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Speak your mind even if your voice shakes

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10 Reasons why I don’t care if you don’t like my blog

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Seems there is a meme going around with people making conform or else lists.

Never being one who enjoyed being dictated to, I’ve decided to counteract that meme. Join in if you wish!

1) My blog is my space and will be decorated and re-decorated to suit my tastes and reflect my interests, passions, and needs. If you don’t like the colours, layout whatever…go decorate your own blog.

2) I write to what interests, inspires, angers or moves me. Not everyone will share those impressions. But I am writing from my experience not yours.

3) I like techie things. I like the feature galleries, and video embedding etc. My last template was pretty slick that way. Unfortunately some people are dealing with older computers that no likie that. So I downsized my techie. Still sad 🙁 but I do love this template too.

4) My topics, and lately it seems to be the same one or two, won’t appeal to everyone. I’m not trying to garner mushy middle readers. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. – Bishop Desmond Tutu

5) I am not a grammarian–again with the rules. If you are focusing on editing instead of reading you probably aren’t interested in what you are reading anyway.

6) I’ve set this blog up with different areas for different subjects, an Activism area and a couple of ads for BnR affiliated sites. Likely no one reads the extra areas but some things I do as much for me as anything. 🙂

7) Me, me, me. Of course there is a lot of me in my blog. Were you expecting someone else? 8)

8 ) I don’t have the time to write to every news story or political development. I also run two aggregators, a board, a board blog, write to Birth Pangs on occasion, am trying to start a business and in my spare time have a house to run and kids to care for. I don’t have time for the multi post type blog. And I refuse to do partisan politics. My emphasis is on rights and freedoms and caring for the environment. None of the parties are impressing me with their commitment to same.

9) I used to have as an avatar on the board a quote by Maggie Kuhn; “Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind — even if your voice shakes.” I see blogging as way to speak my mind, to take back power, to allow more than the pre-packaged pablum much of the main stream media has become to filter through. My voice (writing) may shake, but I will speak my mind.

10) If you don’t read my blog it probably won’t affect either one of us greatly. I won’t stop writing, you may not start reading. But it is in the act of allowing each of us our space, our way of doing things. Our unique gifts, talents and expressions, that we embody the best that can be said of any culture; “Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.” Voltaire

There, there dear…

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personalgrowth.jpg So the partisans have decided that party politics trump human rights.

Surprising? Well not really. Sickening? Definitely.

Thanks guys for suggesting that we are over reacting. Perhaps if as fern suggested you read that pink blog aka Birth Pangs once in a while you would be cognisant of the fact that this is exactly how rights started being eroded in the states. You would be aware that this isn’t a few “Bread and Roses women” getting their knickers in a knot. The NeoCons start with women because they know how to pick their targets. They know the partisans will gladly throw the women under the bus. Women and children first, eh guys?

It won’t stop with us. Perhaps you have read about the little spot of trouble with habeas corpus? The pronouncing of the Geneva Conventions as quaint? I’ll let you in on a little secret guys…..it’s the same people.

Don’t worry about us though, we’ll be over here fighting the same fucking fight we have been fighting for years. But when your party finally gets the fortitude to force an election don’t fucking count on our vote!

One Body. One Person. One Count.

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There is currently before the House a private members bill that “would amend the Criminal Code to allow separate homicide charges to be laid in the death of a foetus when a pregnant woman is attacked.”

This in effect suggests that a foetus be defined as a separate “person” from the mother. This definition of ‘personhood’ would immediately open the door to criminalizing abortion and those having/performing them.

This bill is being brought forward by a special interest group.

Ken Epp is a member of the Campaign Life Coalition.

As Raymond Gravel, a Bloc MP and a priest said;

the member putting it forward is part of a pro-life group, the Campaign Life Coalition, which in my view is a rather extreme fanatical group, when it comes to life.”

I for one do not wish extreme fanatics dictating my choices. Such action leads to fascism.

For more information on this bill and to take action please visit Birth Pangs.