I've got the blues in Alaska

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Tuesday October 20, 2015 · 5:21 AM PDT

2015/10/20 · 05:21

Things have been shifting here in Alaska. It started with Joe Miller's defeat to write in candidate Lisa Murkowski- both Republicans, but one is a Tea Party darling and supported by Sarah Palin, the other is an Establishment Republican who lost her primary and still won the election.

It gives me hope for the future.

CarisDaughter

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Sunday October 11, 2015 · 1:26 AM PDT

2015/10/11 · 01:26

I'm sure you've all seen the Grammarly analysis of remarks made by the fans of various presidential candidates and how often they made mistakes.

I know myself. I'm just as guilty of being lazy when it comes to grammar and that I'm prone to frequent typos when replying. I'll skip words entirely, or put the complete wrong word in a sentence. So unless they were talking about all intensive purposes or liberal loosers* , it's kind of a non-issue to me.

The issue for me is that without common ground in language, it's impossible to communicate and there are some words and phrases that are being used in ways that make no sense to me.

* Those two common errors make me flinch every time I see them.

CarisDaughter

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Sunday August 16, 2015 · 10:07 AM PDT

2015/08/16 · 10:07

If you have enough "friends" on Facebook, you get to see every single stupid right wing meme that comes along.

Recently I saw one that compared people to zombies.

CarisDaughter

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Friday July 31, 2015 · 2:01 AM PDT

2015/07/31 · 02:01

My son's father is Republican. Not one of those nice old-fashioned Republicans who understood that part of being in a community meant that you had to pay taxes and care for your neighbors.

The new kind of Republican. The kind that would rather keep everyone under him down than to try and raise the standard of living for everybody. The sort that doesn't realize that if the minimum wage is raised, then skilled job wages will follow.

He wasn't that way when we were together. At least I don't remember him that way. One of the joys of this modern age of social networks is that I get to see what he is now. Occasionally I think "Hey, I liked you for your mind, what HAPPENED?", other times, like yesterday, he flat out pisses me off.

CarisDaughter

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Friday June 19, 2015 · 11:21 PM PDT

2015/06/19 · 23:21

So there was another tragedy involving guns and people dying. It's heartbreaking and a lot of people have already expressed the collective sadness and horror quite eloquently. 9 people died in church in an act of terrorism committed by an American against other Americans out of fear, racism, hate and a desire to start a civil war.
Hearing the families of the victims forgive the killer is repairing the break though, it is as true an example of faith as we are likely to see in our lifetimes.

There is so much in this whole fucked up situation and the national reaction to it, that it's hard to narrow down a focus. My Facebook newsfeed is sure helping with that- people being utterly convinced that we are trying to take away their guns.

CarisDaughter

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Saturday April 25, 2015 · 7:04 PM PDT

2015/04/25 · 19:04

My mom was a hippie activist feminist. The sort who communed nude with nature, and bought her 6 year old shirts with that wonderful quote about fish needing a bicycle. Part of that was being very pro-choice. She firmly embraced the idea that women should be in control of their own bodies.

She explained things in extremes, because every avalanche starts with pebble, every flood starts with a drop of rain. The small things, the things you let go by because they seem like no big deal add up.

I'm pro-choice for my daughter, just like mom was pro-choice for me. We made our choices, to have our children. Now I want them to have the same choices my mother and countless other people like her made sure that I had. Choice is part of freedom, it can't be separated from a woman's basic right to pursue her own happiness and create her own destiny.

CarisDaughter

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Sunday April 12, 2015 · 3:17 AM PDT

2015/04/12 · 03:17

Every day we see them, quotes from the past that are meant to support current policies, ideologies and candidates for public office. Sometimes they are accurate, and meant exactly the way it reads. Sometimes they are completely inaccurate, sometimes they are almost accurate, and sometimes they are taken completely out of context.

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