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Submitted By: cbbcalm@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

Thank you to the Genes and Debs for bringing friendliness fairness open conversation exchange to this site.
Corinna

Submitted By: genedieken@yahoo.com – Click to email about this post

Prolific TikTok creator, Parkrose Permaculture, reported on the latest phone-in town hall meeting by Congresswoman Maxine Dexter on March 26. After seeing so many clips of really angry events, I found it refreshing to listen to a summary of one that came off more constructively.

She also uploads to YouTube, which is where I saw it.
https://youtu.be/S2y_VH9oLL8

Gene Dieken

Submitted By: dwieb1@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

Maybe I’m sticking my nose into something I shouldn’t, and maybe I’ll just get it cut off, but I think we get nowhere good by tossing around accusations and flooding the zone with stuff gathered from dodgy sources. I don’t usually read posts like that (on this I agree with Andy: “nobody is making you read what I write”) because I’m primarily interested in solutions.

I’m also posting to offer some perspective on Social Security. I do not trust the current administration has the average citizen’s interest at heart as they seek to pit us against one another.

Here’s a good analysis from 2022:
www.pgpf.org/article/the-ratio-of-workers-to-social-security-beneficiaries-is-at-a-low-and-projected-to-decline-further/

This article describes the problem, explains why it’s manageable, and ends with reasonable solutions. There is no need to panic and do something risky like privatize or gamble in stocks.

And here’s a recent opinion from a respected conservative source that points to inefficiencies in programs legislatively piggybacked onto Social Security:

www.aei.org/economics/the-social-security-system-is-well-run-mostly/

Submitted By: codger817@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

Join us Saturday, March 29 at 10 am for Tillamook County’s version of “Civic Saturdays” with Jim Heffernan hosting. The sermons explore new and better ways to be a citizen. They are aimed at developing “citizenship muscle. We will need “muscle” to bring power back to “We the People”, where it belongs. Each sermon functions as a stand-alone sermon. Don’t worry about missing earlier sessions.
This week’s sermon , number 10 of 19, is “A Thanksgiving Recipe” and is 35 minutes long. It will explore 5 topics; remembering requires forgetting, yearning requires yielding, seeing requires unseeing, believing requires skepticism, and persuading requires being persuadable. We can talk about the sermon afterwards, or not.
Zoom link below
Invite link for Saturday 10 AM
us06web.zoom.us/j/88905106346?pwd=TEaw5qfSN2X5UoxBHgZSF7UsqwMugD.1
Recordings are available for those who are unable to attend the zoom. Contact me at codger817@gmail.com and I’ll e-mail one to you. Recordings also available for earlier sessions.

Submitted By: mkuestner10@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

In light of reports of measles outbreaks around the country leading to at least one infant’s death due to lack of immunizations, be sure to get vaccines for yourself as well as your family members as recommended by your doctor, or local health professionals. If you can’t afford to pay for them, you may qualify to be treated without cost.

tillamookchc.org/public-health/immunizations/
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/index.html

There is a lot of health misinformation in the news and on social media regarding vaccines, so to be safe, for medical advice, listen to professionals, and follow their advice for yourself and your family members.

Submitted By: runnawaytrain1@gmx.com – Click to email about this post

24 folks who claim to “appreciate the fact that the BBQ is a platform for dialogue and differences of opinion” wrote a very hateful post suggesting that my last post was “outside the bounds of decency and civility.”

Really? Show us where.

And they wrote my post is “vitriolic, hateful and entirely untrue, rooted in centuries-old myth, slander and falsehood.”

Again, show us where.

HOW ABOUT JUST ONE OF YOU 24 BACK UP JUST ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU WROTE? SHOW US JUST ONE FALSEHOOD THAT YOU CLAIM I WROTE>

You can’t, because everything I wrote is true and. (Except I was wrong about this: Biden did NOT bomb Yemen 1,000 times, he bombed that tiny, mostly-defenseless Muslim Nation OVER 1,000 times for his Saudi masters and Israel.)

Do you 24 deny Al Qaeda is now in charge of Syria, and that they were installed by Biden’s CIA, and that as soon as they got in power they murdered 7,000 Alawhite Christians? Is that a myth? Is it untrue?

Perhaps you 24 are suggesting that Fetterman’s gifted silver pager is a fake, only silver-plated?

Do you not believe that geoengieering exists? If that’s the case, then maybe you should enroll in this class a U DUB:

atmos.uw.edu/~robwood/Geoengineering/

Do you deny that most folks who died of ‘covid’ were social security recipients?



Where is the vitriol and hate in my post? That’s the part of 24s letter that really pisses me off. I am writing to wake you up, to stop war, to stop genocide in the Middle East, to stop children from having to be masked at stool again, to stop geoengineering until they tell us exactly what they are spraying, etc. etc. Vitriol and hate my ass: SHOW US.


And exactly what is ‘rooted in centuries-old myth, sander and falsehood’???


That Lehman Bros, Rothchilds and Goldman Sachs are Zionists bankers that have immense an undue influence over our banking system? The too-big-too-fail guys that Obama bailed out? Or is Obama’s bailout a myth too?

Lots of strong words from 24 folks who can’t argue one single point. Not one!

This is a space for dialogue, not hysterical and hateful and entirely baseless accusations.

Thank you to the folks at BBQ for believing in free speech! For as we can all see, there are those among us who would love to get rid of free speech. We gotta use our rights or they will be taken away folks! Speak up even if your voice trembles or whatever that bumper-sticker says.

And by the way 24, nobody is making you read what I write. You read what I write because you want to read it.

Andy,
Wheeler

BONUS! Looks like the Bush Crime Family shorted the market before 9/11!

rumble.com/v6r81ta-bush-relatives-shorted-the-market-right-before-911-w-james-corbett.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp

Submitted By: dixiedarrow@icloud.com – Click to email about this post

HATE SPEECH

Here are three rules you should know about “Hate Speech” and the First Amendment:

1. The First Amendment protects all ideas, loving, hateful, or in between.

In the United States, “hate speech” is just a political label, like “un-American speech” or “rude speech.” Some people use the phrase broadly, some more narrowly – but there’s no legal definition, because there is no “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment..

As the Supreme Court held in 1974, “Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas.”

Or,
“…the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express ‘the thought that we hate.’”
Andy’s remarks are not hate speech!

SLEEPY JOE

*BEFORE, it was OK. It was, well, quiet. Sleepy Joe was at the wheel, ???????……so quite and non-disturbing…………….

All was quiet! Really bad things that hurt our government, and its people and our future were going on behind the scenes. We didn’t know. Actually many of us don’t want to know. It is better not to know, it disturbes our sleep. We just want to enjoy the beauty of our surroundings and our friends and family.

EVERYTHING IS TOO LOUD NOW – TRUMP and MUSK are TOO LOUD! WE DON”T WANT TO KNOW

We all know that social security is going to run out of money sometime soon. We are told this by the media. This didn’t start with Trump!

Have you heard anything about how to fix this from your glorious leaders, both Repubs and Dems? NO – because it is too sensitive – they might lose votes. Votes for them are far more important than fixing your social security!

Well Trump and Musk are trying to fix it – they suggest possibly putting it in the stock market. This was actually suggested about 50 years ago when I was in my 30’s. I thought it was a terrible idea at the time. But people who could see into the future knew some changes would have to be made. But no elected person talked about it! Too dangerous for their reelection.

When social security was first started, 4 working people contributed to each social security check. Today it takes 16 working people to contribute to the money I get from my social security check.

Do you want this problem to be fixed or not? YES OR NO?
Here is what to do… I am going to do। it…. I am going to send a letter to my US representatives, Dems all of them, and I am going to ask them what they think would fix the problem of social security. It will be interesting if they will reply. My guess is they will sent a generalized form letter back or nothing at all. All they do now is denigrate Trump and Musk and try to scare you to death….Well, we’ll see……