tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28316151642100019862024-03-07T21:23:49.980-08:00Vivian's Love LettersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-84180581366428322502022-11-10T16:47:00.001-08:002022-11-10T16:49:36.778-08:00BEWARE OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES<p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF ABORTION BANS:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Misunderstandings about
abortion abound! And, most people don't know that there is anything that they don't know or misunderstand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Do anti-choice people really REALLY understand that they will be bound by these laws, too? Unless they are wealthy, of couse. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">The 2 biggest misunderstandings about abortion -
that influence all the others - are<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Not knowing what
abortion is. Yep. That is true.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">2. Not understanding how
complicated medical decisions are, how deep and wide the knowledge &
experience of HCP's, and that there are often no black:white decisions to be
made. When you vote for politicians who are anti-abortion, you are voting for women and girls -- and their families -- to lose their voices in making their own health care decisions.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Consequences of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/abortonbans?__eep__=6&__cft__%5b0%5d=AZVUHEp8fbBVhdP6p48uwgkMQi7gUdfKm-5opmQAJfztmjK_2S-rE3Xj6UO0iRUwDhYSmGZbUtx7MOwO4z9MLI9zsKAFlu5wzLDYZ39f4F0I1Q&__tn__=*NK-R"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">#AbortonBans</span></a>:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> -> </span></o:p></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">OB-GYN resident docs are leaving the state. In fact, medical recruters are seeking doctors from states like Wisconsin -- with an 1849 abortion ban waiting in the wings -- to move to states that guarantee the right to abortion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">-> OB-GYN programs have trouble
training doctors in procedures such as dilation and curretage -- D&C. Doctors and women are in danger of being criminally charged even if the procedure had nothing to do with an abortion. Even if the fetus is already dead. Even if the fetus is "incompatible with life." <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">-> Doctors are afraid to perform salpinectomies to remove tubal pregnancies. Embryos which implant outside the uterus cannot live. These "ectopic pregnancies" can kill the mother or can cause her to lose one of her tubes. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">-> Couples can't get infertility
treatment. Yep. Couples are not able to get IVF under abortion restrictions or bans. This is heartbreaking.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">-> IVF clinics will close/move to other
states. Illinoise will now get this business.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">-> Families of unconscious pregnant
women cannot make medical decisions for them! Imagine, your wife is unconscious after an accident and the ER is waiting for the dying fetus to finally die before working to save<i> her </i>life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">-> Poverty will rise. Abortion is an economic issue. The inabililty to get an abortion will have a huge impact on the financial stability of families. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">-> Incidence of infection/sepsis will
rise.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">-> Incidence of genetic disorders will
rise.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">-> Adoptions will NOT increase <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">-> Need for "welfare" &
services WILL increase<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">-> There will NOT be a sharp rise in
foster parenting<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">-> Women WILL die as a result<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">-> More infants WILL die at birth or
soon after<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: medium;">-> The negative consequences will be
most felt by POC and in rural areas<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: large;">These are the tragic consequencies when ignorant politicians make medical decisions. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-7030969985676949922022-08-12T11:11:00.001-07:002022-08-12T11:29:14.733-07:00MY VERY DEAR ROCK COUNTY FRIENDS<p><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Rock</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">County, WI</st1:placetype></st1:place> Board of
Supervisors: </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I love you madly! But... I hated that the recent meeting I attended sounded a lot like a DJT rally. Oh, dear!</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And, the people speaking at the meeting sounded like -- I don't want to be rude, but -- evangelical preachers at a tent revival meeting in 1955! </span></b></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p>All we wanted was 3 itty bitty non-binding resolutions on Rock County ballots in the Nov 8 election. Just let the people speak - via the ballot box.</o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A non-binding resolution is, essentially, a poll of
voters’ views and opinions. Shouldn’t our Supervisors want to know voters views?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We are very disappointed in the <st1:placename w:st="on">Rock</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype> Board of Supervisors’ failure
to put forward three proposed non-binding resolutions for the ballots in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Rock</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>
on: Bodily autonomy; gun safety; and marijuana. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We were also disappointed that the issues were framed
as “partisan” and “controversial” even though all three issues have broad support
among voters. I was at the planning meetings for the issue of bodily autonomy.
Using this issue to “get out the vote” never occurred to us.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But, it did to you, evidently.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Someone also rallied anti-choice, anti-marijuana, and
anti-gun safety speakers. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There were many absolutely untrue statements made
about all three issues - factually demonstrably untrue. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">-> Here is one example: It was stated that a dilation and
curettage (D&C) is not abortion. It definitely is. So is the treatment for
ectopic pregnancy – salpingectomy. Women are in danger of bleeding to death or
dying of infection under the current 1849 <st1:place w:st="on">Wisconsin</st1:place>
law. <-<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Currently, politicians are legislating medical
treatment. That is terrifying! Doctors and patients should be making medical decisions.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Are our supervisors better informed than the speakers?
I hope so!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The non-binding resolution in support of bodily
autonomy should be on </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ballots across the state of <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wisconsin</st1:place></st1:state>. The current abortion law in
effect </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">was written before women even had the right to vote! 1849!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One branch
of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>
Government took away a constitutional right: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all have the innate right to bodily
autonomy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As citizens
of a <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Constitutional</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Republic</st1:placetype></st1:place> we still have
the right to free speech and the ballot box is a major part of that.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We still
have the right to freedom of religion.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Everyone should be able to make all decisions about
their OWN </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">health care with their OWN doctors, families,
partners, and religious </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">counselors.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The federal government took away that guarantee and
now state </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">government can impose bans our own bodily autonomy. Government!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Women -- and couples -- are competent free people with
the innate right </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to make personal private decisions. But, the government thinks otherwise.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Do men realize that if their wife were unconscious and
couldn’t make a</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">reproductive decisions for herself, the state would
make them – not her partner?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The recent SCOTUS decision is a blow to the freedom </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and constitutional rights of women AND couples.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">++ We deserve the right to free speech on this and
every issue.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> T</o:p></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">he <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Rock</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place> Board denied the
voters of our county the avenue to express their views at the ballot box. Period!</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">+++ We have freedom of religion in this country. We
are not a </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Christian” nation.
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Wisconsin</st1:state></st1:place>
is imposing bans that violate that right </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and force all religions to follow some Christian
religions on this issue.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Many religions do not oppose abortion and support the right
to make </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">personal private health care decisions. No one should have to follow </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">others’ religious values on personal private
decisions.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Conservative Judaism, Reform Judaism, the United <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Church</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Christ</st1:placename></st1:place>, </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Unitarian Universalists and other major religion support the right
to abortion.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">SUMMARY</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When the government deprives people of the right to
make their own </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">reproductive decisions it violates their God given and US Constitutional </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">rights.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Government bans on bodily autonomy also violates freedom
of religion <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Constitution guarantees freedom of speech – and
voting is an </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">exercise in free speech. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Rock</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>
citizens are being denied that </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">right by the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Rock</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>
Board. Don’t people who oppose bodily autonomy also have the right to express
that view?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Again, I thank you for your service to our community.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.co.rock.wi.us/government/county-board-of-supervisors">https://www.co.rock.wi.us/government/county-board-of-supervisors</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/24/what-the-data-says-about-abortion-in-the-u-s-2/">https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/24/what-the-data-says-about-abortion-in-the-u-s-2/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/abortion">https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/abortion</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/religions-support-abortion-rights-leaders-are-speaking-rcna27194">https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/religions-support-abortion-rights-leaders-are-speaking-rcna27194</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><p></p>Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-45415760816377991622021-07-13T20:08:00.001-07:002021-07-13T20:08:32.395-07:00Dear Democracy<p><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Dear Democracy;</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This is a serious and sad reflection. I am fearful that I will see an end to democracy in the USA in my lifetime. </span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Because: </b><b>AUTHORITARIANISM</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Autocracy. Fascism<span style="background-color: white;">. A</span><span style="background-color: white;">bsolutism. D</span><span style="background-color: white;">espotism. Dictatorship.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">--> An authoritarian
takeover of our country is going on right now</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">--> Democracy
is at stake</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="bnpdmtiediy96o5h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">--> Voting rights
are on the ballot</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">--> The next
#insurrection will be successful</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="bnpdmtiediy96o5h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">--> Republicans are consiciously purposefully killing us with their lies</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="bnpdmtiediy96o5h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bnpdmtiediy96o5h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trumperism = Authoritarianism</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bnpdmtiediy96o5h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The (authoritarian) followers of the
current day Republican Party and DJT are handicapped by ignorance, thinking errors, and authoritarian beliefs. </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bnpdmtiediy96o5h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But, the authoritarian leaders of the USA – DJT and the Republican Party – are intentionally destroying democracy for their own profit and
power. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>They are all guilty:</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bnpdmtiediy96o5h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">.@GOP<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bnpdmtiediy96o5h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">.@wisgop<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bnpdmtiediy96o5h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">.@SenateGOP<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bnpdmtiediy96o5h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">.@HouseGOP<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bnpdmtiediy96o5h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bnpdmtiediy96o5h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The evil that we are facing cannot be
comprehended by sane people with a heart and a conscious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ask any survivor of any #Holocaust.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bnpdmtiediy96o5h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bnpdmtiediy96o5h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Read & share this book. Professor
Altemeyer has made it free to down load. Or, you can buy a print edition
easily.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bnpdmtiediy96o5h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bnpdmtiediy96o5h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">https://theauthoritarians.org<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bnpdmtiediy96o5h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bnpdmtiediy96o5h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">With all my heart, Vivian</span></b></span></p><br /><p></p>Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-64055866447121940692019-12-05T12:54:00.002-08:002022-11-14T22:40:19.370-08:00Dear Trash Talkers<div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="7f2v7-0-0" style="color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Dear Screamers, Shouters, Mockers, Nags, Shrews, Bossy-Pants, Know-it-alls and Others Who Were Raised by Wolves.</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7f2v7-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7f2v7-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Wait! That is an insult to wolves. I'll think of another metaphor.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7f2v7-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
</div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7f2v7-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So, I was reading some insulting comments about my favorite candidates -- and, about me (!) -- and, said to myself, "I think that is true! I really am an idiot! I'll do better next time."</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7f2v7-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Not!</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="aoh9k-0-0" style="background-color: white;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aoh9k-0-0" style="color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="4mqe9-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4mqe9-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="4mqe9-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I am personally promoting a vigorous exchange of ideas with no aggressive or rude communication among my social media friends -- especially toward me! Assertiveness is welcome here. Aggression and passive-aggressive behavior are not welcome</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="b5lvf-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b5lvf-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
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data-offset-key="b5lvf-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">#2023NoTrashTalk</span></span></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="5d9rt-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5d9rt-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><br /></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="7ng3b-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7ng3b-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="7ng3b-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So, you are welcome to share info, facts, articles, etc.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="7ro3m-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span data-offset-key="7ro3m-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">You are not welcome to SHOUT AT ME! </span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="92a4m-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span data-offset-key="92a4m-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Or, to insult my candidates or my friends or me.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="csrqn-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Or, to assume that I or my friends are ignorant or unintelligent.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3k4ig-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Don't call anyone names: neo-liberals, corporate Dems, etc</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="a36hg-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span data-offset-key="a36hg-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">My mother said to tell you, don't use expressions like "Drank the Kool-aide." Don't call people a "POS!" Jeeze! the image that brings up. Drop the use of word like "Repuglithan." It makes you look... oh, dear, I don't want to hurt your feelings... trashy. </span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="5975h-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5975h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="5975h-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="1u47n-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1u47n-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
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data-offset-key="1u47n-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">#2020NoTrashTalk</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="4rjk0-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4rjk0-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4rjk0-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Communication on social media is challenging:</span>
</div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="bo3ot-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bo3ot-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Misunderstandings are inevitable.</span>
</div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bo3ot-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="fkcbu-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fkcbu-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="fkcbu-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">"That's not what I said!"</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="ai7uj-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ai7uj-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="ai7uj-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">We don't have inflection or expression to help.</span></span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ai7uj-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="ai7uj-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">"But... but... my eyes were twinkling!"</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ai7uj-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="ai7uj-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="6fpi3-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6fpi3-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="6fpi3-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">We may not have a history with people we are chatting with.</span></span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6fpi3-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="6fpi3-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">"What? You didn't know that I am a life-long progressive!"
</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="ckikj-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span data-offset-key="ckikj-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Assumptions are made. </span></span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ckikj-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="ckikj-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">"You just assumed that I'm an idiot, you IDIOT!"</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ckikj-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="ckikj-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="c367v-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c367v-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="c367v-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Conclusions are leapt to! </span></span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c367v-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="c367v-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">"No, I am not supporting everyone that I make a kind comment about."</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c367v-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><br /></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="fgflq-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fgflq-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="fgflq-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">We may not agree about what is polite vs rude!</span></span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fgflq-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="fgflq-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">"I am sorry that no one taught you polite behavior! I can do it! Just ask me!"
</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fgflq-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="fgflq-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="et0jf-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="et0jf-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="et0jf-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Mistakes are made.</span></span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="et0jf-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="et0jf-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">"I meant to type, 'the kind of folk who...' NOT 'the kind of fu....'"</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="9k6kt-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9k6kt-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9k6kt-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5e6r" data-offset-key="61gg3-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span data-offset-key="fm450-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">We all want a vigorous exchange of ideas.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="a24v4-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">We all want to learn and grow.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="cpa9c-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Many Republicans & most Democrats want to preserve democracy.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="96g96-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">And, we want to elect a fantastic candidates. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4jc71-0-0"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">But, my dear Trash Talkers, I do love you! Someone has to.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4jc71-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><br /></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4jc71-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Hugs & Kisses,</span></div>
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Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-26604212959331745672019-10-23T21:08:00.001-07:002019-10-23T21:08:17.094-07:00My Very Dear Republicans<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Uihlein Republicans:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I simply adore Republicans! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You have so much in common with your leaders, right? Just good old conservative evangelicals taking hot dish casseroles to potlucks, right? Working hard. Playing by the rules. Pulling yourselves up by the boor straps. JK, of course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But, follow the money and your leaders are the likes of The Uihlein Family. Cha-ching. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Uihlein Family is electing your politicians so that makes them your leaders, right? Really, your bosses in a way. Your political priests. Cha-ching.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The current mister earned his way in the world in the same way we all did. Or, not. He inherited it! As a descendant of the Schlitz beer family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What a hard job. I just love large privately held corporations, don't you? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Republicans, you fear the government but have no fear of large corporations and gigantic private wealth? </span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: large;">So what do The Uihlines have in common with the common person in The Dairy State? I don't have a clue. You?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anywho.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Who doesn't love Philips Academy? I wanted to go there, didn't you? And, Harvard. Oh, the sexy sound of cha-ching. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Only 40% of elite college students are legacies, athletes, or children of big donors. They earned it, right? Self-made women and men!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> No, you earned your place in the world. Why follow people who are not as good as yourself? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But, who doesn't want to play polo? At the Sarasota Polo Club! Yes! And, don't we all want to own a ranch + a polo club + a golf and country club. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Could you afford to play golf with your leaders? Stay in their hotels? Join their country clubs. Be honest, when was the last time you played polo!?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">How much did you donate to your favorite candidates in this past election cycle? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Uihleins spent about $26 million dollars. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">$26 MILLION DOLLARS! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not an entire city or even state. ONE FAMILY.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They supported about 60 congressional candidates. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">They work outside the Republican establishment to advance a rough hard-right agenda from Washington to our smallest towns. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Look at Manitowish Waters (or Beloit and the ABC family). The Uihlein's have spent millions in MW. Bought up much of the downtown. Threatened to withdraw $300K in planned donations unless a boat ramp was moved to Mrs. U's choice of locations.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This family is shaping your views whether you know it or not. They own you. And, me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They even supported </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Roy Moore even after he was accused of sexual misconduct with underage girls. ROY MOORE!?!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Don't you want to follow better leaders? Think for yourself? Get back to old-fashioned values and conservatism?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">I hope so.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Because, I do love you,</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">VLL</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Uihlein_Jr.">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Uihlein_Jr.</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-76166415534768510972019-06-11T13:57:00.001-07:002019-06-11T13:57:42.412-07:00My Very Dear Anti-Abortionists<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 6px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Friends, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We can dramatically reduce the incidence of abortion in the US without passing a single abortion ban. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am sure that we can all agree that sex > un-planned pregnancy > leads to abortion. Let's intervene productively. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have a lot to talk about, so let's prioritize. Let's solve some of the many problems that contribute to abortion and unwanted=unplanned pregnancy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We, as a nation and a people, have to have:</span></div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">+ End the stigma.</b><span style="font-size: large;"> Churches, families, communities, schools have the capacity to do that today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That stigma is mightily enforced by religious prohibitions against sexual activity and by religious conventions and mores. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And, it is unfairly applied. Men can escape the stigma - and, many do. Women cannot. How many women have abortions because of shame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>+ Sex education for everyone.</b> It has to be fairly detailed. Shame free. Easily accessible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Churches, families, schools all have the capacity to develop and offer excellent sex education that includes consent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just listening to our members of congress speak, it is clear that adults are woefully ignorant about sexuality and sexual health and functioning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>+ We must provide free and easily obtainable birth control</b>. Make vasectomies free. Make tubal ligations free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>+ The US must have health care policies that value the lives of women and children </b>and that are reflected in our health care statistics. Right now the US ranks very high on infant and mother mortality compared to other developed countries. So, show us the love of life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>* The US must have universal health care - Medicare for All.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*<b>W</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>e must </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>make Ob/Gyn coverage a requirement of all health insurance policies for women and contraception coverage for men </b>until we have Medicare for All<b>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*<b> Employer provided health insurance must be required to provide Ob/Gyn coverage for women including contraception and must include contraception for men (vasectomies, condoms, etc) </b>until we have Medicare for All.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />* <b>We must fund research into the causes of mother and infant mortality </b>or, it isn't really about "life," is it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />* <b>Our country must provide obstetrical/gynecological care for all women </b>so that they have safety and security for an unplanned pregnancy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*<b> We must provide nutritional programs </b>for pregnant women and children so that women can afford not to have an abortion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">+ </span><b style="font-size: x-large;">Stop health care professionals from refusing to provide services that are within the scope of their profession so that women can avoid unwanted pregnancy. </b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No one should enter a profession if they don't want to provide the services that are within the scope of that profession.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">+<b> Stop the attacks on Planned Parenthood. In fact we should support Planned Parenthood and use it as a model of service provision.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Planned Parenthood prevents more abortions and any anti-abortion rally every could.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">+ <b>We have to provide a much better safety net for women. </b>Poverty is now a major factor in the decision to have an abortion. In addition to excellent health care services, in order to reduce abortions, we must:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b>* Make child-care subsidies available</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>+ Create equality for men and women: Equal responsibilities; equal consequences; equal expectations; etc.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>* Hold men responsible immediately. </b></span><b style="font-size: x-large;">Child/maternal support begins with conception.</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b>* Allow men to put their partner on their health insurance policies and any other benefits that a married couple would have.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>+ Dramatically increase the investigations of rape reports, the numbers of arrests, the numbers of prosecutions, and the severity of sentences. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rape has ruined the lives of many women. The consequences to the perpetrators needs to be commensurate with the pain and damages to the victims.</span></div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">+ Again, we must end the stigma.</b><span style="font-size: large;"> That stigma is mightily enforced by religious prohibitions against sexual activity. And, it is unfairly applied. Men can escape the stigma - and, many do. Women cannot. How many women have abortions because of shame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am looking forward to lots of changes in the discussion of abortion!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love, Vivian</span></div>
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Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-42355352185113106692019-05-18T19:38:00.001-07:002019-05-18T19:38:39.390-07:00Dear "Pro-Life" Men<span style="font-size: large;">My very dear pro-life men: </span><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wish you knew how very little I care about your religious beliefs and your inexperienced uneducated opinions.</span><div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />We should all be utterly gob-smacked that people who know nothing about women and reproductive care are making life altering and life threatening decisions about it!<br /><br />Here are a few of the reasons that I think these decisions should be between a woman/girl and her health care providers. <br /><br />* This is a far more complicated issue than most. We are not talking about a 45 vs a 50 mph speed limit. We are talking about people's lives. Their entire lives. Decisions that could affect every day of their lives forever and ever until the day that they die.<br /><br />* This should never have become a polarized political issue and, it wasn't in the past</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />* Does abortion sound like a simple issue to you? Do you ask, "Why not just give the baby up for adoption?" You are sorely lacking in knowledge, empathy, understanding if that is your question. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />- Developmental disabilities: What effects will a pregnancy have on a girl with an IQ of 70 or 60? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In other words, you have no personal experience of having an unwanted unplanned pregnancy or one that is dangerous to your own well being. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You have no experience of finding out you are pregnant with a severely disabled unlikely to live fetus. You. Not a partner or relative. YOU. <br /><br />You have no experience being pregnant and having cancer or diabetes or hypertension... and having to take medications that are dangerous to the fetus. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What about this scenario? You have never found out that you are impregnated by your father or grandfather, have you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And, you have never had to wonder if your parents will </span><span style="font-size: large;">quit speaking to you and</span><span style="font-size: large;"> throw you out. Or, if you will be disfellowshipped. Or, if your boyfriend will dump you and disappear. Will anyone marry you with you are 30 with a 15 year old? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have you wondered how you will survive pregnant or with an infant? How are you going to get a job with no qualifications? How are you going to pay your rent and what if you are physically unable to work? </span><span style="font-size: large;">Where you will live? </span><span style="font-size: large;">Or... how you will even afford prenatal vitamins? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">* After you have adopted true "pro-life" positions on social welfare, the death penalty, war, etc. then, I will respect your beliefs that life begins when an egg is fertilized but will not accept that you have the right to make these decisions for me.</span></div>
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Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-52711797427150116762019-05-18T15:24:00.002-07:002019-05-18T19:39:41.957-07:00DEAR REPUBLICANS: WHAT NEXT? BRAIN SURGERY?<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Dear Republicans:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">You want to make major reproductive decisions for women? What next? Treating cancer? Brain surgery as a hobby?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Dudes, I love you but you are not my doctor. Nor my husband. Nor the father of my child. Nor my father nor brother nor best friend. You don't pay my bills. You are not my doctor. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">#YouAreNotMyDoctor</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">And... Well, I don't want to hurt your feelings or embarrass you, but you don't know shit about women. Or, reproduction. Or, children. Or, science. Or, medicine. Or, psychology. Or... anything but bringing in the bucks.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Dear Republicans:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">You men are making major life decisions for women/girls on matters that you know nothing about and have no experience of. We are so accustomed to this that we don't even notice it!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">+ Men have never menstruated. Wha?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">+ Men have never been pregnant. Really?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">+ Men have never given birth. Of course not. This explains a lot. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">+ Many men have never had responsibility for a child. As women everywhere know.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">+ For centuries, unmarried fatherhood did not disgrace nor even inconvenience men while it ruined a girl's life. Not even inconvenienced. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br />+ Many/most men have never even read a book about reproduction, pregnancy, or child-birth! Can men read?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br />+ [Many men have never read a book about female sexual response but that is another story for another day. This is obvious to everyone except men.]</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br />+ I would guess that many men have never visited the doctor with a woman. They are certainly not in the waiting rooms.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br />+ I would bet that many/most men have never been to the OB/GYN with their partners. Except for the delivery room of course. Are they there willingly?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br />+ Are there any men who could identify all the "parts" of the reproductive organs on a graphic? Can they identify the parts on a living woman? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br />+ Are there any men who could name 5 - 10 methods of contraception? I've got money riding on this.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">+ Has any man every asked his partner if she uses BC? Has any man ever asked to see the pill pack? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">+ How many men always use BC themselves? I heard that there was one in Canton, Ohio but I didn't verify.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br />+ Could any men name 5 medical conditions that are treated with BC pills? I only got 5. Can you name 5? Nah.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br />We are so used to this that we don't even question it. This is social/emotional wallpaper. The status quo.<br /><br />Men and women lead very separate lives and don't even know it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Women and men who support our rights: "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." (Frederick Douglass)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">May I make some suggestions? </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">1. Donate to causes that support women's rights:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/get-involved/other-ways-give">https://www.plannedparenthood.org/get-involved/other-ways-give</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">- Naral Pro-Choice America</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/donate/supportnaral/#.XOCA6MhKjIU">https://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/donate/supportnaral/#.XOCA6MhKjIU</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. Educate! Educate! Educate! Everyone around you including the men in your life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">- Write the usual letters, yada yada yada</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">- Protest, march, rally, </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">4. Enlist your fathers, husbands, BF's, sons, brothers, cousins... in our fight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Women, let's love ourselves and demand our rights.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-79324566288597015982019-05-09T09:28:00.002-07:002019-05-09T11:50:18.019-07:00DEAREST GENTLEMEN<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="ctjm9" data-offset-key="bjlq4-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span data-offset-key="bjlq4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dearest Men:</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="bjlq4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I know. I know. You know everything! You have been very lucky in that. Lucky to be born the privileged gender and that comes with the capacity to know absolutely everything about everything and everyone and to use your microphone.</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="bjlq4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I worship your superior height, muscle mass, intelligence, knowledge, expertise... Well, I just adore men! </span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="bjlq4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Isn't it a miracle that you know more about family planning, pregnancy, childbirth, obstetrics, gynecology, mental health, pediatrics... well... really everything in the world than all the experts and all those with direct personal real experience! </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bjlq4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What a miracle!</span></span><br />
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Seriously, now, I am enraged. </span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="bjlq4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The abortion discussion is dominated by: </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bsn85-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">> Men </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3odqo-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">> People who have no knowledge or experience whatsoever of reproductive health, obstetrics, gynecology, etc.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ak3rf-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">> Men who have no personal experience whatsoever of these issues</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2o0ih-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">> Men who are sadly misinformed or maliciously sharing disinformation</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9ifuc-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">From the beginning of time:</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dg5dd-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">> Adam ate the apple; Eve got the blame.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="cvbq-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">> Women have been totally responsible for saying, "No."</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="emhu9-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">> Women are totally responsible for keeping themselves from getting pregnant</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ecegn-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">> Many women are totally responsible for their children.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="23i4q-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">> It is a woman's life that is ruined if she gets pregnant when</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="62vt0-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+ She is too young</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="e23cn-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+ She is too poor</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="c6sm8-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+ She is uneducated</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="aafu3-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+ She has too many other children</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ab9ej-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+ She has too many other responsibilities</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="689h2-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+ She would rather be dead than pregnant</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="6l5lt-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">> It is women who pay the price for unplanned pregnancy even though we do not get pregnant alone</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="15nco-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+ She has been the subject of such pity, censure, criticism, etc that many women would rather be dead</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1juqk-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+ She is the one who has to endure a hated pregnancy</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2pvna-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+ She, in the past, is the one who had to go away, have a baby at a "home," and give it away in adoption</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="aqbed-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+ She is the 11 y/o or 14 y/o who doesn't even understand what is happening to her body</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5d3pr-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+ She is the mentally ill woman or girl who cannot comprehend being pregnant or raise a baby</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="47def-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+ She is the developmentally disabled girl or woman who doesn't have a clue that her uncle, or father or brother impregnated her.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="47def-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+ She is the victim of sexual assault who will wonder all of her life about the genetics of the child that she has carried </span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="e8el8-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">> It is a woman's body that experiences pregnancy and childbirth whether or not</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5ma4i-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+ She has adequate nutrition</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="cgt6i-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+ She has adequate shelter</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9klh4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+ She is in good health</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9klh4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+ She has any medical care</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9klh4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+ She is living in a war zone, a drought, a flood, a famine...</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="bvpi5-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is her rights that are prioritized last by anti-abortion laws. It is women who are harmed.
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<span data-offset-key="fulih-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Women have carried all the responsibility and have had no power whatsoever. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fulih-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">With all love, I say: Gentlemen, sit down and shut up.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fulih-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Love, VLL</span></span></div>
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Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-90914567380773034682019-05-09T09:26:00.002-07:002019-05-09T11:58:43.000-07:00DEAR MEN WHO ARE EXPERTS IN EVERYTHING<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="ctjm9" data-offset-key="bjlq4-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span data-offset-key="bjlq4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dearest Men:
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<span data-offset-key="bjlq4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">I know. I know. You know everything! You have been very lucky in that. Lucky to be born the privileged gender and that comes with the capacity to know absolutely everything about everything and everyone and to use your microphone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I worship your superior height, muscle mass, intelligence, knowledge, expertise... Well, I just adore men! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Isn't it a miracle that you know more about family planning, pregnancy, childbirth, obstetrics, gynecology, mental health, pediatrics... well... really everything in the world than all the experts and all those with direct personal real experience! </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bjlq4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">What a miracle!
Seriously, now, I am enraged. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bjlq4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">The abortion discussion is dominated by: </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bsn85-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">> Men </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3odqo-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">> People who have no knowledge or experience whatsoever of reproductive health, obstetrics, gynecology, etc.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ak3rf-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">> Men who have no personal experience whatsoever of these issues</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2o0ih-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">> Men who are sadly misinformed or maliciously sharing disinformation</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9ifuc-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">From the beginning of time:</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dg5dd-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">> Adam ate the apple; Eve got the blame.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="cvbq-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">> Women have been totally responsible for saying, "No."</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="emhu9-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">> Women are totally responsible for keeping themselves from getting pregnant</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ecegn-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">> Many women are totally responsible for their children.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="23i4q-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">> It is a woman's life that is ruined if she gets pregnant when</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="62vt0-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ She is too young</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="e23cn-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ She is too poor</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="c6sm8-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ She is uneducated</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="aafu3-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ She has too many other children</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ab9ej-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ She has too many other responsibilities</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="689h2-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ She would rather be dead than pregnant</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6l5lt-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">> It is women who pay the price for unplanned pregnancy even though we do not get pregnant alone</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="15nco-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ She has been the subject of such pity, censure, criticism, etc that many women would rather be dead</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1juqk-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ She is the one who has to endure a hated pregnancy</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2pvna-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ She, in the past, is the one who had to go away, have a baby at a "home," and give it away in adoption</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="aqbed-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ She is the 11 y/o or 14 y/o who doesn't even understand what is happening to her body</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5d3pr-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ She is the mentally ill woman or girl who cannot comprehend being pregnant or raise a baby</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="47def-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ She is the developmentally disabled girl or woman who doesn't have a clue that her uncle, or father or brother impregnated her.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="47def-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ She is the victim of sexual assault who will wonder all of her life about the genetics of the child that she has carried </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="e8el8-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">> It is a woman's body that experiences pregnancy and childbirth whether or not</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5ma4i-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ She has adequate nutrition</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="cgt6i-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ She has adequate shelter</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9klh4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ She is in good health</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9klh4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ She has any medical care</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9klh4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ She is living in a war zone, a drought, a flood</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bvpi5-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is her rights that are prioritized last by anti-abortion laws.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fulih-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Women have carried all the responsibility and have had no power whatsoever. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fulih-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">With all love, I say: Gentlemen, sit down and shut up.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fulih-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Love, VLL</span></span></div>
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Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-58263802705066389462019-01-05T13:48:00.002-08:002019-01-05T13:48:58.886-08:00Dear Travel Snobs<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Snobs:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">I know. You are worried because here I am writing about something apolitical. Maybe I had a stroke in my sleep that reset my brain to more pleasant topics. Did I say pleasant?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, I know. You went on a 5 day luxury tour of XYZ country and you think I am a barbarian for craving ice, cheap booze, toilets that I understand, and great hunks of affordable beef? You would never eat a hamburger in Europe, you say with haughty assurance. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Or, perhaps you read a travel article in the paper that disagrees with my experience <i>last week</i>? Oh, well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ha. I have suffered. Suffered, I tell you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> The older I get, the less that I like "travel." I want vacations! Nice vacations. I don't want to have to walk 10 miles because I got lost. I want to walk one mile for exercise. In a tropical paradise. With a margarita in hand.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Here is budget travel in a nutshell: I have slept on trains, planes, and in automobiles; slept on ferry decks -- right on the wooden floor; slept in train stations on benches. Slept at rest areas. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I have been lost everywhere; been unable to figure out how to use a telephone -- numbers of times; driven down streets that were so narrow I was in danger of losing the side mirrors of a small car; taken a ferry to an isolated spot and realized there was no return ferry; eaten brains by accident; accidentally gotten in line to board a ferry going God only knows where and had to drive over the barriers to get out of said line...<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have peed in parking lots, by the side of the road, in national parks, clean restrooms, dirty restrooms... I have used men's restrooms. And, I have gone poo-poo in public toilets at night that <i>no lighting! None! </i>I had to guess if my waste products were going in the toilet or landing on the floor. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a good place to say that I am a country girl who grew up to be a woman with a weak bladder. I will pee anywhere. My husband is a city boy. He can hardly bear to use the bathroom in any public area. Me peeing in a parking lot almost killed him. He's never been the same since. But, I digress.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I peed all over myself using an unlit public toilet in a park and had to walk right out soaking wet.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">My one goal in life... I repeat: My <i>one goal </i>was never be defeated by a toilet. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I vowed that I would figure out how to flush even the most unusual toilet no matter where I was. Whether it be a toilet with a chain, a foot pedal, a lever cleverly hidden somewhere or a squatter, I was determined to never be defeated by a toilet. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">But I was defeated in a park bathroom where it was too dark to even find the handle or the chain or the foot pedal or the lever to flush the toilet.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> I failed to achieve this one goal. Flushing every time. I had to give up. This was before cell phones. Were it to happen today, I would have the flashlight on my phone.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Which makes me wonder why in hell I didn't travel with a flashlight!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Love, Vivian</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">PS Have fun on your journeys! Dedicated to Lyman and Jen Elliot!</span></span><br />
<br />Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-74120328723149815552018-09-14T10:13:00.002-07:002018-09-14T10:13:58.956-07:00DEAR PARENTS<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dear Parents: Freud blamed you and I do, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wednesday night at dinner, I was shocked by the little family sitting next to us: two older adults and an young boy around seven. They were older and I assumed that they were the grandparents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The woman sat next to the child. The man sat across from the woman. The woman was attentive without being overly so and the child was quiet and well-behaved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The man did not look at nor speak to the child the entire meal. </i>That is what grabbed my attention.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Later, the woman asked the boy to, "Give Daddy a bite." Was he <i>really really really the father!?! </i>Did I hear that correctly? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then, the next day I am in line at a store. The woman in front of me has a toddler that I cannot see. She is asking the child, "Do you want your doll? Do you want the lady to hand you your doll?" The clerk hands over the doll and the toddler reaches for it. The child is a boy -- unless it is a girl whose every item of clothing is "boy's." This mother just bought her boy a doll! Halleluyah! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have inspected every single bit of sexism in child-rearing. But, this wasn't words or theory. This was a picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We tell boys in no uncertain words -- and, in full color pictures -- that they do not take care of children. Are not responsible for children. Do not attend to children. Do not even need to look at or speak to their children. Or, listen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Every time we say, "Boys do not play with dolls," "Dolls are sissy toys," "Boys don't play house," "Don't be a sissy," we are telling them that they don't need to pay attention to children or care for them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Go buy all the boys in your life a doll. Now! Get out the door.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">BTW, I have never met a mother who doesn't know how old her children are nor what grade they are in. But, I have interviewed men who don't know their children's ages nor their grade in school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, go already! Buy those dolls!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Love, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">VLL</span>Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-40786395856941099582018-09-07T16:32:00.000-07:002018-09-07T16:33:02.229-07:00DEAR SISTERS! <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">My Dear Sisters:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Here is
what we have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We have
predominantly white men in charge of our country at the local, state, and
national level and in every branch of government. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">These men
are controlling our lives through legislation and policy as well as through academia and their professional lives and works. And, they are shockingly
ignorant and hateful toward women. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">They reveal
continuously, in public, that they lack even the most basic knowledge of women,
anatomy and physiology, basic reproduction, birth control, abortion,
psychology, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And, they
reveal their complete lack of empathy and their utter
disregard for the welfare of their wives, mothers, sisters, daughters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">This level
of disregard amounts to hatred.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Are we so accustomed to this that it has become invisible to us? Don't let that happen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Let’s
correct the record.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">No, birth
control is not abortion. Perhaps this has been a talking point within the
Catholic Church to discourage birth control. But, millions of women are not
Catholic, don’t want to follow the religion of our lawmakers, and don’t want a
Supreme Court Justice this ignorant and biased. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Brett
Kavanaugh Refers To Birth Control As 'Abortion-Inducing Drugs' At Confirmation
Hearing – this week. NYT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And, no,
the female body does not have a way of “shutting that whole thing down” in the
case of rape as Todd Akin professed. Women – and girls – get pregnant from
rape. Republican men and women elected a man this ignorant and vile to a
position of power over women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">19 August
2012, U.S. Representative Todd Akin (R) of <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Missouri</st1:place></st1:state><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Nope. There is no such thing as "legitimate" and "</span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">illegitimate</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">" rape.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Republican
Akin didn’t give up! “Two years later, while appearing in another television
interview with MSNBC to promote his new book Firing Back, Akin asserted that
“legitimate rape” was a law enforcement term and that his original remark had
been “intentionally misunderstood.” No, it isn’t a law enforcement term.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">No, women
cannot relax and enjoy rape. Rape is brutal. Internal and external organs are ripped and
damaged, their hair is pulled out, they are beaten and bruised, and they are
sometimes raped by pipes, brooms, etc. Imagine a man having a broomstick forced
up his anus or down his throat while being beaten. Can you hear us now?<br />
“Rape is kinda like the weather. If it’s inevitable, relax and enjoy it.”
(Clayton Williams, GOP nominee, TX, 1991)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">No, women don't usually feel this way, Mr. Santorum. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Santorum responded
by saying that although a pregnancy resulting from a rape might be “horrible,”
it was nonetheless a “gift of human life” and that “we have to make the best
out of a bad situation.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Does any
woman alive believe that “God intended” for her to get pregnant from rape? No.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Even when
life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God
intended to happen.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">23 October
2012, Richard Mourdock (R) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">No, women
do not “get cleaned out” by rape kits. Even women can be shockingly ignorant or
willing to go to disgusting lengths to promote her view:<br />
“In the emergency room they have what’s called rape kits, where a woman can get
cleaned out.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">23 June
2013, Jodie Laubenberg, Republican of TX<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">No. No one ever has a right to use his -- or her -- superior strength to harm another human being. This makes me think someone should have done a background check of Rep Lockman.</span></div>
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“If a woman has (the right to an abortion), why shouldn’t a man be free to use
his superior strength to force himself on a woman? At least the rapist’s
pursuit of sexual freedom doesn’t (in most cases) result in anyone’s death.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">February
2014, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lawrence</st1:place></st1:city>
Lockman, Maine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I think women might be forgiven for engaging in "identity politics," or a little misandry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Not feeling the love today, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">VLL</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/personal-foul/">https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/personal-foul/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/health/kavanaugh-abortion-inducing-contraceptives.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/health/kavanaugh-abortion-inducing-contraceptives.html</a>
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<br />Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-62381775163140119522018-07-21T18:35:00.000-07:002018-07-21T18:36:39.056-07:00DEAR VIPP'S AND VRD'S<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dear Political Parties and...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">VIPP's (Very Important Political People) & VRD's (Very Rich Donor's):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I love you to pieces! I don't know you, but I sure know who you are. What's not to love!?! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Thank you from the bottom of my heart for thinking for me! For choosing my candidates and making all political decisions for us women! I appreciate that you let me know who you are choosing for me! Thank you so very much for suppressing the candidates that women want to run! What would happen to the world order if our choices were taken into account?!? You are really looking our for us, in spite of what people say. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Hmmmm... I know that you know that women have uhhhh ... uteri. Oh, wait, I am not sure that you realize that we have uteri -- based on comments by politicians. We do have uteri.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">[Thank you for looking out for our reproductive care! You are looking out for us, aren't you? Do you know what reproductive care is? Did you know that we have uteri? Can you define </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Fallopian</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> tube?]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And, yes, we are awash in female hormones. We are prone to hysteria and tend to vote only for attractive men -- so you better watch out. JK. We are unable to think straight because of throbbing ... hormones. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We would be lost without you and your firm guidance and sage-like wisdom!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18.6667px;">Thank you so much for allowing me to get an education - in spite of being female! To become a professional - in spite of my hormones! To earn a living - in spite of fits of hysteria! To travel the world - in spite of my fragility! To pay taxes. To have a retirement plan! And, to get rich off Social Security - in spite of just being the little lady! I love cat food, BTW.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18.6667px;">I am buying stock in Purina, BTW!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oh, wait. I am female. A woman. A girl. A daughter, sister, mother, aunt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And, who do you choose for me to vote for? Men! Men who do not have a history of treating women well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">But, I've got big news: Women have the right to vote in the USA! Wow. You didn't know, did you?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Yes: </span></span><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;">The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women's suffrage, and was ratified on </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;">August 18, 1920</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;">, ending almost a century of protest.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">In two years, we will be celebrating 400 years of suffrage! No... 200? No, we have only had the right to vote for 98 years this August 18. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">And, that makes me furious. So, did you know that some of us "spite vote?" Yes, we vote just to prove that we can! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">My grandmothers and all of my great aunts and all of my matriarchs were born without the right to vote. But, they still ran farms and businesses or went out and got jobs when widowed - or, God forbid, when divorced. Or... they took jobs as poor women have always done. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">They followed the laws of the land.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">They still paid taxes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">They still paid taxes! Taxation without representation. They couldn't vote but they weren't exempt from paying taxes! Whaaaaa????</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">I bet that, in spite of what the polls say, there are lots of Republican women who are disgusted with the candidate that VIPP's and VRD's graciously chose for them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I am
disgusted with elected Democrats, VIPP's and VRD's choosing candidates for voters at all. By the time they add their money, their power, their influence... Did I mention money & power & influence? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Your system has motivated many hysterical, misguided, ill-informed women who are drunk on estrogen to run for office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Well, women, we better get to the polls and vote for these #WonderWomen who are #RunningAndWinning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18.6667px;">A record number of women are running for office this year - and, winning! Running and winning. I like the sound of that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Have our illustrious overwhelmingly male political leaders failed to notice that over half the population is women? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We vote. We donate
money. We volunteer in droves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
majority of volunteers on every campaign is women. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">So, watch out. We are #RunningandWinning. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Voting in Spite Forever Yours,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Viviain LL</span></span></div>
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<br />Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-19063231191732356232018-05-07T10:43:00.002-07:002018-05-07T10:43:48.023-07:00DEMS WHO ACT JUST LIKE TRUMP<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Trolls,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Anonymous trolls. Bots. Fake accounts. And, real people who troll in their own names! People with jobs. Families. Friends. <br /><br />How do they ever make and keep friends? How did they ever find a partner? Maybe they make a pact to hate the same people? What if one troll hates someone and the other troll friend loves that person? Do they get a troll divorce. Ah, who cares...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, the Silly Season is here and has been for a year. That is Election Season. When best friends stop speaking to you because they don't like who you supported in a Primary Election. When you finally realized that most of those folks that you thought were friends were merely "connections." And, you appreciate your true friends even more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, it is also Troll Season. Icky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week, it occurred to me that trolls remind me of Donald Trump. They lie. They twist & degrade every single thing that their target says. And, they lie. And, they lie. And, then lie some more. With no shame whatsoever. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have a different opinion, they call you a liar. They call misunderstandings lies. They call demonstrable facts lies. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just like #45!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, I suspect that they believe their own lies. Just as #45 does. They don't know that they are lying. They really really don't. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They have no shame! They are never embarrassed. This is the most amazing thing I have ever witnessed. They have no self-awareness and hence no pride and hence no shame. Just like #45. None. This is astounding to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How could you not know that no one thinks you're cool? No one believes a word that you say? That you are making a complete ass of yourself every day! Just like #45.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Were trolls the playground bullies or were they the shy kids who got bullied and now have "keyboard courage?" I suspect that they are scared little rabbits IRL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have met 2 trolls. One of them trolled under his real name and under some fake accounts. He made a technological mistake that enable me to see/prove that he was the troll. He glowed when accused of trolling. He appeared delighted while also denying it -- even though it was provable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other appeared terrified when I walked up and introduced myself. He sat quietly and shyly at a table all night. No mixing and mingling. But, on-line? He is a rattlesnake. Not a very good writer. Not very witty. Not very literate. But nasty in the "na na nuh boo boo" way from grade school. A lot like #45! He also writes, "OMG!" a lot!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are relentless. They win every argument because they count on being the meanest SOB at the keyboard. And, they lie. Just like #45. Do they ever clean the house or go fishing or have dinner with a friend?<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They love drama! Love it! Just like #45! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, they must be filled with hate. They must be really icky inside. Just like #45.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is the purpose of all of this? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bullies feel good about themselves. They like bullying. They enjoy it. They were often the victim of a "bully" parent and now they believe that they have power. POWER! They may have the strategic goal of stopping/limiting participation in some group or forum -- Most people won't speak up if 5 trolls are going to jump in and make fun of them then call them liars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, do not be deterred and do not feed the trolls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I tried to say, "Dear Trolls, I love you! I really really do!" But, I spit up a little in my mouth and couldn't get the words out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love every one else in the world except narcissists/trolls. Because I suspect those are synonyms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">VLL</span><br />
<br />Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-44999947458990760742017-11-16T11:58:00.005-08:002017-11-17T09:41:41.191-08:00Dear Women-Hating Men<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, we sure do have some women haters out there! Why isn't that as horrible an insult as calling women, "man haters?" Ever notice that?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The purpose of "mild" sexually inappropriate behavior is to humiliate women and to show us that we are powerless. Surely that is not a secret?</span></div>
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+ Boys used to "dunk" girls at the pool until I really thought that they were going to miscalculate and drown us. No they did not respond to fighting back nor to reason and logic. </div>
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+ Boys in science classes at Janesville Craig High School made very inappropriate comments in science classes during group projects such as dissections.</div>
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The teacher told us that since he didn't hear it, he couldn't do anything about it. </div>
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Why didn't I also call their parents? Why didn't he just make a blanket announcement: </div>
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"Hey. Stop making sexually inappropriate comments in class. All sexual comments are inappropriate in class."</div>
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+ A boy at Craig was making a disgusting sexual play on words using a certain girl's name. She insisted that I not contact him, his parents, or the school. I told her she that had one day to stop it or I would stop it. She found an acceptable way to address it - through a friend.</div>
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Compared to gang rapes during war - and other extreme violence - this is very mild.</div>
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Yet, each of these event enraged me. They made me very aware of how small I was - and, I was. </div>
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That I was fundamentally helpless. </div>
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And, that was the goal: To show girls that boys are big and strong and we are helpless against them.</div>
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What if women went around grabbing me by the crotch? Do not tell me that any man would like being randomly grabbed.</div>
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What if we stuck our hands down men's pants or grabbed them by the balls, or rammed our tongues down their throats, or rammed broom sticks up their a$$es. If you find that inappropriate conversation...?</div>
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No! Adults & other teens do not help. Teachers did not help.</div>
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#TestosteronePoisoning</div>
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#TheFutureIsFemale</div>
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I love y'all!</div>
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Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-64308736118478209142017-09-11T23:28:00.003-07:002017-09-11T23:28:56.905-07:00Dear Immigrants: Ryan and Company<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Republican Immigrants:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">No, not the newly despised, the formerly despised. YOU. All of you recovered immigrants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Paul Ryan, remember when your Irish family came to these shores? Remember when they were starving in Ireland? Literally. Dying of malnutrition. Watching their children die. Of starvation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Paul, I don't know your ancestry, of course, but if you have anything in common with other Irish immigrants... Did you just spring up in Janesville with a beautiful home in the Courthouse District. I doubt it. Even if you did, most of your fellow Irish did not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Did you know that your kith and kin from Ireland came here in something very similar to slave ships? Called coffin ships. They were packed together in their own excrement with barely enough food to make it. Well, really, they often didn't. Just like slave ships.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Did you know that your ancestors were not considered "White?" The Irish were considered a minority race.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They were unwelcome and they faced a solid wall of discrimination. Businesses boldly put up signs: "No Irish Need Apply."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your Irish family was dirt poor. They had to work at any form of job or hustle that they could get. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Did your family come straight to the Midwest? Did they live in a single room (maybe even 10 ft. x 10 ft.) in a tenement in Chicago or Milwaukee first? All of them. Parents and children. Procreating, giving birth, wasting away, and dying all together in one room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Without running water, ventilation, windows, electricity, or toilets perhaps? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember when WASP's just despised the Irish? Wasn't one of those horrid diseases called "Irish Fever?" Oh, yes. Typhus. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Notice how we associate contagious illness with the people who suffer the most from it? HIV in recent years. Typhus? Smallpox? Spreading wildly in tenements by.. What? British Isles and European immigrants? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They were dying of malnutrition or the contagious diseases of cramped squalid conditions: Poverty -> </span><span style="font-size: large;">squalid conditions -> malnutrition -> </span><span style="font-size: large;">poor health -> agonizing lives and deaths. And, oh, yeah, being despised as lazy drunken people with too many children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, yeah! Almost forgot. The WASPS who got here first just hated you Catholic Irish. Hated drinking. Hated your large families. Hated your poverty and illness and squalor. Hated your religion. Hmmm... something like hating Islam?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, we would be shocked by those cruel attitudes toward the Irish or the German or the ... well any of those former "good" immigrants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And, I am shocked and enraged when people who belong to formerly despised immigrant groups blame people for their own lot in life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Haven't you learned anything from being here?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You did clearly not get enough love when you were growing up. I am so so so sorry. Because people who did not get enough love grow up empty and lacking in compassion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is love enough. You can spare some for the current crop of despised newcomers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love, VLL</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"From 1820 to 1860, 1,956,557 </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Irish</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> arrived, 75% of these after the Great </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Irish</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Famine (or The Great Hunger, </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Irish</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">: An Gorta Mór) of 1845–1852, struck. Of the total </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Irish immigrants</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> to the U.S. from 1820 to 1860, many died crossing the ocean due to disease and dismal conditions of what became known as coffin ships." Wikipedia</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">http://www.history.com/news/when-america-despised-the-irish-the-19th-centurys-refugee-crisis</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I highly recommend this book:</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">https://bookspics.com/ebooks/flesh-and-blood-a-history-of-my-family-in-seven-maladies/</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-29755687933470390912017-08-16T15:13:00.001-07:002017-08-16T15:13:03.268-07:00Dear Fascists... errr Republicans <div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">THE
REPUBLICAN AGENDA <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">For decades
now, the Republican Party, Republican leaders and officials, Republican talk
radio, and Fox news have been aggressively pursuing an agenda that sometimes
doesn’t seem to make any sense or have any cohesive message. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">But, there
is an agenda and the message makes perfect sense if the goal is to create an
unquestioning citizenry willing to turn over US assets and commons to private
corporations for the benefit of the 1%.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Long ago, we
saw a marriage of convenience between Evangelical Christianity and the
Republican Party. There is nothing quite like having God and the only true
religion on your side! Evangelicals vote in droves for Republicans. And, single
issue voters create a win for Republicans: Opposition to abortion sealed the
deal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">A bonus is
that creating a marriage made in heaven between the Republican Party and the
religious right gives Republicans a large <i>following</i> of people predisposed to be
<i>authoritarian followers</i>. See what I did there!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is easy
to fuel the fires of envy and jealousy and nothing does it better than propaganda
against non-white non-Chrisitan groups. And, add a heavy dose of “Us vs. Them” and you have a winning political
strategy. We seem to have large numbers of citizens who <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">hate
Muslims and African Americans, and immigrants, and…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">approve
a ban on Muslim immigration, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">are
happy to break up families to deport people who have been law-abiding hard
working members of our communities for years,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">believe
that Black Lives Matter is a violent anti-white group and that white men are
the most persecuted group in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">There have
been decades of Republican attacks on education – which makes a smooth
transition to for-profit charter schools and religious schools which are able
to further the Republican agenda. This paves the way for big tax cuts for the
wealthy and for corporations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Add to
that, decades of slander against higher education, tenure, liberal professors,
etc.and we are contributing to an uneducated unquestioning populace of followers. And,
that is terrifying. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Countless
attacks on experts and expertise, science and scientists have produced a devout
citizenry who put their trust in … a political party!?! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And, that
makes deregulation – of wall street, banking, environmental protection, media,
etc. very very easy and very very profitable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Yes, if
scientists are liars and scientific processes cannot be trusted, but the GOP
can… Well, cut more funding to universities, research programs, the EPA and
give more tax breaks to the 1%.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">All this leads
us to the present where a large segment of the population believes politicians
and no longer see science as a means of progress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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public who are so ignorant of basic science that the non-expert doesn’t know
what legitimate science is and what it isn’t. Global climate change? Accepting
the science on climate change might put a damper on business, so that is
unacceptable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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knowledge, or expertise is needed to run the government! And, we get 45. His supporters are still happy with him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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duty not to listen to or read anything that isn’t specifically Republican. </span></div>
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of talk radio is right-wing. Every day, our 45<sup>th</sup> president rails
against “fake news.” And, every day, citizens flock to fake news sites and
believe even the most demonstrably false information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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insisting that any divergence from the right wing message is “fake news” by
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authoritarians – and, support Fascism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do facts count? I do hope so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">More than 90% of our House and Senate are Christian! <i>If </i>you count Catholics. You do count Catholics as Christian, don't you? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Those who are unaffiliated with any religion (terrifying, I know) make up about 20% of the general public but only 0.2% of Congress. That's because voters would rather elect thieves, liars, cheaters, divorcees, drunks, and ... well anyone as long as they are a proclaimed Christian!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is generally 0-1 person in Congress who is not Christian. Is that one too many for you?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jews - who are rumored to be taking over the world in spite of being only .02% of the world's population - make up ... oh... about 1 person in the the Congress at any given time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over 90% of Republicans in the House are... Christian!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Around 80% of Democrats in the House are... you guessed it! Christian! We do have some diversity - a few Jews, Mormons, occasionally a Muslim or Hindu or Buddhist thrown in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Does it really sound like Christianity is under attack? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our currency does not have "In Allah, Buddha, Krishna, Johovah & Yaweh We Trust" on it, now does it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After asking for donations, our city council had to have a talk to decide if it was OK to add a dreidle to the holiday decorations. What about all that "Judeo-Christian" BS?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Are the 6 major beliefs and the 5 pillars of Islam up in the courthouse? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hey, I want the Jewish commandments on the wall of the courthouse! All 613 of them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What if... we got a school holiday for every Jewish and Hindu and Buddhist and Muslim religious holiday?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, cool your engines. The gestapo is not on its way to your door. You are the gestapo! No worries!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Love and Peace, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Statistics from PEW</span><br />
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Republicans as racists, sexist, homophobic, and xenophobic because they do not
speak out against racism, oppose access to birth control and OB-GYN care for
women, oppose same sex marriage, and oppose immigration.</span></div>
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with this reality (the lack of good faith and good will) and start playing
hardball back.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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side. So much in common!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Many on
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Republicans
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completely unaware of negative behavior on their own part. And, vice versa!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Democrats
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">With so
much in common, it would seem that everyone could put the welfare of country
first and work toward solutions!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nah… Not
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Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-54510703906607845192017-06-26T22:18:00.000-07:002017-06-26T22:18:23.917-07:00A Love Letter about Health Care<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Republicans:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">I am going to hold you responsible for every single death that results from lack of health care if your catastrophe of a bill passes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember facts? Those pesky things! Read on. You can do it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I really love health care! And, life. Life.</span><br />
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DELIMMA<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Health care is a moral issue</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> “The issue of universal coverage is not a
matter of economics. Little more than 1% of GDP assigned to health could cover
all. It is a matter of soul.” (amsa.org)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are
18,000 excess deaths for people between age 25-64 per year because of lack of
insurance and health care. (amsa.org)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our
friends, neighbors, and family are suffering:
emotionally and financially. (amsa.org)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States of America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
is the only developed country in the world that sees health care as a privilege
and not a right. (amsa.org)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place>
treats health care as a product – an economic product – and, not as a social
good. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Who are the uninsured?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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are employed or from working families.
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those without insurance get their care from and ER while only 3% of those with
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;">The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region>
spends $8,233 per person per year. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">(pbs.org)<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;">Our health care budget eats up 17.6 percent of our GDP. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">(pbs.org)<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">We spend more than 2 ½ times what most other developed
countries spend.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">(pbs.org)<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region> has fewer
practicing doctors/population than most other OECD countries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">We have fewer hospital
beds/person than other developed nations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our hospital stays are shorter
– yet, our costs are much higher.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our life expectancy is one
year less than other OECD countries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Life expectancy in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region> increased
by almost nine years between 1960 and 2010. There was an increase of over 15
years in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Other countries use a common fee schedule, but in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region> how much a
health care clinic or hospital gets paid depends on the kind of insurance a
patient has.<span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">(pbs.org)<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;">Providers can choose
which patients they will and won’t see based on insurance.</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;">U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;">
payment rates are less flexible than those in other countries: They can address
increases in costs easier and faster. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;">The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region>
has fewer methods for cost containment because our for-profit insurance
companies find it easier to pass on the costs than to negotiate with providers
– doctors and clinics. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">(pbs.org)<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">We spend three times as much on administrative costs than <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region> does.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;">Our hospital costs are higher than other countries – it isn’t
that we deliver more hospital services. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">(pbs.org)<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;">The quality of care in hospitals in other countries is a good
as in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and they are still able to attract people to health care professions. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">(pbs.org)<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;">Many common procedures cost far more in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> than in
other countries with comparable quality of care. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">(pbs.org)<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why does the health care cost so much more in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;">U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;">
doctors make far more money than in other countries. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">We use more expensive
diagnostic procedures.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">No organization has a
motivation to cut waste – from insurance companies to clinics to doctors: this
is a for-profit industry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> does more
testing and more expensive testing than other countries and performs more of
some procedures.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Providers make more money the
more that they test, treat, prescribe, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;">“The uninsured are more
likely to receive poor care for chronic diseases.” Living and dying thus are
determined by financial status. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">(pbs.org)<span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
Case for Universal Health Care <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are
costs of not having UHC: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fewer years of participation in the workforce. (amsa.org)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The annual cost of diminished health and shorter life spans
of Americans without insurance is $65-$130 billion. People who do not live as
long do not work and contribute to the economy as long.” (amsa.org)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Developmental delays for children without health care.
(amsa.org)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Medicare, Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), and
the criminal justice system have higher costs than they would if there were
universal coverage.” (amsa.org)
(amsa.org)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is a cost to communities that have more uninsured
people (poor communities): Providers leave, reduce staff, or relocate and there
is less availability of health care. (amsa.org)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Emergency rooms are over-burdened and the insured and
uninsured suffer from lack of availability Some ER’s shut down. Some reduce
capacity. (amsa.org)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lack of health care facilities in areas with high
uninsurance rates weakens the local economy. (amsa.org) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Communities with high rates of uninsurance have less
effective control of communicable disease (e.g. less vaccinations, less
surveillance of TB) and an overall greater disease burden in general.”
(amsa.org)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Unnecessary use of ER’s is a financial burden. It is
estimated that over 10% of ER visits are for non-emergencies, costing the
health care system billions of dollars. (amsa.org)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The under-insured and uninsured don’t get the preventative
and maintenance care that they need are more likely to need more expensive care
later. (amsa.org)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lack of Universal Health Care results in “job-lock” (people
who have insurance through a job cannot afford to leave) and people may not be
able to retire because they cannot get or cannot afford insurance. (amsa.org)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lack of health insurance and health care stops people from
opening their own businesses. There is an “entrepreneur” cost. (amsa.org)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The employer based health insurance system in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region> puts
tremendous strain on businesses. (amsa.org)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">And, the costs of insuring employees is added in to the cost
of products making <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
made products more expensive. (amsa.org)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> “In summary, the cost of universal health care
would be at least $34-$69 billion, plus whatever costs are associated with
covering out-of-pocket expenses and uncompensated care for the uninsured.
Specific solutions may entail additional expenses as well, depending on their
design parameters.” (amsa.org)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">But, “The
issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1%
of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul.” (amsa.org)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">SOURCES:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">https://www.amsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/CaseForUHC.pdf<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/health-costs-how-the-us-compares-with-other-countries/">http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/health-costs-how-the-us-compares-with-other-countries/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">http://kff.org/uninsured/fact-sheet/ke<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-52571648701462341882017-06-14T19:17:00.001-07:002017-06-14T21:03:52.035-07:00Dear Liberals, Progressives, Democrats: Join the 21st Century!<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">My dear liberals... Oh, how I love you! But... Well... Something is wrong!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Liberals, progressives, and Democratic Party organizations – formal and informal - need to get organized to
meet the demands and challenges of these times using 21st century means.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Many of us are using tactics that
are outdated and ultimately destined to continued failure.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Political organizations must use
social media.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></b>
<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><b>Every political party unit should have an updated easy to navigate web-page, a Twitter account, a Facebook Group, and a Facebook Page.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><b>Then, get to work connecting with other groups, sharing your info and events, and promoting your message!</b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">What about live-streaming a meeting,
a speaker, a portion of a meeting, an event…? Using Twitter during a meeting? Taking
pix and sharing them on FB & Twitter? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Social media is a very powerful tool
that cannot be ignored. It may not be the answer to everything but it has to be
a part of the plan. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A look around social networks reveals
that many groups, including local Democratic political parties, are not using social
media effectively, if at all.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The boards of directors or the
executive committees of some groups purposely refuse to support the
use of social media: to allocate resources (money and time), to learn to use
social media as individuals, to hire consultants to train board members and
members, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Why? They believe that it is a waste
of time.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">County Democratic Parties and other
progressive groups often don’t have Twitter accounts or don’t use them and may rarely even post on their own FB pages and groups.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Board or committee members of
liberal organizations often do not “Like” or “Share” the posts on their <i>own</i> pages/groups to increase their <i>own</i> Facebook visibility.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Chairs or other leaders of liberal groups
refuse to share their events on
other FB pages or on Twitter.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">This means that other people and
organizations using social media have to check numerous other groups and pages
to collect info that should be shared by the groups themselves. Whew!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It's 2017! Get crackin'!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Love, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">VLL<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-6233369179954285922017-06-09T20:31:00.001-07:002017-06-09T20:31:26.188-07:00Dear Anti-Abortion Rights Friends<span style="font-size: large;">Ah, friends</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">There will never come a time when we all have the exact same values and beliefs. But, I hope that we can always have the same facts - from a diversity of sources and with citations, of course!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Even if you believe that blastocysts have souls or you don't believe that people have souls, can we all agree with science has to say?</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Many
abortion restrictions are not based on sound science. (Guttmacher Institute) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Scientists
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study by the New England Journal of Medicine found no link between abortion and
later pregnancy complications including miscarriage. (VeryWell)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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myth that infants capable of independent life are “ripped from the uterus.” All
states have term limits on abortion. (The <st1:place w:st="on">Atlantic</st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype></st1:place> of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists (ACOG) said it considers the case to be closed as to whether
a fetus can feel pain at that stage (20 weeks) in development.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The science shows that based on gestational age, the fetus
is not capable of feeling pain until the third trimester," said Kate
Connors, a spokesperson for ACOG. The third trimester begins at about 27 weeks
of pregnancy.” (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">American</st1:placename>
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religious and ethical groups support or allow abortion. (Christian Life
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Christian doctor came to believe that he had a duty to perform abortions
because he saw the suffering of pregnant women and girls as young as 12. (Newsweek)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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experiencing and that has lead them to risk (and lose) their lives. (Newsweek)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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not a new issue: “Abortion has been performed for thousands of years, and in
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from the time the earliest settlers arrived. At the time the Constitution was
adopted, abortions before “quickening” were openly advertised and commonly
performed.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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unintentional pregnancy and childbirth is enormous: about 12 billion dollars
annually for medical care for mothers and infants. (Brookings Inst.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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unintended pregnancy rate exceeds 60 percent. (Brookings Inst.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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what happens when the rights of a fetus are more important than that of a fully
sentient adult woman: A young beautiful Hindu woman died tragically when denied
an abortion of a pregnancy (that was in miscarriage) that had become septic. (The Guardian)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Peace, Vivian</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/a-look-at-late-term-abortion-restrictions-state-by-state/448098/">https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/a-look-at-late-term-abortion-restrictions-state-by-state/448098/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/medical-treatments/abortion-and-breast-cancer-risk.html">https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/medical-treatments/abortion-and-breast-cancer-risk.html</a>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.christianliferesources.com/article/listing-of-religious-groups-that-support-abortion-1187">http://www.christianliferesources.com/article/listing-of-religious-groups-that-support-abortion-1187</a>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/08/abortion-refusal-death-ireland-hindu-woman">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/08/abortion-refusal-death-ireland-hindu-woman</a>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/christian-doctor-willie-parker-abortion-provider-choice-book-580142">http://www.newsweek.com/christian-doctor-willie-parker-abortion-provider-choice-book-580142</a>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="https://www.verywell.com/abortion-future-miscarriage-risk-2371749"><span style="font-size: large;">https://www.verywell.com/abortion-future-miscarriage-risk-2371749</span></a></span>Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-61960797989380526802017-06-01T14:41:00.000-07:002017-06-01T14:41:05.164-07:00My Dear Soul Mates<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Liberals. Progressives. Democrats - from the far left to more conservative than most Republicans: </b></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="46stm-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Once again: There is not a day that goes by that I do not read posts from you using derogatory language that stereotypes poor and working class people. </b></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="am9eg-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>People who would never utter a derogatory racist term or make a homophobic comment feel completely free to make negative assumptions about huge groups of diverse people and huge regions of the country.</b></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="am9eg-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>And, they feel completely entitled to deride the poor and the working class without knowing one damn thing about the people that they are trash talking.</b></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="546to-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>In the last 2 days, it was comments about the "ignorant toothless hillbillies that elected Trump," and the "redneck racists" that were at a rally. These are not useful descriptive terms. These are classist terms. Classist. </b></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="f1ckr-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>One comment was on how terrible the "redneck racists" at a rally looked and dressed. Fashion reviews from a rally?</b></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7fjb9-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Dearest Liberal Friends: </b></span></span><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">THEY CAN SEE YOU! THEY CAN HEAR YOU! Yes. Poor people. Working class people. Toothless people. Hillbillies. They do have computers. And, smart phones. And, TV. Cable! Who knew?</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Do you really think that you have 2,000 friends and not one of them is from a poor or working class background?</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">When I chastised the commenter for stereotyping, she kindly let me know that "most rednecks are racists." Another stereotype. I will let the admissions committee at the Country Club know that they have competition.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Remember the lessons on how stereotyping is just lazy thinking? It applies to your thinking about poor and working class people, too. Who knew?!?</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Oh, and those huge blocks of the country that liberals love to hate (Texas, "The South," Appalachia, etc. etc. etc? They are not a monolithic group. Stereotyping, again.</b></div>
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Stereotyper: Wow, there are some hilbillies there.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">V: Yes, I am.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">S: You are not like "them."</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Now, substitute the word "Jew" or the word "African American."</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>My father in rural Eastern KY had cable 25 years ago. I live 3 miles from the Janesville city limits and have none.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>My mother was a school teacher and my red neck father was a union construction worker that sent 3 girls to college.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>They were "yeller dog Democrats" who told me that they wouldn't sent me to college unless I registered to vote as a Democrat.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>My mother worked to organize a union.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>My little town had doctors and lawyers and teachers and writers and police officers and builders and ... poor people.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Oh, having no teeth is not a fashion statement. People have no teeth because a dental implant can cost $2,000 but it just costs a few bucks to have your teeth pulled.</b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">I will never believe that you are pure of racism and homphobia as long as you despise poor people.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Why some of my best friends are poor redneck toothless hillbillies.</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>We need more love in the world, less judgment and no name calling or stereotyping.</b></span></div>
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Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831615164210001986.post-33238758246151080372017-05-04T12:52:00.000-07:002017-05-04T12:52:12.264-07:00Dear Friends on the Crazy Left - Yes! You!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Dear Crazy Left:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>You are my tribe. My people. The place where I feel most comfy. My soul mates!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>But, you are costing me my sanity - any shred of sanity that I had left.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>I remember the Vietnam War. The Civil Rights Movement. Sh!t! I remember George Wallace! Gulf 1. Iraq - oops, wrong country. Who knew? AF. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>But, you know what is killing my soul. YOU, my dear soul mates. YOU!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Stop fighting! Stop SHOUTING! at both friend and enemy. Stop with the fake news and Republican talking points! Stop name calling! Were you raised by wolves? No. That's an insult to wolves. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Shhhhh... </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"Come together right now." Or, else.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Love, love, love is all there is,</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>VLL</b></span>Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132028672488569105noreply@blogger.com0