September 28, 2012

LET'S GET SMART ABOUT THIS!!!! We will all be embarrassed if Karl & Co Steal the Senate!!!!

Get active and / or give money to the Senate campaigns. Do we want President Obama to be blocked at every turn....again?

According to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Karl Rove is expected to shift his money into a Republican Senate takeover.

SEVERAL OF THESE RACES ARE VERY CLOSE! What can we do to get these Democrats in. Money? Action? Door to door? Online rants? What?

Massachusetts --- we need Elizabeth Warren!

Missouri --- Claire McCaskill needs to defeat asshole Todd Akin of “legitimate rape” fame.

Wisconsin --- we need Tammy Baldwin to win!

According to the DSCD, each race is polling within the margin of error.

I'm living in poverty and don't even have an indoor tub or shower, but I'm giving money to the senatorial campaigns again today. Emails from DSCD say that the final quarterly FEC deadline hits within 48 hours—so time is running out. The risk (of losing) is so great that DSCD says that for the next 48 hours ONLY, a group of Democratic Senators will match our gifts 3-to-1."

Al Franken's appeal says, "Every dollar you give will be matched 3-to-1. Give $10, and it’ll count for $30. Give $33.33, and it’ll count for $99.99. You get the idea."

https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/dsccactblue?refcode=DPE-20120928-Franken-2012LD&amounts=200,150,75,50,25&amount=25

Again... time is of the essence... the Fri 9/28/2012 5:12 PM email there are 48 hours left to do this.

LET'S GET IT TOGETHER! We're all focusing on Obama and he's looking very, very good right now, but it's the Senate that is absolutely critical if we're really going to "move forward"!

GO TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

August 28, 2012

We need to STOP!

By Pat Fowler of Monticello, FL -- With Permission to reprint

Stop and think. Really take time to think. Clear away the fog of distractions and the sure opinions of long held priorities.

The US has become the most economically unequal country among modern economies. Poverty is rising, the middle class, complicit in our problems, is now suffering from the results and shrinking in size, wealth and power. The abandoned poor, people who have never yet felt the reality of the American dream; the uncredentialed people in the deltas, hollows, barrios, rustbelts and slums of America, are faced with disdain, poor social and education systems and the automation of work. They slide farther into degradation without a nod from the rest.

The culture of the nation has changed. The purpose of education has mutated from the development of informed citizens to the pursuit of personal gain. Government as a process in service to the people has been denigrated to the point of being seen as an impediment to the public good.

We have become the most violent, warlike and imperialistic country in the world. We have close to 1000 overseas military bases and facilities. Our GIs and Soldiers are now warriors and heroes, no matter what they do. To question military action is to be seen as ungrateful and unpatriotic. We decry our loss of dominance in the world as if we have it as a right.

The products of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math have polluted the earth, produced climate change and created horrible chemical, infectious and explosive weapons of mass killing, maiming and horrible long term sickness. We are now threatened with being the cause of the extinction of our grandchildren. We ignore these conditions in the interest of convenience and novelty. Such conditions are produced in the interest of profit and power.

The governance of our country has been disastrously corrupted by the power of wealth. Both parties are involved. Money distorts elections, legislation and the legal system. Issues of interest to the rich are approved and implemented. Issues seen as threatening to the politics of wealth are manipulated or stopped. Issues of equality, environmental quality, an economy of benefit to all, are not in the interest of those whose wealth is generated by maintaining privilege, externalizing the cost of pollution and cheap labor.

The disaggregation of Americans, especially among liberal/progressives, retards our ability to join together to identify and focus on solutions to core problems. Decades of disparate advocacy have been fruitless. Unity is essential. No positive change has ever taken place without organized political pressure. The good of all cannot be subordinate to the good of me, or my special interest.

The Public Good must become the priority it was at the time of the constitutional convention. We can commit ourselves to work for democratic participation without giving up other causes. Democratic participation has got to be the first priority. Money cannot be allowed to continue to purchase control of our system of government. It is crucial and urgent that we join together to rebuild a democratically representative republic in order to address the essential issues of our time before they are beyond our reach.