Must be those postcards I sent!
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We live in Oregon-5, and are bombarded daily about the many ways in which the current seat holder, a Republican, is so bipartisan. [PSST–She’s not–She votes with Trump 88% of the time). She was able to win largely because her opposing Democratic candidate was, to be honest, just terrible.
It’s a new district (Kurt Schaefer was the former representative), redrawn due to the 2020 census, and is now more purple than its former blue status. So, she has to pander to that, but it ain’t working in our house.
But she also has flyers coming out about her opponent, the Scary Black Woman Who Won’t Keep Us Safe, and those will work on other voters. All of those flyers she sends (2-3 a day now) are going right into the fire starter pile.
It’s a tossup race.
What a country.
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Sharpie. 
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And stand in the breach to prevent those that won’t keep their oath.
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That was a frightening era in US history. I lived through it too, and I didn’t realize how frightening it was at the time. (Which is not to say that it wasn’t frightening to this college-bound high-school sophomore–it was. I just didn’t realize I wasn’t scared enough, because I didn’t know enough to be appropriately frightened.)
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It was!
We sent 500 each to GA, NE, PA, and NC.
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My career was around reproductive physiology. I was involved in a lot of work on ovarian cancer. And it why when I read of trump boasting he is the “father of IVF” I feel deeply insulted. Here’s the passage from cnn…
" Trump, fresh off a bizarre half-hour at a town hall on Monday when he danced on stage to his campaign soundtrack, made a clumsy attempt to repair his damaged standing among female voters. “I’m the father of IVF,” said the former president whose conservative Supreme Court majority unleashed chaos in reproductive health care.
And in a testy appearance at the Economic Club of Chicago, he made a virtue of his frequent incoherence, styling it as a sophisticated “weave” of multiple ideas that only a political genius would attempt. And he tried a fresh reinvention of history over his attempt to steal the 2020 election, declaring that his crowd in Washington on January 6, 2021, was infused with “love and peace.” "
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sophisticated genius weave eh?
Here is an assessment I tend to agree with…
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Take care with blue ink. Some electro-optical scanners do not register shades of blue.
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On line ads. Ads that plaster themselves over news articles a person is trying to read as full page over lays that cannot be removed until the reader agrees to buy whatever the ad is selling. Even cases of oily body lotions for stinky body odor that does not exist. Selling to women when the reader is not a woman but forced into the sale and to divulge email address and crediti card number. Then one can read. And cnn happily has income…
I’m not in the best of moods this morning
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Corollary, people pray for the damnedest things.
My father would say you can pray to God about it, or use the two hands and head he intended you to use and do something.
My father was a practical man.
Edit: He was very spiritual as well. I guess he knew what belonged where.
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- People with empathy and a social conscience
- Immigrants came to poison our blood
- Anyone advocating for equal rights or using laws to stop discrimination faced by historically disadvantaged people
- Everyone who values the findings of scientific research over religious dogma
I think you are my soulmate. I’m partial to Rohrer & Klinger Königsblau and Noodler’s Ink Baystate Blue.
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Mixed bag based on first day results.
First: comparison to 2020 early voting patterns is a fool’s errand, as COVID drove a huge number of early voters to use vote-by-mail rather than in-person in 2020.
Second: the first day results show a range of turnout in the high-population counties that deliver Democratic votes (some were lower than expected), while several rural, deep-red counties (especially in the NE mountain regions) had the highest percentage of in-person voters on Day 1.
If you still have Twitter/X access, check to see what Dave Wasserman is saying about Georgia early voting.
Procedure in Ohio is that we run our own ballots through the scanner, and if they aren’t readable it will reject the ballot. Here are the instructions in my county (Hamilton).
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It’s possible. I love my fountain pens.
What’s your favorite pen? Mine is my Pelikan Souveran M 600. It’s a new-old stock pen (I got it a couple of years ago for a song compared to prices for new M600s) from around 1987 (when I got my doctorate) with an 18K medium nib. It’s carrying Edelstein Moonstone right now. (I love Moonstone, because it looks like graphite pencil when it’s dried and it fools people into thinking that I’m not doing Mathematics in ink.)
Oh, and Baystate Blue–evil, evil, evil ink. Nothing short of chlorine bleach will clear that stuff up. I tried a 2 mL sample: it stained the hell out of the TWSBI I tried it in. No more Baystate Blue.
I just had an evil idea: Baystate Blue versus ClF3…
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Have to give a medal to the map drawers. Drew a district that avoided any major city, Salem, Corvallis and Eugene. And .09 Black. Easy to be scared of the Black lady, they have never seen one in person.
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It’s a Waterman Expert, burgundy. You can call me shallow but I like it more for the way it looks than the way it writes. I have a couple of Watermans and several cheap pens for testing ink. Baystate Blue only goes in its own Noodler pen. The color speaks to me, so I overlook its bad behavior.
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She is a deeply closeted liberal clearly…all compensation.