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bellmartin's JournalLegislature overrides Brownbacks veto of bill that rolls back his 2012 tax cuts
Source: Kansas City Star
TOPEKA
The Republican dominated Kansas Legislature that has soured on Gov. Sam Brownback’s vision for the state voted late Tuesday to roll back the governor’s signature tax cuts.
Lawmakers voted to override Brownback’s veto of a tax plan estimated to bring the state more than $1.2 billion over a two-year span.
The Senate vote was 27 to 13, and the House followed by agreeing 88 to 31 to supersede the Republican governor’s wishes on the tax plan and force the changes into law.
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article154691724.html
What have we come to when Brownbackistan moves to the left of the nation?
But for a space: "Ivanka Trump" equals "Ivan kat rump"
...and surely that's some sort of slang term for "Russian pussy bottom"?
Reading list to inspire the resistance?
Disclosure: I feel sure this topic has been discussed many times here, but I haven’t seen the results. Feel free to point me to those sources, as well.
When trying to survive and resist in this dark and disturbing time, it’s both necessary and easy to spend so much time reading (and watching) just to keep up with the ever-moving daily events and commentary. That can play powerful games with a person’s head, though, pulling us a hundred directions at once.
My wife and I are finding great help and inspiration by trying to balance that with readings that are less fleeting in nature, but that also apply more or less directly. Some of our more recent readings (and some of them aloud to each other, others just shared) include the U.S. Constitution (annotated), John Lewis’ Across That Bridge, his March graphic novels, Address Unknown by Katherine Kressman Taylor, and The Book of Joy by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu. We’re about to start on Lewis’ Walking with the Wind.
So, the main question is, what are your recommendations for readings that are inspirational for this time, especially those with a broader perspective?
Sub-question: As you can see, we’re great admirers of Mr. Lewis. We’ve read quite a bit of Gandhi in the past, but while we’ve read scattered and short books about Martin Luther King, nothing very definitive. What do you recommend there, specifically?
Semi-related question: While we’ve got you here, we’d also like ideas for practical guides to resist. We’re ACLU members and have access to their excellent materials, as well as the Indivisible handbook and the Women’s March materials. Other sources?
Thank you!
Reading list to inspire the resistance?
Disclosure: I feel sure this topic has been discussed many times here, but I haven’t seen the results. Feel free to point me to those sources, as well.
When trying to survive and resist in this dark and disturbing time, it’s both necessary and easy to spend so much time reading (and watching) just to keep up with the ever-moving daily events and commentary. That can play powerful games with a person’s head, though, pulling us a hundred directions at once.
My wife and I are finding great help and inspiration by trying to balance that with readings that are less fleeting in nature, but that also apply more or less directly. Some of our more recent readings (and some of them aloud to each other, others just shared) include the U.S. Constitution (annotated), John Lewis’ Across That Bridge, his March graphic novels, Address Unknown by Katherine Kressman Taylor, and The Book of Joy by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu. We’re about to start on Lewis’ Walking with the Wind.
So, the main question is, what are your recommendations for readings that are inspirational for this time, especially those with a broader perspective?
Sub-question: As you can see, we’re great admirers of Mr. Lewis. We’ve read quite a bit of Gandhi in the past, but while we’ve read scattered and short books about Martin Luther King, nothing very definitive. What do you recommend there, specifically?
Semi-related question: While we’ve got you here, we’d also like ideas for practical guides to resist. We’re ACLU members and have access to their excellent materials, as well as the Indivisible handbook and the Women’s March materials. Other sources?
Thank you!
Please help me cite examples of some uplifting historical parallels
One of my favorite, most comforting aphorisms these days is “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
I’m looking, specifically, for good examples of the following sort of pivotal historical event, which I hope (and do believe) we’re just beginning to see again in this dark time:
When positive, just progress is being made, it’s never a straight and steady path, but sometimes there’s a violent jerk backward, as reactionary forces wield power, overreact, and try to force regression to some state recalling their view of their good old days.
They can cause severe temporary damage, lurch far backward, but in the longer run this very overreaction and overplaying of their increasingly-desperate hand actually hastens the victory of real, morally-sound progress.
It’s happened before. Please discuss some of the best examples from history. I think there are many of us who can take great solace and impetus for action from those examples.
Does anyone have a link to the Daily Show back when Trump announced?
I've always thought Jon Stewart's glee at the sheer amusement of the Trump freakshow was the best example of how it gradually morphed into a nightmare that we could hardly have imagined.
And let me be clear, I LOVE Jon Stewart and know he's politically very wise. Like we all want to be free of it, I want Jon to be free of what must be a kind of haunting memory. It's been the scariest illustration I know of "be careful what you wish for".
You know you're obsessed when...
...as you read each new data point, your eyes dart quickly to the time stamp to help you judge exactly how relevant the info is.
Donald Trump has made one truly HUGE sacrifice
I mean, really, it’s about as big a sacrifice as any human can make. A great many people think it’s a far bigger sacrifice than giving up one’s life or a loved one’s life.
He has very clearly sold his soul to the Devil.
There is the large issue, of course, that he’s clearly delighted with the deal, so in his case, that makes it not much of a sacrifice after all, at least not yet. Still, always in the stories, the Devil has the last and much, much longer laugh.
He never disappoints.
That’s what we in my family say when Trump says or does yet another in his endless supply of horrific things. You just know it’s coming, and then he delivers, often because given his mental illnesses, he seems unable to help himself.
I think the phrase is also used by others, but we originally got it from Downton Abbey, of all places:
Thomas Barrow: Ah, there'll be a war all right - it's time to prepare for it.
Anna Smith: The country, do you mean?
Thomas Barrow: No, me.
John Bates: [to Thomas] You never disappoint.
It seems particularly apropos, given the many ways Trump has shown himself to be a war profiteer, both figuratively and literally.
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