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sheshe2's JournalI want to tell you about my mom.
She is eighty six years old and she is a force to be reckoned with. She loves her family fiercely, her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Since her divorce she has been on her own for 35 years. She worked past retirement age, trying to save enough money, so that she would not be a burden to her children. Yes, she now lives off social security.
She has suffered a couple of falls, and is still strong. She buried her only son seven years ago. He committed suicide and yes, it almost broke her, it almost broke us all. Yet she survived it, with the help of the family and the community that she lives in, she survived.
She maintains two gardens every year, both 7 foot square. One for vegetables one for herbs, they are beautiful to behold. The bounty is great. Oh sure a neighbor does come over to till the garden so that she can plant, however she does a lot of back breaking work.
She is an active member of the church, helps raise money for Outreach, and cooks for the local women's shelters. She also works at the local food pantry, that's a lot of hard work for an 86 year old. She does it without complaint. My mom is an amazing woman.
So proud of my mom, she also works at the polls during elections. Spirit!
Did I forget to mention, my mom is a Democrat. She is an Obama supporter. Was then and is now. Will always be.
Remember what I said, my mom is not a socialite, nor well to do. She lives off of social security.
God bless my mom, she fights for what she believes in, doing what needs to be done to make this world a safer more secure nation. Helping those in need.
She supports this President to make this happen.
Mom, I love you.
We're here and we are staying!
Omg!
According to one Op,
We are teen idols.
They question what news we watch, they ask themselves how well informed we are.
One poster got the impression that we were genuflecting when we posted on the BOG!
All this because we support our President on Democratic Underground!
Damn, the Gall of us!
A Repost, because~
SNIP
I'd like to once again repeat something Alice Walkerhttp://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2010/11/it-is-soul-that-must-be-preserved.html wrote to President Obama shortly after he was elected.
I would advise you to remember that you did not create the disaster that the world is experiencing, and you alone are not responsible for bringing the world back to balance. A primary responsibility that you do have, however, is to cultivate happiness in your own life. To make a schedule that permits sufficient time of rest and play with your gorgeous wife and lovely daughters. And so on. One gathers that your family is large. We are used to seeing men in the White House soon become juiceless and as white-haired as the building; we notice their wives and children looking strained and stressed. They soon have smiles so lacking in joy that they remind us of scissors. This is no way to lead. Nor does your family deserve this fate. One way of thinking about all this is: It is so bad now that there is no excuse not to relax. From your happy, relaxed state, you can model real success, which is all that so many people in the world really want. They may buy endless cars and houses and furs and gobble up all the attention and space they can manage, or barely manage, but this is because it is not yet clear to them that success is truly an inside job. That it is within the reach of almost everyone...
Because, finally, it is the soul that must be preserved, if one is to remain a credible leader. All else might be lost; but when the soul dies, the connection to earth, to peoples, to animals, to rivers, to mountain ranges, purple and majestic, also dies. And your smile, with which we watch you do gracious battle with unjust characterizations, distortions and lies, is that expression of healthy self-worth, spirit and soul, that, kept happy and free and relaxed, can find an answering smile in all of us, lighting our way, and brightening the world.
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2012/12/mele-kalikimaka-mr-president.html
Reposted from:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101788268
Thank you Mr. President!
Aloha, Mele Kalikimaka...
Out of the Mouth's of Babes.
Aamira Fetuga! 
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It was a Woman damn it! Thank you Lawrence O'Donnell
Watch It Here!
http://3chicspolitico.com/2013/04/11/video-the-last-word-democrats-the-history-of-social-security-frances-perkins/
Wiki: Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880[1][2] – May 14, 1965) was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. She and Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes were the only original members of the Roosevelt cabinet to remain in office for his entire presidency.
During her term as Secretary of Labor, Perkins championed many aspects of the New Deal, including the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Public Works Administration and its successor the Federal Works Agency, and the labor portion of the National Industrial Recovery Act. With the Social Security Act she established unemployment benefits, pensions for the many uncovered elderly Americans, and welfare for the poorest Americans. She pushed to reduce workplace accidents and helped craft laws against child labor. Through the Fair Labor Standards Act, she established the first minimum wage and overtime laws for American workers, and defined the standard forty-hour work week. She formed governmental policy for working with labor unions and helped to alleviate strikes by way of the United States Conciliation Service, Perkins resisted having American women be drafted to serve the military in World War II so that they could enter the civilian workforce in greatly expanded numbers.[3]
Lady Problems, yes they do
The memo, from Stephanie Schriock of EMILY’s List and Neera Tanden of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, notes that even the Republican National Committee's own post-election report found that, "[Women] represent more than half the voting population in the country, and our inability to win their votes is losing us elections." But while Republicans have made some effort to soften the party's positioning on issues like immigration and LGBT rights, the party has not moderated its stance on reproductive rights or other issues of interest to many women voters.
The memo points to the unprecedented attack on access to abortion underway in states like North Dakota and Arkansas, the 160 Republicans that voted against the Violence Against Women Act at the federal level, and the ongoing fights over both contraception coverage and cuts to the federal family planning budget.
NARAL Pro-Choice America's polling right after the election found that Romney's view on abortion was the top reason for voting against him that swing-voting women cited in their survey. Planned Parenthood also used this issue to attack anti-choice politicians. Planned Parenthood also used this issue to attack anti-choice politicians. Another post-election poll from Democracy Corps found that 33 percent of unmarried women listed the attacks on Planned Parenthood and women's preventative health services as a top reason for voting against Romney.
MORE:
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/04/11/news-of-the-day-2/
New Research Confirms Gun Rampages Are Rising—and Armed Civilians Don't Stop Them
The research, to be published in a book in July, confirms that:
Public shooting rampages have spiked in particular over the last few years
Many of the attackers were heavily armed
None of the shootings was stopped by an ordinary citizen using a gun
SNIP:
Moreover, our investigation made clear that so-called "good guys with guns" do not stop public shooting rampages. Likewise, Blair's data couldn't be any clearer when it comes to the National Rifle Association's favorite myth: He found just 3 cases out of 84 in which an armed individual who had been on the scene used a firearm to stop the shooter. And none of the three were ordinary citizens. According to Blair, in two instances those who intervened were off-duty police officers: one in a case in upstate New York in 2010, and another in a case in Philadelphia in 2005. The third case took place in Winnemucca, Nevada, in 2008; the man there who intervened and shot the rampaging gunman, as I've reported previously, was a US Marine.
More here
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/mass-shootings-rampages-rising-data
Deal Reached on Background Checks
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Patrick Toomey (R-PA) signaled they have "reached a deal in principle on expanding background checks to include more gun sales, in what was widely seen as the major sticking point on the biggest gun control legislation to reach the floor since 1994," Roll Call reports.
They will hold a news conference at 11 am Wednesday
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/04/09/deal_reached_on_background_checks.html
Link found at the Obama Diary!
Yes we can!
Thank you Mr President, and VP Biden!
Itty Bitty Hissyfit Committee
Next time the poutragers get your blood pressure spiking, just remember that this is all that's going on.
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http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/
As time Goes By~
Dame Vera Lynn
Vera Lynn at the War and Peace Show, in July 2009
Background information
Birth name Vera Margaret Welch
Born 20 March 1917 (age 96)
East Ham, London, England
Genres Traditional pop
Years active 1935–present
Labels UK Decca/London, HMV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Lynn
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