Latest Communication from Valerie Jarrett From the White House

Hello --

This week, the U.S. Senate voted to consider the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA. This legislation has a very clear purpose: to make sure that no one can be fired for who they are or who they love.

Right now, only 17 states prohibit employment discrimination against LGBT workers. That leaves millions of Americans who go to work every day fearing that they could lose their job because of who they are.

As the President said earlier this week, that's not acceptable.

A majority of Americans assume there is a prohibition against discrimination based on sexual orientation in the workplace. There's not, and that's exactly why this is so important -- and why we need your help to get the word out. Yesterday, Press Secretary Jay Carney explained what ENDA does, and why it's so important in the fight for equality.

Watch the video -- and pass it on so that other people know what a big deal this is.

At a time when Washington is spending so much of its time bickering over partisan issues, Congress has an opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of millions of Americans by passing this commonsense -- and overdue -- law.

It's not just civil rights advocates who support ENDA. Business leaders know that prohibiting employment discrimination is good for business. Inclusive workplaces attract the best and brightest employees, and improve their bottom line.

ENDA is set for a final vote in the Senate, and then the House needs to pass it. Americans need to know where members of Congress stand, and what is at stake.

We need your help -- please watch this video, and forward it on so that all Americans learn how important this is, too.

Thanks,

Valerie

Valerie Jarrett
Senior Advisor
The White House
@VJ44

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Govmint Shutdown - Blame? Forgiveness?

Government Shutdown

The Wall Street Journal released a poll revealing  American fury at Washington over the shutdown. There's hope. 

Ten percent blame President Obama, 10 percent blame Congress, while 80 percent want to ask Queen Elizabeth to forgive us and take us back. 



Thanks to Will Hepburn MPHS 66 for submitting.

Cartoons on the Left and Right

Alligator in a Pool

A cute little gator decided to go for a swim in a friend's pool.

Our friend was not happy.

GET OUT!!!

You Have Two Cows

This goes around regularly in various forms, but I found this one particularly appealing. I particularly liked Venture Capitalism.

SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbour.

COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows
The State takes both and gives you some milk.

FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.

BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other and then throws the milk away.

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.

VENTURE CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, and then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows.
The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company.
The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has died.

A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you do not know where they are.
You decide to have lunch.

A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5,000 cows. None of them belong to you.
You charge the owners for storing them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim that you have full employment and high bovine productivity.

You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You worship them.

A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Both are mad.

AN IRAQI CORPORATION
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.
You tell them that you have none.
Nobody believes you, so they bomb the crap out of you and invade your country.
You still have no cows but at least you are now a Democracy.

AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Business seems pretty good.
You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.

A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
You have two cows.
The one on the left looks very attractive.

A GREEK CORPORATION
You have two cows borrowed from French and German banks.
You eat both of them.
The banks call to collect their milk, but you cannot deliver so you call the IMF.
The IMF loans you two cows.
You eat both of them.
The banks and the IMF call to collect their cows/milk.
You are out getting a haircut.

AN IRISH CORPORATION
You have two cows
One of them is a horse 

Taffy Cannon MPHS 66




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Good one

Reminds me of the poem - written by Ogden Nash - Not politically correct.

"The cud chewing girl,

And the cud chewing cow,

are alike, yet different somehow.

Ah, I have it now.

It's the intelligent look 

on the face of the cow "

Don't have a cow.

Federal Government Shutdown

"A Reuters/Ipsos poll 

showed about one-quarter of

Americans would blame Republicans, 14 percent would blame Obama and 5 percent would blame Democrats in Congress, while 44 percent said everyone would be to blame."

_________

I am with the 44 percent. There is plenty of blame to go around to both the Republicans and Democrats.  

And of course ultimately it is our fault. We have to elect better more capable people.

If you own a company that is performing badly it is a good idea to change management.  Ditto a sports franchise.

Ditto a government.

I think we need to implement the anti incumbent party. Throw all the rascals out. And elect pragmatic people who know that politics is the art of compromise.

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A very traumatic Air Crash

AIRCRAFT HITS FOUR BUILDINGS

This is tough to see. It just shows the dangers of attending these events.

Amazing photo (below) shows in great detail.  The pilot at low level had no control over his aircraft. It narrowly misses a crowd gathered for the air show and slams into four buildings.

One can only imagine the horror of the occupants inside those buildings at the time of impact.

No one was killed, but it scared the s.. out of them.

"growing divide between America's armed forces and its civilian population."

"The social divisions of class and inequality have always run through the military. Fighting forces have long been drawn disproportionately from lower-income, lower-skilled, and more economically disadvantaged populations. But what is new, according to my colleague Patrick Adler at the Martin Prosperity Institute (MPI), is the degree to which those class divisions are underpinned by geography."

The map above, compiled by MPI's Zara Matheson, shows the concentration of military personnel across the 50 states.

Californicators Love Snowden and Manning

ACTIVISTS CELEBRATE SNOWDEN AS AMERICAN HERO IN JULY 4TH PARADE

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Residents of Santa Monica, CA were treated to a large contingent of Occupy Wall Street activists and Edward Snowden supporters in Thursday's annual Fourth of July parade down Main Street. 

Carrying "Free Bradley Manning" signs and protest banners, and pretending to videotape the crowd for government purposes, the demonstrators were well received by the local crowd. (Even this conservative thought they were great fun.)

There were, of course, some of the more typical features of a Fourth of July parade--local first responders, civic organizations, novelty cars, live bands, and beauty queens. 

The reigning Miss Route 66, for example, rode a colorful car with two of her fellow Route 66 pageant winners--a reminder that Santa Monica is where the famous nationwide highway, made legendary in literature, television, and movies, once ended.

Then came the activists--and it was good to be reminded that "dissent is patriotic" once again, as it was for the left during the presidency of George W. Bush. For much of President Barack Obama's first term, the left seemed more reluctant to criticize the government. 

The scandals surrounding the National Security Agency have changed that, as have scandals involving the administration's hostility to whistleblowers and the press.

The focus of many of the signs was Snowden, the self-described whistleblower--or, to critics, the possible spy--who leaked details of the National Security Agency's surveillance program, including its request for the cell phone records of Verizon customers, and its Prism data-mining operation. 

Snowden may be on the run in the transit lounge of Moscow's international airport, but to these Santa Monicans, he is a new American hero.

 

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/04/How-the-Far-Left-Celebrates-the-Fourth