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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 14:38:38 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 14:41:47 GMT
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Post by doordie50 on Feb 10, 2017 15:28:51 GMT
For a good laugh www.youtube.com/watch?v=_he4sLjwCfg make sure your volume isn't too loud Linda thanks for the link Check out the town hall held by Rep. Chaffetz of Utah, as people never before motivated by politics are getting involved, taking lessons from the Tea Party. I have posted this link a few times before indivisibleguide.com Its really worth downloading the free guide. The indivisible chapters are springing up in districts everywhere as regular everyday people are becoming empowered |
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Post by nashville11 on Feb 10, 2017 15:29:41 GMT
The thing with the Tweety group of sycophants is that they never think through possible long range consequences of their actions. They just act "willy-nilly" and let the chips fall where they may.
KAC says she apologized to Tweety after her commercial for Ivanka, and that he said he was fully behind her, and he hates the word "counseled" which Spicer used referring to KAC. So, of course, we all know that what this spin really means is that she made sure that she got credit and praise from Tweety by pointing out that she's all for Ivanka (suck up), and Tweety's response is "I'm so happy you did this. Don't hesitate to do it again. The hell with ethics. You're on my buddy list, but rethinking Spicer."
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Post by nashville11 on Feb 10, 2017 15:34:51 GMT
Pam, I was just reading an article this morning talking about how energized people are becoming who never before showed any interest in politics or causes at all. The key is to maintain this momentum. Maybe the one good thing Tweety will have done for the country before he manages to get himself impeached and convicted is that he has motivated people to pay attention and become active in trying to save our country from destruction and make this a better world. People are standing up to be counted and refusing to let the alt-right fanatics destroy everything we believe in.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 16:59:04 GMT
I have to laugh when people suggest all these marchers & peaceful protesters are bought & paid for. . I will have to ask my DIL & her Mom if they recieved their check for marching...;-);-)....
Well, of course Tweety is going to stick up for his "Nannie"... She is the only one who can find his pacifier when he loses it. Spicer, I'm afraid is going to have to take one for the team & I bet Priebus will be next. They would be wise to resign before hearing " you are fired" ...They may be able to salvage alittle self-respect.
I hope Chaffetz gets hammered the way he relentlessly went after HRC & promised to do so if she was elected.
Mike Flynn, played Pence with the Russian phone call lie, so I hope it comes back to bite them both in the behind big time.
Sounds like TOTAL chaos in the WH. What a sad state of affairs.
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Post by nashville11 on Feb 10, 2017 17:12:08 GMT
Just read something good that Tweety has accomplished . . . He made SNL great again.  I agree that Spicer and Preibus's days are numbered. It would be wise for them to bail out on their own while they can do so with possibly a shred of dignity for the fact that they bailed. But I suspect they will wait until he tosses them overboard. I wouldn't be at all surprised if KAC isn't actively working for that. Bet she'd like to be Chief of Staff. |
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Post by nashville11 on Feb 10, 2017 17:18:10 GMT
"The President has lost so he is now in a state of limbo. For weeks perhaps even months his order is going to be stayed," Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, told CNN's Erin Burnett. "He claims that this is a threat to the national security of the United States. If he is right, then he has only one option -- rescind the order, start from scratch ... write a new order that will both protect the security of the United States and avoid constitutional challenge."
Dershowitz added: "But it would require him to admit that he is wrong. So now there is a clash between the ego of the President and the national security of the United States."
This will be very interesting to watch . . . his order was clearly a Muslim ban. If he truly believes he is protecting the country (which I doubt), it will be interesting to see if he goes back to the drawing board to do a better job of it, or refuses to admit he was wrong and bullheads his way forward. I can't imagine him admitting he's wrong about anything.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 18:41:40 GMT
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Post by NatureLover on Feb 10, 2017 20:30:25 GMT
I am heart sick over Price's confirmation. Of all the atrocities going on, gutting Medicare and Social Security is going to impact me the most and not in a good way.  |
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Post by yogamama007 on Feb 10, 2017 20:31:24 GMT
Before I forget.
FYI- Most of my gal friends run ages with me and one of them suggested reading "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End"
by Atul Gawande
"Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering.
Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.
Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end."
She said it was an excellent book to read if you are over 60. I am, we are, and want to get the end of life plans in order......then forget about it! We are going to do a Gal Tea and discuss it, share ideas and take notes pragmatic group that we are.
BBL- I am interested in your thoughts.
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Post by yogamama007 on Feb 10, 2017 20:41:07 GMT
Rachel was up in arms about this the other night.....beyond sad.
Dumpfy is not only a thin skinned blank blank......he also has no sense of compassion for animals.....that says very everything about the "whatever" that is leading our country.
Every cloud has one, as they say.
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Post by yogamama007 on Feb 10, 2017 20:42:39 GMT
Question for today.......Are KAC eyes the same shade of brown as her nose? Just askin.
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Post by nashville11 on Feb 10, 2017 22:06:55 GMT
Anne, I so agree that we have come much further with medicine and our ability to extend life than we have with extending quality of life as well. I think this is a very serious problem, and it bothers me that we don't see either political party discussing this at all. It's almost as if it is a taboo subject.
I believe that there is a point where no quality of life is left, and we should allow people to make the choice to pass on comfortably and with dignity, even if their bodies are still clinging to life. For those no longer cognitively able to make that choice, we should have a system in place such as the current advanced directives that can be signed while still of sound mind which say something to the effect that even if my body is still clinging to life, if my quality of life is non-existent I want the doctor to give me something to help me gently and peacefully pass on. I would want that for myself and for those that I love.
That's something that concerns me a great deal about Gorsuch, because from what I have read he would be against this. I know there are a lot of people who would be opposed, and some base that on religious grounds which I don't understand at all. As all of you know, I consider myself pretty religious, but my faith tells me that there is a far better world waiting for me and those I love on the other side.
Just my two cents worth and hastily written at that . . . Maybe I should move to the Netherlands.
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Post by birdgal on Feb 11, 2017 0:38:09 GMT
This is also hastily written. If all the people that are so opposed to others making end of life decisions were really concerned about the loss of lives, they'd shut down the NRA and ban guns right now.
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