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jollyroger — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 22:14:49 +0000

In reply to i can't pretend that I wouldn

i can't pretend that I wouldn

jollyroger — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 22:02:49 +0000

In reply to Bernie is the moral choice

I can't deny the apprehension of a severe moment of "d'oh!" the morning after a Trump v. Bernie election. that said, I believe that leadership is the process of laying down your marker outside the Venn comfort zone, and dragging the boundary leftward. hence, "Bernie, 2016!"

Bernie is the moral choice

Oxy Mora — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:05:48 +0000

In reply to Yes, Oxy. Yes he will...

Bernie is the moral choice and that self evident conclusion should command me to vote for him. The period piece reminds me of a time when I could not have done otherwise and I ask myself what is the reason for not making the moral choice in this day and age and the only explanation is that voting in the primary must not be in the realm of moral decisions---at least in my case.

For the political activist, say for Bernie, there might be a different moral position. We might be talking past each other because of a fundamental difference in how we view the voting decision.

Definitely, the Alto. And most definitely the hair-do.

(Great video.thanks much).

Trking, thanks for responding

Oxy Mora — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 12:40:15 +0000

In reply to Sammy's school got a grant to

Trking, thanks for responding. What a heartwarming story and what a gifted girl.

Bravo!

jollyroger — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:09:15 +0000

In reply to Sammy's school got a grant to

Bravo!

(Don't mourn for the soccer team... Heading the ball....scary!)

Sammy's school got a grant to

trkingmomoe — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:06:29 +0000

In reply to Trking, thanks for your

Sammy's school got a grant to have a running team. She joined because sports like soccer has become to expensive to sign up for. They would run after school on Wednesday for an hour. They a had a few meets with a few other schools and were given tea shirts. After that with what was left over with the grant the teacher talked some of the spring charity 5 K's to let the kids run for a small fee. That started it. You should see these little kids run with the adults. Sammy won a couple of medals for her age group.

The clip I showed DD was to be her last run until fall when she goes to middle school and is part of the track team. This was not school sponsored but she wanted to do it for foster kids. The county we live in has the highest rate per capita of children in foster care in this state. Sammy knows this and wanted to do the race even though she had the flu the week before. She ended up walking some of it and the little girl that walked with her was a foster kid. I knew she was walking because we time her. She ran the final stretch. She has a big heart and strong spirit.

Sammy is a average student but the gifted middle school accepted her. She was sitting in the waiting area one day at the middle school to pick up her brother. She was sketching in her sketch book when the art teacher came in. The Vice Principle and art teacher talked to her and asked her to apply and she could go to school with her brother. All her little birds, cats, dogs and flowers must of left an impression along with her couple of medals. She doodles all the time. The art program is accredited by the Academy of Arts in New York City. They receive much needed grant money from that program. She is feisty enough to pull it off just to prove a point with her brother.

Yes, Oxy. Yes he will...

jollyroger — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:05:35 +0000

In reply to A Jewish kid from Brooklyn?

Yes, Oxy. Yes he will...

A Jewish kid from Brooklyn?

Oxy Mora — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 15:12:48 +0000

In reply to 2016 election. I sat down with Samuel Glick.

A Jewish kid from Brooklyn? Ya had to ask me about Bernie Sanders, right? What am I going to say? What would Bill Maher say about Larry David? They stick together, right? Sure, Bernie is the brightest of the lot. But soon as I say that, the flags go up. And if I said he was a schlemiel and a fraud they'd go the other way like they did when I wrote a script about the biggest prick in Hollywood and gave him a Jewish name---even though most of the prick's victims were Jewish and he himself grew up in a shit neighborhood where he struggled just to find a pair of shoes and got beat up every day at school by a bully who called him a Jesus-hater....and he took it every day for weeks until the other kid just grew tired of the novelty---and I'm the one who is anti-Semitic.

What I think about Sanders is that he's the most qualified of this lot to be President and for that reason he'll never be elected because the big bosses fear the smartest guy, as well as the dumbest. The dumb guy could start Nuclear War. The smart guy would blow the whistle on the whole charade of "freedom and individualism" which is a death knell for the big shots and they'll never allow it. By the time the Republicans got through with him his forebears will have been snitches in concentration camps and he will have plagiarized his way through college.

The thing I like most about Sanders is for an above average guy, who came up through a small, pretentious and ultimately a back-wash state like Vermont, he made the most of every opportunity, let nothing slip through his hands, never looked back, and he reminds me of similar fiction characters who strive for the best of the American dream but in most cases leave dead bodies behind them. But Sanders won't do that and for that reason he'll never become President.

I already went to site.

Richard Day — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 13:34:31 +0000

In reply to I am going to post my little

I already went to site.

Wonderful.

I pointed out this ad on tv that I saw recently.

I am old and I tear up to readily.

These kids who are lost.

These kids who once in awhile are found!

Anyway, I am in love with your granddaughter!

Trking, thanks for your

Oxy Mora — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 13:26:45 +0000

In reply to I am going to post my little

Trking, thanks for your comments.

Well, what makes your Sammy run? I'm serious, I'd really like to know. What makes her exceptional (besides you, of course). We hear so much of the other side of things, what gives her the optimism? That special energy which is unique to the Sammy's of the world?