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yallerdawg's JournalHillary Clinton coming to Alabama to mark Montgomery Bus Boycott 60th anniversary
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/11/hillary_clinton_coming_to_alab.htmlClinton's appearance in Alabama will be her second since declaring her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president. She was in Hoover last month to give a speech before the Alabama Democratic Conference convention.
The former secretary of state is scheduled to speak at 11 a.m. Dec. 1. Other speakers include Alabama attorney Fred Gray, Sr., who represented civil rights heroine Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott protesters; Paulette Brown, an attorney and the first black woman to head the American Bar Association; Benjamin Crump, the current NBA president and the attorney for the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown; Dr. Glenda Baskin Glover, president of Tennessee State University and international first vice president of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority; U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham; and the Rev. Bernice King, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A father wrote a letter to his daughters about electing the first woman president. It's beautiful.
Dear Bethany and Jordan Grace,
I know, I know. You’re used to hearing your dad say that as long as you work hard and have faith, nothing is impossible. But sometimes it can be hard to even dream of doing something nobody like you has ever done. Trust me, I know.
Growing up, I never expected to see a politician who looked like me become president. But in 2008, I watched in awe as Barack Obama ascended to the highest political office in the country.
*****
If you study hard, love your family, serve your community, are never afraid to lead, and continue to follow the model of your mother, your grandmothers, and women like Secretary Clinton, nothing should ever stop you from achieving your dreams.
I am doing everything I can to put a woman in the White House because I believe both of you can grow up to be president—and I want you to believe it, too.
Love,
Dad
The entire letter at: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/feed/mayor-benjamin-letter/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=tw&utm_campaign=20151123feed-mayorben
Would you like a real Black Friday?
You can binge-watch a new horror show "South of Hell" on WE TV. The first 7 episodes are televised Friday.
Southern Gothic horror genre.
Starring Mena Suvari (Kevin Spacey's "American Beauty" all grown up).
And for those who appreciate the darker, non-traditional side of the holiday season - also hidden deep in your cable package:
http://www.elreynetwork.com/
http://www.chillertv.com/
Who Turned My Blue State Red?
We have got to vote!!!
Why poor areas vote for politicians who want to slash the safety net.
Source: ProPublica, by Alec MacGillis
It is one of the central political puzzles of our time: Parts of the country that depend on the safety-net programs supported by Democrats are increasingly voting for Republicans who favor shredding that net.
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It’s enough to give Democrats the willies as they contemplate a map where the red keeps seeping outward, confining them to ever narrower redoubts of blue. The temptation for coastal liberals is to shake their heads over those godforsaken white-working-class provincials who are voting against their own interests.
But this reaction misses the complexity of the political dynamic that’s taken hold in these parts of the country. It misdiagnoses the Democratic Party’s growing conundrum with working-class white voters. And it also keeps us from fully grasping what’s going on in communities where conditions have deteriorated to the point where researchers have detected alarming trends in their mortality rates.
In eastern Kentucky and other former Democratic bastions that have swung Republican in the past several decades, the people who most rely on the safety-net programs secured by Democrats are, by and large, not voting against their own interests by electing Republicans. Rather, they are not voting, period. They have, as voting data, surveys and my own reporting suggest, become profoundly disconnected from the political process.
The people in these communities who are voting Republican in larger proportions are those who are a notch or two up the economic ladder — the sheriff’s deputy, the teacher, the highway worker, the motel clerk, the gas station owner and the coal miner. And their growing allegiance to the Republicans is, in part, a reaction against what they perceive, among those below them on the economic ladder, as a growing dependency on the safety net, the most visible manifestation of downward mobility in their declining towns.
The complete story, and much more at: http://www.propublica.org/article/who-turned-my-blue-state-red
Did No. 2 Alabama have the week off?
Don't ask the highest paid government employee in the country!
Alabama's opponent's offense led by former UAB quarterback
Two years after leaving UAB for Charleston Southern, Brown will be back in Alabama Saturday when the 9-1 Buccaneers of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) face No. 2 Alabama at Bryant-Denny Stadium.
After splitting time with another quarterback early in the season, Brown has been Charleston Southern's full-time quarterback since the team's fourth game.
A question about Brown during Tide coach Nick Saban's Wednesday news conference gave Saban an opportunity to go on a rant about not overlooking teams like Charleston Southern.
Anymore questions? Just ask Coach!
Dec. 1, Hillary in Montgomery!
The Montgomery Bus Boycott began days after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus on Dec. 1, 1955.
Outstanding women changing the world!
50 state strategy!
Hillary Clinton announces Alabama leadership team
Source: al.com, by Howard Koplowitz
The launch of Clinton's "Alabama Leadership Council" comes a month after the former secretary of state and Democratic front-runner visited Hoover to give a speech to the Alabama Democratic Conference convention at the Wynfrey Hotel. In her speech, Clinton called the state's decision to close 31 driver's license offices "a blast from the Jim Crow past," and slammed Alabama's voter ID laws. Clinton is also set to visit the state Dec. 1, when she's scheduled to be in Montgomery to help mark the 60th anniversary of the bus boycott.
The council "will serve as the in-state leadership for the campaign, amplifying the campaign's national voice to Alabama families aiding the campaign with rapid response, organization building, grassroots organizing events, recruiting volunteer leaders, and identifying leaders for get out the vote activities," the Clinton campaign said. The leadership council members "share Clinton's commitment to fighting for Alabama families, including raising wages for the middle class, her plan to reform health care to reduce prescription drug costs, her passion for reforming the criminal justice system and her belief that debt should never be a barrier for students going to college and much more."
Sewell, the top elected official on the council and an early endorser of Clinton, said the former secretary of state is "the most qualified candidate to run for president."
More at http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/11/hillary_clinton_announces_alab.html#incart_river_index
Hillary announcement: http://www.wsfa.com/story/30421883/hillary-clinton-to-headline-montgomery-bus-boycotts-60th-anniversary
60th Anniversary Event's Schedule: http://www.montgomeryimprovementassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/60th-Anniversary-Events-Calendar-110215.pdf
Just War
Thanksgiving recipe: Cajun boiled turkey?
I have had shrimp boil, crab boil, crawfish boil, every kind of low country boil...and never heard of this!
Of course, I've had deep fried Cajun turkey - unforgettable, delicious, succulent meat - but the cooking oil - we always used peanut - adds to an already expensive meal, and it gets rather old year after year as the 'novelty' wears off - and this:
Makes cooking sober a requirement!
So, I give you, courtesy of al.com's Joe Songer:
The night before I saw the recipe, my daughter was making chicken and dumplings. I was watching the chicken boil in the pot and thought how I might boil a turkey with spices.
It was so intriguing, I had to try it. I'm glad I did. So, here is the Thanksgiving recipe for Cajun boiled turkey:
http://www.al.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2015/11/cajun_boiled_turkey_spice_up_y.html#incart_river
Party insiders give Clinton early, commanding delegate edge
Source: STEPHEN OHLEMACHER and HOPE YEN, Associated Press
Clinton's margin over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is striking. Not only is it big, but it comes more than two months before primary voters head to the polls — an early point in the race for so many of the people known as superdelegates to publicly back a candidate.
"She has the experience necessary not only to lead this country, she has experience politically that I think will help her through a tough campaign," said Unzell Kelley, a county commissioner from Alabama.
"I think she's learned from her previous campaign," he said. "She's learned what to do, what to say, what not to say — which just adds to her electability."
Mucho más at: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/party-insiders-give-clinton-early-commanding-delegate-edge/ar-BBmXQ9i?OCID=HPDHP
To All the Hillary Haters...Thanks for the Attention (Hillary Group)
#HillaryMen, by Peter Daou and Tom Watson
They try to conceal their misogyny behind snark and sarcasm, but this is clearly about attacking a woman leader and the men who support her.
Having been in the online trenches since the inception of online trenches, our skin is thick and the personal insults mean nothing to us. If anything, we welcome the attention to #HillaryMen. Seeing the hate bubble to the surface and get exposed to the light of day is an unpleasant but necessary process.
When we launched #HillaryMen we fully expected incoming fire for our unabashed advocacy in support of Hillary – gender bias is very real and very ugly. "Shattering the glass ceiling" is an apt metaphor in that it involves people who protect the status quo getting cut by the shards. As they get cut, they lash out.
The spike in attacks against us means Hillary is winning. And it tells us we're doing our job as advocates.
This is about the long view: years from now, we want to look back and say we did everything in our power to break the 44-0 shutout in national politics, that we stepped up and spoke out on behalf of Hillary and all women who face the vitriol we're now being exposed to.
More at: http://www.hillarymen.com/latest/hillary-haters-targeting-hillarymen-thanks-for-the-attention
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