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June 30, 2015
You know it's coming.
It started so well, then turned into hell.
At least none of them can afford a war.
Just waiting for the chandelier scene:
You know it's coming.
It started so well, then turned into hell.
At least none of them can afford a war.
June 29, 2015
Obamacare is the beginning. Now, we have to give her or whoever Democrat is elected, a Congress to take us further.
Last year she promised to expand and build on it. 'It takes a village...' is where she's going, and the rightwingers hate her for that and promoting women, immigrant and gay rights.
They indoctrinated a generation to hate her without knowing her really, but they know exactly where she stands and hate her with a vengeance they want others to feel, too.
She will, since she was there with Obama, waiting with him when it was passed!
Obamacare is the beginning. Now, we have to give her or whoever Democrat is elected, a Congress to take us further.
Last year she promised to expand and build on it. 'It takes a village...' is where she's going, and the rightwingers hate her for that and promoting women, immigrant and gay rights.
They indoctrinated a generation to hate her without knowing her really, but they know exactly where she stands and hate her with a vengeance they want others to feel, too.
June 29, 2015
Just as in 2010, when the votes were counted, with someone celebrating the same goal:
For his mother and millions of others:
Keeping His Promises to the Poor and Vulnerable: Thank You, President Obama!
HHS finalizes rule guaranteeing 100 percent funding for new Medicaid beneficiaries
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced a final rule with a request for comments that provides, effective January 1, 2014, the federal government will pay 100 percent of the cost of certain newly eligible adult Medicaid beneficiaries. These payments will be in effect through 2016, phasing down to a permanent 90 percent matching rate by 2020. The Affordable Care Act authorizes states to expand Medicaid to adult Americans under age 65 with income of up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level (approximately $15,000 for a single adult in 2012) and provides unprecedented federal funding for these states.
“This is a great deal for states and great news for Americans,” HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said. “Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, more Americans will have access to health coverage and the federal government will cover a vast majority of the cost. Treating people who don’t have insurance coverage raises health care costs for hospitals, people with insurance, and state budgets.”
Today’s final rule provides important information to states that expand Medicaid. It describes the simple and accurate method states will use to claim the matching rate that is available for Medicaid expenditures of individuals with incomes up to 133 percent of poverty and who are defined as “newly eligible” and are enrolled in the new eligibility group. The system is set up to make eligibility determinations as simple and accurate as possible for state programs.
Under the Affordable Care Act, states that cover the new adult group in Medicaid will have 100 percent of the costs of newly eligible Americans paid for by the federal government in 2014, 2015, and 2016. The federal government’s contribution is then phased-down gradually to 90 percent by 2020, and remains there permanently. For states that had coverage expansions in effect prior to enactment of the Affordable Care Act, the rule also provides information about the availability of an increased FMAP for certain adults who are not newly eligible.
The rule builds on several years of work that HHS has done to support and provide flexibility to states’ Medicaid programs ahead of the 2014 expansion, including:
* 90 percent matching rate for states to improve eligibility and enrollment systems;
* More resources and flexibility for states to test innovative ways of delivering care through Medicaid;
* More collaboration with states on audits that track down fraud; and
* Specifically outlining ways states can make Medicaid improvements without going through a waiver process.
For more information on the improvements made to Medicaid, please visit:
http://www.medicaid.gov/State-Resource-Center/Events-and-Announcements/Downloads/MMF_Jan-Dec-2012_FINAL.PDF
For the full text of today’s final rule, please go to:
http://www.ofr.gov/inspection.aspx
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2013pres/03/20130329a.html
This is a huge relief to those who would not be covered for conditions no one can afford. I will be passing this good news along to those who have loved ones dependent on Medicaid.
This is what the GOP wanted to slash and are doing in every state that they control. It will save the lives of many people we may never meet, but they are our fellow sojourners.
Thanks to ProSense for finding this story and letting me post it here. She posted it in GD, where you can see it here:
HHS finalizes rule guaranteeing 100 percent funding for new Medicaid beneficiaries
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2584523
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11028481
Waiting, waiting...
Just as in 2010, when the votes were counted, with someone celebrating the same goal:
For his mother and millions of others:
Keeping His Promises to the Poor and Vulnerable: Thank You, President Obama!
HHS finalizes rule guaranteeing 100 percent funding for new Medicaid beneficiaries
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced a final rule with a request for comments that provides, effective January 1, 2014, the federal government will pay 100 percent of the cost of certain newly eligible adult Medicaid beneficiaries. These payments will be in effect through 2016, phasing down to a permanent 90 percent matching rate by 2020. The Affordable Care Act authorizes states to expand Medicaid to adult Americans under age 65 with income of up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level (approximately $15,000 for a single adult in 2012) and provides unprecedented federal funding for these states.
“This is a great deal for states and great news for Americans,” HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said. “Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, more Americans will have access to health coverage and the federal government will cover a vast majority of the cost. Treating people who don’t have insurance coverage raises health care costs for hospitals, people with insurance, and state budgets.”
Today’s final rule provides important information to states that expand Medicaid. It describes the simple and accurate method states will use to claim the matching rate that is available for Medicaid expenditures of individuals with incomes up to 133 percent of poverty and who are defined as “newly eligible” and are enrolled in the new eligibility group. The system is set up to make eligibility determinations as simple and accurate as possible for state programs.
Under the Affordable Care Act, states that cover the new adult group in Medicaid will have 100 percent of the costs of newly eligible Americans paid for by the federal government in 2014, 2015, and 2016. The federal government’s contribution is then phased-down gradually to 90 percent by 2020, and remains there permanently. For states that had coverage expansions in effect prior to enactment of the Affordable Care Act, the rule also provides information about the availability of an increased FMAP for certain adults who are not newly eligible.
The rule builds on several years of work that HHS has done to support and provide flexibility to states’ Medicaid programs ahead of the 2014 expansion, including:
* 90 percent matching rate for states to improve eligibility and enrollment systems;
* More resources and flexibility for states to test innovative ways of delivering care through Medicaid;
* More collaboration with states on audits that track down fraud; and
* Specifically outlining ways states can make Medicaid improvements without going through a waiver process.
For more information on the improvements made to Medicaid, please visit:
http://www.medicaid.gov/State-Resource-Center/Events-and-Announcements/Downloads/MMF_Jan-Dec-2012_FINAL.PDF
For the full text of today’s final rule, please go to:
http://www.ofr.gov/inspection.aspx
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2013pres/03/20130329a.html
This is a huge relief to those who would not be covered for conditions no one can afford. I will be passing this good news along to those who have loved ones dependent on Medicaid.
This is what the GOP wanted to slash and are doing in every state that they control. It will save the lives of many people we may never meet, but they are our fellow sojourners.
Thanks to ProSense for finding this story and letting me post it here. She posted it in GD, where you can see it here:
HHS finalizes rule guaranteeing 100 percent funding for new Medicaid beneficiaries
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2584523
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11028481
June 29, 2015
How The Ottoman Empire Lost The Province Of Greece
Published on Dec 28, 2013
(Posting the text, faster read than listening to the video):
The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution (Greek: ???????ή ????ά?????, Elliniki Epanastasi; Ottoman: يونان عصياني Yunan İsyanı "Greek Uprising"
, was a successful war of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between 1821 and 1832, with later assistance from Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and several other European powers against the Ottoman Empire, who were assisted by their vassals, the Eyalet of Egypt, and partly by the Beylik of Tunis.
Following the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottoman Empire in 1453, most of Greece came under Ottoman rule. During this time, there were some revolt attempts by Greeks to gain independence from Ottoman control. In 1814, a secret organization called the Filiki Eteria was founded with the aim of liberating Greece. The Filiki Eteria planned to launch revolts in the Peloponnese, the Danubian Principalities, and in Constantinople and its surrounding areas. The first of these revolts began on 6 March 1821 in the Danubian Principalities, but was soon put down by the Ottomans. The events in the north urged the Greeks in the Peloponnese into action and on 17 March 1821, the Maniots declared war on the Ottomans. This declaration was the start of a "Spring" or revolutionary actions from other controlled states against the Ottoman Empire.
By the end of the month, the Peloponnese was in open revolt against the Turks and by October 1821, the Greeks under Theodoros Kolokotronis had captured Tripolitsa. The Peloponnesian revolt was quickly followed by revolts in Crete, Macedonia, and Central Greece, which would soon be suppressed. Meanwhile, the makeshift Greek navy was achieving success against the Ottoman navy in the Aegean Sea and prevented Ottoman reinforcements from arriving by sea.
Tensions soon developed among different Greek factions, leading to two consecutive civil wars. Meanwhile, the Ottoman Sultan negotiated with Mehmet Ali of Egypt, who agreed to send his son Ibrahim Pasha to Greece with an army to suppress the revolt in return for territorial gain. Ibrahim landed in the Peloponnese in February 1825 and had immediate success: by the end of 1825, most of the Peloponnese was under Egyptian control, and the city of Missolonghi—put under siege by the Turks since April 1825—fell in April 1826. Although Ibrahim was defeated in Mani, he had succeeded in suppressing most of the revolt in the Peloponnese and Athens had been retaken.
Following years of negotiation, three Great Powers, Russia, Britain and France, decided to intervene in the conflict and each nation sent a navy to Greece. Following news that combined Ottoman--Egyptian fleets were going to attack the Greek island of Hydra, the allied fleet intercepted the Ottoman--Egyptian fleet at Navarino. Following a week long standoff, a battle began which resulted in the destruction of the Ottoman--Egyptian fleet. With the help of a French expeditionary force, the Greeks drove the Turks out of the Peloponnese and proceeded to the captured part of Central Greece by 1828. As a result of years of negotiation, Greece was finally recognized as an independent nation in May 1832.
The Revolution is celebrated on 25 March by the modern Greek state, which is a national day.
The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the subsequent fall of the successor states of the Byzantine Empire marked the end of Byzantine sovereignty. After that, the Ottoman Empire ruled the Balkans and Anatolia, with some exceptions.i[›] Orthodox Christians were granted some political rights under Ottoman rule, but they were considered inferior subjects. The majority of Greeks were called Rayah by the Turks, a name that referred to the large mass of non-Muslim subjects in the Ottoman ruling class.ii[›]
Meanwhile, Greek intellectuals and humanists, who had migrated west before or during the Ottoman invasions, such as Demetrius Chalcocondyles and Leonardos Philaras, began to call for the liberation of their homeland.Demetrius Chalcondyles called on Venice and "all of the Latins" to aid the Greeks against "the abominable, monstrous, and impious barbarian Turks". However, Greece was to remain under Ottoman rule for several more centuries.
The Greek Revolution was not an isolated event; numerous failed attempts at regaining independence took place throughout the history of the Ottoman era. Throughout the 17th century there was great resistance to the Ottomans in the Morea and elsewhere, as evidenced by revolts led by Dionysius the Philosopher. After the Morean War, the Peloponnese came under Venetian rule for 30 years, and remained in turmoil from then on and throughout the 17th century, as the bands of klephts multiplied.
I'm not against the nations being described there who have a shared history superceding our interpretation. We tend to look at the world in a recent lens, but this is in their DNA.
IMO, the EU was attempt at an USA style solution between decentralized powers and a central one whose goal is to keep all the member states in the best condition for trade and social unity. Sometimes the differing views can't be reconciled, but it would be in everyone's best interest in the EU's way of thinking to stay together and get along.
No one in their right mind (let me rephrase that - with a sound mind) wants another war in that region which has enjoyed some stability and prosperity for its citizenry.
No, I wasn't suggestng a war would take place between them again. But in their sphere of influence,
Yeah, I can see that happening and all of these nations have a long, long history of warfare, family and religious ties. I found this video with text showing how connected they are and can't help but be:
How The Ottoman Empire Lost The Province Of Greece
Published on Dec 28, 2013
(Posting the text, faster read than listening to the video):
The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution (Greek: ???????ή ????ά?????, Elliniki Epanastasi; Ottoman: يونان عصياني Yunan İsyanı "Greek Uprising"
, was a successful war of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between 1821 and 1832, with later assistance from Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and several other European powers against the Ottoman Empire, who were assisted by their vassals, the Eyalet of Egypt, and partly by the Beylik of Tunis.
Following the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottoman Empire in 1453, most of Greece came under Ottoman rule. During this time, there were some revolt attempts by Greeks to gain independence from Ottoman control. In 1814, a secret organization called the Filiki Eteria was founded with the aim of liberating Greece. The Filiki Eteria planned to launch revolts in the Peloponnese, the Danubian Principalities, and in Constantinople and its surrounding areas. The first of these revolts began on 6 March 1821 in the Danubian Principalities, but was soon put down by the Ottomans. The events in the north urged the Greeks in the Peloponnese into action and on 17 March 1821, the Maniots declared war on the Ottomans. This declaration was the start of a "Spring" or revolutionary actions from other controlled states against the Ottoman Empire.
By the end of the month, the Peloponnese was in open revolt against the Turks and by October 1821, the Greeks under Theodoros Kolokotronis had captured Tripolitsa. The Peloponnesian revolt was quickly followed by revolts in Crete, Macedonia, and Central Greece, which would soon be suppressed. Meanwhile, the makeshift Greek navy was achieving success against the Ottoman navy in the Aegean Sea and prevented Ottoman reinforcements from arriving by sea.
Tensions soon developed among different Greek factions, leading to two consecutive civil wars. Meanwhile, the Ottoman Sultan negotiated with Mehmet Ali of Egypt, who agreed to send his son Ibrahim Pasha to Greece with an army to suppress the revolt in return for territorial gain. Ibrahim landed in the Peloponnese in February 1825 and had immediate success: by the end of 1825, most of the Peloponnese was under Egyptian control, and the city of Missolonghi—put under siege by the Turks since April 1825—fell in April 1826. Although Ibrahim was defeated in Mani, he had succeeded in suppressing most of the revolt in the Peloponnese and Athens had been retaken.
Following years of negotiation, three Great Powers, Russia, Britain and France, decided to intervene in the conflict and each nation sent a navy to Greece. Following news that combined Ottoman--Egyptian fleets were going to attack the Greek island of Hydra, the allied fleet intercepted the Ottoman--Egyptian fleet at Navarino. Following a week long standoff, a battle began which resulted in the destruction of the Ottoman--Egyptian fleet. With the help of a French expeditionary force, the Greeks drove the Turks out of the Peloponnese and proceeded to the captured part of Central Greece by 1828. As a result of years of negotiation, Greece was finally recognized as an independent nation in May 1832.
The Revolution is celebrated on 25 March by the modern Greek state, which is a national day.
The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the subsequent fall of the successor states of the Byzantine Empire marked the end of Byzantine sovereignty. After that, the Ottoman Empire ruled the Balkans and Anatolia, with some exceptions.i[›] Orthodox Christians were granted some political rights under Ottoman rule, but they were considered inferior subjects. The majority of Greeks were called Rayah by the Turks, a name that referred to the large mass of non-Muslim subjects in the Ottoman ruling class.ii[›]
Meanwhile, Greek intellectuals and humanists, who had migrated west before or during the Ottoman invasions, such as Demetrius Chalcocondyles and Leonardos Philaras, began to call for the liberation of their homeland.Demetrius Chalcondyles called on Venice and "all of the Latins" to aid the Greeks against "the abominable, monstrous, and impious barbarian Turks". However, Greece was to remain under Ottoman rule for several more centuries.
The Greek Revolution was not an isolated event; numerous failed attempts at regaining independence took place throughout the history of the Ottoman era. Throughout the 17th century there was great resistance to the Ottomans in the Morea and elsewhere, as evidenced by revolts led by Dionysius the Philosopher. After the Morean War, the Peloponnese came under Venetian rule for 30 years, and remained in turmoil from then on and throughout the 17th century, as the bands of klephts multiplied.
I'm not against the nations being described there who have a shared history superceding our interpretation. We tend to look at the world in a recent lens, but this is in their DNA.
IMO, the EU was attempt at an USA style solution between decentralized powers and a central one whose goal is to keep all the member states in the best condition for trade and social unity. Sometimes the differing views can't be reconciled, but it would be in everyone's best interest in the EU's way of thinking to stay together and get along.
No one in their right mind (let me rephrase that - with a sound mind) wants another war in that region which has enjoyed some stability and prosperity for its citizenry.
June 29, 2015
Indeed, in his majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy articulated in one sentence the best of America – the self-corrective nature of our democracy. “The nature of injustice,” he wrote, “is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions, and so they entrusted to future generations a charter protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning.”
Over the past several years, America has come to understand the meaning of freedom as it relates to gay people and, with a healthy majority now supporting the idea that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness means the right to marry whomever you love, the Supreme Court ratified this sea change. Consider that when Barack Obama finally endorsed same-sex marriage in 2012, only six US states allowed it. Today, it is the law of the land. Obama was late to the game, but to a large extent that it happened on his watch is fitting, because during his presidency America has moved closer to the more perfect union that he movingly spoke of on the campaign trail in 2008.
In the glow of Friday’s decision on same-sex marriage, it was almost forgotten that a day earlier the Supreme Court beat back what is likely the last judicial effort to topple the president’s signature healthcare plan, Obamacare. While Obama must share credit with Democrats in Congress, it is one of his signature achievements. It is a law that doesn’t just provide a means of buying health insurance, but one that lessens the economic anxiety on poor and middle-class Americans and begins the repair of this nation’s increasingly tattered and frayed social safety net. That these court decisions happened within 24 hours were fitting – progress on economic justice and social justice under a president whose very presence in the White House is a symbol of racial reconciliation.
But then he went to South Carolina on Friday afternoon to speak at the funeral of Clementa Pinckney, the pastor of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church and one of the nine people slain in Charleston. There, he delivered one of the most extraordinary speeches by an American president. It unblinkingly touched on themes of deep institutional and implicit racism in US society. But it was also a hopeful sermon on the concept of grace and sin that, in a distinctly American way, sought to find reason for optimism in the face of indescribable horror. Here was a black president, speaking to an overwhelmingly black audience in the raucous and welcoming venue of a black church with words that were withering in their honesty and rawness, but also grounded in the basic ideals of not just Christian theology, but America’s secular ideology.
What MLK, Jr. saw and it took Obama to do it:
What has always made America a great nation is that for all our many flaws, we are established on a creed, one that is perhaps the simplest and yet most powerful political idea ever articulated, namely that all men are created equal. Living up to that ideal has been America’s arduous journey for 240 years and at the end of these 10 days we got that much closer to it. On Friday, the US Supreme Court ruled that gay Americans have the same right to marriage as other citizens.Indeed, in his majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy articulated in one sentence the best of America – the self-corrective nature of our democracy. “The nature of injustice,” he wrote, “is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions, and so they entrusted to future generations a charter protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning.”
Over the past several years, America has come to understand the meaning of freedom as it relates to gay people and, with a healthy majority now supporting the idea that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness means the right to marry whomever you love, the Supreme Court ratified this sea change. Consider that when Barack Obama finally endorsed same-sex marriage in 2012, only six US states allowed it. Today, it is the law of the land. Obama was late to the game, but to a large extent that it happened on his watch is fitting, because during his presidency America has moved closer to the more perfect union that he movingly spoke of on the campaign trail in 2008.
In the glow of Friday’s decision on same-sex marriage, it was almost forgotten that a day earlier the Supreme Court beat back what is likely the last judicial effort to topple the president’s signature healthcare plan, Obamacare. While Obama must share credit with Democrats in Congress, it is one of his signature achievements. It is a law that doesn’t just provide a means of buying health insurance, but one that lessens the economic anxiety on poor and middle-class Americans and begins the repair of this nation’s increasingly tattered and frayed social safety net. That these court decisions happened within 24 hours were fitting – progress on economic justice and social justice under a president whose very presence in the White House is a symbol of racial reconciliation.
But then he went to South Carolina on Friday afternoon to speak at the funeral of Clementa Pinckney, the pastor of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church and one of the nine people slain in Charleston. There, he delivered one of the most extraordinary speeches by an American president. It unblinkingly touched on themes of deep institutional and implicit racism in US society. But it was also a hopeful sermon on the concept of grace and sin that, in a distinctly American way, sought to find reason for optimism in the face of indescribable horror. Here was a black president, speaking to an overwhelmingly black audience in the raucous and welcoming venue of a black church with words that were withering in their honesty and rawness, but also grounded in the basic ideals of not just Christian theology, but America’s secular ideology.
June 29, 2015
Somewhat different than 'The Story of the Little Sparrow.' It went like this:
A little sparrow was flying south for the winter, but had stayed too long and it was snowing and ice coated his wings.
He finally lands in a snow drift and tries to get out. He can't do it and is still nearly covered in snow. Then a horse comes along, who doesn't see the bird struggling in the snow.
The horse relieves himself and takes a dump on the little sparrow. Who is depressed, bewailing his ignominious fate.
'This is the end!' He says to himself.
But the heat of the manure from the horse begins to melt the snow. The little sparrow is so happy as he is freed from the snow, he sings with joy.
A fox hears him and works to dig him out. The little sparrow exclaims happily.
'I'm saved!' Then the fox eats him.
The Moral of This Story Is:
Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy. Not everyone who digs you out of shit is your friend.
June 28, 2015
That was narrated by Russell Means. It descibes what a more natural view of life is.
It is only the desire for power or profit that goes toward another direction and we may commit suicide if we don't lighten up.
Some native prophecies say that our current 'civilization' have so far crossed the line that life on Earth for any human being is going to be extremely bleak and hostile for perhaps thousands of years. And it's not necessary.
Listen to what Means says.
He knew exactly what we have been moving toward. Not from trade treaties in recent memory, but something much larger. This is what has happened to nations and peoples of the world over the last 40 years and more. It is in effect, 'the culture of death.' Everything is considered dead or soon to be dead, and to be used for profit. That includes people as well.
Corporations don't care about what we do. But remember, it is people that achieve what they want by being a member of a corporation - mainly financial wealth. They seem to be a breed apart, who care little for diversity or anything alive.
Just because an idea is old or doesn't give one the rush of power many see from technical achievements, does not make it right or good for the long term. And it degrades those who have the power, just like the ones that it crushes. Like war, the so called winner also loses.
It's said by some natives there will have to be a melding of the different peoples to either head off or survive the catastrophe mankind has created with greed and bigotry.
The way that we treat water and land and living creatures of all kinds, reflect our values.
JHMO.
Not a fan of monoculture, pesticides, etc. It's been said often by natives it's all interconnected.
That was narrated by Russell Means. It descibes what a more natural view of life is.
It is only the desire for power or profit that goes toward another direction and we may commit suicide if we don't lighten up.
Some native prophecies say that our current 'civilization' have so far crossed the line that life on Earth for any human being is going to be extremely bleak and hostile for perhaps thousands of years. And it's not necessary.
Listen to what Means says.
He knew exactly what we have been moving toward. Not from trade treaties in recent memory, but something much larger. This is what has happened to nations and peoples of the world over the last 40 years and more. It is in effect, 'the culture of death.' Everything is considered dead or soon to be dead, and to be used for profit. That includes people as well.
Corporations don't care about what we do. But remember, it is people that achieve what they want by being a member of a corporation - mainly financial wealth. They seem to be a breed apart, who care little for diversity or anything alive.
Just because an idea is old or doesn't give one the rush of power many see from technical achievements, does not make it right or good for the long term. And it degrades those who have the power, just like the ones that it crushes. Like war, the so called winner also loses.
It's said by some natives there will have to be a melding of the different peoples to either head off or survive the catastrophe mankind has created with greed and bigotry.
The way that we treat water and land and living creatures of all kinds, reflect our values.
JHMO.
June 28, 2015
I'm very disappointed in Thom for doing this. I've never heard him joke at anyone but the GOP.
He's had Bernie on for a long time. Was Bernie on, I just have a hard time thinking he'd not tell Thom it was wrong. And on this week. why do so many have to be this way?
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