QUOTE OF THE DAY: 
GLENN BECK AT CPAC 2010:
‘Hello, my name is the Republican Party, and I’ve got a problem. I’m addicted to spending and big government…I’m addicted to spending and I just don’t want to spend today.’
(CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO QUOTE)
"If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal,” then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.” ~ John F. Kennedy, 1960
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When I woke up this morning, I had no idea how many were going to show up to the Coffee Party I had scheduled today, because I didn’t really advertise too much beforehand and I had heard that some were having trouble finding it on the Coffee Party USA website where I had entered the info. Nonetheless, about 10-12 showed up (a couple didn’t stay too long but just wanted to witness the meeting and then left) which is way more than I had expected! Seriously, I knew four who were coming, but other than that, no way did I expect someone from Androscoggin County to show up! Wow. I was impressed.
Here’s a photo at the end of the meeting today after a few had already left…
Yours Truly is third from the left and there are four in the picture running for office! Laura (third from right who looks like a young Olympia Snowe!) is running for State Senate District #13, Roy (to the right of Laura in the light colored shirt) is running for County Treasurer, Chad (front row right) is running for State Representative District #91, and Yours Truly who is running for Oxford County Commissioner District #3 (thanks to the 3 republicans currently on it who have decided to do a partisan power grab….all because Roy is running for the County Treasurer seat!). The guy in the middle is from Androscoggin County and he’s a liberal (loved him!)!
Here’s the issues we talked about today over coffee…
Of all the issues talked about today I thought “root causes” truly was the most interesting (along with tweaking our representative democracy), because both sides (the Tea & Coffee movements) are angry and a lot of the time don’t know why. Well, the cause of our anger can truly be narrowed down to corporate control of our government and of us. We don’t have much power. Many of us are feeling disenfranchised and having the U.S. Supreme Court ruling recently that corporations are people and should have the same rights as we do is something we had to talk about. Scary to think one of us might have to run against Wal-Mart in a race! We agreed that most Americans don’t understand the impact of what the SCOTUS’ has done. Unfortunately we only had an hour to discuss our options on what to do, but the next Coffee Party we attend we will get right down to it, because it’s that important! Reforming health insurance, jobs, campaign/election reform, and working towards a better functioning government was also discussed.
What a day! Thanks to everyone who came. 
I am hosting a Coffee Party in my area tomorrow afternoon (CLICK HERE TO ENTER YOUR ZIP CODE TO FIND THE COFFEE PARTY NEAR YOU!). Should be a good time! Not sure of the turnout since I didn’t advertise as much as I should of and there was problems with my Coffee Party showing up on Coffee Party USA’s website. Nonetheless, if the turnout is low tomorrow then we will have another one on Saturday, March 27th!
Remember: the Coffee Parties are all about positive attitude and no violence! Anyone who shows up to a Coffee Party spewing the negative rhetoric of the Tea Partiers will be removed, because that kind of crap is why Annabelle Park got frustrated and decided to create a Coffee Party USA Facebook page! From the moment she did that, the response to her and her idea has been overwhelming. Americans want civil discourse. There is absolutely no reason why Americans can’t come around the table to drink some coffee and calmly talk about the problems facing our nation and deciding who best represents us in our state and in DC!
Coffee is the beverage of hard working Americans. Wake Up and Stand up!
Anthem BC/BS is suing the state of Maine to raise it’s price for the benefit of their investors and no one else. Mainers are sick of these Anthem assholes, because they’re a bunch of crooks! We would love it if we could pack this protest to show the thieving anti-patient traitors a thing or two! Here’s the details put forth by my buddy BJ McCollister of Change That Works who represents Oxford & Franklin Counties:
Anthem Rally: March 18 and 19, Portland, ME
sponsored by Change That Works
March 18, 5pm RALLY & PROTEST!
The night before the hearing, join HUNDREDS of Mainers outside the Cumberland County Courthouse to protest Anthem’s greed. The protest will be followed by a FREE bean supper at Port City Music Hall (504 Congress St, Portland).
March 19, 8am PACK THE COURTHOUSE!
Fill the courthouse to support Maine in it’s fight against the greed that hurts our families.
Bring a car load and
let’s make history together!
Please join us! I plan to be at the March 18th rally for sure!
Tornadoes in Maine? Yep! Last summer we had about five tornadoes touch down in Maine with one touching down in my area of the state (near the New Hampshire border). Say what you want about global warming/climate change, but currently here in Maine we’ve gone almost another 30 days without snow during this winter and last summer we had tornadoes. Seems a little strange don’t you think? Also, wasn’t it strange to have more snow in Washington, DC than in Maine or Canada? Yep! Something is going on and I don’t think Jesus has anything to do with it….
Last August, I wrote about the tornadoes that touched down in Maine. A guy in Western Maine managed to take a video of a Maine tornado (I think this is the one that touched down in Bethel north of where I live) and posted it to YouTube:
And here’s an aerial photo taken by Rep. Terry Hayes from a friend’s plane right after the tornado hit along Route 117 in Buckfield (my photos below this picture were taken from the main drag to the left in this picture):
The following are pictures of the tornado damage I took yesterday on my way to Hartford. The tornado that touched down in this area downed trees in the typical spiral formation and the dead trees still line the road (Buckfield/Sumner line). Beyond the trees in the following pictures is a home and a pond. The owner of the house said last summer that in all the years he’s lived there he’s never been able to see the main road or the pond from his house. Now he can!
I am so happy for them all! I wrote about Spose’s hit single, “I’m Awesome!”, back in January of this year and then today I’m on my Facebook page and read through a friend (he’s a DJ) that Spose has landed themselves a REAL record deal! Wow. I’m thrilled. The Maine music scene is so much fun. They’re mostly underground and play in small venues, but there is so much talent here (could it be the long dark-by-4:15pm winters?) and I support all of it!
Here’s Spose’s current hit single again…
Way to go guys! So proud of ya.
Holy crap. I’m not a downhill skier at all nor a snowboarder, so watching this video makes my stomach queasy!
Seth Wescott is the first Mainer to ever win a gold at the Olympics! We are all wicked proud of him.
(video courtesy of SBMagazine)
(Flicker Photo)
Seth Wescott is from Sugarloaf, Maine (Carabassett Valley) about an hour or so where I live now and about 20 minutes from the town of Eustis where my grandmother bought a hunting camp over 70 years ago (which to this day still has no electricity, has gas lights, a wood stove, and an outhouse). If you don’t hunt, fish, downhill ski, cross-country ski, snowmobile, snowshoe, or snowboard, well, this area of the state is not for you! For Seth, however, it’s home and where he got a good part of his training to earn his gold in snowboarding at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver this year! We are so proud of him. Congratulations Seth!
Let’s take a little break from politics to listen to Spose, a Maine rap group, play their latest single. We all support local bands here and you can too for a mere $11.97!
“I’m Awesome” is all the rage here. Listen to it NOW!!!! I mean it. NOW PEOPLE!!!
Love it! You can hear their other singles at the Spose link above. If you buy the CD instead of stealing a listen, you’ll get a thank you from Aunt Steve!!!
Here’s Herbie the Dutch Elm tree in Yarmouth, Maine in better days:
(image found HERE)
Herbie is now very sick and will have to be cut down. No one is sure of Herbie’s true age, but some are thinking he could be as old as our country! Dutch Elm disease has finally won and what is also sad is Herbie has been cared for for decades now by a man in Yarmouth who is now 101 years old. How long will Frank live after Herbie is gone? So sad to even think about!
Goodbye Herbie and thank you Frank for taking such good care of him all these years! You’re truly a good patriot.
Remember Amber Cummings? She was the severely emotionally, sexually, and physically abused wife of James Cummings the white supremacist (he also had a fetish for young girls and was planning to kill President Obama using a dirty bomb at his inauguration day in January 2009) who killed her husband as he slept in their Belfast, Maine home to put an end to the years of abuse.
She’s a free woman today! Yay!!!! As she should be. Some think she should have gone to prison for the whole 8 year sentence, but to me and others, she is a hero for protecting herself, her daughter, and our President. No telling what James Cummings would have done or who he would have killed in the end, but we do know that he had a pattern of abuse, psychotic thinking, was addicted to child pornography, and he was getting ready to explode with the idea of President Obama being the president of the United States!
Amber’s husband was a terrorist. The End.
Where are the right wingers today yelling that white supremacists should be racially profiled because they’re dangerous individuals who plan and plot in the shadows and need to be taken out?
*cupping ear for the answer*
*crickets chirping*
That’s what I thought.
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Spits of rage…