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Novgorod to Three Mountains – Marya Kargashina's Medieval Research
https://kargashina.wordpress.com/
Still sort of figuring out what i want to put there, and catching up old stuff.
Novgorod to Three Mountains – Marya Kargashina's Medieval Research
https://kargashina.wordpress.com/
Still sort of figuring out what i want to put there, and catching up old stuff.
So, lj land. I exist. And I have a question.
I used to write poetry. I've figured out how to again. And like so many I want to share. Suggestions where? Here? A blog? Try and get it published? Ack.
I used to write poetry. I've figured out how to again. And like so many I want to share. Suggestions where? Here? A blog? Try and get it published? Ack.
reposted from various places
Originally posted by
twbasketcase at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Originally posted by
twbasketcase at Mississippi Personhood AmendmentOriginally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood AmendmentOkay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media.
Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and fetuses personhood status.
Putting aside the contentious issue of abortion, this would effectively outlaw birth control and criminalize women who have miscarriages. This is not a good thing.
Jackson Women's Health Organization is the only place women can get abortions in the entire state, and they are trying to launch a grassroots movement against this amendment. This doesn't just apply to Mississippi, though, as Personhood USA, the group that introduced this amendment, is trying to introduce identical amendments in all 50 states.
What's more, in Mississippi, this amendment is expected to pass. It even has Mississippi Democrats, including the Attorney General, Jim Hood, backing it.
The reason I'm posting this here is because I made a meager donation to the Jackson Women's Health Organization this morning, and I received a personal email back hours later - on a Sunday - thanking me and noting that I'm one of the first "outside" people to contribute.
So if you sometimes pass on political action because you figure that enough other people will do something to make a difference, make an exception on this one. My RSS reader is near silent on this amendment. I only found out about it through a feminist blog. The mainstream media is not reporting on it.
If there is ever a time to donate or send a letter in protest, this would be it.
What to do?
- Read up on it. Wake Up, Mississippi is the home of the grassroots effort to fight this amendment. Daily Kos also has a thorough story on it.
- If you can afford it, you can donate at the site's link.
- You can contact the Democratic National Committee to see why more of our representatives aren't speaking out against this.
- Like this Facebook page to help spread awareness.
Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and fetuses personhood status.
Putting aside the contentious issue of abortion, this would effectively outlaw birth control and criminalize women who have miscarriages. This is not a good thing.
Jackson Women's Health Organization is the only place women can get abortions in the entire state, and they are trying to launch a grassroots movement against this amendment. This doesn't just apply to Mississippi, though, as Personhood USA, the group that introduced this amendment, is trying to introduce identical amendments in all 50 states.
What's more, in Mississippi, this amendment is expected to pass. It even has Mississippi Democrats, including the Attorney General, Jim Hood, backing it.
The reason I'm posting this here is because I made a meager donation to the Jackson Women's Health Organization this morning, and I received a personal email back hours later - on a Sunday - thanking me and noting that I'm one of the first "outside" people to contribute.
So if you sometimes pass on political action because you figure that enough other people will do something to make a difference, make an exception on this one. My RSS reader is near silent on this amendment. I only found out about it through a feminist blog. The mainstream media is not reporting on it.
If there is ever a time to donate or send a letter in protest, this would be it.
What to do?
- Read up on it. Wake Up, Mississippi is the home of the grassroots effort to fight this amendment. Daily Kos also has a thorough story on it.
- If you can afford it, you can donate at the site's link.
- You can contact the Democratic National Committee to see why more of our representatives aren't speaking out against this.
- Like this Facebook page to help spread awareness.
Overturned!!!!!!!!!!! Huzzah!!!!! Now if Oregon will only get there too.
Language Meme
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks:
creek
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called:
cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in:
lunch box
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in:
Frying pan or skillet
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people:
couch.. my grandma does say davenport
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof:
downspout or gutter depending on which one
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening:
porch
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages:
Soda or Pop
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup:
Pancakes
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself:
Sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach:
trunks or speedo if that kind
.
12. Shoes worn for sports:
Tennis shoes or sneakers
13. Putting a room in order:
cleaning??
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark:
Firefly i guess but i only saw them at grandma's in Illinois
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball:
potato bug
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down:
Teeter-totter
17. How do you eat your pizza:
Narrow end/point first
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff:
garage sale, yard sale
19. What's the evening meal?:
Dinner or supper
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are:
basement, crawlspace if not full height
21. What do you call the thing from which you can drink water in public places:
drinking fountain in general, the ones in downtown portland are also called bubblers
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks:
creek
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called:
cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in:
lunch box
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in:
Frying pan or skillet
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people:
couch.. my grandma does say davenport
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof:
downspout or gutter depending on which one
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening:
porch
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages:
Soda or Pop
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup:
Pancakes
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself:
Sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach:
trunks or speedo if that kind
.
12. Shoes worn for sports:
Tennis shoes or sneakers
13. Putting a room in order:
cleaning??
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark:
Firefly i guess but i only saw them at grandma's in Illinois
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball:
potato bug
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down:
Teeter-totter
17. How do you eat your pizza:
Narrow end/point first
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff:
garage sale, yard sale
19. What's the evening meal?:
Dinner or supper
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are:
basement, crawlspace if not full height
21. What do you call the thing from which you can drink water in public places:
drinking fountain in general, the ones in downtown portland are also called bubblers
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 You are analytical and logical - and on a quest to learn everything you can. Smart and complex, you always love a new intellectual challenge. Your biggest pet peeve is people who slow you down with trivial chit chat. A quiet maverick, you tend to ignore rules and authority whenever you feel like it. In love, you are an easy person to fall for. But you're not an easy person to stay in love with. Although you are quite flexible, you often come off as aloof or argumentative. At work, you are both a logical and creative thinker. You are great at solving problems. You would make an excellent mathematician, programmer, or professor. How you see yourself: Creative, fair, and tough-minded When other people don't get you, they see you as: arrogant, cold, and robotic |
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