Showing posts with label HCR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HCR. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Get Your Rosaries Out of Our Ovaries!




SUBJECT: STOP STUPAK! Contact your reps


Here's a very easy to use and thorough List of

Senator's Contact Info














Dear President Obama (and all of you other "Duly Elected Officials"):


I'm getting pretty PO'd right about now.


Abortion, again? REALLY?


They snuck WHAT into the bill?


They have somehow passed an amendment that makes it illegal for a woman to buy an abortion privately, with her own money, or they will cut off funding to her Insurance Company?


Huh? Isn't that basically the same as making abortion illegal???


How did they pull this off?


Somehow a handful of pesky Conservadems, are dictating what goes in and out of bills? Why does this mini-group get to decide for the masses? Simple...Mr. Prez wants to get re-elected.


It all comes down to keeping their jobs.


In your heart of hearts you know that these politicians aren't voting the will of their constituents unless it happens to coincide with their own loftier plans - reelection.


Let's face it, nobody wants their gravy train to get de-railed.


Who wouldn't like a job where you get to work ridiculously short hours, decide your own salary, as well as your vacation(s) schedule, AND you get paid a huge pension every year 'til death, after leaving the job?


Yup, it's all about the Benjamins.


So we have to let the Grinches know that THEY WILL LOSE THEIR PRECIOUS JOBS if they keep the Stupak Amendment in the bill.


How about we WRITE to our SENATORS?


How about we BOMBARD our SENATORS?


TELL THEM STUPAK MUST BE STOPPED!


Conservadems be DAMNED!


KEEP YOUR DAMN LAWS OFF OUR BODIES!



I thought Obama was gonna stand up for Women's Rights!


and I thought Obama was gonna get us out of Iraq ASAP


I also thought Obama was gonna close Gitmo


and I even thought Obama might ACTUALLY bring about that "CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN."


But there was always this wee little voice whispering inside my head saying, "…in truth, if he's a Harvard Grad, with all his fancy editing skills, shouldn't he have known...




it should have read...





'Change IN WHICH we can believe'?"







Sunday, November 8, 2009

Twitter Lists with a Twist

This is madness. Twitter has introduced Lists, but there is no consensus of what the Titles should be for the different categories! It's chaos, it's pandemonium, it's a Virtual Twee -for-All (I know, that was bad, but I just couldn't resist).


The same person might be on 6 people's lists, under slightly different category names. People who Tweet about Liberal Politics might be called "Progressives", or "Political Junkies", "Democrats", "Bleeding Hearts", "Liberals", or "Pundits". It's hard to know what to search, to pull up a complete list in any one category.


Another good one is "Environmentalists"...I've seen them called "Eco-Greenies", "Climate Activists", plain "Greenies", etc., etc. I settled today on "Earth-Huggers" - I know it's longer than Greenies, but it's just so damn cute! And who knows, it might entice people to check it out. If it turns out to be too long, I can always change the name later.


I just wish I had known before I started making my Twitter Lists that I would have to alphabetize them manually, though. I would have put a bit more thought into my category titles, and finalized and alphabetized them, before I went on to Twitter and actually created my New Lists.


But, we're here, now...and, here's my current List Categories (in alphabetical order)!


hash-tag-blogger-245.jpg Bloggers



earth-hugger-245.jpg Earth-Huggers



balloon-boy-2-pics.jpg Film-TV-Radio-etc

hash-tag-art-blue-245.jpg Graphic-Artsy-Crafty


hash-tag-news-245.jpg News of the Moment



2-balloon-gowns-w-hats.jpg Interesting - like this Balloon Gown Fashion Show!


maine-squeeze.jpg Mixed-Bag


hash-tag-music-245.jpg
Music

photogs-torville.jpg Photo-Tweeters

hash-tag-politics-245.jpg Political Junkies

B262-war-sweet-245px.jpg Quotes

hash-tag-iphone-245.jpg Social-Media-Techies

see-russia-245.jpg Tee-Hee

B461-earth-from-space-245+copy.jpg Tweeps Round the World

hash-tag-twitter-245.jpg Twittaholics

eat-your-vegs-245.jpg Veg-Food-Health

cashmore-mashable.jpg Web & Marketing Gurus

power-of-love-jimi-245.jpg Words-of-Wisdom

stephen-fry.jpg Wordsmiths


I realize that Twitter Lists will be an ever-changing and growing process, and most likely, these are just my names for my Lists for right now...


I do believe that shorter List Names are better, though, since they use up less "real estate" in Twitter's 140 character limit. I'm sure I will continue to try to come up with better names in the future.


How about you? What have you named your Twitter Lists?


Did you hear the one about Nancy Pelosi?


From the SNL News Desk..."And in breaking news, the House passed the Health Care Reform Bill, at 11:07 this evening, by a vote of 220-215. Speaker Pelosi was said to be so emotional, she was on the verge of blinking."