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Control-Z's JournalProud gun owners.
Seems like every other post starts out with: "I'm a proud gun owner." I want to know what there is to be proud about? I've never understood this. I understand even less after yesterday's mass murder.
Would someone please tell me? What is it you gun owners are so damn proud of?
Damn it! I am so pissed off right now. Those babies were slaughtered. SLAUGHTERED! Their tiny bodies were riddled with bullets from an assault rifle. If I were a gun owner I would not be proud. Quite possibly ashamed. But definitely not proud.
I love our president!
Just sayin'.
I guess I should say how grateful I am to know President Obama will be our president for the next 4 years. I can't remember such a feeling of relief as when they called Ohio on Election night. I knew what that meant. Everything it meant. All of it - in a flash moment. But Rachel Maddow said it best:
That's my thankful - grateful list, right there.
My son just called me
to ask me how I would feel about him donating a kidney. My first response was to say NO, and I'm ashamed to say I asked him if he was thinking of selling one his. He's a 21 year old musician who is always broke and has donated blood for the money. I was horrified at the thought of him taking it to the ridiculous and dangerous.
I could not have been more wrong. His friend's father needs a kidney. They are having problems finding someone willing and able to give up a healthy one. My son wanted to know how I would feel if he wanted to help.
I'm in shock right now. The thought of my son, my baby, the little boy I carried and gave life to, actually giving up a part of himself is so terrifying I can barely let myself think about it. At the same time I couldn't be more proud, or sure, of the compassionate, loving man my son has become.
I told him how frightened I would be if he made that decision. That if it were up to me I would probably not want him to. But that if he did make that choice, there could be no more generous a gift. I told him he needed to research and understand a lot more about it before making that decision and I suggested he talk to his father and then talk to me some more.
I'm truly shaken and fighting back tears right now.
Wow. What a great kid.
I was going to write a celebratory OP
to the group on Obama's gay marriage statement. I can see at a glance that most of you are not really celebrating - discouraged with states' rights, especially right after NC's vote.
Though I'm a straight woman I think I understand your reaction. Like what the states have done to abortion rights. I guess I'm supposed to be happy about all the reproductive freedoms women have today. But I'm angry most of the time watching states just crap all over Roe, now even going after contraception.
I know on a personal level about the worst that could happen to the women in these states. And anything short of the safe and legal abortion they have decided they need can turn out to be almost as bad. Young girls and the poor are especially at risk, though I'm sure I didn't need to tell you. But unless a woman has a way to leave some of these states there is not a single option left for them that is acceptable. (And if memory serves it is a crime in some of these backward sick-ass states to cross the border for an abortion or to procure the abortion pill by mail or out of state source.)
So while I will never really understand because I'll never walk in your shoes, I have a lot of empathy, and will always stand with you.
My 18 year old daughter
- in her first year of college
- working first real job
- has first personal bank account
- w/first monthly automatic payment
Monthly auto pay goes to: Barack Obama 2012 re-election campaign
My 18 year old daughter
- has one proud mom
I don't often feel like slapping someones face.
Damn good thing I don't live in Arizona. Jan Brewer needs to be slapped, and slapped and slapped again. Damn, she's ugly (in character).
Of course, I'm just blowing off steam. I would never hit her.
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