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Apr 2, 2016

Dear Hillary: On donald trump and Hipocrisy--Will I Be Jailed?

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Dear Hillary,

hy·poc·ri·sy

the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.

On donald trump and his confusing, contradicting message.

Thinking donald trump is a product of and one who has enjoyed the sexual revolution of the sixities and the seventies and women's lib one would wonder why he would want punishment for those who have made an error in birth control regarding this issue.

He promoted a picture of his beautiful wife, Melania and bragged about her photo in GQ--her photo without clothes--one would conclude a photo of a beautiful and lovely woman without clothes, fur blanket to boot, his private jet.....wouldn't this give the viewer and listener a picture of sex, sexual attraction.

Let's use other words--an opportunity for pregnancy.

This picture of Melania suggests he would promote sex out of marriage, the use of birth control, unless he wants the prospect of having children every time anyone acts on the idea of this picture. One would also think he is in favor of sex outside of marriage by his history of girlfriends separate from his wife--while he was married.

So while he promotes sex and the idea of it for men he also wants the woman to be punished and even serve jail time if they would choose not to have children if a pregnancy ensued.

Just wondering--is donald trump promoting health care, education on birth control or just punishment for women only and as he mentioned, no punishment for the man.

So the man can fool around and be promiscuous, no consequences, no responsibility for birth control, money or raising children but the woman or the health care provider, doctors and nurses can go to jail.

This does not seem right to me.

He is going back to the dark ages.

Then, later as he tried to rectify his stupidity of his words he suggested possibly the woman should not be punished but the workers that participate in the procedure and the facility.

TAB--Therapeutic Abortion or D and C--Dilatation and Curettage is a routine hospital and surgery center procedure.

Yes, it is for termination of pregnancy and the same procedure is used for many reasons such as obtaining specimens.

As a nurse does this mean I would potentially have to face jail time for going to work because one can not always opt out of routine procedures.

Something is not right about his thought process.

It is embarrassing for our country that this individual is running for our leader.

I am afraid of this man who proclaims that no one would have a better ability to provide health care to women than him.

If this is the archaic kind of health care he wants to provide for women let me think about moving to a country with a more modern system.

The man is uninformed--the man needs to get up to speed before he runs for President.

Please keep up the good work with Planned Parenthood and education for women. I will be voting for you in November.

I do not know if it is possible to educate donald trump.

Mar 16, 2016

Maybe The GOP Establishment Should Have Embraced John Kasich Sooner: Jonathan Cohn and Huff Po on the ronnie re

Maybe The GOP Establishment Should Have Embraced John Kasich Sooner

Once again, the party's obsession with Obamacare comes back to haunt it.

03/15/2016 11:45 pm ET

Jonathan CohnSenior National Correspondent, The Huffington Post

Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s big win in his home state keeps him in the Republican race -- and puts him in position to contend seriously in states like neighboring Pennsylvania, where he’s headed next and where he would appear to be well-positioned to challenge both real estate mogul Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

But Kasich has no chance of getting a majority of pledged delegates from the caucuses and primaries, which means his only hope is a contested convention. And it will be difficult for Kasich to walk away from Cleveland with the nomination if, as seems likely, he enters the convention with fewer pledged delegates than either of his rivals. Such is the reality when you don’t win your first contest until the primary campaign is two months old -- and more than half of the delegates have been awarded.

On Tuesday night there were probably some Republican establishment figures -- desperate to stop Trump, highly unenthusiastic about Cruz -- wondering why they didn’t get behind Kasich some time ago. If so, they have only themselves to blame.

Kasich would appear to be a formidable candidate in the general election. He’s highly popular in his home state of Ohio, which happens to be a key swing state. He’s also got an easy, natural way with working-class voters -- and manages to espouse strongly conservative views in a folksy, unpolished way that connotes authenticity and disarms critics.

But except for some former colleagues in the House of Representatives, where Kasich served before becoming Ohio’s governor, even moderates within the GOP establishment were slow to rally behind Kasich -- even after it became apparent that neither former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush or Florida Sen. Marco Rubio had a prayer of getting the nomination for themselves.

So what gives?

One possible reason is that Kasich, for all of his conservative positions on issues like abortion and taxes, committed the ultimate act of Republican heresy: He had his state participate in the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid.

Of course, Kasich wasn’t the only Republican to do so -- Arizona’s Jan Brewer and Michigan’s Rick Snyder, among others, did the same thing. But when Republicans in the Ohio legislature and conservatives across the country tried to stop Kasich, Kasich fought back -- making not just the obvious pragmatic argument (that Ohio was better off taking the federal money that went with the expansion) but also a moral argument (that letting poor people suffer and even die from lack of insurance was wrong).

Speaking to reporters in 2013, Kasich said, "Now, when you die and get to the meeting with St. Peter, he’s probably not going to ask you much about what you did about keeping government small. But he is going to ask you what you did for the poor. You better have a good answer. "

Making matters even worse, Kasich invoked similar logic when he refused to endorse mass deportations. This may have been the only position more toxic in Republican politics than challenging party orthodoxy on Obamacare -- and, once again, Kasich defended it on moral grounds.

"I couldn't even imagine how we would even begin to think about taking a mom or a dad out of a house when they have not committed a crime since they've been here, leaving their children in the house," he said at one Republican debate. "That is not, in my opinion, the kind of values that we believe in."

Kasich's refusal to endorse mass deportations should not have been a profile in courage, and the same goes for his decision to embrace the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion. There’s actually a long history of Republicans working with Washington to implement safety net programs, even when they don’t like the design of those programs. But that was before the party lurched right on immigration and health care, and the party establishment went along.

Today, with Bush and Rubio out of the race, and Trump threatening outright to claim the nomination, more Republican leaders might be willing to overlook Kasich’s heresies -- a few weeks too late to do any good.

Jul 22, 2014

Fred From Green Olive Tours Talks Walking His Dogs in Jaffa and Suffering the Israel/Gaza Conflict

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Dear chloe,

The country is full of pain and suffering in these days. The death toll mounts. Hospitals are being bombed. Cities are being targeted. The poor and the dispossessed have nowhere to hide, and pay the greatest price. The wealthy and powerful hide in their reinforced concrete bunkers or tunnels deep in the sand. The country has once again gone mad with hatred and bloodlust.

Last night I left my home to walk my dogs to the beach of Jaffa and encountered several heavily armed policemen camped out at the end of the block. I discovered later that they were there to protect the neighborhood from racist thugs who were rioting on nearby Yefet street screaming 'Death to the Arabs'. In the meanwhile my good friends in Ra'anana are supervising their children baking cookies to send to the soldiers at the 'front'. It's all a little surreal.

The contradictions and pain of this moment are perhaps best illustrated through the words of Erella, who writes about her conversation a few days ago with a good friend in Gaza. > > Read on > >

The tour business is of course struggling. The tourists have gone and cancellations keep pouring in. Refunds are draining our dwindling supply of working cash. Also, over the past three months we have added daily Tel Aviv pickups for our day-tours, and hired a full-time driver to better service the anticipated increase in clients. Alas we now have less clients and more overhead. However this too shall pass. From our experience, it takes 2-3 months after a war ends, for the tourists to return in large numbers.

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Jun 29, 2014

Asking Mike Pompeo About the ACA.......

Dear Mike....

I have recently moved to Kansas and I keep seeing adds saying you do not support ObamaCare and I would just like to know why.....

also there are not grocery stores in my area.....

how does one get groceries if they do not have a car.....

Thank you for your time and I would like to write about you on my blog.....

the ronnie republic...

cl

May 21, 2014

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