The Ad Is Getting Play

I shot this segment a few weeks ago: it was too tempting to check in with the campaign just up the road from where my husband was hospitalized. The Campaign was running a tab at the Oakmont Bakery (which is awesome) and I knew if I got there by 7:00 a.m. I could get a cup of great coffee, film my segment and take Mark a jelly doughnut.

I was so pissed at Jason - who held out to the very end with his Super Delegate vote in 2008 but when Nancy Pelosi's PAC gave him $12,000 for his re-election bid, he voted for the poser. At a seminar on grant writing Jason sponsored last Summer, I had the opportunity to tell Jason to his face how I felt. Then, looking into his earnest eyes, I said; "But I'm over it." and he said; "Good." We smiled at each other and moved on. But I'm not over what the DNC did to Hillary and neither are MOST of the Women who supported her. They went to the polls last November and elected ALL Republican Women to Judicial Bench positions and showed the "No Gentlemen" Democratic Party their most lady-like middle finger. And William DeJean: You Made My Weekend! The person who SHOULD have been on the ballot... as I told my friend, Billy Jean Kling at http://www.free-us-now.com/ The Majority United; "Bill's keeping that bad taste of South Carolina in his mouth, playing nice just enough to foster trust...just like Snape did right up to the moment he caste the Avada Kedavra curse on Dumbledorf!" :)

As Bad As "Mission Accomplished."

I'm viewing the Restore Honor rally on the Web thanks to the link from Team Sara, and with little better to do check my email while I listen to the story of the Widow's Mite. From the D.C.C.C. I get a typical fund-raising appeal signed and sent yesterday by James Carvill. In it he writes:

Ann --
Fight Back
I can almost hear Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin howling at the moon.
Just 24-hours from now, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin will peddle hate and fear to Tea Party nut jobs vowing to take "their" country back to the days of George W. Bush.
You can bet Beck and Palin'll claim tomorrow's freak show means that their wingnut movement has all the momentum going into election season. We can't let these wackjobs win.

"Feed the dawg underneath the table." by Gawd, the man who "didn't deserve to be there" and I hear the preacher thanking us for hearing him. Thank you, Thank you.

Jim: I love your Spirit, but c'mon, you owe us all an apology. Get free of the progressive guys too young to unnerstan' this truth: "It AIN'T YOUR TIME!!" You owe it to Women to just stfu. Sara Palin knows more about voters than you. She accepts the men of the Democratic Party who equate money with power. The

wackjobs

have won, Jim. Eat it.

"Men, their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less."

Wow! Years of attempts by the ethereal guidance reaching toward me to anchor 'Anthony' as a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement for Women finally ... FINALLY ... connects. I have puzzled at the connected EYEAR buzz that magnetizes my attention to it and only now, reading her masthead, do I "get it." Thank you, Sisters, for a nice sale of Pirate Tickets some twenty years ago. Although I feel stupid for a moment, association think of my brother, my saint, obscures and re-levels me.

It's not just about women, it's about Publishers' Responsibility, Balance and Equality. I won't b.s. my argument by selling the high-minded notion only to flip on supporters to divide the beneficiaries by elevating one group above all others. In reading Susan B's Bio Wiki, my pulse quickly raises by the note that Frederick Douglas, with whom Anthony advanced the cause of equal rights for BOTH women and blacks, readily threw over his female supporter when the opportunity to break through arrived. Union Activists know that half the loaf, offered to some members, or partial benefits is the step that shows "final lap" flags. Only a coward leaves his earliest redeemers and supporters behind to enjoy freedom while those who PARTNERED WITH HIM, providing opportunity to take his very first step on the path to that Freedom are callously discarded for the Siren. In 1863, Lucy Stone and Susan B launched The Woman's National Loyal League with other Womens' Rights Activists to advocate for the passage the 13th Amendment to the Constitution to abolish Slavery. These brave women stood up to the economic concerns of the men of the country to do the right thing. As President Kennedy learned in his study of courage, the right thing to do ALWAYS turns out to be the politically right thing to do. How black men failed to recognize this fact is a story for study. {Miss Melie, smile me through this temptation to anger and permit your Scarlets to make a killing off this choice.} http://www.facebook.com/restoringhonor on deck.



"What a dreadful creature their God must be to keep sending hungry mouths while he withholds the bread to fill them!"

Resist Works Both Ways

As the Labor Day Weekend approaches, we'll get the kids off to school and reacquaint ourselves with life beyond our own back yards. The first family has given all of us a vacation from them, and with all due respect, it's a relief. Having expressed himself about the Mosque Resisters prior to signing off, he leaves the world focused on how America goes about resolving the differences between those whose feelings must be respected and those whose "rights" demand same. We all learned during the 2008 Primaries that even when the numbers are there to support the rights, a little "heavy" on the feelings side of the scale can plunge it into dips and lurches that threaten the Balance. 18 million Primary Voters couldn't stop the “know better politicians” from self-righteously judging their own Voters, calling them racists.

I keep recalling the way Senators Byrd & Rockerfeller stepped all over Hillary Clinton’s Primary Victory with the middle finger to their constituents as their immediate response to their Senate Colleague of eight years whose husband's Administration put them on the map, with an endorsement of her opponent, a freshman. When the VOTERS of Kentucky delivered the same message to the DNC, the party HEAVYWEIGHTS came out and stomped out the voters’ fire with an endorsement of John Edwards for the “raised by Muslim fathers, educated in Muslim Jakarta, One” and we know how that played out.

The racist name-calling abuses the feelings of those victims' families who rightfully resist the construction of a mighty Bird in the air around Ground Zero. The Middle Finger to America, not the Eagle rising above it, is proposed, and folks - rightfully - resist. The Black Caucus & Progressives hijacked the Democratic Party with ruthlessness and cynical "ends justify the means" behavior. It leaves a bad taste. Muslims want us to simply forget the be-headings, stoning as punishment for living free, all the horrific deeds done in the name of religion gone berserk. An impatient, selfish, agenda-driven bogus collective calling themselves "leaders," are intent on raising the flag of our enemies over the ashes of our lost American innocence. It is an oxymoron for politicians to judge their own Voters, to call them haters.

Forgive us for recognizing self-serving politicians for what they are. While the poser lives it up in Martha’s Vineyard, the jobs we've been losing at a record pace since his election are ignored by the race-baiting, holier than thou finger-pointers. He made all kinds of promises to get our hopes up. We helped him along by permitting the Democrats to control all three branches of Government PLUS the Fourth Estate. We continue to give him every possible chance to prove his sincerity, integrity, competence. Yet we also await DELIVERY. No promise kept, we get only rationalizing for the flip on every major point... and a lecture on how Un-American it is to complain.

Americans – however driven to “hateful” outbursts, must be forgiven for rejecting the Democrats and their BO – as unworthy of yet another chance to take them to the cleaners. Get a real job. Get YOUR ass kicked, lose YOUR house, YOU suffer disrespectful accusations that you’re un-American!

And when you’re gloating over misleading foolish college kids and inner city blacks into electing you based on HOPE, the rest of us will get back to reality. Kick the Hope and discover that Change means doing as you promised and if it’s ok for YOU to resist every attempt by decent people to stand up for themselves, it’s also OK for Decent People to tell you and your miserable excuses for leaders to take the hike you heretofore thought only applied to our taxes.

What the Mosque Resisters have learned is that no matter how Civilized their behavior might be, the President PLAYS on their integrity right up to the moment he goes HEAVYWEIGHT on them and becomes the thug from Chicago we always rejected. Preach, Preach, ... yeah, yeah. Talk to the butt you can kiss, pal. We've seen this routine and know your M.O. Preach, Preach, bully, intimidate, "Inspire" us with lofty rhetoric, then crap on us with a maneuver that ignores our input and feathers your own nest. If we don't get in the game and shove back, we'll get our civil asses kicked again, and have to eat the sight of that Mosque until somebody blows it up. Save the baloney for somebody who doesn't know you, your cronies, and your Taliban Lite Progressive punk Press.

Main Stream Wisdom

Observing "Objectively"; the wannabe mainstream MSNBC is a refuge for the utterly un-sellable Jon Meacham, and "glamor" pics of Mika posing as a FOX News Babe on the streets of NYC and DC.  I don't give the other shows on that network much 'ear' except for Dylan Ratigan's.  "Way Too Early" - hosted by Nora O'Donnel in for Willie Geist - was consumed by the numbers on how many CITIZENS are increasingly coming to recognize that, based on his general demeanor, comment and choices, the Occupant of the Oval Office comes off more as a Muslim than as a Christian.  The wannabe mainstream felt it incumbent upon them to state that the percentage of Americans MISTAKENLY believe their own eyes, ears and hearts....

While Curvy Couch crew mates invite viewers to suggest which Opposite Sex Celebrity they resemble in an amusing take-off from a high school yearbook photo of Anthony Weiner looking like Jennifer Gray. Nobody puts Anthony Weiner in the corner

Martha's Vineyard is "Over It" with the 1st Family's vacation choice.  Massachusetts - whose voters overwhelmingly register "Independent" rejecting mail from either political party calling them "fellow" anything - are sipping the Obama Mocha (half dark, half white chocolate)  Proving it's only fun when we're all having fun.   When the Obama Family can't take it anymore, they Vacate the big White House they were so hellbent to occupy.  Dismissing his contentious collective of media supporters, most Americans are done with the political correctness and take a sober review of results.  When in the ditch, as the result of your own ineptitude; laugh.  That learning curve extends to driving skills, as well.  We've moved on from complaining that the DNC conspired to triangulate a woman out of an earned nomination.  Newly franchised voters were tricked into handing their Country over to an unproven, untested, and now we see, incredible creep who needs the Fourth Estate to represent his Christianity because, by his "fruits" we don't know him to be so.

This isn't FUN!  "We told you so."  isn't fun when we're driven nuts by the dismissive, Agenda-driven administration.  We now know that Carolyne Kennedy cut her political teeth proclaiming that her kids convinced her to endorse Obama ... protected from Patrick Fitzgerald's preemptive Crime Stoppage because NEW YORK's Senate Seat wasn't yet vacated ... any attempt to restore Hillary Clinton's office to the rightful owners, the Kennedys, was foiled by "See No Evil" Governor Patterson.  Turning the worm, not in itself fun, will have to do for now.

The lowest paid people in any organization; Customer Service Representatives, are trained to LISTEN to their customers.  Your kids - unaware of inherent danger in every day life are cautioned to LISTEN to their Parents.  Pollsters attempting to phrase their questions in such a way as to make their numbers seem credible are expected to LISTEN to the Likely Voters.  Here's a clue, Mr. "President," WE ARE LISTENING TO YOU!!!  We no longer deceive ourselves with the expectation of reciprocal respect. We hear what You are saying, we hear what your supporters are saying, and we hear the tone, the underlying consistency and general foolishness of your approach.  The inner ear that keeps us in balance delivers our next choice.  You simply do not convey a Christian Quality to your day in, day out DO.  Like it or not, what the majority of AMERICANS are getting from your body of work is that you agitate for Charity; a cruel, preachy mobster rationalizing turning every political trick his way while chastising the rest of us for believing Charity begins at home.  We add it all up and it just doesn't add up.  You may have joined a trendy, numbers-crunching Chicago Church while everybody was doing so, but Christians didn't see Christianity in the Trinity United Church of Christ.  They saw pandering to the anger, resentment, jealousy and misogyny of black folks.  They saw Oprah announce - after first putting the church on her "Must Do" list, that she was moving on. What we SEE is a group of Pharisees obsessed with the notion that money, academia and wealth substantiate.  Christ taught that ostentatious displays of wealth are hollow proof that there is nothing on the inside.  Christ taught to leave the judging to the Father.  Yet Obama, in the most un-Christian fashion, repeatedly takes to the Pulpit for the specific purpose of bullying, delivering premature negative review and "Not Your Call" Judgment critical of the American Way.

Ask a few "fallen" Catholics why they stopped going to church.  They'll respond that they got tired of the Pastor always crying for money during the sermons that were supposed to be instructional.  They resented the Males Only hierarchy.  They objected to the abuse of trust and of their children.  Women took heart in the fact that Christ's FIRST MIRACLE, at the behest of his honored Mother, Mary, was to turn water into wine for a wedding celebration they all attended.  For a PARTY.  Feed them. Celebrate the vows of two young people putting their faith in the future and about to begin a new family.  Understand need for dignity.  OK?

For a guy who can snap his fingers and raise millions of dollars to campaign, we are troubled that he then uses the resources of the Poor to pick partisan fights, burnish his own image in a "dis Americans" campaign, and drive the ditched Economy into oblivion.  The Christians in us have specific criteria for evaluating a fellow Christian, a person with whom we can work, and share mutual trust.  We accept him, we forgive him, we pray for him, because we are Christians.   But we cannot preserve him in a position of trust and leadership, because we know better.  We know in our hearts.  Many of us Christians err in practice.  Despite the lauded Evangelicals' endorsement, George Bush finally showed how tough it is to stay on that path.  Mercy, in the end, is the mark of the Christian.  The President has to do what he has to do.  The spin about his religious conviction is irrelevant.   We let him get elected.  We tried our best to practice our own Spiritual Ethic and found that lots of politicians weren't what they pretended to be.  John Edwards comes to mind.

We accept the IS.  We take responsibility for our own choices, and leave him to follow his own path.  But we don't have to follow him.  Our own sense of balance leads us.  We personally choose, according to inner guides.  We understand Duty.  We are realistic about work and earning a living.  We are generous, grateful and merciful.  We hear you "doth protest too much."

"...do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me."  Hamlet

We see that you haven't a clue about our strength.  You focus on our weaknesses and bring out our fears.  You're the only one having fun.  Your day has passed.  We're fixin' to fight for the right to party.  And it's tea we're brewin'.

W's Makeover - a waking dream

I was telling him that it was a righteous makeover he had undergone, and the highlights (blond tipped hair) was an especially nice touch.  "What: no visible tattoos?"  And he looked at me with a blank, but piercing, stare.  Then, I woke up.

Can You WH Hackers Show Some Basic Business Acumen?

Where do you guys work?  Have any of you mastered discipline to complete a thought?  From here it looks like you end your day at 4:55 P.M. and head for the watering hole where you Zee Out your brain.  Any train of thought you were processing in an attempt to accomplish some legitimate work goes off the rails for the day.  Come morning you wake up, congratulate yourself for one more day in the plum and start wherever your boss's marginal awareness of his responsibility takes you. 

Does he think we're all suffering from Alzheimer?   Unlike his late Gramma, who indulged him unquestion-abling, SOME of us carry a thought from day to day and expect it to match up.  Constitutional Right today is the readily dismissed American yesterday.  A Muslim has the right to creep us out with the middle finger mosque, but the Palin family has no right to express rejection of a dismissive attitude towards American's rights to expect their borders defended, their elected representatives to listen to them and the workforce's rights to demand the dilettante keep his mitts off their hard earned economy. 

Because We Enjoy The Challenge Of Government.

"The simple fact is this building is private property, and the owners have a right to use the building as a house of worship," Bloomberg said. "The government has no right whatsoever to deny that right."

That's what the Country Club set said when the Blacks, Women, Jews, Irish and their ilk wanted to exercise their rights to opportunity.  It really frosts me that the Democratic Party, whose "credo" was revised in 2007, has no time for the very things it proclaimed were their reason for governing.  According to them:  http://www.springfield-democrats.org/credo

Why We Are Democrats

From The Charter & The Bylaws of the Democratic Party of the United States, as amended by the Democratic National Committee, February 3, 2007:
Section 17. Democratic Party Credo.

We Democrats are the oldest political party in America and the youngest in spirit. We will remain so, because we enjoy the challenge of government.
Time and again, for almost two centuries, the Democratic Party has made government work -- to build and defend a nation, to encourage commerce, to educate our children, to promote equal opportunity, to advance science and industry, to support the arts and humanities, to restore the land, to develop and conserve our human and natural resources, to preserve and enhance our built environment, to relieve poverty, to explore space. We have reached difficult and vital goals.
We recognize that the capacity of government is limited but we regard democratic government as a force for good and a source of hope.
At the heart of our party lies a fundamental conviction, that Americans must not only be free, but they must live in a fair society.
We believe it is the responsibility of government to help us achieve this fair society.

• A society where the elderly and the disabled can lead lives of dignity and where Social Security remains an unshakable commitment;
• A society where all people can find jobs in a growing full-employment economy;
• A society where all workers are guaranteed without question the legal right to join unions of their own choosing and to bargain collectively for decent wages and conditions of employment;
• A society where taxes are clearly based on ability to pay;
• A society where the equal rights of women are guaranteed in the Constitution;
• A society where the civil rights of minorities are fully secured and where no one is denied the opportunity for a better life;
• A society where both public and private discrimination based upon race, sex, age, color, creed, national origin, religion, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, economic status, philosophical persuasion or physical disability are condemned and where our government moves aggressively to end such discrimination through lawful means;
• A society where we recognize that the strengthening of the family and the protection of children are essential to the health of the nation;
• A society where a sound education, proper nutrition, quality medical care, affordable housing, safe streets and a healthy environment are possible for every citizen;
• A society where the livelihoods of our family farmers are as stable as the values they instill in the American character;
• A society where a strong national defense is a common effort, where promoting human rights is a basic value of our foreign policy, and where we ensure that future by ending the nuclear arms race.

This is our purpose and our promise.  

So, WHY aren't these things happening?  Why can't these guys do what they SAY they are organized to DO?  The President is WAY more about his black half, his Muslim persuasion, than he'll ever be about being an American.  

Psssst!!! White House:  When we say we enjoy the challenge, it means we take responsibility, not we blame Bush.  We relish the hard work and the sight of us getting it done wins the polls. 

Listen, Good Listener, Listen Up!

What is up with all these guys up for appointment to some flappy job the Presidency can pass out, that they all give a post-appointment interview hailing Obama as a good listener?

Big EARS?  Quite.  Does he give any indication that he USES them to hear?  No.  Goodness, no.  If we had a single complaint, from the 2008 Primary Campaign until today, the entire Administration, led by Dumbo, doesn't listen to the people...  He/they absolutely dismiss - without consideration - any idea but their own Agenda.  Zero listening, Minus response except to call "Racist."  Their failure to recognize and respond appropriately flags their lack of survival instinct.  The one good thing about it is that the entire clump of Tribbles will be rid from the Ship Of State by their natural enemy: Enterprise.

Survival Instinct, carried by women, is the true "bottom line," the line John Meecham and MSNBC can't read, nor can they consider.  From what nebulous source do these fluffs believe they draw their salaries?

Women:

you rock...you get it.  It's not about the big salaries and the ego-driven status.  Remember when you chose a father for your children from among the best providers?  Those days are gone.  Now it's all YOU, Baby.  And you learn that the alternative to buying status and prestige is Just doing it.  Notice how the evaporation process works and apply it to the clown who just removed himself from everybody's radar.  This Tour is canceled, O.  The JOB is making its way to the top of the roll. 

Is Patrick Fitzgerald Just Another Chicago Mobster?

 The guy goes on TV announcing that his goons have busted into the Governor's bedroom at dawn to preempt the commission of a crime.  A perfectly legitimate election is overturned and the Mob's new President now installs his preference.  Here in the Pittsburgh area, Mary Beth Buchanan had been irritating in her pursuit of Democrats, reaching a fevered pitch with a trial intended to check Cyril Wecht into a corner.  The "People" saw no crime, no abuse of the Coroner's Office.  The US Attorney's Office is not intended to function as the tool of choice for harassing celebrities.   Fitzgerald confuses justice with fishing, expecting clerks to do the work he should be doing in preparation for the take-down.  First he blew the Valerie Plame case against Rove and Cheyney with the same "Mission Accomplished" publicity stunt. The Blago Jury now entering its third week of deliberation, is making a scandal of the Fitzgerald tactics.  The only crime is the waste of the People's resources due to his association with advisers who presume to Judge.  Come the next election, they might just have their say.   The People are not getting their money's worth from this officer of the Court.  We all take corruption in Chicago politics in stride just as evenly as we do here in SW PA.  John Murtha was permitted to be John Murtha, but his successor is running against the slacker administration quite successfully.  The People watch and know what's up.  They weigh what's in it for them and their children against what's right or wrong, and vote accordingly.  In an arena where there's plenty of questionable conduct going on at every level, they tend to go with somebody who reflects their Spirit.   Going up against somebody who manages to be decent in the face of more corruption than any one person can responsibly address isn't wise.  Doing it puts the People's morals into question, their weaknesses on display, their "way" under scrutiny.  Justice is a little bit righteous, a little bit "what we're willing to live with" to live in peace.  Disruption of the Peoples' lives in pursuit of something Justifiable, more-so than Just, is irritating.  Let the guy get back to work.  We'd rather hear the guy than the attorney.  It's us just being the People.  I mean, come on... we found Wecht's work on the Anna Nicole case and the Laci Peterson case and the Jon Benet Ramsey case more inneresting than the trial.  We all KNEW Cheyney outed Plame.  We wanted to see him squirm for high crimes against our National Security.  The Blagojeviches are as nice a family as the Obamas.  Let them live in the mansion.  We think Patti's Real Estate work is... well, ... or is it fundraising?  at least as legitimate as Michelle's Hospital Board stuff...and SHE isn't making us eat broccoli    :)

Acting On A Prompting - Send Out Cards

Ann Augustine

https://www.sendoutcards.com/aa  ... has been a real therapy and great way to connect in a meaningful way with those who have been so kind, generous and caring to me during my husband's hospitalization.  I was working with Zoe Morris on this as a sales tool to use in my Aflac business for the purpose of staying in touch, but find it a wonderful way to personalize each card, using photos and my own sentiments, while at my computer.  I don't have the added (and typically, impossible) requirement to go to a store, shop for and purchase a card, have stamps on hand and take them to the post office.  Yet, I know my cards are saying the thing I want to say.


I'm getting the hang of composing, creating and all, but the most valuable thing it affords me is a way to say "Thank you," sincerely, and immediately,

The Race Card / Devil Card

The Congressional Ethics Commission has determined that Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters have crossed a line of ethical standard for elected officers of the US House.  We continue to hear a ringing in our ears of the statements of Dan DeMarco, candidate for PA's 40th Senatorial District who expressed dismay that his Republican opponent, Jane Claire Orie, scooted about on campaign business in the impressive SUV she drove as a taxpayer's servant.  Her sister, Joan, likewise benefited from the taxpayers' involuntary largess in last November's Election Day efforts as the Senator, well-ensconced in her office, took just a bit more advantage than was reasonably fair to those interested in competitive elections.I have no problem with an incumbent's staffer spending taxpayer resources to study, learn and know the principles of ethics by which we expect our elected officials to consider their choices.  Once that public servant has enjoyed two or more terms, this code of ethical guidance should be second nature to them!  Strengthened by their acquired authority on what is and may not be ethical, these re-elected incumbents posses the credentials by which they might rise to positions of leadership within their respective parties within their respective legislative bodies. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll

Thus, when a Congressperson, who has served since 1991 (19 years in Waters' case) or since 1971 (Rangel), it is our wish, as voters having invested our power to govern in these Representatives, that those who have been elected understand the consequences of each election!  We, the Voters, have, indeed, drawn a line!

You are no longer Rookies, Freshmen, Initiates.  You are, by virtue of your seniority, Leaders - of your House, your Party, your Districts.  It is a given that you should know and by your conduct, DEFINE ethics. 

No! Everybody does NOT do it! 

In my personal experience dealing with my own local Democratic politicians, they handle the political part of their existence with absolutely above-the-line proprieties.  I never brought up State Committee business on the phone with Catherine Baker Knoll's office, Jason Altmire's office, Mark Longietti's office - for messages as simple as  needing to let them know that I had sent a State Committee document to them, that their aids didn't first direct me to their campaign, business or personal office to continue the discussion.  Not a word of such business was entertained at the taxpayer's expense, even for something as straightforward as a note of the fact that I was a fellow Democrat.  It's not hard to achieve this responsible, respectable, CONFIDENCE INFUSING practice!

On the other hand, I personally witnessed PA's 12th Legislative District Representative, Daryl Metcalfe, first inquire after the voting registration of a constituent at one of his town hall meetings before addressing a question about the certification of new voting machines.

Some of the least honorable men I have ever known, and by whom I have been most egregiously offended, routinely assert the "everybody does it" defense.  It has become the red flag in my face to alert me to the crime in progress.  Perhaps everybody YOU know does it; by articulating that fact, you are sending yourself back to the moldy, rotting piece of dead wood under which you hide.  Time for your exposure has, indeed, arrived.  The healing, curing light of day is upon you both.  It's not about race:  it's about enough is enough.

Affirmative Action

That prayer we say to begin each day, the one that affirms "love in my heart?" ... well, as dawn caste awareness in my waking soul, I was respectful enough of my Self to admit:  I begin this day with ANGER in my heart, and affirm, with faith in your love for me, that this fuel for getting it right will sustain my efforts this day as I serve the greater good.

The Clinton's daughter has wed her love, and the photos of her big day show a "mixed" marriage of traditionals.  God; bless this lovely, gentlewoman, her mother and dad and the man to whom she has pledged herself.  I met Chelsea on Smithfield Street in Pittsburgh, during the 2008 Campaign, a turning point in my political life, from which I have taken indelible memories and lessons....lessons about politics, about honest work and about Affirmative Action.

With "anger" in my heart, - a small, containable speck of it in a sea of Hope, Trust and healthy respect for Force, - I begin this 1st day of August, as Ann Augustine, who lives on Augustine Lane.  I praise the Angels and gentlepeople who "taint" my countenance with a lack of naivete.   Vincentian Nuns, my grade school educators, offered - through their Patron Saint, Catherine Laboure, a promise by the Blessed Virgin, that those who seek her protection and help will receive the appropriate grace.

I carry this seed of anger, along with the seed of Light that affirms my Divinity, in balance.

1778 -- India -- Belief in protection of the animal and plant kingdom reached its apotheosis in 1778 when 294 men and 69 women laid down their lives to protect the khejri tree. A senior officer of Jodhpur state arrived to cut down the trees, which were needed for burning lime. The first to challenge him was a woman, who hugged one of the trees and was promptly decapitated. Her three daughters followed suit and were also axed. Many others followed. This mass slaughter led to a royal order that prohibited the cutting of any tree in a Bishnoi village." To this day, Bishnoi villages are wooded oases in the otherwise harsh Rajasthan desert, where wildlife congregates in proximity to the people. The Thar region of Pakistan is adjacent to the Rajasthan desert of India. Although the Thari people are now mostly Islamic, their traditional teachings about the sanctity of life somewhat resemble those of the Bishnoi. The Sindh desert is farther west in Pakistan. The Sindhi people, related to the Thari, have similar beliefs, but are now culturally divided: Sindhis who practice Hinduism long ago migrated into the Mumbai region of India, while those who practice Islam remain in Pakistan. (M. Clifton, 2007) (Note that Guha had this event in 1720 and said that hundreds of Bishnois Hindus of Khejadali went to their deaths trying to protect trees from the Maharaja of Jodhpur, who needed wood to fuel the lime kilns for cement to build his palace.)

Professional sales, dealing with Mike Hayden and my own grandchildren have taught me an irrefutable truth:  
If it works, it's adopted. 

Force, men learn, works.  Domestic Violence, they contend, is the fault of the women who "started it."  Iranian Women, the citizens chafing under Taliban Domination, the Women of India, all understand the vibe.  Socially, we reject yet foolishly, we responded to the anger in the heart of James Clyburne, Oprah Winfrey and Jessie Jackson, Jr. to elect Barack Hussein and Michelle Obama to illustrate for us, the certain bite in the ass we earn when making a decision under the influence of anger.

O Mary, Conceived without sin, pray for us, who have recourse to Thee!

The Chicken Has Made It To The Other Side

A comment made on Fox yesterday that Obama only listens to himself, thus his sliding poll numbers in the face of all his legislative achievements confuses him.  Today, as he whined about the Republicans in Detroit while patting himself on the back during his Stimulus Victory Lap, he again channeled his inner brat with the 'they don't give me credit' complaint.  Crazy people are always obsessed with what "they" do or won't do as they churn hysteria.  He's listening only to himself, and accusing "them" of not letting him have his way for no good reason.  Is he crazy? 

On The View, yesterday, he was patronizing to Elizabeth, playing Barbara and counting on Joy & Whoopie to do their Chris Mathews duty and MAKE HIS PRESIDENCY SUCCESS their job!  Boy, does this little snob have ---- "IT!"

Caucus Fraud Revisit

My local county committee recently elected a collective of the most assertively ignorant males to its leadership posts. Upon arrival at the election meeting, I witnessed a gentleman, who was running for the chair, endeavoring to pass out copies of the Committee's by laws to those entering the polls. He has been extensively engaged with all the Party Events, activities and fundraisers and  knew the members through his work as Volunteer Coordinator at each of these.  A large "Progressive" Obot type was looming menacingly over him, loudly berating him for his lack of qualification for the post.  Himself "appointed" to open committee seats along with his wife, a candidate for VP. The election was conducted by several males, none of whom have actively served on the committee in recent years, who had no interest in knowing or observing the proscribed procedure for electing officers. These MALES were all positioned by the male who had forced himself into the post without a quorum, and was running again, for the chair. It struck me as improper that a candidate should also staff, direct and chair the election.  No tactful attempt on my part to call the legitimate members of the committee to action was not met by the rolling eyes of the equally inactive women there in support of the guy.  I could only marvel at the level to which I was repeatedly dismissed when pointing out to these posers that Rules of Order communicate the duty of the assembled to treat each other with courtesy, how the minority must be heard just as the majority. It was a decidedly male push advanced by the wives of equally unqualified males, all preening to become the next county commissioner. Mind you: Butler County guarantees ONE Democrat a job: the third seat on the Commission. Republicans hold ALL other posts in the courthouse.  The hackers are about to utterly destroy each other in the pursuit of this seat.  I have resolved to take a step up and away, to observe - as a Secret Service Agent - with objectivity and awareness.  I will step in only to assert the rights of the minority.  Women of the Democratic Party must go forward expecting, prepared to defense and deal STRONGLY with this junkyard dog element that has taken over the Party. It is reminiscent of my own family, so bereft of leadership, so far from the preached principles, that they fight like chickens scratching in the dirt for crumbs when so much exists beyond the dirt floor on which they foolishly clamor to "build" their political machine. No self-respecting woman would be impressed with this crew.

For myself, I am a Democrat.  I am NOT a Progressive and do not support the move by the progressive left to take over the Democratic Party from within.  

Better and Better, Praise God!

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The visitors to Mark's room are men who, like him, were once extensively injured on dirt bikes, yet lived to ride again.  Today, after 15 days in intensive care, Mark hopes to get the go-ahead to take liquids by mouth.  His delerium and agitation have dissipated but he still wants to go home.  We hope by Wednesday, he's going to move to the stepped down ICU, and his eyes are looking normal again.  With daily evaluation, we'll know better if the nerve damage to the left eye will heal. aa

Mark Gephard Augustine, KTMotorsport enthusiast

The weekly Sunday ride turned out not so rejeuvenating on June 27. Despite every bit of safety gear, 40 years of riding skill and being in the middle of nowhere without even Verizon service, two foolish kids on a quad managed to bring my husband to within an inch of his life. The collision landed him at the University of Pittsburgh Presbyterian Hospital Trauma unit where the most phenominal operation is putting him back together as his valiant heart allows. The sight of my husband, eyes swollen and bruised, a leg and arm in a cast, choking on the fluids of healing in a trache and feeding tubes is unbearable. The goal, each day, is to stay in the center emotionally, mentally, psychically... in my vortex of balance and faith in the highest energies and wisdom. The amazing teams of care providers just continuously study, adapt, listen and find a better and better way. In bed #1, he spares me the walk through the ICU past others in equally shocking conditions, yet though I may scoot through the secure doors to his side, I can see down the endless hall and understand the massive demonstration of what people working together can do to change the universe. I could just have easily been looking at a casket instead of a person plucked from the jaws of hell by faith in life.

Listen UP! - The Secret to Loyalty

The White House, on the clock and well into year #2 remains utterly full of their honorariums, academic admirers' social collective, having taken the "Press"calater ride to the top of the department store shoppers' list. It's liquidation sale time while the buyers' market collects its due. Had he EARNED it legitimately with a few experiences in hard work in a real world, he'd have the "stuff" to lead us through this.

Listen To Us!!! We'll TELL you what we want, and your job is to process all you hear through the uniquely programmed entity we "elected." The way we know you are responsive to your electorate, - your customers,- if you will, is to hear the things we said to you coming back to us in a cohesive presentation that reflects your "listening skills." Bill Clinton didn't win the big dawg awards dismissing Hillary. He FOUND A WAY to "get it," even when it didn't make his big-as-yours ego tingle.

The input has certainly been there. I recall complaining - as far back as the 2008 Primary Campaign - about the dismissive treatment received within our own party, in deference to the black guy. Yeah, Yeah, racist distraction...

Perhaps the race card, the blame W procedure and all the celebrity worship (Come ON, Baraque; after YOU won a Nobel Prize for doing absolutely nothing but staging a take-over that violated every principle of professional integrety, can you really come out from under your own embarassment over what a Nobel Prize can do to stop an oil leak?)
have worn thin even on your parasitic press.

In the words of Skater Gary, lamenting the fickle girlfriend's "dear John,"
"I found a bigger dick!"

It would have served you, AND YOUR BOUGHT-AND-PAID FOR "news" backers, who can't even sell advertising around your obnoxious, anti-social agenda. Keep on "not listening" to anybody but your crazy selves, calling Governor Palin stupid and unqualified when her resume reflects more engagement with Oil Company Decision Makers than the rest of the nations' governors combined.

Thus, the "Just Say No Deal" coalition; as PROMISED, must say "

WE TOLD YOU SO!!!

The Empty Suit can't even figure out where to go for advice. And Mika, Tina, Barnacle; Yeah, THAT'S what they want him to do: reenact that cover of Ms Magazine by ripping his shirt open and showing us the Super Man schtick. You never took your National Security, Economy or Leadership seriously before. All you need is a bit more Obama Worship and a speech to thrill you to fix this. Get down!

From Betty Jean Kling: The Majority United Congressional Reform Act of 2010

1. Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below.

A. Two Six year Senate terms
B. Six Two year House terms
C. One Six year Senate term and three Two Year House terms

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

2. No Tenure / No Pension:

A congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.


3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security:

All funds in the Congressional retirement fund moves to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, Congress participates with the American people.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, server your term(s), then go home and back to work.


4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan just as all Americans.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work..

6. Congress looses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

7. Congress must equally abide in all laws they impose on the American people.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

8. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.

The American people did not make this contract with congressmen, congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work..


If you agree with the above, invite all in your address list to join our group. We are going to turn this into a petition.
I need someone who know how to make this into a petition to get this rolling. Any volunteers?

If not,explain this - are we going let these crooks keep talking about getting rid of your hard earned money for you instead! Since they believe they are entitled to high pay and raises, planes, perks, better health care and retirement plans whilst a fair return on your savings is an entitlement you no longer deserve!

LET FREEDOM RING!
IMAGINE– The Majority United

Joe Sestack

I told him he didn't belong in the race.  The guy blasted Specter for being an "opportunist" yet Joe was supposedly an "Independent" until he exploited an opportunity to run as a D and scoot into a Congressional seat held by Republicans for a generation.  Like Obama, he no sooner had the job in Congress than he launched his pursuit of the Senate seat.  Specter, on the other hand, was originally a Democrat, won a Republican write-in for DA in Philly so he switched parties at their request and won election.  In the Senate for - likewise - a generation, Arlen always represented the People of Pennsylvania.  He cast conservative votes on matters of Defense and Law & Order.  He cast liberal votes on social issues.  He carefully considered and often decided his vote with great courage, crossing the aisle to make things work when partisans made a joke of the "People's Business."  He was, in truth, a sane, stable moderate, mature and wise, knowing and competent.

So, trailing in the polls, the retired Admiral accepts MoveOn.org money and for all his puffery about serving the Families of Pennsylvania, he copped the brass ring and denigrated a candidate who had been whole-heartedly endorsed by 75% of the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee, the entire Congressional delegation of the Commonwealth and sitting Dems from the Governor to mayors of major cities and County Commissioners.

My question is this: Now that Joe has demonstrated the loose lips sink ships advice he should have internalized, he goes on to flip the bird to the entire Democratic establishment and mobilize Cult of the Guys who bought the insanity of putting the old guy out to pasture because we didn't know what he was...What baloney!  It's Sestack who can't think his way through an issue.  It's Sestack who isn't a Democrat.  He only became a Democrat to pursue a seat in Congress, then tossed it for the next bigger job.  He ratted out the White House in a whiner's appeal for attention then played coy with the press,  standing on his code of honor when his rash accusation about a job offer to get him out of the race gained legs.  What an asshole.  This guy, in no way belongs in the Senate race.  Since he won the Democratic Primary, Toomey doesn't look nearly as scarey.  We are feeling like Republicans who shivered to think that Hillary Clinton could be President, would take her in a heartbeat knowing, now, what they got as the result of their irrational hate.

And those brats who come out and push yet another creep on the voters:  They go back to sponging off their parents while they drink beer and watch Penn State football.  It's the Workforce, not the voters, who are getting fed up with the incompetence of the Obama Administration.  We should ammend the Constitution to make a Work Force member's vote count for more than the mindless kids'.   Make the R & BL Committee ruling - give them 1/2 votes.

Politicians who manipulate those young people should be relentlessly exposed for what they are:  opportunists in league with George Soros to thwart the will of the grown up people.  I was shocked by the number of males I believed were rational, who went for Sestack just because they bought the creep's lies about the opportunist, Specter.  Sestack can't even prove he has a voting record as a citizen claiming that he voted Absentee Ballots while in the Navy.  Come on, Joe.  Everybody knows Naval officers vote Republican.

If I were to wager on November, I'm pegging Toomey, who is coming round the track showing what he learned the first time.  Joe, on the other hand, burnishes his sucker face for the Memorial Day Weekend Cameras.  The coward waits til 6:00 p.m. to 'dump' the WH Memo white-washing his job offer accusation with an utterly bogus, carefully synchronized story that didn't add up.  He is the ongoing center of the question:  "What took the White House so long to address it?"  And if it was just an innocent mention - why did he have to bring Bubba into it?  I listened to this fool appealing to Hillary supporters by playing up his ties to her campaign.  But I just didn't think he had the substance to represent me.  Why go with an unknown when I knew what I had in Specter?

At the State Committee meeting, I'll have to pull myself together, congratulate this pig on his "victory" with zero honor, and wish him well.  But in my heart, I sincerely hate the guy.  I hate him for the disgraceful campaign he waged against Specter in the last weeks, for the pit-bull stubbornness and utter demonstration of contempt for the establishment of the Democratic Party and his stupidity to think we are all so desparate to get a "D" elected that we will unite behind him, support him and forget what a bastard he chose to be in the name of his stricken daughter. 

When the "progressives" come onto him like they own him and bully him into voting their way, he'll deserve it.  When the crazy cult of the "Young Guys" push him out with ageist hostility as they churned racist, sexist animosity for the past two years, he's going to know he's hated even by his supporters.

We were all frank with him.  We didn't want him to run.  Not to clear the field for Specter, but because he just wasn't impressive, didn't show the level of political savvy we look for in a Senator.  Pennsylvania already has one rookie Senator in Bobby Casey.  Why would we ditch a distinguished, Senior Senator who has ALWAYS been a responsible public servant for a pig in a poke?  Hello, Joe: we're the State Committee.  It's our job to evaluate candidates who expect us to support them. 

We chose Specter. 
You said "Fuck all of you!"

Now, doesn't that make all of us want to go out and raise money for you, get behind you and elect you to the Senate?  You show as much sense as bHO.

Eddie G laughs off Fox & Tea Parties

Ed's taunting the Tea Party People to turn out in numbers that would impress him, claiming a mere handful participate in the D.C. Tea Party rallies.  He's appearing on Fox News, (rare Democrat to do so; save Jason Altmire who spoke almost daily to the #1 Cable News Network. )  Uh, ...  Fast Eddie:  me thinks you are getting your "news" from the 'mainstream' who include MSNBC and Donna Brazile/James Carville's employer, CNN.....THEY reported a mere few thousand while Fox was asking if they attended the same rally - or maybe they just Photo-Shopped in the bobble heads on up the avenue that looked like a pretty impressive turn-out to me.  OK, Ed, maybe some of us still go to work at the jobs from which we collect paychecks, unlike politicians who can spend a year on the campaign trail looking after their ambitions while the business of the people is left to the porn-H.O.U.N.D.S. at the S.E.C.   I understand.  Use the Fair & Balanced air to quote all the other newscasts whose combined total viewers are dwarfed in comparison.  WE watched Fox and saw - FOR OURSELVES how many Patriots were on hand, and ate our hearts out that we couldn't be there with them, except in spirit.

Ed Garland Takes Half Big Ben's Paycheck Out Of Milledgeville

Hearing the Police Reports about the details of the young woman's accusations against Ben Roethlesburger brought back all the times in the 70's and 80's when it seemed a significant percentage of men I encountered were driven to show me their "junk."  I cannot say that I indicated any interest in the exposure during my encounters with them:  I can only suppose that it was something in them.  Coming from a poor family, my father having passed away while I was still in high school, it may only be that those guys assessed me as eagerly and desperately beholden to their whims.  In the lower brain with which those type of guys think, you can hear their little penis person saying: "Sure!  This girl will jump on it and try to prove to me that she's worthy of any cash I'd spend on her."  Their mentors told them so.

It's been a few years since (thankfully) I've been subjected to that demonstration, and maybe it's because I've learned to sense and avoid the level of male acquaintance from whom this behavior emanates.  My sense is that groupies, the girls who chase celebrities and jocks, are so in-your-face slutty that the jocks are convinced that it's universal.  Money's appeal to "chicks" motivates the men of the athletic and rock star ilk just as Power is the aphrodesiac of politicians.  Men don't need the money just to have money.  With money, Chicks go for even ugly guys!  As Terry Bradshaw advised Ben; "Come on, man.  Neither one of us is that good looking;  those girls wouldn't be looking at you at all if you didn't make a whole LOT of money."  Ask yourself; would you want a woman who just wants your money?   Woman: are the things you can buy for yourself with his money worth the price paid in respect you cannot command?

As for Ben, what Ed Garland didn't take for his services, the NFL will.  Kinda like going into Wal Mart and having the Scanners in the ceiling show the boys in the back room how much you're carrying so they can leave you with bus fare or gas money to get home. 

Shoot.  No Yankee bo from Ohio is safe in Georgia.  No point bein' stoopid, less'n yo can show it every now 'n then.  As they's sayin' at the switchboard; "Thiank Yew!

DNC, Gender "Equality" and Equity Accrued

Commemorating Biden's "Big F-ing Deal" quote with a T Shirt  prompts me to rise to a Point Of Order. The current Locker Room Leadership begs the presence of self-respecting women prepared to temper this improper conduct.

Women were devastated by the manner in which former Senator Edwards (pig on a guy trip) and the boys' club Senate members - like Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy, WV's senate delegation etc. shoved the qualified female candidate aside to force a political choice on the Party. For all his pompous championing of health care, the Lion of the Senate put a rookie in the Presidency rather than support the expertise of his female colleague, Senator Clinton, whose own experienced work on the issue is legendary. Jason Altmire, who voted against Obama Care, served on Clinton's staff during that lap around the learning curve track. He obviously found the plan lacking in comparison to the On-The-Money-Plan Candidate Clinton had proposed.

11th hour candidacy of Mark Critz, to stop Barbara Hafer's bid to represent the Democratic Party's defense of the 12th Congressional seat, forced a political choice: a supposed Washington insider to the game of protecting and preserving defense contracts for the District. I have no issue with Critz, however, Hafer was a well-qualified female candidate who had the credentials to deal professionally with Pelosi and Emmanuel while dismantling Murtha's domain. Hafer has successfully stood for election locally and state-wide several times. She possesses the skills to represent the 12th's Constituents eye-to-eye with the congressional powers that be. When the qualified woman announced, it was, in the view of the dues-paid Women of the Democratic Party, the duty of the County Chairs to step up and assert their support of her in the spirit of restoring the balance disrupted by the improper treatment suffered by Women in recent elections.

The County Chairs owe the Women of the Democratic Party an apology for their greed, aggressive commandeering of the Party's resources and the total TURN OFF to those of us who traditionally support, perform the work of the Party as volunteers and until recently contributed generously from our 67%-on-the-dollar incomes to advance the Party that supposedly treats Women as equals. We've seen, repeatedly, what happens when it really counts.
The results speak for themselves. Where are the Gentlemen, moreover, the MEN of the Democratic Party? I am grossed out by this guy crap. The f-bomb from the Vice President was the "In-Your Face" demonstration of the result of excluding women from the political process to the point that the corrupt penis wielders (: |) are now scandalously out of control.

Unions and the "Push Back" Progressive crowd literally CROWD OUT the gentlewomen of the Party, and the women notice: although we bring decades of distinguished service to the Party, we are being crudely, boorishly and foolishly dismissed. We respectfully recommend an end to the disgusting presence of testosterone on the Guy Tour. It is the responsibility of the State Committee to observe the gender equity guidelines and the duty of the Chairman to articulate, represent and communicate that obligation to all elected members. We wish to "educate" those elements who endeavor to discourage participation by women unwilling to buy into the Progressive / Leftist agenda.

Traditional Democrats have had enough! We disavow the Progressives - who's poor judgement and even poorer manners bring disapproval to the Party among Independents and other Traditional Democrats. They Push Push, and then Push Back at critical moments in the endorsement process, when NOBODY ON THIS SIDE IS PUSHING!! We are simply going about conducting ourselves in the manner that is professional, honorable and consistent with our by laws while the thugs rationalize their misconduct as "politics." When the Polls show voter disapproval, it is attributed to the Democrats, yet the PROGRESSIVE Forces are the culprits. Liberal Goons, out for themselves with utter disregard for the women whose interests they violate, hide behind the Democratic Party Skirt, failing to take ownership of their brute abuse of our great Party. They only call themselves DEMOCRATS when attempting to FORCE State Committee Women like myself to support only endorsed candidates despite the violation of rules by which those endorsements were conferred. Democrats are losing face while the chameleons revert conveniently to calling themselves "progressives" whose stupidity is never assessed by name at the polls.

The provisions for gender equity in the party's bylaws are intended to eliminate the blockades denying Women opportunities to advance in leadership positions as males provide each other. Until something more respectable than less than 15% representation by Women is achieved in elected offices, the men of the party must school their progressive upstart and organized labor colleagues in the ethics of Party Conduct. Women comprise more than 50% of the Voting Party Membership.



Jack Panella, received the County Chairs support to force Theresa Sarmina out of the running for the Supreme Court nomination. He went on to violate our sense of integrity by leveling Joan Orie- Melvin as a Politician instead of a qualified Judicial Candidate, thus diminishing the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth and himself in the process. It was disgusting. Women (D) made a point of telling me that they weren't excited by the Democratic Nominee and had no intention of voting until they heard the Panella ads bashing Orie-Melvin. In response, they went to the polls and voted for the woman, with utter determination to send the men of the Democratic Party an emphatic message.

Obviously, the men are ducking the message.

As I understand the Ethic of the Party; the Caucus should re-direct male candidates who seek to overpower a qualified woman. http://www.newstatesman.com/north-america/2008/05/obama-clinton-vote-usa-media It's a tough call, but no tougher than what the women endured during the 2008 Primary. We were repeatedly cut off and denied voice by men asserting that 'She Lost! Get Over It!" Well, we ATE IT, but we're absolutely not over it: we learned a cruel lesson we won't pretend isn't happening over and over.



The Men who wish to run against Qualified Women in the Democratic Primaries need to get this message: It's NOT YOUR TIME!!! Until Women enjoy a more respectable percentage of representation, we absolutely cannot expect them to support Democratic Candidates or the Democratic Party. It's neither good politics nor good business to continually stiff them. We come into State Committee meetings expecting to be respected and treated as equals. We expect our colleagues to observe a standard of professional and political leadership. The routine "Progressive" pivot to thuggish bullying is outrageous! At last Summer's NetRoots Nation Convention, I watched in real time as Adam Green sucked the honor out of Orlando Congressman Alan Grayson with a blatant "push back" on his gentle advice to treat adversaries with respect. Since then, Grayson has devolved into a virtual "BeatleJuice" - obnoxious and unlikely to win re-election. I would be very surprised if the business-savvy district that is home to Mickey Mouse returns his crude tactics to Congress for a second term.


To communicate to you how arrogant this is, I simply mention that Dave Fowler actually expected to force me to vote in support of the deal he cut with the County Chairs during the 2009 Judicial endorsement meeting, while he was informing me of the complaint he was taking to the Executive Committee because I "broke the rules!" Panella's celebrity endorser was a freaking PRIZE FIGHTER - Jesus Christ! Can you get any more heavy handed? - he should not have even been on the ticket! He was the star atop the Christmas Tree of gifts the guys of the Democratic Party have been handing themselves after pushing, shoving and generally intimidating the qualified women. If my own husband, son or grandson were to conduct such a campaign of arrogance, I'd pull the plug on them instantly. Such demeanor guarantees poverty and is degenerate.



During reorganization, 'At Large' seats are accorded the various caucuses based on the differential between the number of male and female county chairs elected in the 67 Counties. The disparity is huge; if even 10 women participate in the County Chairs Caucus, I'd be impressed. Twice during this term, Shannon Bilger and T.J. denied the women of Butler County access to the ballot for replacing resigning chairs - first Mariotti then Fowler - by insisting that they be replaced by males to preserve the gender balance of the State Committee. What Bullshit!



Dave Winkler, former BCDC Sergeant At Arms, advised a lack of quorum as required by our by laws. He was dismissed after Kreiss commandeered himself into the chair. The paid staff of the State Committee refused to hear his complaint. I had appealed to Jack Hanna, Chair of the ad hoc committee empanelled to review the bylaws regarding replacement elections about this, and he admitted he ignored my email. He told me it was politically "not astute" for me to try to run for replacement County Chair so soon after a complaint against me had been heard. If this is the position of the County Chairs Caucus, and the paid staff of the State Democratic Committee, the message is specific and hostile to women. We know perfectly well how the funds are raised to cover those salaries. Fadia and the young women employed in the respective regions treat accomplished women like myself as though we were retards who have wandered in off the street and don't understand the power structure of the State Committee.



I cannot tell you the number of women who spoke emotionally to this callous indifference to their membership rights both at the hearing and afterwards to me privately. They consistently used that word: "Bullshit!" with all the anger and trembles of emotion one can imagine. Initially they'd say: "Let the younger guys just take over," intending to withhold their votes, energy and interest. By withdrawing from meaningful participation in party activities, they felt they could salvage their dignity from an organization that, in practice, just takes their money and uses them for their free labor. When their ingrained political sense takes over, however, they are determined to stand up for themselves by making future meetings very uncomfortable for the men of the State Committee by forcing the gender issue.

The Long Hairs

Letting it grow, gathering strength, the Citizens are appearing to find less time for themselves and diverting resources to the restoration of their civic balance.  At first, I noticed it among women with whom I worked last November-December:  long, very long hair pulled back with restraints in place of styled, groomed cuts.  Then it occured to me that my own hair, my daughter's and several of the men in my life were, likewise, carrying over the Goth / Grizzly looks into the spring.

I want to get mine cut; yet I marvel daily at the ease of being able to just wash it, twist it up and secure it with a comb, clip or scrunch.  I've got more pressing things on my mind.  As I attend to those priorities, I find myself savoring the brief detachment from the chore at hand to run my fingers through my long locks, brush them and invigorate the roots at my scalp, pull it all together and clip it out of the way, or just notice that for the first time in many years, it stays in an upclasp without wisping free when I run or have my head down.

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Chi ... energy of silk ... appreciating good health which I want to share and preserve, and burnishing the burrs, rough edges and clashing agendas of the Political Push Back when that which is being pushed back was a civilized expression of intelligent input going un-recognized by the Progressive Pack on the Wrong Track.  The agression of the Obama Administration in a country regarded world-wide for its leadership is inappropriate, counter-productive and indicative of the "power" of this country having found underground connections leaving the "Agencies" to be occupied by Fools fighting over money on the table. 

Leadership entails vision.  Confidence is expressed evenly, accommodating and welcoming new input with a pleased-to-have-you-join-us approach.  Openness and awareness are recognizable as a balance of expertise and self-security.  We know error, having expunged it from our own shaded precedences.  We are here, working together in harmony by virtue of having made those same errors, or having suffered the empathic failures through our family members, colleagues and friends. 

Mastery of our emotions, positive and negative, isn't foolproof, but it is our chosen path to Life According to Choices.

Wiser, more accomplished among us accept mistakes, but avoid reliance on those who resist learning from and correcting their mistakes.  We deal well with resistance.  Rejection masked as resistance - while harder to spot and prove, is, nonetheless distinct and over time, reveals itself definitively, via results or lack thereof.

Admitting a failure to anticipate the level of resistance is a step in the right direction.  Doubling down and forcing a rejected program will just crash the System.  Good thing we're not letting them run their "tests" with the rest of our stuff.  These guys are the crudest of the jerks.  Until they see things working together, they cannot recognize the qualty of Simplicity as a staple.  Simple, Simple, Simple.  No B.S. and no instant reaction to anything.  Let it be, look on it kindly.  Value, appreciate and lodge appropriately wherever a fit exists.  Try it here.  Test it there.  See what all it does.  Know responsibly what it does not and respect the line. 

When a gentleman is additionally refered to as "distinguished," it conveys a respect for the entire personage which includes the look, aura, eye-contact, dress and carriage.  Glow of health, maturity and uncommon qualities evident at a glance are attributes of the distinguished ... distinct, obvious, stand-out attractiveness.  "IT."  For all the needing approval and complicity of the gentle, kind-hearted who would give it, the American People are realizing:  He just ain't IT.  Hillary wasn't either. 

What good would it do to point out that our "Inevetible" Press flipped to ANYBODY ELSE resulting in the production of a Rebounder.  Synthesism is working its way around the circle.  One degree will tell the tale.

Kowing better makes a world of difference.

Louisa's Mother

Beyond all the things we want for ourselves, are all those things we want for our children. When we arrive at the moment of recognition that we've not gone as far in life as we would have expected, and admitted that our mistakes limited our progress, the mothers in us vow to benefit from our lessons learned; that our kids make it when we could not.

Thus, in her determination to preserve her family, BJ reached out to the farthest corners of the universe with a Mother's anguish.  Criss/Crossing tangents of emotional connectedness, she touched us with a compelling question: "What Would I Do?"

 Voice of All, the Universe, resonnated John Lennon's

"Come Together, right now, over me."

Without consciously understanding it, we are each others' prayers answered. 

First bringing comfort, then distributing the pain to permit a sharing of suffering, letting others All Of Us, respond to her courage, her faith, her love for her daughter. 

When, in happier times, could Mama have brushed Louisa's hair, painted her toenails and hummed a tender theme of  gently comforting affection?  In their previous "lives" in each others' worlds, but not, they would have both been too busy.  They'd be thinking of each other, going about their respective days, jointly mourning the beloved Denise.  As Life would have it, however, DeeDee and Mikey, sibling presence within Louisa, folds together what has been the loss in that "world" with salvation in this: tenuous wisps of life together saved by the will to love and be loved.  A mother's decision to capture what they share, made sacred, celebrated...not what we would have chosen but what is. 

During my own darkest days, I kept a diary, wrote out my feelings and spilled emotion in a lonely noteook, handwritten entries that sometimes penned themselves as I watched my hand move the pen - detached and objectively reading that which had been written from another part of my being to my self in the misery of the moment.  Crazy?  Can't say for sure: but I learned that one comes back from crazy, caught at the last split second, by a network of caring friends who call, visit and comfort.  Then the path to crazy becomes a "known" we never re-visit.  Detached, Miserable goes onward ever, into that tangenital universe, like another color of light, blinking a warning more useful than the Big Bang.  Did We All see that?  And instantly, our focus is centered / advised / forewarned.  Making it right is our only desire.

By the Divinity Within, we are all together, processing away the suffering, noting the breeze of Spring lightening our hearts and rejoicing as though we, too, post a bit of ourselves on vigil in the nursing home, to sustain our Sister, Betty Jean, in the only thing that truly matters, Louisa's choice to live. 

So: They Passed their Gas Bag Bill, now they want paid

I have already this morning, received emails from the Idiot OAF machine and Dahlkemper who ended up tossing Right To Life Language overboard with Stupak and voted with the pricks of the Democratic Party. They couldn't just knife the country like thugs, they had to trot out the claim of racist epithets and gay bashers in the crowd of Tea Party demonstrators driven crazy by their deliberate demonstration of ignoring them (except as it could serve them to play their race-gay baiting martyrdom.) This appeal for campaign money simultaneously spun with bogus self-congratulations for passing this health care bill their constituents passionately rejected is a difficult one to endure. The Democrats were incapable of bringing substance to the debate, supported the President who, on the one hand, taunted the Republicans for their past failures then on the other hand poked a stick in their faces with each attempt to elevate the discourse to a here and now level in response to the voters.

I want women to take up their rightful place in representing the people. I recognize that Kathy Dahlkemper voted for this bill as a concession to the Women-hating DNC, now headed by Obama, Plouff and Axlerod, and

I regret that something as principled as The Right To Life demurrer was dealt away like yet another piece of booty the Chicago Mob owns.

Kathy truly let me down. I am represented by Altmire in the 4th,who did stay true to his principles. I had told him to his face that I did not vote for him in 2008 because of his endorsement of Obama - abusing the Super Delegate vote of a district that chose Clinton by 40% for a $12,000.00 PAC contribution. By my account, the Congressman OWED me redress. His NO vote on this health care bill reconciles his account with me. My UNDERVOTE was simply a Pass over Altmire's name on a ballot which I cast as a conscientious citizen.

My dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party grows by the moment as crude, political tactics are rewarded by the complicit obsequiousness of Women. We elected Democrats to bring about a change from partisan political rhetoric concealing back room deals, eleventh hour muscle and disgusting accusations of race discrimination. Dahlkemper's YES vote constituted "looking the other way" while permitting her innocent constituents to be victimized once again.

Her fundraisers may write all the lofty assurances they think we want to hear about not being driven by fear, but the TRUTH is, the fear of the Administration being exposed as incompetent, objectionable and divisive drove the House vote. Covering the corrupt ass of Barack Hussein Obama - NOT the Health Care Rights of the Citizens, was the stink put on even the most admirable women of the party,even as Women's rightful place in the Democratic Party is diminished as a matter of policy borne out by male-entitlement practices. The results speak for themselves.

I spent weeks trudging in the snow, enduring outright rejection of Democrats who refused to sign my nominating petitions. I dodged eight foot icicles poised to split my skull as I stood on doorsteps in Butler County. I shoveled out of driveways to get my car out of ice and snow, dislocated my back and neck nearly falling or slipping on ice numerous times. I paid for the gas and mileage to drive to the voters with my own money; my husband drove 40 miles several times each week to chop wood for the wood burner. There was no money for heating oil, Christmas, or recreation.

NO MORE!!!
Enough with the lofty speeches to cover for the cowardice.
Obama and his Men of Dishonor must pay this price, not me!!!

Kathy's re-election campaign could respectfully be supported by Republicans, Independents and Democrats to recognize her honor, integrity, and courage. It took no courage to bend to the ego trip Obama is on.

In order to earn a second term, this Congress Woman must now produce something of equally solid value to prove to her constituents that she can find the center and restore balance to her district, as Altmire has been doing. If, indeed, she believed in her vote, she needs to get out there and explain it to anybody who will listen. This "morning after" appeal for campaign contributions to help her face the opposition is like a laser shot to my optic nerve. We ALL KNOW money was thrown around in every direction to force this square peg through a round hole. An elementary test of serving the will of the people was failed.

I learned in Atlanta, on my skates in the streets and parks: level the hill. The exhaustive effort and resources demanded to get as far as we'd gotten trying to make this an honest Administration must now be spent all over again just to get back to this point before we can pull together and get it done right. Who needs it? I don't worship basketball players the way the guys do. To me, a pivot is still them playing their game while real people pay for the testosterone trip. I am disgusted that Kathy bought into the Party Putsch without getting a fair concession for the Women of the Party. She represents the district; All the citizens. But as the one Woman Representative from Western Pennsylvania in D.C., she is also burdened with the duty of Party Leadership in behalf of the Women whose contributions and votes are being squandered. If you thought the Women of the Democratic Party are on board with this administration, you are mis-led. They voted for Republican Women rather than reward the dishonor of the men of the democratic party. Kathy needs to caucus with the Women of the party. Not the Women of Color, not the Liberal Women, not the LGBT Women, the WOMEN who are unwilling to behave selfishly to get theirs at the expense of the ALL, the WOMEN who refuse to wink at the cheaters while their children are scandalized, violated and neglected. Mrs. Dahlkemper KNOWS that Women have worthy input to offer, reasonable solutions that they can actually implement and police, STANDARDS we can respect, support and enforce.

She would do well to dump this parasitic appeal for money which is a micro of the scandalous behavior of the endless campaign of the obama administration. The Women and decent citizens have just watched a Bacchanal of sleaze by a guy with some of the biggest ears on the planet making a career of refusing to listen to anybody but his sycophantic insiders while he churns for cash constantly. He's even replaced the American Flag and the Insignia of the President of the United States with that bullshit logo.

The PROGRESSIVE SCHOOL OF PUSH-BACK

Ladies' Luncheon "Look Out Loretta!"  We've all attended them: the social gathering of girls who hate each other and need to purge those negative energies. 

We've gotta stay pretty, Coach. 

OK, we showed some ugly face when the O Brats gave us lip on the campaign trail.  My son would NEVER address me with such impudence, and I don't know about how the rest of you raised your children, but both mine are under control.  (at a price, I assure you we just don't get together until we get back to pretty)  It's the sons of the others of you I need to call out.   How could they be so separated from their home energies that they could doubt the essential goodness of this society.  Instead, they want to just toss it out with the old folks and start all over with something that makes it easy for them to succeed.  Are they discovering that a win at the expense of the rest is not a win"   ....Is not a winning way? 

So the Ladies gather to recognize the Courage of those who faced and fared strong in behalf of what was right.  Showing uncharacteristic Grace, Michelle Obama greets the group with acquired respect for the better way.  Be nice to the old girls: they've got "Push Back" you won't see coming til it knocks you off your pedestal.   Defense is a constantly layering project.  Never rest: never take any defender lightly.  Kids.  Women, geeks and other Americans of standing participate in the game.  As a free country, we let all comers in at some level, but our survival instincts condition us to structure access to our true powers.  Navigating the Paths to Power is a game of Tickle Bee.  Your bug moves along the corridors of the maze guided by your magnetic leverage.  In the "game" which is truly a Board Game for the Bored, ages 3 and up, you hold a WAND tipped with a magnet.  You play along with a screen that poses as the Scene, but is really designed to conceal the true paths.  Here we see flowers, streams and walkways painted on the screen.  Try to take your "Beta Unit" along that path, however: and you get Stung!  Remember "The Sting," the Redford-Newman fun fest set to Joplin Rag Time?  One Sting is never enough.  The venom pumps.  The predator repeats the attack like an electrocutioner, until the circuit is broken.  The Prey is held captive.  Thus the Alpha Unit, Massa, turns 50 and burns learning - taught the maze through painful, expensive experience.  The pain is shared through the magnet in a fashion not unlike the sensation in the wii control when your Mario dies falling off the path.  The creators of the GAME call it tickle, but we know it to be the complete take-over of Choice, sprinkled with some MOB Justice and a lot of pain for everybody connected in the TAKE DOWN.  Thus is the programming world of Defense. 

Ben Roethlesberger is OFFENSE.                                                          Dick LaBeau is an OLD Player.  Trench Warfare-wisened Hall of Famer from his playing days, silver and "Honolulu" Blue,  44's Defensive Schemes have inspired NFL and ESPN alike.  "Tickle the Old Guy if you can." say the Linemen.  In this game, there's a game you BELIEVE you're playing, a game in which you get caught, shot and plastered all over FaceBook, and a game of Survivor where your alliances can prove to be allied elsewhere at Tribal Council.  Many, many games all going on simultaneously.  What does it take to make it to the House and over the Goal Line and Survive to the end?  FRIENDS.  True, always-there-for-you friends.  People whose personal happiness, security and survival are directly tied to yours.  Success, for friends, is getting through the toughest times together.  Power is what we feel when we shake each others' hands over a Ladies' and Gentleman's agreement.  Oneness with the All, The Grace of the best within us coming together in the interest of making life worth living.  As kids in the 50's, threatened by nuclear extinction, we braced for fall-out in underground shelters.  What actually got us were those pesky asbestos tiles in our ceilings.  Who knew?  

Trust in the hand holding the magnet and live as though the power can be switched onto that magnet at any time.  Detached and seemingly "defeated,"

"Senator Clinton; er, Secretary Clinton...I almost said: "President Clinton :)" admitted Michelle.

  What went unspoken was the recognition of Hillary, a profile in Courage, who let the Push Boys dispose of her in favor of a young Lion touted for his leadership, and went into the maze to experience sting after sting after sting until she knew the ropes.  We of the P.U.M.A. were there with her for every one of them, absorbing and chanelling the pain while evaluating the threat.  We of Goal Line Stand play our super bowl where the action really is: at the luncheon.  We graciously hear our "First" Lady acknowledge our Former First Lady as President.  And that says "Peace."   Who'se really #44?  It's enough to know the Secret of Service to the Country. 

Back in the days when "Ozzie and Harriet" and "Leave it to Beaver" were all the rage, a little bee found its way into the mainstream and took the toy world by storm. Now, the buzz is that the bee is back!

Simple, yet challenging, the object of the game is to maneuver the magnetic bee around the plastic maze until it returns to the honeycomb. Using a magnetic wand, the child (or, adult for that matter) "tickles" the bee ... moving it in any direction. Look out though! If you get too close you might get stung. Get stung 3 times and you're out. 

http://www.boardgames.com/ticklebee.html