Guest guest Posted November 2, 2004 Report Share Posted November 2, 2004 Hello all No I am not American I am British but if I were American I would be out there (in the cold with my hot toddy) voting today! So please VOTE!!! Kind Regards & Happy Voting! Anita <--------- Butch Owen <butchbsi@s...> Wed Nov 3, 2004 3:13 am OT: Please Get Out And Vote! Hey y'all, Today is Election Day in the USA and I can't and won't tell anyone here who to vote for - but get yer behinds out there and vote! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 2, 2004 Report Share Posted November 2, 2004 I live in Alaska, it is snowy and DARN cold up here today....but that wont stop us from voting. I just wanted to add how pleased I am that our public schools (I have girls in elementary and middle school) up here have really been teaching the kids how important it is to vote. They have been discussing it for weeks, doing polls and the kids cast their votes. Guess I just like the fact that they are teaching these kids some of our responsibilities to society. Course we try to teach these things at home, but too many kids don't have parents that are involved. So as a mother of 4 girls I'am tremendously thankful to these ladies who suffered so much for the rights that we have today. Juliet , Butch Owen <butchbsi@s...> wrote: > Hey y'all, > > > Today is Election Day in the USA and I can't and won't tell anyone here > > who to vote for - but get yer behinds out there and vote! > > As usual .. the List Mama is right. ;-) > > Just read something last night about a 90 year old lady who was dying in > the hospital .. and the last thing she wanted to do was VOTE. So they > brought in the appropriate forms for an absentee ballot and she did. > Within three hours she went on over to the other side .. but happy. > > > *Smile* > > Chris (list mom) > > http://www.alittleolfactory.com > > More important it is for you ladies to vote. And this list is made up > of approximately 99% ladies. I haven't checked out the validity of the > below .. but even if its fabricated its just an embellishment of actual > history. > > I sent in my Absentee Ballot to my home state a couple of weeks ago .. > and I feel good at having performed my DUTY! > > This message is pertinent to ALL Americans .. but moreso to the women > voters of America. Not all women had to fight for their right to > vote .. but they did in America. Women's right to vote was guaranteed > to Turkish women by the Founding Father of Modern Turkey .. Mustafa > Kemal Ataturk. So even some of the Emerging Market countries were a bit > ahead of us in that regard. > > Y'all please go vote .. and keep smiling. :-) > > Butch http://www.AV-AT.com > > The women were innocent and defenseless. And by the end of the night, > they were barely alive. > > Forty prison guards wielding clubs and with their warden's blessing > went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of " obstructing > sidewalk traffic. " They beat Lucy Burn, chained her hands to the cell > bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and > gasping for air. > > They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an > iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cell mate, Alice Cosu, thought > Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. > > Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, > choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women. > > Thus unfolded the " Night of Terror " on November 15, 1917 (a mere 87 > years ago), when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia > ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned > there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the > right to vote. > > For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their > food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. When one of > the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied > > her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her > until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was > smuggled out to the press. > > So, refresh my memory. > > Some women won't vote this year because--why,exactly? We have carpool > duties? We have to get to work? Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining? > > Last week, there was a sparsely attended screening of HBO's new movie > " Iron Jawed Angels. " It is a graphic depiction of the battle these > women waged so that I could pull the curtain at the polling booth and > have my say. > > I am ashamed to say I needed the reminder. All these years later, voter > registration is still my passion. But the actual act of voting has > become less personal for many, more rote. Frankly, voting often > feels more like an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes it was > inconvenient. > > Wendy, who studied women's history, saw the HBO movie, too. When she > talked about it, she looked angry. She was--with herself. " One thought > kept coming back to me as I watched that movie, " she said. > " What would those women think of the way I use--or don't use--my right > to vote? > > All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but those of > us who did seek to learn. " > > The right to vote, she said, had become valuable to her " all over again. " > > HBO will run the movie periodically before releasing it on video and > DVD. All history, social studies and government teachers should include > the movie in their curriculum. We are not voting in the numbers that we > should be, and a little shock therapy is in order. > > It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a > psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be > permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor > refuse. > > Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy. > The doctor admonished the men: " Courage in women is often mistaken for > insanity. " > > Women need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so > hard for by other courageous women. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 3, 2004 Report Share Posted November 3, 2004 Hey y'all, > Today is Election Day in the USA and I can't and won't tell anyone here > who to vote for - but get yer behinds out there and vote! As usual .. the List Mama is right. ;-) Just read something last night about a 90 year old lady who was dying in the hospital .. and the last thing she wanted to do was VOTE. So they brought in the appropriate forms for an absentee ballot and she did. Within three hours she went on over to the other side .. but happy. > *Smile* > Chris (list mom) > http://www.alittleolfactory.com More important it is for you ladies to vote. And this list is made up of approximately 99% ladies. I haven't checked out the validity of the below .. but even if its fabricated its just an embellishment of actual history. I sent in my Absentee Ballot to my home state a couple of weeks ago .. and I feel good at having performed my DUTY! This message is pertinent to ALL Americans .. but moreso to the women voters of America. Not all women had to fight for their right to vote .. but they did in America. Women's right to vote was guaranteed to Turkish women by the Founding Father of Modern Turkey .. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. So even some of the Emerging Market countries were a bit ahead of us in that regard. Y'all please go vote .. and keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com The women were innocent and defenseless. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and with their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of " obstructing sidewalk traffic. " They beat Lucy Burn, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cell mate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women. Thus unfolded the " Night of Terror " on November 15, 1917 (a mere 87 years ago), when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote. For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press. So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because--why,exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining? Last week, there was a sparsely attended screening of HBO's new movie " Iron Jawed Angels. " It is a graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that I could pull the curtain at the polling booth and have my say. I am ashamed to say I needed the reminder. All these years later, voter registration is still my passion. But the actual act of voting has become less personal for many, more rote. Frankly, voting often feels more like an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes it was inconvenient. Wendy, who studied women's history, saw the HBO movie, too. When she talked about it, she looked angry. She was--with herself. " One thought kept coming back to me as I watched that movie, " she said. " What would those women think of the way I use--or don't use--my right to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn. " The right to vote, she said, had become valuable to her " all over again. " HBO will run the movie periodically before releasing it on video and DVD. All history, social studies and government teachers should include the movie in their curriculum. We are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and a little shock therapy is in order. It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy. The doctor admonished the men: " Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity. " Women need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by other courageous women. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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