http://www.theexcellentadventure.com/birth/Aurora/BirthofAMH2.html

Enjoy!

Documenting the Process

Written in a panic, while dealing with bureaucracy. Wheee.

http://www.iftheworldcouldvote.com/

And I’m totally horrified, friends. Not by the votes themselves but by the complete disconnect. People in all those nations know enough about our candidates to have an opinion. How many Americans even know who the leaders of those nations are?

Anyway, if you aren’t an American, or know non-Americans… send them on over.

1. If you don’t have a passport, get one. If you have one, start carrying it with you, and/or put it where you can grab it easily.
2. If you don’t have food and water set aside, do it now. I’ve blogged about several good blogs that can help you out.
3. If you don’t know the neighborhood around your polling place, in terms of multiple ways to get in and multiple ways to get out, get familiar now.
4. Take your cellphone into the poll with you and photograph your completed ballot.
5. If you go out, whether to vote, to commute, or just to get some groceries, pay attention to your surroundings. If you see groups of people, go the other way.
6. If you have cash to put aside, put some aside now. Not in a bank. Make it a real amount, like, the amount to put enough gas in your car to get to Mexico, or Canada, or someplace verifiably safer than where you are.
7. Take this opportunity to check your car’s oil and get it changed if necessary, fill the tires, check the fluids, and in all other ways, make sure it’s functioning optimally.

There’s your start. Keep yourselves and your loved ones safe and provided-for first. I’ll be back with whatever else I can come up with later.

I posted the link to the martial law thing a few days ago, so I knew about that (and so should all of you). I didn’t know about the deployment, which makes the martial law threat a true threat, with teeth. It also means that our elected representatives are no longer ours.

You have to do something. Get going. Blog this. Forward it. Email. Do NOT think that it’ll all be OK by election time. It won’t.

I ask myself that same question every single stinkin’ day. Cause friends… if you aren’t terrified right now, you aren’t paying attention. Our Constitution is crumbling, our government is tightening the fist of oppression tighter every day (did you catch this one about what was happening on the “let’s make it easy to poison the population” front while we were all focused on the banks?), and yet the vast majority of folks I talk to listen to what I’m saying (and Dmitry is saying, and Naomi is saying, and Sharon is saying, and the freewayblogger is saying, on and on and on), blink a few times, say “you’re scaring me” and then move on to easier topics.

Fear, says Gavin de Becker, is your instinctual brain telling you that something is terribly wrong.

What is it going to take to get people to do something about what’s happening here? I’d like to invite my readers (all four of you) to think about where your personal line is. What is it going to take to finally outrage you into taking definitive action? Did your representatives vote for the bailout? Find out, and give them a piece of your mind. Have you talked to anyone “in power” about Guantanamo? Torture? Suspension of habeas? Human rights abuses in the USA? The “war on terror“? Suppression of the right to assembly and the right to free speech? Internet censorship?

Please, take an hour or two, do some mental digging, figure out where your line is, and what you might do, to protect your families and promote change. Don’t be like the vast majority of our couch potato nation, willing to hand it all over to someone who falsely guarantees to keep us “safe”, as long as there are still Big Macs and football. We’ve been trained to compliance, away from critical thinking and observation and god forbid, questioning. It’s time to stand up and demand answers and action from your elected officials, your religious leaders, and your neighbors.

Wake up. Before it’s too late, and you end up in the history books as “those people who did nothing to stop it”.

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/86/8639cover.html

Notice how, sprinkled all through, are references to things they don’t know about why breastmilk is so perfect?

Hello, it’s the delivery system. Anyone can tell you that a good meal in perfect surroundings is superior to fast-food eaten in conveyance. So naturally, being held in the loving arms of your mother, digesting food that has evolved to be perfect for you and only you has got to be better than slurping down a bottle while you stare at the ceiling in your crib.

Duh.

http://www.c-spanarchives.org/congress/?q=node/77531&id=8902076