The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Tracey:

It's the cane; I can speak from experience. Some male employees will acknowledge women, but when you're disabled, people turn weird. They start pulling their children away. Disability is catching and they don't want to get too close. And they ignore you in the hopes that you'll go away and then they won't have to deal with you. They do this especially if you're alone and there's no one nearby that they can identify as your keeper. Because physical disability is the same as mental incapacity, of course.

I don't do the staring contests anymore. I just walk right up to the asshole who's ignoring me, tap him on the shoulder and speak in a voice that carries to the entire room. "I'd like some help, please."

And Por-Bajin has an official site:

http://por-bajin.ru/eng_fg_list.php

I got chicken pox in 1989 when I was 27; a woman at work had a daughter, and that daughter went to a birthday party where the birthday girl was in the contagious stage. The daughter was mildly sick; the mother got headache and fever.

I caught it from the mother, and nearly died.

To make matters worse, I had a very old-fashioned doctor who didn't believe that hospitalization would help; after all, who knew how to treat chicken pox anymore? So I stayed home for a month, and battled my way through through delirium, 104-degree fever, ague, violent vomiting, sweating (and dehydration), total loss of balance (I was reduced to crawling around so that I didn't fall), swelling around the eyes, extreme photosensitivity, and painful, oozing sores on every part of my body. Including the eyelids.

It was even money whether I would die of the fever. There was a 35%-40% chance that my scratching the blisters would get them infected and that I'd get sick and die from complications from the infection; my immune system (which only works at 50% capacity at the BEST of times--thank you so much, genetic lymphedema tarda!) was shot, and I couldn't have fought off another disease. My doctor didn't even want to talk about the odds about my eyesight; all that he would say was that given the proximity of the sores to the eyes...well, the odds were not in my favor.

I would not put a kid--or an adult--through that month of hell for anything. And if I could go back in time and get the varicella vaccine before it came to America, believe me, I would.

Voluntarily reading The Prince when I was in high school. Also, being in Mrs. Roche's English classes.

I believe that the "3 a.m." thing is related to Jesus dying at the third hour (according to Mark 15:25; according to John 19:14-16, it was the sixth hour)--a time when, supposedly, the forces of good would be the weakest and the forces of evil in ascendancy.

visited Obama’s home village

Does she mean Honolulu, Hawaii?

Bree Keyton said the current Christian President was forced by our government (!) to “create†an office for Odinga (to make “peaceâ€) so he was made the Prime Minister (!) to make peace between the Christians and Odinga’s Muslim religion!

All of which is balderdash. Raila Odinga--the Kenyan presidential candidate in 2007--is an Anglican, not a Muslim. And Mwai Kibaki--the president of Kenya--is a Roman Catholic, which would not count as "Christian" (i.e., Protestant Christian) for Bree.

Bree K. said Odinga has made a pact with satan.

And I say that there is a three-legged dragon in her basement. Both statements are equally nonsensical.

when Obama visited his tribe in ‘06 and as late as Jan. ‘08

The only tribe Barack Obama belongs to is the tribe of Americans. Besides, he was busy sitting in Congress and running for president from 2006 to 2008. And his father died in 1982, so I don't think he'd be visiting his old village.

So, basically, this is just another lie.

All Islam loves and worships Obama.

And here I thought that the point of Islam was the worship of Allah...that is, GOD.

Huh. I got that PLO phone call during the primaries for our state.

I hung up on the campaigner.

I nominate everything on the Sticks and Stones page. This page contains nothing but samples of bad published writing.

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