Daily Archives: February 9, 2010

Rewriting History..

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There’s an article in the Boston Globe that talks about a proposal going on in the neighboring state of New Hampshire in which their State Constitution would be re-written to make it more gender equal. As pointed out in the article New Hampshire penned the nation’s first constitution in 1776, binding until the end of the Revolutionary War. With the war won, the state in 1783 ratified a new one that opens with the words, “All men are born equally free and independent.’’

NH State Senator Kathy Sgambati, a Democrat and chief sponsor of the legislation, which has 18 cosponsors says “The constitution should reflect our government, and that includes women. In a state that now has the nation’s first majority female legislative body, backers say that changing the language is imperative. Why?
Let me be clear I have SIX sisters, a wife and 2 daughters and believe they should receive all the same rights, salary and benefit given to any man for anything they do. But do we need to rewrite history to make women feel equal?

Back in the time the NH Constitution was written, men where in charge and women did not have rights. That is as much a part of our history as is Civil Rights and a Women’s Right to Vote. Why should we have to change the language of the time and forget our history?

What next are we going to rewrite? The US Constitution, The Bible and other great forms of Literature? Do we make everything politically correct? Why can’t we respect and learn from our past without having to rewrite it to make people feel better about themselves today?

Are women going to get better pay or more rights because a constitution so rich in the history and in the development of our country gets re-written? This was tried before in 1994 when Jean Shaheen was Governor but failed when put to a vote of the citizens of New Hampshire. Common sense won out. Now with so many former MA. residents living in exile in NH could it pass?

A number of states have amended their constitutions to include gender-neutral language, including Vermont, Maine, Rhode Island, California, Florida, Hawaii, and New York. Other states, such as Nebraska, have tried to amend their constitutions and failed. Massachusetts has kept its original language, as has the US Constitution. When state Representative Cory Atkins of Concord introduced a bill in 2008 mandating that gender-neutral language be used instead, she was lambasted as politically correct, with critics arguing that the word he is accepted as a generic term in everything from laws to the Bible. The measure failed and so to should it fail in New Hampshire in 2010.

Why can’t people embrace and learn from the past without having to rewrite it?

http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2010/02/06/some_push_for_gender_neutral_rewrite_of_nh_constitution/

HOW TRUE…

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Another email that I received that made me chuckle because of how true many of these things listed are:

1. I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.
4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
6. Was learning cursive really necessary?
7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on #5. I’m pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
9. I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.
10. Bad decisions make good stories.
11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren’t going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.
12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don’t want to have to restart my collection…again.
13. I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
14. “Do not machine wash or tumble dry” means I will never wash this – ever.
15. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello?
Hello? Damn it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What did you do after I didn’t answer? Drop the phone and run away?
16. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
17. I keep some people’s phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
18. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
19. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lite than Kay.
20. I wish Google Maps had an “Avoid Ghetto” routing option
21. Sometimes, I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the heck was going on when I first saw it.
22. I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
23. The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.
24. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
25. How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear or understand a word they said?
26. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!
27. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
28. Is it just me or do high school kids get dumber & dumber every year?
29. There’s no worse feeling than that millisecond you’re sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.
30. As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.
31. Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
32. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey – but I’d bet my behind everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time!

Interesting Idea but I doubt it

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I received this Email from a friend…Interesting Idea but I doubt we ever see it

Proposed 28th Amendment to US Constitution
For too long we have been complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that (1) Congress members could retire with the same pay after only one term; (2) that they didn’t pay into Social Security; and (3) that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from fear of prosecution for sexual harassment. Congress’s latest game is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform Bill that is being considered. Somehow, this doesn’t seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law.

I truly don’t care if members of Congress are Democrat, Republican, independent, liberal, conservative, progressive or whatever. The self-serving must stop. The below listed proposed 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution would do that. This is an idea whose time has come.

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution:

“Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and Representatives; and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States.”

This is fair, to the point and non-partisan. Who could be against it? Congress, that’s who.