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The Daily F Bomb, Tuesday 1/28/14

Interrogatories

It’s National Kazoo Day and National Clash Day. What Clash song would you most like to hear on the kazoo?

What is the most absurd think that Republican males believe?

Have you ever written notes on your hand like Palin? What kind of notes?

The Twitter Emitter

Tuesday Morning Herd Check-in

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Preview of the 2014 State of The Union Address plus News and Views on Income Inequality

From the White House, an email from Dan Pfeiffer, Senior Advisor:

We’re now just [one day] out — and the President wanted you to get the first preview of what this speech is all about. As always, he’ll be working on it right up until game time, but three words sum up the President’s message on Tuesday night: opportunity, action, and optimism.

The core idea is as American as they come: If you work hard and play by the rules, you should have the opportunity to succeed. Your ability to get ahead should be based on your hard work and ambition and who you want to be, not just the raw circumstance of who you are when you’re born.

On Tuesday night, the President will lay out a set of real, concrete, practical proposals to grow the economy, strengthen the middle class, and empower all who hope to join it.

In this year of action, the President will seek out as many opportunities as possible to work with Congress in a bipartisan way. But when American jobs and livelihoods depend on getting something done, he will not wait for Congress.

President Obama has a pen and he has a phone, and he will use them to take executive action and enlist every American — business owners and workers, mayors and state legislators, young people, veterans, and folks in communities from across the country — in the project to restore opportunity for all.[…]

With some action on all our parts, we can help more jobseekers find work, and more working Americans find the economic security they deserve. That’s why, in the week following the speech, President Obama will travel to communities across the country — including Prince George’s County Maryland, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, and Nashville, before returning to the White House to outline new efforts to help the long-term unemployed.

White House: Get Ready for the Speech

   The State of the Union Address, January 28, 2014 at 9pm Eastern

The Daily F Bomb, Monday 1/27/14

Interrogatories

What is the most exotic place you have been?

What is your least favorite animal and why?

Did you ever hidden something then forget where you hid it?

The Twitter Emitter

Odds & Ends: News/Humor

I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in “Cheers & Jeers”. For example …..

SEPARATED at BIRTH – film stars Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain, Blue Valentine) and Adelaide Clemens (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Great Gatsby).

   

OK, you’ve been warned – here is this week’s tomfoolery material that I posted.

Marching Forward Together: from Selma to Raleigh


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It has been a long march since the days when civil rights activists came together in Selma Alabama in 1965 to further focus the nation’s and the world’s eyes on the injustices and degradations heaped upon those of us who are of a darker hue than the majority.

Immorally deprived of our rights-to vote, to economic equality, to share public spaces, to live lives free from fear and intimidation from racist segregationists, we built a mighty coalition of blacks, whites and browns, men and women-in the era which became known as “the Civil Rights Movement.” It is spoken of as “history” as if the battle was won and ended-with racism defeated and social and political injustices vanquished. Yes, we won battles, yes we got new legislation-like the Civil Rights Act of 1964-and of those victories we can be proud.  

But the war is not won-yet.

Some of the early voices have been silenced-by assassination-like those of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, though their words and deeds ring on in a clarion call for justice. Other powerful voices passed into the arms of death like Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer and Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, having fought the righteous fight-aware they had passed on the torch to a younger generation.

Rising up out of the south which birthed the first movement are new voices, meshed with those of veterans of earlier struggles.

This powerful movement is growing stronger day by day.

Next stop on the justice train is Raleigh, North Carolina, where a massive demonstration will be held on February the 8th.  

Sunday All Day Check-in for the Herd

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Weekly Address: President Obama – Taking Action to End Sexual Assault

From the White House – Weekly Address

In his weekly address, President Obama said that the Administration has taken another important step to protect women at college by establishing the White House Task Force on Protecting Students from Sexual Assault. An estimated 1 in 5 women is sexually assaulted at college, and the President said that we will keep taking actions like strengthening the criminal justice system, reaching out to survivors, and changing social norms so that all Americans can feel safe and protected as they pursue their own piece of the American dream.

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