Ramona

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• Website: ramonasvoices.blogspot.com
• Location Upper Michigan
• Politics Liberal Democrat

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• Favorite Blogs TPM, Robert Reich, Margaret and Helen, Preserve Protect and Defend,
• Favorite Books Molly Ivins, Studs Terkel, John Steinbeck, Eudora Welty, Annie Dillard, Barbara Kingsolver, J.K. Rowling, Michael Chabon, Carol Shields,Wallace Stegner, Larry McMurtry, John Irving, Elmore Leonard, John McPhee, Rachel Carson, Shelby Foote, Kaye Gibbons, Marilynne Robinson, Anita Shreve (more to come)
• Favorite Quotes

  "Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did Conservatives do? They opposed them on every one of those things...every one! So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, 'Liberal,' as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won't work, Senator, because I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor." -- Matt Santos, The West Wing

  
  

  Every time someone down the line is irreverent about authority, I'll have my monument. Every time some kid who was born a nigger, a kike, a wop, a Polack, a gook, a gimp, a fag, or just a plain maverick lifts up her head and dares anyone to stop her, I'll have my monument. Every time they peaceably assemble to petition their government for redress of a grievance, I'll be there. Whenever they worship as they please (or not at all), I'll be there. Whenever they speak up and speak out and raise hell, I'll be there. And every time some blue-bellied, full-blooded nincompoop who holds elected office is called to the floor for deciding to keep us safe by rewriting the Constitution, or by suspending due process and holding a citizen indefinitely without legal representation, I'll be there. Now that is immortality. I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin. I figure freedom and justice beat having my name in marble any day. Besides, if there is another life after this one, think how much we'll get to laugh watching it all -- Molly Ivins

  The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. - George Orwell

  You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

Bio

I am a lifelong Liberal and a long-time writer who has found my voice again with the dawning of the Obama age. I lived underground during the Bush Regime, spouting off under a variety of assumed names, but now I'm who I am--just as I am. Email: ramonasvoices@gmail.com