Take a look at this, then consider:

…In response to Jill Biden presenting Rueda* with the ‘International Women of Courage’ award, social media users have accused the First Lady of ‘encouraging the diminishment of women’ and ‘erasing women’.

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who has been a vocal critic of President Joe Biden, tweeted: ‘It’s International Women’s Day – a good time to remember that the Democrats can’t even tell you what a woman is.”

From <https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11839053/Row-erupts-online-Jill-Biden-gives-transgender-woman-Argentina-Women-Courage-award.html>

*Ruenda is Alba Rueda,  is a transgender woman who the government of Argentina earlier this year named as its first-ever global envoy for LGBTQ.  She was one of  eleven women who received the International Women of Courage award from Jill Biden.

In the hope that by looking rationally at heated statements of both parties we might let a little fresh air in and raise the level of logic...So. to start with this one:

1. Is a man who identifies himself as a woman and embraces their woman-ness really seeking to diminish and eradicate women?  That’s really turning logic upside down.

2. Where does the whiff of automatic competitiveness lie?

3. Rueda is only one of 11 women honored by Jill Biden.  What are the odds Jill–a woman–doesn’t know what a woman is?

4. With a bachelor’s degree. two Masters degrees and a PhD. in Education Jill Bidden s not likely to be guilty of Sarah Huckabee’s accusation.

5. If they were talking about a woman who wanted to become a man it might be borderline rational, but by joining womanhood how could that mean “diminish women”?

6. Isn’t Huckabee a member of that group who want to force all pregnant women to hatch their babies, whether wanted or not?  Talk about diminishing women!

SORRY for backsliding into negativity, and I’ll continue to leave the real crazies alone (not giving them their PR),  but maybe turning the light of logic on some of the statements might be useful, even once in a million?

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A JOURNAL ENTRY 1-10-98

Searching for my voice- Crumpled pages lie beside my typewriter. The notion lingers that  if I can just find the right voice, the right cross between irony and sorrow with a little joie de vivre thrown in, then the words would spew out (too much like a volcano? Vomit?)…spill out onto the fresh white pages.

Still looking….

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The Detroit Free Press explains that during examination of medical experts, LaSata became angry after testimony that by banning standard second-trimester procedures for abortion, the Michigan legislature would be putting women into painful and dangerous scenarios. Sen. LaSata’s response was the kind of Jesus empathizing you might expect from a good Christian like LaSata: “Of course it should be hard! And the procedure should be painful! And you should allow God to take over!! And you should deliver that baby!”

From <https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/15/1857887/-Michigan-Republican-says-that-abortion-procedures-should-be-painful-and-God-should-take-over>

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GONE SONG

Oh there’s going over the hill, Bill,

also going over the edge.

And then there’s gone, gone, gone.

Their memory of you is at thirty-two

or whenever they knew you last.

Hey hey.

It’s great to be poor

–yet let in the door–

but there’s a big traffic jam

at the eye of the needle.

So I’ll just sing this song and

toddle  along.  Gone, I’m gone.

Still the poor garbage man lingers,

While the auctioneer jingles

coins in his pocket and bangs

down  his gavel, shouting

“Going, Going, Gone!”

Ya think?  Hey hey.

nan

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GUN STATS

Diane Ravitch is clever, I surmise, in making it difficult for others to reblog her posts. Her site is one of the most valued sites for several topics, and it seems she’d prefer you to visit her site rather than read it on a reblog.  (Can’t blame her). At least that’s my guess, given all the difficulties I run into for even trying.  So, you need to go to her site and see her gun chart, yesterday.  It’s mind-blowing, and credited if you can understand from where.  Look at the lives the gun people would have on their conscience if they had one.

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SOUTHERN BAPTIST MISOGYNISTS

Just in case you missed it: The Southern Baptists are kicking female ministers out of the church, and apparently their congregations with them.  So what else is new from the religious right (In addition to forced birth?)  Mama mia!

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BITTERNESS DOESN’T BECOME ME, EITHER,  but neither does moral blindness.

I USED TO LIVE IN MIAMI

I worked in the main library near Biscayne Bay.

I graduated from Miami Jackson High School,, took art and was on the Globe staff.  I took Radio Speech and was a dee jay some Saturdays, courtesy of Mr. Fisher our teacher.  At one point I got free lunch while a student there. Mrs. Halliday was my homeroom teacher.

The thought of Miami this day, Tuesday, is saddening.  I think of the lemmings…the lemmings and of the Pied Piper of Hamlin.

And then I thought of those dangerous high wire acts, some of which proved deadly.  And then I felt like praying.

MUST BE!…Chandeliers for the bathroom!

Something’s peeking up behind the shower curtains.  No comment, just a sigh.

Guess who said this in 2016:

“In my administration I’m going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law.”  [Okey dokey]

Image fielded by  Maureen Dowd’s opinion piece in the nytimes on the 10th

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MEDICARE FOR ALL?

YOU BET!

Maybe that will result in some significant  common sense changes in the wealthiest tax brackets.  About time!  The United States (that’s us)  is wringing its hair (joke) over the Debt ceiling.  Wouldn’t it be nice to  lower the ceiling a tad by taxing the super million-billionaires?

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The more I get to know people, the more I realize why Noah let only animals on the boat.

From <https://mail.google.com/

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Recommended goldie oldie  [not a sponsored thing]:

Between Parent and Child by  Haim  Ginott:

Between Parent and Child is a book written for parents to help them become more effective in raising their children, starting with improved communication. Haim Ginott describes how empathy can be combined with discipline in this straightforward book.

When my first baby was born I had only read Spock. Then I found this one and recommend it even to non-parents.  It would have been so nice if my parents had read it.

IT FEELS FAKE

When someone dies I do not

Offer a note of care, because

The loss is so great that words

On paper feel like an insult.

And there’s the problem of who to

Send it to? Wife, mother or child?

I feel like I should

Send it to me because I care.

Losing someone to another dimension

Leaves me speechless.  “Where  are they,”

The child in me frets, unable to

Send a drop of water to the fire..

When you die you’ll never get a

card from me. Who needs it the most?

And how pitiful the proper

response from me would be?

I know I don’t play by the rules.

Either cruelly I cannot be bothered

Or I care too much.

*

I know, I know: Knowing that someone departed is missed and remembered should make the chief loser feel better, but that’s so miniscule, and depending upon their style of mourning, it may throw them back into despair.  Am I just making excuses or do I doubt my own ability to express what I mean?

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REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY?

New York is considering creating a commission to consider  reparations for the lingering negative effects of slavery.  How could I be against that? Doesn’t reparation for the misdeeds of our ancestors take away time and money from current  injustices to the slaves’ offspring?  But hush….don’t whisper that in front of the children….in public schools, or at universities in some states. My public access television dried up on the vine, but hopefully A.I. hasn’t invaded my Word Press blog yet.

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GUESS WHAT!  GOOD NEWS!

The Supreme Court just ruled  in support of parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 against the State of Alabama.  Guess what!  Clarence Thomas strongly dissented.  Someone needs to clarify the double-think being used today to turn words and meanings inside out.