Who worked harder to protect America last night?

[proud2BlibKansan]

Last night while the Senate was voting on FISA, seven of us here in my city were out on the streets gathering signatures on IMPEACH petitions. We went to a big First Friday celebration they have in the arts district downtown. We dealt with horrible traffic, no parking and unbelievable heat to stand on the corners of this neighborhood for 3 hours. The good news is we got hundreds of signatures.



Proud Jr even came along to help


We did hear from 2 republicans. One signed our petition because he hates bush. The other said since he is a republican, it wouldn't work for him to sign. I asked him how the republicans in the White House were working for him. He walked away speechless.



There was a pretty neat street dancer there.



The Ron Paul people were across the street.



So then I came home and showered and went to bed. And I get up and see what the Senate did last night.

Now who was doing more to protect the country last night? The US Senate or the seven of us on the street here?

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Proud2BLib wins in a landslide.

Good job!! :thumbsup:

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. I forgot to add that most of us worked on McCaskill's campaign last year

Talk about disappointed.

[mrcheerful]

3. What struck me most is seeing your city, that is what every city in the mid west is starting

to resemble. It's so hard to remember that in the 1960s those roads wouldn't have been so worn or that the stores would be empty. This is what repukelican rule has wrought on our land. No longer the hustle and bustle of factory workers, shoppers line the streets. Homeless people are dancing in the street looking for a hand out. Hookers walk their beat selling their souls for drug treats. And what do our great leaders tell us? Don't worry, wall street is on the up beat. Work hard and pay your taxes, we will make sure rich men will never get off their asses. Someday, through your hard work you too will get to sit on your asses, as long as illness or injuries happen to the other asses, don't worry we covered our asses.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. That's a great point

This particular neighborhood is full of buildings that once housed warehouses that employed hundreds of thousands of people over many decades. Now those warehouses are empty and art galleries have taken over the neighborhood. The Yuppies have moved in. Good for the neighborhood, but there sure aren't as many jobs there as there were when I was a kid. And I find that sad.

[mrcheerful]

10. I grew up in a GM town, lived there for 47 1/2 years before moving to another city 100

miles away. In my youth, I remember traffic jams near all the factories and plants, down town was nothing but store after store busy with customers until closing time. Sundays the down town area had so much traffic that it took you an hour to drive the one mile through town. The city went from having 3 foundries and 4 or 5 auto parts plants in 1970 to 1 foundry and 2 auto plants today. Drive through the city today on a sunday and you get the ideal of how an A bomb would have effected the city back in the good old days. A car or 2 might pass by you on that one mile stretch, boarded up store fronts with broken windows on the upper floors. Hookers walking every inch of that 1 mile strip, hookers that used to charge 50 dollars for a Bill C are now doing it for $5, $20 for the works. Cop cars drive past the hookers and wave. There was a time when a cop car would have sent them running. Neighborhoods that used to be filled with playing kids now have young thugs giving every car the evil eye as it goes by. Abandoned house's 6 per block 3 to 4 of them burned out shells. This is not the america of my youth and it really rips my heart out to think this is what we have left to our children.

[babylonsister]

5. You go, proud! K&R!!! nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. 2 people voted for the Senate

:rofl:

Gotta love DUers.

[L. Coyote]

7. California Secretary of State Debra Bowen

In a dramatic late-night press conference, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen decertified, and then recertified with conditions, all but one voting system used in the state. Her decisions, following her unprecedented, independent "Top-to-Bottom Review" of all certified electronic voting systems, came just under the wire to meet state requirements for changes in voting system certification.

Bowen announced that she will be disallowing the use of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, usually touch-screen) voting systems on Election Day, but for one DRE machine per polling place which may be used for disabled voters. The paper trails from votes cast on DREs manufactured by voting machine companies Diebold and Sequoia must be 100% manually counted after Election Day.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2941618

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. She gets the California award!

[troubleinwinter]

18. She's who came to my mind. A hero & patriot of courage!

[EFerrari]

8. Proud to know you.

K&R

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. That goes both ways, friend

:hug:

[porphyrian]

9. Off subject, I bet that Town Topic Hamburgers joint has good greasy-spoon food...

...if you don't get food poisoning eating it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Best omelet in town!

When I was in college, I got a summer job working 2 blocks from Town Topic and I was in omelet heaven. I still eat there today as often as I can.

[porphyrian]

17. Heh, that's great. I'm pretty good at picking 'em. - n/t

[bonito]

14. You know how I voted

:hug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. Why thanks!

:hug:

[ananda]

15. Bill Moyers and Barbara Ehrenreich!

I just love Barbara Ehrenreich!

She speaks for me and the common person.

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. Yes I watched that when I got home

But they weren't out in the heat like we were.