Reporting

Today we are reading editorials and accounts of women who were attacked but did not report.

When I lived in  a dodgy part of a major California city, I was used to walking up to a supermarket that had an underground parking structure. I felt safe enough to go up to the store after dark.

As I was walking up, a tall African American male was walking towards me, and I immediately was on my guard.

A good thing too, as he turned around and put his arm around my right shoulder.

I in turn gave him a back hand strike to the forehead, and even though it was weak as I used my left hand, it was a surprise, so he let go and I jumped away and started cussing him out.

He claimed he was just being friendly! I think he was drunk, so I went into the garage, took the elevator to the store and reported the incident to a security guard there, who was also an African American male.

This happened in the mid 1980’s and I remember it well.

My grown children get more upset about me going shopping at night so I don’t do it anymore.

Today I would be more prone to take anybody down that dared touch me, and destroy his windpipe or other tender anatomy parts.

Grannies can’t be too careful!

 

 

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Wrong

Once again women are the subject of harassment, just like in the good old days when the burning of witches was popular.

The Wrongness of it all

9/22/18

Today we re visit the Anita Hill debacle that did not do anything to derail the appointment of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.

His record on that august body has been less than stellar, having nothing to say in any of the many oral examinations.

Now we see the next woman before the Congress already castigated for stepping forward and telling the truth about a drunken lout who tried to rape her.

The President has no leg to stand on when it comes to trying to make her out as a liar or fabricator.

He has many lawsuits against him for the same behavior, and publicly shows his contempt for women.

What is it about women who challenge men in power?

Why do they automatically start to call names and denigrate the female challenger?

Having death threats come at you for daring to tell the truth about past assaults show that our leadership is on a very low moral road.

How long can we survive as a country if our leaders maintain that no one should be called to account for past transgressions if they are rich and powerful?

Are we going back to the monarchy?

Is it time to rework the Nixon philosophy?

If you are President can you be above the law?

The pundits predict that after the election there will be some heads roll out of the White House.

Let them roll.

Women can then take over and stop this misogynist nonsense.

Bill of Rights

Bill of Rights

9/16/18

We all have the freedom of speech, with certain restrictions.

The New York Times, the Washington Post, The New Yorker and I all have something in common.

We like to say things that are important and true.

Others may beg to differ, and call us out on the facts.

Others claim that we should be careful of what we say, or there will be consequences.

I am too old to fear any consequence.

If you don’t like the published stories in the above mentioned news outlets, don’t buy them , don’t read them.

The same goes for me.

You can block my e-mail.

You can unfriend me on Facebook.

You can un follow my blog, (not that too many people follow it honestly).

You can block my phone calls.

You can refrain from calling.

( I only get an average of two per week anyway.)

You may resort to all of the above in your personal relationship with me, but here is what I will not accept and what you CANNOT DO!

You may not tell me to alter my opinion under threat of ostracism.

You may not tell me what to think of the news, or what I see with my own eyes.

You may not advise me as to what I write.

You may not tell me what to say.

Full stop.

I think there is a very important part of the Constitution to back me up on this.

Defense

Defense

9/14/18

Women are now worried that if a conservative judge sits on the Supreme Court the abortion issues will come up again.

We really have no legal defense against the decisions of the Supreme Court, and can only hope that by social action we can change the outcomes before they get too dire.

I would call this the Lysistrata Defense.

A Greek play treats this matter with all the women getting together and cutting off sex to the men in the society until they stopped killing each other.

This tactic could be used in a modified way to change men’s actions, as we know that no matter what, men are going to keep killing each other.

So what if all women of child bearing age thought to themselves-“ Well, the men have taken my control of my body away from me, so why not take control of my own choice for sex?”

No abortion rights, no babies born for a year. Better yet, if only Caucasian women did this it would strike terror into the hearts of company CEO’s everywhere.

There are other ways to sexually satisfy a man without vaginal penetration, or the use of contraceptives. Even the use of contraceptives is under fire in many parts of the world, with religion sticking its ugly nose into a private matter.

I could see it now, the stock market tumbling at the future absence of customers.

No military recruits of a whole years’ cohort.

No replacement workers for the old and retiring.

For those who want an explanation of who Lysistrata was, there is Wikipedia.

Thanks

Thanks

9/12/18

Now that the water temperature in the Gulf of Mexico has risen to 80 degrees, who do we thank for hurricane Florence?

First of all the oil and coal industry that spews the carbons into our atmosphere.

Next the government that protects the same industry and changes beneficial laws that might start to fight global warming if it were not for political short sightedness.

So thanks, EPA, the Koch brothers and D. J. Trump.

You have done a great job.

We will look forward to the future which will resemble Ready Player One.

Fat

Obese? Just call it fat.

9/08/18

Recently the discussion on a bulletin board has raised the subject of over weight people in religion.

Not only does the social activities and diet restrictions lead to fat people, but the increase of diabetes is also rising.

In my family of numerous cousins, there is the hippo pool crowd and the elephant wallow tribe.

I belong to neither, but my doctor still nags me about weight gain.

My older brother died from complications of diabetes and fought against his appetite all his life.

My granddaughters are in the hippo range, but the in laws from Utah are beyond that- into the forklift category.

It is so sad to see on Facebook my cousins’ children and grandchildren gradually grow heavier down the years.  The only normal weight person is the one who had diabetes from 1957 on and had to have his food weighed out, never ate sugar but used to sneak a beer.

Like church life, they have celebrated family re-unions over the years with lots of eating.

When your life is restricted on so many fronts like income and religion, eating becomes the mainstay of emotional comfort, and results in early demise.

I guess that is Mother Nature’s way of balancing the population.

Burning

A Burning all my bridges essay

9/05/18

The morning news just makes me want to chew nails! How has the political process come to this sad state of affairs?

Since this idiot of a president has been in office, he has terrorized little children, insulted our allies, bragged incessantly about untrue happenings, and made adversaries out of family members.

A great divide has opened in my own family.

Cousins call another relative a liar, just because she stated the obvious about the President.

I have to constantly remind myself that everyone is entitled to their political opinion, but then so am I.

My opinion does not go very far, as my blog is only read by one or two people. I am not in the blogging business to make money, but as an outlet for writing and preserving the history of the times as I see it.

I doubt that my grandchildren or great grandchildren will read and care about this segment of our country’s public life.

They will be into virtual reality so deeply that when it comes time to vote, all will be decided before they even think about going to the polls.

The social structure has now been set up so that if anyone wants to talk about how the emperor has no clothes, she gets stamped on, and ostracized.

The radical and far right political mind set has no logic.

They have only one aim, and that is to shout and scream louder about any so called “liberal” point of view, claiming “socialism” and thereby removing social  safety nets.

It does not matter to them if disease runs rampant and people die.

The high price of everything is o.k. with them, as the big corporations only want a profit, and the religious establishments support profit making endeavors over all other aims.

Forget paying your bills and buying food for your children, pay that tithing, and vote Republican!