“[New Dems, DNC, MSM], You Ignorant Slut!”

As Saturday Night Live’s sexist newscaster, Dan Ackroyd said it best to his co-anchor Jane Curtin: “Jane, you ignorant slut!”

The joke was that in saying so, the newscaster showed his own priggishness. Isn’t that what the “new Democrats,” DNC, and the mainstream media (MSM) are saying to Hillary over and over again? And what does this say about them? Well I say, back at cha. In case you’re thinking that “ignorant” (sic) is too harsh a term, what would you call those who deny substance over style during this critical time in our history?

Plans? Got plans? You name it, Mrs. Clinton has a plan. I posted a few points from her comprehensive energy platform earlier in the week. Read all you can eat here. In the above campaign video, Hillary outlines some things she will do for women and families. Even the fact that she has a separate piece about it, shows that she’s thinking about over 50% of the population, and has figured out how supporting the work that women do will make our country stronger, as well as women around the world.

What does Obama have to say? Here are some snips from his appearance today, May 10, in Beaverton, OR.

“Tell the truth, come together, be unified. . . move this country forward, get going.”

Yes, but about what, and go where? What exactly are the plans?

Then there’s repeated talk about how he’s not perfect so don’t expect it, and how Michelle reigns him in, brings him down to earth. (Hmm, I smell Nancy Reagan.) I am sorry, and it’s been said, but geez the way Obama talks about Michelle, you know who’s wearing the pants in the family. We women do like to wear the pants, Hillary does too, yada yada. However, somehow in this context, it’s like good cop, bad cop, and he’s telling us who’s the family enforcer. There’s nothing I like more than curbing a man (smile), but she just doesn’t seem to enjoy, or be real friendly-like in the role he says she plays. (I mean if you’re going to drive the whip, why not have fun with it, you know, play, be a flirt?)

More disturbingly, why does Obama always bring it up as a consistent theme in his speeches–like he’s compelled to do so beyond his control? Is he a deadbeat at home? Or, just the good cop who lays back and lets mom do the work? Or, perhaps he’s setting us up to not be disappointed when we find out that it’s all on us, and he doesn’t really have a plan.

He continues, talking about trying to figure out how to break down barriers, which we can do if everybody helps out. Of course, I agree with that. But, please say exactly what you’re going to do beyond evangelically going out to save the world. I guess that’s what we were trying to do in the sixties, and we also didn’t have a plan. How’d that work out for us? Some things very good, others not so much. Ended a war, started the green movement, revolutionized the advertising, technical, and entrepreneurial worlds, produced a Hillary Clinton, raa-iiight? Not so bad, and I do understand that the citizenry is looking for inspiration. . . .

Earlier in the week giving a speech in West Virginia, Hillary said that a Democrat has not won the Presidency without winning their state since Woodrow Wilson in 1916. Give you pause? She has an estimated +40% lead in the polls. Compared to North Carolina, isn’t that story a clear picture of our national divide and the challenge that any Democratic candidate faces? Nationally, it’s the electoral college, stupid.

Saturday at a Mothers’ Day event with Chelsea in NYC, well-covered by Fox News (!), Hillary promoted her views about how mothers have the big task in this country of running their families, supporting their households, and being caretakers of their parents simultaneously. Yet, they do the former and latter for free, without being compensated. If actually paid for, their family care giving would total in the billions of dollars. Regarding value for work, she noted that although we’ve made strides, women still earn about 77 cents on the dollar compared to a man for equal work.

Hillary, as aired on CNN’s “Ballot Box: The Candidates Unfiltered,” said she has: taken on the Republicans, the drug and health care companies to insure 6 million children, voted to freeze homeowner foreclosures, and stood up against Dick Cheney’s energy bill. She vowed to: do what it takes to keep good jobs here, to investigate the oil traders as to their record profits while gas prices increase, and to lower gas and health care costs. She will also immediately pass stem cell research, has invited Congress to resubmit to her as President the bills that Bush vetoed, and stands firmly behind a woman’s right to choose.

I am no shrinking violet. I will never quit, and I won’t stop until the job is done.

Hillary is the only candidate who stands for a universal health care plan, a solution for the country’s home foreclosures, and who is endorsed by admirals and generals.

Wake up, people! I don’t think that it’s petty to point out that your opponent doesn’t have solid plans, when our country’s future is at stake. The consequences are too great.

Grow Your Own in The City — Fruits and Veggies, That Is

Speaking of Hillary’s energy platform and conservation plans, here’s a slide show from the 5/7/08 New York Times “Dining & Wine” Section, entitled City Sprouting and another article today 5/8 about urban gardeners selling their produce. In comments to my recent post, “Hillary’s Energy Plan: Real Progress,” a pro-nuclear power advocate evangelically commented here about nukes being The Way. I’d replied that we can eat more healthfully and save on transportation costs by eating locally grown foods. He had some sarcastic replies about it taking us back 200 years to growing only turnips and bacon. Yes, for some folks, it’s all or nothing.

I prefer the Buddhist precepts of “first do no harm.” You can think of this in terms of taking care of your body, your health, your home, your neighborhood, your town, your city, your state, your country, and the environment. During WWII, there were lots of victory gardens planted by necessity, and in the 1970s some suburban dwellers dug up their lawns to plant organic veggies. The actions and choices we make affect our wellbeing, and can begin with small steps.

Of course, every Spring there’s an article about urban gardens, sometimes about neglected or previously paved spaces being opened up to create them. People begin to feel their lives improve by getting their hands in the dirt, by planting a seed or seedling that they can watch develop and grow into food that they feed, weed, harvest, prepare, share, and eat. Their diet might change for the better, as they gain appreciation of nature, get exercise, and begin to interact with and get to know their neighbors while working toward a common cause. It’s always a small movement, in pocket gardens here and there, but that’s how every movement begins.

If more people got in touch with nature in a quiet, Walden-like way, you know communed with Mother Nature our origin and source, I think as a society we’d be more content and better off. I’m not speaking of riding rough shod over nature for a fast, exercise-motivated tour, or romping around on four-wheelers or SUVs. I mean really sitting or walking slowly, hearing birds and insects sing their songs, seeing the shapes of leaves, variations in tree bark, and the wear of rivers and creeks on a rock or drift wood, the glint of sun as it sets over a canyon, the breeze as it moves through and makes the trees wave and say hello. If each person in our fast-paced world got quiet enough to notice those miniscule worlds within worlds, environmentalism would be an outgrowth of our connection to the earth as a part of our nuclear family unit, not a chore to be accomplished like all others.

After a day of volunteering at Carl Schurz Park, working along with other neighbors, I stopped and chatted with another volunteer. Changing our focus from raking underbrush, lifting our gaze, we noticed that it was one of the first beautiful Spring days, and that the park had filled with sun bathers, baby strollers, bike riders, and people walking their pooches. She remarked that she can’t even go to her beloved park during the weekend, because people’s inconsideration pisses her off. “This guy was walking his bike through a fenced off area where new grass was being nurtured. Another time, a woman just walked her dog through the flower beds. ‘Excuse me,’ I said, ‘Don’t you notice you’re riding your bike in a fenced off area/walking your dog in the flower bed?’ They were so inconsiderate and just gave me a lame answer, like ‘Oh, I thought it was okay.’” Basically, so what.

I agreed, but said I felt it was more than being inconsiderate. For them, plants, nature didn’t really matter, weren’t part of their world, didn’t enter into the picture, they couldn’t relate, not part of life as they know it. If people were connected to nature, and understood how things grow, and had to grow their food or flowers or plants and saw and understood the work, elements, and conditions necessary to do so, they wouldn’t behave so cavalierly toward Mother Nature and her caretakers, which we all are.

We as a people have become ignorant as to our place in the natural world and the nature that lives within us and that we are a part of. It doesn’t exist in a real kind of way. When we take the time, even a moment, to notice and BE in the natural world, as in feeling one with it, we just naturally would want to take care of her.

Life goes on within you and without you.

– George Harrison

How the Big-Brained Woman Can Win

There once was a big-brained woman who was told that she could be whatever she wanted to be when she grew up. She listened and went on ahead, but during that same time a very ambitious young man decided to cut in line, and many people in the land fell under a haze of charisma. In order for him to keep up with her, he’d copy her in debates and make fun of her. He created a milieu amongst his legions, ignited with kerosene by the media, where it seemed okay for them to put her down. But the big-brained woman insisted on sticking to the issues. Although her motives were constantly questioned, many other legions in the kingdom listened and concluded that her big-brain, her experience, and her compassion were compelling qualities of leadership.

Ohh, it’s bed time, sweetie. I’ll finish the story later.

A few weeks ago, after Mark Penn was out, Geoff Garin was in as chief strategist. He wrote to Hillary’s constituency for feedback about the campaign. I wrote him a delayed reply after Tuesday’s primary and the subsequent increased calls from Democratic Party members for Hillary to “get owwww-tttt, get owwww-tttt of the race.”

Dear Geoff,
Thanks for asking and sorry for my delayed reply. I’m a die-hard Hillary supporter who blogs on behalf of her and her platform, and against the media and their unconscious bias as expressed in their language, the staggering number of anti-Hillary commentators and guests, etc. My young cousin has worked in several states for her campaign for the last year, and my other cousins were Clinton delegates the first time around.

Hillary’s strongest suits are her programs, her plans, and her knowledge of so many facts, figures, and situations in a myriad of domains — all that in addition to her amazing grasp of the Big US, World, and Planet Picture. That is of course why she kills in the debates.

I haven’t seen the latest of what the media and Obama’s camp term as negative ads, but I don’t think she can win that way. I think she CAN win if she keeps emphasizing her programs and platforms as in the debates. She could easily put him on the defensive in that way. Obamahaze is apparently driven by his qualities of being a charismatic generalist powered by personality and little substance, offered to people who want to Believe In America Again. At the same time he puts Hillary down as being negative. But when she tries to push back, or call him on his platform, or on that he blocked seating Florida and Michigan according to their votes, SHE is accused of negativity and breaking up the party. Instead, she needs to make him try to catch up with HER on the issues. She’s so strong there. I absolutely agree with her standing for FL & MI votes and voters, and her pointing out that Obama said Indiana would be the tie-breaker. Count the Votes!

Because Obama uses hope and “new politics” to slur Hillary, and create hollow excitement, she can only lose by going negative. He’ll just say it’s “the same old Washington.” She can win by overwhelming him on the real issues that appeal to progressives–the environment, the economy, getting out of Iraq.

Hillary Wins Indiana! CNN Wins Bias Wars

I just can’t help myself. I can’t seem to get off the topic of feeling burned by and burned up by cable channels’ election coverage. CNN used to be like vanilla: accountable, reliable, just the facts, umm, you know, news. I used to work for CNN in the ’80s. But now I’m so annoyed, gggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhh, when I hear their bias, just like MSNBC. So, I had to drop Anderson Cooper, whom I used to like, a note via his handy contact form:

Your election coverage is sick — you have on your “pundits” panel at least three declared Obama supporters, two Republicans, and poor Lanny Davis as a talking head brought to us by TV monitor (?). Then you have John King on that ridiculous map, as Lanny pointed out, without FL and MI. From everyone’s language, including yours Anderson, you’re playing like school kids, always wanting Hillary to play catch up even when she’s winning. Same deal with PA and every other state you’ve had “commentary” on. CNN is disgusting. I used to work for the network when it was a baby, and we REPORTED THE &%#? NEWS. You’ve all fallen so far, it’s shameful.

Then you have the Obama supporter joking about if his aunt grew an appendage she’d be his uncle when talking about the possibility of Hillary winning. (Can you believe this stuff?) Okay, what if that language was used in reference to a point about Obama winning or losing? Your &*S%* would be so outta there. You should be proud: you’ve finally caught up with MSNBC in official bias and news loss. Oh, and now the Repub punditist (sic) is talking with glee about the impending topple of the Clintons, yes, you know, those bad people who were responsible for the most prosperous and cost-cutting administration of our time. Remember how Obama said Indiana would be the tie -breaker, and that they were expecting a double digit win? Just like Lanny and Hillary said–nanny nanny boo boo. He lost. Cut it any way you want, he lost.

Can you get a Cronkite or someone to moderate a news show or host a panel who isn’t a Hillary hater? So that’s how it is, anyone can say anything unopposed, put forth false truths just because they have a mic? I’m so disgusted with CNN. Where the heck can someone go to watch the news? The Republican (read: might as well be an Obama supporter) panel member says that no working class white men will vote for Hillary. That’s just promoting hate ‘n bias — does he get that?

Then, incredibly, all throughout Hillary’s Indiana victory speech, the banner below her face is displaying “OBAMA WINS NC, INDIANA TOO CLOSE TO CALL.” This is just too much. I can’t, as a lady, even write how disgusted I am with CNN!!!!!! I can’t believe that I’m turning to MSNBC instead!!!!!!!!!!! (Pardon all the hyperbolic exclamation points, but that’s how strongly I feel.)

What is the deal — how disrespectful can they get? To all news networks: Why are all the pundits and the newscasters speaking against Hillary and trying to bring her down? Why have we been talking and blogging and protesting about this for so many months and years? Why is CNN displaying INDIANA TOO CLOSE TO CALL on the banner during Hillary’s victory speech? By doing so, they are once again revealing their bias that she shouldn’t be in the race. I’m turning CNN off and watching MSNBC. At least they didn’t do that. For shame and shame on me. It’s just so sad how many millions of people are still drinking the Kool Aid, even after finding out what was in it.

FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN, COUNT THE VOTES!

Hillary’s Energy Plan: Real Progress

Okay, so I’m bitching about Obama’s pro-nuke ‘n coal energy stance.

In contrast: Here’s the positive, real deal from Hillary. It’s huge, so I’m just highlighting a couple of sections from page 6 of her 15-page “Powering America’s Future” PDF, part of her “Promoting Energy Independence and Fighting Global Warming” Platform. (phew!)

Producing 25 Percent of Electricity from Wind, Solar, Biomass, Geothermal and Other Renewable Sources by 2025: Wind, solar and other non-hydro renewables accounted for only 2.3 percent of electricity generation in 2005. Hydropower added another 6.6 percent. However, a recent study using Department of Energy models found that getting to 20% renewable electricity by 2020 would save consumers $10.5 billion, reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 223 million metric tons per year, spur $66.7 billion in new capital investment and increase income to farmers, ranchers and rural landowners by $25.6 billion. Hillary would establish a national target of producing 25% of our electricity from renewable sources by 2025. In addition to setting this target, Hillary would:
• Encourage investment in wind, solar and other renewable energy production by making permanent the 1.9 cent per kilowatt-hour tax credit for producing electricity from renewable sources;
• Provide tax incentives for families and businesses to install small-scale renewable energy such as rooftop solar panels; and
• Establish national “net metering” standards to ensure that families and businesses who install solar panels or other renewable energy resources can sell power back to the grid on fair terms.

Addressing Nuclear Power: Hillary believes that energy efficiency and renewables are better options for addressing global warming and meeting our future power needs, because of significant unresolved concerns about the cost of producing nuclear power, the safety of operating plants, waste disposal, and nuclear proliferation. Hillary opposes new subsidies for nuclear power, but believes that we need to take additional steps to deal with the problems facing nuclear power. She would strengthen the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and direct it to improve safety and security at nuclear power plants; terminate work at the flawed Yucca Mountain site and convene a panel of scientific experts to explore alternatives for disposing of nuclear waste; and continue research, with a focus on lower costs and improving safety.

All you liberals, believers who think that Obama has YOU and YOUR INTERESTS in mind: Look at the evidence. Look at her concern for Yucca Mountain, revered Native American spiritual site. Read Hillary’s plans for a complete and progressive and exhaustive (no pun intended) energy policy here on her website. Wake up to real progress, America!

Progressive? Obama’s Energy Platform: Nuclear and Coal

Liberals take note! All ye who cling to Obama for his most liberal on high policies: The very foundations of progressive politics that stemmed from the sixties anti-war effort are given little attention in his overall plans. Remember? Our tenets are: No Nukes! Reduce Greenhouse Gases! Reduce Coal Mining!

On today’s 5/4/08 MSNBC Meet the Press broadcast, Obama states clearly — as he also did in the debates — that his energy policy will rely on nuclear power and coal. And this platform is not “Washington as usual”? This would-be-president is speaking out of both sides of his mouth, once again. He is merely re-packaging and co-opting the language of idealism to clothe a weak, out-dated energy policy.

I’ve had to link to the entire video broadcast above, because MSNBC showed its bias once again, and did not include in its shorter recap pieces — read: edited out — the two minute snipet where Obama speaks his mis-guided opinions about nuclear and coal. You will find it about 30 minutes into the video.

We have our answer about Obama’s energy policy — one that’s been reported this year, last year, and beyond. He’s for safe nuclear and coal, but seems to give short shrift to developing an energy policy like Hillary’s that would put money into developing solar, wind, methane, and more comprehensive corn-based technologies and create thousands of jobs. Here’s an NBC News piece about Obama’s record from February, 2008. It appears that Godley, IL citizens living near a leaky nuclear power plant got the short end of the stick, and instead the power company Excelon benefited. When it came to a choice between the people of his state and corporate interests, Obama chose the corporation, despite the health dangers it posed.

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The Politics of “No” At Best, Hateful At Worst

Senator Obama needs to bring up a plan of his own. If he doesn’t like Hillary’s gas holiday, then what is his plan? Instead of griping about her proposals which are the first steps in a long range total energy policy, Obama could be talking about his own ideas. His responses and reactions are reminiscent of his actions during and following the debates with Hillary (of which there have been four not twenty-four, please correct me if my tally is wrong), and his campaign controversy conduct: blame the other guy or gal, so you don’t have to account for your own opinions and votes cast. More deflection. How is that new politics? Sounds like hateful behavior and old Washington to me. Umm, let’s be clear: Obama IS a Senator IN WASHINGTON. He’s running to be the P-rrez-ident, the leader of the free world, the epitome, the apex, and center of WASHINGTON. There’s not much doubt that this person will embody what it means to be Washington. I mean, again, pul-leaze. Sigh. Don’t we want that? Not just another slick showman like Bush.

People are waking up a bit, I think, I hope. I mean, ideals are great, inspiring. Obama talks a lot of ideals and generalities — but Hillary talks details that are fleshed out, built upon her ideals. Did you hear her on Bill O’Reilly this week? My gosh, she’s got it all, and the pundits say she can’t unite people and get along. Duh, she gave him a run for his money, beat him up a bit, and he loved it. Touché. Good on ya, Hill. Bend over O, and how do you like that? Again, guess it’s old news, but for those who haven’t yet watched Hillary in her strength and glory, quick on her feet, displaying a depth of knowledge on so many issues, unlike any of the candidates: here’s Part 2 to the above Part 1. Far be it from me to promote Fox Network, as O’Reilly said, boy am I surprised! But it’s a great example of showing Hillary’s enormous capacity to work with people. She’s like the Energizer bunny — keeps going, and even more, keeps getting better and better. Like us all, sweeties, we’re not getting older, we’re getting better.

Volunteer, donate your time and money, make calls at: Hillary Clinton for President.

NYC Rally for Tibet 4/25/08

As happenstance would have it, last Friday, April 25, 2008, I came upon a rally for Tibet that was held in Union Square in NYC. Sometimes, just putting one foot in front of the other, intuitively following one’s nose, will land one in the best place. I was walking to the subway after hearing a book talk at East West Books, followed by trip into the Guitar Center for a thumb pick, which led into sampling steel string acoustic guitars, then following my stomach to a recommendation for frozen yoghurt down the street.

It was the Tibetan monks chanting that drew me in. I’d heard it before in a fabulous and moving Gyuto Monks world tour when they performed in Berkeley, CA. Such a grounding eye-opener that keeps you riveted, feeling the depths and spans of culture in their throat and belly-sourced tones and robes. Moving in closer, this early Friday eve, I then saw the candles, hundreds and hundreds of them in simple clear plastic cups, spaced evenly to spell out FREE TIBET, with several large peace signs below. The monks sat cross legged in burgundy and saffron robes, encircled by hundreds of Tibetans in support. The rally to remember the ongoing and recent atrocities by the Chinese who have been persecuting this ancient wisdom religion, was occuring on the nineteen birthday of their exiled leader, The Panchen Lama.

I’m attempting without success to post some of the video I took with my little Canon 8mp digital camera, for now here are a couple of stills from the videos.

Jamie Rubin on CNN Late Edition 4/27/08: Dems Finally Grow Some

Before you think I’ve gone completely complacent, I’m a few days late, and many dollars short, before it’s ancient and not just old news, I wanted to highlight Jamie Rubin’s CNN Late Edition appearance last Sunday, April 27. (I’m not actually able to embed it, and pardon the commercial, but I haven’t found it elsewhere besides CNN, so here it is linked.) Call it what you will, here was one Dem man who refused to be bullied and insisted on shaping the conversation.

Perhaps I feel this way, because I went into a slump after Hillary won PA. Something inside of me just wouldn’t let me celebrate or open the bubbly like so many others. Perhaps I could hear the impending steps of doom from down the hall. Perhaps, I knew instinctively like Hillary seems to that the battle is still on and always will be.

And sure enough, after a slight nod to her blow up punching clown ability to keep popping back up after each slug, they began slugging her again after her 10 point win in PA. “But she can’t really win, can she?” And they keep on, but Rubin refused to be dumped in that box and came out swinging, pulling no punches. Same ole, same ole slice em dice em politics, you say? For once, and maybe only for that one time, it felt good to hear a surrogate who had grown some, and was willing to use them in service of our gal, (who has an impressive set herself), refusing to succumb to another round of Obama surrogate spin. Oy vey, a set of what? What am I saying? Knockers. Don’t hate me. I’m still respectful and have some myself. Wouldn’t it be great to have a President with a set of those for once? Tee hee.

“Watching the Wheels” — Dipping My Toe Back In

John Lennon took a step back in his life to really enjoy and meditate on the world he was indeed living in. Yet he was a political guy, who tried to create change by his actions, using his voice in many ways, in the end dedicating his life to peace and love. He left us with the very sweet, zen-like, “Watching the Wheels” where he portrayed his new life of “householder yogi,” as we used to call it. It’s one thing to go live on a mountain top, another to live amongst your family, the day to day world, and remain centered, calm, kind, get something done, and enjoy your life while doing it — despite or because of the expected or unexpected.

I wrote in an earlier entry that Hillary was like me, only somewhere our roads diverged, and I took a more hippie, country, back to nature, creating a hopefully better society path to “saving the world” than did our gal Hillary. She took the route of attorney serving those who were unjustly treated, confident woman action figure, heroine route. To restate, how does she do it?

I’ve mentioned, I’m a new blogger who began in March 2008, and am also new to even reading them. I’m learning the technology — I still don’t have buttons and badges and bells, oh my — I almost grok what they mean and what they’re used for. I’ve been on a big learning curve with all that, and got quite wrapped up in it. Is that being addicted? Maybe a bit compulsive. Hmmm. It’s true whatever I do, whether it’s writing, reconciling my checkbook, or using the power of the pen, computer, and internet to stump for Hillary, I just have to do that project whole-heartedly. I focus and go all out, and my cleaning, food shopping, running my business, exercising all fall by the wayside.

I’d see perfectly sunny and newly budding Spring days pass into twilight, darkness, and 3am, while sitting in this chair, impassioned by Hillary’s capacity to stave off countless slings and arrows, fueled by my observations of Obama and his followers, feeling my common sense of fairness being trampled, needing to write to express it all — I read up on news stories and other blogs, felt my emotions flow and ebb, my body contract, my breath shorten, and I wrote out my heart, as I figured out how and where to cut and paste an embed, or how to increase my traffic and join this fast-paced world. While some blogs get thousands or millions of views, it felt quite heady to go from seven to two hundred thirty views in one day, as an author, imagining even that many people reading my work.

In the real world, I try to live by practicing what I preach, which would be living a balanced life. Well, okay here goes, I’ll admit that after one month of attempting to run this blog in the above manner, I had hemarrhoids, probably from sitting on my ass so consistently some days without even a walk around the block, or a ride down the elevator to get my mail. I got a sharp stomach cramp that lasted for two days, and had to miss our family’s Passover Seder, which is for me basically unheard of. I’m a sucker for a Seder, it’s a freedom holiday, after all. And I wouldn’t be here, had the Jews not gotten out of Egypt, ‘lo those five thousand plus years ago.

But there I was lying in bed, a victim of my own blogging addiction. You did hear of those three blogger guys who had heart attacks, two of whom died, right? Techie NextSTEP had some lovely tips in her April 8, 2008 piece promoting blogger relaxation that I recommend. It helped me immediately, mind you I know all this stuff, but somehow, as I’ve been saying, lost my body in all this.

My hats go off to all bloggers, especially the non-paid, the women I read at The Confluence, Taylor Marsh, The Democratic Daily, and yes the men too, who maintain sites like Hillary Clinton Forum, and to all who have company and corporate jobs, in some cases with kids still at home (mine are off and grown), go to rallies in other states, and research and resource their topics in-depth, are up on the latest, and produce a prolific turnout of amazing words and opinions. There are so many more blogs and websites, linked on all these sites, that I can’t even keep up with them.

Anyway, after all this, I return, but will be taking a bit more laid back approach to my writing commitment here. In politics, gossip, innuendo, outrage, and slinging will always be an igniting force. I remember feeling politically indignant as a kid for the first time when Adlai Stevenson lost, feeling that there was an injustice being done to the world. But I also have my own little mission and corner of the world to contribute to, and it’s not politics: I’ve a book to write, and people to help in my domain of work. Additionally, there are some other recent happenings that I want to report on or highlight through this, my cultural and political blog.

Let’s all om, breathe, keep sounding our voices, and remember to visit, support, campaign, contribute money, or whatever you feel moved to do to support HillaryClinton.com, our lady of the left, linked here on the right.

With Love,

Lady Boomer NYC