Chuckle... I'm glad, in this house, we're of one mind and our sign is for President Barack Obama. (Even an individual would have to be of multiple minds to support Mr. Romney's multiple positions on the issues)
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Gleaning Facebook: What a Country!
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| March 2011: I didn't take many pictures at the Southern Order of Storytellers annual winter festival. I diid take notes. I hope to write a post about it soon. But I'll go ahead and post this highlight. We got to see our good storytelling friend and now Facebook friend, Tersi Bendiberg. |
My storytelling Facebook friend, Tersi Bendiberg, tells of her first Halloween in America after her family came to Georgia from Cuba in the early sixties.
FIRST HALLOWEEN, DECATUR, GEORGIA 1964 AFTER ARRIVING FROM CUBA ON FEBRUARY OF THAT YEAR. (I've shared this before but I'm sharing it again.)Mrs. Tubesing, Carla Tubesing's Mom, explain the basics of Halloween to me. She gave me a pillowcase for the candy I would get Trick or Treating. I quickly went into our home and painted freckles on my face, put my hair in two braids, found an old hat, Dad's work pants and boots (which I stuffed with toilet paper), a big old flannel shirt, a stick with a stuffed kerchief hanging from one end of the stick. I painted two teeth black to look like I was missing teeth. I was a hobo. Not politically correct I know.We went all over the Oakhurst neighborhood trick or treating. Finally an hour or more later I returned to our home and dumped all of the candy inside the pillowcase on the living room rug. "Papi, Mami", I said, "You say Trick or Treat. They give you candy!" and my Dad, with hands at the waist said, "What a country!"
Monday, October 29, 2012
Gleaning Facebook: Farewell to the Bounty
Yours truly aboard the HMS Bounty. The ship sank in the Atlantic last night. The ship's captain is still missing. One crew member was just recovered but "unresponsive". The remaining crew members were rescued.
Gleaning Facebook: Donate Through UMCOR
The United Methodist Committee on Relief gives aid in disasters. Its overhead costs are paid by our regular church funds so that all disaster relief donations go directly to disaster relief. And judging from the pictures I am seeing on Facebook tonight, there is going to be a lot of relief needed on the East Coast in the coming days.
Gleaning Facebook: Strep Throat & Civil War
Strep throat. Got my hiney pumped full of antibiotics and shouldn't be contagious after today, which complicates things considerably since I missed rehearsal Saturday and we have another rehearsal tonight. Y'all come see the show: Sat at Cedartown Auditorium, and the next weekend at Rome City Auditorium.
Comments:
Jan Heaton Skeen: get well!!
Tersi Bendiberg: Feel much better soon, dear Terrell.
Nancy Johal Singh: Feel better!!!
Tiffany Nelson Chaffer: Oh no! hope you get to feeling better!
Vivian Davis: I saw Sheila at Kroger and she told me that you were sick... I told her to use all of her wife powers and keep you home and resting until your performance. However, it is my understanding you stood out in the weather for Cave Screams and told stories.( My roommate said you did a great job!) I can't wait to see your show next weekend..and hear Lillian's solo.
Lyn Davis: Oh, no! I'm so sorry you feel awful! Get well!
Patricia Canada: hope u get to feeling better. what show is it?
Terrell Shaw: The Civil War, Pat.
George Barton: Is opening in Cedartown like opening off Broadway?
Terrell Shaw: Off off off Off off off Off off off Off off off Off off off Off off off Off off off Off off off Off off off Off off off Off off off Off off off Off off off Off off off Off off off Off off off Broadway.
Christy Davis: Off across the street and down a little from Broadway...
Anita Stewart: Get better so ou can sing.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Gleaning Facebook: Brandeis on Democracy
I want to preserve here for future reference this quote from one of the great Supreme Court justices. I found it on Facebook. I believe to my toes that maximum liberty is somewhere in the middle of the scale of socialism on one end and capitalism on the other. Both extremes are tyranny.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Gleaning Facebook: The Presidential Debate
Post 1:
Comments:
Dawn N Luke Andrews
Looks like a bag of empty rhetoric that better hold on tight because there is a rising tide about to sweep his smirking, adolescent behind right out of Washington
Terrell Shaw
You continue your astute, mature evaluations. I'm almost convinced Luke. Keep trying.
Dawn N Luke Andrews
No delusions here....you are beyond reason in your adoration of this man. His behavior last night was evidence of his adolescent, petulant nature....smirking or scowling the whole time and looking far less presidential than his opponent. Fortunately, this will all be over in 2 weeks and we can begin a true recovery from the damage of the man-child in chief.
John Countryman
I appreciate the comic relief…
Steven Bell
a true recovery...ah
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Post 2:
Great job, Mr. President. Romney played defense all night. Romney continues to deny his previous positions. And did I hear him right? Romney doesn't know Iran has a coastline?
Comments:
Greg McCary
Romney looked bad. He sounded tired. I think he lost it tonight.
Wanda Mulkey Dagraedt
Yep.. You're right on the coastline.
George Barton
I think I know where the Syria connection came from. During WWII, Iran was considered the USSR's path to the sea, to be re-supplied by the allies for their fight on the eastern front. The allies took over Iran and put the Shah in place to insure this route, and this was the beginnings of our problems with Iran. Romney just didn't quite remember this bit of history, but he was probably in the 8th grade when he learned it.
Patricia Canada
Terrell, I love you dearly. but if Obama is elected president the world will surely come to an end.
Terrell Shaw
If one listens to the right wing you'd think that, Pat. It's hilarious till you think of how sad it is that so many folks swallow that nonsense and really fear the fine young President who has led so ably through the recent economic crisis and also led the battle so successfully against al Qaeda.
Dan Bevels
Iran does in fact have a coastline. That's where our troops Biden was referring to were posted.
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Post 3:
"If the debate had continued another thirty minutes Romney would have endorsed the President." - (CNN guy whose name I can't remember)
Comment:
Howard Smith
Ain't that the truth!
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Post 4:
Rodney Karstetter
The GOP is stating the President was trying to draw Mitt into a fight, but Mitt did not take the bait. LOL Drawing Mitt into a fight was not what Obama was doing. Why would Obama attempt to draw some one totally unqualified to be president into a fight. What President Obama was doing was clearly stating his record on Foriegn policy, and it is not the President's fault that Romney is so weak in foriegn affairs that all he could do was say he agreed with Obama, and his policies. It is not the President's fault that Mitt did not know that Iran was not a land locked country and it was Obvious that he was thinking of Iran as being Russia's access to the Sea. It was not the Presidents fault that Mitt's thinking of building up the Navy of pre WWII. The Presidents comments were so on point. "Govenor we have less horses and Bayonets" LOL this was a great revealing debate of how unqualified Romney is to be President.
J. Chris Lawler
And Obama is qualified? he has proven for the past 4 years he isn't.
Rodney Karstetter
J. I think you should stop watching FOX news and look into what the President has accomplished. The President has proven more qualified than the man he replaced these last 4 years. And tonight he has proven that Mitt is not remotely qualified to be the Commander and Chief when once again he did not mention the Veterans. He whole hartedly endorsed Obama tonight so you tell me then J. if Mitt agrees and Endorsed Obama's policies in foriegn policy and Obama is not qualified how scary then would it be to elect this guy. The Republicans should have ran a better candidate not this guy. So if you want what is right for this country and not what's right for the Republican Party who has moved to far to the right. The best choice in this election is Obama. This debate has shown this fact in bright neon flashing lights.
Terrell Shaw
Chris I sometimes wonder if my friends on the right live in a completely different realm. Four years ago:
- we were on the verge of depression
- al Qaeda was strong and Bin Laden was alive
- the US auto industry was on the verge of collapse
- our reputation in the world was at the lowest point at least since the early seventies.
- we were the only major industrialized nation without universal healthcare insurance.
- Mubarek & Gaddafi were in power
And the President's successes came despite unprecedented stonewalling by the Republicans.
And tonight the President was calm, friendly, thoughtful, factual, and forceful. His answers were responsive, eloquent, and accurate. Romney was weak, waffling from many previous stances, and came close to completely endorsing the President on foreign policy except for a few blatant untruths like the "apology" falsehood.
Rodney Karstetter
What these debates have truely proven imo is that Romeny is trying to show he relates to the middle class and the common man. However, his only experience he can draw upon is his youth when his father was making a better life for his family. It is amazing that his veiws of America are based not in the present but in the past. Obama strongly pointed that out tonight. Romney's policies for the milatary are from pre WWII, his views for the economy are from the 20s and his views on equal rights are that of the 50s. This is how Romney has to relate to the common man because he does not represent the common man of 2012.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Gleaning Facebook: The World Today
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Freaking laughable Terrell Shaw after Obama dumped BILLIONS into failing solar companies who donate to him....America had decided...your dream is over....change is coming in a big way
Terrell Shaw
It's a very close election, Luke. You could be right in your prediction. I still prefer our position to yours in the "horse race" but it ain't over.
Some of the solar investments have worked and some haven't. There is no evidence of preferential treatment of one company over another. Of course Democrats support solar energy companies.
"These people" stand for achievement, going out and working every day, ... and a society that works, Josh. The trickle-down, top-down approach of the right has been tried and didn't work. When we have built a strong middle class we have thrived. During the recent recession, for example, the rich folk by and large got along just fine while most of us experienced pretty severe losses.
I think you, and many on the right, have a mistaken idea about what "these people stand for." It is very American to recognize the efficacy of BOTH a strong free-enterprise system AND measures to ensure our common welfare. Whether it is the Erie Canal, postal service, Transcontinental Railroad, Social Security, Interstate Highway System, Medicare, or Affordable Healthcare, we have always striven to strengthen our nation through collective action as well as individual achievements. "These people" (the President and I, for example) laud Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and all the other inventor/entrepreneurs/business folk whose individual enterprise has helped to build a mighty business engine that helps to make us all prosper. But we also recognize that the great infrastructure of public works, public education, public roads, public heath efforts and protections, public-sponsored efforts of all sorts, and the people who worked for these folks, were a big part of their successes.
Josh, are you unaware of the welfare reforms of the Clinton administration? There is a much larger corporate welfare problem. This President has been a great example to poor kids to get off their bottoms and get to work to realize the American dream.
We alwats have ti watch out for unintended conseqyences of our well-intentioned effirts on all sides. There has been and will be welfare fraud. But we have greatly improved that sutuation over the last couple of decades. (Please excuse the fat fingers- I shouldnt try to text!)
Jim May
When I hear "business people" I often think of my self--small business, entrepreneur for 26yrs.I don't think the current political situation cares about most businesses. The irony is the big money (Kock Bros, International Corporations, etc) control the government, make it serve their interests which, buy definition, is to make profits. Everyone needs to make a profit in business but that does not mean the biggest kids on the block should be controlling government with their money and dictating social policy on health care, education and who dies in war (poor and lower mid class) and who does not--about everyone else, but particular young people who go to private schools, live in the best neighborhoods, etc. Corps shout "Government doesn't create jobs! No excavator, G.I. Bill veteran, defense contractor, or (given Bush's high priced drug plan that passed) can the big parmacy companies. Ironically the big corporations want to USE GOVERNMENT to create the kind of capital that benefits their international corporate interests whether or not it is good policy. I think the direction that our society is going, spurred on by flag-waiving, anti-government voices, is thoroughly not patriotic or good American citizenship, to say nothing of the new testament
Terrell Shaw
I am also a former small businessman. My wife and I gave everything we could to our firet try (1975-77) and again on the 2nd (1988-99). I have grest repect for and appreciation of the struggles of entrepreneurship!!!
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| I would add :the recession did not become depression, the President is a Christian and with his beautiful Christian wife is raising his two lovely daughters as Christians, a war has ended, bin Laden is dead, and the Dow has doubled. |
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| Yes, we have a ways to go, but I won't be part of giving control back to the folks who put us in the mess we were in four years ago. We are much better off than we were before the two stimulus bills, healthcare reform, the rescue of the auto industry, the killing of Bin Laden, the better regulation of wall street, the recovery of our retirement funds in the stock market, etc., etc., etc.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Gleaning Facebook: Catfish Kissin'
Vote for me in the Catfish Kissin' Contest! IfGo ahead and donate $35 bucks and become a CRBI member while you help us preserve the most biologically diverse river system in North America!
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Gleaning Facebook: Great Job, Mr. President!
I am not a Sheldon Adelson, but I will do what I can. I am making another donation tonight to your campaign to continue and accelerate our national recovery.
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Wow! The President won the debate, hands down. He had the details. Romney, none. On substance and style, the President won. Period.
The best debate in the President's career, I think.
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Gleaning Facebook: To Jonesborough
Beautiful drive through North Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee today. We got to visit in Helen with our wonderful friend Mildred Greear for a couple of hours. We didn't make it to Jonesborough in time for the Donald Davis session, but we were tired and sort of glad to have a chance to watch the debate.
How nice! I have always loved the Greears! Went to school with the children, got to know Margaret years later when she became one of my clients when I was cutting hair. She would always bring me beautiful plants and flowers from her garden every visit. What great people!
Gleaning Facebook: The Debate
The pundits seem to think Romney did what he was trying to do. I am prejudiced, of course, but I thought the President did exactly what he did in 2008. The President was friendly, relaxed, reasonable. He avoided any mistakes and reminded us that Romney hasn't provided details to his proposals. He did what he always does: He just listened to and answered the questions.
My take: few minds were changed, but the race will tighten by one or two points in the next day or two -- the pattern of prior campaigns -- just by virtue of Romney sharing the stage with the President without a breakdown. Whether he maintains that and builds on it is another matter.
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