Thursday, September 21, 2017

GOP-NO-Graham-Cassidy


U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121.

When you reach an aide or voice-mail, please leave the following message: 

Write out your own script, here’s mine, after modifying an emailed suggestion.

This is personal so make it personal, polite, if you feel upset, don’t take it out on operator.  Apologize, after all it’s an upsetting situation the US tax payers should not be getting subjected to this rejection of our will yet again.

Your own prepared script will help you keep ON POINT for your short moment to speak.

Hello, my name is ___________ calling from zip code _____ in state of ___________. 

Why does the GOP hold US citizens in such contempt? 
Look at all the polls, We The People want national health care coverage like every other advanced country in the world! 
Grow up GOP!!! - Why do you continue to wasting all this precious irretrievable time? Just to prove that you’ll never ever listen to anyone, or learn anything new. 
Fix Obama Care don’t break it. NO on Graham-Cassidy! 
I am ANGRY that the Senate plans to vote to destroy rather than fix a health care system we want.
Why does the GOP feel compelled to force 32 million Americans to lose their health insurance?
Please stop trying to kill Obama Care!
I live in ___, and if the Senator votes for it, I will actively campaign against them. 
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Back in June Kristen Bahlerwrote a short article and followed it with every senators contact information.  It's time to pick up the phones again.

How to Contact Every Senator to 

Voice Your Thoughts on the 

Health Care Bill



Alabama:
(202) 224-5744
Strange, Luther - (R - AL)
(202) 224-4124
Alaska:
Murkowski, Lisa - (R - AK)
(202) 224-6665
Sullivan, Dan - (R - AK)
(202) 224-3004
Arizona:
Flake, Jeff - (R - AZ)
(202) 224-4521
McCain, John - (R - AZ)
(202) 224-2235
Arkansas:
Boozman, John - (R - AR)
(202) 224-4843
Cotton, Tom - (R - AR)
(202) 224-2353
California:
(202) 224-3841
(202) 224-3553
Colorado:
(202) 224-5852
Gardner, Cory - (R - CO)
(202) 224-5941
Connecticut:
(202) 224-2823
(202) 224-4041
Delaware:
(202) 224-2441
(202) 224-5042
Florida:
Nelson, Bill - (D - FL)
(202) 224-5274
Rubio, Marco - (R - FL)
(202) 224-3041
Georgia:
Isakson, Johnny - (R - GA)
(202) 224-3643
Perdue, David - (R - GA)
(202) 224-3521
Hawaii:
(202) 224-6361
Schatz, Brian - (D - HI)
(202) 224-3934
Idaho:
Crapo, Mike - (R - ID)
(202) 224-6142
Risch, James E. - (R - ID)
(202) 224-2752
Illinois:
(202) 224-2854
(202) 224-2152
Indiana:
Donnelly, Joe - (D - IN)
(202) 224-4814
Young, Todd - (R - IN)
(202) 224-5623
Iowa:
Ernst, Joni - (R - IA)
(202) 224-3254
Grassley, Chuck - (R - IA)
(202) 224-3744
Kansas:
Moran, Jerry - (R - KS)
(202) 224-6521
Roberts, Pat - (R - KS)
(202) 224-4774
Kentucky:
(202) 224-2541
Paul, Rand - (R - KY)
(202) 224-4343
Louisiana:
Cassidy, Bill - (R - LA)
(202) 224-5824
Kennedy, John - (R - LA)
(202) 224-4623
Maine:
(202) 224-2523
(202) 224-5344
Maryland:
(202) 224-4524
(202) 224-4654
Massachusetts:
(202) 224-2742
(202) 224-4543
Michigan:
Peters, Gary C. - (D - MI)
(202) 224-6221
(202) 224-4822
Minnesota:
Franken, Al - (D - MN)
(202) 224-5641
Klobuchar, Amy - (D - MN)
(202) 224-3244
Mississippi:
Cochran, Thad - (R - MS)
(202) 224-5054
(202) 224-6253
Missouri:
Blunt, Roy - (R - MO)
(202) 224-5721
(202) 224-6154
Montana:
Daines, Steve - (R - MT)
(202) 224-2651
Tester, Jon - (D - MT)
(202) 224-2644
Nebraska:
Fischer, Deb - (R - NE)
(202) 224-6551
Sasse, Ben - (R - NE)
(202) 224-4224
Nevada:
(202) 224-3542
Heller, Dean - (R - NV)
(202) 224-6244
New Hampshire:
(202) 224-3324
Shaheen, Jeanne - (D - NH)
(202) 224-2841
New Jersey:
Booker, Cory A. - (D - NJ)
(202) 224-3224
(202) 224-4744
New Mexico:
(202) 224-5521
Udall, Tom - (D - NM)
(202) 224-6621
New York:
(202) 224-4451
(202) 224-6542
North Carolina:
Burr, Richard - (R - NC)
(202) 224-3154
Tillis, Thom - (R - NC)
(202) 224-6342
North Dakota:
Heitkamp, Heidi - (D - ND)
(202) 224-2043
Hoeven, John - (R - ND)
(202) 224-2551
Ohio:
Brown, Sherrod - (D - OH)
(202) 224-2315
Portman, Rob - (R - OH)
(202) 224-3353
Oklahoma:
(202) 224-4721
Lankford, James - (R - OK)
(202) 224-5754
Oregon:
Merkley, Jeff - (D - OR)
(202) 224-3753
Wyden, Ron - (D - OR)
(202) 224-5244
Pennsylvania:
(202) 224-6324
(202) 224-4254
Rhode Island:
Reed, Jack - (D - RI)
(202) 224-4642
(202) 224-2921
South Carolina:
Graham, Lindsey - (R - SC)
(202) 224-5972
Scott, Tim - (R - SC)
(202) 224-6121
South Dakota:
Rounds, Mike - (R - SD)
(202) 224-5842
Thune, John - (R - SD)
(202) 224-2321
Tennessee:
(202) 224-4944
Corker, Bob - (R - TN)
(202) 224-3344
Texas:
Cornyn, John - (R - TX)
(202) 224-2934
Cruz, Ted - (R - TX)
(202) 224-5922
Utah:
Hatch, Orrin G. - (R - UT)
(202) 224-5251
Lee, Mike - (R - UT)
(202) 224-5444
Vermont:
(202) 224-4242
(202) 224-5141
Virginia:
Kaine, Tim - (D - VA)
(202) 224-4024
Warner, Mark R. - (D - VA)
(202) 224-2023
Washington:
Cantwell, Maria - (D - WA)
(202) 224-3441
Murray, Patty - (D - WA)
(202) 224-2621
West Virginia:
(202) 224-6472
(202) 224-3954
Wisconsin:
Baldwin, Tammy - (D - WI)
(202) 224-5653
Johnson, Ron - (R - WI)
(202) 224-5323
Wyoming:
Barrasso, John - (R - WY)
(202) 224-6441
(202) 224-3424

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Thursday, August 24, 2017

2017 Eclipse viewing from the Pink Schoolhouse Road, Nebraska

(working draft)

A week or so before the eclipse I saw a documentary that included a video of the racing shadow.  Something about that image captured my imagine.  I already had a trip planned to Oklahoma City starting the Wednesday following the eclipse.  Over the next couple days I talked myself into starting my trip a few days early and driving there via Beatrice, Nebraska to see it for myself.

Then the weather made Beatrice look like a bad bet and I decided to drive north and try to find some Nebraska hills. Geography and roads put me north of Scottsbluff after a full day of driving since I stuck to state highways.  As it turns out I wound up within a mile of the centerline of the path of totality.  I don't have any fancy equipment and the following is from my iPhone so it's no great shakes, but I hope it conveys some of the experience.


morning panorama August 21, 2017







It has begun




Watching and waiting . . .


 Now we're feeling it




The corona was something amazing to look at.
This image closest resembles what I saw.

photographed by prs17 @yahoo.com

(all other images on this page are my own)



Then before you know it, it's gone.


Others speak of experiencing a dramatic temperature swing, 
here on the old Schoolhouse road it was noticeable but certainly not dramatic.

  What I found dramatic was the stinging brightness
of even the tiniest sliver of that blazing orb.
(http://eclipse2017.org/blog/2017/02/05/magnitude-vs-obscuration/)


It was fun hanging on to the very end and catching the exact moment the moon's limb disappeared back into the void of space and the sun's full shape returned.

The lone tree


It was a splendid experience that I'd like to write about some time.

Hard to tell but in the distance you can see the traffic clogged road a couple miles ahead as it disappears off screen to the left.  Traffic didn't clear up till Brush, Colorado.

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Monday, July 24, 2017

Open letter Sen. Gardner - work with Democrats on health care


We are told Democracy demands an informed and engaged citizenry, sadly we Americans haven't been doing so good in that department lately, as witnessed by the clowns Democratic and liberal complacency put in charge of our government.

Since each of us can only do so much, I think it's good to share our efforts and perhaps encourage others to finally motivate and get engaged in helping divert the neoGOP and our Russian Obligate president's destructive Health Care agenda.  That's why I want to share the following email that I sent to our Republican Senator Gardner since the threat remains alive. 

Honorable Senator Gardner,

What is going on with the GOP?

American health care has become nothing but the GOPs obsessive, transparent, even hateful Anti-Obama political football.  When will Sessions and the GOP get over it and stop acting like juvenile delinquents bent on revenge?  

America needs serious people who understand and care about America's health needs, experts to work on fixing what's wrong with ObamaCare in an intelligent constructive grownup bi-partisan American's First effort. 

Enough of this destructive Trump/Sessions fiasco.  Just say NO, work with the Democrats on fixing ObamaCare and be done with it.

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Friday, March 10, 2017

Gorsuch's Victims & Pre-Hearing Update - March 16th telebriefing



Supreme Court Campaign Member Briefing: Gorsuch's Victims & Pre-Hearing Update (RSVP Now)
Thursday, March 16 @ 7:00pm Eastern Time (6pm Central / 5pmMountain / 4pm Pacific)
We're continuing to uncover more and more about the trail of pain left by Trump Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch as a judge on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Judge Gorsuch has an extreme judicial philosophy that puts him even farther to the right than the late Justice Antonin Scalia and poses an urgent threat to Americans' civil rights and liberties, equality for women and LGBT people, voting rights, the environment, workers' rights, disability rights, consumer protections, you name it.
Gorsuch's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing will begin on March 20. In advance of the hearing, we're hosting a special telebriefing on Thursday, March 16 to update our members about some of the real stories of Gorsuch's victims and our campaign to STOP his confirmation.
The call will take place at 7pm Eastern Time (6 Central / 5 Mountain / 4 Pacific) on March 16.
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