Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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Thursday May 11, 2017 · 11:13 PM PDT

2017/05/11 · 23:13

We need Democrats like this in Washington right now!

“Just get up off the ground, that's all I ask. Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something. And you won't just see scenery; you'll see the whole parade of what Man's carved out for himself, after centuries of fighting. Fighting for something better than just jungle law, fighting so's he can stand on his own two feet, free and decent, like he was created, no matter what his race, color, or creed. That's what you'd see. There's no place out there for graft, or greed, or lies, or compromise with human liberties. And, uh, if that's what the grownups have done with this world that was given to them, then we'd better get those boys' camps started fast and see what the kids can do. And it's not too late, because this country is bigger than the Taylors, or you, or me, or anything else. Great principles don't get lost once they come to light. They're right here; you just have to see them again!

I guess this is just another lost cause Mr. Paine. All you people don't know about lost causes. Mr. Paine does. He said once they were the only causes worth fighting for and he fought for them once. For the only reason any man ever fights for them. Because of just one plain simple rule. Love thy neighbor. And in this world today of great hatred a man who knows that rule has a great trust. You know that rule Mr. Paine and I loved you for it just as my father did. And you know that you fight harder for the lost causes than for any others. Yes you'd even die for them. Like a man we both knew Mr. Paine. You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well I'm not licked. And I'm gonna stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these. And the Taylors and all their armies come marching into this place. Somebody will listen to me.”

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Hey, Baby Boomers, evidently we f*cked up!

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Friday March 03, 2017 · 12:56 AM PST

2017/03/03 · 00:56

It appears somewhere along the line, we went from “All we are saying, is give peace a chance” to… “well, Reagan and cronies understand the universe”…

To Bush.

To Trump.

We should have stopped this nefarious movement.

We didn’t.

Perhaps we were too busy sucking the marrow out of life.

Praising the beauty of our natural universe.

Or just plain getting loaded and having sex.

Whatever.

Here’s the deal. We thought Nixon was Satan. This dude Trump… a billion times worse.

We cannot leave this monstrous mess to our kids… or our kids’ kids… to clean up.

We have to get off our asses and resist.

Yeah, you remember that.

Vietnam War. Feminist movement. Civil Rights movement.

Our activism contributed to societal change.

What can we Ol’ Farts do now?

VOTE!

Local elections. County elections. State-wide elections. National elections.

MARCH!

Handy guide here.

It appears that a whole bunch of us stopped getting high and got sucked in by Dark Forces.

We embrace The Other.

They demonize them as It.

We believe in Hope.

They believe in Hate.

We embrace the Power of Love.

They embrace the Power of Power.

My friends, this is a most NOT groovy situation.

This bull shit cannot stand.

It is the antithesis of what we were — and I hope to God are still — about.

Peace. Love. Understanding.

So a call to all Baby Boomers.

Time to stand up.

Time to be who we were… and still are.

Time to be a volunteer for America.

Jefferson Airplane: Woodstock ‘69

Hillary runs for President... of her high school class

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Tuesday October 11, 2016 · 10:59 AM PDT

2016/10/11 · 10:59

That’s the premise behind a new Lifetime web series “The Young Hillary Diaries”. From Entertainment Weekly:

In the webseries, created by Mandy Fabian, Jessica Cabot, Celia Blundo, and Tyler Bourdeau, young Hillary faces plenty of opposition and doubt from her classmates, including her rival — the curiously named Ronald Stump, who tells her at one point: “Hey dummy. Is there anything else you can do with you time? Get a real job — in the home!”

That’s not enough to deter Hillary (played by Cabot): “I’ve been told I need to smile more and act more ladylike,” she says in the trailer. “I’ll act like every other woman in history who was told they couldn’t do it because it’s never been done.”

Here is a link to the series trailer.

This has been a brutal election year. This series looks to be a way to raise a few smiles until Election Day.

Transforming Dragons

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Sunday July 17, 2016 · 11:43 AM PDT

2016/07/17 · 11:43

"We have no reason to distrust our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors. If it has an abyss, it is ours. If dangers are there, we must try to love them. And if we would live with faith in the value of what is challenging, then what now appears to us as most alien will become our truest, most trustworthy friend. Let us not forget the ancient myths at the outset of humanity's journey, the myths about dragons that at the last moment transform into princesses. Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act just once with beauty and courage. Perhaps every terror is, in its deepest essence, something that needs our recognition or help."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (August 12, 1904)

GOP Sen. Christi-Ann McRighty taunts Dems in song

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Friday October 09, 2009 · 10:22 PM PDT

2009/10/09 · 22:22

Who is this singing wingnut in Congress taunting the Democrats re health care? Why it's none other than Republican Senator "Christi-Ann McRighty" - who shares her musical healthcare reform message for Democrat Senators and Congressmen who seem to have checked their cojones at the door.

Head to the flip side to hear the song you don't want to hear!!!

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 8:50 AM PDT

2008/09/30 · 08:50

Get a phone call at work from my 8 year-old son Luke yesterday.

"Hey, Dad, guess what I'm doing with my spending money?"
"Getting a videogame?"
"Nope, I'm giving it to Barack Obama."

The whole story and the letter Luke wrote to Obama below.

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Wednesday July 05, 2006 · 7:08 PM PDT

2006/07/05 · 19:08

I have a business associate who occsionally sends me right-wing posts which wind their way around the Internet. This letter, which is purported to be written by a woman in Atlanta to a "family member serving in Iraq", goes a long way, I think, in explaining why many on the right don't feel the outrage we do with the mess in Iraq - and likely never will.

WHAT'S ALL THE FUSS?
Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001.
Were people from all over the world, mostly Americans, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan, across the Potomac from our nation's capitol and in a field in Pennsylvania? Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn't they?
And I'm supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was "desecrated" when an overworked American soldier kicked it or got it wet? Well, I don't. I don't care at all.

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Hey, Baby Boomers, evidently we f*cked up!

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GOP Sen. Christi-Ann McRighty taunts Dems in song

Our 8 year-old son gives $53 to Obama

"I Don't Care": Right-wing letter making the email rounds