Tribute to Omaha Steve on The Rick Smith Show today

You have all seen our beloved Omaha Steve post his 2 minutes in labor history from the Rick Smith Show

Turns out that Omaha Steve and Rick Smith are friends. Rick read what Steve posted last week and gave a beautiful tribute to Steve on his show today

The entire show is great, talking about the Pennsylvania bill to rob people of their pension, the TPP and other important things.

But the best part is the tribute to Omaha Steve. Our Omaha Steve

The tribute starts at about 50 minutes in.

Here's the link to The Rick Smith website for the show today

http://ricksmithshow.com/may-11%2C-2015-show

Here's the YouTube of the show. About 51 minutes in.

"The Rick Smith Show - 5/11/2015"

Let's take the content of the TPP out of the equation for a moment

Cross post from GD

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026655244

Let's take the content of the TPP out of the equation for a moment

Let's pretend we know absolutely nothing about the TPP. That nothing has been leaked. That we don't know that corporations will actually have power over national law if a nation's law is detrimental to the corporation. That we don't know anything about how it will effect environmental law, currency, etc Just put it out of your mind

Let's consider just these things:

The treaty is secret. It is so secret that even being a member of Congress wasn't enough to give you clearance to read it. The treaty is secret to the press and the public. While Congress is allowed to read it (assumingly), they are not allowed to copy, take notes or share it in any way with the American people or the press.

Fast track allows for no changes or amendment. It's a straight up or down.

Fast track would cause the up or down vote to take place in 90 days. 90 days for a straight up or down vote on a treaty that has been negotiated for years. A very long treaty that would take well over 90 days to just examine, to learn possible repercussions to the American workforce, Unions, environment, banking regulations, international law, etc

The people in Congress that are against the TPP and TPA are, almost all, Democrats.
DeLauro, Miller Lead 151 House Dems Telling President They Will Not Support Outdated Fast Track For Trans-Pacific Partnership

http://delauro.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1455:delauro-miller-lead-151-house-dems-telling-president-they-will-not-support-outdated-fast-track-for-trans-pacific-partnership&Itemid=21

The people in Congress that are for the TPA and TPP are, almost all, Republicans.

Obama and Republicans Agree on the Trans-PacificPartnership … Unfortunately

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/opinion/obama-and-republicans-agree-on-the-trans-pacific-partnership-unfortunately.html?referrer=

Over 600 corporate advisers, which represents over 400 corporations, have access to and the ability to advise on, the TPP. However, unions, the American people and the press are not even allowed to see it. Even Congress has no part in the negotiations and, if the TPA passes, will have no ability to change anything, amend or even research with any real clarity

TPP Corporate Insiders

http://www.flushthetpp.org/tpp-corporate-insiders/

Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, is pushing for the TPP. She is from one of the wealthiest families in the US. She is a corporate shill who has taken advantage of people in the hardest time, when S&L were closed.

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/19/1210299/-Penny-Pritzker-as-an-example-of-the-criminality-of-our-elites

http://inthesetimes.com/article/14948/3_troubling_things_about_billionaire_penny_pritzker

Thr Nike corporation promise of 10,000 jobs over ten years is insulting. A company that size, that moved over 90% of US jobs out of the country after NAFTA, ensuring a measly 1000 jobs a year, is a joke. Considering what we don't know about pay because of the TPP, and no guarantee of Unions, this announcement almost makes the argument against the TPP stronger.

Why should the TPP have to be passed for a US company, that makes most of its profits in the US, to guarantee that few jobs?

We have gone from being the greatest nation to just mediocre. Not a leader but, instead, on a fast track to the bottom. The bottom in education, in quality of life, in work/life balance, in treatment of women, minorities, the poor, the middle class, children, hunger and humanity. Though not all of this is attributable NAFTA, some are.

We know the harm that NAFTA has done. Why would we blindly allow another secret trade agreement,

So, just using the things we know as an absolute, why would anyone want to pass the TPA or TPP?

Ellen Albertini Dow, Who Played Rapping Granny in ‘The Wedding Singer,’ Dies at 101

Source: The New York Times

Ellen Albertini Dow, who found acting success in her 70s and portrayed feisty grandmothers in the hit film comedies “Wedding Crashers” and “The Wedding Singer,” stealing the show in that one when she rapped onstage, died on Monday in Los Angeles. She was 101.

Her manager, Juliet Green, confirmed the death.

The sprightly Ms. Dow turned to film and television acting after retiring as a drama and acting teacher in the mid-1980s. She soon became a familiar guest star on television shows like “Seinfeld,” “Six Feet Under” and “My Name Is Earl,” and in films like “Road Trip,” “Patch Adams” and the two “Sister Act” movies.

Ms. Dow played a cocaine-abusing doyenne of disco in “54,” the 1998 paean to the nightclub Studio 54 starring Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek and Mike Myers. In “Wedding Crashers,” a 2005 Owen Wilson-Vince Vaughn comedy, she was the profane, homophobic matriarch of a blue-blooded family who insults her gay grandson during an excruciatingly awkward dinner.


Read more: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/movies/ellen-albertini-dow-who-played-rapping-granny-in-the-wedding-singer-dies-at-101.html?_r=0&referrer=

Ellen Albertini Dow, Who Played Rapping Granny in ‘The Wedding Singer,’ Dies at 101

WEEK THREE - MEDIA TARGET FOR BERNIE SANDERS - LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN

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NOTE: Because David Letterman has such little time left as the host, let's keep this target for another week. Email, tweet, Facebook, get your friends and family to do the same

[font color="navy"]In an effort to gain more media traction the Bernie Sanders Group is asking YOU to take some time and talk about Bernie on social media. We also would ask that you reach out to the mainstream media as well, in order to make our actions towards the mainstream media we'd like to target one media personality a week. In order to do this we will need you to reach out and contact this media personality with positive information/news about Bernie Sanders.

This week's media personality focus will be The Late Show with David Letterman



Learn more about Late Night With David Letterman here.

Sanders is on Rachel Maddow tonight!

It's on now but he hasn't been on yet. So excited!

After the SCOTUS decision that juveniles can't have mandatory sentenced to life w/o parole,

A judge in Chicago re-sentences a man that was sentenced to life in prison w/p the possibility of parole at the age of 14, to life in prison without the possibility of parole!

What the holy fuck!

Judge resentences Adolfo Davis to natural life in prison

Sanders is on Rachel Maddow tonight!

9PM EDT, 8PM CDT

How about a Bernie Sanders/Wendy Davis ticket?

Young, vibrant, female, southern and a fighter. Stronger on women's rights than most.

The more I think about it, the more I like it