It takes a village: the backbone of civilization

March 2, 2017 reesetheone It Takes a Village 61

When yesterday’s press reaction to a bigot’s speech can deflate the spirit, maxine’s fire wont let you quit.
I once again Thank Michelle for sharing Barack Obama with the world when she didn’t have to. Her presence, and her matter of fact down to earth attitude always brought a smile to my face.

 

One grammy away from hitting for the cycle! A oscar, emmy and a tony….. not bad for a south Carolina girl! Her story inspires countless people.

 

Women everyday stand up and fight to make voices heard. Kamala is a new powerful voice in the senate, fighting for dreamers and all Americans. We Thank her!

 

From a back Porch in Mississippi to building a billion dollar empire that reshaped daytime tv, Oprah planted her flag and slayed the powerful Phil Donahue to open doors for other women in the business.
That ceiling is about ready to go…. She’s pounded on that damn glass since 1969… tomorrow she goes home to where her political career began: the college she attended. I thank her personally for taking so called identity politics and not going the safe route, being bold and in folks face. Hillary has nothing else to prove …. but still so much to do! This Clinton rider will be watching.

 

 

 

https://twitter.com/IfHillaryHad/status/836997510501560320

 

https://twitter.com/hellbentpod/status/836999568608935936

 

https://twitter.com/Crystal1Johnson/status/837104365307486208

 

 

 

https://twitter.com/vhxtv/status/836960912145858561

 

 

https://twitter.com/KaivanShroff/status/836976811368132609

 

Women are the fabric of our existence, thank you for being society’s  north star when all hope sometimes seem lost.

 

 

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53 Comments

  2. good morning reese, it is so great to see you here today with such a wonderfully inspiring diary. It’s Texas Independance Day, much like the 4th of July it’s when the settlers declared independance from Mexico. We have another holiday next month, San Jacinto Day, to celebrate the Texians defeating Santa Ana’s army which did sever Mexico’s interest. I’m really glad we left that extra i in the 19th century, it’s so awkward.

    • {{{wordsinthewind}}} – Today is also the day the RC church annulled my marriage (under the “young and stupid” clause – although that’s not the way they phrased it) – I’d been divorced for 3 years at the time. I thought the coincidence was amusing. Still do although I’ve never remarried which was the reason the priests wanted me to apply for it. (He has, twice. LOL)

      Don’t forget Monday is the day the Alamo fell – the strategic delaying operation that at the cost of 100 lives gave Sam Houston time to get his army in place for the San Jacinto win. (And we were Texicans – like Mexicans with a T – so we left both a c and an i in the 19th century. heh.)

      • in Texian which is how historians often refer to the original settlers who broke off their agreement with the Mexicans. Or as bfitz points out they’ve also been referred to as Texicans, either way that got left in the 19th century.

        • Thank you! I didn’t know that, and my brain auto-corrected the spelling in your post! Does Texas actually celebrate the holiday? I would think this is a bit awkward, given the relationship between Texas independence and the Mexican abolishment of slavery.

          • Americans everywhere and in Texas in particular rewrite history to suit themselves. Of course TX celebrates it. Or at least did when I was a kid. heck, we got San Jacinto Day off from school when I was in elementary. (Mexico handles/d it by ignoring it. They didn’t recognize TX independence – and in fact the Mexican War happened when TX became a state. Mexico declared war because the U.S. was annexing their territory as far as they were concerned. Texicans were quite happy to refight the war with Mexico and joined the U.S. army in droves.)

          • When I was a kid we got TX history in 4th, 7th, and 11th grades. Well, a combination of history and mythology as usual. I don’t know of any other state that does that. heh

  3. Thanks, Reese, for this uplifting tribute to women’s history month! You did my heart good, my friend.

    The hounds of spring are on winter’s traces this morning (thanks, Swinburne), howling around the house as if waiting to pounce on someone or something. I do not like wind.

    Sigh. Hope there will be some good pushback today against The Awfulness.

  4. Damn, that was good! Thank you, dear Reese.

    “Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered. Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise. Lead by example with hope, never fear.” Michelle Obama

    ‘Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as ever you can.’
    Hillary Clinton

  5. 29 in chicago metro…. hi gang!

    Feeling good today as Nancy Pelosi called on Jeff Sessions to resign and I think he will have to!

    Anyway, women do hold our society together and I’m still bullish on our chances of a female president. Kirsten, Kamala, Elizabeth….. you’ll never know ????

    • I think a few more shoes are going to drop regarding Sessions; the scoundrel deserves everything that’s (hopefully) coming to him.

    • Nancy Pelosi called on Jeff Sessions to resign and I think he will have to!

      Thanks reese for the great picturegram…28 and sunny here in Utah…trying to get the house ready for the carpets to be cleaned…man how does things get so dusty…ending up a total clean fest…ugh I hate cleaning…always have and if I had the money I would hire someone to do it…smh

    • And now we understand how Ron Johnson has the reputation of being one of the dumbest senators. How did he even think this was a good idea…and wouldn’t backfire on him? And doesn’t he have staffers to protect him from his own worst impulses?

    • Molly Ivins said you gotta laugh, cry, or throw up and laughing’s easier on the system. This is one time where laughing is your first response anyway. If he can’t make the mean constituents go away, maybe he’ll retire. Otherwise poor WI doesn’t get the chance to get rid of him until 2022.

  7. {{{rto}}} – Thank you. This is such a great roundup and reminder – we travel the journey those before us started. We took the “ball” of equal rights/civil rights/voting right for ALL from them and will carry it forward as far as we can before handing off to “all the little girls” (and boys) Hillary spoke to when she put over 65 million cracks in that highest, hardest glass ceiling.

    When I get tired, I remember the women who came before – some famous like Hillary and Michelle, most not like my own mother – and I keep going. moar {{{HUGS}}} – and {{{HUGS}}} to the Villagers at the Moose Pond. Soloing today so in and out. (But then, I’m always in and out. Nothing new, just probably more out than in today. heh) But I’ll be back.

  8. Truly awesome post, reesetheone! I may just print out the whole thing and make a wall poster. What a lineup of fabulous women! That is empowerment. So cool.

    Sessions is in deep doo-doo. Couldn’t happen to a crappier racist. :)

    Morning Meeses! It’s 53 and partly sunny in Houston. So much to do, so little sleep. Sending love vibes to all.

    • the problem is the people with the most to be ashamed of on both sides are never going to admit any wrong doing on their part. It doesn’t matter what facts are presented, these are emotion-driven folks so facts are meaningless to them in the midst of all those self-reinforcing feelings.

      • And oh, do they have fits when you point that out to them. The Alt Left = Alt Right when it comes to faith-based political systems, truthiness, and snowflake-ism.

  10. Good morning Pond Dwellers. Thanks for the awesome diary recognizing Women’s History Month, Reese. 48 and sunny right now in Sac but an expected high of 65. Sure was nice to get the Sessions’s news and get off the ass kissing of the Orange Shitgibbon.

    • This is the part that I agree with most. Any investigation has to be done by an independent commission (even though the commissioners would be selected by the body that sets it up).

    • They’re not even trying to hide their autocratic impulses anymore. Trump=Republicans, and Republicans=Trump. We have to make sure that is clear and that there is no difference; their base will love it, but it’s the only way we get the turnout we need to make 2018 a change year.

  14. So, today I’m busy keeping up with all the revelations about 45*/Russia, Sessions, FBI withholding information from the Intelligence Committee, and all.

    For me the most interesting development was that former Obama Administration officials have leaked what was done to ensure that the intelligence they’d gathered wouldn’t be destroyed. That they did so is incredibly foresighted and awesome.

    Now, they’ve made their actions public. They’re putting the bad guys on notice that the information is all over the place; it can’t be swept under the rug. I wonder who will be the first miscreant to flip for lenient treatment before the law.

    • Oh I do hope we’ll soon see a rush of folks turning “state’s evidence” – but we’ve got to get an independent group by whatever name running it before that will happen. Right now the miscreants are the state.

  15. Afternoon everyone..84…hot and muggy here in Tampa…Thanks for the great diary reese…
    The hypocrisy on the right is so rampant and so wrong…

    • {{{Batch}}} – the Right has been wrong since at least Nixon’s “silent majority” and probably longer than that. And they’ve definitely been hypocrites longer than that. Now it seems they want to add traitors to their resumes. But we’re going to do our best to keep the treason from gaining it’s traitorous ends. vive la resistance and moar {{{HUGS}}}

    • Afternoon, Batch! We’re the same temperature here, if you subtract 60 degrees.

  17. And Sessions’ rationale looks weaker and weaker…

    • {{{DoReMI}}} – I donated a little. She also posted it on DK so I reblogged it to the Community Fundraisers.

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