Dear Mr. Limbaugh,

Dar Mr. Limbaugh,

I have always avoided your radio show because I have always thought you were pretty much a neaderthal that crawled out of the nearest cave with his club, ready to bash a mammoth on his head and tear the meat to ribbons with your fanged teeth.  Now I am totally convinced that thinking is a slam to neaderthals, because you are way, way worse.

So let's see - you said because a woman wanted insurance to pay for contraceptives, that made her a slut, because obviously, if she needs contraception, she sleeps around? And if she sleeps around, she is a slut?  And so she should record a sex tape and sell it in order to pay for her contraceptives?  I am rarely, ever without something to say to such idiocy, but I find myself temporarily speechless.

Hmmm, what if she is married, and they can't afford a baby right now?  She chooses to use contraceptives so they won't have another baby which might cause them to go on welfare which would then be the taxpayers burdern.  Wow - what great thinking!  By all means, lets not let insurance pay for contraception.  Let's have more unwanted babies who get abused and hurt every day.  Let's not give women contraception so those poor children can be born into a life of pain and emotional hell. 

 So let's see again - if a man wants to keep his lover/wife/significant other/girlfriend/one night stand/ mistress (choose one) from getting pregnant, and he wants contraception - that is perfectly all right?  Because, as we all know, women get pregnant all by themselves, no men needed?  And if the tables were turned, and it was a man wanting insurance to pay for his contraception, there'd be so many politicians on his bandwagon, it would number in the hundreds. 

Mr. Limbaugh, you are an insult to the human race.  You are an insult to decent men everywhere, who want their wives/lovers to be protected, who do the right thing by using contraception.  AND you degrade women.  You are also a drug addict who has no right being allowed to talk on public radio and defame a woman who cannot defend herself.

AND I say bravo to those 30 advertisers who pulled their ads.  That is what decency is about, Mr. Limbaugh, not running off at the mouth without engaging the brain (what little you have left that hasn't been ruined by drugs). 

I sincerely hope that you get blasted so hard from women across the nation, that they pull your radio show.  

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it. 

Elenor Roosevelt.

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich


So come on women - let's roar and let Mr. Limbaugh know what we think and let's make history!

Dark Shadows

Sometimes I want to be like an ostrich, stick my head in the sand and ignore the world around me.

Not sure why, but it seems right now there are so many dark shadows around me, that I want to just scream.  A very close friend is struggling with issues that could make or break her marriage.  Granddaughter and family struggling with her disease and the monetary fallout from that.  Cousins dealing on a daily basis with heartache and medical issues.  Other friends dealing with family members murdered, or sick, or dying or whatever.  Students being so ugly to each other, and discipline issues multiplying by the tens!  Dependence and medical issues in my own home that sometimes make me feel like I am suffocating. 

You can't pick up the paper without feeling like someone has slammed you in the head after you read all of the negative, horrible things going on in our world.

Your turn on the TV news, and it is a repeat of the paper.  How many people got shot or murdered!  How many people have been hurt in some way.  How many countries are in complete and total chaos and anarchy.  How many countries with children dying by the hundreds and thousands each day from hunger or war.  How many soldiers shot in Afghanistan.  How many riots and protests against our soldiers in Afghanistan.  Apologies to countries that we have no buisness apologizing to!  It just seems to go on and on.

After awhile, it becomes a part of your soul.  The dark shadows that play out in life every day - either personal or worldwide just get into you, and begin to throw shadows on every aspect of your life.  You begin to wonder if the US will ever get back to the robust, great nation it once was.  You wonder if soldiers will come home maimed, hurt and emotionally traumatized for the rest of their life.  You even wonder if there are any marriages that will make it.   You start feeling depressed and angry, and then helpless because there really isn't anything you can do to fix it all.

I have no answers - only more questions.  I do know that I am going to cancel my newspaper, and quit watching the news except for the weather.  It seems like I am avoiding real life, but I am protecting my soul.  Whether I know what is going on in the world or not, it is still going to happen with or without me.  So I protect myself, help my friends and family and cousins as best I can by being there so they can vent, or we can talk or whatever - and maybe, just maybe, some of the dark shadows won't be quite so dark anymore.

"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." -Taylor Benson

Peace to everyone during these dark shadow times.