Proposal: Loaves and Fishes for Georgia Voters

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Thursday March 25, 2021 · 6:59 PM PDT

2021/03/25 · 18:59

I've worked all my life in foodservice. I can think of no better use of my skills than to deliver food and water to GA voters waiting in line to vote. And I'm more than willing to be arrested breaking any such law.

I'm certain many other foodservice pros and their supporters would join us, because they feel as strongly about voter rights as we do.

For 12 of my 50 years I worked in the food business, I worked for/with a non-profit to organize the production and delivery of thousands of meals a day to a large geographic area. Not nearly as large an area as Georgia. But with help I know we could cover the state with so many volunteers, breaking the evil GA law against "Loaves and Fishes" for voters in line, they could never arrest us all.
We would not even have to point out the reason we chose our name.

Please let me know what you think. And please help with any ideas you may add.

Thanks!

Why a 15 Buck Minimum Wage Now Could Help the Economy, Dems & on the Pandemic

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Friday February 05, 2021 · 7:22 PM PST

2021/02/05 · 19:22

First, I do mean the 15 bucks in the reconciliation bill. Beginning ASAP. Not the already proposed over years.

If everyone was paid at least that much, we increase their purchasing power immensely immediately. Those people will use the money to survive. That alone will pump a gush-load of cash directly into the economy. You don't need to be an economist to see how that helps as quickly as can be done, in the same precious few months ahead we need to end the pandemic.

It also helps end the pandemic, because many will not have to work as much, limiting the amount of contact time they might become infected or spread infections to the most vulnerable.
At the same time many workers will have to work less, it will entice more experienced healthcare workers back into the workforce where we need them the most.

Raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks immediately will work at least as fast as anything else to simulate the economy now. Which is exactly why, more than any other proposal, it needs to be the primary reason for the reconciliation bill. Not a reason to drop the best solution we have to today's problems.

As for Manchin and others, that is simply a test of our leader's well known skills to convince others. I'm sure he can do it. Now, more than ever we need Joe to employ those precious skills we elected him to use.

Then in 2022, those workers will remember our fight. We will not only hold both branches of Congress, but win many state houses and all down the line. Remember what almost every pundit repeats a million times every election; "Americans want Congress to get something done."
Finally, I don't see any reason to listen to any appeals for unity or listening to any "parliamentarian rules" that are not in the Constitution."

Well then if the voters demand action now lets give it to them, damn it!

If Corporations are People, as the Courts Have Decided, then:

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Wednesday April 15, 2020 · 9:16 PM PDT

2020/04/15 · 21:16

First, and foremost, why are they getting even a single penny more than $1200 a piece? Just like the pittance they gave the rest of us?

Second, why are they allowed to ignore the stay-at-home regs and recs, like the rest of us? And then go to Madison Avenue to make TV commercials so sweet about being "in this together" they can cause a diabetic attack?

Third, are they allowed to use their stimulus to pay for medical cannabis? Because, if so, they need to be forced to buy it for the rest of us who need it more than them.

In order to keep from boiling over, I will stop there for now.

(cross posted at: Democratic Underground)

The Elbow Bump Time is Now

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Thursday February 27, 2020 · 7:49 PM PST

2020/02/27 · 19:49

I’m proud to report that workers in the food industry have known about this great way to protect yourself when meeting/greeting others.

The reasons now, as they where then, are evident.

Even a hug is safer than contacting a moist warm surface with another and then inadvertently brushing one’s own mouth, nose or other bodily pathogen pool.

When I was a young cook, aka “chef”, back in the late 1980’s I first learned about food safety from a fellow chef and food safety teacher in the Baltimore, Md area. Another teacher that same night, later hired me as a chef in a local hospital.

At that point I was already hooked. If the food I helped served was not safe, it was not good.

We all knew back-then that we should never touch Ready-To-Eat food with our bare hands before serving it. But the industry push-back was strong then as it is now. Witness all the “chefs” willing to touch their Ready-To-Eat food preparations with bare hands on TV and the Internets. It’s just plain gross. But I digress.

We cooks found a way to help protect the foods by using utensils and food-safe disposable gloves. And to protect each other, we quickly learned that rather then shaking hands (which could be in a clean glove) with our friends it was easier and safer than shaking hands.

We all know why, now more than ever, we should all elbow bump from now on!

-Joe Otterbein CCFS, CPFS, FMP, PCQI

Anyone Ever Seen Cocaine?’ What We Found in the Archives of Bernie Sanders’s Long-Lost TV Show.

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Friday May 03, 2019 · 9:50 PM PDT

2019/05/03 · 21:50

‘Anyone Ever Seen Cocaine?’ What We Found in the Archives of Bernie Sanders’s Long-Lost TV Show.

What a forgotten trove of videotapes reveals about the man who rewrote America’s political script.

Holly Otterbein is a reporter for Politico. (and this dKos poster’s daughter)

www.politico.com/...

Dozens of children scurry on the screen across Ethan Allen Park in Burlington, Vermont, bobbing for apples and running three-legged races. It is a beaming July day, and they’re at a summer camp for kids who live in local housing projects. The video is washed in a yellow light, like a newspaper left too long in the sun. The year is 1987. Atop a wooden picnic table nearby sits a man, clasping a microphone with both hands as he hunches with his elbows on his knees like a camp counselor. He’s wearing gray slacks and a short-sleeved white button-down, and he looks like he’s been on this earth for far longer than a half-century, but he’s only 45.

This is Bernie Sanders, the city’s socialist mayor, and for whatever reason, he wants to talk about drugs.

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much more at link including clips of Bernie TV

My daughter on the Today Show re: Caitlin Coleman

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Wednesday December 21, 2016 · 12:51 PM PST

2016/12/21 · 12:51

Caitlin_Coleman's_Family.jpeg — Caitlin's Family

Caitlin Coleman on NBC Today Show

Caitlin Coleman and her family have been held by the Taliban for years. Caitlin is a friend of my daughter Holly who has written about her plight in more detail here:

Holly's Previous story about Caitlin Coleman: When the Taliban Takes the Girl Next Door
Read more at www.phillymag.com/...

Please call your congress people and the White House. And please join me in holding out hope for her family.

Peaceful Resistance is not only for the Poor & Powerless

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Thursday November 10, 2016 · 6:20 PM PST

2016/11/10 · 18:20

BOSTON, MA - NOVEMBER 09: Thousands gather in the Boston Common to protest the election of Donald Trump on November 9, 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts. Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in an upset to become the 45th president. (Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

Tonight many of my American brothers and sisters, all over our great nation, are gathering in peaceful protest against the denial of the will of the people in choosing our next President of the United States of America.

They will be following in the footsteps of giants of history such as Gandhi and King and their followers. Let there be no mistake, their purpose and actions are no less vital or courageous as those great leaders. These people are quite possibly risking their personal freedom and safety to stand up in the face of both power and the threat of the same laws and traditions that have kept our nation from fully accepting the wonder of democracy since it’s inception.

Now, let us all be as brave in resisting even our own beloved President Obama for not using that same power of peaceful resistance by meeting with and talking to Trump. It is quite difficult for me to say that the man I volunteer work to elect twice, has not done the only decent thing an American can do in the face of such a threat to our quite bare threads of democracy. That is to lie down and be be silent. Giving not support or moving in the face of a gathering power.

There is no greater power than peaceful resistance, there is no excuse for all our Democratic Party leaders to not use that power in confronting those who dare to question our rights as full citizens regardless of sex, race or religion. Trump and his guiltless supporters are a threat to our hard-fought rights, and the future of our nation. All of us need to stand united in resistance to this clear and imminent threat.

My Daughter's View in Philly Magazine of Trump Supporters

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Saturday July 23, 2016 · 9:26 AM PDT

2016/07/23 · 09:26

I thought my fellow Kossocks might find this Philadelphia Magazine article, about Trump supporters in our PA hometown, interesting. I did not know if is ok for me to use their pic in the article so I added a pic of my daughter the writer, Holly Otterbein, www.phillymag.com/... instead. Here is a snippet:

www.phillymag.com/...

Black Lives Matter comes up a lot when I talk to Trump supporters. Sometimes, the racism toward the movement is overt. “Blacks are blacks,” Edwards says. “They’re gonna fight over anything. They’ll fight over what time of day it is. ‘Oh my God, let’s have a riot, it’s four o’clock!’ Look what they did to Baltimore. Tear up the city they live in. Over what?” Like Nadolny, Edwards says she supports Trump because “something’s gotta be done about them [undocumented immigrants] … they’re just everywhere!”

Read more at www.phillymag.com/...

"Crosstown Traffic" Enforcement

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Wednesday July 22, 2015 · 9:48 PM PDT

2015/07/22 · 21:48

(With all apologies to Jimi Hendrix)

If you have driven for even a short time, you may have received a warning, or even a ticket, for a traffic violation. Sometimes the ticket is for a petty but expensive reason. Like the $100 ticket I got in DC for parking at 9:25 am in a no parking zone that was in effect until only five minutes later at 9:30 am. Or if you drive like me, the ticket I received for going 70 in a 55 mph zone.

Even if the ticket was for a petty reason, or a fairly reasonable ticket like the one I got for going 15 mph over the limit, I think I may know what you were thinking when the cop pulled you over. And, although I may be wrong for presuming this, maybe the same thought, Sandra Bland was thinking when she was pulled over in Texas.

Please join me under the fold for where I'm going with this...

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Thursday April 23, 2015 · 6:06 PM PDT

2015/04/23 · 18:06

I just posted the following to my face book page. Let me know how you it might go over with Uncle Righty!

I just don't get it. It's a-Ok if you are actually sitting VP and your company, like Halliburton, makes a Midas touch killing of at least billions in stone-cold gold to the entire mid-east of our precious earth in an needless invasion in which at least 2000 brave Americans, and at least hundreds of thousands of others, died for absolutely nothing. That is ok? But if you just start a run for pres and your family has a charity that actually helps people; something must already be wrong?

My daughter on MSNBC last night Re: Penn State Frat UPDATE: & on the TODAY SHOW this morning!!

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Wednesday March 18, 2015 · 9:19 PM PDT

2015/03/18 · 21:19

Needless to say I'm a very proud D-Kos Dad tonight!!!! Please check below the squiggle for my daughter's, Holly Otterbein who reports for Philadelphia Magazine, interview on the Last Word tonight! Also, she will be on the Today Show tomorrow morning. You can be sure I'll post that too!!! Those Penn State frat boy-creeps need to answer to a tough reporter like her!

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Monday November 03, 2014 · 8:48 PM PST

2014/11/03 · 20:48

The night before the election, all of the pundits are predicting that the GOP will take over the US Senate tomorrow. The latest polls are showing a close but leaning GOP takeover to be decided, if not by Wed. morning, then at least by January.

Think about those last five words; "then at least by January."

Jump with me, and follow my thoughts over the hump...

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The Elbow Bump Time is Now

Anyone Ever Seen Cocaine?’ What We Found in the Archives of Bernie Sanders’s Long-Lost TV Show.

My daughter on the Today Show re: Caitlin Coleman

Peaceful Resistance is not only for the Poor & Powerless

My Daughter's View in Philly Magazine of Trump Supporters

"Crosstown Traffic" Enforcement

WARNING: Spontaneous HILLARY RANT!

My daughter on MSNBC last night Re: Penn State Frat UPDATE: & on the TODAY SHOW this morning!!

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