who are/were all the clapping monkey/idiots in the state of the union address ( Archived) (78)

sorry - I skim read, and I am a little bit flippant, a little bit non serious and a little bit let's roll up our sleeves and get the bigger picture about how we can get to Mars (moons already done) ......

now that it is out of your system.......

Don't you want to see your local government and States working to get free childcare for working americans, fix our immigration system, raise the standards for the middle and working class, have our congress work and pass a budget that forwards the will of the people. Support more programs for our veterans, upgrade our education system, protect our resources, improve our standing in the world view.

It's a lot of work

- because we are 308 million folk, that like to "sit-ins" and "hold occupy wall street" and get on the band wagon and just hold marches and protests and then go home and let the local communities clean up our mess

- because we like to sit on our 2nd amendment and then scratch our head and our butts as to why we have such large gun accidents and killings.

- because we hide behind "our rights" when acting out in criminal ways.....

if we are to act like the emerging nation in the world we have to stop acting like children - we can no longer stand on the sidelines and shout about the injustices in our life or in the world - we have the ability to get the knowledge, know-how and teams together to make ourselves and our nation better.

We have the ability to hold large corporations accountable like ordinary citizen - especially since they sponge off us, and don't pay their taxes in America - yet we buy their products without thinking about who they are, and where the stuff we like are from.

We have the ability to look at our local businesses and see if they are paying women the say rate of pay as the man for the same jobs..... and hold those businesses accountable to explain.

We have the ability to develop better relationships with our security forces, our police to start to build trust and help them weed out any corruption among their ranks - they are us too.

We have the ability to ask our stinking news medias to start reporting more on items of how our local governments work. (for this one, I would love for those interested to know about the money that comes from the federal government along with local tax dollars goes to those charities and non-profits to operate a homeless helpline, emergency beds for homeless that are too sick for the shelter and not sick enough for the hospital; it pays part of the salaries of homeless and formerly homeless to deliver social services; transitional housing for those that need just a little help to get back into world, permanent housing for those that have a disability or are elderly; help for kids aging out of foster care; job training, job locations, links to affordable housing.....)

sadly rant is not over.....

don't forget we can dump our garbage into outer space too - why just pollute rivers, lakes, oceans and seas?

don't forget that there were laws and rules that did not allow women to "build" anything but to "keep" the home clean and the children raised.....

excerpt The EVE 100 Great American Women List

(in alphabetical order)
Abigail Adams: “Remember the ladies!” she wrote to her husband, though John Adams and the Founding Fathers still managed to forget.
Jane Addams: the founder of Hull House became the second woman to win the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Madeleine Albright: the first woman to become Secretary of State.
Marin Alsop: the first female conductor of a major American symphony (the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra) and a regular guest conductor with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Marian Anderson: the celebrated contralto whose open-air concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial galvanized the conscience of the country.
Maya Angelou: the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author who became the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost in 1961.
Susan B. Anthony: called “the Napoleon” of the women’s movement, she spent 60 years leading the fight for suffrage.
Sheila Bair: the current chairperson of the FDIC, she was one of the first government officials to recognize the problem of subprime loans.
Clara Barton: called “the angel of the battlefield” for her ministrations during the Civil War, she went on to found the American Red Cross.
Regina Benjamin: the current Surgeon General of the United States, and only the fourth woman to serve in that position.
Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider (counted as one): biological researchers who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jack Szostak for the discovery of the telemoraze enzyme.
Elizabeth Blackwell: the first woman in the western world to earn a medical degree and practice as a licensed physician.

Nelly Bly: the pen name of Elizabeth Jane Cochran, who pioneered investigative journalism. Her exploits included going undercover as a sweat shop employee, getting herself commited to an insane asylum so she could report on it from the inside, and traveling around the world (à la Phileas Fogg) in 73 days.
Grace Lee Boggs: an activist, writer, and speaker who has been involved in almost every major U.S. social movement of this century: labor, civil rights, Black Power, Asian-American rights, feminism, and environmental justice.
Brooksley Born: as the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the 1990s, she saw the financial crisis coming and tried to warn against it–but the men in charge refused to listen.
Margaret Bourke-White: possibly the greatest photojournalist of the 20th century, she photographed everything from Depression-era breadlines to combat in Europe.
Pearl S. Buck: the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Ursula Burns: currently CEO of Xerox, she is the first African-American woman to be CEO of an S&P 100 company.
Rachel Carson: a marine biologist and the author of Silent Spring, Carson was the founding mother of the modern environmental movement.
Carrie Chapman Catt: when the Nineteenth Amendment finally become reality, suffragist Catt founded the League of Women Voters to help American women exercise their newly-won right to vote.
Lydia Maria Child: an abolitionist, suffragist, and advocate for the rights of Native Americans.
Shirley Chisholm: the first African-American woman elected to Congress, the first major-party black candidate for president of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Hillary Clinton: the current Secretary of State, Clinton has spent the majority of her career advocating domestically and abroad for the recognition of women’s rights as human rights.
Jackie Cochran: the founder and director of the WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots), she was also the first woman to break the sound barrier, the first woman to fly a jet across the ocean, and the first woman to fly a bomber across the Atlantic. Cochran still holds more international speed, distance, and altitude records than any other pilot, male or female.

Bessie Coleman: the barnstorming stunt pilot who was the first black woman in the world to earn a pilot’s license.
Eileen Collins: the first female commander of the space shuttle.
Florence Denmark: a pioneer in the psychology of women, she published the first widely used textbook about women’s psychology, entitled Women’s Choices, Women’s Realities.
Emily Dickinson: the reclusive author of some 1800 poems, Dickinson has been called the greatest female poet in the Enlish language.
Babe Didrikson: not only was she the greatest female athlete of the 20th century, but she was quite possibly the greatest athlete period.
Dorothea Lynde Dix: a lifelong activist for mental healthcare reform, Dix was also the head of the Union Army nurses in the Civil War.
Isadora Duncan: she revolutionized dance, rescuing it from stodgy formality and re-imagining it as a high art form based on natural body movements.
Amelia Earhart: the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Earhart inspired a generation of female pilots.
Marian Wright Edelman: the president and founder of the Children’s Defense Fund, Edelman is a lifelong advocate for the rights of children.
Gertrude Ederle: the first woman to swim the English Channel, she also beat the world record by nearly two hours.
Gertrude Belle Elion: a biochemist and pharmacologist, she won the Nobel Prize for her development of effective drug treatments for cancer, and was the first woman to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Dianne Feinstein: the senator from California was the first female president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the first female mayor of San Francisco, the first woman chair of the Senate Rules Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee, and the first woman to preside over a presidential inauguration.
Geraldine Ferraro: the first female vice-presidential candidate on a major-party ticket, she helped pave the way for Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton.
Dian Fossey: a dedicated primatologist and conservationist, Fossey did for gorillas what Jane Goodall did for chimpanzees.
Matilda Joslyn Gage: the third member of the National Woman Suffrage Association leadership triumvirate with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Gage was an abolitionist and freethinker who was adopted into the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk nation and inspired The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.