yeah I know you did not ask!
I have been receiving so many emails of late that state, “You have been selected!”, that I am beginning to feel like a ball in a cage at a bingo parlor.
Bingo!
Ann Wagner, Global Warming Denier…Be scared, very scared
Okay I know that Senators and Congress folks really do not read a sliver of the email they get, but this is pretty outrageous. I went onto Congresswoman Ann Wagner’s site to ask that she not support the Keystone Pipeline project for 
environmental reasons. They force you to choose a subject so I chose Climate Change.
This is the form letter I got back. It is one of the scariest things I have read in a long time. The only place that climate change is being debated is within Republican circles and only then because big money wants to continue to make big money at everyone else’s expense. The percent of scientist that are in agreement on global warming being caused by humans is almost unanimous. Either this woman is an idiot who cannot understand basic science, such an ideologue that she refuses to face hard evidence, or so enamored with her position as a high and mighty Congresswoman that she is going to go along with the party line to remain so. No matter what the reason she scares the living snot right out of my body. The fact that we continue to elect idiots like this does not speak well for our country.
Just as an aside she never once addressed the main subject of my email, the Keystone Pipeline. Now there is responsive public service.
I am including the whole text of her form letter response. Read it with the lights on. It is indeed a horror story of complete and utter stupidity.
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| Dear Citizen Rush,Thank you for contacting me with your concerns regarding climate change. I appreciate your views on this issue and welcome the opportunity to respond. Continue reading “Ann Wagner, Global Warming Denier…Be scared, very scared” |
Congress is doing something right?!?!?!?
I just signed a petition to show my support for a new bill in Congress that would actually would actually help turn our economy around by ending the wars, raising taxes on millionaires, creating 5 million jobs in just two years, and more.
It’s up to us to stand with the few brave members of Congress who are willing to push for the “unrealistic” ideas that would actually create solutions and force anyone who stands in the way to explain themselves — or get out of the way.
Can you join me in showing your support at the link below? Link removed – 2011 article
Thanks!
Groaners: Bad Prose for Cheap Novels
Have you read some really bad prose lately that you would like to share?
Have you your own example? Like to share? Post it here or email me and I will post it for you.
I’ll start off with one that occurred to me on my morning walk to work.
She thought to herself, “He makes love like he brushes his teeth, fast and furious and not near long enough.”
Your spouse is being chased by a sweet young thing…
A friend sent me the following via email. An interesting question that was on a reality show recently. Currently, the only thing my TV is hooked up to is a DVD player, and I like it that way. Anyway so I did not see this show.
She said her and her significant other would have handled it much differently.
The question is below:
Ok, you’re at a party with your significant other. Folks at the party know that you’re in a monogamous long term relationship. There are drinks at the party and some folks that you don’t generally hang out with. A younger attractive girl sits on the arm of your chair on the patio. There are several people on the patio. Later, the same girl is talking to you while you are both standing, but is getting a bit closer than casual conversation would dictate. Your choices are:
- The significant other comes over and informs the sweet young thing that you are taken.
- Significant other sees what is going on and decides to let it pass a chalk it up to too much to drink. She does this knowing that the relationship is secure.
- You kindly excuse yourself as soon as it is polite and stay closer to your date.
- The significant other goes to the hostess and asks if she could redirect her friend.
How would you have handle the situtation?
Save the paragraph
I am starting a campaign to save the paragraph. I may get bumper stickers printed up.
Email and other electronic forms of instant communication have done much to butcher and change written communication. One of these is the loss of the paragraph in such writings.
For me, at least, it makes some of these hard to read when they run for 100s of words without a pause or logically grouping thoughts.
SAVE THE PARAGRAPH
Red Heads and Lime Green VWs
When I think of my Aunt Gayle I think of a big, lop-sided smile and red hair. Her hair had been many colors through her life, but mostly it was red. Folks who knew her called her a lady. She always presented herself perfectly coiffed and perfectly dressed. Her manners were in the same mode, but she was as earthy as my father was prudish. I say earthy, but more in a matter of fact Mother Nature sort of way. It was a refreshing combination.
Her online handle was Sewing Mama. She had always sewn, but in the later part of her life she discovered quilting. She was very good at it, and was widely acknowledged as being so. She obviously enjoyed the process and the recognition. Continue reading “Red Heads and Lime Green VWs”
To my email buddies/correspondents:
Anyone who knows me even slightly knows that I like to argue and talk politics. They also know that I am somewhere to the left on the political spectrum.
I am probably not as near open minded about listening to other opinions as I fancy myself. Nevertheless that is my goal.
I’ve been known from time to time pass on emails, editorials, jokes, Continue reading “To my email buddies/correspondents:”
Letter on Health Care Reform
There is fixin’ to be a big brouhaha in Congress about Health Care reform.
Below is a letter (email actually) that I have sent to both my Senators and my representative. You may not agree with some or all of my comments, but you need to make your voice heard on this. We do not need to let the profit driven corporations dictate our level of health care or even if we have health care any longer.
Find your Senator’s email address here
Find your Representative’s email address here
Dear Senator/Representative:
There is going to a concerted effort by the Obama administration to Continue reading “Letter on Health Care Reform”