October 2, 2010 RALLY ON DC

Are you unemployed, do you know someone who is?

Today, I was at the Local (Denver, CO) Community Affiliate Office of the AFL-CIO - www.workingamerica.org. Did you know that they are running a "post card campaign"? I would tend to bet that you hadn't heard. Let me explain.

See the picture within this post, it is a smaller cut down version of the post card that will be sent out to unemployed voters who should VOTE FOR JOBS! Whether you are young or old, employed or not, we need to take back our country.

What we all want - Good Jobs * Health Care * Corporate Accountability * Education! Are we happy that "Corporate America" is trying to keep us down? NO, we're not! Where are the good jobs that we have the skill sets and talents for? Can't find them? NO, we can't find them because our government has added to THEIR needs when it comes to "job creation". Where are those "Main Street jobs"? Are we happy that we don't have UNIVERSAL Health Care? NO, we're not! Insurance companies rape us every moment that they can - are you going to just sit there and do nothing about it? Will you go without HealthCare? NO, huh?

Come on people!
STAND UP AND BE HEARD!

That's right!
STAND UP AND BE HEARD!

We all have voices and choices. What will your choice be? My choice is to have my voice heard and stand up for what is right. What is right for me is having a job similar to what I was laid off from, I want health care without having to give an arm and a leg for it, I want NAFTA to be written so that our jobs stop going to other countries via outsourcing, companies moving etc. I also want my government to take care of me when I have taken care of them my whole working life by paying taxes, paying into Social Security, paying into Medicare. I've worked hard and so have you so that when things get bad, we won't have to worry where our next money will come from, so we won't worry about losing our homes - just to name a few things.

MARCH FOR JOBS
MARCH FOR YOUR RIGHTS
MARCH ON 10/2/10 IN WASHINGTON DC

MY GAME PLAN

I'd like to see everyone unite, carpool, and convoy on DC. One person drives and others share the cost. The more the merrier! Make signs, tell how angry you are.

There are websites that are organizing buses and carpools - this one comes from the Daily Kos -
Find Buses to the 10.2.10 March on Washington and from One Nation Working Together.

Please visit all sites listed in this blog post. You'll be VERY happy that you did.

STAND UP AND BE HEARD!
REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!
LET'S TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK!

Day 56 - Oil Spill

A semi nice day today. We had some sun, some blue skies and some rain. This weather is crazy.

Notes from the Home Front

As most of you know, I'm unemployed, and looking for that fabulous position where I can use my talents and skills to make a difference. If you hear of anything in the Southeast Metro Denver area of Colorado, please be sure to contact me. My experiences have been from Office Management, full charge bookkeeping, business to business collections, IT, help desk, software trainer and support/troubleshooting. My hobbies are blogging and podcasting via social media.

National News

Oil Spill - Day 56

Anderson Cooper - CNN

Is BP running this show in cleaning up this spew of oil throughout the Gulf of Mexico? OR is President Obama clearly in charge? From the reports shown on CNN with Anderson Cooper, the answer comes as a mixed bag.

From CNN, it seems as though BP is purchasing 5 of Kevin Costner's oil cleaning systems. Will they use them? Also as reported from an interview with Parish President, Billy Nungesser, of Plaquemines Parish with offices located in Belle Chasse, LA, some workers have been using 5 gallon wet/dry Shop Vacs to suck up the oil.

Boycott BP - Bayou Lee

More on the Oil Spill - Have you seen a Facebook page for Boycott BP yet? This page is THE page to like/fan. Bayou Lee keeps over 611,000 facebook users informed about what is going on in Louisiana regarding the spew of oil. In addition to this Facebook page, Lee has a blog, and was interviewed today by Diane Sawyer of ABC News. Watch the video interview, you'll be glad that you did.

BP fires 92 clean up workers

Why you ask? Some of their hazmat instructors were not certified. This just goes to show the negligence in checking credentials, and giving proper instruction. Personally, I'm just aggravated with BP - this all goes back to - WHO is running the show? Learn about it here.

Best and Worst Grocery Stores

Where do you shop? How would you rate YOUR grocery store or chain? It's no surprise at all the Wegmans with stores in NY and a few other states is a #1 best grocery store. When I resided in Western NY, I had the opportunity to shop Wegmans quite often, by going there you'll find a well planned out store and call shopping there an "adventure in grocery shopping". The stores are ALWAYS clean and well stocked. Another on the list of best grocery stores was Shop Rite, when living in Upstate NY, Shop Rite was the best shopping around in the little town where it was located.

For those of you who might think that Western NY and Upstate NY are one in the same, they aren't. Upstate is the area directly north of New York City (NYC) to the Canadian Border. Western NY is located from around the Utica area to the area just beyond Buffalo and Niagara Falls.

See where your grocery store stacks up!

Unemployment News

Kathy Myers

This is the most disturbing and heartbreaking story I have read to date. The events are what this country is coming to. Kathy Myers is unemployed, and she has no health insurance. Read her story - Kathy Myers Shot Herself to Get Medical Care - Uninsured, Unemployed, and Out of Luck, Mich. Woman, Saw Desperate Step as Only Way to Get Help for Shoulder Injury. This is the type of story that just makes you want to help her out, even if it's in some little way.

I could relate to her story only in the way of having a torn rotator cuff in my right shoulder. Don't worry folks, I have health insurance but won't for long if Congress doesn't get up off the pot.

Job Growth - was there any?

It's almost like millions of us could have written this next story on how job growth slowed down in May.

Foodie News

Did you think that KFC's "double down" was just that? Well see what you can make with one, all you need is to search this article for some recipes in transforming that plain ole' double down to something really appetizing! While at Fancy Fast Food's site, you may find other recipes that you never thought of. Why not take a few minutes and check it out!

Funny Stuff

Today's fun stuff comes via a typo within a tweet. You know that typos can make something serious to something silly and fun mostly in just one keystroke.

Here's the Tweet from @change: What's newsworthy? Puerto Rican students shit down largest university, US media ignores them: http://bit.ly/cT66OM

You know that they meant SHUT - but I just had to point out that a typo can result in odd comments. My tweet to @change was "they WHAT?"

As always,

STAND UP AND BE HEARD!

DON'T ALLOW CONGRESS TO ISSUE US A DEATH SENTENCE!