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oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)
28. Happy Birthday
Thu Feb 20, 2014, 12:38 PM
Feb 2014

I hope for you a great day and a wonderful year.

And I encourage you to get some post cards and consistently write (once a week) to those politicians who make us all crazy and tell them again and again and again.

I am watching the Olympics and thinking of these athletes going out day after day and doing what was required to get them to Sochi.

Postcards are good because they go right thru. Letters take a month to clear the security for Congress.

I am still able to be a little more active, but mostly do letters (for urgent action cases for Amnesty International) or post cards or emails. I am not good on the phone. And I will be a precinct worker for the elections this year.

We have to be active! Each of us must do what we can. Please do not give up!

A year ago I was where you are. (Twenty years older, but I mean in terms of discouragement with politicians.) Since then I have looked for ways I can be effective. So, I send a hug and encouragement and hope.

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I agree with some of those. 840high Feb 2014 #1
Amen and...... Glitterati Feb 2014 #2
I agree! Faux pas Feb 2014 #3
I'd temper a couple of points slightly but overall share your sentiments Armstead Feb 2014 #4
Happy Birthday Bok_Tukalo Feb 2014 #5
Breathe deeply bmbmd Feb 2014 #6
True. Xyzse Feb 2014 #20
The free market gave us emperors, pharaohs, and kings. GeorgeGist Feb 2014 #7
k&r Happy Birthday. thanks for posting. nm rhett o rick Feb 2014 #8
Happy Birthday. ctsnowman Feb 2014 #9
T.S. Eliot Wrote about Your Realization in 1922: The Waste Land mckara Feb 2014 #10
How do you feel about George Thorogood? hfojvt Feb 2014 #11
I can dig it ! 12AngryBorneoWildmen Feb 2014 #14
at 66 heaven05 Feb 2014 #12
Happy Birthday, dotymed! Enthusiast Feb 2014 #13
You're welcome and Happy Birthday. I agree. n/t Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #15
Happy Birthday, woo me with science Feb 2014 #16
Happy Birthday! abelenkpe Feb 2014 #17
Happy Birthday. And I agree heartily with your list. jtuck004 Feb 2014 #18
Happy Birthday!! TBF Feb 2014 #19
Happy Birthday!!!! I think you must be my mental twin. Autumn Feb 2014 #21
HATER!!1 OnyxCollie Feb 2014 #22
Ditto Rider3 Feb 2014 #23
Happy Birthday ! I wish I could be 53 again. jaysunb Feb 2014 #24
Thank you all. dotymed Feb 2014 #25
Happy Birthday, dotymed! City Lights Feb 2014 #26
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! gopiscrap Feb 2014 #27
Happy Birthday oldandhappy Feb 2014 #28
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