President Obama on True Satisfaction

A lot of sentences Barack Obama spoke in his inaugural speech touched me. 
 
This one, however, is a favorite.  Experience in my personal  challenges have taught me that these words hold truth.  It wraps up everything in life; it’s the formula to self-created happiness and purpose  for those who are willing to do the work. Question is, [...]

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On “Obama” Day

My husband begins his new job today.  I’ll be signing my life away on a contract for a house (it was a fight but we got it)  and we get a new president at the same time.  Today is a good day.  Personally and politically we’ve got hope as we get rid of the “dope” and [...]

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Rachel Maddow on Rick Warren

This is a tough call.  On the one hand, we’ve got Obama living up to the inclusion promise.  On the other, couldn’t there have been a less radical choice?!
 
Rachel Maddow’s take is worth one’s time to view, courtesy of  Fourth Wave Feminism blog, which also has a link to sign a petition for those interested.
 
I’m actually [...]

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Elections by God

“… to put this all in God’s hands [the election], to seek his perfect will for this nation, and to of course seek his wisdom and guidance in putting this nation back on the right track”, seems to be Sarah Palin’s view of how our world works.
 
Oh, I’m sorry Mrs. Palin.  Did you say the [...]

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Price of a Plumber’s Fame

Sure Joe the plumber got his 15 minutes of fame but at what cost?
I haven’t come across too many people bring out the point of how Mr. Wurzelbacher (Joe the plumber) got used in a sense by political means and how that wasn’t right.  Now the entire U.S (and then some) knows he’s not a licensed [...]

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“Swinging” Voters Can Help Women

I couldn’t imagine that I would be saved after I told…’no one’s going to believe you’ [the abusers said].”
This quote comes from a rape/incest survivor (part 1 & 2 at the bottom of the screen).  Her fears are common among the abused, as are the kind of threats and manipulations from her abusers and the [...]

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I agree with the world

The whole world has financed the United States, and I believe that they have a reciprocal debt with the planet,” he [Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ] said.
…The managers of big business took huge risks out of greed,” said President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, whose economy is highly dependent on U.S. trade. [...]

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Returning to the Red House

I’ve decided to “suspend” my anti-Palin blogging.  It’s draining, negative and brings out the worst in me, both in a self-perpetuated craziness of re-examining feminism and in lashing out opinions which even for me are an ouch, though sometimes everyone needs to vent out. There will always be ignorance by the uneducated fighting for causes [...]

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Sign the Anti-Palin Petition

Thus far, over 16,000 women have signed their names for a petition against Sarah Palin as VP.  Today I’ll be adding mine.  I sincerely hope my readers will consider the same. 
After reading the petition, I encourage you to scroll down and begin reading some of the comments left by  thousands of women who see what [...]

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‘Feminism’s Bastardization’

This is by far the best article I’ve read on how Sarah Palin is negatively affecting feminism.  The author from Salon dot com, Rebecca Traister, discusses “feminism’s bastardization”.  Beautifully put, I think.
Further, Traister provides a link to something I didn’t even know but shutter at the thought: let women pay for their own rape kits – [...]

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Perverse Campaigning

Well, this couldn’t pass by me without a comment.
The latest attacks hit a special place in my heart and that’s children, sex and education – and pedophiles.  The Obama campaign is seeking comprehensive sexual education for children – kindergarten aged – NOT TO TEACH THAT A PENIS GOES INTO A VAGINA -but to introduce the [...]

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Can You Trust a Pitbull?

Forget pigs.  Isn’t it known that pitbulls can’t ever be fully trusted?  Don’t they even attack their own owners?  They’re owners will, of course, argue that they’re loving and caring dogs, I suppose but a pitbull is a pitbull.  Don’t put one in the yard with my kids.  So, if we can’t fully trust pitbulls, [...]

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Aborting Ethics

From the McCain website:
“John McCain believes Roe v. Wade is a flawed decision that must be overturned, and as president he will nominate judges who understand that courts should not be in the business of legislating from the bench.
Constitutional balance would be restored by the reversal of Roe v. Wade, returning the abortion question to [...]

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