BlueNC WoW - Open Thread 5/23
Submitted by Betsy Muse on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 8:00am
Welcome to BlueNC Women on Wednesdays. We have a few posts going up throughout the day, so pull up a chair and lets chat.
This may be the first WoW day where I actually write a post. I'm very angry that we had two Democrats voting to move hate legislation to the floor of the North Carolina House. I'm even angrier that five Democrats failed to show up to do their jobs yesterday. They better hope their excuses are good enough. Deaths and births - theirs or a family member's - are about the only excuses I'm willing to accept right now.
To these seven Democrats (I do have my numbers right, don't I?) I have this to say: We're Democrats, we're angry and we vote.
They need to keep that in mind the next time they allow hate anywhere near the North Carolina constitution.
Happy WoW Day.
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Iowa Women's Town Hall Meeting
I was reading something on my Google Reader, which took me to this You Tube video.
One man with courage makes a majority.
- Andrew Jackson
Support the Troops, End the War.
Get your bumper sticker here.
One man with courage makes a majority.
- Andrew Jackson
Last real estate agent coming in a bit
I will be in and out until she leaves. Boy, do I have stories to tell. This has been grueling. I guess the RE business is really good these days because there are lots of agents who won't mess with anything under $300,000. Oh well.
Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.
Why bother with less?
$300,000 only nets $9,000 each for the buyer's and listing agents.
But the "lower" end gets you customers
who might upgrade later. Younger folk who will stick with you through the "thin" years of the future . . . I guess maybe they figure middle class people have no hope of moving up and that there will be no thin years in the future.
News of the 10th district: See Pat Go Bye Bye,
Ha!
In my hometown the average house price is about $40,000. They would be SOL.
One man with courage makes a majority.
- Andrew Jackson
My two homes were both on the low end
and I got treated great. But that was in neighborhoods with more expensive homes . . .
News of the 10th district: See Pat Go Bye Bye,
Working women.
Neighbor, friend, and author Amy Tiemann on the Today show a few weekends ago (just posted today), talking about...well, guilt and mothership. As a husband and father I've seen this second hand, but haven't had to live through it. I thought this was appropriate for WoW.
Very nice....thanks, Robert
Lotta guilt with motherhood, but then, I figure there's a lotta guilt felt by any conscientious person. Who here doesn't feel a twinge of guilt that they aren't doing enough in some area of their life? Maybe on the whole women are more prone to it.
I know that our society has a way of working a number on moms - stay at home and you aren't contributing financially to society/family/taking care of yourself and if you work then you must be neglecting your children/husband/home. It's all a load of crap. What's right for me isn't necessarily right for my neighbor. We've gotta stop beating each other up as a way to feel better about our own choices.
Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.
yes.
That was one thing Amy said at the end, "we" should work together to make women feel empowered no matter WHAT they choose to do with career and family.
One man with courage makes a majority.
- Andrew Jackson
Some cool news
My aunt, who is a Park Service interpreter at the Carl Sandberg house outside Hendersonville, got to write a paper for the appropriation this year. From what I understood from my mom last night, her paper will be read on the Hill today and
Maya Angelou is slated to read a Sandberg poem at the openingokay, that's what I get for posting second-hand news. I FINALLY got a call from the source. Pearl said she feels like Maya Angelou for writing something that someone else would read. My apologies. Now, this is supposed to be televised on CSPAN today, but I don't see a listing for it on their site. If anyone catches it (and can record it), I'd love to hear.Go, woman-power :-)
Update The telecast is supposed to begin in a few minutes. This is so cool.
"The most unamerican thing you can say is 'You can't say that'" - G. Keillor
Woo Hooooo
We just hired a real estate agent. I'm so excited. She was the last we interviewed and she had her game face on. First agent that treated us like our property was worth listing and she happens to be the most successful agent we met with. I'm so excited.
Finally.
Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.
hooray
congrats and good luck
Draft Brad Miller-- NC Sen ActBlue
That's why she is successful.
I can't believe the agents that you have interviewed. Do you live in Beverly Hills?
Seriously, WTF?
Given what I've read about large real estate firms in the big cities cutting their staffs like crazy, the threat of home sales slowing down or stopping, and so forth, you would think these people would be trying to make good impressions and making every sale they possibly could.
One man with courage makes a majority.
- Andrew Jackson
Mo has a piece to submit this evening
We'll have a bit of a drawn out WoW this week. Y'all feel free to post and if anything needs to go on the front page, we're easy.
Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.
You can post some of my pictures
if you would like. You know, where I am socializing with good dems.
YES YES YES
I'll get right on it. Just got back in from school car pool. Great idea!
Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.
I have to go prep for dinner
but I will have a post up in a bit that is pieced together from pictures and an email from Love's trip to DC to attend the First Ladies Luncheon.
Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.