Gleaning Facebook: Democratic Convention

 Paraphrasing Bernie:

This election is not about Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump, or Bernie Sanders, or gossip, or campaign tactics, (or e-mails, or whatever the media wants to talk about). It's about which candidate understands the problems and has real programs to solve them. Leadership that brings us together rather than dividing us up. Hillary Clinton will make a great president and I am proud to stand with her tonight.

Comments

Terrell

Whoops, posted before I finished... but I'm just gonna let it stand.

I love the way he talked about specific proposal after specific proposal, on and on noting that Hillary will work for that --- and that Trump won't.

CeCe Baker

Bernie gets it right.

Melissa Pyle Hamilton

Me, too!

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Steve Schmit: "Michelle Obama's speech was so good we may hear it at the next Republican convention."

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Howard Smith FoxNews has not even reported anything about it online. I guess they won't until it is delivered at that next GOP convention.
Laura L Adams Hahahaha!
Ruth Baird Shaw Howard Smith...you are mistaken. I listened to First Lady Michele Obama's speech on Fox News!
Howard Smith Reread my most....I said "online".., it has finally been mentioned on their website.... which has gone out of its way to distort yesterday's coverage of the DNC

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Nicholas Kristof: "Michelle Obama gave a powerful, moving speech tonight at the Democratic Convention. "I wake up every morning in a house built by slaves," she said, referring to an arc of moral progress over the centuries. Michelle Obama came across as the anti-Trump: optimistic, positive, inclusive, upbeat, a powerful role model for all society. Whatever disagreements one may have with Barack and Michelle Obama about policies, it is hard to deny that they have been personally above reproach, fine parents, terrific role models. As Michelle put it: "When they go low, we go high"--and that marks another opposite from Trump." ------------- We have a beautiful, classy, articulate, inspiring First Lady.
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John Carlin
Very inspiring.

George Barton
She was good

Melanie Collette Babb
Her speech was wonderful. Proud to call her my First Lady.

Ruth Demeter
I will have to listen to it again when I am not subbing. It was so awesome to be in the room with her.

Hilda Atkins Moore
She was indeed phenomenal...

CeCe Baker
Absolutely.

Stuart Bennett
Amen. A speech for the Ages!

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Senator Tim Kaine just made his debut as Hillary Clinton's running mate. I was struck by his warmth: His genial skewering of Donald Trump, invoking humor and optimism, was a marked contrast to Trump's own bombast. That ability to destroy opponents pleasantly is a rare political art.

Gleaning Facebook: Dragonfly

Facebook friend and amazing dragonfly photographer, Marion Dobbs, has posted her BDF (Best Dragonfly Forever) photo from her trip to Utah to attend the annual Drangonfly Society of America shindig.

Who knew?

From Marion Dobbs Facebook:

My current BDF (Best Dragonfly Forever). This shot of the aptly named Bleached Skimmer (Libellula composita) was taken in Tooele County, Utah, at this year's annual DSA (Dragonfly Society of the Americas) meeting. We spend a day doing the society's business and listening to scientific paper presentations (This year's were excellent), but we flank that day with days in the field gathering data and having fun! The meeting is in a different location each year, so we always get the chance to see new species and scenes.

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Marion Dobbs There are other contenders for the title and may be still more after today. George Barton Wow!

Gleaning Facebook: Splurging!

What a concert! John McCutcheon is amazing.

Woody Guthrie Birthday Show 

With John Mccutcheon 

Live At Red Clay Music Foundry

With my favorite companion splurging on some delicious pizza while we wait to cross the street to the Red Clay Theater and a couple of hours listening to one of our favorite storyteller/musicians, John McCutcheon!

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David Martin Rains

TS, King of the Cheap Date

Shelia: Maybe we could go out dinner tonight? TS: Nonsense, your homemade meatloaf is da best. 

Terrell Shaw
Sheila and I were splurging on calories, not moolah! 

When Our President Speaks

Dallas Chief of Police, David Brown, embraces President Obama after the president's historic and challenging speech today. The speech commemorated the five heroic Dallas police officers who were murdered while protecting those protesting police killings of two black men the week before.

I am thankful to both of these men for their candor and leadership this week.

This was far from the first time the president has comforted the nation with speeches after such horrible events. My friend Howard Smith expressed my view of what our president has so gracefully and forcefully done in each instance.

Independence Day 2016

 

Lillian sings the National Anthem

I'm so glad the city filmed Lillian's singing of our National Anthem at the 2016 Salute to America celebration at Ridge Ferry Park. Directly across the river in our back yard we and our guests listened and then continued the celebration watching the fireworks from the levee.