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• Dear GOP, STOP WHINING!

  • From: human
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    Ever since Emanuel was appointed, I've heard non-stop whining and fear from the Republican part of the legislature. Ok - listen up, all of you who've held the reins for what - around 25 years or so... 

    QUIT WHINING! For all of the complaining about divisiveness and fear regarding Emanuel coming on board, note the other 4 fingers of your hand are pointing back at yourself. If you really mean what YOU say about being willing to be supportive and work together with the administration we the tax paying voters have elected, get over yourself and stop whining and get to work.

    The more whining you continue to do, the more you lose even more future Republicans. Want to completely demolish your party? Keep complaining, whining, and spewing your fears around. When you're ready to get to work on the problems we face as a nation - mostly made by your own George Bush whom you forced on us and for whom most of us never voted - we, the other part of the nation who have been absorbing this economic disaster, will welcome your help.

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  • 1 year ago
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• It may be naive, but it's what

  • From: Charlie G
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    It may be naive, but..

    By Charlie G

     

    I was asked to change my aviator to a flame, to support peace and the end of war. And I wondered.

    I have a tattoo on my shoulder I got back in the 80's. It is of the American flag, and has the words 'And proud of it' around it.

    When I got it, I was.

    Now, I'm not.

    Not an easy thing to say, especially when you love your country as I do.

    And I DO love this country.

    My country.

    We are one of the most powerful countries in the world.

    We are not the only country in the world.

    We were a guide,

    A dream,

    A model,

    To other countries in the world.

    A one word mantra to the oppressed.

    The dominated,

    Yet hopeful.

    The seekers of justice;

    “Democracy.”

    My country was a country that the world looked to for an example of how the world should be.

    My country represented;

    God.

    Hope.

    Rights.

    Freedom.

    Possibilities.

    Love.

    We had CARE, HOPE, the RED CROSS

    We fed the poor and defended the weak.

    We were a beacon for the the underdog.

    We championed God.

    Human rights.

    Our rights.

    We helped bring about a fledging democracy in Russia.

    And bring down the wall in East Berlin.

    We've helped bring more rights to more people in more countries.

    Now?

    Here?

    At home?

     

    We don't start school with a morning prayer anymore.

    Now we are sued when we do.

    We want to take Christ out of Christmas.

    Heck, we want to change 'Merry Christmas' to 'Happy Holidays.'

    Your phone calls can now be listened to without a warrant.

    Your emails read without a warrant.

    You can be locked up in prison for the rest of your life without ever seeing a judge, if your labeled a terrorist suspect.

    Who has that job? (Do NOT want him pissed off at me (peace, bro ! ).

    And we want to build a wall across our border???

    We have an immigration problem because our economy is so much better than our neighbor.

    Our neighbor.

    An ally.

    I have an idea of what we should do instead of putting up a WALL across our country.

    Why don’t we build all those factories that we use in China, for all that stuff we think we need here,

    In Mexico?

    They would be able to earn a comfortable living, and thus want to stay, in their own country.

    Their cost of living might be more than their Asian counter parts, but it is still much lower than ours.

    The savings from not having to ship it to us from half way around the world would cover it.

    Maybe naive, but it's what popped into my head when I saw that.

     

     

    On the radio coming home the other day, a guy was asking about the rising discontent with the war in Iraq.

    "Where was our fortitude? Where was that drive that carried us to victory in World War I & II?"

    In those wars we were the defenders. Not the aggressors.

    We were protecting a sovereign country.

    Not invading it.

    Maybe naive, but it's what popped into my head when I heard that.

     

    I got an email asking me to change my avatar to promote peace and the end of the war, and I thought, 'This might be an ok time to say how I feel.'

    Then I thought;

    I have to wait for the right time to say how I feel?

    I have to be scared if I want to say what I feel?

    I have to worry about being called a sympathizer, or unpatriotic, if I say what I feel?

    In my country?

    In America?

    This can't be right.

    Maybe naive, but it's what popped into my head when I read that.

    These are just my thoughts.

    peace.

     

     

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• Politicized at a Young Age

  • From: marmac6804
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    I became politically aware in 1964. I would have been 8. My father's good friend was running for the U.S. Senate and I got dragged along to events as a sort of window dressing.

    For some reason, I started to pay attention to what was being said at those gatherings and connecting them with the Civil Rights stories on the evening news. When my father explained how blacks were being treated, why there was violence, who Dr King was and so on, I got really interested. I started seeing politics as a way to right wrongs and as a nobel profession. OK, so I was nieve ... I was 8.

    I wanted to run for office for a long time, but found I was more comfortable trying to influence those in power with my arguments for doing the right thing. I have been involved in many different campaigns and have enjoyed being part of the process.

    My activisim has waned as I have gotten older, but I still feel my early political awareness gave me a much wider global view than many others and was a good thing in the long run.

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• What is the common good?

  • From: Ms. Liz
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    My great-grandfather, Martin McNulty Crane, was the son of immigrants who fled the Irish potato famine in 1845. Orphaned at 8, he survived by the kindness of strangers in Tennessee, and eventually made his way to Texas. After studying the law in a local attorney's office, he was elected District Attorney of Dallas. He was a reformer who rounded up the gamblers and cattle rustlers outside of town. Elected to the state legislature, and eventually to the post of Attorney General, my great-grandfather called out his associates, members of the Ku Klux Klan, which was resurgent in the 1920s. He also prosecuted the corrupt Gov. Jim Ferguson and railroad and oil monopolies in Texas. A principled Democrat, he stood firm against racist and corporate interests and for the interests of the ordinary American. Although I am a Yankee, my Southern mother bathed me in these stories from a very young age.... so I guess that's why I'm a yellow-dog Democrat [would vote for a yellow dog as long as it is a Democrat].

    At Berkeley in the 1960s, I learned about American imperialism, capitalist monopolies, racial injustice, ecological threats to the environment, and women's issues. At the time, we students were called out as 'radical, anti-American protestors' -- but the history of the last 45 years has bourne out nearly all of our 'radical' ideas. In particular, I watched in horror as Gov. Ronald Reagan used our university as a politcial football to catapult himself into the national spotlight. For details, please consult People's Park, Berkeley on wikipedia.com.

    I have always thought of politics as "the authoritative allocation of scarce resources" -- ok, that's not mine but I think it's right. So the question is, who owns labor? who owns the means of production? What is 'production' in our era?

    As a student, I lived in a 'hippie commune' in Piedmont. I think we were the only commune in town -- most everyone else was a millionaire. One of my fellow communards was the run-away wife of an Air Force pilot from Texas. She had fled to the Bay Area with her two little boys to live life to the fullest. My defining moment: witnessing the terror in the eyes of her two little boys -- they threw her pot into the fire because they were afraid she would get arrested.

    I have been married for 35+ years. to the same person. My 'liberal' state, Massachusetts, has one of the lowest divorce rates in the nation.

    It surprised me that some people turned from the Democrat party because of 'virulent feminism' or the selfishness of young Vietnam war protestors. I was lucky enough to study Marx in college; though his political prescriptions turned out to be totally wrong, his analysis of the economic forces that shape society remains spot-on.

    To me the Republicans stand for the interests of business, and the Democrats stand for the interests of ordinary people. My challenge: can these two perspectives embrace the common good?

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  • 1 year ago
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• Letter on Equality to Rep. Sal

  • From: sammysamo
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    After reading some of the words that OK state Rep Sally Kern was saying about the "gay agenda," I felt the need to send her a letter. It's the sort fo thing that I know she'll never read and she obviously won't care what I have to say, but I'm hoping that some other people will care.

    "I am proud to be an American. I am proud to pay taxes and contribute to the success of this country. I enjoy the rights that I have as a citizen of this diverse nation. Part of my pride is that I live in a country where it's okay for me to part of the LGBT community and interact with people from all different backgrounds.

    As a public figure, you have a responsibility to welcome diversity and even encourage it. By making anti-gay comments, you put gay people in danger, and help to perpetuate hate everywhere. It would be completely unacceptable to make racist comments today and I needed to let you know that you have forever tarnished your image and people will site you as an example of a public figure at the turning point in human rights who chose the wrong point of view and didn't apologize.

    Please search for humanity behind the characteristic. It will help you and the rest of the world advance, not degrade. Thanks for your time."

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  • 1 year ago
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