Still on the mend
Hey, all -
I'm still recovering after the whopper of a cold I got in the Big City. Oi. At least I am feeling better and better.
Still not well enough to write a lengthy intro to this post...all I can say is come for the star banners and stay for the m00vies!
As always...
Don't forget to read Dot Calm's shadow's favorite independent sources of news and information:
Daily Kos
AlterNet
Democracy Now!
Conservatives are Destroying our Future
Conservative Clown Car
Americans Against the Republican Party
Americans Against the Tea Party
Mrs. Betty Bowers
God, the Good Lord Above
...And, whatever you do,
VOTE BERNIE!!!!!
If at all possible, send him a buck o' five.
Especially now that Hillary won in NY.
Don't forget to hug and kiss your loved ones today, and please be good to yourselves because I'd give all of you a chocolate-frosted, chocolate-filled, chocolate Pop Tart right now if I could...toasted all perfectly...flaky and slightly browned crust on the outside and molten warm fudgy gooey goodness on the inside. Yum!
- Dot Calm's shadow
- Dot Calm's shadow
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ATTENTION, REPUBLICANS!
Obama is coming
for your guns 'n' Bibles
November 8, 2016.
DO NOT
LEAVE YOUR HOUSE
THAT DAY
FOR ANY REASON!
The rights you save
may be your own!
may be your own!
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Petitions!
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"The unprecedented merger of ChemChina and Syngenta will put much of American and global food production in the hands of a single major multinational corporation. Block this proposed merger and protect our food system."
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| Tell members of the Internet Association: Disavow endorsement of the TPP | |
| Tell members of the Internet Association:
“Publicly disavow the Internet Association’s endorsement of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. Stand up for the rights of your users and a free internet.”
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| Petitioning Alaska Governor |
Stop Fracking the Kenai |
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In June of 2016, Blue
Crest Energy of Texas will start hydro fracking off the coast of Anchor
Point, Alaska. There are enormous risks to hydro fracking in any
sensitive environment but in the Cook Inlet and on the Kenai Peninsula,
which is a seismic zone and which depends on a healthy fisheries
environment, fracking is very risky. The risks to the tourism industry,
fishing industry and home owners in general on the Peninsula are very
serious. In Wyoming, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas there have been
documented instances of water pollution, air pollution, increased health
consequences to humans and animals and increased earthquake activity in
areas that were not seismic prior to fracking. For these reasons we are
asking that the State of Alaska put a moratorium of three years on
hydro fracking on the Kenai Peninsula and in the Cook Inlet. We are
asking for a public debate and publicly vetted research on the potential
consequences of fracking in the Cook Inlet and on the Kenai Peninsula.
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| Tell the Treasury Department: Investigate U.S. links in the Panama Papers | |
| Petition to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew:
"Exercise your full authority to investigate whether any U.S. or U.S.-linked company or person involved with Mossack Fonseca may have facilitated money laundering, terrorist financing, or other illegal activity, including with any U.S.-designated persons."
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Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) have introduced legislation to prevent the U.S. from continuing to support Saudi-led military campaigns in places like Yemen where Saudi Arabia’s year-long campaign has led to a devastating humanitarian crisis and a security vacuum that has empowered our terrorist enemies al Qaeda and ISIS. The Murphy-Paul bipartisan legislation will require the President to formally certify that the government of Saudi Arabia is demonstrating an ongoing effort to target terrorist groups, minimize harm to civilians, and facilitate humanitarian assistance before Congress can consider the sale or transfer of air-to-ground munitions to Saudi Arabia.
Urge Sen. Mark Warner to co-sponsor the Murphy-Paul bill by calling their office now at (202) 224-2023. When you reach a staffer, you can say something like:
"The civil war we’ve supplied in Yemen is prolonging human suffering in Yemen and aiding groups that are intent on attacking us. I urge you to support the Murphy-Paul bill to place new conditions on U.S. military aid to Saudi Arabia."When you've made your call, please report it here.
And if you haven't signed our petition at MoveOn yet, you can do that here.
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| The petition to President Obama reads:
"The unprecedented merger of ChemChina and Syngenta will put much of American and global food production in the hands of a single major multinational corporation. Block this proposed merger and protect our food system."
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Republicans push to keep transgender people from changing restrooms
--MPR News, 3/23
--MPR News, 3/23
Progress isn’t always a straight line. North Carolina and Mississippi just reminded us of that.
The Republican leaders of those states just signed two measures that, effectively, enshrine discrimination against LGBT people into state law.
Make no mistake, attempts to pass blatantly discriminatory measures are not confined to North Carolina or Mississippi. In fact, Minnesota Republicans are pushing their own version of North Carolina’s so-called “bathroom bill.” This wave of anti-LGBT legislation is rising across the country, and it’s time for all of us to stand up and speak out against state-sanctioned discrimination.
LGBT Americans deserve equality under the law. Add your name to mine and speak out against LGBT discrimination.
I’ve been fighting for protections for LGBT students for a long time. That was and still is an important area of concern -- but these broad new laws in North Carolina and Mississippi can’t be ignored.
These are sweeping new laws. In North Carolina, the new law forbids cities and towns from enacting their own anti-discrimination policies. In Mississippi, the new law sanctions various types of discrimination against LGBT people.
No one deserves to be discriminated against for who they are. Sign our petition and speak out against anti-LGBT legislation.
Thank you,
Al
Al Franken for Senate
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Deport
Rafael "BUSTed" Cruz
NOW!
A la Johnnie Cochran,
"If you cannot abort,
you must deport!"
-- Dot Calm's shadow
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Democracy Now!
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In Ted Cruz's mentality,
dildos = bad
rape babies = good
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Daily Kos
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Know why Ted Cruz
wants to ban dildos?
He hates competition!
-- Dot Calm's shadow
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According to the Bible,
women are the property of men.
They belong to their fathers
before they are married,
and they belong
to their husbands
after they are married.
Christians want to use
their religion
to make life choices
for all women...
meaning that
Christians demand ownership
of all women,
married
or Christian
or not.
women are the property of men.
They belong to their fathers
before they are married,
and they belong
to their husbands
after they are married.
Christians want to use
their religion
to make life choices
for all women...
meaning that
Christians demand ownership
of all women,
married
or Christian
or not.
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Movie time!
I think Philhellenes is brilliant. And I think he's right: the stars are on our side. Christians and Muslims worship a tiny, petty, pissy God. When you remember that Jesus was a false prophet...who's supposed to have been omniscient because He and God "are one" but who clearly claimed not to know and who failed to foretell His own return...and when you remember that He promised to return before all within earshot died but [crickets]...well, then, I can't see any reason to be a-skeered of Him or His followers or any of their idle threats. Can you? Ooh-ooh, Mr. Kotter...why are you trashing Christianity but not Islam, ooh-ooh? It's quite alright, class--I'm perfectly capable of trashing Islam, too: any religion that enables or encourages its followers to abuse or slaughter innocents is WRONG. Just like fundamentalist Christianity enables and encourages its male followers to abuse their wives and children, so does Islam. Remember the old adage? Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely...and Christianity and Islam "grant" men ownership of and thus infinite power over women, whom both religions are taught to hate as the reason we're not all still lollygagging around the Garden of Eden (so, if Adam wasn't fooled, then why exactly did he eat the forbidden fruit? What a dork!). And don't be too swift to conclude that only Islam enjoys killing the innocent: Christianity started a few hundred years before Islam and, in recent centuries, seemed to have shaken that bloodlust out of its bloodline, but that may only be a temporary lull if today's American fundamentalists get their way. They speak as if they miss slavery and stonings so much that they intend to dismantle the Constitution and replace it with the Bible so they they'll finally have an excuse to enslave Blacks again and to stone women and LGBTQ to death again, just like in the bad old Iron Age days. Sickos. Then again, maybe they're like my Tea Party Christian friend, who says an awful lot that he doesn't really mean--like when he claims to believe the Bible literally but clearly doesn't. Hopefully, he's not unusual in that respect among fundamentalist Christians.
Evidence for the Big Bang
Sorry, guys...shot my load of vids last time, so that's all for today. I'll just leave you with one last star banner:
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Jesus and Ted Cruz
are watching you masturbate
-- Dot Calm's shadow
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posted by Dot Calm @ 4:56 PM
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