My political safe place....hear me rant....: January 2013

Monday, January 28, 2013

The Presidents calls out Fox News and Rush

I love it when my President is brave enough to call out the scum of the media, Fox News and tell it like it is. Awesome!

"One of the biggest factors is going to be how the media shapes debates. If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you’ll see more of them doing it.
I think John Boehner genuinely wanted to get a deal done, but it was hard to do in part because his caucus is more conservative probably than most Republican leaders are, and partly because he is vulnerable to attack for compromising Republican principles and working with Obama.
The same dynamic happens on the Democratic side. I think the difference is just that the more left-leaning media outlets recognize that compromise is not a dirty word. And I think at least leaders like myself—and I include Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in this—are willing to buck the more absolutist-wing elements in our party to try to get stuff done."

Truer words have never been spoken. I completely agree that Boehner was trying to do his job and compromise...but bc of the pressure from hot heads like those seen on Fox News and silly radio shows, the right wingers were fired up and not willing to work it out. Furthermore, the Dems are guilty of pressuring things...but it is within reason...it never goes as far as Fox or Rush or Beck...all the dirty words that feel filthy leaving my lips. Those people care more about profit than progress; more about ratings than reason. If anyone is called unpatriotic it should be those people....

Thanks goes to this article where I read this quote from our President: http://www.politicususa.com/obama-calls-rush-limbaugh-fox-news-poisoning-national-discourse.html HERE

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Repubs are at it again...war on women

I am an advocate for protecting evidence to prove someone guilty of something as serious and traumatic as rape...but this is UNREAL! Sure enough....it is happening...not in another country...but yes...the U.S. of A!
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

had to do it...

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Vice President Meets with Video Game Industry | The White House

The Inauguration

I LOVED every second I saw of the Inauguration! It was such a day of celebration. I loved the music, the poems, the candid moments and of course the President's speech was a highlight! I found it highly appropriate that Mr. President celebrated his beginning of his second term (after being the first black President to being the first black President re-elected for a 2nd term), on Martin Luther King Jr Day! Even if you disagree with the politics of the President...you have to (if you are reasonable) agree that this family is adorable and that they are good people. And I could not help but feel connected to American history...and American tradition as I watched the proceedings throughout the day...live. It was awesome! If you want to see some funny moments including a look Michelle gave Boehner at the luncheon and Al Roker's freak out as they (the President, First lady and VP and Jill Biden) walked 1/2 mile of the parade route click here.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

89-8 bipartisan vote in Senate...Congress?

It is up to Congress...we shall see what they do. I can't imagine them not passing this through...but then again, we are talking about people like Boehner! So anything is possible. These men and women on the right are looking out for one thing...the wealthy Americans. They could care less about middle class families. They are dysfunctional to say the least...corrupt is a better term to me...but we will stick with dysfunctional bc they are NOT functioning. This term was used by a (Dem) majority leader Senator Harry Reid and I liked it in describing the current congress men and women. Such a shame and so embarrassing from an international stand point. People cannot believe our representatives do not know how to compromise. Both sides are embarrassing...but as JFK said...."We cannot negotiate with people who say, 'What's mine is yours and what's yours is negotiable.'" The Democrats compromised...let's see if the Republicans can.

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Quote of the day:

BYU commencement in 1972, President Brown counseled graduating students to “Strive to develop a maturity of mind and emotion and a depth of spirit which enables you to differ with others on matters of politics without calling into question the integrity of those with whom you differ. Allow within the bounds of your definition of religious orthodoxy variation of political belief. Do not have the temerity to dogmatize on issues where the Lord has seen fit to be silent.” He also warned, “beware of those who feel obliged to prove their own patriotism by calling into question the loyalty of others. Be skeptical of those who attempt to demonstrate their love of country by demeaning its institutions.”

And when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information
Oh, they can bend it all they want
John Mayer: "Waiting on the World to Change"

"Let us learn respect for others if we are to realize the abundant life. Man, by nature, is tempted to seek only his glory and not the glory of his neighbor or the glory of his God. None of us lives alone—in our city, our nation, or our world. There is no dividing line between our prosperity and our neighbor’s poverty."

-Thomas S Monson

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Scripture of the day:

Scriptures to have in our hearts when we vote!

"That now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality." — 2 Corinthians 8:14

"Renounce war and proclaim peace." — D&C 98:16

"And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them." — Moses 7:18

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction." — James 1:27

"Plead the cause of the poor and the needy." — D&C 124:75

"We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied." — D&C 134:9

"And now, because of the steadiness of the church they began to be exceedingly rich, having abundance of all things whatsoever they stood in need—an abundance of flocks and herds, and fatlings of every kind, and also abundance of grain, and of gold, and of silver, and of precious things, and abundance of silk and fine-twined linen, and all manner of good homely cloth. And thus, in their prosperous circumstances, they did not send away any who were naked, or that were hungry, or that were athirst, or that were sick, or that had not been nourished; and they did not set their hearts upon riches; therefore they were liberal to all, both old and young, both bond and free, both male and female, whether out of the church or in the church, having no respect to persons as to those who stood in need." —Alma 1:29-30

Hel 4:12-13
12 And it was because of the ^apride of their hearts, because of their exceeding ^briches, yea, it was because of their oppression to the ^cpoor, withholding their food from the hungry, withholding their clothing from the naked, and smiting their humble brethren upon the cheek, making a ^dmock of that which was sacred, denying the spirit of prophecy and of revelation, murdering, plundering, lying, stealing, committing adultery, rising up in great contentions, and deserting away into the land of Nephi, among the Lamanites—

13 And because of this their great wickedness, and their ^aboastings in their own strength, they were left in their own strength; therefore they did not prosper, but were afflicted and smitten, and driven before the Lamanites, until they had lost possession of almost all their lands.