who knew it was possible to write polite email to my legislators while wanting to throw up?
(email included here; please feel free to borrow parts if it will help you write your legislators.)
Dear Representative Sabo:
I am writing you to encourage you to vote against Section 3032 and 3033 of H.R. 10, the “9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act of 2004”. These sections would attempt to legalize extraordinary rendition, the outsourcing of torture to other countries. The course of action that these sections propose are unfair, inhumane, and immoral.
Unfair, inhumane, and immoral are not words that I have ever associated with you, which is why I have been voting for you every election that I have lived in my current residence.
Representative Edward Markey, from Massachusetts, is planning on offering an amendment to H.R. 10 that would replace those sections and take a strong stand against extraordinary rendition. Representative Betty McCollum, your colleague from St. Paul, has cosponsored a bill to this effect with Rep. Markey. I encourage you greatly to get in touch with Rep. Markey and Rep. McCollum to find out how to also become a co-sponsor of this action.
I look forward to hearing back from you.
Thank you.
michelle, those of us who have done tech support for a living have wished for that for years...
jill smith: i don't much have a problem with that because map directions don't make sense to me. uptown isn't south of downtown in my head (and i just had to think about that for a minute; you said it wasn't north, which leaves us with three possible directions), it's over there. [points]
i live in the twin cities of minneapolis/st. paul minnesota, and here, the water is firmly in the middle. i now live on the west side of the mississippi, and i grew up on the east side of it. i don't think i've lived farther than twenty miles from it in twenty years.
i just get confused when other cities only have one downtown.
thanks for letting us know, priscilla. i barely knew him, but i thought well of him.
a few years ago, i was in russia with my father. we found communicating with the russians we were around to be a little taxing.
my father is losing his hearing, especially in the alto range (so, most women's voices are hard for him) but he speaks a bit of russian. not fluent, but enough so that he can go to russia by himself and not die.
i, on the other hand, have pretty normal hearing for a person my age who listened to some music a little too loud as a teenager, but i speak only about six words of russian.
so, more often than you'd think, the waitress/shop clerk/airline staff would say something to us in russian, my dad would look at me, i'd repeat what i'd heard phonetically, louder and more enunciated, and then my dad would answer them, in russian. oy.
we do this here in the states, as well, but there's just that added, er, challenge when the language you're working with isn't one you speak.
oh, that's fabulous. i had managed to pick most of that up at local cons before i went to chicon, but there are bits in there that i still don't know at a deep enough level to keep in mind while they're happening.
any chance of new house pictures, she inquired hopefully?
i have the pink girly nutbar shirt and am waiting for an appropriate occasion to spring it on an unwary public.
mkk: $3 each, assuming more than three get made, i do believe. and i think a sizable order could be made.
when i am especially irritated with the one i live with, i tell him that i am going to put peanut butter on him while he's asleep. the dogs looooove peanut butter.
cassie: vote by absentee ballot. encourage other people to do so as well.
personally, i just signed up to be an election judge. i'm in minnesota, so i'm not sure how many democrat election judges they'll need... but i signed up!
but it’s such an obviously stupid position—right up there with “don’t vote, it only encourages them”—that I don’t think I need to take it any further.
if you could, in fact, go on some about "don't vote, it only encourages them, i would greatly appreciate it. yes, the system doesn't work particularly well. yes, voting is participating in that system. yes, you should vote anyhow. and that's about the point where i lose the ability to explain it coherently because i get too angry.
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