Displaying 121 To 150 Of 4,640 Comments The Court Ruling that Could Kill ACA The worship of the already successful and the disdain for the powerless is essentially the morality of a thug. Money and property should not be privileged above everything else– love, humanity, justice. » Posted By SallyT On July 8, 2014 @ 1:10 pm Kes, one of many things that the libertarian can’t do is point to a place in the world where their Utopian theories have worked. Sounds good, yes, but as the saying goes, “Sounds too good to be true.” » Posted By SallyT On July 8, 2014 @ 12:58 pm And, she hated Reagan, was pro-choice and she was an atheist. That atheist thing made Paul Ryan have to lie that he wasn’t her fan after all when running for VP. » Posted By SallyT On July 7, 2014 @ 8:29 pm Yep, just ask that dead opossum that is smashed in the middle of the road! » Posted By SallyT On July 7, 2014 @ 7:47 pm Homeless Veterans, America’s Secret Disgrace Nirek, thank you for keeping attention on this matter. I love Bernie Sanders and he is so passionate when he talks about the veterans. For these veterans the war is never over and most of them started when very young. And, it irritates me to no end when those people in Congress want us to go into more battles. Thank you for your service, Nirek. And, I am so glad that you had your family to help you when you came home. » Posted By SallyT On May 1, 2014 @ 9:42 pm Remember when President Bush said that he looked in Putin’s eyes and saw his soul and he is a good man. Well, I heard that Putin laughed and told friends, “He thought he saw my soul but really I had just passed gas.” 😉 » Posted By SallyT On March 4, 2014 @ 1:02 am Today the usual suspects on the GOP side have been gaga over Putin. He’s so strong, he’s a real leader, he’s makes a decision and goes gets approval and reacts. He is just wonderful! Now in the old days, they would be seen as communist sympathizers. But no not when we have a democrat President. It’s that Obama is weak and you have to give the commie credit. He sees our weakness. How would it have been if the Democrats had been like they are when we invaded Iraq. What if we had said that Hussien was just sitting at home and we should leave the man alone. That the UN could handle it. (Well, at least we would have been closer to fact.) Even when we knew something was wrong with this invasion, I don’t remember people being so disrespectful to President Bush at the time. I compliment President Obama for handling it as he has. I don’t think he can be pushed into anything by the warmongers. Perhaps he has studied the Cuban Crisis and how President Kennedy didn’t let anyone push him. However, I don’t think Putin is as smart as Khrushchev. Russia is not doing very well, and in fact much worst than us economically. They don’t have the money to fund too much. And, their investors and money elites depend on their oil being bought and they aren’t going to let him take them down. (The USSR collapsed because of a little invasion they took on in Afghanistan. And, ours sure hasn’t been a good invasion for us, either.) As far as we are concerned, well, we don’t have the money either and more importantly, our soldiers are tired! They can’t take this on. Many have done 5 tours now. So, I would say that a draft might become necessary, McCain! That will set the people off and you, McCain, will be shouted down from the streets. It is amazing that these warmongers think we can do this forever. We can’t! We don’t want to! » Posted By SallyT On March 4, 2014 @ 12:55 am Kes, Sarah Palin thought Putin would raise his head and where would he go???? To Alaska! This is where she inserted how you can see Russia from parts of Alaska. Tina Faye, wisely, took that to mean Palin could see Russia from her house! She is an idiot! » Posted By SallyT On March 4, 2014 @ 12:03 am The biggest war is in McCain’s head. He thinks he is winning but the MRI reveals that the troops have gone home. » Posted By SallyT On March 3, 2014 @ 11:47 pm Republicans Have The Answer to Poverty: The Poor Need to Be Poorer to Stop Being Poor And, CL, if Jesus doesn’t show up, they want to be the Taliban. They really don’t hate the Taliban, they are secretly jealous of them and the power of control they have on those that follow them. They show it in their attitudes of women and controlling their body’s. And, education. You control what is taught in educating your people, you control the growth of the brains of the people. » Posted By SallyT On February 13, 2014 @ 10:50 pm The Brains of Climate Change Deniers Are Frozen Okay, once we make those solar energy manufacturers, electric car manufacturers,and recharging stations on more corners people making lots of money, watch those attitudes change. They follow the money! The more self-efficient people become, the worst for the rich. You see, they need us more than we need them, once we are self contained. They will still need to protect their riches and that cost money. They’ll have to protect them because there won’t be many in the position to buy them or probably even want them because we won’t want the burden of protecting them! They will have to make that money somewhere. The good news is that the smart people are still smart and I am sure that they will out number the dumb in time if not already. You want to protect those riches, it is going to cost you more money in salaries and your greed has caused us to live with less, so, we are now more demanding ourselves. Okay, perhaps I am dreaming but I think a change is coming from the bottom up sooner everyday. I don’t waste my time trying to change the deniers, you can’t. But, I encourage those that are smart enough to know the truth. » Posted By SallyT On January 7, 2014 @ 2:41 am Huffington Post Goes NSA on Its Members Thanks, AdLib! Please let me know as soon as you can. » Posted By SallyT On December 14, 2013 @ 11:15 pm AdLib, did you see my message in HELP! Yes I am in a panic! Something is wrong and it is 10:00pm and I really, really, really don’t want to go back through the week and find them again………HELP! » Posted By SallyT On December 14, 2013 @ 10:04 pm Well, one good thing is that you can block them on FB. Some people do like to debate with them and I personally think most are planted to just disrupt the more liberal of progressive people on there. I have read that it is a procedure that is encouraged by the right programming people/money guys to interrupt as much as possible. Who knows…………. » Posted By SallyT On December 12, 2013 @ 10:12 pm Murph, it is all in the friends you follow on FB and you would be surprised to fine several you know there. You can also block people that you learn are just trolls and a bother. (And, that also includes relatives. You can choice want they can see, too.) It is not for everybody. If you do get more involved, you let me know so I can add you to my friend list! 🙂 » Posted By SallyT On December 12, 2013 @ 9:32 pm Murph, you always have more patience than me. And, thoughtful. You have kept up the fight on many issues long after many have walked away. Both the Planet and HP are lucky to have you and your input. I don’t frequent HP anymore and lately haven’t had much time here except for the funnies. I do, however, check on my Facebook account daily. I not only get some of the cartoons there but lots of my news and stuff I share here. It is a different atmosphere and it also can get very frustrating there. (Especially with my friends and relatives home in Missouri! Not you, Murph! But, have I told you lately that I am from Oregon now?) Anyway, you keep up the fight and you know where to find me….Sunday in the Funnies! » Posted By SallyT On December 12, 2013 @ 8:39 pm Okay, I do have a Facebook account and I enjoy it as the social media that it is intended to be. However, just in the last several days, we have been inundated with trolls on there. Many we have never seen before. Thanks a lot Huffington Post for giving direction to our bridge! But, we have some really good Billy Goat Gruff’s (also regulars here) that have been chasing them back under it! » Posted By SallyT On December 12, 2013 @ 8:12 pm Hello Pinkpatheroz and welcome. You can start any discussion in Time Out/Off Topic. Just ask people their thoughts on a subject and you will get response, trust me. Or post an article. People will give you their opinions or thoughts. Sometimes there might be a “fluff” piece but it is just to lighten things up. Enjoy! PS You will find me in The Sunday Funnies On The Planet every Sunday. I will accumulate cartoons from the previous week and post all in the Funnies for you to review the weeks best or worst. Sometimes you might even find a few on those Karwhatevertheirnameis if I have picked up a cartoon pertaining. All in fun. I do pick a few from the Right Side just so you can see how ignorant they can be on any political issue but there will always be more from the Left hitting much better on the truth of the matter or joking on the other sides crazies. I love to receive comments and hearing if you had a favorite. Hope to see you there! (And, the Funnies section was added so the cartoons didn’t take up space in the conversation areas. But, if you have one you think I need to see because I missed it, please, add it over there in the Funnies section for all to see!) » Posted By SallyT On December 12, 2013 @ 7:07 pm Hitler Descendants Sue GOP For Copyright Infringement AdLib, this was scheduled for the Sunday Funnies but I think I will have to bring it out early. It fits too well right here! [img]https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1455089_10151859643501275_1608261143_n.jpg[/img] » Posted By SallyT On December 10, 2013 @ 10:53 pm The Weekend Music Thread-A Tribute To Nelson Mandela KT, 33 years ago today we lost the first of our Beatles and one of the greatest musician. I think this is appropriate for both President Mandela and John Lennon, one of his own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRhq-yO1KN8 » Posted By SallyT On December 8, 2013 @ 8:36 am The GOP Problem with the Problem About the Problem with Obamacare You get’em, CL!!!! » Posted By SallyT On December 4, 2013 @ 1:29 am The JFK Assassination in the Eyes of an American British School Boy I think that is true of most famous or notable people. They become bigger after death. Except maybe for Hitler…… Anyway, if you did not care for them while they were alive, you most likely won’t even after. My feelings on President Reagan. Although, I can find somethings to compliment him on if I try…….he had a sense of humor. » Posted By SallyT On November 23, 2013 @ 6:24 pm One more thing, sorry Murph, but the portrait that Jackie Kennedy chose to hang in the White House, the one you posted, is so wonderful. It was from a photo that had been taken of the President, not exactly, but used as a source. It was a favorite of his. He didn’t know it was taken. He had given a speech, I think in Sept or Oct to a young audience at a college. The young people hadn’t responded to his speech as he had hoped. He had left there and later in the evening had taken a walk along a river in casual clothes. He had stopped and was looking down staring at the water in thought, arms crossed. Someone took his picture. He liked it because it showed that he was vulnerable and needed to be better to reach the people and had much more work to do. He shared this with his wife and Jackie remembered it. » Posted By SallyT On November 22, 2013 @ 5:13 pm Murph, if you were of a certain age in 1963, that day still rings close in your mind and heart. I was in the 8th grade and my best friend and I were in the Nurse’s office listening to the radio. (It wasn’t a day that the Nurse was to be there. She came like once a week or so. She attended several schools.) It was after lunch and we went there to listening to music but there was a break in with the news that the President had been shot. We ran to our class room and everyone was gathering. The principal came across the intercom and said that the President had died. There was a loud gasp and we all started talking. Now my teacher wasn’t like yours, she wasn’t calm. She shouted at us to sit down and shut up. She was shaking. The principal dismissed all of us and told us to go home to our families. I don’t remember walking home but I do remember walking into the house and Mom sitting there in front of the TV crying. She looked at me and asked if I had heard. I said yes and sit down with her. I don’t remember Mom and I leaving that TV for 3 days. I still have my scrapbook from that time with articles I cut from the paper and the Life magazines. All Presidents have their flaws and history records them. But, history records the good along with the bad. We aren’t prefect and neither are Presidents. But, President Kennedy was different from those we had known up to that time in our life. Young, handsome, humorous, with a beautiful wife and young family and trying to make a difference. He was cut down in front of us, not with votes but with a mail order gun. We still haven’t learned from that where guns are concerned. We lost much that day in our lives. We were young, innocent and idealistic. I morn that lost, not for me alone but for all those that have come after that horrific act of violence. Attitudes have changed. Thank you for sharing your story. I hope you don’t mind that I shared mine. » Posted By SallyT On November 22, 2013 @ 4:58 pm Take care, Kalima! Sometimes we all need a break from the rat races. You deserve yours. Yes, you are a survivor and you will continue to be. But, rest awhile and put your feet up, if you can. To quote Miss Scarlet, “I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about that tomorrow. After all, tomorrow is another day!” 😉 » Posted By SallyT On July 8, 2014 @ 5:04 pm Right back at you, Kalima! Enjoy! » Posted By SallyT On December 24, 2013 @ 3:02 am Cl, these “savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction”, well, that same warfare is used by us to win our independence from the King. The British Army didn’t know how to defend against it. So, Jefferson complaining to “He”, the King, about not helping them defend against the “savages” ends up being the best thing because the King’s army didn’t know how to fight like that but the Colonist had learned the methods. » Posted By SallyT On November 22, 2013 @ 4:15 pm Hey KT, in this context “He” is the King of England. Jefferson is addressing the King and accusing him of exciting the natives to attack. Jefferson is also accusing the King of not assisting in fighting the “savages”. The merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.” » Posted By SallyT On November 22, 2013 @ 4:01 pm Good! Just know I am here, if you need someone out of the immediate family. » Posted By SallyT On November 20, 2013 @ 4:01 pm CL, that quote about “the merciless Indians savages” above is Jefferson’s words in the Declaration. The whole text is: “He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.” The Founding Fathers were all white men after all. » Posted By SallyT On November 19, 2013 @ 8:53 pmComments Posted By SallyT
So, Kes, the only prediction that Sarah Kreskin Palin saw was Putin invading Alaska and her front porch. But, even Putin doesn’t want Palin!
Just like using the Native Indians language as code in WWII. We learned much from them but not enough. We never learned to respect our Mother Earth as their religion and spirituality had taught them. What you take from her, you must give back.
At the time, the governors that the King had in place, had agreements with the Native Indians not to venture further into the territories that had been set aside for them. However, the Colonist were doing just that. Our Founding Fathers weren’t always the good guys, KT. I am sure that if we had stayed under the King’s rule, the same would have happened but of course the military would have been more involved. That is Jefferson’s complaint. Jefferson is saying that the King has left them to fend for themselves against the “savages”. The savages who were fighting so hard to keep something for them from these invaders. Later once we have won our independence, President Jackson takes care of these “savages” and gains the land. See the Trail of Tears.
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You only have to look at those beautiful Appalachian Mountains, the Hudson Valley, and the beaches of the Carolinas to understand why the Native Indians fought so hard to keep it.
The Native Americans are very much for the ACA and hope for its success.
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