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Email /Webpage /Facebook /Twitter /Newsletetter archive | | Texas Democratic Women of Collin County Paint the State Blue "Let's Go Blue for White" Annual Dinner and Silent Auction September 4th ! | | 
Texas Democratic Women of Collin County (TDWCC) and Host Committee: Lisa Blue, Debbie and John Hyatt,Ashley and Jack Ternan, Jr. cordially invite you to help us Paint the State Blue at our 4th Annual Dinner and Silent Auction
Saturday, September 4, 2010 6:30pm
Southfork Ranch 3700 Hogge Road Parker, Texas
Ticket information at www.tdwcc.org Host Individual or Host Couple - $500
Priority reserved seating with special guests, host gift and bar service
Sponsor Individual - $150 Sponsor Couple - $200 Reserved seating Guest Individual - $50
Featuring Keynote Speaker Bill White, Former Mayor of Houston Candidate for Governor of Texas
Contributions are not tax-deductible. TDWCC is a registered Political Action Committee (PAC).Pol. Adv. Paid for and authorized by the Texas Democratic Women of Collin County.
**If you have any questions or would like to make a donation for the Silent Auction, please contact Robin Smith at robinsclee@yahoo.com. | | COUNTDOWN TO ZERO -Premier free passes | |  COUNTDOWN TO ZERO traces the history of the atomic bomb from its origins to the present state of global affairs: nine nations possessing nuclear weapons capabilities with others racing to join them, with the world held in a delicate balance that could be shattered by an act of terrorism, failed diplomacy, or a simple accident. Written and directed by acclaimed documentarian Lucy Walker (The Devil's Playground, Blindsight), the film features an array of important international statesmen, including President Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pervez Musharraf and Tony Blair. It makes a compelling case for worldwide nuclear disarmament, an issue more topical than ever with the Obama administration working to revive this goal today.
The film was produced by Academy Award® winner and recent nominee Lawrence Bender (Inglourious Basterds, An Inconvenient Truth) and developed, financed and executive produced by Participant Media, together with World Security Institute. Participant collaborated with Magnolia on last year's Food, Inc., recently nominated for an Academy Award®, and the upcoming CASINO JACK and the United States of Money. Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Bruce Blair and Matt Brown are the film's executive producers.
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| | Democracy Now | |  Nagasaki 65 Years Later: A Look Back at the Censored Dispatches of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist George Weller
Today, we remember the US bombing of Nagasaki through the story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Weller, the first reporter to enter Nagasaki, defying General MacArthur's ban on the press in southern Japan. Weller worked for the Chicago Daily News and hired a rowboat to get himself to Nagasaki. He wrote a 25,000-word report on the horrors that he encountered. When he submitted his story to the military censors, MacArthur personally ordered that the story be killed, and the manuscript was never returned. Weller later summarized his experience with the government censors, saying, "They won."
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"I Fear for My Country": Muslim Leader Daisy Khan on Opposition to Ground Zero Mosque and Others Nationwide
Debate is intensifying over the planned construction of an Islamic center and mosque two blocks from New York's Ground Zero. But it is not just a local issue. Across the country, Muslim groups are facing attacks over plans to build new mosques. We speak to Daisy Khan of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, one of the main organizations behind the mosque project, and the wife of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf; and Stephan Salisbury, cultural writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and author of Mohamed's Ghosts: An American Story of Love and Fear in the Homeland.
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Starred Review. Kingsolver's ambitious new novel, her first in nine years (after the The Poisonwood Bible), focuses on Harrison William Shepherd, the product of a divorced American father and a Mexican mother. After getting kicked out of his American military academy, Harrison spends his formative years in Mexico in the 1930s in the household of Diego Rivera; his wife, Frida Kahlo; and their houseguest, Leon Trotsky, who is hiding from Soviet assassins. After Trotsky is assassinated, Harrison returns to the U.S., settling down in Asheville, N.C., where he becomes an author of historical potboilers (e.g., Vassals of Majesty) and is later investigated as a possible subversive. Narrated in the form of letters, diary entries and newspaper clippings, the novel takes a while to get going, but once it does, it achieves a rare dramatic power that reaches its emotional peak when Harrison wittily and eloquently defends himself before the House Un-American Activities Committee (on the panel is a young Dick Nixon). Employed by the American imagination, is how one character describes Harrison, a term that could apply equally to Kingsolver as she masterfully resurrects a dark period in American history with the assured hand of a true literary artist.
| | Hear the Wit and Wisdom of Jim Hightower | | 
Hear the Wit and Wisdom of Jim Hightower
Just ONE WEEK left to organize your friends to see a national treasure!
Thursday, August 19 America's most popular populist. Author of Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish can Go with the Flow.
Irving Arts Center
3333 N. MacArthur Blvd., Irving
Reception at 6:00 p.m. /Program at 7:00 p.m. /Tickets are $35 each or $325 for 10
To Purchase Tickets, send a check to the Dallas Peace Center ( see address at bottom) or go to Purchase tickets More Information | | The Dallas Alternative Energy Meetup Group | |  Just a heads up our next meeting with be on rain harvesting, in particular, rain barrels. We are preparing the presentation as we speak but I wanted to get the word out so you could mark your calendar to attend.
Place: REI, see June meeting
Time: August 21 at 1:00PM
Plan on attending and stay after the presentation for a discussion on a book club and solar ovens.
http://www.meetup.com/alternativeenergy-153/
| | Michael Moore Profits Up at GM! And You're Still Unemployed and more | | 
So General Motors is back to making billions in profit. And if the past is any guide, we know what that means: time for some layoffs!
Or maybe not. Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan. Right now it looks like the only person being canned is CEO Edward Whitacre. (Only last week Whitacre was saying he wasn't planning to leave anytime soon-kind of ironic that the former president of the Boy Scouts of America failed to Be Prepared.)
But if they're not laying people off yet, they're also not hiring.
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VIDEO: Michael Moore With Olbermann Blasts Gibbs -Keith Olbermann, MSNBC
Michael Moore visited with Keith Olbermann, they talked about Robert Gibbs' attack on the 'left,' about the new film, 'Tillman,' the Pat Tillman story, and how the White House can help us help them.
video here | | North Texas Democrats : Notes and News | | 
Colleyville, Grapevine, Southlake Democrats
CGS August Social, Thurs. Aug. 19, 2010
'In lieu of our regular meeting this month, let's just get together for an August Social with the Drinking Liberally group on the THIRD Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 6:30 pm at Rio Mambo Restaurant, 5150 Highway 121 (west side between Hall Johnson and Glade Road). Time for some fun and to recharge our batteries for the fall campaigns. Please join CGS Democrats or renew your membership for 2010; your dues help fund our activities:
CGS Democrats membership form
MID-CITIES DEMOCRATS
Happy Hour at Rio Mambo -on Monday, August 23rd
Please come enjoy this social occasion with fellow Democrats from
5:30PM-7:30PM at the popular Rio Mambo Restaurant on Hwy 121, just north of Glade Road
We will be in the section on the north side of the restaurant.
Suggested donation at the door: $20.00 to benefit the Mid-Cities Democrats.
CASH BAR with Happy Hour prices and a selection of appetizers.
We hope you will come join us for an enjoyable time.
Texas Democratic Women Collin County
The next TDWCC general meeting is Monday, August 16, 2010, <note meeting is a week early this month due to school starting> 6:45pm. at the Preston Ridge Campus of Collin College 9700 Wade Blvd Frisco, Texas, Founders Hall, Shawnee Room F148.
Patty Janthro, President of League of Women Voters Plano/Collin County, will speak on the celebration of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the League and the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that gained women the right to vote-both in 1920.
The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan, political organization encouraging informed and active participation in government. Members study issues ranging from education, healthcare, and climate change to openness in government. The League influences public policy through education and advocacy. Join TDWCC to learn more about this important institution and to celebrate the anniversary of our right to vote!
Texas Democratic Women of Collin County (TDWCC) is a dedicated group of Democratic Women, working to EDUCATE Collin County citizens, ACTIVATE voters, and ELECT Democrats to local, state, and federal offices. We meet the fourth Monday of each month at Collin College Preston Ridge Campus in Frisco. www.tdwcc.org
Dallas County Young Democrats
Candidate Meet & Greet - Take Back the Commissioners' Court Edition
August 19, 2010 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
La Calle Doce Oak Cliff /415 W 12th St /Dallas, TX 75208
Come enjoy a cocktail with Clay Jenkins, candidate for Dallas County Judge, and Dr Elba Garcia, candidate for County Commissioner, District 4 as we discuss the urgent need to turn the Commissioners' Court blue!
For more information and to RSVP, please contact John Cooke politicaldirector@dallasyoungdemocrats.org Irving Democrats
Fall Campaign Kick-off Meet and talk to our Democratic candidates for House District 105 and 106 and several countywide candidates. (7 PM, Senter Park East Bldg. 228 Chamberlain, Irving) | | Preogressive Talk Radio News | |  Interview: Marc Maron
There aren't many comedians who've had as colourful a past as Marc Maron, but lucky for him he's able to turn those downs into a career. The 45-year-old usually bases his shows on his personal experiences. So has anything dramatic happened to Maron recently? "Well there was a divorce not so long ago, some aggressiveness, dating, new relationships, career changes, the pod-cast..." Anything else, I wonder? "Trying to get out of my head seems to be an everyday occurrence, so that's formed part of my comedy lately".
The American comic and radio show host has been doing a new show at the Soho Theatre, which he says is "filled with the normal themes of a Marc Maron show". What does that include? "Obsession, love, politics, technology. Just a buffet of my recent stand-up work." You wouldn't be wrong in thinking that it doesn't sound like the most cheerful show, but there are many people who appreciate Maron's stories. He reveals that he sometimes has stalkers visit him backstage to express how much they liked his show: "the best thing to do with a stalker is to take them for lunch or a cup of coffee." Yes, that does seem like the most logical and sure-fire way to get rid of a stalker...
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Stephanie Miller, Progressive Talk Show Host and Former Comedienne, Comes Out
NEW YORK (CBS) Progressive radio personality Stephanie Miller has revealed she is a lesbian.
Miller, 48, publicly came out of the closet on her nationally syndicated show, "The Stephanie Miller Show," on Friday.An hour before she made the announcement, Miller wrote on her Twitter page, "There may be a lot of crying next hour," and "Stick around for the next hour. Mama's got something to tell you."
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| | | | | By Robert Reich, | | 
The decline of America's middle class can be charted directly. In the three decades after World War II, the median wage (smack in the middle) grew rapidly, right along with productivity gains. Even as late as 1980, the richest 1 percent of Americans received only about 9 percent of the nation's total income.
But starting in the 1980s - and increasingly since then - the economy has made the rich far richer without doing squat for the vast middle. The median hourly wage has barely grown, if you take inflation into account. Indeed, it dropped in the last so-called "recovery" between 2001 and 2007. And health-care and pension benefits have declined; we've gone from defined-benefit pensions to do-it-yourself pensions, while health insurance premiums, deductibles, and co-payments have skyrocketed.
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| | Neil Durrance for Congress | | 
Return Government to the People
26the Congressional District of Texas
-Keep American jobs in America
-Make health care affordable for all U.S. citizens
-Increase Pell Grants and decrease tuition
940.239.0380
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| | Neil Durrance, candidate for U.S. Congress in Texas District 26, issued this statement | | Neil Durrance, candidate for U.S. Congress in Texas District 26, issued this statement today regarding yesterday's stimulus vote from his opponent, Congressman Michael Burgess:
"It is unconsionable, at a time of teacher shortages and educators leaving the profession en masse, that Congressman Burgess would vote against funding to pay teachers.
This awful vote against the interests of North Texas students is symptomatic of the Tea Party of No culture in which Congressman Burgess wallows in the misguided hope that he can use theatrics and rhetoric to hide from voters his pro-toll road, anti-working families voting record.
There aren't enough Lipton boxes in all of Texas to shield Burgess from the will of voters once he is exposed for what he is: a tool of big pharma, big oil, and corporate fat cats who has voted against North Texans at every opportunity."
If you would like any further information, pictures, or time with our candidate, please reply to this email or contact me at 940.239.0380.
Thanks,
Michael Durrance
Director of Communications
Neil Durrance for Congress, District 26
940.239.0380
www.durranceforcongress.com
| | Texas Gov. Perry asks Obama for more troops, drones along border | | Texas Gov. Perry asks Obama for more troops, drones along border
Defying harsh criticism from Texas Republicans, President Barack Obama said Monday that his 19-month-old presidency has put America "on the right track" and warned against returning to GOP policies that he blamed for the country's economic "mess." Texas Gov. Rick Perry, one of the president's biggest critics in the Lone Star State, met Obama on his arrival at Austin-Bergstrom Airport and presented the president with a four-page letter calling for tougher federal enforcement along the state's violence-ridden border with Mexico.
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