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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.”
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?
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!
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!
To all the women throughout the world: HAPPY INTERNATIONBAL WOMEN’S DAY!
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
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….
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.
A Univ. of Wisconsin scientific study gives us facts that conclude that, per capita, migrants commit fewer crimes & far fewer felonies than US citizens, with no evidence to show an increase in crime by the undocumented. Plus, Pew Research Center studies show it is not true that more immigrants coming in leads to more crime. Time for people & politicians to stop the lies that are leading to division and racial violence in our country. See https://sociology.wisc.edu/2020/12/08/study-by-michael-light-demonstrates-low-crime-rates-among-undocumented-immigrants-compared-to-u-s-citizens/