Senior Citizens

And the words that are used for to get the ship confused
Will not be understood as they're spoken
For the chains of the sea will have busted in the night
And be buried at the bottom of the ocean.   ---  Bob Dylan
 

A nation is judged by how it cares for its most vulnerable.
American seniors deserve to live with dignity and with a sense of security.
               ---  Bernie Sanders  ---



      Yesterday, the US Senate passed by voice vote a Re-authorization of the Older Americans Act of 1965.  The vote was 75 for -- 25 against.  I think many times a senator of one party or another will vote contrary to his parties agenda to please a segment of voters in his state knowing how the vote the vote is trending and knowing his yea or nay will not affect the ultimate outcome in the slightest degree.   This vote might tip the scales of a state that might go from red to blue or vice-versa.  The House of Representative is a way different can of worms.
       In the house, it's the Speakers job to try to bring some order and coherence to the various ideas and groups.  A herculean task akin to herding a clowder of cats.
I haven't been able to find out when the House might debate funding and passage of this Senate bill.  Hopefully before they all go home for their August vacation.  I wouldn't count on this happening though and certainly not holding my breath.

Deal with Iran, ,,

Then the sands will roll out a carpet of gold
 for your weary toes to be a-touchin'
And the ship's wise men will remind you once again.
That the whole wide world is watchin'. --  Bob Dylan


We've got to start creating a situation where our kids can leave school
and start leading productive lives.  --  Bernie Sanders


      I'm reminded of the John McCain refrain from his campaign policy,  "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran..  Sadly, It's the Republican alternative to President Obama, John Kerry, China, Russia,Britain, France and Germany.  I think it's the height of arrogance to consider themselves more competent than most of the rest of the world.  Kind of like a flea on a a Grizzly Bears scrotum, a momentary itch and quickly forgotten.

      t's unbelievable how any of the Republican entrants think that the message of "screw 99% of the American people"  and "I've raised Hundreds of Millions of dollars to convince you to just bend over next November and spread your cheeks for your new masters.  If any but Fox viewers or Daily Caller readers fall for such obvious crap.  But, A rich,old man told me what  I should do to be rich like him and why would he lie.

   

Iran Nuclear Deal

 Oh the time will come up when the winds will stop and the breeze will cease to be

breathin' like the stillness in the wind 'fore the hurricane begins; the hours when the ship comes in.  -- Bob Dylan                                                                                               

The nuclear agreement with Iran is a victory for diplomacy over sabre-rattling.  

-- Bernie Sanders

As expected, Republicans and Israel don't like it. Surprisingly for similar reasons. Money!  One of the many reasons they hate Obama and his administration.  The democrats refuse to shovel the amounts and sweet deals they used to get even with their stranglehold on the US congress.  Netanyahu going to our congress like he owns it.  With all the people in congress and our federal government holding US and Israel dual citizenship, one has to wonder where their loyalties lie and their orders come from, Obama or Netanyahu.  All of them should have to choose one or the other.  We don't need a citizen of a foreign country making decisions regarding our economic and foreign policies.

    As for Republicans, the Military/Industrial complex is their cash cow.  The sooner they can quash talk of peace and diplomacy, the better.  The sooner the army needs more rifles and bullets, the sooner the kickbacks and bags of money start rolling in. Now with control of congress, no wonder they want to bomb everyone.  As a side issue, they want to test their ideology before the elections when they hope to make abortion illegal and get their hands on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and stop all this healthcare crap asap.  Don't judge them by words, judge them by their actions.  

Hillary Casmpaign Speech 7/13/15

The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast, The slow one now will later be fast,  As the present now will later be past.  The order is rapidly fadin'and the first one now will
later be last for the times they are a-changin'.  ---  Bob Dylan

America becomes a greater nation when we stand together as one people and in a loud voice say no to racism and bigotry. --- Bernie Sanders

Poor, pathetic Hillary reduced to stealing Bernie's positions on the economy, the wages,etc. Positions and ideas she never talked about before now or offered anything concrete as solutions. She looks at the multitudes that listen to and like what Sanders has to say and know it's what he said for years and not now to get elected. His reputation is unchanging truth and people recognize and respond to that. People trust him and unfortunatly find it hard to trust her. So any plagirizing done by Hillary will never be more than a pale imitation of the Sanders campaign.

To be fair, a lot of what Hillary says or does is distorted, twisted and mis-stated by people who hate her and only want to bring her down. Due to her lifetime of public service they can always find something to hang their vitriol onto. In the case of Bernie, they can always make up something that turns out to be nothing more than obviously invented lie. Actually this helps instead opn hurts him.

Children need carer

If your time to you is worth savin' , Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone, for the times,  they are changin'.


This is not a denocracy, it's Oligarchy.  Yesterday afternoon, Jeb Bush announced that a relatively small number of wealthy donors have contributed over one hundred million dollars to his Super PAC.   Let me be clear: I am more than aware our opponents will outspend us, but we are going to win this election. They have the money, but we have the people.  -- Bernie Sanders

I'm aways angry when fans are shouting, "we're number one". No,we're not.  As long 

as the children in Houston that went to bed hungery last night, will have to tonight again as well as tomorrow.outnumber the fans and their heroes combined.  If,hitting a littlr ball with a stick or throwing a bigger ball through an irom ring with strings hanging from it or catching an oblong ball or preventing someone else from catching it constitures heroism, then I just never understood the word or it's meaning at all.

Only 10% of the salaries of the Astros, Rockets and Texan heroes were added together, I suspect there would be enough money to feed all the hungry children in Houston for many dars in the future. Especially if the food was bought or donated and prepared by volunteers.  Probably more than enough hands if our money grubbing mayor was kept out of the effort. The end of my rant about heroes.

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Children need care

Oh,the foes will rise with the sleep still in their eyes, and they'll jerk from their beds
And think they're dreamin, but they'll pinch themselves and squeal and know that it's
for real; the hour that the ship comes in.  --  Bob Dylan

Election day 2016

Millions of children in this country are not receiving the quality childcare or early education that they need. - Bernie Sanders

I always get angry when a local sports team rides in a big parade with every one shouting we're Number One, see the heroes waving at you. What is so heroic about getting paid millions of dollars to hit a ball with a stick of wood, or running up and down a room to throw another ball through an iron ri ng with some strings attached to the bottom of it, or running up and down a grassy field to either catch an oblong ball or prevent someone else from catching it. Excuse me I can't see the heroism her.  I'll have to continue this blog tomorrow. Google refuses to let me finish.

FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH

I just read that George Bush collected $100,000 Plus $20,000 for a private plane to take him back and forth between Dallas and Houston.  A distance of about 300 miles.  All for a speech to the Wounded Warriors organization. People he sent to his phony wars.  Whoever in this organization asked him and paid him this outrageous amount needs to immediately lose his job and be blacklisted by all veterans groups.  Bush time and time again has proven to be a cold-blooded Sociopath. Haven't he and Cheney made enough money from war profiteers like Halliburton and Blackwater stealing money meant to pay local warlords. Or the 10 billion in cash that Rumsfeld claimed to have lost somewhere.  Has anybody ever found it or even asked about it.  
I seem to remember Laura Bush getting $50,000 for an earlier speech.  Bush's paid false press releases.  Like the hundred mile race he supposedly made for wounded veterans.  A member of my own family made that ride and never saw Bush anywhere
around there.   Just another Bush family lie.

The Amish have a custom known as "shunning" for people who break their vows of baptism and refuse to obey laws and regulations of the community.  George Bush is a prime candidate for shunning by the American people.  When a woman named Karla Fay pleaded for her life when she was about to be executed, Bush thought it was funny and mimicked her words like a comedy. This was from the testimony of people who were there that night.  Bush should be shunned by all Americans.  He should give back money taken from these valiant men crippled due to his vanity.  It would be the decent American way although his greed would always trump decency.  Don't look for restitution any time soon.    






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