Road Trip 2018!

Want to live with your grandparents forever? That is the environment we are creating by keeping people in the Senate beyond their expiration date. I'm not dissing the elderly (I am quite fond of many of them and becoming one too) but there comes a time when we the people (that includes everyone of voting age) have to take action. Instead of going to grandmas' year after year after year. Let the folk who have been stuck in the 40's and 50's return to their memories of their "glory days" in the comfort of their own home. They can enjoy old reruns or have some playtime with the littles in the family without us trying to coax them into the present day way of life which is clearly outside their purview. They have done enough. Seriously. What if you cook the dinner? Have it at your house (your rules, your TV, your menu or you call for a pot luck). We know what happens at grandmas'. Grandma does a lot. Maybe it's time for a change. Some of the old geezers are way to comfortable in their power. Let's take the keys and drive them out of office.

Watch Sen Orrin Hatch  OMG This old white man . . . completely out of touch!

He may be stuck in the 40's and doesn't know women are people too. Why do we vote for old geezers just because of the "shining R" by their name? Vote for a relatable, on your side candidate. Don't vote for a letter! This guy is clearly beyond his use by date. Give him a nice rest in the home, at home or anything but in the senate.

Life isn't fair but you can use your voice and your vote to step up and speak out. We need elected officials to do what is right for us as a society by working together. #CheckExpirationDate2018

Kids say the darndest things

I am not willing to sacrifice my husband, my only son, his wife, his son or daughter or my friends and family so you can have military, in effect, shoot to kill weapons. I want smaller magazines, no bump stocks and I want to be relatively sure if a member of my family is outside the home doing life, a bad actor does not mow them down because they have anger issues and or seeking revenge against another or any other reason. I want the laws to be nationwide so people on the edges of states can't hop over to another and get something their state has declared unlawful and then perhaps sell them out of their car without a background check. Fortunately I have not lost a family member or friend to gun violence. Ask the parents that have lost a child what they want. They have made the ultimate involuntary sacrifice. Who will be next if the powers that be remain frozen and do nothing.

Thoughts and prayers?

This should not be an all or nothing arrangement. Name a law that is followed 100%. One. If we don't have laws we are creating unnecessary chaos. Do you know about the teacher that fed a live puppy to a snapping turtle? Want him to have a gun - in the school? Veterans? We haven't given veterans what they need in a very long time. What are the chances something at the school will trigger a flashback or maybe undiagnosed PTSD. Suicide? Veterans have a higher rate of suicide. He or she should have a gun in school?

Texas has more than 1.2 million residents who are active holders of concealed handgun permits. No laws regulating long guns such as shotguns and rifles other than existing federal restrictions. Machine guns are allowed for possession in the state according to Texas gun laws, as long as they are registered on the federal level. Armor-piercing ammo is considered illegal to possess and sell.

So sad that the students have to take action because the grown ups  cower under their desks in the pockets of the NRA and political party. What better way to learn that elections have consequences. Among the crowd of students that walked out of class today, there is a future president. He or she is getting ground level education. Students do not need to know everything to be politically active. Sometimes you just have to get out there and learn from each other. I support all students participating in #NationalWalkoutDay and #MarchForOurLives

• Love your family? 
• Invest in our future
• Save a kid
• Save yourself

Your slip is showing

Sugar and spice and everything nice
Even little girls know to fight
Boys AND girls each have minds
Fashion designers, know the times


Girls can dream as big as boys
There's no need for separate toys
Boy or girl, big or small
Promote to dream, encourage all

http://thetab.com/us/udel/2016/09/29/the-best-young-feminists-1001

Against the affordable care act? Blame on you!

Back thirty something years ago somewhere before our second wedding anniversary . . . I was unemployed and my husband was working ~ we had no health insurance. Both of us in our early twenties.


I was standing in front of the bathroom mirror brushing my teeth when suddenly I had what I thought was an "accident". On closer look I noticed it had a bloody appearance. That was not quite right and so as most young girls do, I called my Mother. My Mother worked at the hospital and after some discussion she thought perhaps I was pregnant and I should go to the Doctor.

Turns out Mother was right. I was pregnant and what I had experienced earlier, my water broke. I wasn't far enough along to show and it was not going well. It wasn't long I started having cramps and the Doctor instructed that we should go to the hospital. I tearfully resisted. We had no health insurance. A few hours later the pain was even more intense so we hesitantly packed a bag and set off for the hospital. I was in total bed rest. My husband and I clung to each other scared and excited. I had a spontaneous abortion and required a D and C (Dilation and Curettage). We were heartbroken.

Through our tears we had to deal with our hospital bill as I was released. I don't know if my mother being an employee was a factor or not but we went home with broken hearts and monthly payments for a baby we would never know. Can you imagine making monthly payments on a loss such as ours? Every month we were reminded the pregnancy did not result in a bundle of joy, just a monthly payment plan for our loss.

Now many in our ever increasing dysfunctional government are willing and even proud to hurt ALL of us because they are against President Obama and therefore the affordable care act. It is disgusting to me that the lies just roll off their tongues and they mislead and misrepresent rather than speak truthfully. Debate, decide and tweak to make our government work better. Shutting down the government does not solve anything it merely exacerbates and magnifies our divisiveness and spotlights to the world that we, Americans, we, the super power in the land of the free and the home of the brave that encourage your country to become democratic, we can no longer make our politics work for the betterment of the majority or minority. We are powerless to save ourselves from the lack of cooperation, stagnation and willingness to do anything or nothing to obstruct everything.

Encouraging young people not to sign up for health care before it even goes into effect is not in their best interest or yours. Going to the ER for primary care is not proper health care management and all of us pay for that. Preventive care is what you want for yourself so why would you deny others? Maybe even a young couple unaware of their pregnancy.

Blame on you if you are among those that perpetuate the disingenuous outrage and lies. Only in America can everyone having health care be the worst thing ever. Let's stop pointing fingers of blame, stand up for truth and get this country moving forward!