I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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The above article is great. Most of us here are benefiting so much from not having to dread the orange tweets, mis-representations and outright lies along with agitating others to say and do stupid things. It is how FREEDOM really feels. Orange one took that away for over four yrs. Interesting that you/anyone can go so long and be majorly content with being a FOCUS 24/7 not for hours, or day, or even weeks, but yrs. I feel like most people would wither from it all but obviously it is the lifeblood of the narcissist when is as ill with it as the orange one. So HAPPY he is at bay and likely will be happier yet when his time is consumed with defending himself and he does not have much time if any to devote to the political world.
Just a further note -- likely you have all read it as well. After Jan 6th. approx. ( likely more that we don't know about ) 30,000 people changed their Reps. registrations. No longer on the list as a Republican. Someone needs to realize Trump is definitely TOXIC.
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So much for "Blue Lives Matter".....
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Isn't that the truth -- if you are in my way adios to you.
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Some things are so easy to agree on:
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Just sayin'.
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I put this on my Facebook page. Usually no one says anything or if they do, I don't see it. Then again, even if they did I could give a rat's patoot less:
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Despite the language which I TRY not to use too much this just struck me funny. I think partly the age of the person stating their view:
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Heather Cox Richardson
January 27, 2021 (Wednesday)
The contours of politics today look much like they did yesterday. President Biden is forging ahead through executive actions—today pausing oil and gas leases while switching the government to electric vehicles— while the two factions in the Republican Party claw for supremacy.
Dead center of both of these political fights is the future of this country. Will Trump and his supporters seize control of the government—by means legal or illegal—or will the country steer itself back to the norms and values of democracy?
The dangers of Trumpism are becoming clearer each day. Today, for the first time, the Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism bulletin that warned of violence from domestic extremists angry over "perceived grievances fueled by false narratives" and emboldened by the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. The bulletin expires at the end of April.
Law enforcement has moved National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., in part to guard against violence on March 4, a day that QAnon supporters who still believe Trump is part of an elaborate trick to reclaim the nation from the Democrats think will be the day on which the former president is finally sworn in for his second term. (March 4 was the nation's original inauguration date; it changed under Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1937.)
In testimony yesterday, the acting chief of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington told the House Appropriations Committee that at least 65 officers filed reports of injury after the January 6 attack. The chair of the Capitol Police officers' union, Gus Papathanasiou, put the number closer to 140. "I have officers who were not issued helmets prior to the attack who have sustained brain injuries. One officer has two cracked ribs and two smashed spinal discs. One officer is going to lose his eye, and another was stabbed with a metal fence stake," he said. One officer died of injuries sustained on January 6. Two officers have since taken their own lives.
Meanwhile, a video emerged today of the new Republican representative from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, harassing David Hogg, who survived the mass shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Valentine's Day 2018. Greene followed Hogg down the street in Washington, D.C., in March 2019, with an accomplice filming as she badgered him, called him a crisis actor paid by George Soros, told him she was armed, demanded he talk to her, and called him a coward. He walked on, without engaging her.
The video emerged the day after reporters discovered old Facebook activity on Greene's page in which she responded positively to a commenter talking of hanging former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama and another talking of killing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
While Representative Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) has called for Greene's expulsion from Congress, leading Republicans in the House responded to the Facebook news simply by saying they condemned violent rhetoric on both sides. Today, Republican House leadership assigned her to the Education and Labor Committee.
Republican lawmakers seem to be siding with Trump's supporters, turning against the ten House Republicans who voted for Trump's impeachment. In the House, Trump supporters are trying to throw Liz Cheney (R-WY) out of her spot in the party's leadership, and the former president's new political action committee is ginning up anger against her as it urges primary challengers to jump into the race in 2022.
Increasingly, Republican lawmakers are pushing to let Trump off the hook on impeachment. In the Senate yesterday, Rand Paul (R-KY) insisted that a former president could not be tried on an impeachment charge, and 45 Republicans agreed with him. This is not necessarily a signal of how the eventual Senate vote will go, but Paul said it was: he insisted this was a sign that Trump would not be convicted. Republican lawmakers seem to be coming down on Trump's side as polls show that while most Americans are horrified by the attack on the Capitol and blame Trump for it, most Republicans- 78%-- don't blame him. Republican lawmakers are accusing Democrats of divisiveness in their move to hold the president accountable.
Some Republicans are, though, alarmed at the idea that a president might get away with inciting an insurrection that endangered our elected representatives and our government itself—remember the next three people in line for the presidency were in the Capitol when the rioters stormed it—and which came perilously close to making good on threats against individuals, including then-vice president Mike Pence.
Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) dismissed the idea that the country could have unity without addressing the causes of the current anger. "I say, first of all, have you gone out publicly and said that there was not widespread voter fraud and that Joe Biden is the legitimate president of the United States? If you said that, then I'm happy to listen to you talk about other things that might inflame anger and divisiveness," he explained to Dennis Romboy of Deseret News. "But if you haven't said that, that's really what's at the source of the anger right now."
Also notable is the firm stance of Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), who has bucked his party to speak out against the former president's attacks on the election and incitement of the rioters. "I've felt very isolated in my party," Kinzinger told Ellen McCarthy of the Washington Post.
While the Republican Party's apparent embrace of Trump and all he now stands for is grabbing headlines, Biden and his administration officials are taking on the radicalization of his opponents in a new and promising way. They are demonstrating an approach to sidelining Trumpism by shifting the focus off the exhausting drama of the former president and his supporters and onto a functioning government that is working for ordinary Americans.
When a reporter today asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki if the administration had any comment on Greene, Psaki made it clear the administration was not going to give any oxygen to her or those like her. "We don't, and I am not going to speak further about her, I think, in this briefing room," Psaki said.
While Biden is starving the Republicans of oxygen, he is also working to address the conditions that have fed desperate conspiracy theories and divisions. In America, such societal breakdown is associated with periods in which ordinary people face economic hardship. Biden is moving quickly on a range of issues that are popular among ordinary voters of both parties, including addressing the country's extreme inequality. After all, one of the complaints that drew voters to an outsider in 2016 was the belief that government no longer worked for the people and needed to be shaken up.
Today's executive order on addressing climate change talks at length about creating "good-paying union jobs" and "tapping into the talent, grit, and innovation of American workers." It calls for the government to buy zero-emission vehicles made in the U.S., and to rebuild federal infrastructure, creating construction, manufacturing, engineering, and skilled-trades jobs. Job creation and infrastructure development were both promises the previous president made in 2016 that boosted his support but which never really came to pass. If Biden can actually deliver on them, he could reclaim those Trump voters for the Democrats, as well as addressing climate change and our failing infrastructure.
Biden's people are also making sure we see a White House that is addressing issues that created concern in the past administration. They are upholding old norms—holding daily press briefings, for example—honoring science, restoring government websites, and treating members of the media with respect.
They seem to be trying to remind us how our democracy is supposed to work.
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Oh, this would be lovely to watch.
Mitch McConnell's latest threats to obstruct the Senate could get him arrested—literally
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Biden has to get a bunch of stuff done in the next 2 years while he has both the Senate and the House on his side. Sadly, there are no guarantees after that. The margins are way too close to take things for granted when the mid-terms roll around.
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I think that's why they're holding so many press conferences and releases. They want people to quickly see things getting accomplished, and they want people enjoying benefits as soon as possible. I hope the public's anticipation for relief and aid programs will make McConnell's stonewalling backfire dramatically.
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Why here and why now ??? Well, I only just now found it, but it says exactly what I feel.
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I do think much of what Biden is doing is to get rid of as many of the damaging things Trump did or was doing as soon as possible. While some things should be alleviated as soon as possible, anything that did damage needs to go and the sooner it does go, the sooner something good can take its place. Due to climate issues and things that definitely have a clock running on them -- we really do have to make things better and better even than when Obama was in chg. He had some time and this admin has far less.
I hope that when Schumer and others talk about doing things with or w/o the Senate that they are just that determined. I will say the Reps. never cared one whit if we were along. If they wanted it, they did it. I think it is one of the places where we should shift our attitudes. We tend to always play nice and get walked on for it. Okay to give them a chance but if they try to mess things up we should very hastily go on without them. I think of the saying " nice guys finish last " and at this time there is no need of that. We can be fair, and strong at the same time.
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People have had to make up for their spiritual impoverishment by accumulating material things. When spiritual blessings come, material blessings seem unimportant. As long as we desire material things this is all we receive, and we remain spiritually impoverished. -Peace Pilgrim
People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives--materialism and consumerism--doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world. -Sylvia Boorstein
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Just a reminder, I have set up a Zoom meeting for tomorrow, Saturday. Note that it is scheduled for 11:30 am CENTRAL TIME. Adjust the time according to your time zone. You should be able to get into the meeting by just clicking on the link. If not, the Meeting ID & Passcode are also listed. (I have a free account, so we will have a 40 minute time limit.) Check it out if you want to and have the time. It should be fun, and I will bring feedback to BCO on whether Zoom Meetings are something they may want to facilitate.
Zoom Meeting
Topic: I Say Yes
Time: Jan 30, 2021 11:30 AM Central Time (US and Canada)Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 797 8404 9913
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/79784049913?pwd=Qm5CaXRSMURXUHV2d1FadVNMZEFldz09
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Wile the world has been distracted..............................
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Ruth, I plan to participate in your Zoom call!
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Love the distracted video. Yes, women are coming and it is far past time. I am working on being able ( still a bit up in the air ) on joining in on Saturday. Ruth and I played a bit to check things out and I do need some refining -- but I made some changes and will do some more later this evening. Hopefully, I will be able to get in tomorrow.
I also have good news. V.A. called while I was gone and once I was home I called them back. I have an appt. to go get my Moderna injection this coming Wednesday ( last chemo on Tues. ) and hope I can go ahead despite the chemo which doesn't actually stay in my body much. Then first of Feb. the second shot. Things are looking up. I was prepared to wait a lot longer if I had too. I'll be glad to get it done even though we will be masking for quite a good while as yet -- and some of the other good things to do.
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I know how a lot of it happens, but for the life of me I just do huge face plants when I read stuff like this. These people need medicated or something and then de-programmed. Hard to fathom how even one person can believe such idiocy let alone knowing how many actually do.
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I am excited to see you all on Zoom tomorrow! As many of you know, I am Jewish but I have not been issued my space laser yet (tongue firmly in cheek).
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I wonder if the space lasers thing was why someone in another forum I am on posted a short video clip of "Mel Brooks' Jews in Space" ? I didn't get the joke...
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I may a bit late to the Zoom meeting, as my cats get fed around 11-11:30 (and I have to pick up my space laser from the repair shop).
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My Dad's side of the family is Jewish, not my Mom's, so I technically don't qualify for a space laser.
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miriandra,
My DNA shows that I am 97% Ashkenazi Jew soI get two lasers. I'll send you my spare 😂.
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Proud Boys Charged With Conspiracy in Capitol Riot
The conspiracy charges were the first to emerge against members of the extremist group in connection with the assault on Congress.
Dominic Pezzola, left, of Rochester, N.Y. and William Pepe of Beacon, N.Y, are accused of working together to obstruct law enforcement officers who were protecting Congress on Jan. 6.Credit...United States Department of JusticeBy Alan Feuer
- Jan. 29, 2021
Federal prosecutors investigating the violent riot at the Capitol this month announced their first conspiracy charges against the Proud Boys on Friday night, accusing two members of the far-right nationalist group of working together to obstruct and interfere with law enforcement officers protecting Congress during the final certification of the presidential election.
In a brief news release, the Justice Department said that an indictment had been filed against two Proud Boys, Dominic Pezzola, of Rochester, N.Y., and William Pepe, of Beacon, N.Y. But by late Friday night, the charging papers had not yet appeared in the Washington federal court database. Both Mr. Pezzola, a former boxer and Marine, and Mr. Pepe, an employee of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, already had been facing lesser charges connected to the Capitol attack.
While more than 170 people have been charged in the deadly assault on the Capitol, most have been accused of relatively minor crimes such as disorderly conduct and unlawful entry. The only other serious conspiracy charges in the inquiry have been brought against three members of the militia group the Oath Keepers, who are accused of preparing for the Jan. 6 rally in Washington as early as one week after the election.
The Proud Boys, a self-described "western chauvinist" group that has a long history of bloody street fights with the activists known as Antifa, have drawn the attention of investigators because they are one of the extremist outfits that had a large presence on Capitol Hill during the assault.
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The true Light is a gentle love which, rising in you, causes you to look on the world with understanding and compassion and respect. When you respect the souls of your brother and sister, you respect their lives in every way. This gentle spirit, this respect one for another, must come. For this is the generation of the one true Light, and this true light is that of love.
White Eagle
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