More Spam from the President

 

Haven't we had enough pleas for money?  Enough already.  Stop flooding my inbox with your stupid mailing list spams.  

Isn't there a way that I can request to be taken off of this mailing list?  Somebody, please tell me, quickly!

This week, thousands of Americans picked up the phone to help the President prevent a tax hike on middle-class families. We can't stop now. Republican leadership in the House of Representatives is still refusing to allow a vote on a bill that would prevent 98 percent of American families from paying higher taxes next year. If your taxes go up by more than $2,000 in a couple weeks, there's only one reason: because a few dozen Republican representatives refuse to ask the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans to pay their fair share. Your representative has already signed the petition -- but there are dozens more who still need to step up. Log on to the call tool today and ask fellow supporters who live in Republican districts to call their representatives now: http://my.barackobama.com/Call-Tool Voters have already made their voices heard on this issue. As the President said at his first press conference after the election: "If there was one thing that everybody understood was a big difference between myself and Mr. Romney, it was, when it comes to how we reduce our deficit, I argued for a balanced, responsible approach, and part of that included making sure that the wealthiest Americans pay a little bit more. "I think every voter out there understood that that was an important debate, and the majority of voters agreed with me ... by the way, more voters agreed with me on this issue than voted for me." Yet a handful of Republicans in the House of Representatives are still fighting for the same top-down approach that's been tried -- and has failed. Whether you voted for the President or not, he's fighting to keep taxes low for 98 percent of Americans and 97 percent of small businesses, because he believes we need to grow the economy from the middle out. He's fighting for you. He's got your back. We've got to get his, too. Make a few calls right now. One person reaching out to another is how we re-elected Barack Obama. It's how we'll win this fight, too. Just a few minutes of your time will make a difference. Thanks for doing your part. More soon. Messina Jim Messina Campaign Manager Obama for America

Paid for by Obama Victory Fund 2012, a joint fundraising committee authorized by Obama for America, the Democratic National Committee, and the Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Virginia State Democratic Parties.

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MC Гомер - По Верхушкам

I'm not taking responsibility for the lyrics - I don't know what they say.  But I like the Russian rapper.

Is Karl Rove Going to Jail? Ask Anonymous

Anonymous says that he is.

You might try to find the videos on the subject, but the links to them are going down all over the place.

Here's one:

http://youtu.be/REn1BnJE3do

In short, the claims are the Karl Rove used computer back doors to rig elections in Ohio.  Anonymous claims that they intervened and shut those doors.  Karl Rove may have been expecting the last minute stealing of the election, and that's why he was on Fox News acting like he couldn't believe the election results.  Because he thought he rigged the election against Obama.

Whether or not this is true, Anonymous has promised to hold Karl Rove and other Republicans to account for these actions.

Anonymous - we are waiting with baited breath...

A Message To My Rapist

Check out this video on YouTube. A YouTube makeup guru gives a gut-wrenching account of her sexual abuse at the hands of her father. it seems he just subscribed to her YouTube video channel.

Check it out by clicking on this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1iUog2lL8k&feature=youtube_gdata_player


Sent from my iPad

Taurid Meteor Shower

Subject: Taurid Meteor Shower

Space Weather News for Nov. 11, 2012
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TAURID METEOR SHOWER: Earth is passing through a stream of gravelly debris from Comet Encke, source of the annual Taurid meteor shower. Because the debris stream is not very congested, Taurid meteor rates are low, no more than 5 per hour. The special thing about Taurids is that they tend to be fireballs. Check http://spaceweather.com for the latest videos and images of the display, which is expected to peak around Nov. 12th.

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US Voting Fraud Proven Mathematically

From The UK Progressive:

In states where the winner will be decided by less than 10%, of the vote he already knows he will win. This is no tinfoil hat conspiracy. It’s a maths problem. And mathematics showed changes in actual raw voting data that had no statistical correlation other than programmable computer fraud. This computer fraud resulted in votes being flipped from Democrat to Republican in every federal, senatorial, congressional and gubernatorial election since 2008 (thus far) and in the 2012 primary contests from other Republicans to Mitt Romney.

Geomagnetic Storm Sparks Bright Auroras

> GEOMAGNETIC STORM: A persistent G1-class geomagnetic storm on Oct 13th (still underway as this alert is being written) has sparked bright auroras around the Arctic Circle, spurring reports of Northern Lights from Scandinavia, Greenland, Canada, and several northern-tier US states. More auroras are in the offing. NOAA forecasters estimate a 40% chance of continued storms on Oct. 14-15 in response to a high-speed stream of solar wind. Check http://spaceweather.com for images and updates.
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Incoming CME

Space Weather News for Oct. 7, 2012
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DRACONID METEOR WATCH: Earth is about to pass through a stream of debris from comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, source of the annual Draconid meteor shower. Last year, Europeans witnessed a faint but furious outburst of 600 meteors per hour when the shower peaked. No such display is expected this year, but the Draconids are notoriously unpredictable. Northern-hemisphere sky watchers should be alert for slow-moving meteors emerging from the head of the constellation Draco the Dragon (not far from the North Star) on Sunday night, Oct 7th, through Monday morning Oct. 8th. Check http://spaceweather.com for more information and updates.

INCOMING CME: A coronal mass ejection (CME) is heading for Earth. The incoming cloud is expected to deliver a glancing blow to our planet's magnetosphere on October 8th, possibly sparking auroras at high latitudes. 

DC State Fair

I swear, I never would have thought of it.  A State Fair in DC!

But, of course!  DCers are into gardening, knitting, sewing and other home crafts and urban thriving.  Why wouldn't we have our own state fair?

The DC State Fair blog is HERE.

There will be pickling contests, weird vegetable contests and tons of other stuff someone would have done before now!

Details:

DC State Fair 2012 
Held at Barracks Row Fall Festival 
On 8th Street SE, south of Eastern Market Metro 
Saturday, September 22 
11 AM to 5 PM

ParaNorman - Rewritten

Just saw ParaNorman, and it was OK.  The theme of the movie seemed to be: don't kill yourself if you are being bullied, and don't take a gun to school to kill your tormentors, either.  My husband saw the moral of the movie also seemed to be aimed at the Tea Party, with strong admonitions against killing people who make you afraid.

I am going to take the liberty of suggesting some ParaNorman rewrites:

The bullying setup is fine.  The disappointed, shallow father is fine.  Is it necessary for the father to be so dismissive of the mother?  Isn't there any respect there at all?  Just saying.

When the odd uncle dies and his spirit tries to get Norman to pick a book off of his dead body, it makes more sense if the boy refuses.  He is already strange in the eyes of his classmates.  He would be reluctant to do something to be seen as more strange.  Besides, that's what kids do.  They try to fit in.

Also, it would be more interesting if Norman didn't care if the town was destroyed.  After all, no one liked him there.  When kids get guns and kill other kids at school, this is what is going on.  They are attacking the ones who attacked them.  So why would Norman care so much?  Why would he be inclined to save the jerks who are hurting him?  It would be more interesting if he said no.  Then he would be going through the same journey as the ghost-girl.  From hate to forgiveness.  The complete lack of anger in the movie is unrealistic.

The Uncle-ghost would implore him, urge him, pester him to change his mind.  Still, Norman would not do it.  He would mouth off to his Uncle.  Then the disaster would begin.  Norman, at first, would enjoy the carnage.  Then he would see how the people he cared about would be affected.  He would see how they would be scared.  He would realize that he had to be the person who did something about it.  That he was the only one who could.  He finally listens to his uncle and sneaks out of the house to take action.

Then the whole adventure of the zombies begins.

After it's over, and the town is a wreck, the bully goes back to treating Norman badly - like would happen in real life.  But now Norman is different.  He pushes back by reminding the bully that he peed in his pants earlier and who cares what he thinks anyway.  Norman calls him a coward outright.

One part of reality that is missed in these bullying discussions is how the kids who are big bullies in middle school and high school generally turn out to be total losers.  That should be hinted at here.

The answer isn't "understanding your bully is afraid."  In middle school, people are afraid of not belonging or being OK.  Understanding that does nothing for the victim.  It is a phase of life and socialization.  That part of the human experience needs to be couched with firmly-established limits on acceptable conduct.  You know: manners.  And to give the victims of bullies things to say back to their tormentors.

The essential problem, of which bullying is but a symptom, is rigid conformity.  The standardized testing pill our children have been forced to take has reinforced the idea that to be OK you need to conform.  Social media makes social rejection wholesale.

Kids need to get a message that is something other than "forgive" and "understand."