Questions And Suffrage

How can women be so cavalier with their hard won civil rights?  I do not take this question lightly.  Are they so greatly in need of a man's approval that they will do and say anything to get that "verbal pat on the head?"

I was alerted to this phenomenon years ago when I was shocked to hear women phoning in to the Limbaugh show. They couldn't wait to tell him ----HIM ---- something they had just done or said to diminish their own rights.  Stunning!  The Rush response, as always, was "Right on, right on."  The woman caller thought she was quite special so great was her need for approval from this scam artist  --- a scammer that was secretly laughing at her.  Amazingly enough, Rush started out as little more than a "slug" with no ambition, lazy beyond description ---- working, (if you can call it that,) for the KC Royals.  He had the no skill job of figuring out what gift the first 100 people  should receive on t-shirt night!  Oh I don't know, perhaps t-shirts?  Next he got off his couch, and perfected his present "dog and pony" show ---- and from this some woman wants HIS approval!  STOP IT!

We even had a local woman run for office who didn't believe women should have the right to vote!  YES!

Everybody - women and men, should be required to take a course on the history of how women won that right to vote.  The final exam should be to see if the students can justify anybody voting for someone who seeks to diminish women's rights. Put that in essay form.  They would have to make clear why any woman would freely abdicate her rights by voting for a candidate who thinks she is incapable of making her own decisions about health, family, and government.

To the present day Republicans:  If you are worried about "personhood," how about starting with the "personhood" of a woman.

If you vote for the Republican party the loss of the rights of women will certainly not be reflected by the fact that women are a minority. We are not.  So, unlike the GLBT community, by voting Republican, women will be complicit in making themselves second class citizens.

FOR GOD'S SAKES, WOMEN, HONOR YOUR HISTORY.  SO MANY MEN AND WOMEN FOUGHT FOR IT.

Voting Day Surprise

Today was the big day.  Early Voting - First Day!  I arrived early, and was the sixth person in line.  The fifth voter, oddly enough, was an elderly man eager to tell me that he disliked Gov. Brownback, and literally didn't care who knew it.  (Easy to believe, judging by the pitch of his voice!)  The other four voters were looking daggers at this outspoken, rare specimen.  They appeared to think he was daft.  Since I said I agreed with him, he insisted on giving me his place in line.  Thus, I became the fifth voter, and he became the sixth. CHILVARY ON THE GREAT PLAINS!  He continued to rant on until the polls opened, and mercifully for the first four, the polls opened early!

If I had come at 10:00 the line would have been out the door doubling back on itself.  It was a steady stream from then on.  Most of the people were retired, just a few under 30.

As I approached the table, I extended my photo ID and said, "Please take your time."  I was very polite. - most sincere.  This is quite a responsibility.

As I left the polls in Johnson County, Kansas, I felt, WHAT A REMARKABLE SURPRISE ----- I actually know for a fact that the president received at least two votes here this morning.

Early Voting - Kansas!

Sam Brownback and Kris Kobach decided to live on the edge allowing "early voting" to stand in Kansas.  On Monday the 22nd I will be at the Metcalf South Shopping Center at 10:00 am. (Yes, for those of you who recall the Center - it still remains.  Sadly, it is almost ghostly in  appearance.  Yet, that is where early voting for our area takes place.  Kobach and Brownback have not yet invented phony reasons to take away early voting in Kansas.  There's always the next voting cycle......) After my experience voting in the worthless primary, I know that this time I will insist that someone actually look at my photo ID!  If I am to play my part in this charade, then the poll worker must play out their part. LOOK AT THE DAMN ID!  Well, anyway, Monday is THE day, and I can't wait to cast my vote..... to get it safely recorded, and hope that it is safely counted.

               
                                    DID IT  ACTUALLY WORK?
Do you realize that nobody seems to be talking about or asking for Romney's tax returns any more?  Was he really able to wait out the storm?  That is the best job of stonewalling I've ever witnessed.  Seems he got away with it, and he knew he would.  (Please pass the "family valium!")

"Please Proceed!"

I think we all can agree that M. Romney is remarkably enthralled, delighted, thrilled, in love, pleased, yes, enchanted with himself, but could he not have sensed that the words, "please proceed," as stated by President Obama were virtually interchangeable with the word S T O P as it appears on a big red traffic sign?  During the past Tues. evening's debate,  M. Romney was blinded by his own magnificence. He was not only buoyed by his sheer grand existence, but he had finally exhibited for all to see the fact that he has no respect for the office of The President of the United States. I think he told the president that he, (the President,) would get his turn. It is to be understood, after all, that the grand M. Romney must finish explaining his newest position on any question being asked. Bring forth the mirrors, and by all means, "PLEASE PROCEED!"

"It is a truly debilitating condition that I have battled all my life.” – Mitt Romney

Tearful Mitt Romney Announces He Has Rare Disease Where You Can't Sit Quietly On Stool When  Repeatedly Asked To.

http://onion.com/T2NaOJ

Really? No One Dies From Lack Of Health Insurance?

Well, as you might know,  we are in my territory now, so with the enormous help of Ms. Barbara Shelly, a columnist with the Kansas City Star, I am going to put forth a fact I have been trying to make, and she did make in her Oct. 12th column, about Romney's perception of how health insurance works.

Romney was quoted as saying, "We don't have a setting across this country where if you don't have insurance, we just say to you, 'Tough luck' you're going to die when you have your heart attack,'" he said.

"No you go to the hospital, you get treated, you get care, and it's paid for, either by charity, the government, or by the hospital. We don't have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don't have insurance."  MY GOD, IS HE WRONG!  As Ms. Shelly points out, and I have been muttering about -------- PEOPLE DO DIE FROM LACK OF INSURANCE!

Romney's moronic statement makes me believe he didn't have anything to do with writing or reading the Mass. health reform bill when he was governor.

When people don't have insurance, there is no preventive care.   When a person  reaches  a state of catastrophe and has to go to the emergency room, they are rarely among the survivors. At least that is what the statistics show.  If you do recover sufficiently to be discharged, well, just try to pay the bill, or pay for your meds that you will be needing, or pay for follow up treatment of any kind.  So the next
question is ----- why did Governor Mitt put together such a plan if all you have to do is wait until you are on the brink of death,  and someone finds you in time for the emergency room doc to actually save you.  (Not great odds!!!)

Most, or all, of what Mitt Romney says about health care is based on the premise that everyone listening to him is just plain stupid.  He believes that either he is sooo smart, or we are sooo dumb, that he doesn't have to bother with facts.  Pretty darned insulting.

Worry And Fret!

You know what some people would say I do best?  "Worry," and as we say on the prairie, "fret!" (I can see my children nodding and laughing right about now.)  What am I worried about?  You got it.  Romney!  He truly scares me.  Perhaps it has to do with my grandchildren.  I also know you don't have to have children and grandchildren to be scared of Romney.  You just have to know in your heart something is very wrong if Romney prevails. Is it as basic as old fashioned patriotism?  Is it that sick feeling that one can have if their vote is purchased, or if they are cheated out of their vote with out this being of concern to Romney?

Four years ago I was so elated when President Obama won.  Everything seemed so incredibly right when that actually happened.  (Of course there was still a great sadness regarding the result of Prop 8. We understood how that came about. So on we fight.)  But the President Obama win was mighty sweet.

In no more than a blink of an eye we were to learn that the present day Republican party pledged themselves not to our country's well being , not to patriotism, but to destroying President Obama.  Imagine getting every single member of your party to dedicate their work  --- not on behalf of their constituents --- not for the good of the country ---- not even  to govern, but to bring down one man. Insane! Unpatriotic!  Is it any wonder I worry, and I fret!?  Romney has become the choice of these people.  What Romney has not become, thus far, is a person that can ally the fears of a woman in Kansas  - a woman that looks for a sense of decency, intellectual curiosity, respect for others, and respect for basic truth.  This man doesn't have or show these traits now and certainly, he didn't seem to exhibit them as a youth.  HE SCARES ME!   Time to worry and fret.

PBS

Dear Mr. Romney,
          How does one come to the conclusion to cut funding to PBS?  Think of all the people who do not reside in urban areas - who might even consider themselves Republican - but have no access to symphonic orchestras, ballets, operas, theater productions or any classic event.  Perhaps, Mr. Romney, they might enjoy all those special occasions much like you do, especially at holiday time.  One holiday comes to mind --- the Fourth!  How about that wonderful celebration televised from our nation's capitol?  Are you against that for other people, Mr. Romney?

You know what else you might be exposed to ----- science!  You might find out why it is a good idea to keep your window from opening on a plane.  NOVA!