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cross-posted from stellar fellow female blogger: UPPITY WOMAN! --------------- Petition here. Also please refer to my previous post entitled “I can’t find the missing 2.2 Trillion!“ Next time you hear the Republicans and/or Democrats,your cold, fear-mongering President and their hitman Alan Simpson throw around the bullcrap, remember this petition. It affects you, because even if you are not a senior, that 2.2 Trillion Congressional thieves have skimmed into the General Fund all these years is your money too. These people are thieves and they don’t know how to wiggle out of their thievery, so they have decided to punish their victims instead. Petition text: SOURCE To the United States Congress Whereas, Congress for more than a quarter century has been engaged in a shameful Raid on Social Security surpluses and leaving behind IOUs written to itself; and Whereas, Social Security no longer is running regular annual surpluses; and Whereas, Congress must take im...

In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me — and by that time no one was left to speak up. - Pastor Martin Niemöller I am a disabled - woman - over 50. Three strikes? Are they coming for me? then you? Why everyone in the heath care fight—including Obama—plays on the anxieties of the elderly. By Christopher Beam First came the "birthers." Now, as President Obama makes a final push for health care reform, we have the deathers. Many senior citizens are concerned that health care reform would mean cuts to Medicare. That much was clear at a town-hall meeting hosted Tuesday by the American Association of Retired Persons at wh...

From the ALWAYS great & on-point Uppity Woman: Count Us Out has the concise explanation of the new mandatory meaning of the word “volunteer”. For all the little Comrades who shouted YES WE CAN!, well guess what? YES YOU WILL!. Here’s what Congress has been up to while they were diverting our attention to AIG: The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, known as the GIVE Act, was passed yesterday by a 321-105 margin and now goes to the Senate. Under section 6104 of the bill, entitled “Duties,” in subsection B6, the legislation states that a commission will be set up to investigate, “Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed, and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.” Section 120 of the b...

INTERNATIONAL KABBALAH CONGRESS IN ISRAEL 2008 (" ...Since there is a wonderful merit for those who study the wisdom of Kabbalah and although they do not understand what they study, it is from their strong desire to understand what they study, that they bring upon themselves the Lights which surround their souls", Baal HaSulam, Introduction to Talmud of the ten Spheres.) About the Congress What Is an International Kabbalah Congress? An International Kabbalah Congress is a gathering of Kabbalah students who meet from all parts of the world to participate in mutual lessons with Kabbalist Rav Michael Laitman PhD, discussions, seminars, workshops, Yeshivot Haverim (Friends’ Gatherings), meals, songs and other activities with the aim of increasing the spiritual connection between one another, and humanity at large. What Does "Unity & Dissemination" Mean? The aim of Kabbalah is to attain spirituality—to reveal the complete picture of nature, achieve world peace, etern...

THE TURDBLOSSOMS ARE IN BLOOM AGAIN Karl, Karl, Karl - what are we going to do with you? I caught your performance on Fox News on Sunday. I bet Rep. Chris Van Hollen went home and took a hot shower after talking to you... or attempting to. I get as fed up with media spin as everyone else. I get fed up when people try to lie to me or play me for a fool. That tells me one horrible thing: THAT I WAS NOT WORTH THE TRUTH. Please don't bother telling me you were 'trying to let me down easy' or you 'knew I'd be hurt.' And Karl, what's your excuse? Karl, do you think the American people are such morons that they would actually believe your non-stop rewriting of history, bending of the time space continuum and denial of already well-documented facts? Come on. That reeks of some sort of mental disorder. Karl, you're not on the job anymore. I know a couple great therapists who work with antisocials like you in the D.C. area. They're discreet. I know yo...

I GUESS THAT'S WHY THEY CALL IT THE BLUES What is the most powerful means to understand the importance of something? Personal experience. My battle with post-partum depression started about 5 days after my cesaerean. I had gone first into shock in the operating room and was fully awake, hearing my newborns cry while my body convulsed uncontrollably. My ex-husband and obstetrician laid over my torso; the latter kept talking to me so I would stay concious. My recovery was slow. My disability returned with a vengenance and I bled out for many months after the delivery. It didn't help that my ex-husband returned almost 2 months later to a full schedule. Work I would understand. However, all his other activities resumed without so much as a blip. I would get calls during the day from his buddies from these outside activities saying "why is he back? isn't he helping you? do you have help?" The answers were 'I don't know' and 'NO.' Coupled wit...

New Poll Shows Majority Favors Impeachment - It Also Shows Independents Aren't "In the Middle" at all. By Dave Lindorff from THE SMIRKING CHIMP The latest poll by American Research Group [1], showing that 54 percent of Americans favor impeaching Vice President Dick Cheney, and that 46 percent favor impeaching President Bush, is encouraging news for impeachment advocates. Despite a corporate media blackout on impeachment that means almost nobody in the country knows that there is already a Cheney impeachment bill in the House with 14 co-sponsors (HR 333), over half the country nonetheless wants Cheney to get the boot. And despite House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's insistence that "impeachment is off the table," almost half the people in the country say they want the president impeached. But other information in this scientific poll, which was conducted by random telephone calls to 1100 Americans during July 2-3, should have Democrats like Pelosi and other party le...

HELP PASS THE WELLSTONE BILL FOR MENTAL HEALTH PARITY What is the Wellstone Bill? The bill we now refer to as the Wellstone bill is one that Paul Wellstone championed for years in the U.S. Senate. The Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act is legislation that would end the practice of insurance companies discriminating against people suffering from mental illness. Sponsored by Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and Wellstone's friend Representative Jim Ramstad (R-MN), the bill would compel insurance companies to treat mental illness the same as physical illness, given the overwhelming scientific evidence that mental illness is a disease every bit as real and serious as physical illness. This practice is often referred to as "mental health parity." Wellstone worked on mental health illnesses extensively in the Senate, and collaborated for a decade with his colleague Senator Pete Domenici (R-MN) on parity legislation. Despite differing political views, t...

New York State Has No More 2-1-1 Service... Yet (Washington, DC) - At a press conference today on Capitol Hill with United Way, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) announced that she has reintroduced legislation along with Senator Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) to bring 2-1-1 service nationwide. The service provides individuals and families who need non-emergency assistance with a link to appropriate non-profit and government agencies to find and give help without disrupting emergency phone lines. "We learned first-hand after 9/11 and in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita how critical 2-1-1 is to helping people in crisis find and connect to needed services. Too often people who need help accessing services don't know where to turn. The 2-1-1 system provides an easy-to-remember and universally available phone number that links individuals and families in need and should be made available in all fifty states," said Senator Clinton. The Calling for 2-1-1 Act helps peop...