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Is the World a Better Place?

08 Thursday Nov 2012

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The entire 90 minute commute to work was painful as my body refused to relax and drop my shoulders from above my ears. I tried screaming at the radio, calling them short-sighted idiots, liars, and time-wasters, among the more colorful names I really used, and still tension wracked my body.

It was the day of the election and returns were starting to come in that late afternoon from the East Coast. Mitt Romney was sweeping the south and east. Fear and anger gripped me.

Couldn’t people see that the Romney as governor of Massachusetts was not the Romney running for US president? Couldn’t they see the manipulation, the switching sides to benefit whomever he was talking to rather than staying consistent and steadfast in his true convictions and beliefs. He was once a strong advocate for same sex marriage and abortion, but switched sides as he went after the religious right, an archaic group who still believe the founding fathers were the same Christian believers as they are today. Not true. The founding fathers were Deists. They believed that god did what he set out to do and left us behind to be caretakers. The religious extremists of the United States have rewritten history, including their own, determined that past and future presidents must bow to their will in order to win their votes. And Romney did.
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November 2012 The Ballot Box

06 Tuesday Nov 2012

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The ballot box alongside the road in North Plains, Oregon. Waiting in line to put my ballot in the box.

I wait in line for my turn to vote.

My mind casts back to all the different ways people have voted over thousands of years. By a show of hand. By stub of pencil. By flipping a lever. By punching a hole.

Today, I vote by car.

Well, not really, but it feels like it as I slowly move forward in the line approaching the big metal ballot box outside of the Police Station and Public Library in North Plains, Oregon. Continue reading →

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The writings herein solely represent the world of Lorelle VanFossen. Some of the names have been changed and the stories might be inaccurate and non-factual as they are from her imagination. After many years of technical writing, it's about time Lorelle was allowed to let her imagination run wild. Tough if you don't like it. ;-)

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