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clothing, postaday2012, style

Say What?!

Camden Town, London, UK – May 2005 – Patrick Nouhailler ©

I had a colorful tee-shirt that I had purchased in Camden market in London, it had bold blue and bright red and vibrant green. The acronym S.W.A.P.O was blazoned across the colors. I knew that it stood for South West Africa Peace Organization, when I purchased the shirt Apartheid was still in existence. I was back home in New York City walking down Park Avenue South when a business man stopped me with his hand and he called me a stupid bitch. I was so shocked that I told him to leave me alone and that I can wear what I want and tore my arm away. I was shaken by the vehemence of the whole encounter.

No news is good news?

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back of my mind, biopsy, ductal carcinoma, mammogram results, misdiagnosis, radiologists

I went to visit the surgeon as per the radiologists after my mammogram. I was hoping in the back of my mind that the surgeon was going to say “Mrs. Nichols, upon studying your mammogram results, I have concluded that there is no need for concern, you are fine and it was all a misdiagnosis”. Alas, the surgeon didn’t say that, he explained all about the biopsy and why it was needed, to rule out any chance for ductal carcinoma, and that it takes a week for the results to come in and when they do come in, I’ll get a phone call to come back to the office so that he can give me the results in person. The office called me an hour ago to let me know that the biopsy is scheduled for next Wednesday and that I need someone to bring me. I don’t know why, but ever since I was informed that a biopsy was necessary, I have had this unrelenting pit in my stomach. Intellectually, I know that this isn’t a death sentence, even if it turns out to be cancerous. I honestly don’t know why this pit won’t go away, I am by nature an optimist and I know that it is not life threatening, uncomfortable yes, perhaps, but not dangerous. Still have the pit, I wish that it would go away because it makes it worse. I haven’t even been focusing on the stupid biopsy, I’ve been writing my book, answering Plinky.com, commenting on Huffington Post and doing other things but I still can’t shake the pit.

Oklahoma Personhood Bill Ignites Feminist Movement

Women have to come together and inform these old white men that though it is sad that they feel almost obsolete, but their feelings do not give them the right to legislate away the reproductive freedoms that women have gained through the birth of scientific discoveries. Through science, women now have control over their own bodies and their own lives, men have to accept that and deal with it, not by bullying their way through the law into the doctor’s office and hijacking a woman’s decision making process but through perhaps counseling to attain an acceptance of a woman’s right to economic, political and social independence.
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Mitt Romney Backtracks On Comment Opposing Blunt Amendment [UPDATE]

So now, according to the GOP; anyone who is involved with paying any portion of your healthcare insurance has the right to dictate your reproductive decisions, the government, your employer and your health insurance provider can arbitrarily decide what you can or cannot do with your uterus. The whole business of it being tax payer money and therefore special is ludicrous, we all know that viagra is covered and the notion that the GOP can go cherry picking over what can be covered with tax payer monies and what can’t is irrational. Our tax payer dollars pay for war and I am not happy with that but since we are all in this together as a society that is how it is. Furthermore to add insult to injury, the GOP wants to give the private sector the same power over women health issues? Women have the right to discuss and plan their fertility and reproductive health with their doctor privately, that is not a futuristic or a progressive notion, why are we being forced to go back to the nineteenth century?
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Senators Offer License To Strike Iran Nuclear Program

Are these senators out of their minds? We, as a nation, have enough on our plate right now at home. We do not need to engage in another military action because Israel, who have their own domestic economic and social troubles at home, wants to launch something against Iran. Didn’t we learn anything from our war in Iraq? Shouldn’t we take the negotiations with North Korea as a direct example that diplomacy does bring positive results? We cannot afford to threaten military action because it might just escalate things already emotionally charged in that region. Cooler heads need to prevail and I hope that our President and Secretary Clinton remember that.
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