Tweet
Happy Mother's Day, everyone!
Here's a pic of some pretty lilacs owned by my co-blogger MEC over at Mercury Rising. (The full-sized picture can be seen here.) Hope that these don't trigger anybody's lilac allergies!
So what have y'all got planned for Mother's Day? My spouse is out with his mom right now, and in a little while I'll be chatting with my mom.
But for right now, I'm going to get some breakfast, grind up some coffee, and kick back. It's spring! (At least, that's what they tell me.) The politics can go on the back burner for a bit. Or at least, shift to a gentler mode for a bit; they won't go away entirely. Which is fitting, as Mother's Day itself was intended as a peace holiday: Betcha they didn't tell ya that in junior-high-school history class!
114 Comments
Support this site!
Subscribe to the newsletter
Advertise on Firedoglake
Send
us your tips
Make us your homepage
About Firedoglake
And to all the Mamas here and the Papas who love them!
Let us celebrate our Mamas.
Mine was the first woman to become a member of the Purdue University Glider Club. (The boys stammered and said, uh, you wouldn’t be able to come to our meetings. She replied: “I don’t want to come to your meetings. I want to fly your airplanes.”
She flew in West Africa, took me and my brother to Morocco when I was 9 years old, fought against injustice as she perceived it, and gave me my own values of standing up and speaking up.
THANKS, MOM! (Dearly departed, 11 years ago.)
PW: you may be suffering from the early weekend wakeup but we are the beneficiaries. I’m loving your feistiness this am: stepie=prick & on your site “hey karl rove, got your voter fraud rigggght heeeeeeere!”
ironranger @ 3
Hey, thanks, Ironranger! How are tings up on da’ Range?
Arrgh!! I had to stop watching John McCain try to tell me his Baghdad market stunt wasn’t as portrayed.
Mom told me never to lie and here this guy is lying on national TV.
Although my mom passed away last May 27th, she has not really gone from our lives. Hope everyone has a chance to either hug their mom or at least talk to them on the phone and tell them “I love you”
I’m fortunate enough to still have my mother. But, of course, that means I don’t get top billing on this day. Still, counting my blessings.
As for my recognition on this day:
A while back I bought myself a laptop after hearing complaints from hubby that he never sees me. So, now he watches sports and I check out the toobz while we’re both in the same room. Today he presented me with a ‘chill mat’. It’s a device to set your laptop on to prevent a heat buildup. The reason….so that I can blog in bed. Am I Brian Williams’ dream blogger or what. Must leave now to change from jeans and put my pj’s back on.
Well, I solved the egg casserole problem I mentioned in last thread, we’re eating now. The kids (5 & 6) are doing Mom’s nails while she lays on the floor. The younger one is also walking on Mom’s back, giving her a massage.
I think after breakfast they are heading out to plant flowers and play while I finish up the paperwork I need to finish my Masters. Yeah :^|
Several families are going to Rustler’s Rooste for Brunch, it is a hokie AZ western cowboy landmark.
http://www.rustlersrooste.com/index.html
Beautiful picture, PW, I can almost smell the lilacs. Can’t grow them in SoCal sorry to say.
I almost forgot, everyone, Balrog’s baby is due today! I e-mailed him and will let you know any news in case he’s too busy to visit us. (I’m secretly hoping it’s a girl.)
Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms out there.
Is it just me or did WaPo shut down the comments to today’s op-eds?
Happy Mother’s Day
My great great great great grandmother was Julia Ward Howe and recently I have been reading her journals which are filled with philosophy and thoughts about peace and how to achieve it.
I spend alot of time thinking about how to make ideas come true and the only real conclusion I keep coming back to is that sense of personal responsiblity.
Julia’s ideas were all about service and study.
So in honor of her, I am going to keep studying and try to be of service to those who need me.
I encourage everyone to pick up a little Kant … that’s what Julia would have done.
Kant and Kindess … this is what I have learned from my “mothers.”
Big big thank you to the men and women of the lake who make this site what it is … namely a place of learning and sharing.
I know my own dear maman will be taking a dip in these waters today and so I offer a special shout out to her and thank her for her refusal to raise her children to be “Good Germans”. It hasn’t been easy for her to raise five free thinkers, but by Julia she has done it!
Noonan @ 7
Sounds nice. Enjoy
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there.
I got my Mother’s Day greetings from the John C. Stennis aircraft carrier, where my son informs me he surviived the visit of Darth Cheney. (Although he didn’t use quite those words.)
He’d told his dad he’d flip Darth off for me if he could. Dad talked him out of it. Does the boy love me or what?
Happy Mothers’ Day!
Thank you universe for my mother!
And thank you universe for the mother of us all
our planet….. and the vanishingly thin, aching beautiful blue-green mantle around it….
mother to all
all alone, in the night.
Well, I’m single and my Momma passed on just over twenty years ago within a week of Mother’s day.
But I’m making fried chicken and the fixin’s for Sunday Dinner. Not so much in her honor however, she couldn’t fry worth a damn – Dad was the fry cook in my family. But she and Dad are a big reason I am what I yam today.
I was raised in a liberated household in the mid-south before that was even a known concept. She went back to schoool and finished her degree when I was seven. Dad only had 9th grade, but fully supported her efforts and took over making sure cooking and cleaning got done. No “men’s work” and “women’s work” division in my house; it was “boy, get up offa yo’r rusty dusty and do that or I’m gonna tan yo’r hide…” That may be one of the reasons why I’m single as I never needed anybody else to take care of me…
queenies daughter!! Wow!!
Morning PW & all.
Thanks for brightening my morning.
Happy Mother’s Day
hwmnbn @ 5
“I don’t want to come to your meetings. I want to fly your airplanes.”
WOW. That’s the spirit:)
Hey, is it possible to replay Marcy’s appearance on BookTV? I can’t find a spot on the website to watch it (if it is even possible). I only caught the very end of it live yesterday and the website only describes the show and provides a link to buy the book (not a bad idea).
Phoenix Woman
enjoy your kicking back – you have more than earned it here :)
Happy Mothers Day to all Firemoms !
I was lucky enough to have a middle school history teacher who did tell us about the origins of Mother’s Day, but he was also the guy who gave us Hoffer’s True Believer as a mid term assignment – actually sent him a note of thanks several years back when I found his lessons staring back at me from that box in my living room
((((leinie and son))))
queenies daughter @ 11
Hey QD. Thanks for that! Great to see you. Ms Snarky and I may go to a Code Pink anti-war rally in Austin this afternoon.
PW, I love the lilacs, and I miss them and wish I could grow some here in TX. They are really easy to propagate, just stick a branch in the ground and they grow.
dakine01 @ 15
Wonderful!
queenies daughter @ 18
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds – and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I’ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941
leinie @ 13
LOL! Good on your son. And good on Dad for talking him out of flippin’ Darth off. One of those momentary pleasure acts with long term negatives. But the thought was in the right place…
LS
Thanks!
Texas Betsy:
I didn’t get accepted to the teaching fellows (didn’t get a transcript in on time) but THANKS for all your help:)
Enjoy your day!
OT Average price of regular gasoline nationally:
$3.064 today May 13, 2007
$3.036 August 8-10, 2006
$3.057 September 5, 2005
Today gasoline reached its highest price ever. This is the point where media and some energy analysts will start saying that if you take inflation into account and look at it with one eye closed, this isn’t really, really the highest price. In other words, change the metric when the metric becomes inconvenient. I continue to wonder where the outrage is on this, why everyone just seems to be shrugging their shoulders over it. Gasoline is this high not because of war or natural disaster. This is a manufactured crisis created either by the deliberate or negligent actions of the oil industry. So, of course, they are the ones who are profiting from it. Americans are the ones who are paying for it. And the media and politicians are acting like they can do as much about it as they could the weather.
Hugh @ 27
And here I thought it was just the annual spring “unanticipated” refinery repairs.
Silly me.
PEACE
Happy Mother’s Day everybody
PEACE
Lilacs! how wonderful
PEACE
Dakine01 @ 25:
I wouldn’t want him to get into trouble, because he loves the Navey, but the thought sure made me smile.
cbl @20, thanks for the hugs. I miss him a ton – the Lake helps keep me sane when I get to worrying about him.
The oil companies want more refineries. I think the price at the pump is artificially created to push that point.
queenies daughter @ 11
Wow. Thanks for sharing, QD!
Seven Days In September? (Ghod am I so old that I’m the only one to get that reference…Spenser Knebel is spinning…)
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/…..ls-revolt/
da’ Range is dry as a bone. No campfires or charcoal grilling allowed. Many know of the Gunflint Trail fires on the North Shore but there was another fire south of Virginia (Cherry) involving 176 acres Thursday. It was brought under control but the town of Virginia was full of smoke on Friday. Today is mostly sunny & windy with not very promising rain forecasts. Seriously scary to put it mildly. It’s tinderbox conditions here.
great link on the origins of ma’s day. funny, my elementary school was named after julia ward howe, and i never knew this about her. good find!
happy mother’s day to all the moms aboard FDL!
Okay, I guess Cheney didn’t manage the hat trick again…
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/U…..32007.html
Alfred Kelgarries @ 33
Well, that will certainly be interesting to watch.
Thanks for the beautiful lilac photo, PW. Can almost smell them through the screen. My aunt in Montreal has a garden filled w/purple & white lilac trees. Intoxicating fragrance in mid-summer…
My mother is many years gone, but her memory will never die. I love you, Mom. No words can thank you for all the hard work you did raising us all.
“I confess that I value more those processes of thought which explain history than those which arraign it.
I would not therefore in my advocacy of peace strip one laurel leaf from the graves so dear and tender in their recollection.
Our brave men did and dared the best which the time allowed.
The sorrow of their loss was none the less brought upon us by those who believe in the military method.
It is in no injustice to them that I listen as the angel of charity says, “Behold I show thee a more excellent way. Come now let us reason together…Though your sins were as scarlet, they shall be as wool.”
This treating of injuries from the high ground of magnanimity is the action that shall save the world.”
Julia Ward Howe March 22, 1871
Loo Hoo @ 9
Hooray!
Alfred Kelgarries @ 33 asks:
No, Been a long time since I read the book however since I was in Jr High and that was W-A-A-A-y too long ago.
Happy Mothers Day TexBetsy !
am envious of your attending Code Pink Austin event – am too far behind in preparing for an upcoming move – blerrgh
Central TX tivo alert – KLRU is running a half hour about our Molly now
Happy mothers day all!
…one can only ponder what shrub’s mother thinks of him.. sorry, couldn’t resist.
LS @ 31
On this point, if you look at the hard numbers you’ll see there really is a shortage of refinery capacity and an increasing dependence on old refineries that have increasing amounts of downtime. This being said, the oil companies have, I believe, created this capacity shortfall by design, since it’s better for their shareholders and execs to pay out excessive cash dividends rather than invest in more R&M capacity (as well as E&P capacity). They’re too greedy to spend nearly enough looking for oil or in developing the infrastructure needed to refine and transport it, and then they get compensated for this greed with higher pump prices and ever-increasing profits. It’s the ultimate scam.
This being said, I for one don’t have a problem with high petrol prices (I do have a BIG problem with their corporate beneficiaries, however). In the end it just makes people more mad at shrub and forces grassroots conservation (taking the bus). It may even encourage voters to support legislation for alternative fuel initiatives and mass transit spending.
Alfred Kelgarries @ 33
Fletcher Knebel is indeed spinning.
LS @ 31
The price at the pump is to push profits not refineries.
Phoenix Woman @ 44
It’s a scary thought that we MIGHT be better off if there were a military coup. VERY scary thought
Rudy the G is a hood.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..id=topnews
Phoenix Woman @ 44
I am shamed before you. Spenser indeed!
For those not in the know, get and read everything by this man. he did novels like West Wing did television, a political Tom Clancy.
Here’s a starting link:
http://www.amazon.com/Titles-F…..amp;sr=1-5
Hugh @ 45
Exactly, and the higher the pump prices, the greater the profits and, meanwhile, they keep capital expenditure requirements down by refusing to use those profits to build more refining capacity… a virtuous circle, for them. They don’t want to build more refineries. This shortfall is just dandy for them.
cbl @ 42
Thanks. Just turned it on.
Happy Mother’s Day to Mom, Mom-in-law (no, really!) and, of course, a ma chere madame punaise, pour tout.
Blub @ 47
I see. I thought that when they testified in front of Congress, they were complaining that they weren’t allowed to build more refineries due to various rules and regulations. I figured that maybe that was why they were pushing the prices up; to put pressure on legislators to soften the rules so they could be permitted to build new refineries.
TexBetsy @ 50
Bummer for me, KLRN is showing Jay Jay the Jet Plane whatever that is.
Happy Mother’s Day!
fluff for four-yr-olds
Lilacs remind me of my mom, gone eight years this December. She had two bushes that had grown into trees, and every spring the house was full of that heavenly smell. I didn’t at first, but lately I miss her every day.
LS @ 52
As usual with thugs and conmen, there’s an inside and an outside game. If the public is complaining about pump prices, then blame the government for it. Well, the greenies won’t let us build refineries… what they really want is the ability to run their obsolete, smoke-belching and outright rusting refineries as irresponsibly as possible.. and then be able to blame the guvmint and the Dems when their greed turns one of their facilities into a giant fireball. They’re pure slime… just like this admin. Oh, I forgot, they’re the same people.
My mom like tulips.
I try to remember my mother’s most positive qualities and have some compassion for her less positive traits.
Hi Mom…I got you something, and it only cost 7 cents…Beats the heck out of a macaroni necklace, huh?
;>)
“I stand and say, Let no civilized nation from henceforth and forever admit or recognize the instrumentality of war as worthy of … Society. Let the fact of human brotherhood be taught to the babe in his cradle. Let it be taught to the despot on his throne. Let it be the basis and foundation of education and of legislation, the bond of high and low, rich and poor.”
Julia Ward Howe May 22,1871
LS @ 51
You have to remember that Dick Cheney let the energy industry write the nation’s energy policy back in 2001. We then saw 6 years of a no oversight, rubberstamping Congress and a moribund EPA. Yet during all that time the oil industry with some of the best and most powerful lobbyists out there never pushed through new refineries. They didn’t because they didn’t want to, not because they couldn’t.
Happy Mothers’ Day.
Blub @ 57
Oh btw, the worst of these companies are so craven that they outright brag about their duplicitous strategy on this issue at meetings with their securities dealers and bankers. I didn’t work this stuff out for myself..
Kevster @ 10
mebbe didn’t want ta upset the moms, doncha know.
nicetrywapoh, but we need WAY more, not less from y’all.
Thanks PW. Enjoying your posts ;->
TexBetsy @ 55
which explains it. I’m not sure if I can even remember what the fluff was for me at age four since that was a half century ago…
Is anyone but me having a hard time believing what they’re seeing on TV today? Are the Republicans even living in this dimension? I am so very, very sick of their inability to face the truth costing people their lives.
Thank god the RexMama raised me to be an independent thinker and for installing my top-flight b.s. detector.
PEACE EVERYONE!
.
.
.
.
At least until the next thread…*wink
Mark Twain gets right to importance of women:
DemocracyFest is coming June 9th and 10th near Manchester, New Hampshire. Network with progressives from across the country, gain valuable knowledge about how to take our country back, and socialize with like-minded liberal activists! More information is available at http://www.democracyfest.net
Hugh @ 60
What oversight are the dems doing of those policies now?
TRex @ 66
Sunday dinners at my aunt’s house were an education in itself when I was growing up. EVERBODY had opinions on the topic of the day, most from a liberal perspective so I learned how to counter old fashioned ‘thuglican gibberish.
But with today’s “tru believers” and domionists, not so much, I don’t think the folks or any of the aunts or uncles could ever have imagined quite this level of BS. Nixon was about as malevelant as a Republican could get in their eyes. And this was when he was running against JFK…
On Islam:
Dude, tell us what ya really think.
LOL.
dakine01 -
KLRU should make the Molly piece avail on line from this site soon – worth it just for the Bullock anecdote at the end!
special session
TexBetsy @ 70
Waxman et al are certainly trying, but as of now we can’t even get redacted minutes for the darn secret taskforce meetings much less the whole truth. Executive privilege.
About ‘SevenDaysInSept”…
I’d look to see if the Joint Chiefs have any darkhorse baseball playoff picks…
——–
edit:
Best Wishes to all the Moms today.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 47
I watched him being interviewed by Chris Wallace on Fox this morning. Rudy was trying to clear up his position on abortion and he began sweating. I’m talking forehead and chin glistening in the lights type sweat.
He didn’t seem at all comfortable and after they went to a break, the make-up folks did a bang-up job. But the boy was nervous.
cbl @ 72
Yep! Especially if you know anything at all about Bullock.
TRex @ 66
Everytime I see the ‘truth’ thru the MSM lies, I smile and thank my mama for making sure I was smart. Thanks again Maaaa!
I’ve been really moved by the stories you folks have told about your moms, especially those no longer with us.
My mother taught me a lot of good things too, and thankfully she is still with us……but she and I like, REALLY don’t get along.
Makes for some cognitive dissonance this fine mother’s day…..but, I am having a good one with mr. oddmommy and the young’uns. Ethiopian restaurant for dinner tonight……yum!
The question is, do we believe him? and if we do, what will they do?
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/13/hagel-iceberg/
TexBetsy @ 69
Mostly what I have seen so far is not much, just bits and pieces. The oil industry is complex and powerful and most politicians simply will not go there or investigate it in detail.
Mothers spend a great deal of time raising their children. GWB thinks that it is okay to spend thier children’s lives. I think what Twain wrote in 1906 he would write about this war today.
TexBetsy @ 77
I could prol’ly go and refresh my memory. I have five or six of her books and do remember that he had semi prominent mention as one of the “esteemed” members of the Lege…
Treat your mama right…Or else
;>)
BobbyG @ 72
who IS that guy?
Alfred Kelgarries @ 79
I will start believing Republicans have changed their tune on Iraq when they start voting like they have, which is yet to happen.
Even when or if they do, I think it should be kept clear that they bear the responsibility for the war.
BobbyG @ 62
Sweet, BobbyG!
TRex @ 66
turn.it.off & go get some sunshine!
Yesterday was a treat at times, even if I did have to miss EW (hopefully can catch up to her on a video repeat – anyone got a link???)
C-Span had truly delightful appearance of 3 of the best of the best, wrongly-fired USAttys, at Seattle Univ. School of Law. Iglesias, McCay & others.
Very pithy stuff. WONDERFUL questions from bright, up-&-at-em audience, -ahem- liberally sprinkled with attys & law profs. Definitely worth a re-viewing. Presume it’s available from C-Span. ‘Fraid the prevailing sentiment was failing grade for Gonzo – duh *g*
http://www.evergreenpolitics.c…..ys_ro.html
Hi, everyone! Been chatting with Mom and cursing my iffy internet connection. I may or may not get to see her today, but I did do one Good Deed for her: I used Intelius to look up a relative of hers who she hasn’t seen in dog years.
nice touch
Good for you!
Phoenix Woman @ 88
Hey! I didn’ mean to kill the thread.
I’m a mom, & helping our kids (30-somethings) cook us the older kid’s favorite recipe of the moment: white-hot curry & blistering lamb kabobs.
*help*
*will return when i can breathe again…*
gotta love ‘em ;->
Oversight? I’d like to see some oversight on the DLC. If my party is so Democratic and so in favor of mom and pop sixpak then let’s have a little sunshine shone on the DLC. Is there a place to get info on this little group’s financial records? I don’t care a twit about what the DLC website says they do. What is that this outfit ‘really’ does? And if and when the DLC’s operations are fully known, then let’s have a rank and file vote on whether to keep this little organization. Now that’s Democracy, Democrats! If the Democratic Party is not the party of the rich and of the corporations, then what are we (Dems) putting up with the DLC for? How about an answer from you, Hillary, on these questions.
Well, considering what Shrub did to his father’s legacy, no surprise he’s dissin’ Momma Earth.
Global warming more than 2.0 degrees C above current temps will prove catastrophic for human society:
2.0 degrees C or 3.6C degrees C – who cares?
Anyone with children or grandchildren:
If CSpan is gonna post it…try here Monday. Have you tried her site?
Hugh @ 81
Over the years the only congressman to take on the oil industry with true depth was Representative George Miller. At the time of the Exxon Valdez catastrophe he was the only congressional chairman (Resources) who really understood the extent of Exxon’s negligence. He’s on labor and environmental issues mostly these days.
Today’s my mom’s 65th Mothers Day, my wife’s 21st. Mom gets a long phone call from me, dinner and other stuff from my Seattle siblings. Ms. ET gets cards, gifts, a very clean house (my job), a B and N gift certificate, and a new sea scallop recipe, trying out my first attempt at making spinach/arugula pasta.
Hugh @ 85
This is my point. They will NOT admit they were wrong, and in all liklihood the Karl Rove Kool-aid will be to suggest the lack of “support from democrats for victory” is to blame. The modern breed of Rethuglicans has been through a darwinian selection process that allows only the most vicious and unpricipled to survive. don’t look for any conversions on the road to Baghdad here…
Speaking of Mark Twain, and Mother’s Day, and Mother’s Day For Peace, here is his War Prayer.
warning, graphic images.
Morning pups: Ignore me, I’m just trying to do my first LINKY
bluejeansntshirt @ 97
excellent! got it on the first try!
Lou Costello @ 94
thanks for the tip! no haven’t tried anything yet except a fingertip of curry. (ref. my #91)
read? uh, not yet….
*hhhhaaaaaaaaarghshwoooot*
*dabbing eyes & groping for pita sakes*
Happy mommy’s day y’all! And auntie day and grandma day!
There is a new thread up.
Adie @ 88
it was very interesting, indeed. One thing that I noticed was how openly the audience laughed at the administration’s ludicrous stories.
How the MSM keeps a straight face on this is beyond me.
You just can’t have Mother’s Day be without this classic from The Angry Samoans — lyrics by R. Meltzer
“I’m in love for the first time
I’m in love with your mom
Got a lump in the pants for her
I am the Son of Vom
Making out
Shacking up
your Jazz is really hot
But your mummy
is so yummy
She’s something you are not
I’M IN LOVE WITH YOUR MOM
got my hands on your knockers
Yours are better than some
Yours have never had milk
Not like the ones on your mom
Highschool english
You got an A
You knew your Dickens plot
But your mom
Has been to college
You’re just a dropout twat
I’M IN LOVE WITH YOUR MOM!
I got my fingers in you baby
Wish they were in your mom
Suckin on her nips thats right
and her suckin on my prong!
I’M IN LOVE WITH YOUR MOM
Every night
I get a hard
I beat it till I’m sore
you wonder why
I’m often limp
It’s cause I want her more
I’M IN LOVE WITH YOUR MOM!”
Elliott @ 103
Shrub gave a commencement speech yesterday at a basically unknown conservative Catholic university somewhere.. I didn’ catch the name… and drew a protest even there. A group of angry students chose not to complete their theses so that they could delay graduation without getting in trouble, just to avoid the shrub speech. There’s no safe ground for shrub now.. no base he can count on. He’s done. Cooked.
This is not on topic, but I want to pass on a film recommendation from Digby that I saw last night and which left me shaken: “Sir! No Sir!”. It’s a documentary on resistance to the Vietnam War from within the armed forces.
{{{{{{{Mothers}}}}}}}
“I have tended six pretty cradles,
With the loveliest babes within,
All heart-flames of holy rapture
In a world of grief and sin.
Six cradles make six coffins;
I see them as I sit.
In giving life I have given death –
Thus sorrow and solace knit!”
-Julia Ward Howe 1909
Last one I promise…Happy Mother’s Day to all. QD
Blub @ 105
there’s even more to that story… On C-Span (or -2) a day or so ago, that same small Benedictine college in PA (IIRC) held a televised debate, w/ students apparently assigned to speak for or agnst the Bush appearance. I heard quite a bit of it and, not only were the negative speakers hard on the nit (albeit polite in a scholarly way), even the “positive” ones mostly were just arguing for folks to refrain from demonstrating, out of deference to the office, most definitely NOT in support of its current occupant. Sounded very much as if virtually no one wanted him to speak. ouch! even his notorious “bubble” can’t ensure total subservience to whudub’s royal notions any more. *g*
for those who post at the tail ends of threads!
Mother’s Day: Originally a Day for Peace
“Mother’s Day was originally designated as a day to inspire people to work for peace. It was conceived after wars at home and abroad by American abolitionist and suffragist Julia Ward Howe.” RediscoverMothersDay.org.
Besides initiating the tradition of Mother’s Day, Howe is best known as the author of the words to “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”. As a pacifist during the Civil War, she witnessed the devastating effects of the conflict through her work with widows and orphans. In 1870 she wrote the “Mother’s Day Proclamation,” a call to women to oppose war and to convene to promote peace and be the architects of their family’s — and their own — political futures. She presented it at international peace conferences in London and Paris , where she lamented the atrocities of not only the American Civil War, but also the Franco-Prussian War.
Howe envisioned the first “Mother’s Day” as a time for women to gather, grieve and determine a peaceful solution to war.
Howe’s 1870 “Mother’s Day Proclamation” reads:
Let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means / Whereby the great human family can live in peace, / Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, / But of God.
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask / That a general congress of women without limit of nationality / May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient / And at the earliest period consistent with its objects, / To promote the alliance of the different nationalities, / The amicable settlement of international questions, / The great and general interests of peace.
“President Woodrow Wilson declared an official national Mother’s Day in 1914, approving the Congressional resolution to celebrate the day every year on the second Sunday in May.”
MomO taught me to read and then turned me on to science fiction in 1958. i thank her every year. )
Mother’s Day: Originally a Day for Peace
By Last Night in Little Rock
“Mother’s Day was originally designated as a day to inspire people to work for peace. It was conceived after wars at home and abroad by American abolitionist and suffragist Julia Ward Howe.” RediscoverMothersDay.org.
Besides initiating the tradition of Mother’s Day, Howe is best known as the author of the words to “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”. As a pacifist during the Civil War, she witnessed the devastating effects of the conflict through her work with widows and orphans. In 1870 she wrote the “Mother’s Day Proclamation,” a call to women to oppose war and to convene to promote peace and be the architects of their family’s — and their own — political futures. She presented it at international peace conferences in London and Paris , where she lamented the atrocities of not only the American Civil War, but also the Franco-Prussian War.
Howe envisioned the first “Mother’s Day” as a time for women to gather, grieve and determine a peaceful solution to war.
Howe’s 1870 “Mother’s Day Proclamation” reads:
Let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means / Whereby the great human family can live in peace, / Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, / But of God.
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask / That a general congress of women without limit of nationality / May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient / And at the earliest period consistent with its objects, / To promote the alliance of the different nationalities, / The amicable settlement of international questions, / The great and general interests of peace.
“President Woodrow Wilson declared an official national Mother’s Day in 1914, approving the Congressional resolution to celebrate the day every year on the second Sunday in May.”
MomO taught me to read and then turned me on to science fiction in 1958. i thank her for both every year. )
Action diary.
I’ve got an action diary posted on West Virginia Blue.
I don’t think I’ve ever asked much of the Fire Dog Lake community. Sure, there was the time I tried to draft ReddHedd to run for Congress in WV-02, but other than that.
http://wvablue.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=336
Anna Jarvis’ mother had spent most of her life working to bring reconciliation between mothers whose sons had fought for the Union and Confederacy in the Civil War.
Anna Jarvis’ mother had spent most of her life working to bring reconciliation between mothers whose sons had fought for the Union and Confederacy in the Civil War.
She was inspired by Julia Ward Howe, the famous peace activist who wrote in 1870:
The audacity of Rubberstamp Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito — who continues to vote for endless war in Iraq — to claim sponsorship of a coin to commerate Mother’s Day is outrageous.
How many mothers in the United States and Iraq are in mourning on this day because their children are dead due to the actions and support of war by people like Capito?
She completely ignores the roots of the Mother’s Day movement — roots well known by Anna Jarvis and a major factor in the original Mother’s Day service.
Today’s story in the Martinsburg Journal is nothing more than a press-release for Capito and the Republican Party.
These war whores try to hide their guilt but they cannot escape the fact that they represent everything that Howe and the Jarvises vehemently opposed.
Howe and the Jarvises worked for peace their whole lives.
They knew that the labors of mothers should never be squandered on the senseless violence of war.
Call Journal Junction at 1-800-448-1895 ext. 333 and leave a message asking why they left out the message of peace behind Mother’s Day and whether it was because it would have embarrassed a supporter of endless war like Capito by pointing out her hypocrisy.
You might also want to ask the reporter Lauren Hough at 304-263-8931 ext. 163 and politely leave a message asking her how Capito’s war stance squares with Jarvis’ love of peace. You might also email her at lhough@journal-news.net.
Please take action. Thank you.
Action diary.
From West Virginia Blue http://www.wvablue.com
…
Anna Jarvis’ mother had spent most of her life working to bring reconciliation between mothers whose sons had fought for the Union and Confederacy in the Civil War.
Anna Jarvis’ mother had spent most of her life working to bring reconciliation between mothers whose sons had fought for the Union and Confederacy in the Civil War.
She was inspired by Julia Ward Howe, the famous peace activist who wrote in 1870:
The audacity of Rubberstamp Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito — who continues to vote for endless war in Iraq — to claim sponsorship of a coin to commerate Mother’s Day is outrageous.
How many mothers in the United States and Iraq are in mourning on this day because their children are dead due to the actions and support of war by people like Capito?
She completely ignores the roots of the Mother’s Day movement — roots well known by Anna Jarvis and a major factor in the original Mother’s Day service.
Capito has blood on her hands.
Today’s story in the Martinsburg Journal is nothing more than a press-release for Capito and the Republican Party.
These war whores try to hide their guilt but they cannot escape the fact that they represent everything that Howe and the Jarvises vehemently opposed.
Howe and the Jarvises worked for peace their whole lives.
They knew that the labors of mothers should never be squandered on the senseless violence of war.
Call Journal Junction at 1-800-448-1895 ext. 333 and leave a message asking why they left out the message of peace behind Mother’s Day and whether it was because it would have embarrassed a supporter of endless war like Capito by pointing out her hypocrisy.
You might also want to ask the reporter Lauren Hough at 304-263-8931 ext. 163 and politely leave a message asking her how Capito’s war stance squares with Jarvis’ love of peace. You might also email her at lhough@journal-news.net.
queenies daughter @ 108
I remembered you were her descendant from a thread some weeks ago, and came here to see if you’d post! Thank you for sharing more of JWH!