gopiscrap
gopiscrap's JournalVolunteering in a Syrian refugee camp in Greece
I have been presented with the opportunity to volunteer as an ESL, food distributor and also to start an 8 week children's choir in a refugee camp in Greece. I need to get myself over there...I need suggestions for good fund raising sites-thanks
I was a stranger and you took me in!
My Foster mom passed away today
we often talk about Christian values because of and in response to the right wing "Christian" voters.
My foster mom was a real Christian and model to me. Her and her husband took me in just when her last child left home. I was a teen age boy (15) and teen age boys are hard to place in the foster system. My dad had died and my mom had a stroke, and was incapacitated til she passed away a few years later.
They took me in and made me a part of their family, teaching me their family history yet still encouraing me honor my original history and to affirm my German roots as an immigrant and the child of a refugee.
She taught me the art and gift of hospitality towards others, instilled in me a love of good sacred choral music and liturgy.
I wil miss her lots...well done good and faithful servant
IT'S NOT BEEN A GOOD DAY FOR THE REPUBLICANS
Let's begin:
To start their day, the republican's were involved in both a literal and metaphoric train wreck
The ratings on trumps SOTU speech are the lowest in 20 years
trump's wife is still pissed
The FBI Director has come out strongly advising against releasing the Nunes memo
It appears that the Stormy Daniels (porn star's) signature denying that she had an affair and payoff with trump is not her signature
The former chair of the Colorado republican party was sentenced to 4 years probation and 300 hours of community service for voter fraud
Federal Court ruled that republicans can't restructure Consumer Protection Bureau
GOP Arkansas State Senator has resigned after being convicted of fraud
It looks like Ben Carson has been up to his ears in corruption, so bad that even the trump legal team is alarmed
the FBI agent that republicans have been criticizing was found to have been advocating re-opening Hillary Clinton email probe thus negating the republicans claim of him being anti trump
Reports have it that Dep. Atty Gen. Rosenstein was asked about his loyalty to trump
Trey Gowdy will not seek re-election
Roger Stone got caught trying to visit Julian Assange today
trump's CDC head had to resign today after being outed buying tobacco stock while heading up that agency
trump's South Korean ambassador pick, comes out against trump and thus trump withdraws his nomination
That's a lot for one day. So Democratic and fellow progressives and liberals cheer up!
It sucks to be a republican!!!!
that's fucking bullshit
the repukes have not won a national election with out cheating or dirty tricks since 1956 Eisenhower was the last legitimately elected republican president
FUCK trump (re comment to soldiers widow)
you sorry worthless sack of shit! To tell a pregnant widow with a little child in tow that her combat deceased husband, that "he knew what he signed up for" is one of the worst and inhumane things a president has ever said to one of his constituents.
The total lack of empathy and insensitivity is beyond anything I can compare it to.
I can tell you from experience as the child of a veteran killed because of battle, standing there looking at a box with a flag on it, knowing your father is inside of it and that you will never laugh, cry, share or love with him again is one of the most heart rending moments in ones' life.
I can only imagine how much deeper the sorrow and desolation is for a spouse!
How dare that draft dodging mother fucker be so callous and uncaring. To trump: GO TO HELL!!!!
November 22, 1963
We discussed the easy availability of cheap weapons as a young President was cut down in his prime by a mail order rifle
We couldn't believe it that some one would climb a school tower at a Texas university and kill 14
In 1984 as children were playing in the toyland at a McDonalds 20+ were shot and killed
We watched on the national news as 23 office workers ate their last lunch in a modest Texas cafeteria 1991
In the first major school shoot in CO in 1999, we had a national discussion mental health when two young shooters killed 13
Once again in 2007 our colleges reminded us that there is no safe place, we mourned the loss of 32
2012 ripped our hearts apart as we watched the funerals of 27 innocents
In the deadliest mass shooting in US history just last year, 49 died and all we hear is crickets from our leaders
and now...once again we are shocked and outraged! 50+ dead 406+ injured
it's time for decent Americans to DEMAND change in our gun laws, it's time to march in the streets, it's time to hold the NRA accountable, it's time to do more than thoughts and prayers!!!
I am actually at a loss for words....I will contact my representatives and will advocate for restrictions on automatic weapons, will implore our elected officials to turn down requests for eliminating silencer laws....and I will grieve for what our nation could be...
"Give me your tired, your poor..."
Ending DACA is one of the cruelest act a chief executive/dictator of any nation as ever done. This doesn't just affect the DEAMERS, but also children of those dreamers, siblings, classmates, friends, employers.
The break up of families and communities is also the break up of this great expirement in democracy that this nation has taken part in for the past 241 years.
Many say this is a "Christian" nation. For who? This is a nation open to all? But only if you are white? Wealthy and from a handful of nations we approve of. There are no "illegals" just the undocumented who happen to usually be the most vulnerable.
As an immigrant myself, I came to this nation as even as a child I was inspired by the poem on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty by Emma Lazarus:
"Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
the wretched refuse of your teeming shores,
send these the homeless tempest tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
As lady liberty stands as a welcome beacon in the NY?NJ harbor and weeps,
it is up to us who have a voice to call out for justice, to remind our fellow
citizens of one of the original missions of this nation,
to fight for justice and to be the beloved community to make us whole.
It is time to take to the streets and DEMAND that our leaders do what is right and just!
oops put this originally in the wrong forum by accident How long do you think trump
will last as president and why
For Mother's Day: Two Moms
My mom was born in Germany 9 months after Hitler took power. When she was 9 years old the Third Reich made all the children leave the major cities (Hitler's theory was that the children were the future of Reich) and Frankfurt being the transportation center of Europe was one of those. She had to walk for miles in the snows of Bavaria to a Catholic orphanage and the afterwards she was a refugee sleeping in barns, sheds and with willing families making her trek back to her home city. As a result, she got frostbite which turned to gangrene when she was pregnant with me and in order to save my life she had her leg amputated with just a local anesthetic. She married a US Military Serviceman and we came to the United States. She became a widow at 31 (my Dad died because of being shot in Vietnam) and she raised me by herself. In that time she taught me about peace and justice, geography, politics, history and helped me make my US Citizenship, encouraged my musical talent and tried to instill a sense of pride about my native heritage. At age 15, my mom had a severe brain hemorrhage which ultimately killed her and in entered my second mom.
I was living by myself and learned how to cook instant oatmeal, pudding and make hamburgers which I had every night and morning. The neighbors narc'd on me to social services and I had to find a home or live in group home or orphanage. A friend of mine told his pastor at our neighborhood church about my plight and he and his wife came and asked me if I would like to live with them. My foster mom took in this orphan (me) and taught me about gracious hospitality, a more nuanced sense peace and justice, encouraged me to revel in my German heritage and had infinite patience with an ADHD teen who had the world on his shoulders.
To both moms: thank you for what you taught me, for putting up with me, the memories of infinite joys and most of for the care and love you had shown me.
We all have a mothering and fathering spirit in us. We belong to what Martin Luther King referred to as the "Beloved Community" it's in these private acts of grace that we equip others to publicly serve and blaze the trail of true progress and a more just world.
To these two mothers in particular and to all who mother, thank you! HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!
trump is so fucking stupid that he doesn't even know
what he doesn't know. The problem is a combination of greed, intellectual laziness and an over active ego. This scares the shit out of me because couple his vindictive personality, I see disaster for the American people. This latest stunt with the Russian press in the oval office is just one more example of the incompetence of this administration. For the republican party to sit by and watch it happens means only one of two things 1) either there are also neck deep in this shit 2) they're dumber than trump.
GOD/CREATOR/HIGHER POWER HELP US ALL!!!
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