Good morning!

With all the talk about Akin’s disturbing, out of touch, ignorant “legitimate rape” comment ( Thanks you /SB for broaching this topic- I did read it yesterday morning), I thought that I would post this today.

This isn’t the first time I have heard of a woman who was required to marry her rapist. But this young girl, after telling her mother that she was being beaten by her rapist/future husband, decided to take rat poison and kill herself.

And like the stories I posted the other day that were not given much media attention, stories such as this one, do not get much attention either. So, I am bringing it to light.

16-year-old Amina Filali Who Was Forced To Marry Her Rapist, Commits Suicide

March 14, 2012 · By itsbits

16-year-old Amina committed suicide last Saturday after being forced to marry her rapist.

Under Moroccan law, any man who rapes a minor will be forgiven of all charges, as long as they marry their victim. Last year, Amina was walking the street when she was accosted and raped by a man who was 10 years her senior. When she finally reported the incident, their parents agreed to a marriage to protect her family honor.

After submitting to the marriage, Amina confided to her mother that she was subjected to violent beatings from her husband; her mom simply asked her to be more patient. As a final resort to escape her violent marriage, Amina injested rat poison and ended her life.

With a huge public outrage, the victim’s father, Lahcen Filali told reporters that the marriage was suggested by the court officials, “The prosecutor advised my daughter to marry, he said ‘go and make the marriage contract.”

An online petition has been formed to call an end to Article 475 of the Moroccan code which reinforces the practice of marrying rapists and their victims.

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Readers: Ya know, Todd Akin would probably tell the young girl Amina, to “shut that whole thing down”, marry the man and get over it. I would like to see how Todd Akin, would react if he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and got raped in that virgin (?) ass of his. How would he feel? How would he like it if someone said to him, “Well…c’mon just shut it down. I know your ass is sore and you feel violated but really, just go to that part of your brain and shut it down. Forget about it.” Easy right?

Not so easy – that I am sure of. I could go on and on getting into the dirty details of rape, and try to paint a not so pretty picture for Mr. Akin to visualize. But I am not so sure I could do that. I probably couldn’t paint a picture so horrific as it truly is because I have never been raped, thankfully. I could never in my wildest dreams imagine the horror of what it must be like to live through such a violation. Nor would I ever say anything off the cuff  when it comes to rape using the expression “legitimate” rape as if to imply there were any such a thing as “illegitimate rape”.

So I will give the floor to Eve Ensler, a rape survivor, who can talk from experience…and who will have no problem getting Mr. Akin to imagine…

Dear Mr. Akin, I Want You to Imagine…

Dear Todd Akin,

I am writing to you tonight about rape. It is 2 AM and I am unable to sleep here in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I am in Bukavu at the City of Joy to serve and support and work with hundreds, thousands of women who have been raped and violated and tortured from this ceaseless war for minerals fought on their bodies.

I am in Congo but I could be writing this from anywhere in the United States, South Africa, Britain, Egypt, India, Philippines, most college campuses in America. I could be writing from any city or town or village where over half a billion women on the planet are raped in their lifetime.

Mr. Akin, your words have kept me awake.

As a rape survivor, I am reeling from your recent statement where you said you misspoke when you said that women do not get pregnant from legitimate rape, and that you were speaking “off the cuff.”

Clarification. You didn’t make some glib throw away remark. You made a very specific ignorant statement clearly indicating you have no awareness of what it means to be raped. And not a casual statement, but one made with the intention of legislating the experience of women who have been raped. Perhaps more terrifying: it was a window into the psyche of the GOP.

You used the expression “legitimate” rape as if to imply there were such a thing as “illegitimate” rape. Let me try to explain to you what that does to the minds, hearts and souls of the millions of women on this planet who experience rape. It is a form of re-rape. The underlying assumption of your statement is that women and their experiences are not to be trusted. That their understanding of rape must be qualified by some higher, wiser authority. It delegitimizes and undermines and belittles the horror, invasion, desecration they experienced. It makes them feel as alone and powerless as they did at the moment of rape.

When you, Paul Ryan and 225 of your fellow co-sponsors play with words around rape suggesting only “forcible” rape be treated seriously as if all rapes weren’t forcible, it brings back a flood of memories of the way the rapists played with us in the act of being raped — intimidating us, threatening us,muting us. Your playing with words like “forcible” and “legitimate” is playing with our souls which have been shattered by unwanted penises shoving into us, ripping our flesh, our vaginas, our consciousness, our confidence, our pride, our futures.

Now you want to say that you misspoke when you said that a legitimate rape couldn’t get us pregnant. Did you honestly believe that rape sperm is different than love sperm, that some mysterious religious process occurs and rape sperm self-destructs due to its evilcontent? Or, were you implying that women and their bodies are somehow responsible for rejecting legitimate rape sperm, once again putting the onus on us? It would seem you were saying that getting pregnant after a rape would indicate it was not a “legitimate” rape.

Here’s what I want you to do. I want you to close your eyes and imagine that you are on your bed or up against a wall or locked in a small suffocating space. Imagine being tied up there and imagine some aggressive, indifferent, insane stranger friend or relative ripping off your clothes and entering your body — the most personal, sacred, private part of your body — and violently, hatefully forcing themself into you so that you are ripped apart. Then imagine that stranger’s sperm shooting into you and filling you and you can’t get it out. It is growing something in you. Imagine you have no idea what that life will even consist of, spiritually made in hate, not knowing the mental or health background of the rapist.

Then imagine a person comes along, a person who has never had that experience of rape, and that person tells you, you have no choice but to keep that product of rape growing in you against your will and when it is born it has the face of your rapist, the face of the person who has essentially destroyed your being and you will have to look at the face every day of your life and you will be judged harshly if you cannot love that face.

I don’t know if you can imagine any of this (leadership actually requires this kind of compassion), but if you are willing to go to the depth of this darkness, you will quickly understand that there is NO ONE WHO CAN MAKE THAT CHOICE to have or not have the baby, but the person carrying that baby herself.

I have spent much time with mothers who have given birth to children who are the product of rape. I have watched how tortured they are wrestling with their hate and anger, trying not to project that onto their child.

I am asking you and the GOP to get out of my body, out of my vagina, my womb, to get out of all of our bodies. These are not your decisions to make. These are not your words to define.

Why don’t you spend your time ending rape rather than redefining it? Spend your energy going after those perpetrators who so easily destroy women rather than parsing out manipulative language that minimizes their destruction.

And by the way you’ve just given millions of women a very good reason to make sure you never get elected again, and an insanely good reason to rise.

#ReasonToRise

Eve Ensler
Bukavu, Congo

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Unfortunately there are others out there besides Akin who feel the way he does. Sickening but true.

Many years ago I knew of a woman from design school that was raped when she was very young. Years later in therapy she discovered who her rapist was when she began to have flashbacks of him. When she finally confessed it to her parents, her father told her to put it out of her mind and forget about it. And I have to say, her mother who was “lock step” (that’s a nod to you Sabrina) pretty much said the same same thing. And yes, they are republicans and no doubt still holding onto their twisted moralic ways and bad mouthing our beloved man in the white house.

(Yes, in case you didn’t notice, I just made up a word. It’s been awhile since I have delved into that pleasure, but it flew into my brain, so here it is: Morals + Moronic = Moralic)

I will end with a by adding to /SB’s comment last night: We women have the numbers when we vote en masse –  If women don’t shut down the republican party strictly from our majority body count, we can expect that the republican party will shut down women’s bodies and try to throw us back into the dark ages.

Remember this…If men (not all) could do what is done to women in so many parts of the world, lay down crazy laws such as the one I just posted above from Morocco, and try to control us and our bodies, believe me, don’t ever doubt for a minute that they wouldn’t.

Zen Lill: I knew I would get a laugh out of you.

Wills: Well said.

Радка: Thanks to you and all the Girlz of Bulgaria. All the good luck you can send is appreciated. I am certainly doing my best. Let’s HOPE it’s good enough. 

Peace out. 

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Good Monday morning!

Sometime last week I think I said that I would have more to post about Paul Ryan. This write was pointed out to me. I found the info to be of value, so I decided to post it.

Paul Ryan represents political dark age

Robert B. Reich

Published 1:05 p.m., Saturday, August 18, 2012

Paul Ryan espouses 19th century social Darwinism - reward the rich, penalize the poor, and the rest are on their own. Photo: Jeff Swensen, Getty Images / SF

Mitt Romney‘s chosen running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, is the reverse of Sarah Palin. She was all right-wing flash without much substance. He’s all right-wing substance without much flash.

Ryan is not a firebrand. He’s not smarmy. He doesn’t ooze contempt for opponents or ridicule those who disagree with him. In style and tone, he doesn’t even sound like an ideologue – until you listen to what he has to say.

It’s here, in Ryan’s views and policy judgments, that we find the true ideologue. More than any other politician today, Ryan exemplifies the social Darwinism at the core of today’s Republican Party: Reward the rich, penalize the poor, let everyone else fend for themselves.

Dog eat dog.

Ryan’s views are crystallized in the budget he produced for House Republicans in March as chairman of the Budget Committee. That budget would cut $3.3 trillion from low-income programs over the next decade. The biggest cuts would be in Medicaid, which provides health care for the nation’s poor – they would force states to drop coverage for an estimated 14 million to 27 million low-income people, according to an Urban Institute estimate.

Ryan’s budget also would reduce food stamps for poor families by 17 percent ($135 billion) over the decade, leading to a significant increase in hunger – particularly among children. It also would reduce housing assistance, job training and Pell Grants for college tuition.

In all, 62 percent of the budget cuts proposed by Ryan would come from low-income programs.

The Ryan plan also would turn Medicare into vouchers whose value could not possibly keep up with rising health care costs – thereby shifting those costs to seniors.

At the same time, Ryan would provide a substantial tax cut to the very rich, who already take home an almost unprecedented share of the nation’s total income. Today’s 400 richest Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 million of us put together.

Ryan’s views are pure social Darwinism. As William Graham Sumner, the progenitor of social Darwinism in America, put it in the 1880s: “Civilization has a simple choice.” It’s either “liberty, inequality, survival of the fittest” or “non-liberty, equality, survival of the unfittest. The former carries society forward and favors all its best members; the latter carries society downwards and favors all its worst members.”

Is this Romney’s view as well?

Some believe Romney chose Ryan solely to drum up enthusiasm on the right. Since most Americans have already made up their minds about whom they’ll vote for, and the polls show Americans highly polarized – an almost equal number support Romney as President Obama – the winner will be determined by how many on either side take the trouble to vote. So in picking Ryan, Romney is motivating his right-wing base to get to the polls and pull everyone else they can along with them.

But there’s reason to believe Romney also agrees with Ryan’s social Darwinism. Although Romney has carefully avoided specifics in his own economic plan, he has said he’s “very supportive” of Ryan’s budget plan: “It’s a bold and exciting effort … an excellent piece of work and very much needed … very consistent with what I put out earlier.”

At the same time, Romney wants to permanently extend the Bush tax cuts to the wealthy, reduce corporate income taxes and eliminate the estate tax. These tax reductions would increase the incomes of people earning more than $1 million a year by an average of $295,874 annually, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

Oh, did I mention that Romney and Ryan also want to repeal Obama’s health care law, leaving 50 million Americans without health insurance?

Social Darwinism offered a moral justification for the wild inequities and social cruelties of the late 19th century. It also undermined all efforts to build a more broadly based prosperity and rescue our democracy from the tight grip of a very few at the top. It was used by the privileged and powerful to convince everyone else that government shouldn’t do much of anything.

Not until the 20th century did America reject social Darwinism.

We created a large middle class that became the engine of our economy and our democracy. We built safety nets to catch Americans who fell downward, often through no fault of their own.

We taxed the rich and invested in public goods – public schools, public universities, public transportation, public parks, public health – that made us all better off.

In short, we rejected the notion that each of us is on our own in a competitive contest for survival.

By choosing Ryan, Romney has raised for the nation the starkest of choices: Do we want to return to that earlier time, or are we willing and able to move forward – toward a democracy and an economy that works for us all?

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And if that’s not enough proof, here’s more from Think Progress:

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Readers: We keep talking about Ryan…and we’re going to keep talking about him because there is just so much to say….so much that needs to be revealed and illuminated. I’m HOPEing he’ll keep opening his mouth, along with Romney, the media will continue to disclose these LSOS’s, and people will realize that the Romney-Ryan ticket is not the ticket you want to mark come November.

Claire: ZL was correct – you needed attention and you got it. Now here’s more. I don’t consider my comment an “assault” on you. I was just responding to you. You are the one that said my blog sucks. I just suggested that you give it a try or go elsewhere. I now recommend the latter strongly since you repeated that my blog sucks and now you think I suck too. Well…let me tell you…I do suck and I’m damn good at it. How is that for a little “cohesiveness”?

Sabrina: All I want to say is that I got a kick out of your statement: “I am white but I don’t do lock step.”

Peace out. 

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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michelle

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Good morning!

Mike, TM: Thanks for your opinion. The truth is so simply said. What more is there to say? Except additionally, as you and others have pointed out, it doesn’t really matter since the repubs are planning on stealing the election no matter who is running with Romney. Run with satan, or whoever, - the racists will vote white no matter. And just in case they fear the racists won’t pull through, they’ll just cover their ass and try to steal the election. The important word here is “try”. I’m HOPEing and expecting that those on Obama’s team and in support of him will prevent the thieves from success. I plan on doing my best.

I HOPE all is well in your world. Oh…I just went to the gas station yesterday and noticed that gas hiked up over .20 cents more per gallon than it was just a few days ago, I’m pretty sure. The rise in my opinion has already begun. Thanks for the notification. I HOPE it doesn’t get much worse.

Speaking of the election, stealing the votes isn’t the only way to ensure a win. Preventing those who are likely to vote for Obama is another way. Here’s the latest (?) on disenfranchisement:

New Analysis: Voter Purges Disproportionately Remove Minorities, Seniors, Young People

John Lewis being beaten by state troopers, March 7, 1965

Catalist, a company that provides voting list data to progressive organizations, is among the closest observers of changes to voting rolls around the country. In analysis shared with ThinkProgress, the company observes that since November 2008, certain groups of living residents have been far more likely to be purged from the voting roles than others.

 Their data suggests that beyond the wide variation in purge rates across states, there is significant variation within states:

In many states, certain parts of the state electorate, both geographically and demographically, are much more likely to be dropped off of the voter rolls than others. More specifically, some general trends that we see are focused on:
a. Urbanity – cities are getting disproportionately purged
b. Race – minorities are getting disproportionately purged
c. Marital Status – unmarried people are getting disproportionately purged
d. Age – younger (< 40 years old) and older (> 65 years old) voters are purged more frequently than middle-aged voters
e. County effects – there are big differences across county lines, pointing to sharp discontinuities based on arbitrary political boundaries that do not correspond with inherent behavioral differences

Catalist notes that more than 2.7 million living people who voted in 2008 have since been purged from the voter rolls. Among those, African American voters are “1.5 times more likely to be purged than Caucasian voters, nationally.”

These findings are consistent with what we have seen in Florida with Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) error-riddled purge attempts. A Miami Herald analysis showed that “Hispanic, Democratic and independent-minded voters [were] the most likely to be targeted” by that effort.

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), who led the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s efforts in the 1960s to ensure voting rights for all Americans, said last month that these purges of eligible voters from the rolls make him “want to just cry, after people gave a little blood, after some people were beaten, shot and murdered trying to help people become registered voters.” He lamented that “states throughout the nation come along with tactics to make it hard, to make it difficult for people to participate. We should be making it easy and simple and open up the political process and let all of the people come in.”

Instead, Scott and others are pushing efforts that may make it impossible for these millions of U.S. citizens to exercise their right to vote. These numbers show that regardless of whether the intent of these purges is discriminatory, their effect clearly is.

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Readers: This is one election that we must all get involved in. Thoughts? Ideas? Blog me.

Howie: Thanks again for answering my concerns and questions over the “time traveling team”.  It seems your info is going to help the TAO in locating them. Once again, your news has been of great service to those concerned. I want to extend my thanks as well, and wish you a wonderful Sunday.

And that sentiment goes out to all my readers. Peace & Love…

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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Good morning!

Since I don’t have a designated LSOS day…and considering that the LSOS’s don’t ever have a day off from lying…evidently everyday is a LSOS’s day for lying, I thought this was a perfect post for any day and today is the day.

The Biggest Mitt Romney Lie (So Far)

As you’ve probably observed already, Mitt Romney is a lie machine. Steve Benen at Maddow Blog has been tracking Romney’s mendacity and the tally is usually 20-30 items per week. That’s a lot, and Benen probably doesn’t catch all of them.

Any normal human being has to work hard to lie that much. But Mitt Romney is doing it as a matter of campaign strategy, specifically as a way to fire up the gullible and desperate tea party base. By the time a Romney lie is fact-checked, it’s already too late, and, besides, Romney supporters won’t actually read/believe the fact-checkers who are obviously part of the liberal conspiracy to re-elect a communist Muslim. It’s a strategy based on the maxim: “A lie travels halfway around the world before the truth can get its shoes on.”

Meanwhile, as I’ve documented here, Republican legislatures have passed laws in 11 states requiring photo IDs in order to cast a ballot. These laws will make it more difficult for lower income registered voters to participate on Election Day even though numerous studies, including a five year investigation by the George W. Bush Justice Department, have proved that voter fraud is practically nonexistent.

Recently in Ohio, Republicans tried to significantly cut back the window for early voting from five weeks to three weeks. They failed to keep the law on the books, but the Republicans managed to ban early voting on the weekends, except for military veterans who can continue to vote on Saturdays and Sundays.

However, the Obama administration filed a lawsuit against Ohio to restore weekend voting for all registered voters. Soldiers would retain weekend voting privileges, and voters would once again be allowed to vote on those days. Once again, the Democrats are trying to make voting easier and the Republicans are trying to strip people of that fundamental right.

Over the weekend, Mitt Romney, while clearly benefiting from Republican voter purges and Voter ID laws meant to discourage minority and working class voters, accused the Obama Justice Department of somehow trying to disenfranchise military voters. In other words, the Democrats are the ones who are trying to disenfranchise people — and they hate the troops, too! The troops!

The Romney Unit on The Facebook:

President Obama’s lawsuit claiming it is unconstitutional for Ohio to allow servicemen and women extended early voting privileges during the state’s early voting period is an outrage. The brave men and women of our military make tremendous sacrifices to protect and defend our freedoms, and we should do everything we can to protect their fundamental right to vote. I stand with the fifteen military groups that are defending the rights of military voters, and if I’m entrusted to be the commander-in-chief, I’ll work to protect the voting rights of our military, not undermine them.

In addition to sounding like a Patrick Bateman speech, that’s arguably the biggest Romney lie so far (although his new welfare reform attack might have topped it). There’s nothing here that’s even remotely close to the truth. The Obama administration has absolutely not done what Romney says it’s doing — in any way. The president is actually trying to extend weekend voting to everyone, while preserving it for the troops. Romney has used this twisted Orwellian Karl Rove style backwards logic to trick his supporters into buying this bag of hooey while reinforcing the myth that the president — the commander in chief of the armed forces — hates the military. At the same time, he’s reversed the Voter ID debate by making it seem as if the Democrats are trying to disenfranchise voters.

And it’s in print. It’s not a jittery, Uncanny Valley Romney gaffe or something he blurted out on a cable news show. He (his advisers) carefully crafted this one, and it’s entirely untrue. And, for what it’s worth,Politifact declared it to be “False” while entirely debunking the Facebook post.

It is simply dishonest for Romney and his backers to claim that Obama’s effort to extend early voting privileges to everyone in Ohio constitutes an attack on military voters’ ability to cast ballots on the weekend before elections.

But none of that matters because it’s out there now. The Facebook post has been “Liked” more than 152,000 times and shared by more than 19,000 Romney Facebook friends. And it’s a lie by every measure. To wit, here are some choice comments from Romney’s Facebook:

“Obama is trying to make it more inconvenient for the military to vote. Obama is a db.”"suing Ohio for equal voting days between military and civilian voters , is an attack on military voters .common sense something dipshit liberals dnt have …”

“What a hypocrite! He sues to overturn voter ID laws so that no vote is turned away and then sues to prevent servicemen and women from disgusting! He is a disgusting President!

Everything is taken at face value because Romney’s lies are crafted to be exactly what the base wants to hear. They want to hear that the president is a hypocrite who hates the troops. They want to hear that it’s the president who doesn’t want people to vote — not the GOP state legislatures and governors. So Romney gives them what they want: red meat, irrespective of its veracity.

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Readers: My internet was down this morning. I will reserve my responses till later.

Peace out. 

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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Good morning!

This man has got to go. Scalia is such an idiot. This is his latest ridiculous remark…that I know of.

Scalia Suggests ‘Hand-Held Rocket Launchers’ Are Protected Under Second Amendment

By Zack Ford on Jul 29, 2012 at 10:26 am

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Readers: I can’t believe that Scalia is in the position of making decisions that affects the lives of 350,000,000 Americans. Like I said, this man has got to go. His time is way up. Come on…hand-held rocket launchers? With ridiculous statements such as the above, is there any wonder he decided that “Citizens United” was good law?  And thanks to the likes of him and the rest of the “Stark” / “Karts” clan, whichever way you moniker it, the results are the same: Now billionaires can buy elections on the local, State, and National level at will because they can make unlimited contributions.

Let’s see…our elections can now be bought by the bills, and crazy people can go around throwing hand-held rocket launchers at will because idiots like Scalia take textualism to the literal limits.

This is very scary. What’s next?

ZL: Thanks for your call. I was out that night. I’ll try you in the evening this week.

Howie: I can’t say that I am “enjoying” the story of Tsarme. Although I find it fascinating as I do most of your telling tales, I HOPE that the anomalies get diffused and more importantly, Tsarme is safe and back to his normal self. it seems there is lots going on out there and the TAO have their hands full.

I wonder if you can inquire about any news with respect to Adam, AH and Bita. They’ve been absent from here for awhile. I HOPE you are well.

Matt: Your statement is obvious and goes without saying –  but I guess not to the ignorant.

Mike, TM: Nice to hear from you. Thanks so much for the keeping the scoops going here.

Peace out. 

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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