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Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist
best known for 'The Vagina Monologues', wrote the following about
Sarah Palin.

"Drill, Drill, Drill"

I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a
member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of
drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a
particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or
their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have
never seen one in person or touched one.  Maybe it is the fact that
they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar
bears.

I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life
trying to build community, help empower women and
stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin.
This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical.
The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of
Feminists.

But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical
to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving
the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls
options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence
and war.

I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous
choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates
the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas
that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the
impact that duo would have on the rest of the world.  Unfortunately,
this is not a joke.  In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the
inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.

Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor.
In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets
better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting
of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the
pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan.  She is
fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The
earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves
and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be
taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she
said herself of the Iraqi war, 'It was a task from God.'

Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women
who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should
have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or
not.

She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I
imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many
babies that makes.

Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she
has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense
with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an
environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and
might very well be the next president of the United States . She would
govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.

Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunt
ing rifle.
She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds
of wolves from the air.

Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right.

But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is
declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his
name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the
undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.

I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election
in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not
just of the U.S. , but of the planet. It will determine whether we
create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for
humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and
diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through
invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for
oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives
that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine
if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build
more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is
a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and
aggression.

If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your
power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the
hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, 'Drill Drill Drill.' I think of
teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction.
I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force
mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity
or dissent.  I think of pain.

Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor
of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations
and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call
life?



Eve Ensler

September 5, 2008

Here is a fun way to kill some time-

Watch the new rules and the opening sketches for laughs and the overtime clips for provoking thought.

 Bill Maher

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I joined a website called sparkpeople.com so I could lose some weight and try to get on a regular exercise program. (It's free and say Shawna718 referred you!)  I am supposed to eat right and exercise to lessen the effects of fibromyalgia.  I am also supposed to stay as stress-free as possible.  Rather than trying to type it all here, I will copy some blogs I wrote on spark people and letters I have written to friends.   Here goes:

January 4th

I had to take one of my cats to the vet today because she has not been acting normal the past few days. She won't eat and she seems lethargic and bloated. She is drinking water fine, but I don't know he litter box doings because I have other cats. So he checked her out and palpitated the bloat and the rest of her and found a mass- either on the spleen or liver. He gave me pain meds and vitamin drops for her and told me to discuss it with my husband over the weekend. Marlee is 13 years old and running blood tests, x-rays and sonograms just to diagnose the problem will be very expensive. Then treating it could cost thousands. We don't have the money. And we don't live outside our income, my car is 13 years old too!
I have other things going on too that is causing a lot of stress. I am just trying to relax so the pain doesn't get me too.

Jan 10

Sorry I haven't written in a few days, I have been in the twilight zone so to speak. We had to euthanize my poor Marlee. She stopped eating totally and started swelling up, like water under her skin. One of my friends told me it was probably cellulitis or kidney failure. Anyway, she was sick and in pain. Although it was the right thing to do, I still have it going through my head that I killed my cat.
I have not broken down and started pigging out on chocolate or cookies, although I very much want to. The only thing I am really doing bad is eating Fiddle Faddle butter toffee coated popcorn. My husband is eating box after box of the stuff and I am eating a handful every evening I think.
My body is hurting. I know it is stress. And Fibro.

January 24

My 8 month old Katey kitten is in heat now. Oh joy. I was hoping she wouldn't start so early- I was waiting for the low cost spay/neuter clinic to come around in the spring. I called my regular vet to schedule the spay appointment and they charge even more for the procedure if the cat is in heat. They told me to call back to schedule when she stops. My other cats are all fixed so they can't figure out why she smells funny and is acting weird. Fred was an older cat when I rescued him so he knows what sex is, and tries to mount her, but then he is frustrated when he can't do the next step! My husband says the cat is going to start biting me when he figures out that bad day when his nuts were cut was all my fault and the reason why he can't "do it!" LOL

January 25

Yesterday was a miserable day.  We had a dentist appointment and as we were leaving, I noticed the neighbor's cat crying and crawling in their front yard.  Dan and I went to check him and couldn't tell if he had been hit by a car or poisoned.  I knocked on the door but no answer.  We had to leave the cat where it was.  We rushed the dentist and got back home in 45 minutes.  The cat had crawled under their porch and was still crying, but now out of reach.  Jill was home then and was upset, but there was nothing she could (or would) do.  I put on old clothes and squirmed under the porch (ARGHH, Claustrophobia!) and went as far back as I humanly could, but still could not reach him.  I told Jill that she would have to pull up the porch floor boards to get him.  Then we went home and I cried.  Took a nap, woke up, talked to Dan about the cat, and went back over to Jill's.  The cat was still alive and still crying under the porch.  So I told Jill the cat may not be mortally wounded, we need to get it out of there.  She said she knew a guy that was smaller than me and she was going to go enlist his help.  So I went home.  A little later, I see her and the kid leave to go up my block to one of the party houses.  The upstairs neighbor comes home and I call
out the door to ask if she knows which house Jill goes to up the block and I told them about the cat.  A few minutes later, they come to my door and say the cat is out, by their steps.  So I run over there with the big plastic box and we carefully scoop him into it without lifting him.  I brought him home, cleaned the dirt out of his mouth, and he had a seizure.  He was very cold so I set the box
on top my heating pad and warmed him up.  I rubbed rescue remedy drops into his ear and gave him a few drops of the pain medicine that the vet gave me for Marlee.  I sat with him from 5:30 to 10 pm, petting his head and talking to him.  We waited and waited for Jill to come back home.  We discussed taking him to an animal hospital but money (sadly) was a consideration.  A little after 10, he died.
I put him in a cardboard box and covered him with newspaper.  I wrote a letter to Jill explaining what happened and laid it on top, then carried the box over and put it on her back porch.  I was pissed.  I told Dan what I did with the body and he said, oh that's real nice.  I don't care.  She f*cking went to party while her cat (as far as she knew) was dying under the porch in the cold.  There are some real cold hearted a**holes that have no business keeping pets.

January 26 

I am hurting all over today, bruised from crawling under that porch and muscles spazzing from the stress.

this was in an article I read regarding Fibro:

In particular, stress, fear (anxiety), and anger (frustration) unleash a flood of neurochemicals that worsen many conditions. In the right dose and at the right time these three can be appropriate and helpful—like when you're chased by a tiger, or audited by the IRS! But if you have fibromyalgia, these three—whether you are experiencing them directly or indirectly from others—need to be minimized to reduce symptoms and flares.