What I want

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Saturday March 07, 2020 · 4:26 AM PST

2020/03/07 · 04:26

What I want is for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be able to retire. I want her to have a decade or two of her being able to say what she really thinks without the constraints of Judicial robes. I have watched the pie fights on DK, and as a person that loves her country, I ask myself what I really want, and what I want, is RBG to be able to be confident that her retirement won’t be a major constitutional crisis. I don’t want her replaced by a Federalist Society a’hole.

I know that Biden or Bernie, neither would let that happen. However it would be easier if they were not working against McConnell. I am voting Biden because I think his coat tails are longer. If Biden is what it takes to get the Bullocks to run, to take the Senate and purple state offices, well even if he was way down on the list of people I wanted to vote for I will vote for him happily.

Bernie also wouldn’t nominate Federalist Society Judge, I get that. He wants a revolution though, and really, revolutions are unpredictable, messy and usually the gains are less then advertised.

I will vote for whom ever gets the nomination because I want to hear what RBG really has to say.

Help save our National Monuments...

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Friday May 12, 2017 · 6:19 PM PDT

2017/05/12 · 18:19

Yesterday the Department of Interior published a Federal Register Notice regarding Trumps/GOP’s efforts to roll back protection on National Monuments that have been designated or increased in size from 1996 on. This includes 27 National Monuments, mostly in western states or in our oceans. You can read the notice here www.gpo.gov/ . For most of them you must comment before July 10, 2017, one (Bear Ears National Monument) has a due date of May 26, 2017.

Some suggestions if you do want to save these lands from development: This goes not just for the monument issue but for any NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) comments you make on any issue. 1. Write them yourself. It is easy to do a form letter from one of the many conservation groups and I am not saying you shouldn't, but if they get 1000 comments saying the same thing...they still only have to consider it/answer it once. 1000 different letters have to be gone through individually. 2. Make the comments as substantive as your knowledge allows you to do. Tell them you love a specific monument (if you love all of them, consider writing a letter for each of them) and why you love it/them but also tell them the economic benefits, environmental benefits, recreational benefits, endangered species being protected, or what ever else you have knowledge of. The better researched your letter is the more time it takes to consider it. 3. Above all stay involved in the process. Commenting early gives you and the environment better standing in the courts if this issue ever goes that far.

Thanks for reading...

What this election taught me.

Renfriend

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Tuesday November 04, 2014 · 9:42 PM PST

2014/11/04 · 21:42

This election taught me I spend too much time on politics...most of the country is just “a pox on both of their houses”

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Friday January 24, 2014 · 3:30 AM PST

2014/01/24 · 03:30

Can anyone please tell me why Christians are so afraid to die? I am looking for serious answers. I myself was raised without religion, but thru the years I have known, been friends with and been related to people of many faiths. For those that have died it seems that the Christians are the most afraid of death. I have spent a useless day commenting on other sites about the Marlise Munoz case out of Texas. The most vocal of the commenters claim to be Christians. I put this down to the anti-choice crowd at first, but after awhile it seemed to be more then that. I started thinking about those I have known that have died. Among those that knew it would be coming, the most fearful seemed to be the Christians, oddly the three atheists I knew seemed to be the calmest. I am honestly trying to understand. Can anyone help me?

Politifact has opened voting for lie of the year l

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Tuesday December 03, 2013 · 5:10 AM PST

2013/12/03 · 05:10

Politifact has opened voting for lie of the year. I would like to suggest that my fellow DK'ers get over there and vote! 7 of the 10 choices have to do with the Affordable Care Act. 1 has to do with guns (the UN is coming for them) and one has to do with the FISA court. I would really rather not have to hear from the right wing how "you can keep your insurance" was lie of the year. So please vote! I picked the UN is coming for your guns but there are other choices there. VOTE

Need Advice, Moving to Montana with Pets!

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Monday April 08, 2013 · 7:10 PM PDT

2013/04/08 · 19:10

My spouse applied for a job a couple of weeks ago. It was a “probably won’t get it, but won’t it be cool” type of job. He got it. Now we are moving.

I have questions. Is there anyone out there from the Billings area?

I would really like to know about housing, cultural, stores, and community. What do I need to know about the area? We have been looking at housing in Billings and the surrounding areas. Is there any place we should steer clear of? We want a 30 minute or less commute from the Kings road exit.

We have three cats, currently we are living over 600 miles from there. Does anyone have advice on how to move when you are a multi-cat household? Two of the cats are totally inside; one is a indoor/outdoor type.

Thanks to anyone that can help on this…

Just an idea.

Renfriend

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Friday September 14, 2012 · 9:11 PM PDT

2012/09/14 · 21:11

I do not know how to bring people together, but after looking at the pictures of the Libyans protesting FOR Ambassador Stevens and the other Americans and Libyans that fell, I had a thought. An Ambassador (Stevens), Vile Rat (Sean Smith), two ex-marines (Glen Dougherty and Tyrone Woods) and rumors of several other Libyans that were protecting them (sorry I haven't been able to find names), all of them fell to a frenzy of zealot madness. I have also seen what a low percentage of the citizens of all the currentaly rioting countries have actually agreed and engaged.

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Thursday February 23, 2012 · 7:40 PM PST

2012/02/23 · 19:40

This is a response that I gave to a young Republican woman in an email exchange recently. She is a friend who is twenty years younger than me (she is 23). She was trying to get me to donate to her candidate-a Republican. She has been politically active since her teens (knocking on doors, etc) When I asked why a young, mixed race woman would ever vote, much less campaign for a Republican she said “my family has always voted Republican, Republicans are nice people”. Urgg! I will leave out the exchanges about how the Republican Party has changed since Lincoln and I will leave out the part where I said she was smart but not a deep thinker. This is my last try at talking her out of the cult. What did I miss?

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