I’m not sure what is more hurtful, disrespectful, demeaning, or racist
1. Ignoring the devastation in PR for six days while Tweeting about NFL players.
2. Responding to the hurricane by reminding Puerto Rico that the debt needs to be paid no matter what.
3. Waiving temporarily a law (Jones Act) that limits trade in PR and results in excessive costs for Puerto Ricans only for 10 days.
4. Claiming that Puerto Ricans want everything done for them.
5. Playing golf while insulting the leadership of Puerto Rico.
6. Delaying a request for aid until possibly mid-October.
7. Being condescending by telling Puerto Ricans that a member of his team, “works on something called a budget.”
8. Claiming Katrina as a “real tragedy” thus implying that PR’s condition isn’t.
9. Blaming Puerto Ricans for throwing “their” budget off for the money used in relief efforts.
10. Worrying Puerto Ricans with the burden that the relief aid will have to be repaid.
11. Boasting shamelessly about a “very good” response that has been deemed by his own military personnel as slow and insufficient.
12. Throwing paper towels at people in need as if he were throwing t-shirts at a concert.
I know that my fellow Puerto Ricans and I are outraged, but this should be a feeling shared not only by every American citizen but by every human that has an ounce of human compassion.
This goes beyond political affiliations.
This is at the core of being a decent human being.
There’s only a few things that are certain.
1. Puerto Rico will recover.
2. Many do care about PR.
3. Puerto Ricans have grit.
4. The world is watching.
5. We won’t forget.
From a dear friend Ronnie G.
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It’s no surprise – we are using tons of plastic, way more than we need, and the Earth cannot digest it.
Every single piece of plastic that has been created still exists somewhere on the Earth. It is poisoning our oceans, landfills and bodies. The production of plastic goods is polluting our atmosphere, and as a result of the oil extraction process to obtain the petroleum to make the plastic, our forests are being cut down and our rivers, lakes and oceans are being polluted. When will it be enough?
The fact of the matter is, we are using more plastic now than ever before, and because it is so (seemingly) easily disposed of, most of us are completely unaware of the waste we are helping to produce, especially on a mass scale.
“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:
I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
I shall fear only God.
I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. I shall conquer untruth by truth.
And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”
Simple Definition of Latino
A person who was born or lives in South America, Central America, or Mexico or a person in the U.S. whose family is originally from South America, Central America, or Mexico
Full Definition of Latino
A native or inhabitant of Latin America
A person of Latin-American origin living in the United States
The Chicks, whose bluegrass roots and rock ’n’ roll spirit broke down country music barriers and made them the best-selling female band of all time in the United States, were in the middle of a lengthy hiatus. The trio had not been heard from since scaling back a 2006 tour that suffered from continuing reverberations from “the incident”:
a remark the singer Natalie Maines had made about President George W. Bush a few years earlier.
“As it appears in … full read/full credit”
“Not Ready to Make Nice” is a song co-written and performed by American country music band Dixie Chicks.
It was released in June 2006 as the first single from the band’s seventh studio album, Taking the Long Way. It remains the band’s biggest hit in the US to date. The song was written by Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire, Emily Robison, and Dan Wilson.
~Dixie Chicks Announce Summer 2016 U.S. Tour~
Country trio’s DCX MMXVI trek will hit more than 40 U.S. markets after it launches June 1st.
Dixie Chicks’ official music video for ‘Not Ready To Make Nice’.
“Not Ready To Make Nice”
Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting
I’m through with doubt
There’s nothing left for me to figure out
I’ve paid a price
And I’ll keep paying
I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should
I know you said
Can’t you just get over it
It turned my whole world around
And I kind of like it
I made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets and I don’t mind sayin’
It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Sayin’ that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over
I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should
I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should
What it is you think I should
Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting …
Outrageous Things Donald Trump Has Said About Latinos
Donald Trump’s affront against the Latino community reached new heights after Mexican-American journalist Jorge Ramos was forcibly removed from the presidential candidate’s Iowa press conference.
But it wasn’t the first time Trump has offended Latinos.
His anti-Latino remarks have cost him several business partners since the launch of his campaign in June, including NBC Universal, which aired Trump’s reality show “The Apprentice” and co-owns the Miss Universe Organization. Several prominent figures in the Latino community have also spoken out against Trump; actress America Ferrera and singer Ricky Martin published scathing op-eds condemning Trump’s actions and rallying Latinos to unite against him.
Even though only 18 percent of Hispanics take Trump seriously as a presidential candidate, the Republican has vowed that he “will win the Latino vote” if nominated.
If Trump wants to win the Latino vote, he might want to learn from past mistakes.
Here are 9 of the most outrageous things the presidential candidate has said about Latinos
He Called Latino Immigrants “Criminals” And “Rapists”
He Said Mexicans (And Other Immigrants) Were “Killers” Too
He Insisted The Mexican Government Intentionally Sends Their Criminals To The US
He ‘Provided Evidence’ That Latino Immigrants Were Rapists
He Took A Jab At Jeb Bush Over His Mexican-Born Wife
He Brought Up Jeb Bush’s Wife Again Less Than Two Months Later
He Said His Followers Were “Passionate” After Being Told Two Men Beat A Hispanic Man In His Name
He Kicked Jorge Ramos Out Of A Press Conference
He Blamed Blacks And Hispanics For Violent Crime Across The Country
Carolina Moreno Latino Voices Editor, The Huffington Post
85 years ago, a man was born who was killed by bullets but had asked us to let those same bullets smash closet doors across the globe, letting acceptance and authenticity flourish.
We remember Harvey Milk and his hope for all of us!
A re-enactment of Harvey Milk’s famous Hope Speech in the Castro to celebrate Harvey Milk Day, 2013.
To mark what would have been Harvey Milk’s 83rd birthday, San Francisco city officials organized a reenactment of his famous “You’ve Got To Have Hope” speech on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Milk gave the speech on June 24, 1977 at the San Francisco Gay Community Center at the campaign kick-off to announce his third bid for supervisor. Five people helped recite a portion of the speech, including:
Courtney Walsh and Aaron Wimmer, two actors from Dear Harvey, the recent New Conservatory Theater play about Milk’s life
Randall Mann, local poet and winner of the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry
Sister Roma, 20-year member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Andrea Shorter, lesbian political consultant who serves on the city’s Commission on the Status of Women.
The drums of war seem to be starting their steady beating rhythm. It seems that no lessons were learned from Kuwait, the Iraq war ….. and what is happening now.
Seems that we are ready again to continue spinning the wheel that gets us nowhere while the people of these countries continue to suffer under the conditions of what was created by the interference of “this mighty power”.
By: DANA MILBANK The Washington Post
“It was just like the good old days.
Scooter Libby was in the front row. Paul Wolfowitz was in the second. And on the stage was Dick Cheney, beating the drums of war.
“The situation is dire, and defeating these terrorists will require immediate, sustained, simultaneous action across multiple fronts,” the former vice president proclaimed in a pre-buttal to President Obama’s prime-time speech on fighting the Islamic State.
“We should immediately hit them in their sanctuaries, staging areas, command centers and lines of communication wherever we find them,” Cheney told the audience at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.
“We are at war,” he said, and “we must do what it takes, for as long as it takes, to win.” This means “we should have the draw down of our troops in Afghanistan halted,” that we should “take military action if necessary” in Iran, and give “full backing and support” of those fighting the Muslim Brotherhood.
In summary: War, war and more war.”
(WHO THE HELL CARES WHAT CHENEY THINKS ABOUT THIS ISSUE?)
“On March 19th, 2003, the United States and Great Britain led their second publicized military assault on Iraq. Under the facade of liberation and democracy, U.S. troops seized the country, securing the oil fields, the Ministry of Oil, the Interior Ministry (CIA), and taking the lives of thousands of people.
Iraq’s rich culture, history, and valuable assets were left vulnerable to stealth and destruction. In the years since, the lack of security, jobs, electricity, and potable water have made life for Iraqis unbearable. American troops are perceived by the indigenous population as occupiers — not liberators — for the Iraqi people are far better educated in U.S. history than Americans are themselves.
Our obligation to the people of Iraq, to the people of America, and to the rest of the world is the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of American troops and mercenaries from Iraq. The United States MUST liberate Iraq from its own brutal hands. This website is my attempt to explain why.”
Dahlia Wasfi (born 1971) is an Iraqi-American physician and peace activist.
~~Early life and education~~
Born in 1971 in New York to a Jewish-American mother and Muslim Iraqi father, Dr. Wasfi spent part of her early childhood living in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. She returned to the US at age 5, earned her B.A. in Biology from Swarthmore College in 1993 and her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997.
~~Activism~~
Part of Dr. Wasfi’s April 27, 2006 address to the Congressional Progressive Caucus:
“I speak to you today on behalf of relatives on my mother’s side — Ashkenazi Jews who fled their homeland of Austria during Hitler’s Anschluss. It is for them that we say ‘Never again.’ I speak to you today on behalf of relatives on my father’s side, who are not living, but dying, under the occupation of this administration’s deadly foray in Iraq. From the lack of security to the lack of basic supplies to the lack of electricity to the lack of potable water to the lack of jobs to the lack of reconstruction to the lack of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they are much worse off now than before we invaded. ‘Never again‘ should apply to them, too.
“We declare our right on this earth …. to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.”
Dahlia Wasfi is an Iraqi-American physician and peace activist. Born in 1971 in New York to a Jewish-American mother and Muslim Iraqi father, Dr. Wasfi spent part of her early childhood living in Iraq.
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT LINK. THIS BLOGGER INTRODUCED ME TO THIS DOCTOR. PLEASE, STOP AND TAKE A LOOK. EXCELLENT EYE-OPENING VIDEOS INCLUDED.
Deal with each man, woman, child or animal as they “are”. Believe, even if you are not seeing, that God is within each one. Problems come to us when we divide God and man, God and the world. This conceptual separation is the trouble.
~~Swami Amar Jyoti~~
Those who are familiar with this blog are aware that this is my ending line:
We ALL are ONE!!
I am a firm believer in this. We all are connected to one another. We come from the same source. We all are the same.
There should be no differences. Our human bodies are anatomically the same. We all have the same organs, located in the same positions. We all have the same DNA code. We all bleed red. We all go through the same processes. We are born, we grow up and mature and we all die.
The biological and physical processes that we experience are all the same. Our metabolism is exactly the same.
We all go through the same cycle of life.
I will never tire of writing about this. This is my strong belief. I’m sure there are others who feel the same. We need to find each other, connect and unite.
There is one single industry destroying the planet more than any other.
But no one wants to talk about it …
COWSPIRACY: The Sustainability Secret is a groundbreaking feature-length environmental documentary following an intrepid filmmaker as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today – and investigates why the world’s leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it.
As eye-opening as Blackfish and as inspiring as An Inconvenient Truth, this shocking yet humorous documentary reveals the absolutely devastating environmental impact large-scale factory farming has on our planet.
This is the film that environmental organizations don’t want you to see.
A: Our goal with this film is to have the largest positive impact on the world as possible. In order to do that we sincerely believe the film needs to be seen as a legitimate documentary, and in our consumerist, capitalist society, people devalue things they get for free. It is extremely important for our goals that the film be taken seriously by the movers and shakers of the world, and we need to present it in as traditional a manner as possible, which means theater screenings and DVDs … to begin with.
Additionally, making Cowspiracy took a great deal of time and money (we were the sole financial backers for Cowspiracy and our production team was incredibly small, meaning we worked 10 to 15 hour days for over a year to make this film) and in order for us to make more films like it (as we plan to), we need to have the funds to do so.
The money we make from screenings, DVDs, merchandise and donations goes into the non-profit Animals United Movement and is put toward promotion for the film and the making of our next documentaries.
If you care about the message we’re trying to spread, please support us by organizing your own screening, request Netflix to carry this film by searching for “Cowspiracy” on their site, and by (when available) buying DVDs to give your family, friends, library, church, etc.,
These are the wise words of one of the followers who stop by:
“I hope this film has an impact. Factory farming is not only bad for the environment but for the millions of poor defenceless animals who live wretched lives until the day they are killed to provide humans, usually the more affluence here in the west, with a food they really do not need and is not natural. Factory farming plays a role also as one of the causes of the starvation of millions as land which could grow crops is used to grow fodder to feed factory farmed animals. A very timely film as there is an increase in the demand for meat with the growth of the population and the increase in popularity of meat in China. Thank you for an interesting article. I hope one day we will all wake up to the atrocities that are inflicted on animals in factory farms and bring an end to the misery of these unfortunate animals. Maybe this film will go some way in bringing this about.”
~~Cowspiracy Indiegogo Trailer~~
~~Published on Apr 22, 2014~~
This documentary will be as eye-opening as Blackfish and as inspiring as An Inconvenient Truth. It follows the story of Kip, a passionate environmentalist and filmmaker, who is discovering the biggest secret that even the most powerful environmental organizations are too scared to talk about.
It Is What It Is 