Welcome to Connect! Unite! Act!
A daily series, Connect! Unite! Act! seeks to create face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups regularly socialize but also get out the vote, support candidates and engage in other local political actions that help our progressive movement grow and exert influence on the powers-that-be. Visit us at Daily Kos every morning at 7:30 A.M. Pacific Time to see how you can get involved. The comment thread is fun and light-hearted, but we're serious about moving the progressive political agenda forward. |
You’ve read about these conditions in old novels and diaries, heard your grandparents talk about a friend who succumbed to the old man’s friend or the morbid sore throat or Quinsy, or even read theses odd diagnoses on death certificates when doing genealogy research. My back was bothering me recently and the old-fashioned word lumbago popped into my head, probably because the old-fashioned term matched my suddenly creaky spine. Perhaps I also had a touch of the old rheumatiz or was just feeling a bit costive.
Here’s a few of my favorites, and see how many of them you recognize:
Ague
La Grippe (not related to your hands)
The French Pox (Could French letters prevent this?)
Chillblains
Neurasthenia (this one was so vague it took the longest time to figure out, but quite a few of our patients suffer it)
Dropsy
Hectic Fever
Trench Mouth (extra points if you can name the war it's associated with)
Saint Vitus Dance (extra points for knowing who St. Vitus is the patron saint of)
Scrophula (not nearly as prevalent as in the last century)
Yellow Landers
Found dropped (which just happened to a friend of ours in Denver!)
Swamp Sickness
Got any more? It’s fair to make up your own terms. When I taught medical terminology I gave extras credit for plausible made-up conditions, and the extra credit winner that year coined the term cervical multi-dentoidal hematomas, and a great time he had getting them!
As always, this is Open Thread!
LET'S BUILD IN-REAL-LIFE COMMUNITIES!
Our team is here to provide support and guidance to new and existing volunteer leaders of each regional and state group, helping them with recruiting, organizing and executing social and action events. We invite you to join in this effort to build our community. There are many ways to pitch in. If there isn't a group to join near you, please start one. |
THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY
Nationwide: January 21, 2017
Find your march here and start a group effort to march together, it will be listed here in CUA.
Women’s March on America, inspired by the Women’s March on Washington, calls on all Americans across the political spectrum to hold marches on the same day, at the same times, in communities across the country.
Together, we will send a message to our leaders and the world that the United States of America stands for values of human decency, equal rights and freedom from discrimination.
Our vision is that on January 21, 2017, the day after the Inauguration, Americans will unite in towns, cities, and schools across the nation to march in solidarity with communities affected by hate, intolerance, and acts of violence.
Many of us will not be able to make it to the march in Washington, DC. But we can come together in our local communities to march for our shared values.
The New York City & New Jersey Kos groups are joining in on the already massive Women’s March on NYC on Saturday, January 21, 2017 and marching together with the Daily Kos banner, shown just above. They’ll likely meet afterward for food & drink, stay tuned for those details. NYC March details here.
RSVPS
1. joanbrooker and film students
2. kathny
3. belinda ridgewood
4. gchaucer2
5. ericlewis0
6. FreeBeer
7. grannycarol
8. kishik
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sidnora
karma5230
Alastriona
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The SFKossacks are meeting to march together with our Daily Kos banner on Saturday, January 21, 2017, at 4 PM. There’s a chance we’ll meet for lunch before and definitely drinks afterward. Stay tuned for times and locations.
RSVPS
1. navajo
2. Meteor Blades
3. citisven
4. liberating spaces
5. Lorikeet
6. kimoconnor
7. dsb
8. sfpcnik
9. sfpcnik’s husband
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1. Radiowalla
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RSVPS
1. no way lack of brain
2. Elisa Batista & Eli
3.
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RSVPS
1. jck
2. maggiejean
3.
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RSVPS
1. 714day
2. gmats
3. susans
4.
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NEW GROUPS FORMING:
Placeholder for West Virginia Kos currently being organized by arper.