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We’re All Poisoned

I’m tired and insulted by hearing again and again that I’m “not human” and a “criminal” and that I gave birth to a son who is the same. I’m not an immigrant but have grandparents who were and who, therefore, have “poisoned our country.” Obviously that poisoned blood flows through my veins and my son’s, as well. The speaker of those words refers to those terrible people as “migrants,” not limiting them to “illegals.” Which is odd, since he and his kids also carry the bad blood of his migrant family. He insults ALL Americans, and I’m sick of it!

Put a Balloon in your Chimney

When you aren’t using your fireplace, keep warm air inside your home by installing an inflatable chimney balloon. It works even better than just closing the damper. 

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2nd President’s Wife Reminds Husband John

Abigail, to her husband Pres John Adams, adds to this month’s Women’s History Month, with today’s Thursday Thought quote:

“Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors [were].  Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.”  

Get to Work, Woman!

If you’re a working woman, at the end of today, you will have earned what a man in your same job earned just last week. If you’re lucky, you’re probably earning 84 cents when that man is earning a dollar. If you’re a woman of color, that pay gap is even larger. When you retire, you’re twice as likely as a man to live in poverty  because he has more savings than you do.  

Oh, and, by the way…today is Equal Pay Day.  This is the day into the year that a woman must work (adding in last year) at the same job a man works, with his having to work only through last December to earn the same amount of money.

Gee.  You’d think that employers still had old fashioned ideas that a woman worked as a hobby, that she has a husband who is the one who provides for her and the needs of the family and so deserves the job and pay. Naw….who in this day and age would still think such a thing?

Open Personal Request for D. Trump

Please, Mr. Trump, stop making fun of those of us with disabilities. You did it again recently, during your Rome, GA rally. You mocked Joe Biden’s stutter, as you’ve done many times before to him, and ridiculed others for their disabilities. No matter who it is, we don’t deserve to be disrespected and dehumanized. Stop it!

Don’t Buy from Them

Get Your Guide sells tickets to some of the cruelest businesses in the world, e.g., SeaWorld, fake elephant “sanctuaries” in Thailand where elephants are forced to entertain visitors, and Monkeyland, a venue where monkeys are harassed by tourists. Avoid them!

A Day for Women

To all the women throughout the world: HAPPY INTERNATIONBAL WOMEN’S DAY!

Poison vs Differences

I despise election years. We’re bombarded by emails, snail-mail, phone calls, and TV ads that pit us against each other. Today’s Thursday Thought quote reminds us not to swallow their poison and, instead, remember a basic truth.

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize and celebrate those differences. — Andre Lorde

Teens Would Stump Trump

As a word-person and retired high school English teacher, I got a chuckle from what Mr. Trump said yesterday–that migrants bring in “language from Mars” that we’ve never heard before. He must not know any teenagers….

A Month to Celebrate Her

Over the past 45 years, Women’s History Week expanded to a month (March). It celebrates and honors women as a reminder of all that they’ve done historically and for society throughout the world. HAPPY WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH, SISTERS. And thanks.