I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. -Dale Carnegie
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Can't go back here but I read the " Moore " southern Baptist piece some time back Divine and I thought then that she was brave and that we need people like her so that we can see how 'okay' it is to own up to some of your deepest thoughts and new convictions. None of us are alike and I do find that if something is 'real' enough to people it will find a way to announce itself inside to us -- to resonate as a much stronger truth than what we may have been experiencing. I also think we tend to coast on things that have felt okay and need time passing to fully grasp when something is NO longer right for us. That too starts to present as a stronger resonation inside -- I guess you could say -- the tilt button turns on and you no longer feel the comfort you once did. Our inner signal to discover we need some change and to discover what that is and that the time is now. Hats off to Moore.
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This is likely in relation to McConnell pitching a fit about Pres. Biden having a study on the possibility of a need to 'adjust' the SC.
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Oh, you got that right.
M. McConnell just sounds scared.
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Argh, I will have nightmares about that picture!!
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and sisters, he would add if alive today
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Ruth, I totally love the photo you shared of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip sharing a giggle.
As an historian, you probably know the reason it’s said that the Queen chooses to dress in bright colors when out in public: she wants to make sure she stands out so the people in the crowds can catch sight of her. She needs to stand out for people to be able to say 'I saw the Queen'. When she turns up somewhere, the crowds are two, three, four, ten, 15 deep, and someone wants to be able to say they saw a bit of the queen's hat as she goes past.
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If you take a moment or two, every once in a while, to sit still and listen to your heart, you'd find that your world is safe and that there is no problem without a solution. But you've got to learn to trust - trust life, your God, your very being. And as you trust, you'll see that your problems start to disappear as mist before the morning sun.
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The queen also has umbrellas made to go with her outfits. They're the design that goes down and not out. They're clear and have a band of matching color toward the bottom. Her face can be seen and it all works together.
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1 big thing: Biden pollster urges blunt tax talk
Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios
The top pollster for Joe Biden's presidential campaign is advising the White House to do something that often makes Democrats nervous: talk loudly and proudly about raising taxes on the rich, Axios' Jonathan Swan reports.
Why it matters: John Anzalone says his extensive polling and research has found that few issues receive broader support than raising taxes on corporations and people earning more than $400,000 a year.
Anzalone says Republicans will brand Democrats as "tax increasers" regardless of what they do, so Democrats would be best served by framing the tax debate themselves.
- "The middle class is tired of carrying the tax burden for the country," he said. "They are pissed off. They aren't anti-rich or anti-corporate. They are anti-not paying your fair share."
By the numbers: Poll after poll after poll after poll support Anzalone's analysis.
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With all the recent news about the Royal Family, here is a cool fact about Queen Elizabeth; as 18-year-old princess during World War II she joined the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service where she served as a mechanic and military truck driver. The queen remains the only female member of the royal family to have entered the armed forces and is the only living head of state who served in World War II.
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Interesting -- I knew she was in the military, but didn't know what she did. I think for one of her more recent birthdays she sky-dived if memory serves. I think she has a lot of grit for a female and she in that fashion has been a little more able to walk the walk so to speak. I think though the Royals as far as the politics of it have suffered as much as we have the last few yrs.
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Illinois lady,
Queen Elizabeth only seemed to sky dive in 2012 as part of the Olympics. It was actually a stunt double but it sure looked authentic, directed by Danny Boyle. Are you perhaps thinking of the late President Bush? Although I am not a fan of hereditary monarchies, she sure is an amazing woman. Sometimes it seemed like she had to be dragged into modern times, think Diana’s death, but I think she understands that the monarcymust either change or die.
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Jackie, interesting story about advising Democrats to "talk loudly and proudly about raising taxes on the rich". It really makes sense for Dems to "frame the tax debate themselves". We'll have to see how the Biden administration approaches the matter. Pretty sure those polls are right, middle-class is fed up with carrying the tax burden.
This time of year is always busy for dh and I. We're getting weeding and mulching done in the flower beds, dh tilled the garden and planted a few cold weather vegetables, we got our two apple trees trimmed and a contractor's coming to install new gutters on the house and porches this week. Yesterday, we took a drive on the backroads to see the trees in all their glory starting to bud and blossom, along with daffodils and tulips. The beauty takes my breath away. Spring in the Ohio Valley absolutely lifts me to another stratosphere. Nothing else like it.
I still keep up with the headlines, but there's relief knowing the government is in good hands when I can't tune in.
I totally love this story:
White Lives Matter Marchers Despondent After Failure: 'I Was the Only Person To Show Up'
Attempts to organize far-right "White Lives Matter" marches in cities across the country failed spectacularly, with a number of planned events having almost no attendees or canceled entirely.
White supremacists, neo-Nazis and other extremists had coordinated dozens of rallies in cities such as Fort Texas, Chicago, Illinois and Orlando, Florida, all due to take place at 1 p.m. on Sunday......Other planned White Lives Matter saw almost no attendees from the far-right, with some only having a handful being met with large crowds of counter-protesters.
https://www.newsweek.com/white-lives-matter-marche...
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Totally agree with the 'less media' strategy. We all feel relief getting some distance from the political climate overload:
The Biden White House media doctrine: Less can be more
The president does little press. His Cabinet does a fair bit. Underlying it all is one overarching idea: Do things that feel natural.
Three months in, Joe Biden's White House has settled on a firm press strategy: First, do no self-harm.
The president is not doing cable news interviews. Tweets from his account are limited and, when they come, unimaginably conventional. The public comments are largely scripted. Biden has opted for fewer sit down interviews with mainstream outlets and reporters. He's had just one major press conference — though another is coming — and prefers remarks straight to camera for the marquee moments. The White House is leaning more heavily on Cabinet officials to reach the audiences that didn't tune into his latest Rose Garden event.
....During the campaign, the Biden team sold themselves as a return to calm. Their commitment to that pledge since taking office makes clear that it wasn't just a show for voters but an actual strategy.
....Inside the White House, there is a belief that Biden can be used best as a marquee player coming in at big moments when there is a need to reset the press narrative or push a major policy. It hasn't always gone according to plan — on occasion, the White House has had to walk back or clarify comments Biden has made in the interviews he has given. But as a strategy, it is a return to an era that predated the Obama White House, when the country heard from the president sparingly.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/12/biden-whi...
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I get a hoot from this meme because of its play on Trumper conspiracy theories. Dh sees a lot of Maga folks bitching online blaming Biden for hikes in gasoline prices that in reality have been minimal.
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Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things: through cooking and small talk, through storytelling, making love, fishing, tending animals and sweetcorn and flowers, through sports, music and books, raising kids—all the places where the gravy soaks in and grace shines through . Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. -Garrison Keillor
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Thanks exbronxgrl. I was not aware that the parachute jump was done by a double of the Queen. I should have gone back and checked when I originally thought about it, but I was short on time and cheated. Glad you set it straight for me.
I too am feeling so much better about 'missing' some of the news. I, like most here, feel like I don't need to know on a daily/hourly basis since we are in good hands. I do think we still get too much negative news and been wishing some of the press would take cues from Jen Psaki and others even knowing that they feel the need to 'hold' interest however they can. Hopefully that will get better, but it is one of those parts that may not be able to get back to a better place.
In the meantime I was reading ( hopefully true ) that some donors didn't show up to Trump's Mara Lago meal. He ( it was said ) went off the rails ( ad-libbing ) of the written speech as he so often does. He is not helping anyone by this and I think if just putting the party farther down -- but for most, what can they do but hold on. Trump sucked all the oxygen out long ago and removed so much choice for them. Dammed if they do or don't. Makes some things a lot easier for us.
PS -- love the beautiful day without Trump. The worst day we have had so far is nothing in comparison to those long dismal days when we had to put up with the likes of Trump, Miller, Jordan and all the Trump a++-kissers. How sweet I has been and is.
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Omg, WHEN will Republicans realize the former guy is a stuck needle on a record? That he’s Lucy pulling the football out before Charlie Brown kicks it yet again after promising not to? HOW are they not surprised by his repetitive rhetoric?
From Heather Cox Richardson:
“Yesterday, more than 100 corporate executives met over Zoom to figure out how to deal with the voter suppression measures coming out of Republican legislatures. They discussed that political unrest is bad for business and are calling for corporations to continue to take a stand against voter restrictions, including by withholding money from Republican candidates.“
“....so, in the face of remarkably popular Democratic proposals to rebuild the country-- proposals that will kill the central principle of the Republican Party since the time of President Ronald Reagan that the government must get out of the economy—Republicans are split between their voting base, which wants Trumpian voter restrictions, and their donor base, which recognizes that those restrictions will destabilize the country.“
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Click this link to enjoy The Queen, James Bond, and parachuting into the Olympics! (Yes, it is the real Queen in the opening & closing shots!)
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Very cool!! Love the baroque music in the beginning.
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I have been watching MSNBC sparingly of late. Chris Hayes is too cloyingly earnest (and his frequent sub, Mehdi Hasan, is so insanely and unrealistically ultra-progressive that he makes Bernie sound like a moderate); and Rachel Maddow--much as I like and admire her--is scaring the crap out of me when she isn't merely depressing me. I'm getting most of my news these days from the NYTimes, WaPo, Boston Globe, the Trib & Sun-Times, the BlockClubChicago hyperlocal site (that replaced DNA Info, which replaced the venerable City News Service) and broadcast network--ABC, CBS, NBC--local and national news. Factually, the info is pretty much the same but more varied in subject matter & w/o editorial spin (other than the op-eds). I watch CNN mostly for its specials & series.
I had been watching MSNBC so much on prime-time nights that my DVR's hard drive was getting too full of the various prime-time series & specials I'd been recording.
The officer who shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop needs to be fired immediately: he claimed (and video shows) that he mistakenly reached for his gun instead of his taser, but anyone who can't tell the difference between gun & taser triggers doesn't deserve to be armed. I'm getting increasingly infuriated with cops invoking the defense "I was in reasonable fear for my life" as an excuse for shooting black people. It's almost a reflexive, visceral fear of black people (especially men) that is ingrained racism. If it can't be trained out of a recruit, they have no business becoming a cop. Not to mention "they didn't obey my order," which (other than said "order" being to drop a visible weapon), is a manifestation of a desire to wield power--another trait that ought to be a disqualifier. (Cops are not military officers and civilians are not their subordinates). And this "qualified immunity" shielding police & their local gov'ts from civil liability has got to go. There's simply no accountability any more.
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And these bullshit traffic stops have got to end as well--Wright was allegedly pulled over because the cop thought he saw an air freshener dangling in front of and blocking the rearview mirror. He was shot because he got back into his car. The institution of ticket "quotas" must end--it's why bullshit stops get made, and too many of them go wrong.
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I agree. They should limit stops to people driving in ways that endanger others. I think the license plate would give them an address and they could send a letter stating the problem. I think you'd have to modify the car to dangle an air freshener in front of the rear view mirror. What bullshit.
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The police chief asked for reporters to allow time for due process for the officer that shot an unarmed person. I agree, the police office needs to be afforded the same due process she afforded the man she killed. None, she was the judge and jury. ChiSandy, I agree fire her immediately. Apparently America is not better than this and never has been, it has just been hidden before body cameras. May the victims family be awarded millions of dollars and let it come from the police retirement fund and not citizen tax dollars. If that happened maybe the police would police their own.
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And more shooting today. So, hopefully ( not holding my breath ) Pres. Biden may be able to do something here. No matter what happens in the Minnesota Chauvin trial, we need to figure out how to have serious changes made and ENFORCED. In addition to busy trigger fingers on cops, are the citizens who are able to get guns who ( they might still get some ) should never even be in the same room with one. There are just far too many un-needed or necessary weapons and many outfitted to be very highly dangerous due to capacity.
I also think if the retirement fund ( police ) doles out monies to the victims of those un-justly killed there would soon be some big changes in how police officers are trained. I also hope I don't have to listen to some of my 'friends' yell about lack of respect for the men in blue. I don't respect ANYONE who treats others in harmful and or disrespectful ways -- so I guess I've been against a number of officers for a long time.
I do wonder how much longer until we start to see someone be able to exercise some sanity and control.
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