my body my vote

We are only a few days away from barbarism at any time. Take away our thin veneer of civilization by cutting off power and the technological basis of every aspect of our very complexly orchestrated lives and the result is far too often something like we saw after Katrina. But for some, there is no need to wait for natural disaster. They want to create the same scenario through malice or ignorance, and often a blending of the two.
Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by evil men for daring to want to go to school. They want to make sure their perversion in interpretation of their Holy Book regains and retains the power of male violence over women. It disgusts me.
Radicals exist in Christianity just as they do in other religions. Our country does not want to talk about this. “Close your eyes brothers and sisters for verily I say unto you, if you do not believe exactly as I do, I will despise you, mock you, attempt to take over governments founded by wise men to preserve freedom and equality for all, so that I can impose my purportedly moral values on you. ” This is what I hear when listen to “conservative Christians” spout their evil misinterpretations of the teachings of a radical Rabi who lived ever so long ago.
I see white men, for the most part, with barely disguised racist and misogynist motives, telling me that their religious views on life should be law. Religious law is also called Sharia Law in parts of the world. All Fundamentalist Christians, Jews, and Muslims believe the Old Testament Books, no matter what they are called are the literal word of God. Just because white American men are attempting to repeal the slow but steady strides we have taken toward a just society based on equality in the past few decades does mean that this is anything different from a Taliban-like assault on the very basis of American way of life.

More than 200 Republican members of Congress joined him (Akin) in co-sponsoring House Resolution 3, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, when it contained language restricting the exception for federally funded abortions to “an act of forcible rape or, if a minor, an act of incest.”

These disgusting parodies of educated states men and women should just as well spit on the U.S.Constitution as carry out the abrogation of the core of our country’s founding documents written by men who understood that a country must hold personal freedom of thought and action by its citizens as necessary to forming, furthering, and maintaining the values and ideals of democracy.
My religious beliefs tell me that war is wrong. I pay my taxes. My country goes to war again and again and has our youth kill for questionable reasons. I do not have to go to war, personally, but I have to pay the taxes that support it. This is no less difficult for me to do than it is for a person who truly believes that a fertilized egg is a human being to pay taxes to support abortion. Except that no tax monies go to pay for abortion. Tax monies do go to support the killing of humans who are deemed enemies or collateral damage near targets in nebulous, ill-defined wars on indefinable enemies. No person, ever, will agree with all actions that can be allowed under legal and political decisions made by our governing bodies. But as citizens we respect those laws.
The problem these days is that uneducated bigots and misogynist malcontents are allowed to govern. These idiots want to rule not govern. It is time to sharpen our wits, use our power at the ballot box, and if necessary take more strident steps against those who would destroy our still young nation in order to impose their belief systems upon us.
These people may call themselves Christians, but their Christianity has no resemblance to anything I know as Christian. And these evil men, and they are men for the most part, who actively usurp democratic process, truly are evil if they do not respect my religious beliefs. I do not have to define or defend my religious beliefs under the Constitution because there is to be no State Religion. My ancestor, William Palmer, arrived in the New World in 1630 to escape The Church of England. I dearly hope that I do not have to leave the U.S. to escape the Church of NeoCon and the Corporations that it favors that are akin to the Corporations that were favored by the King of England.
Malala was shot in the head by the Taliban. We have 800,000 children under the age of 18 who go missing every year in the U.S. Do we try to find them? Protect them? I think we are just as barbaric as any other people or place on Earth.
If you have not already voted, please inform yourself about a few basics. We have averted another Depression. The economy is slowly getting better. Those who argue for a small government that does not interfere with personal freedoms yet want that small government to control personal medical decisions made by women and force them to obey religiously defined doctrine to which they do not subscribe, are nothing but the Neo Con Christian equivalent of the Taliban. I want nothing to do with Christianity if what these people practice is Christianity. It has no similarity to the loving teachings that I came to know, accept, and practice as best I could as a young person. I do not have to have a name for it, do not want to share any name that those people use, because what I believe is just love and it resides in the human heart.
I will vote for freedom for my body, freedom for my mind, and freedom for my heart and soul. I will not vote for any person who supports a group that says that women must obey laws that favor rapists, that supports the continued expansion of the human population while the world is in the middle of an extinction event, and fails to use reason and logic as a guide for our actions. I will vote for using the knowledge for which Malala fought to have the right to learn.

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I am officially years behind in “stuff” I have to do. My biggest fear is that I will die before I get the really important stuff done. That is right, I do not fear death.

Digression: I’ve seen the tunnel, felt the love, and have no worries on that front.

But there is so much I want to pour from my bucket. I have to finish the book on being a survivor of medical child abuse and get it published. I have to write a scholarly, flowing, definitive biography of Gene Stratton-Porter. I have to figure out how to make some real money. I have to share the story of rising from the ashes of lifelong depression. I want to write speculative fiction. Those are the biggies, but when I start enumerating the steps that it will take to get these things done along with catching up with ancillary tasks from my D years, that lasted from 1997 to 2007, I have thousands of items on my list. Some of these are putting into the bucket but, most pour from the bucket. There are things I feel I am “supposed” to do before I die. There is no oppressive “should” looming over me , or guilt for that matter.

Digression #2: I boxed up all my guilt, and store that box on a closet shelf.

It is just that I cannot stop thinking up new things to do. My imagination has always gotten me into trouble, but I love the way I think. A creative mind essentially allows us to practice unlikely or impossible things in our heads. If some bizarre situation comes up on us in life, well, out of the box thinkers (who put guilt in boxes) may have gone over some similar, or dissimilar, scenario that spurs a useful thought in the most unusual of situations.

Digression #3 : In fact, I confronted Death in my home’s hallway one night, right outside my daughter’s room, when she was a toddler. No joke. I demanded that the tall dark, cloaked figure, “Get the hell out of my house!” and, for good measure, I repeated the phrase my mother had mentioned that her foremothers had used to confront evil, “Greater is he who is within me, than he who rules the world.” He complied. It worked. But that is another story for another time; telling that story is on my Pitcher List list too.

I do not really like the phrase, “Kick the bucket.” What is wrong with the word “die?” We all do it. It is a natural part of life. I will never understand why a people who so vociferously want to impose their Christian beliefs on others are so afraid of the word “death.” So, in my indubitably obstreperous manner I am creating a Pitcher List of all the things I hope to have pour forth from me before I die, rather than to create a Bucket List things I would like to do before I kick the bucket.
So here it is, the official definition of Pitcher List, according to moi!

Pitcher List |ˈpiCHər| list|
a list created by a person that she or he would like to accomplish and be able to offer to the world as a life experience before the end of his or her life

Just this week I added several items to my list that would be good to cover through web posts or actual websites, so I can share some info that I think people who stumble upon my blog might find useful. The first was to create a website My Body, My Vote that encourages those persons of the Fallopian persuasion to link being a woman who has a body with the act of voting to maintain her self-determination over her own body. (This previous phrase is linked to the as yet nonexistent website, but it will exist soon! I promise.

Digression #4: Notice if you will that I did not use the word “control,” nor the word “power,” because there are no unidirectional processes in life, and most things people view as control are false masks and the bravado of buffoons.

But I digress…. I just love that word… it makes me think of meandering down a lilac-bounded, curvy country lane that leads into the past, or to as yet unthought thoughts, but I digress… so I did a domain search, and found that mybodymyvote.com was not available, nor were the .net. or .org domains available. I registered mybodymyvote.info and doing something with it soon now resides near the top of my Pitcher List. I also created a graphic that you can see in my sidebar to the right and an earlier post, that gives you several options for using the image to promote women’s self-determination per health issues.
The other thing I’ve added to my “to do in the next 6 months” list is to blog more on the News and Politics section of BlogHer.com. The attorney equating Liberalism and Hustler just about blew my gaskets! We need more progressive political posts on BlogHer IMO, and of course I have no sway with them, I’ve just been posting there for a few years.
And whenever I think of BlogHer I think of all the things on my “to do before BlogHer list.” Leave a comment if you are going to the August 2-4, 2012 conference. Because so many things on that list involve technology at some level I then start thinking about all the security practices I have to finishing implementing in my blogs and websites. And when I think about websites… I think about formalizing and blending some minor business sides into my primary business main course offerings.
So much to do… but I know others are in the same situation… well maybe not. How many people have an entire huge shed of possessions that have been packed up for almost 10 (yikes!) years?

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