March is Women's History Month

Today is International Women's Day. A day of Empowerment for Women, Women who have worked hard for humanitarian and peace relations globally.

International Women's Day's Roots began in Russia, where they formally acknowledged the role that women played in their political, social and economic growth. It was actually a display of love and gratitude that Women's Day was started.

Today March is celebrated as Women's History Month in Celebration of women and all of their achievements to our culture, society, and global/humanitarian efforts.

If you are a woman, love, honour and respect yourself.

If you love a woman love, honour and respect her.

NewsFlash: Big Bird To Hit Unemployment Line

Seems Educational Programming, Cultural Programming at PBS and News Programming at NPR are considered LUXURIES in The Latest round of Discretionary Spending Cuts as Determined by The GOP.

Farmers in the West and Mid-West who depend on The NPR for Honest and Reliable News Broadcasts are no longer entitled to them?

Educatiional Programming, News Broadcasts. Are They Trying to keep America Uneducated and Misinformed? Do They have a hidden agenda?

Perhaps.

OR...

They are just trying to exercise Brute Force with their Discretionary Spending Cuts and just plain flat out don't give a shit who they trample on to prove their point.

Discretionary Spending

dis·cre·tion·ary

adj \-ˈkre-shə-ˌner-ē\

Definition of DISCRETIONARY

1

: left to discretion : exercised at one's own discretion

2

: available for discretionary use <discretionary purchasing power>

Examples of DISCRETIONARY

1. <discretionary spending on luxuries dropped dramatically last year>

First Known Use of DISCRETIONARY

1698

 

The Government considers Education, Transportation, Health, and Human Services Discretionary Spending. 

Does feeding the country's poor sound like a luxury to you? 

 

Does Educating our Children so that we can assure America has a Future sound like a Luxury to you?

Does providing Well Child Clinics, and other Preventative screenings for Health to prevent Pandemics  sound like a Luxury to You?

Just Sayin'....

The Haves and The Have-Nots

This world of ours is unfortunately separated into two categories, "The Haves", and  " The Have-Nots".

"The Haves" are entitled to common basic needs like health care, food, shelter, education, having their dignity and self respect kept in tact.

"The Have-Nots" just can't seem to catch a break in this world of ours. There is no health care for them, there rights get trampled every time they turn around. Often they are homeless due to unemployment, leaving them to die on a cold lonely street somewhere.

Maybe if  "The Haves" weren't so busy singing 'God Bless The Child Who Has His Own" and show some compassion to 'The Have-Nots' , The world would not have to sing 'Mercy, Mercy, Me."

Do The Republicans Really Defend Marriage?

DOMA is just The Latest attack on The LGBT community and it has nothing to do with preserving the sanctity and old fashioned values of traditional marriage as The Conservatives would have you believe.

Pardon Me for being so opinionated on this subject but I will tell you why.

I have met many elderly couples who would love nothing more than to be married to one another, and live as husband and wife, Legally. Why don't they? Financially they would be screwed. Seems if you are on Social Security and you enter into a Marriage Contract as it is currently defined by DOMA, your benefits are decreased dramatically. They just can't afford to be married. They can however afford to live together. For some of these older people this was an insult, and an embarrassment. To "Shack Up" or " Live In Sin" but what other recourse did the government leave them? They have to eat and pay bills.

DOMA takes more away from marriage than it gives.

Saying No To Title X is PRO DEATH

 Republicans are attacking Planned Parenthood and Title X funding, Planned Parenthood has never performed any abortions to my knowledge so if it is a matter of Pro Life, they are way off the Mark. In fact  by stripping Planned Parenthood of these funds They are saying they are Pro Death.

Planned Parenthood provides essential screenings for Cervical Cancer, Breast Cancer, HIV, STD's and offers education and health care services and screenings to approximately one in five women in the United States, and the Demographic on these women are that they are the ones hardest hit by the economy. Perhaps The Republicans think their lives aren't worth saving.

Gettysburg-Did They Die in Vain

THE
GETTYSBURG
ADDRESS

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth
 on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and
 dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
  Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing
 whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so
 dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-
field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of
 that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave
 their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether
 fitting and proper that we should do this.
  But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate…we cannot
 consecrate…we cannot hallow…this ground. The brave men,
 living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it
 far above our poor power to add or detract. The world
 will little note nor long remember what we say here, but
 it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the
 living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished
 work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly
 advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the
 great task remaining before us…that from these honored
 dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
 they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here
 highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain;
 that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of
 freedom; and that government of the people, by the people,
 for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

November 19, 1863

The Bloodiest War ever fought on American Soil, The Civil War. It was fought to enforce The Constitution of The United States of America and to abolish slavery.  Slaves were being used to run plantations, mills, factories and in some cases used for forced breeding with no regard for their health or well being. They had no voice or representation. Even greater was the injustice, was that these slaves were forbidden to be educated, for if they were, then they would know that they were being mistreated. They had  no one to speak for them.

President Lincoln Spoke for Them with The Emancipation Proclamation. The Union waged war on the Confederacy and it's Unconstitutional Practices. The Civil War pitted Brother against brother in some cases, emotions ran high, but Lincoln and His Freedom Fighters never gave up.

The Union Forces won the Civil War and gave Freedom to The Slaves of The Confederacy. Collectively now through The Union they now had a Voice.

There was much blood shed during The Civil War to ensure that the Constitution of The United States of America was enforced. To take away people's right's today is like spitting in the face of those fallen soldiers.