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Mr. Powell leaves Washington

I'm sure everyone will chime in on why they think Colin Powell resigned from his position as Secretary of State. Just like I'm sure we will never know all of the reasons why.

I would like to think that he and the 5 other Cabinet members who have tendered their resignation got an attack of conscience. I would like to think that they along with the other 49% of the country could not sit idle while President Bush abused his power. I would like to think that Mr. Powell realized that he could not in good faith stand by a man who told bold-faced lies to the people of this country.

In a way I'm kind of sad that he is leaving. It gave me a little peace of mind that someone in the Bush Administration had some integrity. I kind of looked at him as the watchdog. Whatever the reason, I'm sure the repercussions of these resignations will be far-reaching. I'm just anxious to see what is going to happen. I'm pretty sure Condoleezza Rice will take his place as Sec. of State. That makes me sick to my stomach. I cannot stand her. I mean watching her speak before the September 11th panel made me ashamed to be a woman, and an African-American, and a human.

Good luck Mr. Powell, I may not have always agreed with your politics, but I have always admired your integrity, your intelligence and the way you did your job with dignity. I always felt that you wanted what was best for our country, that you put that first above power, above pride, above party. Something I wish you could have passed on to the rest of the Administration. Especially to the President.

Sex, Lies and.....well you know.

Where the hell did the assumption that women don't like sex just as much as men come from? Granted I can't speak for all women everywhere, so I'm just going to speak for myself and the women I know. We think about sex just as much as men do. And not always in that, let's make love like we're in a Harlequin Romance novel, kind of way either. Sometimes women just want to fuck. I've been sleeping with the same man on a regular basis for two years. After that much time has passed sometimes you simply want a quickie before you go to work or when the baby is napping. I don't always need the foreplay or the candles and music. Sometimes I don't even feel like getting undressed all the way. Simple as that. I could probably have sex just about everyday. I've never tested that theory but I think I could. Some people would call that being a freak. What's wrong with that? You can be a freak without being a whore. You can be a freak for your man. I'm in a monogamous relationship and still have a healthy sex life. Why do people think the two can't go hand in hand? Whatever my man wants (within reason) he gets. And it's not because I feel like I have to serve him, or I have to give him sex to keep him. It's because I love sex just as much as he does. And considering that men reach their prime between the ages of 18-21 and women don't until much later, I don't understand why it's so hard to believe.

Gone are the days when corseted, virginal brides fainted at the mere thought of what was to come on their wedding night. Gone are the days when women don't even talk about sex. Stop by our table on Tuesday Margarita night, you'll get an earful. I wish women would embrace their sexuality without the fear of being labeled. I'm 28 years old and have only had 5 sexual partners, all of which I was in a relationship with. So I am not at all promoting promiscuity. All I'm saying is if you're gonna do it you should enjoy it. And if you're not enjoying it, try new things. Don't be afraid to ask for what you want. It took me a long time to speak up and stand up for myself in the bedroom. I had so many hang-ups about sex and what to expect. As I got older I realized that as a woman I have speak up for myself in all places. I think that most men want to please their woman, maybe they just don't know what you want. If you don't tell him how will he know?

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How many of you work with people you hate and that hate you right back? People who are quick to judge, point fingers, gossip etc...
I feel like I am back in high school. I am so sick of the drama. I'm about to make a statement and before anyone gets offended by it really think about it. After you think about it, if you're still offended then I don't give a damn. I hate working with a bunch of women. For some reason when you get women together, the atmosphere becomes rife with cattiness, backstabbing, drama etc... We give ourselves a bad name. We bring our emotional selves to work and there really isn’t a place for that. For example: Donna, the girl that used to work here was so emotional she used to sit here and cry. Can you believe it? She would actually cry at work. She couldn't get any of her work done, she was always gossiping about her private life and she didn't see anything wrong with it. And what's even worse on a couple occasions my supervisor, who is also a woman, would let her go home because she was emotionally distraught. Now I’m not a hard ass by any means, but that's crazy. If I have to sit here for 8 hours a day then so should she. I mean everyone has something going on in there life. I felt like slapping her and saying 'pull yourself, together and have some self-respect.'

This is a man's world. Period. Should it be? Maybe, maybe not. But it is. Ladies we have to strap on some balls and compete. In a utopian society things like that wouldn't matter. But last time I checked it's not. There is a double standard and there always will be. I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist. The reason why men run the world is not because they are smarter or better in any way other than the fact that they know how to keep their emotions in check. It's also why they don't live as long, but that's another story. Why did he get the corner office and not you, why did he get the promotion when you are equally qualified? Because men promote other men. Why? Because they don't want to deal with emotional, calling out because of the kids, crying because my man left me, PMS having women. It's as simple as that. Even the most liberal, open-minded man would rather work with a man than a woman. I know I would and I'm a woman. I'm sorry ladies but we do it to ourselves. I work around a group of irrational, over emotional, catty, nasty-mouthed women. They speak loudly, they get smart, they don't have any respect for themselves or others. When I come to work I sit at my desk quietly, I rarely call out, I'm very professional and I get the job done on time. But because men sometimes don't differentiate between women, I get lumped in with the others. And that pisses me off. It pisses me off that when I have a legitimate complaint it never goes anywhere because everyone in here is always complaining about something. It pisses me off because I choose not to yell at people and disrespect people, I'm not heard. It pisses me off that ignorance is catered too. I was so happy that a man was hired when a new position opened up. We need to stamp out some of this estrogen. I love being a woman and I would never want to be a man, but ladies we really need to get it together or this man's world will eat us alive.

these are a few of my favorite things.......

My Top 10 List:

1. My son. I love him so much. I am always smiling because he is always smiling. I literally have the happiest baby in the world. He's such a blessing.

2. Family & Friends. Priceless. What more can I say?

3. My best friend/son's father/lover/uplifter/life-changer/nerve-getter-oner/happiness maker/protector/soulmate/sweetyheart.

4. Shoes. High-heel shoes. Unbelieveably high, high-heel shoes. The higher the better baby! "Don't be afraid to put me up their with the big girls." (Carrie, Sex and the City)

5. TV/Movies. I'm an addict. Curb Your Enthusiasm (of course), Sex & the City, Seinfeld, Reality TV (I'm not ashamed to admit), Girlfriends, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, etc... I could go on and on.

6. Rainy nights. That's when I get my best sleep. That's saying something coming from a borderline insomniac.

7. Making love/kissing/cuddling/orgasms/massages/late night in-bed talks/tickling/foreplay/postplay/candles. You get the picture!

8. Ben & Jerrys Vanilla, Caramel, Fudge ice cream. It's heaven!

9. Holidays. Especially Easter.

10. Books/Reading/Poetry/Writing. Keeps me going, makes me feel alive, keeps my thoughts out there circulating.

Peanut for President!

Hello

Peanut, newly elected President of the United States, will address the nation and give the American people an idea of what his agenda will be this term. Right after his afternoon nap.

Only 1,460 days to go....

Another four years. What in the world is going on? I don't even know what to say. I'm speechless. I just hope everything works out for the best. I'm trying to be optimistic, which is hard because everything in me feels that it's downhill from here. But I guess we will see.

Stupid

Vote or Die!

We are on the eve of a very important, life-altering, world-changing, day. Tomorrow is Election Day and it doesn't matter what you believe in or who you believe in just vote. It's important. You matter, your voice deserves to be heard. You've probably all heard this fun little fact ad nauseam but really think about it: the last election was decided by about 537 votes. If you didn't think your vote counted before than you damn sure should now. So much is at stake this election. I feel the way my grandparents must have felt in 1961 when they had to choose between Nixon and Kennedy. (Before anyone gets upset, I am in no way comparing Kennedy and Nixon, to Bush and Kerry.) They probably felt the same anticipation that I feel now. I am so nervous that I have checked and re-checked my polling place, even making sure I'm registered although I know I am. My singular focus for tomorrow is voting. I am voting for my rights as a woman, as a young adult, as a mother, as middle-class, as a Black American, as an employee, I am voting for my beliefs, my son, my values, my country, my world, but most importantly I am voting because I have an opinion and I have a voice and they both count.

Republicans Against Bush

"As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was. With the current administration's decision to invade Iraq unilaterally, however, I changed my voter registration to independent, and barring some utterly unforeseen development, I intend to vote for the Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry."
-- Ambassador John Eisenhower, endorsing Kerry in an opinion piece published in The Manchester Union Leader, September 28, 2004.

"The two 'Say No to Bush' signs in my yard say it all. The present Republican president has led us into an unjustified war -- based on misguided and blatantly false misrepresentations of the threat of weapons of mass destruction. The terror seat was Afghanistan. Iraq had no connection to these acts of terror and was not a serious threat to the United States, as this president claimed, and there was no relation, it's now obvious, to any serious weaponry. Although Saddam Hussein is a frightful tyrant, he posed no threat to the United States when we entered the war. George W. Bush's arrogant actions to jump into Iraq when he had no plan how to get out have alienated the United States from our most trusted allies and weakened us immeasurably around the world... This imperialistic, stubborn adherence to wrongful policies and known untruths by the Cheney-Bush administration -- and that's the accurate order -- has simply become more than I can stand."
-- Former Minnesota Governor Elmer Andersen, a Republican, endorsing Kerry in an opinion piece published in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, October 13, 2004. Andersen argued in the piece that, "I am more fearful for the state of this nation than I have ever been -- because this country is in the hands of an evil man: Dick Cheney. It is eminently clear that it is he who is running the country, not George W. Bush."

"George W. Bush has come to embody a politics that is antithetical to almost any kind of thoughtful conservatism. His international policies have been based on the hopelessly naive belief that foreign peoples are eager to be liberated by American enemies -- a notion more grounded in Leon Trotsky's concept of global revolution than any sort of conservative statecraft."
-- Scott McConnell, executive editor, The American Conservative, endorsing Kerry in the November 8, 2004 issue.

"I am not enamored with John Kerry, but I am frightened to death of George Bush. I fear a secret government. I abhor a government that refuses to supply the Congress with requested information. I am against a government that refuses to tell the country with whom the leaders of our country sat down and determined our energy policy, and to prove how much they want to keep the secret, they took it all the way to the Supreme Court."
-- Former U.S. Senator Marlow Cook, Republican from Kentucky, endorsing Kerry in an opinion piece that appeared in The Louisville Courier-Journal, October 20, 2004.

"My Republican Party is the party of Theodore Roosevelt, who fought to preserve our natural resources and environment. This president has pursued policies that will cause irreparable damage to our environmental laws that protect the air we breathe, the water we drink and the public lands we share with future generations."
-- Former Michigan Governor William Milliken, from a statement published in the Traverse City Record Eagle, October 17, 2004.

"As an environmentalist who served as chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, I know that this administration has turned environmental policy over to lobbyists for the oil, gas and mining interests. On the other hand, I know first-hand of your commitment to a more balanced approach to environmental policy -- one where we can have both jobs and profit for industry as well as clean air and water. There is no stronger evidence of this than your outstanding leadership and support in the restoration of the Florida Everglades. John, for each of these reasons I believe President Bush has failed our country and my party. Accordingly, I want you to know that when I go into the booth next Tuesday I am going to cast my vote for you."
-- Former U.S. Senator Bob Smith, Republican from New Hampshire, from an endorsement letter sent to John Kerry, October 28, 2004.

"Nixon was a prince compared to these guys."
-- Former U.S. Representative Pete McCloskey, R-California, from an article in the Palo Alto Weekly, September 8, 2004. McCloskey, who is active with Republicans for Kerry, says of members of the Bush administration, "These people believe God has told them what to do. They've high jacked the Republican Party we once knew."

"The war is just a misbegotten thing that's spiraling down. It's a matter of conscience for me. After 9/11, the whole world was behind us. That's all gone now. That's been squandered. Now we've made the entire Muslim world hate us. And for what? For what?"
-- Former State Senator Al Meiklejohn, Republican from Colorado and World War II combat veteran, explaining his decision to support John Kerry in an interview with The Denver Post, September 19, 2004.

"We need a leader who is really dedicated to creating millions of high-paying jobs all across the country."
-- Former Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca, who campaigned for George W. Bush in 2000 and appeared in television advertisements for the Republican Party of Michigan that year. Iacocca, who complains that under Bush deficit spending is "getting out of hand," endorsing Kerry on June 24, 2004.

"In a dangerous epoch -- made more so by a president who sees the world in stark black and white because simplicity polls better and fits into sound bites -- John Kerry may seem out of place. He is, in fact, in exactly the right place at the right time to lead our country."
-- Tim Ashby, who served during the Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush administrations as director of the Office of Mexico and the Caribbean for the U.S. Commerce Department and acting deputy assistant Secretary of Commerce for the Western Hemisphere, endorsing Kerry in a Seattle Times, October 14, 2004.

"I have always been, and I still am, a registered Republican, but I shall enthusiastically vote for John Kerry for president on November 2... If the Bush administration stays in power four more years, it will pack the Supreme Court with neocons who reject the idea that the Constitution is a living document designed to protect the freedom of the citizens."
-- Anne Morton Kimberly, widow of former Republican National Committee chair Rogers C.B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior during the Nixon administration and Secretary of Commerce during the Ford administration, endorsing Kerry in a an opinion piece that appeared in the Louisville Courier-Journal, October 14, 2004.

"Mainstream Republicans believe in fiscal responsibility, internationalism, environmental protection, the rights of women, and putting middle-class families ahead of big business lobbyists. Moderate Republicans should not be asked to swallow the right-wing policies of George W. Bush."
-- Clay Myers, who was Oregon's Republican Secretary of State for 10 years and the state's Treasure, endorsing Kerry at a press conference for Oregon Republicans for Kerry, September 1, 2004.

"The current administration has run the largest deficits in U.S. history, incurring massive debts that our children and grandchildren will have to pay. Two and a half million people have lost their jobs; trillions have been wiped out of savings and retirement accounts. The income of Americans has declined two years in a row, the first time since the IRS began keeping records. George W. Bush will be the first president since Hoover to have a net job loss under his watch... President Bush wanted to be judged as the CEO president, it is time to say, 'you have failed, and you're fired."
-- William Rutherford, former State Treasurer of Oregon, endorsing Kerry as a press conference for Oregon Republicans for Kerry, September 1, 2004.

"I served 20 years in the Ohio General Assembly as Republican. People have asked me why I oppose George w. Bush for president. My first response is, 'He is incompetent.' His behavior, his bad judgment, his record, all demonstrate a failure as president. He certainly misled the country into a no-win war in Iraq. Following his preemptive invasion, he totally misjudged the consequences of his action. He made a bad situation worse, fomenting widespread terrorism, all done with a frightful loss of lives and money."
-- Former Ohio State Representative John Galbraith, a Republican legislator for 20 years, endorsing Kerry in a letter to The Toledo Blade, September 28, 2004.

"Before the current campaign, it might have been argued that at least in affirming the importance of faith and respecting those who profess it the administration had embraced traditional conservative views. But in the wake of the Swift Boat ads attacking John Kerry, even this argument can no longer be maintained. As an elder of the Presbyterian Church, I found that those ads were not at all in the Christian tradition. John McCain rightly condemned them as dishonest and dishonorable. The president should have, too. That he did not undermines his credibility on questions of faith.
Some say it's just politics. But that's the whole point. More is expected of people of faith than "just politics."

The fact is that the Bush administration might better be called radical or romantic than conservative. And that's why real conservatives are leaning toward Kerry."
-- Clyde Prestowitz, counselor to the secretary of commerce in the Reagan administration and an elder of the Presbyterian Church, from "The Conservative Case for Kerry," published in the Providence Journal and other newspapers, October 15, 2004.