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Fighting Back: They are all our children – “If you come near our cubs, you’ve got a problem.”

by JanF • June 23, 2018 • 3 Comments

The Weekly Democratic Party Address was delivered by Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii. “These are not normal times. On issue after issue, Donald Trump creates a crisis, blames others for what’s happening, and uses the ensuing chaos to demand a legislative solution that often harms even more people. Democrats are calling on President Trump to use his executive authority to reunite the 2,400 separated children with their parents. We are calling on him to resolve many other problems his executive order created. And we are calling on his administration to stop its sabotage of our health care system and work with us on a bipartisan basis to protect and improve our health care system.” (CSPAN link to Weekly Democratic Address: here) ×CloseYou need to login in order to like this post: click here

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VNV Tuesday – …Doomed to Repeat It (Chinese Restriction Act of 1882 ) 6/19/18

by DoReMI • June 19, 2018 • 5 Comments

As usual, I present this post with the caveat that I am neither a scholar nor a specialist in this field; I’m merely providing an overview for those who wish to have a cursory explanation and enough information to enable continued research on one’s own. For the parenthetical part of the title of this post,…

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Fighting Back: “Democrats believe that access to affordable health care is a basic human right”

by JanF • June 16, 2018 • 3 Comments

The Weekly Democratic Party Address was delivered by Congressman Frank Pallone of New Jersey. (Congressman Frank Pallone of New Jersey, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, delivered the Weekly Democratic Address. In this week’s address, Pallone highlighted the dangers of Republicans’ latest attack on the protections that ensure more…

Democratic Party Values, Editors' Choice, It Takes a Village

VNV Tuesday – 147 Days Until Midterms; Time to Set Our Hope On Fire (A Call to Action) 6/12/18

by DoReMI • June 12, 2018 • 1 Comment

Today’s inspiration came from this song by Vienna Teng about a nascent activist, as well as Rebecca Solnit’s book Hope in the Darkness: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities. So what is this “hope” of which I speak? Solnit says it best: It’s important to say what hope is not: it is not the belief that everything…

Editors' Choice, Fighting Back

Fighting Back: “Health care is a right, not something reserved for just those who can afford it.”

by JanF • June 10, 2018 • 3 Comments

The Weekly Democratic Party Address was delivered by Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia. (Senator Tim Kaine (VA) delivered the weekly Democratic address and talked about health care.) You deserve the peace of mind that if you or a loved one gets sick, you can get health care when you needed without facing mountains…

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Why is Bernie Sanders the most popular politician in America? (Hint: it ain’t his hair)

by Squire • December 20, 2016

Now, let me be upfront here; this isn’t going to be a “Oh, if only Bernie had gotten the nomination!” screed, so, if you’re looking for that post, I’m sure you can find plenty of other choices elsewhere. No, this is solely going to be a commiseration on the fact- fact- that as of the…

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A “Blue Dog Resurgence” can save the Democratic Party- and the country

by Squire • December 11, 2016

Now, hold on a second. I can already tell some of y’alls assholes are clenching just based on my title alone. And I know full well that everyone and their brother’s got an opinion as to why Hillary Clinton lost, and Donald Trump won, the Presidential election, blah blah blah. But I think we all…

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Call the Whaaambulance!

by JanF • August 5, 2016

Call the Whaaambulance! Harvard Republicans refuse to endorse Trump.

Here, I will save you having to click on that link:

“What happened to our beautiful party … the one built on the Southern Strategy, whistled to in Philadelphia MS, powered by the hateful racist rhetoric of Lee Atwater, and dedicated to crushing the poor, women, people of color, and the elderly??? We must reclaim it from the racist misogynist so that we can get back to the noble task of granny-killing, poor-starving, and sick-kicking Ryanism!”

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A Creek Preservation Project on Earth Day 2018 & When is a plant a weed?

by RonK • May 9, 2018

Canyon Creek, Whatcom Co., WA State April 22, 2018 (Earth Day) There were so many Earth Day activities to attend that I had some difficulty choosing which to spend my day with. I chose to go with the Whatcom Land Trust that has preserved over 20,000 acres from Farm land to salmon spawning habitat, to…

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Ocean and Beach Plastic Pollution Locally and Globally

by RonK • April 17, 2018

A derelict sail boat washed up on a local beach from a winter storm a couple of years ago. It is polluting the beach and bay as it sheds particles from its fiberglass hull. Plastic decking has come off the bow and a number of other plastic items are wedged under the boat, not…

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The Columbia River Rolling Into the Pacific Ocean -Part 2,

by RonK • February 26, 2018

We left off in Part 1 at Celilo Falls and The Dalles Dam, the last dam before the river meets the ocean. This remaining portion of the river’s journey is also spectacular although the landscape takes on a different character. After leaving the Canadian Rockies, the terrain along the river has been relatively barren, semi-arid plateau with…

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Summer Sunning!

by JanF • June 21, 2018 • 9 Comments

Today marks the Summer Solstice. Astronomically, it looks like this: The Summer Solstice occurs exactly when the Earth’s axial tilt is most inclined towards the sun at its maximum of 23° 26′. The seasonal significance of the Summer Solstice is in the reversal of the gradual shortening of nights and lengthening of days. That will…

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April Showers are Bringing May Flowers!

by JanF • May 1, 2018

At Winter Solstice, the light begins to return – gradually, the memory of the long nights fades until the light and dark are equal on Spring Equinox. From that point on, the light returns more rapidly and on May 1st we arrive at the midpoint between equinox and Summer Solstice. Today, my sunrise was at…

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Springing into Spring – No Kidding!

by JanF • March 20, 2018

Today at 16:15 UTC (11:15am CDT), the Spring Equinox will occur. An equinox occurs twice a year (around 20 March and 22 September), when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the center of the Sun being in the same plane as the Earth’s equator. The name…

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Out of the Sea

by Diana in NoVa • May 30, 2018 • 4 Comments

She thought her life was over—until the Goddess Thalassa called to her That first week in Australia Stella decided that her new home was very much like her previous home in Texas. The weather was the same—boiling hot. The people were similar—tall, tanned, laid back, and friendly, although they didn’t wear cowboy boots;…

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Roses at Imbolc

by Diana in NoVa • January 31, 2018

The ‘farewell’ roses broke her heart–until the Goddess Brigid stepped in The Imbolc ritual was to be held at Green Dragon’s house that year. She lived in an outer suburb of the city in a house whose backyard gave way to woods. Although we all grumbled at the necessity of driving so…

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Yule Tide

by Diana in NoVa • November 30, 2017

Goddess women invoke a male deity–and get a Yule surprise! In ones and twos the Circle sisters arrived at the house on the evening of Winter Solstice. They swept through the door, bringing gusts of cold air with them, and amid laughter and greetings divested themselves of coats and cloaks. ×CloseYou need to login…

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: June 24th

by JanF • June 23, 2018 • 9 Comments

Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania that we each inhabit. ×CloseYou need to login in order to like this post: click here

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Fighting Back: They are all our children – “If you come near our cubs, you’ve got a problem.”

by JanF • June 23, 2018 • 3 Comments

The Weekly Democratic Party Address was delivered by Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii. “These are not normal times. On issue after issue, Donald Trump creates a crisis, blames others for what’s happening, and uses the ensuing chaos to demand a legislative solution that often harms even more people. Democrats are calling on President…

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TGIF!

by Batch • June 22, 2018 • 8 Comments

Morning meese! What a completely demoralizing week…but we persist. DD(DumDonnie) thinks he can shock us into giving up…He’s got another thing coming..The dipshit works for us even though he seems to think he’s boss and we work for him. Not the way it works in our…

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Summer Sunning!

by JanF • June 21, 2018 • 9 Comments

Today marks the Summer Solstice. Astronomically, it looks like this: The Summer Solstice occurs exactly when the Earth’s axial tilt is most inclined towards the sun at its maximum of 23° 26′. The seasonal significance of the Summer Solstice is in the reversal of the gradual shortening of nights and lengthening of days. That will…

Editors' Choice, History, Immigration and Citizenship, It Takes a Village

VNV Tuesday – …Doomed to Repeat It (Chinese Restriction Act of 1882 ) 6/19/18

by DoReMI • June 19, 2018 • 5 Comments

As usual, I present this post with the caveat that I am neither a scholar nor a specialist in this field; I’m merely providing an overview for those who wish to have a cursory explanation and enough information to enable continued research on one’s own. For the parenthetical part of the title of this post,…

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: June 17th through June 23rd

by JanF • June 16, 2018 • 122 Comments

Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania that we each inhabit. ×CloseYou need to login in order to like this post: click here

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Fighting Back: “Democrats believe that access to affordable health care is a basic human right”

by JanF • June 16, 2018 • 3 Comments

The Weekly Democratic Party Address was delivered by Congressman Frank Pallone of New Jersey. (Congressman Frank Pallone of New Jersey, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, delivered the Weekly Democratic Address. In this week’s address, Pallone highlighted the dangers of Republicans’ latest attack on the protections that ensure more…

It Takes a Village

TGIF!

by Batch • June 15, 2018 • 6 Comments

Good morning meese! The IG report was what we expected it to be, conformation that James Comey used his position indiscriminately to cover his own ass. I’m hoping the report goes the way of the dinosaurs and disappears now that we got confirmation. The longer it sticks around the more we’ll hear the…

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VNV Tuesday – 147 Days Until Midterms; Time to Set Our Hope On Fire (A Call to Action) 6/12/18

by DoReMI • June 12, 2018 • 1 Comment

Today’s inspiration came from this song by Vienna Teng about a nascent activist, as well as Rebecca Solnit’s book Hope in the Darkness: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities. So what is this “hope” of which I speak? Solnit says it best: It’s important to say what hope is not: it is not the belief that everything…

Editors' Choice, Fighting Back

Fighting Back: “Health care is a right, not something reserved for just those who can afford it.”

by JanF • June 10, 2018 • 3 Comments

The Weekly Democratic Party Address was delivered by Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia. (Senator Tim Kaine (VA) delivered the weekly Democratic address and talked about health care.) You deserve the peace of mind that if you or a loved one gets sick, you can get health care when you needed without facing mountains…

Community

Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: June 10th through June 16th

by JanF • June 9, 2018 • 98 Comments

Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania that we each inhabit. ×CloseYou need to login in order to like this post: click here

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TGIF!!!

by Batch • June 8, 2018 • 4 Comments

Good morning meese! Everyone is going to start to realize something we came to realize even before the election. That Putin/Russia helped get Dotard elected to cause turmoil everywhere. It will give Putin lots of shits and giggles at what is happening becasue of the fucking mess Dotard is creating. Starting to look like…

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VNV Thursday – A Theatrical Interlude 6/7/18

by DoReMI • June 7, 2018 • 2 Comments

I’ve loved theatre for most of my life. When I was in high school, I attended all the school plays, and with my humanities class was able to see William Devane in a production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (he originated the role of McMurphy off-Broadway) that was done at a local theatre-in-the-round.…

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: June 3rd through June 9th

by JanF • June 2, 2018 • 96 Comments

Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania that we each inhabit. ×CloseYou need to login in order to like this post: click here

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Fighting Back: “We will fight the Republican culture of corruption and demand accountability”

by JanF • June 2, 2018 • 3 Comments

The Weekly Democratic Party Address was delivered by Congressman John Sarbanes of Maryland. (Congressman John Sarbanes of Maryland, Chair of the Democracy Reform Task Force, delivered the Weekly Democratic Address. In this week’s address, Sarbanes discussed Democrats’ A Better Deal for Our Democracy, an agenda focused on taking back the power from special…