Lol – pun intended.

Good morning.

It was only a week ago that Trump’s immigration plan was the same one Obama is enforcing. I even blogged about it two days ago. Then he gave his immigration speech last night. My how things shift quickly. Did you watch? I’ve had enough of Trump for this week. Be my guest to keep it live if you want, but I’m taking a break and tuning to another station this morning.

From Think Progress:

California Lawmakers Unanimously Repeal State’s ‘Tampon Tax’

This week, the California Assembly unanimously passed a bill that would exempt menstrual products from state sales tax, sending it to Gov. Jerry Brown’s (D) desk.

The bill got bipartisan support, with Democrats arguing the tax is an unfair burden on women when things like Rogaine and Viagra are often tax-exempt. Republicans, meanwhile, supported tax relief.

“Fundamentally this is about gender equity and leveling the field,” said Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D), who wrote the bill.

And Assemblywoman Ling-Ling Chang (R) said in supporting the bill, “By scrapping this tax, we’re putting money back in the pockets of California women.”

Brown has not said whether he’ll sign it into law and his office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Repealing the so-called “tampon tax” would cost the state an estimated $20 million in tax revenue.

California is one of a handful of states that have taken notice of the fact that menstrual products are treated like luxury items and subjected to sales tax, while things like prescription drugs and even shampoo are exempt. New York State got rid of its tampon tax in April after a group of women filed a lawsuit claiming it amounted to discrimination. A similar lawsuit was filed earlier this year in Ohio. Bills have been introduced in that state, as well as in Illinois, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

President Obama has even taken notice of the issue, saying he has “no idea why states would tax these as luxury items,” but positing that “it’s because men were making the laws when those taxes were passed.” He also urged women in states where tampon taxes exist “to work to get those taxes removed.”

Yet even with New York and California working to repeal their taxes, just five other states have already done the same. The 40 others with sales tax still treat tampons as taxable luxury items.

The women who have filed lawsuits have come up with estimates of how much the tampon tax costs them. The numbers are huge: $11 million a year in Ohio and $14 million in New York.

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Readers: It’s about time. Only a man would call tampons a “luxury item.” How ridiculous is that. Uh…duh…just because it goes into our vaginas doesn’t mean it’s a treat, like I’m getting off on it. Taxing tampons is just plan discriminatory as noted in today’s write.

On a similar note…Ever hear of the “Pink Tax”? Its the idea that versions of products and services for women cost more than the male versions. And it’s true.

 A recent study by the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs surveyed almost 800 products and found in 42% of cases, women paid more for the same items as men.

Sometimes as much as double the price. It’s highway robbery.

Thoughts? Blog me.

Peace out. 

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Every once in awhile I come across a write that is posted in my local newspaper. This one was passed along to me by my mother. Yes, people still do read the newspaper. Thanks, Mom!

From the SF Chron by Jill Duerr Berrick:

What have they got to lose? When will black Americans win?

In this April 2016 file photo, Pastor Darrell Scott listens at left as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Trump Tower building in New York.

Donald Trump’s recent remarks to the African American community ring hollow, especially to black parents concerned about their children. “What have you got to lose?” he asks, suggesting that his “Make America Great Again” campaign responds to centuries of injustice.

But was it great in the 17th, 18th or 19th centuries, when African families were stolen from their homes, transported as cargo, separated and sold to white slave-owners in America?

Maybe it was great in 1776, when those rich, white men set about to proclaim “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Except that the only folks who got to enjoy those privileges were rich, white men like themselves. Not women, not slaves, not African American free men, not the Native Americans whose land was stolen.

So we’ll fast-forward, past the Civil War when some blacks were forced into the Confederate Army to fight against their children’s freedom. We’ll breeze past the sharecropping system that swapped slavery for servitude for generations. We’ll skip the lynching and the mobs that served to terrify children and families into submission once their “freedom” was won.

Perhaps we will land on the 1940s when the United States was fresh from its victories in Europe and Asia. But African Americans, who were systematically redlined out of the neighborhoods they wanted for their children, wouldn’t call that a time of greatness. State-sanctioned discrimination in housing, education, employment, welfare benefits or health care are instead the ugly shadows of U.S. history, times that should evoke in all of us a sense of shame — not nostalgia.

Maybe it was the golden decade of the ’50s? Gasoline was only 18 cents a gallon, but how was that great when an African American family had to carry extra gallons of gas, along with food for lunch and a makeshift chamber pot, because gas stations were often unwelcoming to these consumers? Or with the benefits of the G.I. Bill in hand, young adults were gaining access to higher education in unparalleled numbers, but more than 95 percent of African American youth enrolled in college were limited to black-only institutions. They were not welcome in the universities we now open to all.

Surely America was not great in the 1960s when our streets were roiled by rioting and violence. When communities of color, left out of the American dream for too long, and suffering the relentless abuses of strong-arm police tactics, exploded in frustration and demanded that we right our historic wrongs.

In 1980, about 1 in 10 white children were living in poverty; the rate was almost four times greater for African Americans. The disparities persist today. Nearly 2 in 5 black children live in poverty, and those born poor typically remain poor; income mobility in the U.S. is a greater part myth than it is fact.

Today, a black baby is two times more likely to die in the first year of life than a white infant. An African American child is two times more likely to be maltreated than a white child. A black youth is five times more likely to be killed by gun violence than a white youth.

America can be great, but making it so means creating equal opportunities for all children to get a healthy start in life, to live in safe neighborhoods, to access high quality child care, to go to strong schools, and to see their parents working in good-paying jobs.

“What have they got to lose” is hardly the political platform of inspiration. America will be great when children’s life outcomes are determined by their hard work, their determination or perhaps their generosity to others. America will be great when we realize the potential of “justice for all.”

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Ralph: Did you ever discover what kind of species they were? Hafa Adai.

Anna/Guam: Never worry about changing the subject. All topics are open. Interesting story. Although, regardless of whether he was under a spell or not, he shouldn’t have punched her in the face and struck her. I HOPE she’s ok. Hafa Adai.

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Good morning!

Yes, history does repeat itself. Here you have yet another white man (Trump) claiming he’s got a great idea…and yet it is the same idea a black man (Our POTUS) has already implemented and is enforcing. Just another example of a white man claiming something of his own, basically stealing an idea and trying to get the credit for it.

From Think Progress:

If Trump’s New Immigration Plan Sounds Familiar, That’s Because Obama Is Already Enforcing It

Donald Trump has built his presidential campaign around harsh rhetoric toward immigrants — referring to people who cross the border as “rapists,” pledging to build a wall between the United States and Mexico, and promising to round up millions of undocumented immigrants for deportation.

But Trump is now attempting to moderate his position, going back on some of his more hardline stances. During an interview with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Monday night, the candidate struck a dramatically different tone, promising to implement a “humane” immigration policy that’s essentially exactly what the Obama administration is already doing.

Trump told O’Reilly that he would enforce “existing” federal immigration laws, promising to deport “gang members,” “killers,” and “a lot of bad people,” while allowing other people to “go through the process.”

“The first thing we’re gonna do, if and when I win, is we’re gonna get rid of all of the bad ones,” Trump told O’Reilly. “We’ve got gang members, we have killers, we have a lot of bad people that have to get out of this country.”

Trump even praised the president’s current deportation policies. “What people don’t know is that Obama got tremendous numbers of people out of the country, Bush the same thing,” he said. “Lots of people were brought out of the country with the existing laws. Well, I’m gonna do the same thing.”

Trump also told the Fox News host that he would not make use of detention centers, though it’s as yet unclear where undocumented immigrants would be held if he were to use a deportation task force to round them up.

“I never even heard the term. I’m not gonna put them in a detention center,” he added. “We want to do it in a very humane manner.”

Trump’s attempt to put immigrants into two categories —cracking down on people who have committed crimes, while being more lenient on those who have not — is a shift from his long-standing promise to deport the country’s 11 million undocumented immigrants regardless of their records.

This policy mirrors what Obama is already doing. In November 2014, the Obama administration announced a tiered approach to target “felons, not families” through the Priority Enforcement Program, which purportedly focuses on the removal of convicted criminals rather than on deporting people who have long-standing roots in the country.

Though Trump’s recent statements are certainly an attempt to moderate his stance on the issue, immigration advocates wouldn’t agree that Obama — who earned the nickname “Deporter-in-Chief” for having authorized two million deportations between 2009 and 2014 — takes a truly “humane” approach to immigration policy.

Under the Obama administration, even immigrants who have turned their lives around since they committed years-old crimes have been caught up in the deportation dragnet. Take, for example, the Mennonite Pastor Max Villatoro — who was convicted of drunk driving two decades ago, and pleaded guilty in 1999 to record tampering, but later became an upstanding citizen in his Iowan community. He was deported to Honduras last year anyway.

And as recently as the beginning of the year, the administration began terrorizing Latino communities after it authorized a series of immigration raids targeting some Central American mothers and children who fled their home countries after January 2014. Hundreds of Central Americans were arrested in their homes, on their way to school, outside of church, and even pulled out of cars as their children watched from the backseat.

It’s unclear where Trump’s immigration policy will end up landing. At a rally in Akron, Ohio on Monday night, Trump assured the crowd that he would still build a wall across the southern U.S. border paid for by Mexico.

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Readers: Thoughts? Blog me.

Mike, TM: As usual you are in the know with some staggering news. I HOPE Obama isn’t the POTUS either. This will inevitably be a hard decision that unfortunately will have to be made. Alas with China’s HUGE military it may come down to that scary and horrific act. Be well, Mike.

Robert: Nicely stated. Isn’t it just typical of Trump and of his supporters. Like you said, …an absolutely classic case of “the pot calling the kettle black.” Speaking of…Craig, King, et al: Once again, false equivalence is showing face. There is no way you can compare Trump’s current connection, former KKK member David Duke, still an active member of another white supremacist organization, NAAWP, with Hillary’s connection to Senator Byrd.

Expose, Expose, Expose!!! (That’s a nod to you Craig) lol…

From Snopes:

“…Robert Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s and helped establish the hate group’s chapter in Sophia, West Virginia. However, in 1952 Byrd avowed that “After about a year, I became disinterested [in the KKK], quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization,” and throughout his long political career (he served for 57 years in the United States Congress) he repeatedly apologized for his involvement with the KKK:

“I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times … and I don’t mind apologizing over and over again. I can’t erase what happened.”

In 2010, even the NAACP released a statement honoring Senator Byrd and mourning his passing:

The NAACP is saddened by the passing of United States Senator Robert Byrd. Byrd, the longest serving member of congress was first elected to the U.S. House from [West Virginia] in 1952 and was elected Senator in 1958. Byrd passed away this morning at the age of 92.

“Senator Byrd reflects the transformative power of this nation,” stated NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous. “Senator Byrd went from being an active member of the KKK to a being a stalwart supporter of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and many other pieces of seminal legislation that advanced the civil rights and liberties of our country.

“Senator Byrd came to consistently support the NAACP civil rights agenda, doing well on the NAACP Annual Civil Rights Report Card. He stood with us on many issues of crucial importance to our members from the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, the historic health care legislation of 2010 and his support for the Hate Crimes Prevention legislation,” stated Hilary O. Shelton, Director of the NAACP Washington Bureau and Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Policy. “Senator Byrd was a master of the Senate Rules, and helped strategize passage of legislation that helped millions of Americans. He will be sorely missed.”

Versus:

“…while David Duke is no longer a member of the Ku Klux Klan, he is still an active member of another white supremacist organization, NAAWP: the National Association for the Advancement of White People. Duke, a prominent Holocaust denier (although he describes himself as a “Holocaust exposer“), also has a more-than-passing interest in politics: the former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives has run for the U.S. Senate, governor of Louisiana, and President of the United States. Duke has spent his life founding and supporting various white nationalist and white supremacist groups, while Byrd, by contrast, spent the majority of his life publicly disavowing and repeatedly apologizing for his early KKK affiliation.

There is just no comparison. I think if the NAACP can praise Senator Byrd and morn his death, we, the people, can do the same. Please get your facts straight.

Peace out. 

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Good morning. 

From Think Progress:

The Most Important Reaction To Hillary Clinton’s Speech On Trump’s Racism

The sound of silence.

Today, Hillary Clinton delivered a blistering and unprecedented speech, labeling her opponent, Donald Trump, a lifelong racist.

She did not mince words, arguing that his racial bias rendered him unfit to serve.

A man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far reaches of the internet, should never run our government or command our military.

If he doesn’t respect all Americans, how can he serve all Americans?

Clinton cited a lot of examples to bolster her point, tracing Trump’s history of racism from the suit the Justice Department brought against him years ago for discriminating against blacks and Latinos seeking to rent apartments, to his embrace of the birther conspiracy to his comments during the campaign about Muslims, Mexicans and others.

Still, Trump is the leader of the Republican Party. Branding him a racist is a fundamental threat to the viability of the party now and in the future.

You would expect the leaders and elected officials of the party to rally to his side, blast Clinton’s speech as a smear and demand an apology.

Instead, there has been silence.

Paul Ryan, the Republican Speaker of The House, has two Twitter accounts. Collectively the accounts have posted 31 times on Thursday. Five hours later, he’s posted nothing about the speech.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, has three Twitter accounts. Five hours later, he’s posted nothing about the speech.

Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican Party, has a very active Twitter account. Five hours later, he’s posted nothing about the speech.

The official twitter account of the Republican Party, the organization supposedly devoted to electing Donald Trump the next President of The United States, has also been silent about the speech.

There is also nothing about the speech on the GOP.com website or blog.

Trump, on the other hand, watched the speech and was quick to respond.

Trump’s campaign press office has also been busy dutifully attacking Hillary’s speech, which a spokesman called a “desperation play.”

But the campaign seems to have trouble finding prominent Republicans to defend Trump. Right now his site features statements criticizing Hillary’s speech from luminaries such as Patricia Bober, Oz Sultan and Alfred Liz.

Some prominent Republicans might not be criticizing Hillary’s speech because they agree with it. Paul Ryan, for example, called Trump’s attack on Hispanic federal judge Gonzalo Curiel the “textbook definition of racism.”

Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse agreed.

Sasse opposes Trump’s candidacy while Ryan has endorsed him.

But today, the most striking thing is not what Republicans are saying. It’s how many of them are staying silent.

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Readers: What can they say? Clinton’s right. It’s sickening how the repubs know it but still support him, albeit silently. If anyone believes the repubs are for country first, they need their head examined.

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! Thanks for being here with me. Something to say?

Blog me. 

Susie, Ira, Zen Lill: You girls are all correct. It is way more than 12. I didn’t think it was only 12 out of so many on this planet but I certainly didn’t expect to hear 20,000. That is so disheartening. 

Owen, Irene: Thank you both for being such loyal readers and for your love of the animals. They certainly need all the support that we can give them.

Dexter: I hear you. Their habitats are so important for their livelihood and for ours. I have always said that the Earth will be fine, it will survive no matter what we do to it. But the inhabitants will parish until another species is born, adapting to whatever our planet has become.

Akram: “Urge” comes from the word “urgent” and that is exactly what we need to be as a society when it comes to taking care of the inhabitants and their habitats. As I read the writes posted, including the one I posted, it seems the common denominator in the demise of these animals is humans and our activities. Bringing them to dangerous extinction levels though hunting and poaching or through destroying their habitats.

#ProtectTheEnvironment

Peace & Love.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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Good morning!

I posted this blog write last Saturday and then decided to trash it. Why? Well because I thought, “What if this was done to Hillary? How would I feel then?” This is not who I really am. I don’t want to go with Trump where the repubs have gone.

And then I thought, “Wait a second here. The Dems do need to go there.” I understand why they needed to go there, and why I decided to pull my blog out of the trash and post it again today.

Let’s look at Trump and the horrific things he has done that aren’t even close to this naked caricature that liberals have created of Trump. Trump does sick things to others all of the time.

Trump claimed Ted Cruz’s father was involved with the assassination of President Kennedy. (!) Even though, yes, these statues are a bit insulting it is not even close to accusing someone of murder, when we know this is false, but so far only the republican party has consistently accused the opposing party POTUS candidate of murder, http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/bill-clinton-says-gop-attacks-they-accused-me-murder-n577896.

Trump is as low as any despicable member of that party. He too, has followed that political line of attack against the Democrats during his announcement of Pence as his VP pick, he accused Hillary of getting away with murder. http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/16/trump-accused-hillary-clinton-murder-disastrous-mike-pence-announcement.html

Trump accused Obama of being the founder of ISIS. (!) Ok, again, the statues are a caricature of Trump, but to accuse a POTUS of being the founder of ISIS is just ridiculous and a defamation of character.

Accusing Obama of being the founder of ISIS is especially grievous considering the fact that he had during his run for the Republican nomination accused the then President Bush and his administration of knowingly lying to invade Iraq. — “But in the last GOP debate, Republican candidate front-runner Donald Trump took things to a new level. He not only called the decision to go to war “a big, fat mistake” (and, post-debate, proclaimed it “a disaster”) but also said: “They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none, and they knew there were none.” – http://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2016/02/18/trump-bush-administration-knowingly-lied-about-iraq-war-intel-n2120851

In full disclosure mode, I will admit that I too think that Bush and Cheney started the Iraq war to make a killing in their investments in Military industrial company stocks. Whatever their reasons were the American people now know that the Bush administration lied to get America to illegally attack the sovereign country of Iraq.

The “Shock and Awe” Bush and Cheney has been so proud of caused the dislocation, maiming and death of tens of MILLIONS of innocent people in Iraq. There used to be millions of Christians in Iraq before the Bush invasion. —“Here’s also the short truth you won’t hear from the hard right: It wasn’t long after the US invasion that Iraqi Christians starting fleeing the country. Many women and girls were drug into the streets and raped or killed. They were also sold into slavery. Petitions for the Bush administration to do something, do anything to help, were circulated starting in 2003 to no avail. No one in the USA who had the power to do anything seemed to care.”— http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/08/1320161/-Plight-of-Christians-in-Iraq-Began-When-GW-Bush-Invaded-in-March-2003-Obama-Urged-Action-in-2007

Bush’s destruction of Iraq’s government which acted as a control over the Shiites, released them to become head of the government of Iraq. —“As President Obama struggles to deal with the crisis in Iraq, it’s useful to remember who gave the world this cauldron of woe in the first place: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

Their decision to launch a foolish and unwarranted invasion in 2003, toppling Saddam Hussein and destroying any vestige of the Iraqi state, is directly responsible for the chaos we see today, including the rapid advance of the well-armed jihadist militia that calls itself the Islamic State.”—https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-paying-for-bushs-2003-invasion-of-iraq/2014/08/11/2eee77ac-218a-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html?utm_term=.d3adfc319682

A militarily astute group of Sunnis, who had been the head of the government of Iraq under Sadam, felt abandoned. The Shiites who Bush placed at the head of the government of Iraq, began to torture, terrorize and murder the Sunnis by the tens of thousands. As a result,  the Sunnis aligned themselves with ISIS in self defense. Now we have a militarily, battle heartened cadre of officers who demonstrated that capability by routing the American backed Iraqi Shiite army. http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/10/world/meast/iraq-violence/index.html

That cadre of Sunnis make up the ISIS army that has wrecked havoc across the Middle East. The problem for the West is ISIS has mutated into an insane group determined to avenge itself against the West who they feel is responsible for the millions of dead and displaced Sunnis across the Middle East.

That brings us back to Trump. There is a difference between the person who hits first (Trump and the republicans) and the reaction to their attack (The Democrats, including moi). The Dems didn’t start this low degenerate stuff. Trump did. And the repubs cannot claim innocence, because they sat back and said nothing. The Democrats have a history of cowering under the salacious attacks launched against them by the republicans.

This girl cowers before no one. I will never start nastiness, but if you bring it, I will do my best to finish it. So my caveat to mean, evil people is “bring it only if you can handle my reply.”

Yes, I took my blog write down but I realized a retaliatory act is not the same as an initial attack. The Republicans use the argument of false equivalency to arrive at a fallacy in logic which claims that mimicking a disgusting act they perpetrated is the same as perpetrating that act. I say, don’t bring it, if you can’t handle the reply. Republicans can dish it out but they can’t take. So, Trump, handle this! 

Here’s the write pulled from the trash:

I see that lips were flapping. How delightful that so many of you decided to go into the weekend kissing instead of blogging. Sweet.

I’m sure many of you have heard about this already but again, I couldn’t help but post this. Especially since it happened in my San Francisco one of the five cities. And to think I was just in the Castro the evening before Trump graced us. So sorry to miss this one.

Here’s the write from Daily Kos:

Naked statues of Donald Trump titled ‘The Emperor Has No Balls’ are popping up in major cities

An “anarchist collective” called INDECLINE (Twitter account here) are behind a series of nude statues depicting Donald Trump in his birthday clothes. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” these series of statues are called “The Emperor Has No Balls.” This is possibly the darkest story I’ve ever had to cover.

Warning: You cannot unsee what you are about to see.

New York.

San Francisco.

Los Angeles.

Seattle.

 

Cleveland’s statue is still MIA on Twitter.

Update:

The New York statue was taken down. According to the Gothamist.

Parks Department spokesperson Sam Biederman provided us with the following statement regarding the Trump statue:

NYC Parks stands firmly against any unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter how small.

The best statement from a city official ever? Probably.

**Aahahhahah!**

Readers: Unfortunately the cities had to remove Trump. Oh if it was just that easy to truly get rid of him!

San Francisco lasted the longest (I think) – Trump was still erect…eh I mean standing, until yesterday morning! Woo Hoo! Thank you San Francisco. Oh, how I love my city.

Did any of you get a photo op with Trump?

On a serious note though was this a good idea or not? How would we think if Hillary was depicted this way?

Blog me. 

*The End*

Readers: And there you have it. Lots to talk about on this Sunday morning. Pick a topic that suits you and get a conversation going. The forum is open.

Blog me.

Peace & Love: “Live it, give it.”

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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