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Forced Birth

 

Getting older

 by Maya Angelou

When I was in my younger days, I weighed a few pounds less, I needn't hold my tummy in to wear a belted dress.

But now that I am older, I've set my body free;

There's the comfort of elastic… Where once my waist would be.

Inventor of those high-heeled shoes… My feet have not forgiven;

I have to wear a nine now, But used to wear a seven.

And how about those pantyhose –

They're sized by weight, you see, So how come when I put them on

The crotch is at my knee?

I need to wear these glasses… As the print's been getting smaller;

And it wasn't very long ago I know  that I was taller.

Though my hair has turned to gray and my skin no longer fits,

On the inside, I'm the same old me, It's the outside's changed a bit.

But, on a positive note…

I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today,

life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.

I've learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life".

I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.

People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Why isn't he in jail already?

 

If you are against abortion, you should be for sex education, birth control pills, free child care. Right?

 

Vote in Republicans, Gut the Treasury, Tank the Economy. Vote in Democrats, Fix the Economy, Refill the Treasury. Vote in Republicans....

 

Secret far-right extremist group with money and well-known people. What could go wrong?

 

Top Republicans rub shoulders with extremists in secretive rightwing group, leak reveals

Why is he still here?

'Fire DeJoy' Demand Intensifies as 10-Year Plan to Sabotage Postal Service Takes Effect

"President Biden has the power to remake the postal governing board and remove DeJoy. He must act."

My God Given Immune System!

What Digby said.

Trump quietly unleashes his mob

Threats and intimidation against government workers and public health officials have dramatically increased

By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

" I was absolutely dumbfounded at how fondly he looks back on January 6th. He thinks it was a great day. He thinks it was one of the greatest days of his time in politics."

Rauchway's review of "Peril" features an unexpected insight into President Biden's view of Trumpism. He writes:

Biden regards the -ism, not the man, as the real threat; Trump put the nation in peril because he evoked and organized a darkness that was already there.

That darkness isn't going away. It is energized and stimulated by the strong threat of violence that is running through our politics. Like its leader Trump, it sees the "authority in the mob" as the best way to preserve its dominance in a culture it believes is slipping away. Biden is right that Trump is not the real threat. The threat is the violent beast he has unleashed and there isn't any obvious way to put it back in its cage.