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<STRONG>I received this from my daughter, Lisa, who is 44. . . the same age as Sarah Palin.</STRONG><BR>
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<STRONG>I usually don't share my personal e-mails on a public forum. . . however, I personally feel it is too important to ignore. I've already sent it to my friends. . . and then I started thinking. You are all my neighbors and many are friends. . .I should share it with all of you, not just a few. </STRONG><BR>
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<STRONG>Ellen A. Roskovich</STRONG><BR>
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<BR><BR>> From: lisaraymond99@comcast.net<BR>> To: tesswordpro@juno.com; tracey.smbody@yahoo.com; tkojones13@ca.rr.com; rmarkussen@tx.rr.com; mamw29@hotmail.com; tldk@sbcglobal.net; rockthed@hotmail.com; teamjnm@pacbell.net; sroskovich@yahoo.com; gussie443@hotmail.com; vickiprovost@comcast.net<BR>> Subject: Fw: An Appeal to Thinking Women<BR>> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:51:15 -0700<BR>> <BR>> It's a little long but good and very thought provoking.<BR>> Lisa<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> ----- Original Message ----- <BR>> From: "Susan Hunter" <hunterstrouble@comcast.net><BR>> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 7:40 PM<BR>> Subject: Fwd: An Appeal to Thinking Women<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> My friends. Words to think by.<BR>> Susan<BR>> > Dear Girlfriends<BR>> ><BR>> > I have been up nights sick over this Palin situation. For goodness sakes, <BR>> > we are all being too nice. It is time to speak out and, yes, put out <BR>> > those claws and get as catty as we can possibly be. After all, it has <BR>> > become increasingly clear to me over the past week that this next <BR>> > election lies in our hands as women. As a united voice we have to make it <BR>> > clear that we cannot be pacified by putting any old crazy chick on the <BR>> > ticket. This woman is hell bent on destroying every personal freedom, <BR>> > social safety net, and environm<BR>> > ental protection that we have fought for and hold dear and we won’t stand <BR>> > for it. Below is an amazing piece written by the playwright and activist <BR>> > Eve Gensler. Please send it to every one you know— especially women. And <BR>> > if you have other ideas about how we, as a group of vocal, intelligent <BR>> > women can make our voice heard—please let me know.<BR>> ><BR>> > To you Sarah Palin, I say : “Hell No!!!!!”<BR>> ><BR>> > Daphne<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > 'Drill, Drill, Drill' by playwright, Eve Ensler<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a <BR>> > member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of <BR>> > drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular <BR>> > thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness <BR>> > or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in <BR>> > person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably <BR>> > on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life <BR>> > trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against <BR>> > them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin <BR>> > choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this <BR>> > choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to <BR>> > Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the <BR>> > earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, <BR>> > opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous <BR>> > choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates <BR>> > the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas <BR>> > that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the <BR>> > impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this <BR>> > is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the <BR>> > bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In <BR>> > her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better <BR>> > or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the <BR>> > arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise <BR>> > of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar <BR>> > bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is <BR>> > here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be <BR>> > shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is <BR>> > here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, 'It <BR>> > was a task from God.'<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who <BR>> > are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a <BR>> > right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not.<BR>> <BR>> > She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I <BR>> > imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many <BR>> > babies that makes.<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has <BR>> > tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with <BR>> > people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of <BR>> > ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well <BR>> > be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the <BR>> > most diverse populations on the earth.<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. <BR>> > She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of <BR>> > wolves from the air.<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. <BR>> > But when God and guns come together in the public sector, when war is <BR>> > declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, <BR>> > that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of <BR>> > everything America has ever tried to be.<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in <BR>> > our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of <BR>> > the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies <BR>> > to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will <BR>> > determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or <BR>> > whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It <BR>> > will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or <BR>> > invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and <BR>> > destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and <BR>> > healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will <BR>> > determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed <BR>> > place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power <BR>> > to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after <BR>> > Palin spoke at the RNC, 'Drill Drill Drill.' I think of teeth when I <BR>> > think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of <BR>> > domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, <BR>> > emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of <BR>> > pain.<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of <BR>> > the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and <BR>> > peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?<BR>> ><BR>> <BR>> ><BR>> > Daphne Miller, MD<BR>> ><BR>> > Associate Clinical Professor<BR>> ><BR>> > Department of Family and Community Medicine<BR>> ><BR>> > University of California San Francisco<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > Private Family Practice<BR>> ><BR>> > 1286 Sanchez Street, Suite A<BR>> ><BR>> > San Francisco, CA 94114<BR>> ><BR>> > 415-642-0333 (phone)<BR>> ><BR>> > 415-642-6233 (fax)<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR><BR><br /><hr />Get more out of the Web. Learn 10 hidden secrets of Windows Live. <a href='http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_getmore_092008' target='_new'>Learn Now</a></body>
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