Indiana- and my answer to prejudice.

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Wednesday April 01, 2015 · 1:38 AM PDT

2015/04/01 · 01:38

So I have something to get off my chest.
It's my observation that it is a lot easier to fear and even vilify something and someone if you don't know them. Most of the fear of the dark closet at night is the unknown. When you don't know what might jump out and getcha, you're more likely to hang on to something to strike back with.

(More after the orange squiggly.)

Lainie

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Wednesday December 22, 2010 · 5:13 PM PST

2010/12/22 · 17:13

Is there anyone out there who works in Family Law in Oregon (Eugene/Springfield) or knows someone who would be willing to let us contact them before 8am on the 23rd (tomorrow)?

Lainie

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Sunday September 26, 2010 · 11:25 PM PDT

2010/09/26 · 23:25

I'm sick and weary and watching people around me suffer, and watching the top2% put out their hands to the rest of us and demand more. This letter was written out of this frustration. It's going in the mail in the morning. (Letter begins after the jump.)

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Is this letter:

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Is this letter:

too strong?

26 votes

too weak?

21 votes

just right?

54 votes

I am a coward.

Lainie

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Saturday December 26, 2009 · 9:21 AM PST

2009/12/26 · 09:21

I am pigeon livered, a wussy, weak, gutless, fraidy-cat, wimp, feeble, pusillanimous, spineless, panty-waist, sissy, pushover, yellow-bellied poltroon.

Lainie

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Monday August 17, 2009 · 1:34 AM PDT

2009/08/17 · 01:34

I posted this as a comment in nyceve's diary, but it occurred to me that it could be a durn good little diary on it's own, so...

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Are the Democrats tryn'a keep me down?

47 votes Vote Now!

Are the Democrats tryn'a keep me down?

Yeah- they hate middle-aged white women!

4 votes

Democrats like to keep people poor- it expands their base!

15 votes

Hey- it makes the transition easier when the Republican Overlords take over again.

4 votes

The Republicans already have you in the cross-hairs. We're just saving them the trouble.

2 votes

Democrats would love to help, but IT'S TOO HAAAARRRDD!!!

19 votes

It's August- Blackberry Pie!

3 votes

Lainie takes aim...

Lainie

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Wednesday June 24, 2009 · 12:28 AM PDT

2009/06/24 · 00:28

(Posted earlier this evening at Street Prophets)

Ok, so there's this fundamentalist website that I read a couple of times a week, to see what they're up to mostly. Here. I usually find something to be really irritated about. Tonight was no exception.

So there's an article up by Brannon Howse, "Is Marriage a Religious or Civil Law Institution?" And here. Of course he says it's both, and that the Church (his version, of course) should hang on for dear life OR OUR SOCIETY WILL COME TO AN END!!!!!

Yeah.

Lainie

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Saturday June 06, 2009 · 4:17 AM PDT

2009/06/06 · 04:17

All of us, at one time or another, manage to stumble into family controversies- I think it's part of the human condition, and perfectly normal. Some of us handle them better than others...

This one starts with an irritating email from the aunt I've told repeatedly to take me off her mass mail list. It said:

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President Barack Obama said in Turkey : "We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values."
I found this very interesting.
Do you know the Preamble for your state? . .

(more after the break-)

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So, should I-

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So, should I-

hold my head high- I did the right thing!

7985 votes

crawl under a rock and prepare a long, tear-stained, blubbery apology to Auntie

143 votes

keep my chin up but prepare to be exiled to Outer Darkness (or at least Brooklyn)

663 votes

wait it out- it'll blow over and All Will Be Forgiven

772 votes

Sam and me- the story of an argument

Lainie

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Monday January 01, 2007 · 6:17 AM PST

2007/01/01 · 06:17

Like many of you, I went to a party last night- about 20 of us, with plenty of food, drinks, board games, and a fireplace blazing as we waited for the New Year.

Lainie

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Monday September 12, 2005 · 11:23 PM PDT

2005/09/12 · 23:23

My fiance, who normally thinks I wear tinfoil everyday, sent me this today:

Well,....it seems, at a professional convention, some emergency preparedness officials from NO appoached a guy with a cartography/mapmaking business in little ol' Medford, OR. They had data about levee heights, sea swells during huricanes, etc. They basically wanted him to turn it all into a visual map of NO that would show the level of flooding after a Category 4 hurricane. The map is eerily accurate to what actually happened.

The map was made in 1985! Twenty years ago. Of course, nobody had any idea..... Read More

A book you MUST READ- and ACT on!

Lainie

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Friday July 22, 2005 · 3:13 AM PDT

2005/07/22 · 03:13

I'm in the middle of a book that you simply MUST read: Eternal Hostility by Frederick Clarkson. (It's available from his website at http://www.frederickclarkson.com/)-

(more below the fold!) Read More

Faith, Fear, and a Hospice

Lainie

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Monday March 28, 2005 · 4:45 AM PST

2005/03/28 · 04:45

I was at the hospice with my fiance's dad when he died- James' siblings weren't able to get there in time, and James had used up his leave.

Watching Fred die, holding his hand and telling him (even though he was in a coma- there's evidence that sometimes they can hear you) that his children loved him and were proud of him, and that I was thankful having had the opportunity to know him, combing his hair and washing his face, sponging glycerine on his dry lips, trimming his fingernails, turning him in his bed... sitting up all night next to the bed with his hand in mine that last few hours... Read More

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Indiana- and my answer to prejudice.

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I am a coward.

Democrats conspiring to keep me poor!

Lainie takes aim...

I may have just done a Very Bad Thing... or Not. UPDATE: With amazing new development!

Sam and me- the story of an argument

They knew it would happen- AND THE MAP TO PROVE IT!

A book you MUST READ- and ACT on!

Faith, Fear, and a Hospice