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September 17, 2018

What is the deal with Susan Collins's speech pattern?

do we know? Have always wondered..

September 17, 2018

MSNBC breaking: Kavanaugh was not AT the party !!

all that strategizing at the WH all day and this is what they came up with !! No party !!

September 17, 2018

Local Catholic Church insert in Sunday Paper: ROE V WADE ON THE BRINK? Shame on them.

I happened to pick up the bulletin(Sunday newsletter you get at the Mass) from St Peter's Catholic Church Stevens Point, WI....the usual stuff...when out fell a blue 8x10 insert page Titled: ROE V WADE ON THE BRINK?

It invites all to ....

"a forum Oct 23( just prior to election day, I see) where the speaker, Ben Nguyen, will talk about the 1973 SC ruling Roe v Wade, which has been in the news almost daily since the SC nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. There is a sense that the addition of Kavanaugh to the high court might lead to the overturning of Roe v Wade. Of course that prospect fills pro-lifers with hope and abortion rights activists with dread.

You will be blessed if you can make it on Oct 23. It is a striking fact that even many legal experts who support abortion believe Roe v Wade was poorly reasoned in light of the Constitution. But in the midst of the heated national debate, can we as Catholics, who support the sanctity of every human life, explain why?

How does Roe v Wade square with the Constitution? How did the Court justify it? Where has that decision led? What would happen if Rod v Wade were overturned? What's he biggest takeaway from all this for a Catholic? What do we really know about Roe v Wade, beyond the fact that it legalized abortion in all 50 states? As a civil and canon lawyer, and as a teacher with a knack for boiling things down for the average person...

We need to pray, we need to advocate on behalf of life and we need to be informed..."
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Back to me: Yeah, informed by this "expert Catholic guy" !! I find this obscene, this blatant Republican voter proseltizing.....I will guarantee these folks put Bush in, Trump in, and will continue to vote the way their Church tells them to. I have alot of clergy in my family, incl my Dad who became a priest in his 40s, and he would NEVER stoop to this crap. Serving in the Navy at 17 in WW 2, he was an American and he knew what separation of church and state meant.

I would ask that any comments stick to this topic, and not seguey to sex abuse. This OP is about telling parishoners how to vote.

September 16, 2018

When I was seven Gary Konkol put a bee down my dress....

I have told you before that I write letters for progressive DEMS since 2009. Last month it was the Constitutional Convention....lots of serious info to impart, not much room to play...500 word limit...this time I played abit. How Trump and his ilk smash public dialogue.

Published Friday. Portage Co Gazette The Katrina(Shankland) I refer to is my state Rep and one of my best pals. Splendid orator. And my Dad was a Catholic priest, so had a snazzy funeral ....Please to enjoy. Jody.


CYRANO BEE WARNS: NO DIALOGUE EQUALS CHAOS

When I was seven Gary Konkol put a bee down my dress. Caught in my unders, it stung and bit me. Sister Regina made Gary write "I will not put a bee down a girl's dress" 200 times on the blackboard. He said he did it because he liked me. Failed communication all the way around.

Fast Forward, we're 13 and my job was to hold our clunky yellow telephone with the long cord that snaked its way through our kitchen to the attic, so my brother and Gary could play guitar to each other. Sparked by the BEATLES and WLS, both became magnificent musicians. From Ed Sullivan to the guys' fingertips, dazzling communication.

The most emotional part of Dad's funeral was the sanctuary packed with ivory clad clergy passing verse like the BAND performing "The Weight". Contrast that with the Aretha/McCain funerals. Both had great gatherings of emotion, almost frightening in its intensity, because we know it was aimed at a solitary angry unbalanced man left back at the White House. Nobody invited the guy with his bag of bees. Unusual funeral discourse.

Kamala Harris asked Kavanaugh whether he could think of any laws governing control of a man's body. Pointed dialogue, alas, he declined to participate. DeVoss is considering replacing K-12 schooling with just watching Fox News all day, a fun twist for the children. No dialogue. There are generations growing up now learning to lie, and hate half the country.Trump's erased the diagrammed sentences from our blackboards. Phrontifugic Sister Regina might like a crack at Tan Grampa. Remember when your mom told you to wipe that scowl off your face lest it become permanent? That's our souls now.

Tangerine Idi Amin and his ilk came in with populist language, married to big money and thoroughly lacking in honesty and integrity. Trump has made mendacity/lying a way of life. Media reports in the Florida governor's race the Republican will spend three million a day diminishing his Democratic opponent, devaluing public dialogue.

Dialogue has to begin in the streets, classrooms, homes. We cannot rely on TV or the internet. The Republican political aim is to privatize everything. Healthcare, schools, dialogue, all pushed to the margins.

John Dewey said a democracy that's lost the art of public dialogue is a democracy on it's way to chaos. He said that in 1927. 90 years later we see exactly what he meant. Two years before my bee incident Kruschev said "We will destroy the US from within". The undertaker 's been installed in the White House.

Wake up. Brush your teeth hard. Stare in the mirror for signs of life. Find your own Ed Sullivan: Beto, Kap, De Niro, Katrina. Become a threat to the tyranny of the dull mind. Dialogue!

September 16, 2018

Wake up. Brush your teeth hard. Stare in the mirror for signs of life. (My Sept LTE for our WI DEMS)

I have told you before that I write letters for progressive DEMS since 2009. Last month it was the Constitutional Convention....lots of serious info to impart, not much room to play...500 word limit...this time I played abit. How Trump and his ilk smash public dialogue.

Published Friday. Portage Co Gazette The Katrina(Shankland) I refer to is my state Rep and one of my best pals. Splendid orator. And my Dad was a Catholic priest, so had a snazzy funeral ....Please to enjoy. Jody.


CYRANO BEE WARNS: NO DIALOGUE EQUALS CHAOS

When I was seven Gary Konkol put a bee down my dress. Caught in my unders, it stung and bit me. Sister Regina made Gary write "I will not put a bee down a girl's dress" 200 times on the blackboard. He said he did it because he liked me. Failed communication all the way around.

Fast Forward, we're 13 and my job was to hold our clunky yellow telephone with the long cord that snaked its way through our kitchen to the attic, so my brother and Gary could play guitar to each other. Sparked by the BEATLES and WLS, both became magnificent musicians. From Ed Sullivan to the guys' fingertips, dazzling communication.

The most emotional part of Dad's funeral was the sanctuary packed with ivory clad clergy passing verse like the BAND performing "The Weight". Contrast that with the Aretha/McCain funerals. Both had great gatherings of emotion, almost frightening in its intensity, because we know it was aimed at a solitary angry unbalanced man left back at the White House. Nobody invited the guy with his bag of bees. Unusual funeral discourse.

Kamala Harris asked Kavanaugh whether he could think of any laws governing control of a man's body. Pointed dialogue, alas, he declined to participate. DeVoss is considering replacing K-12 schooling with just watching Fox News all day, a fun twist for the children. No dialogue. There are generations growing up now learning to lie, and hate half the country.Trump's erased the diagrammed sentences from our blackboards. Phrontifugic Sister Regina might like a crack at Tan Grampa. Remember when your mom told you to wipe that scowl off your face lest it become permanent? That's our souls now.

Tangerine Idi Amin and his ilk came in with populist language, married to big money and thoroughly lacking in honesty and integrity. Trump has made mendacity/lying a way of life. Media reports in the Florida governor's race the Republican will spend three million a day diminishing his Democratic opponent, devaluing public dialogue.

Dialogue has to begin in the streets, classrooms, homes. We cannot rely on TV or the internet. The Republican political aim is to privatize everything. Healthcare, schools, dialogue, all pushed to the margins.

John Dewey said a democracy that's lost the art of public dialogue is a democracy on it's way to chaos. He said that in 1927. 90 years later we see exactly what he meant. Two years before my bee incident Kruschev said "We will destroy the US from within". The undertaker 's been installed in the White House.

Wake up. Brush your teeth hard. Stare in the mirror for signs of life. Find your own Ed Sullivan: Beto, Kap, De Niro, Katrina. Become a threat to the tyranny of the dull mind. Dialogue!

September 16, 2018

I lived with a sociopath and liar. They really really believe what they say.

All this time trying to analyze Trump...wasted time. I lived with a sociopath and liar. They are not wired like us, there is no reforming them or changing them. They really really believe what they say. When Trump says 6 died in Puerto Rico he believes that. And they believe they are superior....do not question him...

I used to watch Peter study people so he would know how to react like a normal person, when he had to impress someone....get out of a jam....but Trump never had to do that, his $$ always bailed him out.

The pundits (and we citizens)have to stop 2nd guessing him...what will he do....why did he say that....how can he get away with that....because America elected him President SOMEHOW....he is a damaged excuse of a human being. All we can do is VOTE and get out alive and hope to God Mueller puts him where he belongs. The rest is wasted air...life is too short to give this guy too much of our thought, emotion, anger.

I do mourn how generations are growing up now learning it is ok to lie and hate 1/2 the country, tho..we took our country for granted.

September 15, 2018

MSNBC has Rachel brand new show tonite...

they have the regular M-F line up. Chris is new, Rachel is new and Lawrence is yesterday's show...no dateline !!

September 15, 2018

Has FuckFace cancelled flu shots?

usually mid August we start getting them here...is something different this year? There are no posted notices or anything.

September 12, 2018

We had 8 YEARS listening to y'all act like Jeremiah Wright/Bill Ayers were Obama's fucking groomsmen

Republican Florida Governor candidate Ron DeSantis’ actions keep “monkeying up” his chances to hide his apparent mega-racism from voters, and once again I assure you that “monkey up” is a very common slang phrase. The Washington Post reports he’s addressed what they’re calling “racially charged events,” which is journo-speak for “Klan rallies with hors d’oeuvres and little plastic champagne glasses.”

Look here, motherfuckers, we spent EIGHT YEARS listening to y’all act like Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers were Obama’s fucking groomsmen, so when one of your boys hangs out at this little hate party FOUR DIFFERENT YEARS alongside the likes of Seb Gorka, Bannon, that little Milo peckerwood, Katie Hopkins, Geert Wilders, (GEERT FUCKING WILDERS? It’s a white supremacist all-star team!) then yes, we are going to judge you by the scuzzbucket company you keep.

FERRET.

September 12, 2018

Vaginal crossing guard Brett Kavanaugh just said AGAIN that birth control is abortion.

This vaginal crossing guard Brett Kavanaugh just said AGAIN that birth control is abortion. Are ya gettin it NOW Susan Collins?

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