IT TAKES A
WOMAN
Could we be
looking at the next Democratic Presidential candidate?
Main
Governor Janet Mills is the only person to stand up to Trump face-to-face. Democratic
Senators and congresspeople will talk about Trump but will not defy him to his
face. It takes a Maine woman.
Maine
political women have a history of standing up to corruption. This is a legacy from Margaret Chase Smith,
who stood up against McCarthyism in the 1950s
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Fiction books have been written about a dystopian America led by a charismatic sociopath and a cabal of oligarchs that serve as his minions.
Fiction often precedes reality. Fahrenheit 451, 1984 – it couldn’t happen here!
But it is happening.
The asylum
has been taken over by the inmates; Congress has relinquished its role as a check-and-balance
on the executive; the legal system has become corrupted from the top; and law
firms are capitulating to executive pressure.
You don’t
have to burn books when you can defund libraries. You don’t have to tell the truth when your
oligarchs own the news media. You don’t
have to abide by the rule of law when the top judicial court of the land is
your proxy.
Laws, rules,
and norms no longer matter when they constrain Dear Leader.
We are
entering a new dystopian America, and we are advancing with our eyes wide
open.
It happened
in Germany in 1938, and in Turkey and Hungary in the last three decades. We are in the midst of an American coup led by
a conman supported by half the population.
Trump will disenfranchise
or outright prevent the mid-term elections. Supported by his MAGA minions and a Republican
Party wishing to retain power, Trump will not leave office at the end of his
term.
A Fascist
dictatorship brought to you by American oligarchy, individuals seeking power, the
religious right, the uneducated, and the ignorant.
The damage
is already too extensive. We can’t go
back and make it right.
Welcome to
the new America.
With dozens
of men in the room cringing at Trump's gaze, it took a woman, the governor of
Maine, to stand toe-to-toe with the egomaniacal President and answer him with
defiance.
Afterwards, certain
news outlets said that Governor Mills had more balls than the men in the room.
That was
wrong. She had more vagina than anyone
else in the room.
The image of
big balls being tough is just a fantasy.
A well-placed slap on a man’s
genital area will have him on the ground in agony.
A woman, however, can push a twenty-inch, ten-pound bag of bones, blood and flesh through her vagina one day and be up the next day feeding her family and getting her kids off to school.
So, our governor, Janet Mills, had the biggest vagina in the room when she told Trump, “We’ll see you in court.”
Dear Canada
Please buy
Maine. Make an offer to Trump that he
can’t refuse. Remind him Maine did not
vote for him in the last election. Offer
to trade him England; he won't know the difference. Say you will recognize him as King of America
– appeal to his vanity.
Maine has great natural resources and a thriving tourist economy, so it would make sense for Maine to become one of your maritime provinces.
Mainers are so much like Canadians that there would be little adjustment
– though we might balk at God Save the King.
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As you age, one of the things you worry about is falling.
Getting in and out of a tub is doable but becomes more complicated with
age.
I have seen the ads for walk-in tubs; a woman lying back in a spa-like setting in a sitting tub with a door.
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| And an advantage is you can't tell the farts from the bubbles! |
This seemed the perfect answer to replace our bathtub.
Fortunately, we live in an information age.
I have never seen one of these tubs, and I don’t doubt
they give you a safe and comfortable bathing experience, but there are
downsides.
The tub volume is forty to sixty gallons, and you must
enter and sit there while the tub fills, which could take five minutes or
more. When your bath is finished you
must sit there while the water completely drains. The
sidewalls are high, so in an emergency, you are pretty much stuck in the tub
until it drains.
These tubs are expensive and the cost of the tub doesn't include the cost of installation, which could double the price of the tub.
We have a walk-in shower, so the tub to me is just a luxury,
a place to sit and soak with a book and a cup of tea.
The walk-in tub looks good, but I think I will pass.
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Why doesn’t
Tarzan have a beard?
Why is a
nickel larger than a dime?
Why are
ghosts wearing clothes?
If Pluto is
a dog, what the fuck is goofy?
Astrophysicists
are constantly concerned with the possibility of a giant asteroid, similar to
the one that caused the dinosaur extinction hitting the Earth. But what happens to Earth if a large
asteroid misses us but strikes the Moon?
Would it knock the moon out of its present orbit? What happens to Earth if the Moon changes its
orbit even slightly?
Everything
is in equilibrium. We can place
satellites in space where the gravities of space objects cancel each other. If the moon’s orbit changes will satellites
fall out of the sky?
Why do
vampire hunters always enter the vampire’s crypt minutes before
sundown?
Why do working people vote for Republicans?
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I consider
myself a liberal person and to some extent a Buddhist, but most of all a
free-thinking individual. I refuse to
identify myself with any group think.
Our Maine Governor and Donald Trump are in a standoff about transgender girls competing in girls’ sports. I must admit I have some conflicting feelings on this subject.
However, I
try to isolate myself from feelings and view subjects with a logical mind.
How a person
wishes to dress is none of my business.
The gender a person wishes to identify as is none of my business.
Who a person
wishes to have sex with is none of my business.
Preferred
sex acts of other people are none of my business.
Transgender
athletics is none of my business, and I will not enter into the fray: I don’t
have a dog in that hunt, but I would be uncomfortable strictly from a fairness
position.
Boys have a
different pelvic structure than girls, and boys have a distinct muscular build and
a different hormonal makeup than girls.
A
transgender woman or girl has every right to dress the way she is comfortable,
and every right to associate herself with the gender she is most
comfortable. She has every right to
surgery to make herself more comfortable in the role she chooses.
But, if she
does not have, or has not had, ovaries and an egg that drops every month causing the
hormonal rollercoaster of a period, and the internal organs designed for pregnancy and
carrying a fetus to term, then strictly speaking she is not female.
Males competing against females in a physical sport would likely have an unfair advantage.
But again, I
don’t have a dog in this hunt. and I do support our governor standing up to
Trump.
Maine's governor, a woman, has been the only person who has shown the toughness to answer Trump back to his face.
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