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Cha's JournalThat's sweet.. thank you, BlueCali.. I have something for you. I was just coming to post you a PS..
I actually love your spirit too!
From The Texas Observer.. posted on FB..
June 30 · 1998
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Sanders to Sierra Blanca: "Drop Dead!"
BY OLIVE HERSHEY
"Habla por mi," one of Gary Oliver's neighbors called out, as Gary stepped into Susan Curry's car a couple of weeks ago. West Texans Curry, Oliver, and Hal Flanders were bound for Vermont to deliver this message to officials and citizens of the Green Mountain state: don't nuke West Texas. Gary's neighbor lives in Sal si Puedes, a suburb on the east side of Marfa that sometimes floods so badly that its residents are cut off from the rest of the town by a deep-running arroyo. "Sal si puedes" means, "Get out if you can."
To speak for West Texas, these three were driving 2,000 miles to Montpelier, the Vermont capital, to address the Senate Natural Resources Committee chair, and to make the case against a plan to ship low-level nuclear waste from the Vermont Yankee plant in Vernon to Sierra Blanca, hard by the Rio Grande, in Hudspeth County, Texas. Maine's nuclear waste is also part of the deal.
The Vermont Chapter of the Sierra Club had arranged for this hearing, held in the stately granite building that looks like a small prototype of the Texas Capitol. Apparently, some Vermonters are waking from their long utopian dream of environmental purity and moral rectitude, and they're having second thoughts about shipping their nuke waste to Texas. The committee chairman, state Senator Elizabeth Ready, acknowledged, "Some of us don't feel very good about it."
So badly do environmentally sensitive Vermonters feel that about forty of them listened for two hours while Oliver, Flanders, and Curry delivered their message in no uncertain terms: Sierra Blanca, which was chosen for purely political reasons, is environmentally no better suited than Vermont for burying nuclear waste. And after the West Texans got through lambasting federal, state, and local politicians from all three Compact states, as well as the nuclear utility lobbyists whom they hold responsible for arranging things this way, several of the Vermonters in the audience stood up and apologized.
During the following week, the West Texans joined an anti-nuclear weapons march from Montpelier to Springfield, sponsored by the Unitarian Church and the American Friends Service Committee. The marchers from Vermont were careful to restrain the West Texans from protesting aloud on any platform occupied by Bernie Sanders, Vermont's independent Socialist candidate for re-election to the U.S. House. Sanders' campaign committee had warned march planners that Bernie wouldn't show if the West Texans were on the platform.
Nonetheless, spirits were high on Thursday morning, August 20, as the West Texans, along with about twenty Vermonters, trudged up and down the lush green hills on their way to a Springfield rally, where Bernie was scheduled to speak. They'd driven two thousand miles and walked nearly a hundred, and they'd had a wonderful time, meeting Vermonters, talking with them about the Sierra Blanca dump, and changing quite a few minds. Gary Oliver explained some of the group dynamics this way: "There'd been all this tension on the walk, because it's been planned since February, and we just got invited two months ago. But the issues [nuclear power and nuclear weapons] are two warts on the same hog."
Before the rally Sanders invited the three West Texans to meet with him privately, and the Texans eagerly agreed. The meeting was no longer than Sanders' attention span - when it comes to Sierra Blanca. "He didn't listen," Curry said. "He had his mind made up." Afterward, Bernie was giving his pro forma campaign speech, never mentioning nuclear power or nuclear waste. Sierra Blanca activist Bill Addington, who'd arrived just that morning to join the march, along with his neighbor María Méndez, had had enough, and he yelled from the crowd, "What about my home, Bernie? What about Sierra Blanca?"
Several others joined in. "What about Sierra Blanca, Bernie?"
Sanders left the stage, which surprised no one in the small Texas delegation. Earlier, he had told them, "My position is unchanged, and you're not gonna like it." When they asked if he would visit the site in Sierra Blanca, he said, "Absolutely not. I'm gonna be running for re-election in the state of Vermont."
A few people took Bill Addington to task for being so rude. Then all the marchers took the stage, to sing a unique version of "Down by the Riverside." One of the new verses was, "I'm gonna lay down my nuclear waste, down by the riverside." The West Texas marchers sang along.
Asked how he felt about the rally, Hal Flanders summed it up: "I'm disgusted."
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Thank you, brave.. they can dwell on 2008.. I was pissed too. But, so much good has happened
since then.. you won't find me stuck in a time warp.
And, as you so eloquently put it.. "but I damn sure ain't jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire."
They conveniently forget the abuse #BlackLivesMatter took from BS supporters and are still taking in some situations.
Estoy Contigo! Gracias, riversedge. Wonderful pic!
Uh Uh.. Obama and Hillary were bad bad bad.. and then this happened.
Obama: Making Hillary Clinton secretary of State one of my ‘best decisions’Asking Hillary Clinton to serve as secretary of State was "one of the best decisions I ever made as president," President Obama told philanthropists and donors gathered Tuesday at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York City.
The president showered the former first lady — and front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination — with praise, saying he "will always be grateful for her extraordinary leadership."
Obama went on to joke that he still had "a lot of debt to pay" because of the miles Clinton traveled when in his administration. But he also praised the former New York senator for her "post-administration glow."
"She looks much more rested," Obama said to laughter.
MOre~
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/218666-obama-making-hillary-clinton-secretary-of-state-one-of-my-best
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leaves behind enormous 20-year legacy with exit from office following start of President Obama's second term
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/obama-new-term-hillary-clinton-leaves-20-year-political-legacy-article-1.1244485
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110724779
I admire Hillary so much for her answer to President Obama's call to service. They started working together for the good of the country and our Planet. Not stuck in the past like so many people who only want to go on and on about it.
Evidently they've remained good friends.. and I couldn't be happier.
Awesome Birthday Tweet from Hillary to President Obama!
To a dear friend, a great boss, and my second favorite president: Happy birthday @POTUS! -H Retweets 1,768Favorites 4,147
3:31 PM - 4 Aug 2015
DM M~ http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1107&pid=14524
Not the first BS comment I've heard from him on why he voted the way he did.
He still sees it that way..
Why Immigration Is The Hole In Bernie Sanders’ Progressive Agenda
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Sanders’ position on immigration has been called “complicated” and he has been criticized by immigration activists for supporting the idea that immigrants coming to the U.S. are taking jobs and hurting the economy, a theory that has been proven incorrect. Both of his leading Democratic challengers, Hillary Clinton and Martin O’Malley, have recognized that new immigrants coming to the country actually boost the economy. But Sanders continues to align himself more closely with Democratic positions of the past.
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Studies have shown that immigrants actually create jobs for American workers. Researchers recently found that each new immigrant has produced about 1.2 new jobs in the U.S., most of which have gone to native-born workers. And according to the Atlantic, an influx in immigration can cause non-tradable professions — jobs like hospitality and construction that cannot be outsourced — to see a wage increase because the demand for goods and services grows with the expanding population.
But Sanders fails to see it that way, pointing on Thursday to the 36 percent unemployment rate for Hispanic young people. “You bring a lot of unskilled workers into this country, what do you think happens to that 36 percent?”
MOre..
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/07/30/3686282/bernie-sanders-immigration/
Obama: Making Hillary Clinton secretary of State one of my ‘best decisions’
Asking Hillary Clinton to serve as secretary of State was "one of the best decisions I ever made as president," President Obama told philanthropists and donors gathered Tuesday at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York City.
The president showered the former first lady — and front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination — with praise, saying he "will always be grateful for her extraordinary leadership."
Obama went on to joke that he still had "a lot of debt to pay" because of the miles Clinton traveled when in his administration. But he also praised the former New York senator for her "post-administration glow."
"She looks much more rested," Obama said to laughter.
MOre~
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/218666-obama-making-hillary-clinton-secretary-of-state-one-of-my-best
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leaves behind enormous 20-year legacy with exit from office following start of President Obama's second term
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/obama-new-term-hillary-clinton-leaves-20-year-political-legacy-article-1.1244485
I admire Hillary so much for her answer to President Obama's call to service. They started working together for the good of the country and our Planet. Not stuck in the past like so many people who only want to go on and on about..
"What about 2008.. neener neener neener?" Stay in 2008, dudes.. I've moved on.
[font color=bliueHillary's Group~Mahalo[/font] 
Yes, in Real Life, she.. where they don't live in a bubble and accuse President Obama
and Hillary of being "republican".
I love it! Some need to live in that bubble and that's fine with me.
Because the day will come.. and it won't be long..
Wow, that's quite a story and brought tears to my eyes, Hekate~
It's just amazing our lives.. It's so special that you got to go back and reminisce with the people you went to high school with 50 years ago! Sounds like a long time but now we know it goes so fast.
I can just picture all of you there.. what a wonderful place to go for your 50th reunion .. on the beach in Hawaii!
The names are all beautiful.. but Lilinoe (the mist or fine rain that comes from the mountain) stands out. Before, I saw that you liked it best, too!
There is a person who works downstairs in the natural food store(Hoku) whose name is Noe.. and she is a beautiful Hawaiian girl.
You're giving me a new appreciation for being here. Sometimes I think about being back in the Adirondacks because I miss my friends a lot.
But, that's not going to happen so I need to appreciate where I am and know how fortunate I am to be here.
The bike trail close to my home..
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