Politics Politics!!

Another round of mudslinging is upon us. The Democrats trying to show how "out of touch" the Republicans are, and the Republicans attempting to show those bleeding heart liberals how to run a country. It never ends.
The rumors, the gossip...it's high school all over again...in suits...with money.
A popularity contest. The boy with the most toys (and groupies) wins.
Pathetic.
For once, can't everyone put their ego aside and do what's right for the country? Not a specific agenda, but the right of the country. Remember when a group of guys got together and drew up this cool document called the Declaration of Independence.
For the People...and all that.
Have these politicians read this lately?

Apparently over 200 years ago, we were a much smaller group of liberals, and I use that term since we were liberating ourselves from England at the time, with a more succinct system of values. We were bound to the rights of our little nation at the time.
Maybe we should get back to the roots of that declaration:
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

Maybe it's time for us to dissolve our political bands which tie us to the crap that we are neck deep in.
Let's get back to the Laws of Nature and Nature's God, and stand up for what this little country stood up for way back when.  We are stronger, we are smarter, we are connected. Let's not let a few roosters in the yard steer us away from our value system. It's time to take back what is ours - this country!
These are your dollars, your children's lives, your homes, your countryside - isn't any of this important enough for you to get off your butts and have accountability for it? Put your name on it!
Put our complacency aside and show these Simon's what they owe us. Respect. Loyalty. A country worth sending our brothers and sons and nephews to war for. Demand it!
We've been analyzing and talking about it long enough.
We've been watching it on TV long enough.
We've been taking it long enough!
I am proud to be an American. This is a great country, flaws and all. None of these fools represents me, or anyone I know. We can stand together and make a difference. Leaders have done it in the past, we can do it again.

When the time comes when we are tired of the mediocre offerings of the few, it will be time for the majority to take over.

Vogue

Checking out the cover of the March issue of Vogue, which features our First Lady Michelle Obama, made me so proud to see what this election year is doing across the board for people of color, and women in our country. Politics and fashion go hand in hand - sounds crazy, but look at the trends.
But to see not only a beautiful brown face, but a body that isn't a stick figure, on the cover of Vogue is wonderful.
Even though the average size of American women is a 12, we never see that on the cover of the iconic fashion magazines. Michelle Obama is thin compared to most of America but you wouldn't know it from the historically famous models who always grace the covers.

This cover reminds me of the poem by Maya Angelou:

Phenomenal Woman

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
Maya Angelou

So, to all the Phenomenal Women in my life, WE are represented on the cover of next month's Vogue magazine.