Have Obama’s Back – vote Democrats into Congress!
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Recently the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee started a new campaign – called “Have His Back”.
The idea is to encourage people to make sure they don’t just vote for president, but also in congressional elections – and to vote for Democrats.
Since the Republicans took the majority of the House of Representatives they have been deliberately voting against everything Obama supports – no matter how much it hurts the country.
The official page promoting the campaign is here: Have His Back.
I made more images for this campaign for people to use on their sites, mostly smaller ones because the one the DCCC provides is a bit big for many people’s sites and blogs.
The first image below is a smaller version of the one they provide – if you want to use it on your site – just right click and save. Or if you don’t have any server space, feel free to link to mine. I don’t mind having some bandwidth used up – its worth it for the cause.
I also made some much smaller and somewhat modified versions for people who need smaller ones for blogs or whatever. Same as above, save or link to mine. If you need a different size, or want different text, let me know and I’ll try to help.
Need the code to add an image to your site or blog? Let me know, and I’ll get it for you.
– this one is the same as the one the DCCC provides, only smaller:
These are a bit modified and smaller, I had to change the text a bit for it to fit onto something smaller and still be readable:
a couple of 125×125’s:
Most importantly, please vote and don’t forget the congressional races. Obama can’t get anything accomplished if the Republicans keep blocking him. And we all suffer the consequences.
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April 9, 2012
Earthday is coming!
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I wrote a series of posts for Earthday a while back that are still just as relevant:
Earthday Environmental E’s!
Effect – the area around you in a positive way
Extend – the use of the items you use and buy
Energize – your life in an environmentally positive way
Eat – in a more environmentally sustainable, responsible and healthy manner
One Last Earth Day E – Educate!
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March 31, 2009
We need more hours!
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In a day that is. Or at least I do. Ever since we’ve had our puppy I run out of time trying to get things done. And I don’t even have kids yet. I really don’t know how some people do it.
The puppy is forcing me to be healthier though. I have to make sure I get to bed by a certain time – because she will wake me up every morning at the same time regardless of when I went to bed or how much sleep I got.
And since I’ve been taking her for long walks – which I need to do to help wear her out so I can get some work done – I’ve been easily getting 10,000 steps a day.
And as I’ve been learning about dog nutrition to make sure I feed her healthy food, I’ve been eating a little better too.
Now, if I just had a few more hours each day I could get some more work done too! Maybe even work on this blog and site!
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March 19, 2009
Rethinking Sex In the Classroom?
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Newsweek recently had an article titled “Rethinking Race In the Classroom” by Allison Samuels.
It was about the idea that schools should stop teaching and having kids read books like “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Of Mice and Men”, etc. since those books use the “N word” and “portray African-Americans as inarticulate and unintelligent”.
I really don’t know what I think about this. I’m white and I don’t know if my opinion should really matter when it comes to issues of race like this or not.
But as a woman I got to thinking about how girls, and both young and adult women, are portrayed in much of the classical literature – even in those books that are aimed at girls.
Unfortunately I can’t think of too many specific examples. I do remember that in “Little Women” (because I re-read it recently since I didn’t finish it when I was younger; I quit after Beth died – it made me too sad) the only options women had were to be good little girls and wives and mothers.
I came to the conclusion that I don’t think I would want my daughter to even read the book. I don’t even want her to get it in her head that women – even at some time in the past – had that limited of opportunities. Maybe when she gets older, but not as a young girl still trying to find her place in the world.
Very few if any of the books I read as a kid had a female character that was strong and educated. And I do believe that even if girls today are not inundated with messages that they are fragile and not as smart, etc. (and that’s debatable – I think they still are on T.V., movies, etc.) – even getting that idea in their heads now and then, in subtle ways, can have an impact on their self esteem and on what they think their future as adult women might be like.
Those subtle messages can be the most insidious of all too. Just a little comment in a book about how proper girls and women should behave gets the message in their heads. A kid could grow up – whether they are black, female or any non-white male – with great self esteem and feeling really good about themselves. And then a story is read in class that could put the idea in their heads, as well as in their classmates heads, that maybe, just maybe they aren’t as good as the others.
I certainly wouldn’t want schools teaching from books that would send this message to my daughter. If people who are black think certain books are not a good idea to be taught in classrooms maybe we should respect that.
You can’t erase history and certainly mistakes of the past need to be learned about so they aren’t repeated. But it could wait until kids are a little older. Juniors and seniors in high school, or even better yet, college. By that time young people should have a strong, and hopefully, positive self-image.
Most of the planet’s population is already non-white males. Over time, even in this country, white males will be a minority. In the future almost every kid in a classroom will be part of one of the groups that were discriminated against in the past. Maybe sexism, racism, the holocaust and other atrocities can be taught and linked together as examples of how we must not ever treat any group of people as less than human.
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March 9, 2009
Barbie dolls: do they warp girl’s minds?
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So what do you think about Barbie? Love her or hate her?
Barbie turns 50 this month and today, March 9th is her official birthday.
If you have a daughter or might have one some day – did you or would you let her have Barbie dolls?
I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I had Barbie dolls and they didn’t completely screw me up. On the other hand, it did give me warped ideas about what adult women are supposed to look like – but I got over it.
I don’t know yet if I would let a daughter have them. I haven’t kept up, but I’m guessing they still make them with unrealistic proportions. If they changed them and made them more realistic I think they would be ok. I did just read that Barbie’s waist is now bigger, but as far as I know her breasts are still really big. The really old ones that look like they are wearing lots of makeup just look creepy to me.
If they offered different ones with not just different skin and hair colors, but height, waist and breast sizes and with no makeup I’d feel much better about a daughter having one too.
The idea of having a doll that is an adult is to help young girls explore what they would like to be when they are an adult. And for them to imagine being something other than a mother, which is about the only option with the more traditional baby dolls. That’s a great idea, its a shame its been messed up to some degree due to the way Barbie’s body is designed.
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