1/5/2009 3:18 PM
From: L-Train
To: Bush; Culenn; D-Lite; P-Dog; T-Bone
Subject: Reality Check
Welcome back to hell, kiddos!
Just wanted to let you all know that after what I anticipate will be a long, excruciating week back in the workforce/law(school) force, Bush and I will be drinking in Scummit this Saturday night. Feel free to stop by!
As an extra incentive, we will be celebrating what is, according to www.holidays.net, "National Cut Your Energy Costs Day." So, considering the fact that I am so over being here and it is merely Monday, I plan on rewarding myself by not using an ounce of energy in my body on Saturday, and being very, very lazy. Sloth-like, in fact. Just in celebration of the holiday, of course. The holiday cheer lasts all year round!
Other reasons to celebrate on Saturday, Jan. 10-
-It'll be a full moon... so, if anything funny or weird happens, we can say "What is it, a full moon tonight?" (chuckle, chuckle).
-The Anniversary of the Women's Suffrage Amendment (I don't really care as much about that as I do the others. Sorry, Hillary.)
According to
www.holidaysforeveryday.com, Sat Jan 10 is also-
-Jeep Grand Cherokee's Birthday
-United Nations Day
-Peculiar People Day (oh I like that one)
-Where's the Beef Day (I like that one even better!)
Did You Know? January is-
-Bald Eagle Watch Month
-Blended Family Month
-Bread Machine Baking Month
-Celebrate the Past Month
-Celebration of Life Month
-Cervical Health Awareness Month (D-Lite, you may need another pap; I'm going on Jan 16, want to come?)
-It's OK to be Different Month
-Jump Out of Bed Month (that doesn't fit well with "cut your energy day..")
I could go on, but I think this has turned into a long enough email as it is. However, I think I've made my point clear- there's always reasons to celebrate, so get out of those post-holiday blues and COME OVER on Saturday!
L-Train
1/5/2009 3:35 PM
From: P-Dog
To: Bush; Culenn; D-Lite; Damicius; Milk Money; L-Train; T-Bone
Subject: Save the Date
You are all cordially invited to celebrate the 25th birthday of ME! Please mark your calanders, and keep Saturday, January 31st open. As we have done in the past, we will enjoy a wonderful night of drinking, dancing, eating, and game playing.
This is just a save the date- formal invitations will be sent out shortly.
1/5/2009 3:41 PM
From: L-Train
To: Bush; Culenn; D-Lite; Damicius; Milk Money; P-Dog; T-Bone
Re: Save the Date
OK P, you got me beat- even if there is always a reason to celebrate, there is no greater celebration than that of the day of birth of P"Oldie But Goodie" Dog.
1/5/2009 4:28 PM
From: D-Lite
To: Bush; L-Train; Culenn; P-Dog; T-Bone
RE: Reality Check
OH MY GOD.
OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD.
"-The Anniversary of the Women's Suffrage Amendment (I don't really care as much about that as I do the others. Sorry, Hillary.) "
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE READ THE BELOW IN FULL – SERIOUSLY. The Women’s Suffrage Movement is something that deserves respect, admiration, appreciation, and attention. And please don’t say that you don’t have to worry about that stuff in this day and age. The women discussed below are the REASON you don’t have to worry about that stuff. And one of the reasons I was a History major. You wouldn’t be able to live in the free manor you do as a single, carefree woman if not for the Women’s Suffrage Movement and Amendment. As a woman, L-Train, this is something of which you should be aware and recognize the importance. Women, among other oppressed groups, need to be aware of the work it took to get the rights that we have always known – because of them, we can enjoy these rights.
This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago.
Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.
The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote.
(Photo: Lucy Burns)
And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'
They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.
(Photo: Dora Lewis)
They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed herhead against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, 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 Nov. 15, 1917,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.
(Photo: Alice Paul)
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.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/prisoners.pdf
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, I went to a sparsely attended screening of HBO's newmovie '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 had become less personal for me, more rote.Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes it was inconvenient.
My friend Wendy, who is my age and studied women's history, saw the HBO movie, too. When she stopped by my desk to talkabout 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 released the movie on video and DVD. I wish all history, social studies and government teachers would include the movie in their curriculum I want it shown on Bunco night, too, and anywhere else women gather. I realize this isn't our usual idea of socializing, but we are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and I think 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.'
Please, if you are so inclined, pass this on to all the women you know. We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very courageous women. Whether you vote democratic, republican or independent party - remember to vote.
History is being made.
Thank you,
D-Lite
1/5/2009 4:34 PM
From: L-Train
To: Bush; D-Lite; Culenn; P-Dog; T-Bone
RE: Reality Check
Sorry, Dav, I guess we all have our priorities. I prefer to focus my attention on my cervix, something of which you paid no attention to until your pap last month.
1/5/2009 4:39 PM
From: D-Lite
To: Bush; L-Train; Culenn; P-Dog; T-Bone
RE: Reality Check
L-Train - LESS THAN 90 YEARS AGO, YOU WOULD BE CONSIDERED TO BE (AT YOUR YOUNG AGE OF 26) A SPINSTER AND WOULD ONLY BE ABLE TO GET A JOB AS A SECRETARY, A NURSE, A TEACHER, A LIBRARIAN...AND YOU WOULDN'T BE MAKING ENOUGH TO LIVE ON YOUR OWN...25 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR IF YOU'RE LUCKY.
Thank you,
D-Lite
1/5/2009 4:41 PM
From: D-Lite
To: Bush; Culenn; Damicius; Milk Money; L-Train; P-Dog; T-Bone
RE: Save the Date
P-Dog,
So, you’re turning 25 again! I thought it was that time of year…is G-Spot coming? I’ll make pizza and Mojitos. Mmm, both were yum-tastic! Eek! I’m such a dork!!
See you there!
I love you, I honestly love you, (10 dollars if you can tell me who sings that song…)
D-Lite
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