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Women of a Certain Age-Culinary Delights

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Women of a Certain Age-

More Culinary Delights

Women of a Certain Age-

More Culinary Delights 

 

By Cate Rees-Hessel

 

  1. If you remember that choosey moms choose Jif (peanut butter), you might be a woman of a certain age…
  2. If you know who helped with the Shake and Bake Chicken…
  3. If you know what an aspic is…
  4. If you ever watched Julia Childs on PBS…
  5. If you ever ate beef Wellington…
  6. If you ever ate beef Bourguignon…
  7. If you call frozen entrees TV dinners…
  8. If you ever used a loaf of unsliced white bread to make an appetizer salad cake with layers of egg, tuna, and ham salad, frosted with cream cheese and scattered olives…
  9. If you ever ate a croquette…
  10. If you eat quiche…
  11. If you use lemon or lime Jello…
  12. If you make Jello molds for the holidays…
  13. If you have made lemon curd…
  14. If you have made shepherd’s pie…
  15. If you ever had chicken ala king…
  16. If you ever had pasta primavera…
  17. If you have a recipe for tuna casserole…
  18. If pot roast was your Sunday dinner staple…
  19. If you ever had Jiffy Pop…
  20. If you know who Chef Boyardee is…
  21. If you made pizza or spaghetti from a Kraft box…
  22. If you know that Now and Later is a confection…
  23. If your holiday dessert dish contains pretzels and strawberries…
  24. If you call stuffing dressing…
  25. If you ever ate inside a Pizza Hut…
  26. If you know what plop plop, fizz fizz relieves…
  27. If you refer to mixed drinks as a cocktail or highball…
  28. Dinner at 8?
  29. If you call appetizers hors d’oeuvres…
  30. If you ever drank tonic water with lime…
  31. If you ever drank a Manhattan…
  32. If you know what a slow gin fizz is…
  33. If you drink tap water with ice…
  34. If you just don’t get cucumber water…
  35. If you don’t understand oat milk…
  36. If you drank Tab…
  37. If you swivel off one side of your Oreo cookie to lick the white cream center…
  38. If you recall Pop Tarts with no frosting…
  39. If you know Big Boy is not just a huge steam locomotive…
  40. If you ever had an egg cream…
  41. If you like a good malted…
  42. If you know what a soda jerk is…
  43. If you ever ate at a Woolworth’s restaurant…
  44. If you have ever been to a Woolworth’s store…
  45. What makes the water smart? Did it go to school?
  46. If you know pumpkin spice is for pie, not coffee, cat food, foot scrub, or motor oil…
  47. If you ever had a chocolate Popsicle (not a fudge bar but an actual Popsicle)…
  48. If you had Spaghetti O’s with fried baloney for lunch…
  49. If your baloney had a first and last name…
  50. If you remember fruit float with Dream Whip…
  51. If you still eat Chicken in a Biskit Crackers…
  52. If you make strawberry shortcake with a biscuit…
  53. If you know what an Automat is…
  54. If you have a recipe for turkey tetrazzini…
  55. Grilled cheese with Kraft singles and Campbell’s tomato soup – need I say more? An American mainstay.
  56. Fruit Loops, Captain Crunch, Fruity Pebbles, Cookie Crisp, or Count Chocula while watching Scooby Doo, Roadrunner, Tom and Jerry, Mr. Magoo, or the Banana Splits on Saturday mornings…
  57. If you know what a banana split is…
  58. If you know what a Peanut Buster Parfait is…
  59. If you had Mr. Misties in the summer time from Dairy Queen…
  60. If you ever baked a fruit cake from scratch…

 

Since “He” Returned to Office

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Since “He” Returned to Office; 

It’s Been a Real Horror Show

Since “He” Returned to Office;

It’s Been a Real Horror Show

 

Editor: Sometimes You Need a Little Repetition

 

By Cate Rees-Hessel

 

Cataclysm In Progress…

Trump had a disastrous first term with not just COVID, but a slew of irresponsible mistakes and corruption. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris had a mess to clean up, but four years later, for reasons so many of us can not fathom, Trump won both the popular vote and the electoral college vote and is once again in the Oval Office. The 250th anniversary of our nation was barely celebrated because the maniac clown is destroying our economy right along with our government and our democracy. Please for the good of the country vote blue across the board in November. It’s imperative we regain control of the House and Senate to stop him and his oligarchs. Here is a short list of things he has done since his frightening return to power:

  1. That damn ballroom desecration

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. The Reflecting Pool fiasco

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. Charging an innocent former Olympian with destruction of government property for simply putting his hand into the Reflecting Pool – what a pathetic scenario.  How stupid did the U.S. attorney, Jeanine Pirro, look when she had to withdraw the case?

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. Where is the Venezuela oil money?

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. The Iranian war is a slap in the face of every American

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. The disrespectful fallen soldiers comments (and let’s not forget “suckers and losers”…and a campaign hat, for Heaven’s sake)

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. Falling asleep during important (and unimportant) events

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. Campaigning for an illegal third term, while getting free TV time at the Washington Correspondence Dinner.

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. The Melania movie; looks to everybody like Jeff Bezos doing a Pay to Play scheme.

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. Constantly blaming and accusing President Obama and/or President Biden for anything and everything untrue

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. ICE raids confirming the institutionalized racism as government policy, resulting in unprosecuted killings

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. The “Big Beautiful Bill” that is completely ugly – taking nutrition assistance away from elderly, children, and the disabled, just for starters…

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. Epstein files smothered from the top. Epstein was at the heart  of one of the biggest sex trafficking schemes in history and Trump was his close buddy.

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. Attacks on Social Security and all the social service programs.

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. Reversing $35 insulin cap for diabetic seniors

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. Tariffs, tariffs, and (you guessed it) more tariffs…and where is all that money? I haven’t seen a check; how about you?

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. Threatening the right of married women to vote

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. Attacking voting rights and mail-in ballots; claiming election fraud by the Democratic Party, when it appears that Elon Musk assisted in rigging the election against Kamala Harris and Tim Walz – just another giant lie

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. Reversing reproductive freedom

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. Making a mockery of God’s word and Christianity

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. Attacking Transgender and LGBTQ rights

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. Disrespecting President Zelensky (and every other head of state, EXCEPT for Orban, Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un…) that should tell every American just what Trump values-and it’s not freedom or democracy

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. Destroying our economy in favor of corporate greed and the billionaires and trillionaires…

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. Ignoring climate change despite solid evidence for the approaching calamity

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

  1. Making our nation into a laughingstock with his senseless, demented, blustering threats, and lies

Invoke the 25th amendment and charge the Trump administration with treason before he completely destroys our democracy…

 

Trump is a racist sexist fascist (and any other negative “ist” you can think of) – he needs put out of office yesterday…

47 Things More Pleasant Than Trump 47

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47 Things More Pleasant Than  Trump 47

47 Things More Pleasant Than Trump 47

Editor: I have been avoiding the TV news recently; because his name, the sound of  his voice, his tweets, his quotes are the rantings of a demented old geezer that ‘otta be in a forensic unit at the Florida State Hospital instead of pretending to run the 21st century government of the United States. Before Trump sank into the depths of a terrifying dementia he was a thieving grifter who had fooled a lot of people for a long time. He has no respect for the law because he has always broken it and gotten away scot free while making huge sums of money. Now he is scamming the United States government for a whole bunch of cash for those who will claim false prosecution. Only in America. Holy fuck, what a terrible epitaph for this once glorious country. So with all that said, here’s Cate again with a few things she would much rather hear about than Donald Trump.

By Cate Rees-Hessel

 

47 is the worst excuse for a “president” ever…and I mean E-V-E-R. So with said, here are 47 Things I think are more pleasant than Donald John Trump

  1. A peanut butter and pickle casserole – I will never call “The Donald” president
  2. Stepping on a screw
  3. Gastric disturbance
  4. The fragrance of a garbage truck
  5. Cotton mouth – I will never call “The Donald” president.
  6. Extreme physical pain
  7. A root canal without Novacaine
  8. Cockroachs – I will never call “The Donald” president
  9. Stomach flu
  10. Food poisoning
  11. COVID – I will never call “The Donald” president
  12. Poison Oak and Poison Ivy
  13. Dog poop – I will never call “The Donald” president
  14. Toilet back-up
  15. A sewer back-up
  16. A rectal exam – I will never call “The Donald” president
  17. Sink holes
  18. Razor burn
  19. Rat infestation – I will never call “The Donald” president
  20. Nails on a chalkboard
  21. Cellulite
  22. Stubbing a toe on pointy heavy furniture – I will never call “The Donald” president
  23. Crepie skin
  24. Being mooned by a stranger, or anyone for that matter
  25. A flasher in the produce aisle of the grocery store – I will never call “The Donald” president
  26. A flat tire during a rain storm
  27. Losing water pressure while showering
  28. Black ice – I will never call “The Donald” president
  29. The stirrups, if you are female
  30. Turn your head and cough, if you are male
  31. A kick in the balls – I will never call “The Donald” president
  32. Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  33. Cleaning up hairballs from the sofa
  34. Spending the night in a haunted house – I will never call “The Donald” president
  35. A clogged drain
  36. Arriving at the water park to discover someone threw up in the pool
  37. Finding a dog accident the hard way – I will never call “The Donald” president
  38. A can of warm soda or beer
  39. Running out of toilet paper
  40. A dead battery in subzero temperatures – I will never call “The Donald” president
  41. A gas gauge on E when you are running late
  42. A sprained ankle
  43. My in-laws – I will never call “The Donald” president
  44. A traffic citation
  45. Finding a fly in your soup
  46. The laugh of a hyena – I will never call “The Donald” president
  47. Creepy clown with orange hair – oh wait, that IS “The Donald”…

Worst Stocking Stuffers for 2025

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Worst Stocking Stuffers for 2025

Worst Stocking Stuffers for 2025

 

By Cate Rees-Hessel

 

  1. Matchbox Tesla
  2. A chunk of the demolished White House East Wing, signed by “The Donald” himself
  3. Trumpy Bear
  4. An autographed photo of JD Vance
  5. Donald Trump CD, featuring his rendition of “If I Only had a Brain”
  6. Donald Trump CD, featuring his version of “What a Fool Believes”
  7. JD Vance CD, featuring “The Sidestep” from “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”
  8. MAGA cap made in China
  9. Nude photo of Melania
  10. The Epstein Files on DVD
  11. At-home colon test kit (even though this administration is full of it)
  12. Donald Trump toilet paper…no, wait, I want to find this in my stocking…
  13. The government shutdown mini-Monopoly game
  14. Anything autographed by Elon Musk, especially a Cybertruck
  15. Signed copy of the “Big Bad Bill”
  16. Signed copy of Project 2025
  17. Two pack of signed Trump golf balls (those are the only pair of balls he has ever had)
  18. Repotted bush from the White House Rose Garden
  19. Grab bag from any of the Mar-A-Lago bathroom boxes
  20. A pair of the tacky, cheap, homemade by Karen’s beaded earrings depicting “The Donald” left over from Trump’s campaign
  21. Melania bubble bath – she needs all the washing she can get
  22. Jokers wild card game
  23. A get out of jail free Monopoly card signed by the orange monster
  24. Donald Trump clown red shade Hair Club for Men wash in color
  25. ”The Donald” Unhappy Meal, with your choice of a non-action figure Republican

An OMG Christmas Newsletter

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An OMG Christmas Newsletter

 

 

An OMG Christmas Newsletter

By D.S. Mitchell

 

Too Many Days

I know all years, except for Leap Year, have 365 days.  So, why does 2025 feel like it’s got 750 days? Never mind; I figured it out on my own. Donald J. Trump’s in office and it feels like every ‘friggen day has somehow been virtually stretched and twisted until it feels like two.

How Much Bullshit is Too Much?

My memories of Trump’s first term are foggy at  best, but I think Trump wanted to takeover Greenland during his first administration and he continued the rhetoric into his second term. While deflecting the fallout from suggesting that we should make Canada the 51st state, I think  that’s when Trump started  demanding Google and all the map makers change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Just meaningless distractions? I’m not so sure. The ramblings of a demented old man? I’m sure it’s some of that, but certainly not all of it.

Heritage Foundation

None of it makes sense; unless you believe in Project 2025. The deeper we move into Trump’s Alice in Wonderland world the more chaotic…the more numbing. Trump has signed more than 220 Executive Orders since retaking the White House, surpassing all previous records and raising major concerns about the abuse of presidential power. The Robert’s Supreme Court seems more than willing to grant Trump’s every wish. Is there no conscience? No justice? No honor? No fairness? Apparently, not. There seems to be no limit on the Heritage Foundation’s love affair with the Robert’s court and its willingness to drag us back to 1950, or 1850. A time when women bore children, lots of them, a time when a woman had no rights except those allowed by her father or her husband. A time when white children were sold into indentured servitude, when blacks were slaves. A time when none of us want to go back to unless you are white, male, and wealthy.

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Women of a Certain Age-Fall Edition

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Women of a Certain Age – Fall Edition

Women of a Certain Age – Fall Edition

 

By Cate Rees-Hessel

 

Fall is here – a sea of pumpkin spice abounds, but if you are a woman of a certain age, fall memories are just a bit different…

  1. If your autumn recollections involve apple cider in a paper cup with fold-out handles, not a pumpkin spice latte, you might be a woman of a certain age…
  2. If you have memories of jumping into a mountain of leaves while raking and not worrying about smashing your cell phone…
  3. If fall fashions from your past include Peter Pan collared plaid dresses…
  4. If penny loafers with shiny copper pennies in the slots and argyle knee socks were part of your wardrobe staples…
  5. If you ever wore a plastic mask that made your face sweat, along with an acrylic one-piece costume for trick or treating – Barbie, Miss America, the Beatles, and Casper the Friendly Ghost were popular…
  6. If you ever had a Hoody-Doody costume…
  7. If you love a good hayride and know to tie an old plaid shirt around your waist before you sit down…
  8. If trunk or treat didn’t exist when you were in grade (or grammar) school…
  9. If an old sheet with two holes for eyes was your go-to Halloween costume, with the matching pillowcase to hold the candy…
  10. If your fall favorites include apple pie with cheddar cheese on top…
  11. If you recognize the scent of burning leaves…
  12. If you had a school Halloween party that included bobbing for apples…
  13. If you ever attended a Fall Fest in your neighborhood…
  14. If you know the lyrics to “Monster Mash”…
  15. If a Butterball turkey stuffed with homemade dressing not from a box, and mashed potatoes made from potato buds were front and center for your Thanksgiving dinner…
  16. If you never heard of tofu turkey and still don’t know what it is..
  17. If cranberries and apples in the slow cooker are still part of your fall cuisine…
  18. If you received a Sky Bar or Bit-O-Honey in your trick or treating ventures…
  19. If you know what a Sky Bar or Bit-O-Honey is…
  20. If you found Razzles or Pop Rocks in your trick or treat bag…
  21. If you ever had a red hard candy coated apple…
  22. If you ever broke a tooth on a red candy coated apple…
  23. If you watched the original “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” on broadcast television…
  24. If you watched the original Charlie Brown Thanksgiving on network TV…
  25. If while walking your dog you made a swish-crackle sound when autumn leaves flew through the air around you…
  26. If you attended the fall Sock Hop in a plaid skirt and twin sweater set…
  27. If you know what a Sock Hop is…
  28. If you weren’t afraid to eat the homemade treats in your trick or treating haul…
  29. If you went to the drive-in to see a movie on closing weekend…
  30. If you know what a drive-in movie is…
  31. If you watched the Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade in black and white…
  32. If you know Chuckles is not just a clown…
  33. If you know Mary Janes are not just back-to-school shoes…
  34. If you ever wore a candy pop necklace…
  35. If you know Dum-Dums are not referring to Republicans…

 

Happy fall, ladies of a certain age, no matter what the season, we always have style…

 

Worker’s Over Billionaires Protest

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Worker’s Over Billionaires Protest

Worker’s Over Billionaires Protest

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”                                                                                                                                                  

By David L. Shadrick

This was our fourth protest in a season of protests. As usual Darlene, Vajra, John, and myself parked ourselves on our favorite bench under our favorite shade tree on 6th Street, Grants Pass, Oregon, kitty corner from the county courthouse. The turnout for the Worker’s over Billionaires rally was good, but not great.

I can also report that the opposition turnout, in deep red southern Oregon, was close to microscopic. I counted two rabid Trumpers in the crowd; one flipped me off and the other one, a jogger, stopped in front of my wheelchair and called me a “horrible person” and then accelerated his pace and headed to the safety of 7th street. Other than than those two events things were cool. We got lots of positive comments on our signs, in fact several folks stopped to take a selfie with me.

INDIVISIBLE came through with a new stereo system for our rally. It was cool being able to actually hear the speakers and some great music.  John and Vajra wandered through the crowd checking things out; they told us about a group way up on the other side of the street out of our field of vision that were causing a ruckus. It seems they wanted to protest FOR pedophilia. Holy smokes, I can see why that might cause a fight or two. I suspect they were just a bunch of Trump supporters being A-holes, trying to stir up some shit.

Despite the smaller size of the Labor Day protest in our little town, I will admit that in Grants Pass it was very hot and there were a lot of folks out of town for the last week-end get-away before school started.  With that said, we need to increase the pressure on Trump and his allies. We need to tell ‘ol Donnie Boy we are not going to stand for his masked thugs disappearing people from American streets, putting billionaires on the government dole when poor Americans are having health care and even food benefits snatched away. This isn’t ‘effin Russia, yet.

If these protests are going to have the intended impact they need to be getting bigger and bigger not smaller.  In my mind, turnout is imperative to keeping Trump’s attention. We can’t weaken or tire now; we have another 3 and a 1/2 years of  the Trump despot show. We can’t give in, give up or surrender to this lawless president and his corrupt allies; our freedom is literally at stake.

**Quote by Edmund Burke

I Can Hear Her Breathing

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I Can Hear Her Breathing

I Can Hear Her Breathing

By Karen Tate

 

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.  On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” – Arundhati Roy

 

When I read that quote for the first time, the breath caught in my throat and the hair stood up on the back of my neck as I remembered….

I had been invited to Wisconsin to present at a weekend workshop which turned out to be a more than wonderful experience.  I went thinking I was just going up there to teach women the workshop material, but the sharing and activities I participated in were a beautifully reciprocal dance.  Besides the bonding and the fun, issues I had never quite been able to banish from my psyche had dispersed in the safety of the ritual the night before and I was feeling light and open and gloriously happy and fulfilled.

As the weekend came to a close and the time to drive back to the airport was drawing near, I grabbed a few moments of solitary time behind the dormitory where we were staying located about 100 yards off serene and shining Lake Michigan.  Between the lake and the dorm, trees had been planted in a circle, with barely two to three feet of space between their trunks, and inside the circle was a bench.  I was drawn within the circle desiring a few moments of quiet contemplation in what felt like Nature’s embrace.

As I sat there, enjoying a cool breeze on my cheeks, glimpsing the reflection of the sun on the lake between the tree trunks before me, I suddenly realized I heard a rhythmic breathing.  In and out.  In and out.  Where was it coming from?  In my mind, I began a process of elimination.  I held my own breath for a few moments thinking perhaps here in this small space among this odd configuration of trees I was hearing the echo of my own breath, but no, it wasn’t me.  I looked around to make sure there was no one else there, perhaps just beyond my initial line of light.  No.

I wasn’t hearing the incoming tide of the lake.  I sat there mesmerized as I listened.   No, this sound was coming from this very spot where I sat.  Dare I even utter the next thoughts that crossed my mind?  In this circle of trees, it was as if  I were sitting within the body of Goddess and I was hearing Her breathing  This was incredulous, but I was going to go with it and  just listen, feel, and  receive. I soaked in the magic of this sacred place.  The hair stood up on back my neck and arms.  I felt that familiar cold chill up my spine and my tears turned into sobs of joy.  What an emotional experience!

In hindsight, many of us might speak in metaphor, as perhaps the novelist and activist Arundhati Roy is speaking above, about Gaia or the coming new paradigm of the Sacred Feminine, but this was different.  This experience went beyond metaphor or even feeling inspired in some natural landscape.  This wasn’t merely equating the ebb and flow of the ocean tides with Her breath as we attempt to personify Her and embrace Her mysteries.  This felt as if it were another phenomena of a dimension I had yet to experience.  Was I crazy to even contemplate hearing the inhaling and exhaling…..of our Mother?  Well, sometimes we just have to shut off that left-brain and just feel Her incredible gifts!  Those few minutes sitting in that sacred grove near that beautiful lake will no doubt be some of the most profound and magical minutes of my life.   Thank you, Mother.  Thank you for that precious gift… I can hear you breathing!

Welcome to the Dog Fight

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Welcome to the Dog Fight

Welcome to the Dog Fight

D. S. Mitchell

Elon Musk with his disgusting gestapo rhetoric, U.S. troops patrolling America’s great cities, the destruction of the CDC, the gutting of the EPA, destroying FEMA, and our public health system has lit a fire under a lot of complacent Americans. With the Big Ugly Bill it looks like the GOP took a huge step toward destroying federally funded health care in America. It looks like at least 10,000,000-16,000,000 people will lose their Medicaid coverage thanks to Trump and the oligarch’s running this country. Hopefully,  if we can elect a progressive/liberal House and Senate in 2026 we can turn this disaster train around.

I, like many of you, are so ‘effin tired, I just want to put up my feet, but now is not the time. It seems like I’ve been fighting the same battles  for the last fifty fuckin years. Some days it seems like Trump, in a mere 8 short months is on the precipice of destroying the backbone of this country, our laws, our environment, and our media. As I’m watching his travesty unfold I remember what President John F. Kennedy said about his core values and I perked up and finished calling my list of Democratic Senators and Congresspersons; urging them to keep up the fight. I tell them to take a page from California Governor, Gavin Newsome, and take it to the MAGA’s, challenge them every step of the way, don’t make anything easy. It’s a dog fight.

The JFK quote has been seen a million times, but it is worth another view.  If you are a liberal and are taking a breath, forget it. The GOP and all their ‘effing money are out to screw us all; we don’t have time to rest, or even take a breath. So get up, dust yourself off, drag the sign out of the basement, and hit the streets, the phone, or both. You can have a big impact if you make those Senate and House office phones ring.

So, my sweet liberal friends, gather courage from the words of one of our greatest presidents, “If by a ‘liberal’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reaction, someone who cares about the welfare of the people–their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties–someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what it means to be a ‘liberal’ then I’m proud to say, I’m a liberal.”

Keep up the fight, the road will be hard and the results slow in coming, but with a determined heart we will reverse the Big Horrible Bill and protect health care and the social contract our government has with its citizens. Right now, I’m saying the words, but I’m not so sure the Good Guys are going to win; it’s going to be up to us to make sure the Good Guys win, but that means the Good Guys not only gotta show up but they gotta fight.

Republican Senators Joni Ernst (R IA), Tom Tillis (R NC) and Representatives Don Bacon (R Neb) and Dusty Johnson (R SD) see the writing the wall and have decided not to run for re-election. Hopefully, Maine Senator Susan Collins will also bail on another term. My God the woman is 72 years old. Is married to a lobbyist and appears to have Parkinson’s Disease. Another six years and she’ll be nearly 80 years old. Please America, let’s retire these people; five terms in the senate is enough! It is time to youth up the Congress. I say that whether they are Democrat or Republican. We need term limits. Term limits in the Congress and the Supreme Court should be a high priority if the Dems can take over the Congress in 2026.

I’m hitting the streets on Labor Day with my crew to make some noise. Rallies will be taking place all over the country. The topic of the protest: Workers Over Billionaires. After a couple hours of shouting and banging my drum I’ll go home and do a taco bar with my friends and fellow protesters; probably with at least a couple rounds of  Margueritas. Have fun and keep the protests loud.

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