Greater Tarpon Springs Democratic Club

Beautiful strange and rare cloud formations (23 pictures) http://memolition.com/2013/06/12/beautiful-strange-and-rare-cloud-formations-23-pictures/

Wedding Photograph Features a Hungry T-Rex Chasing the Bridal Party http://petapixel.com/2013/05/29/wedding-photograph-features-a-hungry-t-rex-chasing-the-bridal-party/

When I taught Driver’s Education, we told the students, “It isn’t the loose nut on the steering column that casuses the accident; it’s the nut behind the wheel”.  In other words, it wasn’t the car’s fault when an accident occurred and someone died; it was always the driver’s fault.  We repeated the saying to instill in the students the huge responsibility they were undertaking when they got behind the wheel.  Now, the NRA tells us-it isn’t the gun that causes deaths; it’s the shooter.

Only one thing wrong with what we told students learning to drive-it wasn’t completely true.  As a society, we decided to demand safer cars, if fact, close to crash proof cars.  NASCAR has almost achieved such.  We passed laws requiring air bags, seat belts, padded dashboards, roll bars, shatter-proof windshields, crash proof gas tanks and, yes, even collapsible steering columns.  Isn’t it about time we got smart and understand the gun and its ammunition are part of the gun safety solution?    

Gerald Goen

The conservative case for raising the minimum wage http://www.salon.com/2013/05/18/the_conservative_case_for_raising_the_minimum_wage/

Hi, everyone —

This is the start of a national debate. Across the country, we’re having a serious discussion about how we can build a fair and effective immigration system that lives up to our heritage as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.

And we need your help to make sure that genuine, personal perspectives are part of the conversation. The truth is, that if we go back far enough, nearly every American story begins somewhere else — so often with ancestors setting out in search of a different life, carving out a future for their children in this place that all of us now call home.

We want to make sure that idea isn’t far from the minds of policymakers here in Washington as we work to reach an agreement to reform immigration.

To kick things off, one of the President’s senior advisors sat down to share his story with you.

Watch David Simas tell his American story, then tell us yours.

When Americans from all over the country — each with different backgrounds, each from different circumstances — all speak out with the same voice, it’s powerful in a way that’s hard to ignore. We’ve seen it again and again, in debate after debate.

And this is the kind of issue where putting a face on the push for reform takes an abstract concept and makes it real. So share your American stories with us, and we’ll put them to use.

We’ll publish them on the White House website. We’ll share them on Facebook and Twitter. We’ll do everything we can to make sure they’re part of the debate around immigration reform.

Get started here:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/immigration/stories

Thanks,
Cecilia

Cecilia Muñoz
Director, Domestic Policy Council
The White House

Sometimes, it’s hard for us to imagine what life might have been like a hundred years ago. Without television, without the internet, without air conditioning. But there is a lot more that we take for granted than just these modern creature comforts.

127 years ago today, the Governor of Wisconsin ordered the National Guard to fire upon a crowd of 14,000 workers who had gathered for one simple demand: that their workday be shortened to only 8 hours of physical labor. Seven people died that day and several more were injured in what would come to be known as the Bay View Massacre.

Over the course of the week, there would be several more demonstrations around the country in places like New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati. The battle over the 8 hour workday would last another 30 years and cost many more lives. But, their sacrifice bought us more time to spend with our families and to live our lives our way. 

Today, I’ll stand with scores of union members and Milwaukee residents to commemorate this moment of history and honor those that stood against an oppressive governor. All I ask today is that you take a minute to remember their sacrifice when you head home from work tomorrow. 

In Solidarity, 
Rob Zerban

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