STILL TRYING TO VOTE

Published October 11, 2024 by Nan Mykel

I went to the DMV today in Athens, Ohio after learning that my “Non-Driver” ID card had expired. In order to renew it I had to find and bring in my birth certificate! I had thought an ID card with a photo they took themselves four years ago would (and should) suffice, Miraculously, I still had my 89-year old birth certificate from the state of Virginia. Since my address was on my expired ID and I had not moved in over 20 years, I thought my address would be covered. But no, a mailing from my State of Ohio retirement policy folks was not sufficient. I need to return to the DMV again tomorrow with something more substantial, like a bank statement with my “current” address on it. What if I received my bank statements via the internet, or at a local P.O. Box number? I have voted in every major election for well over 40 years, without a problem. Some poll workers know me by name. I’m writing this blog just in case some other non-drivers won’t wait until the last minute (like election day) to learn they have been disenfranchised, Yes, I vaguely remember about two months ago receiving a reminder from the DMV to update, but I assumed they didn’t know I wasn’t even driving any more. I still wonder why a valid ID with a valid photo should expire before I do. …And the homeless without an address! Oh, I just thought: Maybe all new drivers’ licenses require a birth certificate now…?

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That’s enough writing for tonight.

WILL YOU BE ALLOWED TO VOTE?

Published October 11, 2024 by Nan Mykel

The Poetry Store

Published October 9, 2024 by Nan Mykel

A Little of This, a Little of That…

Published October 5, 2024 by Nan Mykel

EEW! Telegram has become a global sewer of criminal activity, disinformation, child sexual abuse material, terrorism and racist incitement, according to a four-month investigation by The New York Times that analyzed more than 3.2 million Telegram messages from over 16,000 channels. The company, which offers features that enable criminals, terrorists and grifters to organize and to sidestep scrutiny from the authorities, has looked the other way as illegal and extremist activities have flourished openly on the app. …Apparently its founder Pavel Durov is going through some tough times just now.

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WHY DO I keep reading about non-human consciousness? Probably because it is “off topic,” and not unduly offensive: Elephants: In northern Bengal, India, scientists studied five instances where an entire elephant herd participated in burying a deceased young elephant. The scientists reported that the elephants carried the dead calf’s body a distance to a suitable spot near a tea plantation, covered it with vegetation, and then the herd observed the body. Later, the elephants visited the site several times as the body decayed.

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SORRY, but maybe I can blame it on turning eighty-nine:

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Song by Fred Rogers

It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood

A beautiful day for a neighborWould you be mine? Could you be mine?

It’s a neighborly day in this beautywoodA neighborly day for a beautyWould you be mine? Could you be mine?

I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like youI’ve always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you

So, let’s make the most of this beautiful daySince we’re together, we might as well sayWould you be mine? Could you be mine?Won’t you be my neighbor?

Won’t you please, won’t you please?Please, won’t you be my neighbor?

Neighbors are people who are close to usAnd friends are people who are close to our heartsI like to think of you as my neighbor and my friend

I MISSED THIS AT THE TIME

Published October 2, 2024 by Nan Mykel

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I missed this at the time:

CNN — In some political careers, there comes a moment when you must stand up and say something you never wanted to say.

For Ohio state representative Teresa Fedor, that moment came in 2015, as she listened to her fellow lawmakers debate a bill that would forbid abortions once a heartbeat is detected, which can sometimes be as early as six weeks. A former schoolteacher who served in the legislature since 2002, she says she knew it was time to tell her own story.

“I knew when I decided to stand up, there was no looking back,” she says. Fedor, 59 at the time, began indirectly, noting that she had not heard any discussion of exceptions for rape. She said she respected her opponents’ reasoning. And then, a minute into her speech, she stunned her colleagues. On 25 March 2015, Fedor got so frustrated during the debate on abortion in the lower chamber of the state’s legislature that she stood up and revealed that she had been raped and terminated the resulting pregnancy. “You don’t respect my reason, my rape, my abortion, and I guarantee you there are other women who should stand up with me and be courageous enough to speak,” she said. “What you’re doing is so fundamentally inhuman, unconstitutional, and I’ve sat here too long.” Fedor was raped many years ago, while she was in the military. (^[16]

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CNN —

Former President Donald Trump cast himself as a “protector” of women at a Pennsylvania rally Monday evening and claimed that American women won’t be “thinking about abortion” if he’s elected.

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I wish I had saved the clipping, but not too long ago I read that one spokeswoman bemoaned abortions, because they might prevent one child from growing up to find a cure for cancer. [Statistics show that he would much more likely be a psychopath.]

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PUNISHMENT FOR SEX?

Is it my imagination or beneath the fire and brimstone’s energy against abortions does there lurk a brutal whiplash for females who make love, screw, get raped or are incested? Or for family size to increase in order to maintain the “white” civilization? Or to keep women out of competition with men at the workplace?

The question of how soon it’s possible to detect and confirm a pregnancy has come into focus as new abortion restrictions have been enacted across the country, including in Iowa, where a ban on most abortions after six weeks took effect in July. A similar ban took effect in Georgia, on May 1, although temporarily halted by a lower court judge.

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OFF MY FEED

Published September 30, 2024 by Nan Mykel

OH, DO CAST A VOTE FOR TRUMP?

He’ so cute…and masterful. Gets things done one way or another. And he’s a stickler for women’a looks. True, his wives couldn’t trust him, but ….what? Maybe the country can try again?

P.S. Google tells us that LIBERTY means the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views.

And that the hard-fought battle for “Emancipation of Women” refers to the process of liberating women from traditional constraints and empowering them with rights, freedoms, and opportunities for social, political, and economic progress.

Sometimes it helps to get our thoughts straight.

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WHY, WHY, WHY?

I don’t know the answer; do you?

But I feel for all the critters

in the world’s dust pan.

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A repeat of a positive image of unified cooperation, acceptance and inclusivity:

40 fruits on one tree,

Think about it.

Image from Dawn-Marie Cornett in Christian Monitor

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MEA CULPA

I promise very hard not to mention the T word again. I know it’s a litle nauseating and I will try to do better.

IMAGINE THIS…

Published September 29, 2024 by Nan Mykel

Image from Dawn-Marie Cornett in Christian Monitor

Remember the old saying, “If wishes were horses beggars could [or would?] ride…”

I thought of that when I saw this image of a tree bearing the fruit of 40 different lines, after a massive effort to connect them. Off hand I’d say the effort was worth it.

Hmmmnn…

THIS MUST BE A JOKE, ISN’T IT?

Published September 28, 2024 by Nan Mykel

SORRY, COULDN’T RESIST (and an unrelated poemette)

Published September 6, 2024 by Nan Mykel

DADDY DEAREST

HOPE IT’S COVID…

And not old age!

My stage is under closed eyes

and the shadows move

at their own pace.

A Rorschach blot, but which one?

The natives have cooked someone,

but who? I have a fever but

I’m not that hot! A yellow monarch

presages technicolor.

Sometimes the stage snippets lead

to poems, sometimes not.

Like now.

Note From Keith

Published September 4, 2024 by Nan Mykel

Keith Wilson

Sep 3, 2024, 5:07 PM (6 hours ago)

[I’m a sloppy copier but 88 and a Democrat…]

KEITH SAYS:

I read a surprising group that favors Trump is young men by 53% to 40%, while women support Harris 67% to 29%.

Two comments – the young men are attracted to Trump’s toughness, which I find funny. His false bravado should not be viewed as toughness plus we are more divided because he is NOT man enough to admit he lost in 2020. He has been given ample opportunity to prove election fraud, but has FAILED miserably. He would be hard pressed to lose any more than he has losing every recount, audit and review and all but one court case out of 65-ish.

The other is I am surprised ONLY 67% of young women support Harris given the Republican attacks on women’s rights and Trump’s admitted serial sexual assault on women because “they let him.” BEFORE his admission became public in October, 2016, he was accused by groping women’s private parts by around 15 women using the same description he did.

For you young guys who think he is tough, he dismissed his groping admission as “locker room talk.” If he admitted a sexual crime in any locker room I’ve been in, someone would have kicked his hind end or would have berated him. So, locker room talk is a poor defense. If you have a chance to discuss this with a young male Trump supporter, please say “help me understand…” then use the above.

Keith

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