http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080920/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_north_korea&printer=1;_ylt=AiQgvPUYvj4hpRZhSHIxdlgGw_IE Seems Bush and North Korea still can't get along. Golly gee.

And YES, I donated to PP in honor of Sarah Palin tonight, and I'm damn proud of it!!

I used the standard boiler plate, to a point:

I am writing to oppose the so-called "conscience" rule recently submitted by Secretary Leavitt. This regulation poses a serious threat to women's health care by limiting the rights of patients to receive complete and accurate health information and services.

At a time when more and more families are uninsured and under economic assault, we find our health care system is in crisis and our president taking steps to deny access to basic care. Women's ability to manage their own health care is at risk of being compromised by politics and ideology.

After that, I added my own words:

Even our founding fathers would've fathered children who are either at risk, or could risk their mothers' lives.  Some amendments actually do make sense.  This one does.

I'll make you a deal.  I'll continue to support Barack Obama, and you continue to support my rights.

Sound good?

Yours very sincerely,

(my name/address, and then my postscript):
First and only abortion at the age of 41, and grateful for the private and clinically sound conditions while having it.

 

http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/frcp08_adv1?qp_source=frcp08pporg

 

First, the light stuff. I just got this in my inbox here at work. I think it's a great idea:

 

> > This was forwarded to me. It is a great idea. Please share it widely!
> >
> > Dear Friends:
> >
> > We may have thought we wanted a woman on a national political
> ticket,
> > but the joke has really been on us, hasn't it? Are you as sick
> in your
> > stomach as I am at the thought of Sarah Palin as Vice
> President of the
> > United States ?
> >
> > Since Palin gave her speech accepting the Republican
> nomination for the
> > Vice Presidency, Barack Obama's campaign has raised over $10
> million
> > dollars. Some of you may already be supporting the Obama
> campaign
> > financially; others of you may still be a little honked off
> over the
> > primaries. None of you, however, can be happy with Palin's
> selection,
> > especially on her positions on women's issues. So, if you feel
> you
> > can't support the Obama campaign financially, may I suggest
> the
> > following fiendishly brilliant alternative?
> >
> > Make a donation to Planned Parenthood. In Sarah Palin's name.
> And
> > here's the good part: when you make a donation to PP in her
> name,
> > they'll send her a card telling her that the donation has been
> made in
> > her honor. Here's the link to the Planned Parenthood website:
> >
> > http://www.plannedparenthood.org/
> >
> > You'll need to fill in the address to let PP know where to
> send the "in
> > Sarah Palin's honor" card. I suggest you use the address for
> the McCain
> > campaign headquarters, which is:
> >
> > McCain for President
> > 1235 S. Clark Street
> > 1st Floor
> > Arlington , VA 22202
> > Feel free to send this along to all your women friends and
> urge them to
> > do the same.
>

And now the serious, heavy stuff. PLEASE READ THIS:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-dantoni/can-obamas-ground-game-be_b_127509.html

Thanks.

 

 

Okay, so those of you who know me since I started blogging here in the spring know that I’ve had an epiphany kinda moment at one point in my life and I became a Democrat.  Those of you who really know me know that I’ve had more than just one of those moments.

Those of you have been real close know that my ex-boyfriend/roommate has left for good and the apartment is all mine.  Which means that my life, as well, is all mine.

I’ve been studying the cool characteristics of my apartment, and determining my favorite colors, and I’ve come up with a plan to redecorate my place by using what I have and simply maximizing it:  Add some color, add some punch, but go with the potential that’s there.

When I talk to my close friends about my plans for the apartment, they say, “Wow, great idea but why not let HGTV do it?  Why not take pictures of your place and submit them and ask them to come and re-do your apartment?“  Others add, “Why spend so much on something temporary?  Why not put your effort into maximizing the potential of something more permanent?”

They aren’t telling me to buy a house (they know I can’t afford it).  So what, exactly, are they suggesting?

What my friends all seem to know and what I didn’t know is that every woman who knows me wants to have me made over by “What Not To Wear”.  I mean, every woman.

This scares me a little.  In fact, this skeeres me a lot.

Number one, it tells me I’ve been neglecting my looks, big time.

Number two, it tells me that what I see in my apartment, my friends see in me.

I mean, there I was, taking pictures of my apartment, planning to send them to one of those HGTV apartment make-over shows, when all the while my friends have been wanting to take pictures of me!

I didn’t think I needed making over.  I never really paid much attention to my looks once I reached 39.  I figured that if I could look like I did in high school (which wasn’t much, btw), I was fine.

But my friends tell me otherwise.  They tell me I have everything going for me, but I myself cannot see it.  They tell me that it will take a Tim Gunn type person to make me see what I can’t see.

So, okay, cool.  They will take my “before” picture and send it with some letter telling some editors how sorry-ass I am, and then some strangers will come to my house and pick apart all my clothes in my closet and I’ll have to argue with them and cry over being able to keep and hold onto -- and defend -- my favorites.  And then I’ll be ridiculed and grilled and talked about by two smarmy announcers until they browbeat me into going shopping with them.  Once in the store with them, I will have to try on whatever they think might work, all the while staying cheerful and hopeful, only to be told that everything I like is wrong and everything they like is right.

I will lose all of my individuality, all of my favorite clothes, all of my comfort zone, in order to make my friends happy and the media establishment (by way of two snotty announcers who don’t know me) happy by giving them their freaking make-over wherein I get $5,000 worth of new clothes that I might not necessarily like or feel comfortable in.  And one hell of a tax bill one year later.

Now, I ask you smart people here at TPM, I ask you:  Why should I have myself made-over by a bunch of well-meaning friends and snotty MSM strangers, when I could just go to Home Depot and make my apartment over all by myself and start with that?

I mean, I’m not John McCain or Sarah Palin, you know?