Women's March has permit. It's ON

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Thursday December 15, 2016 · 10:11 AM PST

2016/12/15 · 10:11

To everyone who said, “I’m going to wait until they have a permit”, here you go:

D.C. police confirmed Thursday morning that it issued a permit for the Women’s March on Washington to gather for what is expected to be the largest demonstration around the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.

The Washington Post article has a few more details.

What you see above is the official logo of the movement.

It’s a diverse group of women, standing together and ready to speak.

You can follow the movement on twitter @womensmarch, and you can help promote it by using #WhyIMarch

HEAR OUR VOICE

The Women's March on Washington is ON! (Updated to add recent PBS News Hour link)

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Monday December 12, 2016 · 7:39 AM PST

2016/12/12 · 07:39

The Women’s March on Washington is ON! It was never off. It was never blocked. The organizers had to go through the same hoops as everyone else. Yes, the Presidential Inaugural Committee had been granted a block reservation for most of the National Mall. That happens every four years, no matter who is elected.

The Women’s March on Washington will be marching to represent all those who have felt offended and demonized by the rhetoric of the past election cycle and they will be marching to make a statement that we will stand together in solidarity, recognizing that an attack against one of us is an attack against all of us.

Come March with Us on January 21, 2017 in Washington!

“The Women’s March on Washington, which is scheduled for the day after the Jan. 20 inauguration, plans to start its rally at Independence Avenue and Third Street SW, in front of the Capitol. From there, demonstrators will march west along Independence, although organizers said that they have yet to determine an official route.

“Ultimately we want to have the attention focused on Congress and lifting up our concerns to them,” said Janaye Ingram, the head of logistics for the Women’s March on Washington, adding that organizers are also committed to sending their message of women’s equality to all levels and branches of government. She said that she thinks the group has identified a “valid, workable route.”

www.washingtonpost.com/...

There are enough dangerous political actions being taken by the President-elect without making stuff up. Let’s keep our eye on the ball…and Hear Our Voice.

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Friday November 16, 2012 · 4:03 PM PST

2012/11/16 · 16:03

I'm trying to truly understand the right wing bubble, and so I do a bit of lurking over at RedState and Free Republic. Daily, it is a trip through the looking glass...reality is really warped over there. So, it was more than a bit refreshing to read as they complained about real world customer service and not getting the product they paid for or getting the product too late to be useful. The products were Mitt Romney election materials, such as yard signs and bumper stickers. Romney/Ryan, Inc. can't seem to even run a decent mail order business.

Glock the Vote (lovely moniker) started things off:

A caller into Hannity today said he ordered a bunch of things off of Mitt Romney.com before the election and did not get everything he ordered and then only got a bumper sticker the week before the election.
Funny thing is that this happened to me too. I ordered 4 bumper stickers and 2 yard signs.

The yard signs were not cheap, I think $15.00 each. My local area had nothing at all being in NYC area.

The bumper stickers came after about 1.5 months but I never got the yard signs.

This supporter's experience was not an isolated incident:

What if they never intended to send them out?
The more I see of how poorly run the internals of this campaign was I almost think it was on purpose.

Further evidence that Romney had idiots working for him... Campaign materials not delivered (materials that people PAID FOR), polling software that never worked right, disorganized campaign offices...

Romneys’ stuff was expensive and it came horrifically late or not at all and I am seeing I am not the only one w that.
How could someone running for 6 years be so incompetent? I am trying to understand this.

And my personal favorite:

My yard sign shipped the day after the election. The email confirmation was like an extra punch in the gut.
I sent a reply for them to keep it since it was no longer needed or wanted but they must have ignored that message too.
I ordered the sign 6 weeks earlier.

Under the leadership of the businessman who believed he could save us all, the campaign couldn't even perform on the level of someone doing business on Etsy or Ebay. I know what I need to do if I want to get five bucks for a book. Romney et al couldn't even master that.

I'll leave you with this:

You know what - if he ran his office like he did the internals of the campaign - his presidency would have been a c moplete disaster as well.

You know, I agree with this freeper. I guess there is a place we can come to a mutual understanding.

New IA Poll Obama up by 5

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Saturday November 03, 2012 · 5:14 PM PDT

2012/11/03 · 17:14

Just published on their website, the DesMoines Register states:

Iowans are feeling more optimistic about where the nation is headed, and they’re giving President Barack Obama the credit.

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Thursday March 25, 2010 · 6:10 PM PDT

2010/03/25 · 18:10

Chet Edwards of TX may have voted against Health Care Reform but that doesn't mean he isn't working for the Democrats AND the well-being of all our citizens, especially including our veterans.

Edwards is Chair of the House Military Construction and Military Affairs Appropriations subcommittee and he took offense when the VFW came out and said that the Democrats had betrayed veterans because of language not included in the health care law--it feels really good to type "law." He let the representative from the VFW know exactly how he felt. I don't want Chet Edwards ever to be angry with me.

Find the tongue lashing and more below the fold.

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Thursday October 16, 2008 · 9:10 AM PDT

2008/10/16 · 09:10

The distinctions between Barack Obama and John McCain come into clear focus when you look at how their campaigns target their messages to women. Their actions in this venue reflect upon their age and upbringing, political philosophies, and ability to "get it."

Let's start with something that is out of the candidate's hands: their ages. McCain was born in the 1930s (as was my Mom). The age when you really start to understand the society around you is in your mid to late teens. In our history, this was the time when our country was struggling over women's intial foray into the workplace (WWII). When the soldiers came home, they wanted things to be they way they always had been. They wanted their wives and mothers at home. Many of the wives and mothers, perhaps to their own surprise, enjoyed being in the workplace. (I say "in the workplace" because we know they were working even when they were at home.) John McCain is a product of a past time.

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Thursday October 09, 2008 · 8:03 AM PDT

2008/10/09 · 08:03

Despite the natural wealth of the state of Alaska, many of its National Guard troops face obstacles upon returning home, even the health care they are entitled to is often out of reach. These problems are the focus of an article in today's Anchorage Daily News.

This analysis is in a report by Veterans for America.

But that's just one of several problems now facing Alaskans who were part of the U.S.-wide call to send Army National Guard troops into battle, according to the year-long study.

Job prospects for troops returning to villages are sometimes grim. And screening for mental health problems is still lacking for the 575 soldiers in the 3rd Battalion, 297th Regiment, who spent a year in northern Kuwait and southern Iraq from 2006 to 2007.

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Friday September 26, 2008 · 3:53 PM PDT

2008/09/26 · 15:53

Okay, I know this is not going to be a great diary, but I was wondering what Rush had to say about the Sarah Palin interview. How could he spin that? Well, he spun it by not talking about it. In fact, based on transcripts, he is talking about Palin A LOT less these days. So, we can guess the Sean Hannity type of adoration he bestows, but it is really interesting to see how he responded to a very accurate caller.

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Sunday September 21, 2008 · 3:28 PM PDT

2008/09/21 · 15:28

Overall, the poll showed the presidential race in a statistical tie, with 47 percent of likely voters backing McCain and 45 percent backing Obama.

For Republican John McCain, the good news is that his selection of Sarah Palin, the charismatic, fresh-faced governor of Alaska, shored up his support among evangelical voters — a key part of the Republican base who had been lukewarm about McCain — as well as men and older women.

But a new St. Petersburg Times/Bay New 9/Miami Herald poll also found that Palin has not brought the bounce among women overall that many Republican analysts had predicted for McCain. Both candidates also lost some support due to their picks, the poll found, but not enough to offset the gains.

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Saturday September 20, 2008 · 7:44 AM PDT

2008/09/20 · 07:44

I found this in Paul Krugman's blog. In the September/October Issue of Contingencies, the magazine of American Academy of Actuaries, McCain recommends the country do with healthcare what has been done with banking.

Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.

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Tuesday September 16, 2008 · 10:06 AM PDT

2008/09/16 · 10:06

"This is a result of excess and greed and corruption. And that's exactly what is plaguing Americans today. And we got to fix it and we've got to update our regulatory system."

This is what McCain said on Morning Joe this morning, but what should we expect from him?

Well, in his own words,

I am a fundamentally a deregulator. I'd like to see a lot of the unnecessary government regulations eliminated, not just a moratorium.

I've thought more on the area of deregulation rather than a moratorium.

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Sunday September 14, 2008 · 9:50 AM PDT

2008/09/14 · 09:50

Army Times: Your online source for all things Army published an article Sunday entitled "McCain on FCS: Flip-flop or Fib?" FCS stands for future combat systems. McCain apparently criticized Obama at a rally in Lee's Summit, MO for saying that Obama would "slow our development of future combat systems." McCain responded "This is not the time to slow down our development of future combat systems."

This doesn't sound too good for Obama, but follow me.

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