.
the greedy, selfish among us continue to want welfare and safety nets(tax breaks and bailouts) for themselves but no responsibility to pay their fair share. ENOUGH!!!!!

oh and i'm not impressed with President Obama's meeting with President Clinton that is grabbing the 24 hour news cycle at this moment. the trianglulating, free trading, media consolidating, unregulated casino capitalism orgy policies of the corporate democrats have taken us down the wrong path.

just for fun ...Lewis Black

this one cracked me up the other day while listening to Stephanie Miller on 930 AM ....delivered by Lewis Black as only he could...I paraphrase (as I'm informed he did from a joke delivered on MASH back in the day...)

It really bothers me when I hear people calling Obama a socialist. There's
only 8 of them left, and he's never been to one of our meetings.

and just for fun, a few moments with, Lewis Black, who always fails to bring hope to the table.....

a large injection of hope.....

thanks Rick for this 4 minutes.....

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Vote Sanity!

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Vote Sanity - Vote for Democrats
Because you might be mad...
But they are CRAZY.

Message From The Future

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MoveOn.org has a message for you.

Voting is important. But somehow this year it doesn't feel as important as it did in 2008, right?

WRONG!

Here's a message from the future about what will happen if you and your friends don't vote on November 2 (hint: it's not pretty).

Our Ad - Washington's 2nd District

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I can already hear the Republican whining about "MoveOn"; but, the folks in this ad are local and it really is us (WA-02 voters) against the corporate front groups and oil billionaires.



Script:
This ad is NOT paid for by the corporate front groups and oil billionaires that are trying to buy this election.

This is OUR ad made by hardworking Americans who live right here in Washington and we have one simple message: John Koster is being backed by one of those front groups, and if he's on their side, he's sure not on ours.

Vote Rick Larsen!

Global Work Party,,,,,,solar coming soon...

Transition Ferndale met today on my roof for some theatre, lunch, fellowship and enthusiasm as we strive to work to bring awareness and action to getting our atmospheric CO2 back down to 350 parts per million. (currently 392 and climbing)

Oh and we are celebrating the coming solar panels.!! Net Metering by years end.

Last year I had my son paint a very large 350.org on my roof and my frequent air traffic has been enjoying it all year. Before this year's end 350.org will be covered by solar panels and net metering. This is happening on the heels of our Transition Ferndale group inviting Dana Brandt from Ecotech Energy Systems LLC to come and give his excellent presentation to our group. We will be on the roof today with signs and enthusiasm to be part of the important work of getting our CO2 in the atmosphere back to levels that give future living things a chance to enjoy life on our beautiful planet Earth.

10/10/10: The Global Work Party On 10/10/10, people at 7347 events in 188 countries got to work on the climate crisis.

here we are, from our corner of this earth, participating with over 7000 groups around the world......

Jerns vs. Ericksen - If A Tree Falls, After The Herald's Deadline?

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I read the article about the League of Women Voters candidate forum in the B'ham Herald and wondered what happened to the 42nd LD Senate candidates.

Pat Jerns (D) and Doug Ericksen (R) are running for the State Senate but they weren't mentioned at all in the article. I looked at the Politics Blog on Twitter and Sam's last tweet from the forum was at 9:06 PM.

So, I'm guessing that since the Senate candidates didn't finish before the Herald's deadline, for the Herald it's as though the debate never happened.

Fortunately, I did get a note from someone who did attended the forum all the way to the end. And what they had to say was quite interesting.

It was interesting to read Sam Taylor's blog comments concerning the face off's between Al Jensen and Jason Overstreet and Kelli linville and Vince Buys at the League of Women Voters forum. Unfortunately Sam missed some of the best comments of the evening between Pat Jerns and Doug Ericksen.

In Jerns opening statement, he clearly challenged Ericksen on several points, namely his lack of business experience and his habit of telling voters he supports programs and then voting against funding the programs.

In the questioning between the candidates, Jerns asked Ericksen to justify his co-sponsoring a bill to add a bed tax on seniors. Ericksen reply was basically, 'it's a complicated issue'.

In spite of his years in office, Ericksen became upset, red-faced and had difficulty responding to the challenging questions presented by Jerns.

Unfortunately, Sam missed a great opportunity to keep the readers informed on an interesting and informative exchange.

It sounds like poor ol' Doug-E has spent so many years working more as a Republican Party operative than a representative of his constituents in the 42nd District, that he doesn't know what to do outside of the hothouse environment of a political rally.

What The Fork Is Goin' On?

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The Everett Herald has an article about an attack ad, entitled "Fork in the Road", being run against Congressman Rick Larsen: "GOP group slams Larsen in TV ad and he slams them back ".

The ad is produced and paid for by a group called American Future Fund of Iowa (AFF), they've bought $607,720 worth of air time to run the attack ad.

Brooke Davis, Larsen's campaign manager, issued this statement in response to the ad:

“Shadowy, out-of-state special interests like the American Future Fund are not interested in Northwest Washington. They're interested in using anonymous political donations from multi-millionaires and billionaires to promote their own right-wing agenda – and candidates like John Koster that support it.

“Nothing could more clearly demonstrate the choice facing Washington voters than the contrast between Rick Larsen and the mysterious right-wing group backing his opponent.” (Everett Herald 9/24/10)

The right-wing multi-millionaire and billionaire donors behind this out-of-state group might be a secret, but we do know something about some of the low-life's inside AFF. Remember the "Willie Horton" ads and the "Swiftboating" of John Kerry?

That's right, the people inside AFF are the scumbags responsible for those lowest of low smear tactics: "Secrets of the American Future Fund ". And now they're trying to use their filthy tactics on Rick Larsen and other Democratic incumbents.

The revolution will not be spell checked

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Glen Beck wants the tea partiers to lose the signs and costumes so they don't look as crazy as they are.



The revolution will not be spell checked

a local example

Maddow Outs Dino Rossi's Hypocrisy

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Rachel Maddow nails Dino for being a complete hypocrite. Dino is against the stimulus, he sez... but that didn't stop him from doing a photo-op at a shipyard that was able to hire 80 works because of the stimulus.

Fiesta Patrias - Democrats Honor American Hispanic Heritage

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Fiesta Patrias in Ferndale was a little scaled back this year, but, as in previous years, Democrats were there to celebrate a vital part of our America heritage.

42nd Legislative District Democrats had a booth and Representative Kelli Linville, candidates Al Jensen & Pat Jerns and Congressman Rick Larsen, all came to the Fiesta.
Although Whatcom Republicans had a booth featuring their candidates at the Ferndale Street Festival, there was no sign of them at the Fiesta.