Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Hillary Clinton Campaign: Recount Help Needed

You are all probably feeling a little bushwhacked from the emotional letdown of the election results and are probably still dealing with some sleep deficits from all the work you put in, but Hillary's campaign is in need of volunteers to assist with the recount.  If you have any time or energy left to help out in the following states, here is some contact information.

WISCONSIN
Sign up here:  https://www.hillaryclinton.com/signups/wi-recount-help/
Or Contact the following organizers directly
Searcy for Milwaukee area:  swilliams@wivictory2016.org
Tyler for Kenosha/Racine area:  tjack@wivictory2016.org
Schedule of RECOUNT:
http://county.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/cntyElectCommission/ScheduleforRecount11-30-16.pdf
The official Recount Manual, published by the Wisconsin Elections Commission, can be found here: http://elections.wi.gov/sites/default/files/publication/65/recount_manual_11_2016_pdf_17034.pdf
Please print out pages 7-13 (Recount Checklist) to take along.

MICHIGAN
Sign up here:  https://www.hillaryclinton.com/signups/mi-recount-help/
The Michigan Recount begins this Friday! All Michigan recount volunteers should attend one of the Recount Observers Training Sessions listed below.
Please RSVP by emailing the Michigan volunteer coordinator:
Keenan Pontoni, at keenanpontoni@gmail.com
Jackson County Training
Location: Meijer Branch Library
Address: 2699 Airport Rd Jackson, MI 49202
Date: Wednesday, November 30th
Time: 6-7:30 PM
Kalamazoo County Training
Location: IBEW Local 131 Hall
Address: 3641 E. Cork Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49001
Date: Wednesday, November 30th
Time: 7:30-9 PM
Macomb County Training
Location: Warren Community Center, Conference Room A
Address: 5460 Arden Ave, Warren, MI 48092
Date: Thursday, December 1st
Time: 12-1:30 PM
Washtenaw County Training
Location: IBEW Local 252 Hall
Address: 7920 Jackson Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Date: Thursday, December 1st
Time: 6-7:30 PM
Wayne County Training
Location: Northwest Activities Center
Address: 18100 Meyers Rd, Detroit, MI 48235
Date: Thursday, December 1st
Time: 7-8:30 PM
Marquette County Training
Location: Barage Conference Room
Address: 129 W. Barage Ave, Marquette MI 49855
Date: Thursday, December 1st
Time: 7-8:30 PM
Oakland County Training
Location: Baldwin Library
Address: 300 W Merrill St, Birmingham, MI 48009
Date: Thursday, December 1st
Time: 7:30-9 PM

(Still awaiting information on Pennsylvania)

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Hillary Clinton at the UNICEF Snowflake Ball

Hillary surprised guests last night at the 12th annual UNICEF Snowflake Ball.  The event, honoring philanthropist Moll Anderson and staunch Hillary supporter Katy Perry, was held at Cipriani Wall Street. She is seen with Pamela Fiori, Katy Perry, and Caryl Stern.

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Monday, November 28, 2016

Framing Trump

For many years, George Lakoff has been asking the Democrats to beat the GOP at the “frame game.”  Here he provides not only the frame but also the rationale for it. It is a long read, but well worth the time because it’s all about the frame!

A Minority President: Why the Polls Failed, And What the Majority Can Do

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  1. The American Majority
Hillary Clinton won the majority of votes in this year’s presidential election.
The loser, for the majority of voters, will now be a minority president-elect. Don’t let anyone forget it. Keep referring to Trump as the minority president, Mr. Minority and the overall Loser. Constant repetition, with discussion in the media and over social media, questions the legitimacy of the minority president to ignore the values of the majority. The majority, at the very least, needs to keep its values in the public eye and view the minority president’s action through majority American values.
The polls failed and the nation needs to know why. The pollsters and pundits have not given a satisfactory answer.
I will argue that the nature of mind is not a mere technical issue for the cognitive and brain sciences, but that it had everything to do with the outcome of the 2016 election — and the failure of the pollsters, the media, and Democrats to predict it. They were not alone. The public needs to understand better how the human mind works in general — but especially in politics. There is a lot to know. Let us go step by step.
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Hillary Clinton in the News

First and foremost, there is the Wisconsin recount scheduled to begin soon.  Despite a clear statement from Marc Elias, many seem to misunderstand the Clinton campaign's position.

Clearly, Hillary and her campaign have not questioned the election result and are observing the recount process as they as well as Trump's camp should - especially since he appears to have a problem with the results.

Donald Trump’s bogus claim that millions of people voted illegally for Hillary Clinton

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President-elect Donald Trump. (Associated Press)
“In addition to winning the electoral college in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”
— President-elect Donald Trump, in a tweet, Nov. 27
Angered by demands for a recount in the three states that gave him an electoral college victory, President-elect Donald Trump made a bold but unsubstantiated assertion in a tweet — that “millions of people” voted illegally in the presidential election. He suggested they voted for his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, who now leads in the popular vote by 2.2 million votes, and thus he actually also won the popular vote.
Winning the electoral college is all that counts in the presidential race. But losing the popular vote by such a substantial margin apparently gnaws at Trump. Is there any basis for his claim?
Gotta love Victoria Brownworth's great graphic with this tweet!
Finally, in post-election mode, Hillary added her latest Twitter follow.



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Hillary Clinton’s kept an understandably low profile since losing the election to Donald Trump. Her campaign team will join in recount efforts in every state where a petition is successfully filed by Jill Stein. However, Clinton will likely distance herself from these efforts and maintain her current routine of shying away from the limelight unless someone happens to catch her in dog-walking mode. This provides a nice transition for Clinton’s first post-election follow on Twitter, and those honors go to none other than Snoop Dogg. Writer Stefan Becket nabbed some screenshot evidence.

Saturday, November 26, 2016

Statement from the Clinton Campaign Re: Calls for an Audit and Recount






Listening and Responding To Calls for an Audit and Recount
Over the last few days, officials in the Clinton campaign have received hundreds of messages, emails, and calls urging us to do something, anything, to investigate claims that the election results were hacked and altered in a way to disadvantage Secretary Clinton. The concerns have arisen, in particular, with respect to Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — three states that together proved decisive in this presidential election and where the combined margin of victory for Donald Trump was merely 107,000 votes.
It should go without saying that we take these concerns extremely seriously. We certainly understand the heartbreak felt by so many who worked so hard to elect Hillary Clinton, and it is a fundamental principle of our democracy to ensure that every vote is properly counted.
Moreover, this election cycle was unique in the degree of foreign interference witnessed throughout the campaign: the U.S. government concluded that Russian state actors were behind the hacks of the Democratic National Committee and the personal email accounts of Hillary for America campaign officials, and just yesterday, the Washington Post reported that the Russian government was behind much of the “fake news” propaganda that circulated online in the closing weeks of the election.
For all these reasons, we have quietly taken a number of steps in the last two weeks to rule in or out any possibility of outside interference in the vote tally in these critical battleground states.
First, since the day after the election we have had lawyers and data scientists and analysts combing over the results to spot anomalies that would suggest a hacked result. These have included analysts both from within the campaign and outside, with backgrounds in politics, technology and academia.
Second, we have had numerous meetings and calls with various outside experts to hear their concerns and to discuss and review their data and findings. As a part of this, we have also shared out data and findings with them. Most of those discussions have remained private, while at least one has unfortunately been the subject of leaks.
Third, we have attempted to systematically catalogue and investigate every theory that has been presented to us within our ability to do so.
Fourth, we have examined the laws and practices as they pertain to recounts, contests and audits.
Fifth, and most importantly, we have monitored and staffed the post-election canvasses — where voting machine tapes are compared to poll-books, provisional ballots are resolved, and all of the math is double checked from election night. During that process, we have seen Secretary Clinton’s vote total grow, so that, today, her national popular vote lead now exceeds more than 2 million votes.
In the coming days, we will continue to perform our due diligence and actively follow all further activities that are to occur prior to the certification of any election results. For instance, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania conduct post-election audits using a sampling of precincts. Michigan and many other states still do not. This is unfortunate; it is our strong belief that, in addition to an election canvass, every state should do this basic audit to ensure accuracy and public confidence in the election.
Beyond the post-election audit, Green Party candidate Jill Stein announced Friday that she will exercise her right as a candidate to pursue a recount in the state of Wisconsin. She has indicated plans to also seek recounts in Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Because we had not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology, we had not planned to exercise this option ourselves, but now that a recount has been initiated in Wisconsin, we intend to participate in order to ensure the process proceeds in a manner that is fair to all sides. If Jill Stein follows through as she has promised and pursues recounts in Pennsylvania and Michigan, we will take the same approach in those states as well. We do so fully aware that the number of votes separating Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the closest of these states — Michigan — well exceeds the largest margin ever overcome in a recount. But regardless of the potential to change the outcome in any of the states, we feel it is important, on principle, to ensure our campaign is legally represented in any court proceedings and represented on the ground in order to monitor the recount process itself.
The campaign is grateful to all those who have expended time and effort to investigate various claims of abnormalities and irregularities. While that effort has not, in our view, resulted in evidence of manipulation of results, now that a recount is underway, we believe we have an obligation to the more than 64 million Americans who cast ballots for Hillary Clinton to participate in ongoing proceedings to ensure that an accurate vote count will be reported.
For your information, here is a handy spreadsheet showing the popular vote.

 You can follow the Electoral College on Twitter.  Lots of useful information there.

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Friday, November 25, 2016

Hillary Clinton: Still Hiking!

Originally this was posted the Friday after Thanksgiving - 11/25.  I took it down when the mom asked me to since she had posted the picture on a "secret Facebook group" where sharing pictures is verboten.  I had not taken the picture from there.  I had found it in Twitter.  Someone I knew had shared it.
 Since then, however, as is always the case when pics are shared on social media, the picture has made it to the big time.  HuffPo got a hold of it.  So, since it is all now officially out there in the media  - here you go!
The bonus is that everything old is new again.  Hillary's pretty sweater is not new.  Don't we all want to be able to wear what we bought a few decades ago?  Go Hillary!
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Hillary Clinton Has Been Wearing This Fleece For 21 Years

And they say she isn’t relatable.

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A few lucky people hiking in the woods of upstate New York have recently bumped into Hillary Clinton and posted photos to social media. And according to the ever-lurking eyes of Twitter, the fleece Clinton wears to hike in those woods has been in her wardrobe rotation for the past 21 years.
Of the many photos people have posted over the past few weeks, one shows Clinton in a fleece your normcore dreams are made of.

Since that post, the internet has slowly but surely identified it as the same fleece she wore on a trip to Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming with Bill in 1995.





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So this hiking post is back, altered, revised, and even better!  Lesson to be learned: If you do not want the content all over the interwebs, don't post it.  The interest here is about Hillary and her sweater.
And to the millions of volunteers, community leaders, activists and union organizers who knocked on doors, talked to neighbors, posted on Facebook, even in secret, private Facebook sites – I want everybody coming out .  from behind that and make sure your voices are heard going forward.
Emphasis there is mine. 
I do not understand these secret groups, especially when they allow members to add friends willy-nilly without a background check - and you trust that?  You all need to get some armor subito. You need to step up. How do you know the 4 millionth member is not a Trump troll  - oh wait. A Trump patrol. Remember this flag?

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It's time to come out of the woods!

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Thursday, November 24, 2016

Happy Thanksgiving from Hillary Clinton

Hillary was out and about in Chappaqua doing last minute Thanksgiving shopping today. She was greeted by signs of support and friendly neighbors, and she tweeted her holiday greetings to all.

Dear Hillary,
Thank you for all you have done!  We all hope you had a wonderful and warm Thanksgiving!




Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Hillary's Village Shows Homegrown Love

For her heroic run, for her dedication to her hometown and to American values, for her courage and service, Hillary Clinton's hometown has gathered round her in pride and gratitude this Thanksgiving.
 
 
Hillary Clinton’s Hometown Rallies Around to Give Her Holiday Cheer
At the Chase bank in Hillary and Bill Clinton‘s hometown of Chappaqua, New York, the spirited former president was holding court with a handful of locals.
“And he was pretty much talking about the how disappointed he and she were, how he feels she completely got railroaded by (FBI director) Comey,” says Richard “Zippy” Zimmerman, a Chappaqua chiropractor who was part of the 15-minute conversation on Monday.
“He said he wished he didn’t know Hillary so he could really go to town on the people persecuting her so he could really speak his mind,” says Zimmerman.  “He felt he was held back because he couldn’t defend her the way he wanted to defend her.”
This outpouring of sentiment for Hillary runs far beyond her husband in this hamlet north of New York City of some 1,400 residents, locals tell PEOPLE.
Following the shock and the tears of her unexpected loss, locals mobilized. Signs were put up in lawns and roadway medians thanking Clinton for a decade of service. The board of directors of the Chappaqua Farmers Market made a 50-pound basket of locally-sourced goodies for Hillary: chicken pot pies, carrots, meats, cheeses, vegetables and yoghurt, says Emily Haft Bloom, of Chappaqua.
Among Hillary's most dedicated supporters from the start have been her neighbors. 

Wishing Hillary and her family and all the wonderful Still4Hillers here a warm, safe, and peaceful Thanksgiving. We are family! 

Monday, November 21, 2016

Hillary Sightings

Hillary told the audience at the Children's Defense Fund Gala that she really wanted to curl up with her dogs and a book. I can attest that this is great therapy. So can my cat who is happy that I am curled up with her and not gadding about or sitting up typing so much. Suspicions were, when the whole Clinton clan including Chelsea, Marc, and grandchildren were spotted at a bookstore in Rhode Island, that Hillary was looking for some good reads.  Likely they all were also doing some holiday shopping.
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 WESTERLY — What started out as a quiet, regular morning at Savoy Bookshop and Café turned rather presidential Sunday when a number of former White House residents wandered into the Canal Street store.
Hillary Clinton, accompanied by her husband, Bill, the 42nd President of the United States; their daughter, Chelsea; their son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky; and their grandchildren, Charlotte and Aidan, were shopping for books.
Westerly Middle School teachers Katelynn and Jay Simmons and their sons, Camden and Logan, went to church Sunday morning and then headed to Savoy to shop for books.
Someone had given Logan some Savoy gift certificates, Jay said, and he was looking forward to choosing some books.
Shortly after they arrived at the store, they bumped into former President Bill Clinton.
Clinton accepted their invitation for a family photo .. well three of the four members of the family.

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Some Are More Equal Than Others

Whacked by a 2x4, out like a light, and waking up in a strange place wondering what happened. That is what the most bizarre presidential election in U.S. history felt like to tens of millions of Americans. Nearly three weeks later, many of us are wondering not only how we managed to fall through another rabbit hole, but also how Wonderland can possibly have become even curiouser than it was the last time we visited.

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The whacking was not actually the election result as it was reported late into November 8 and early November 9. That was a shock and sudden loss. Most of us reacted normally to that. As with other types of devastating loss, there was the initial astonished paralysis immediately followed by anguish - much of it intense - and then the resolve to go on, somehow.

Trump cast aside established campaign traditions, releasing income tax records among them. A card that was frequently played by Donald Trump was the rigging card. If he did not win, here, there, and everywhere, it would be because the election was rigged. Near the end, he resisted a promise to accept the result. Hillary Clinton supporters rose in outrage. Our democratic tradition demanded that the vanquished accept the outcome.  The acceptance card was to become Trump's trump card.

Crying foul at Trump's failure to agree to accept the election result has proven a pitfall for those of us in the Hillary camp as the actual election results continue to roll out. The reason for this is twofold: 1) Except for the 2000 election when there was no clear winner immediately projected, elections tend to be conceded within a 24-hour period.  And then we move on. 2) Concessions are based, not on the actual vote, but upon projections with some percentage of the vote "in." What comprises "in" is far from clear.

Here we are three weeks later. The election is history. Hillary Clinton's concession is history and has been reaffirmed by her one post-election speech so far. Trump is not only the acknowledged victor, he has been awarded the title of President-elect and has begun, after a delayed start - hobbled by not actually having expected to win and therefore not having planned for it - the transition process in the murkiest, stickiest, sketchiest manner in recent memory. It would never do, at this point, for Hillary Clinton's camp to challenge an already accepted result. So proceeds the oddest election aftermath of the oddest election ever where the most prepared and qualified candidate (her femininity aside - or perhaps not) v. the least prepared and qualified candidate ever.

The votes, however, are still being counted. The actual (as opposed to the projected) vote count is shaping up to manifest the largest gap between the popular and electoral vote in our history. The popular vote for Hillary Clinton is the second highest in our history. As the days go by, the dramatic gap between the popular and electoral vote grows and with it questions.

More overwhelmingly now than in 2000, we see a clear difference between who Americans voted for and who was elected - or will be on December 19 when the electors vote. The implications are discouraging for Hillary Clinton supporters, certainly, but more importantly for our country.

The Orwellian landscape that is our two-tiered general election system proposes that some votes, those of the electors, are more informed and decisive, i.e. better, than others - those of the general electorate, the populace. This is not the real picture, though. At the basis, the votes of people in some states count more than the votes of people in other states. It is unlikely that electors will vote in opposition to outcomes in their respective states. The fault is not so much in the existence of the Electoral College as in the apportionment of the votes. If it takes 3.5 Californians to equal one Wyoming voter, something is wrong.

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The more dramatic the gap between the popular and electoral votes, the more troubling, and it is growing by the day. That some people's votes count more heavily than others is a real problem in a democracy.

The Electoral College, as we know it today was established by the 12th Amendment and ratified by ¾ of state legislatures in 1804. It superseded the original design in Article II, Section 1. The irony is that the same party that has spent the past almost eight years refusing to compromise touts the "wisdom of the Founders" in establishing the College while failing to note that it was the result of compromise. Not all compromises set up by the Founders have endured.  The Three-Fifths Compromise of 1787 was superseded by the 13th Amendment.

While it is certain that we have all heard our share of arguments about the "wisdom of the Founders" in the past two weeks, we can argue that it should not take multiple votes from some states to equal a single vote from another in the electoral system. That concept is as outdated, outrageous, unfair, and duplicitous as counting slaves as property in one regard and people in another.  Not everything the Founders laid out was wise and set in stone.

After elections, the custom is to say "The people have spoken." It is fair when all have been given an equal voice, not when some and not others are provided a megaphone.

While we are on the subject of fairness, this arises.

A Fair Election? Serious Questions Arise About Trump Vote Totals In Key Swing States

These are the fishiest election results ever. We will keep watch till the last vote is counted! That CNN page gets updated pretty regularly. There remain these issues. Hope everyone is recovering.

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Hillary Clinton Honored at the Children's Defense Fund Gala

The event was held at the Newseum in Washington D.C.  Introducing Hillary, Marian Wright Edelman noted her overwhelming lead in the popular vote and called her "the People's President."  Hillary admitted that making this appearance was not the easiest thing for her.  She said she wanted to curl up with a good book and her dogs and never leave the house again.  But she said she got up and dusted herself off because Marian exemplified that for her.  She reminisced about Marian's leadership and service, and her work with RFK and MLK.

Hillary quoted Marian, "Service is the rent we pay for living."  She spoke of service and said she did not get into public service to hold high office.  She called child poverty America's problem. She said there is a lot of work to do and asked us not to lose heart or give up on the values we share and to stay engaged.  She told us America is worth it.  Our children are worth it.  She quoted 1st Corinthians, "Love never fails."

Hillary told the story of her mother, Dorothy, who had a difficult childhood.  She dreams of going back to her mom's childhood to tell her that she would grow up to have a family and her daughter would become a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, and win more than 62 million votes for President of the United States.

Visit the Children's Defense Fund website here >>>>





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Barbara Boxer Takes On ... Well ... The Establishment!

What else would you call a body as anachronistic and outdated as the Electoral College? Reading through comment threads today clarified for me the divide in our nation. The Jedi mind-trick in defending the existence of the Electoral College involves somehow rationalizing the ascendancy and predominance of the minority. The problem, really, is not so much that there is an Electoral College.  It is more a problem of proportion and ratio.  There is nothing proportional in the allocation of electoral votes.
Those arguing in favor of the College as it stands have told me, more times than I cared to hear, that the College prevents, in various arguments, the east and west coasts, or New York and California, or New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles from dominating presidential elections.
We have heard all the arguments about the Founders and their wisdom in establishing this body and yada, yada, yada. This is the 21st century.  We are a diverse, well-educated, connected populace. When twice in a generation such a glaring discrepancy turns up between the popular and the electoral vote, it is time to make changes.  Here is what Senator Barbara Boxer wants to do about it and how you can get on board.
After signing on, contact your own senators and ask them to  support Senator Boxer's initiative.

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For the second time in our lifetime, the winner of the popular vote lost the presidency.
Hillary Clinton will likely end up with ‎two million votes more than Donald Trump. She already leads by more than a million votes.
The presidency is the only office in our nation where you can get more votes and still lose. The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system -- and it's time we abolish it for good.
Yesterday, I introduced legislation in the Senate to eliminate the Electoral College so the winner of presidential elections is determined by the outcome of the popular vote.
Will you stand with me -- and our democracy -- and add your name in support of my legislation to amend the Constitution of the United States to abolish the Electoral College?
Every American should have the guarantee that their vote will count. Even President-elect Donald Trump agrees. In 2012, he tweeted, "The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy."
The Electoral College just doesn't reflect our modern society, and it needs to be changed immediately. Every American should be guaranteed that their vote counts. One person, one vote!
Now more than ever, we must all come together and end this outdated system.
Will you add your name today in support of my legislation to abolish the Electoral College?
Thank you for standing with me in this fight.
In Friendship,
Barbara Boxer
U.S. Senator

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Grief and what to do with it ...

Nothing is harder than loss. In life, you confront it. You go through the stages of grief. There comes a point where everyone expects you to be over it. But what does that mean? There is no schedule for grief.

Perhaps the difference between the very young and the very old has to do with that schedule that does not exist. Young persons, most of them blessedly, have not experienced extreme loss. Elders have like a snowball rolling down a hill.

Loss engenders grief like night follows day. The truth about grief is not its individualism. It is not that your grief schedule differs from another's. It is that it relies on your own personal familiarity with it. The more familiar you become with grief, the better you handle it. It's a little like juggling flaming objects. Your hands get burned, but as you get better at it, the scars protect you from the burns while you become more adept at juggling. So if you are older, yes, you're still burnt (but you still can take the turkey out of the oven). If you are younger, you need someone to wrap your hands in aloe-coated gauze. That is how it is.

So here we are. You are young and passionate and did the groundwork (which we older folks so appreciate), and your poor, sweet hearts are shattered into more pieces than that glass ceiling might have been. We could tell you that there will be more losses. That is true. It doesn't help. You will get used to it, but that doesn't help right now, either.

Everyone experiences grief, so this is just an observation. The people whose “grief schedules” improve in life are the ones who put that grief together and use it as a weapon against everything that their loss represents.

Those who have lost loved ones to cancer, Alzheimer's, ALS, drunk driving, HIV-AIDS, domestic violence, etc. have crafted movements around their loses. This is a positive and useful way to deal with loss. It is admirable, heroic, and productive.

If you are young, you are going to face many more losses in your life. If you are older, you have experienced your share – well not quite all of your share, but you know what I am saying.
Grief is a dark, muddy place. It's hard to see clearly. One thing we know is that using grief as a weapon somehow helps us master it.

We lost. We did not lose the popular vote. We lost the electoral vote, and that is hard. It hurts a lot. The harder we worked the more it hurts.

Let's use our grief to make a difference. Here is a list of ways to stay involved and places to find hearts as shattered as your own. Fair warning. Your heart will not get better, but it will get stronger.

Signing a petition might make you feel better for the moment, but, trust me, the Electoral College is not going to reverse anything. Here are some things you can latch onto and make the changes we need.

We are stronger together. That is true.
Organizations to Support
Ways to Stay Engaged
Literature to Share
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Hollywood Pays Tribute to Hillary Clinton

Hillary was not the honoree at this award event.  Christine LaGarde was, but she joined in praising Hillary who wasn't even there.

Hollywood offers up tribute to Hillary Clinton


Glamour magazine closed its 26th annual celebration of trailblazing women with a star-studded tribute to Hillary Clinton.
Lena Dunham, Shonda Rhimes, Elizabeth Banks, Chelsea Handler, Ted Danson and Constance Wu were among the entertainers who paid homage to the Democratic presidential candidate at Glamour’s Women of the Year Awards Monday in Los Angeles. They listed Clinton’s achievements and thanked her for her leadership as a guitarist played a somber tune.
“We thank you for your composure, your compassion and your grace,” Banks said, “and for always looking so darn fierce in those freaking pantsuits.”
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Celebrities Gave Hillary Clinton a Heartfelt Thank You at Glamour’s Women of the Year Awards

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Glamour‘s 2016 Women of the Year Awards concluded Monday night with an emotional tribute to Hillary Clinton—and all that she’s done throughout her illustrious, and longstanding, career in public service.
Host Tracee Ellis Ross was joined on stage by Shonda Rhimes, Lena Dunham, Constance Wu, and more as they all expressed their gratitude to Clinton for being a source of inspiration for nearly four decades.
“She was the first woman to win a major party nomination. The first woman to win the popular vote for the presidency,” Ross began. “We talk about glass ceilings. Hillary Rodham Clinton may not have shattered it. But what she did do, was this.”
“She had the courage to be the one to raise her hand and say ‘I will do this,’ for all of us,” Scandal creator Shonda Rhimes added. “She was outspoken and noisy and opinionated. For all of us. She had the audacity to believe she could be anything she wanted. For all of us. She went toe to toe with any bully trying to make life harder. For all of us.”
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