more mail bags

[rkt]

while i was away, mail collected:

i'm not sure how nor why, but my pregnancy place seems to think i should be wanting to make babies. they think this so much that they will give me a "free pregnancy test and sonogram". they will also give me free ritz carlton spa massages. and, once i am in hypothetical labor, an ambulette from my door to the hospital. plus, if i deliver on the first of the month, i can win a $500 baby gap gift certificate. how do i know all this? they've sent me post cards on more than one occasion. and, while i love getting mail that doesn't ask me for money, i'm not sure this qualifies. oh, the beauty of direct marketing!


russ feingold* also sent me a letter. from middleton, wi to brooklyn, ny, he not only asks for money, but also to send back two form letters: one to the prez and one to the democrats.



to little boy bush, the letter goes: (Statement of Principle to George W. Bush)
I am strongly opposed to your decision to authorize an illegal program to spy on American citizens. It is my belief that you have broken the law, you hav deliberately misled Congress, and you have not been truthfulto the American people. I believe the President of the Uinted State smust be held accountable to the same laws as the rest of us.I call on you to take full responsiblity for your illegal conduct.

and another to his own party: (Statement of Principle to the Democratic Party)
I am disappointed that the Democratic Party is not takinga strongenough stand against the outrages of the Bush Administration. It is my belief that the only way to win this November and take back the White House in 2008 is to confront President Bush's dishonesty and illegal conduct. I believe the President has broken the law, has not been truthful, and must be held accountable to the same laws as the rest of us. I call upon the Democratic Party to stand up against the abuses of George W. Bush.,



the thing about feingold, which i've never actually investigated to verify, so consider this gossip, once upon a time when i was attending the fundie god high school, i was told that he had voted to keep "partial birth abortions" legal, but then, after the fact, attempted to go to The Official Record Books, and changes his vote.
even at the time when i was waflley-on-to-against the whole third trimester abortion concept, going back to change the record of one's vote is just...blah.

still, he has a more liberal record than most. and started from a non-MONEY background. also, his early campaign ads are classic... if i remember correctly, done by the same folks who made jesse ventura's, but now i'm digressing.

but he says *nothing* about human rights, including those related to the homos, reproduction, racism, immigration in his letter.... the websit touts marriage equality and if they have strong stances on anything else, that requires work to find.....



also, i got more address labels, and envelope stikcers,too. yay for mailing fun! and a "keep abortion legal"sticker, if anyone wants it, let me know.

*wi state senator....mailing "not printed or mailed at tax payer expense"... wrting on behalf of the progressive patriots fund.

Comments

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

i wrote to feingold (I'm in middleton!) re: Alito from some email through NARAL or PP, and got a reply from him. he agreed with the email i sent (yay!), and in his statement to the judiciary committee vote on the alito nomination, he talks more about "individual rights" and "individual freedoms" without specifically talking about what those are, although there is a paragraph about how alito would narrow repro rights. so yeah, i don't know if he's just trying to appeal to the moderate crowd or not be too in-your-face (not that that's a bad thing), but i get the feeling he's a lot better than most when it comes to social stuff. some here want him to run for prez in 08.

[kaygigi.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind Feingold in '08 except for one thing: He's Jewish. As we learned in 2000, at least in the South, there is ripe anti-Semetism that WILL be exploited by Republicans to manipulate an otherwise absent crowd to come to the polls and vote against a Jew. Our synagogue in Virginia got anti-Gore shit left on the lawn, because obviously we were in cahoots with our fellow Elder of Zion. Dammit, I forget how we control the media, and thus the rampant synagogue desacration that occured, especially in South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, that featured pro-Bush, anti-Gore, and scarier graffitti, liter, and verbal threats was featured prominantly from the local to national level...
American democracy is so corrupt the only way to win is to think like Republicans. They've mastered the spin. Then when they act, people get outraged, but only for a little bit until the spin comes back. How else could a prez w/ only a 30% approval rating NOT be impeached? Hoover had a higher approval rating, and he invited the Great Depression out for dinner, took her dancing, and then slept with her for three long years before FDR came in, and still had a higher approval rating! Granted, polling was a different science back then...
But I'm rambling cause it's 8:30 in the AM and I didn't mean to be awake right now.

hmm

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060518/ap_on_go_co/senate_gay_marriage;_ylt=AvuVWy1BFVh_yCAm0.AdOIus0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-

feingold made the headlines again for getting worked up over voting on the constitutional amendment

Re: hmm

[rkt.livejournal.com]

he's so funny... congrats on the middleton thing :)

[jadedjade.livejournal.com]

I found out yesterday another friend from undergrad is preggie a week behind the one that called when we were on the bus. Beware of me. But it seems everyone did the deed that caused the curse between March 8 - April 8 so you should be ok :P

[rkt.livejournal.com]

oh lordy. you really are the curse. stop knocking up women.

[brienf.livejournal.com]

My Pregnancy Place could team up with John Gibson, who is worried (http://www.newshounds.us/2006/05/11/gibson_make_more_babies_or_else.php) about the allegedly shrinking non-Hispanic, non-"minority" US baby population.

Did you have a good vacation?

[rkt.livejournal.com]

oh my lordy. i don't know what's worse. the original article or some of the reader comments...

the vacation was good. there was neither weeping nor gnashing of teeth. i think there may have been some grinding of teeth.... thanks. how YOU doin'?

[brienf.livejournal.com]

Ew. I usually try very hard to avoid reader comments to blogs like this one.

I'm glad your vacation went well. I can't remember whether I've updated you on my latest family drama, so the next email I send you may or may not be repetitive.

[kaygigi.livejournal.com]

I would like to state for the record that the last comment to this post was made while I was still asleep and should therefore not be used to understand my mindset, etc. For example, this morning I told Allison I was "very busy" when the only thing on my schedule for the day was baking a cake and going to see "Davinci Code". As for the last item, I must emphasize that I'm in a contest and I could win a trip to Europe, so don't judge me. Just understand I want to WIN.

Anyway, just for the record.

[rkt.livejournal.com]

OMGz, the davinci code, i'm ever so jealous. i'm not sure how you might win a europe trip, but i'll take your word for it.

much of it was true though... it's not feingold's fault the american public hasn't figured out that antisemitism is NOT ok and is NOT the fault of biblical jews for "killing jesus".

[kaygigi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just realized it came out wrong. Or potentially wrong.

To procrastinate, about two weeks ago, I started doing these "daily" games on Google. There were 24 puzzles you had to solve. Well, I did 18 of them in one day. And became addicted. So I did the rest. I had one of the fastest cumulative times, so I became a semi-finalist. Then they sent me this neat little cryptex, which I will definately show you because it's so friggin nifty (DVC aside, it's friggin nifty! And worth a lot more than free... If I was an actual fan of the book/movie, I'd pay actual money for it...), which again, I solved in one of the fastest times, catapulting me to finalist.
Now there are five new puzzles that you have to solve in the fastest cumulative time for one of the grand prizes - the biggest and bestest being a two week trip for four to Paris, all expenses paid, first class airfare, staying at the Ritz Carleton, with a backstage tour of the Louvre. ME WANT. Of course, I'll settle for the lowest "grand" prize, a Sony Playstation with a copy of DVC: The Game, and just about anything inbetween (which includes a two month Eurail pass, just the flights to London or Paris, Eurostar passes (the chunnel train), other Sony electronics, etc, etc, etc.). I have until Sunday at 1 pm to solve them, and figured seeing the movie would help me.

BTW, the movie is a) not as bad as the critics said it was and b) a helluva lot better than the book. Making the movie "not half bad" to "almost good". It was a standard Tom Hanks performance, it was a slightly sub-standard Audrey Tautou performance, but it was well played and besides the dialogue being rewritten for the better, almost exactly like the book. However, because they eliminated just about every part of the book that read like a history lesson, it was so much more enjoyable. And the parts that were history lessons were animated.

And as for the cryptex, the answer was printed on the bottom of the box. I'm not sure if that was intentional or not, but I tried two words of my own ("apple" which is the cryptex answer in the book/movie, and "quest" because it referenced a question during the game portion) before flipping the box over and seeing the answer was "grail". Seriously, folks, were you waiting for the first 10,000 who were brilliant enough to flip the box over? Or was my box special enough to have the answer on it?

Anyway....

BTW

[kaygigi.livejournal.com]

You should send this article to My Pregnancy Place, and explain that you want their services because all women of reproductive age are now officially pre-preggers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/15/AR2006051500875_pf.html

Just in case you didn't know that you are potentially concieving at any given moment and therefore you should be taking folic acid every single moment...