2016 Update: I care more about this blog than I do that "they" can read it, otherwise I'd stop writing it and create a new one. As long as they finally leave me and my little family alone, there should be no problem, even though I requested that they don't read it. Since they have no interest in my writing, I'm probably safe. I hope so hard they will finally respect our wishes of no contact. I care so much about telling the truth and bringing healing. I fought my entire life to bring communication, truth, and healing to my FOO. There's nothing left to fight for so I have given up, at age 59. I can now only bring healing to myself and other survivors through my words. I finally went back to work on my heart-wrenching memoir that I wrote in 2012 that I originally wrote for them as my last Hope of getting my beloved family of origin and relatives back. But, There Are None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See

Monday, August 27, 2012

From the brilliant mind of Aaron Sorkin


Republicans and Democrats alike ought to appreciate/resonate:


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  • Ideological purity
  • Compromise as weakness
  • A fundamentalist belief in scriptural literalism
  • Denying science
  • Unmoved by facts
  • Undeterred by new information
  • A hostile fear of progress
  • A demonization of education
  • A need to control women's bodies
  • Severe xenophobia
  • Tribal mentality
  • Intolerance of dissent
  • Pathological hatred of the US government

They call themselves the Tea Party. They call themselves conservatives. They call themselves Republicans, though Republicans certainly shouldn't. We should call them what they are: The American Taliban. And the American Taliban cannot survive if Dorothy Cooper is allowed to vote.”
~ Will MacAvoy, News Anchor on the HBO series, The Newsroom (season finale). The show took place in August 2011. Written by Aaron Sorkin
 
Last sentence referring to the 96-year-old woman (black) who has been voting for 75 years and now can't vote because she doesn't have a car, ie: no voter ID.
 
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What open-hearted individual hasn't realized that the Middle Eastern Taliban... that we are just like them, that is, that we have it in us to be just like them? We have it in us to be like Hitler. In other words, we are all human, and have it in us to live in Love or live in Fear to any extreme.
 
 
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