Daily Archives: August 23, 2012

Fight Back Against Todd Akin – Help Place VoteVets’ McCaskill Ad

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The Fight Back Against Todd Akin – Help Place VoteVets’ McCaskill Ad is the web page to go to in order to support the placement of the following ad:




Claire currently sits on four? Senate Committees, including Armed Services, Commerce, HSGAC and Aging. From those committees, she’s taken on: accountability and transparency, earmark reform, increased independence for Inspectors General (IG) that act as federal auditors, credit card regulations, security improvements to foreign repair stations that service our domestic aircraft, reforms to the reverse mortgage industry, consumer protections, and full benefits and resources for our brave veterans.



This is an excellent ad that just makes the positive case for Claire McCaskill. It just ignores her opponent, which is what he deserves.  Of course if you want to beat some other Republican over the head, references to Akin are just great.


    

    
                                    

                                
                                                            
                                                                    

                                        
    

              

          
Tell Obama and Congress: No Compromise on Social Security and Medicare
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I thought that Romney/Ryan were scary enough on Social Security/Medicare, but this is almost more scary. Fortunately, Roots Action may be going a little overboard. The date for the citation for what Obama said was the date the article was published. There is no indication in the article of how long ago Obama said it. The date of the citation for Biden’s remarks might actually be the date that Biden made the remarks. Still, there is no harm in taking out a little insurance by letting the President know how you feel.






The Romney-Ryan platform includes big cuts to Social Security and Medicare. But here’s something the New York Times reported this month about President Obama:


“He particularly believes that Democrats do not receive enough credit for their willingness to accept cuts in Medicare and Social Security.”


It’s time we asked the President and every member of Congress to commit to not cutting a dime from Medicare or Social Security.


Roots Action has a web page where you can go to send a message to the President and your Congress people about not cutting Social Security or Medicare by one red cent until all other avenues have been tried. When the wealthy are paying theit fair share of taxes again, then and only then will I listen to arguments about cutting Medicare, Social Security, and other investments in the future of this country.


    

    
                                    

                                
                                                            
                                                                    

                                        
    

              

          
Podunk Is An Actual Town
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Mr. Boffo Cartoon





I sent an email to Joe Martin, the Mr. Boffo cartoon’s author.



I am sure you will get many emails from all the various towns around the country called Podunk.


Here is a link to Podunk Cemetery, on Podunk Rd, just off the Podunk Pike.  This is in Brookfield, Massachusetts.


Here is a link to the East Brookfield web site.


“In 1673 a significant portion of the plantation became the town of Brookfield, which then included the villages of West Brookfield, North Brookfield, East Brookfield and Podunk. ”





    

    
                                    

                                
                                                            
                                                                    

                                        
    

              

          
A Tea Partier Decided To Pick A Fight With A Foreign President
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DonF sent me a link to the article A Tea Partier Decided To Pick A Fight With A Foreign President.



Michael D. Higgins (who was elected president of Ireland last year) is fed up with over-the-top Tea Party rhetoric, and he isn’t afraid to show it. Listen to him call out radio host Michael Graham on everything from health care to foreign policy. Trust me, you don’t want to miss this one.










This man must have learned something about filibuster when he lived in the USA.