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OK, I'm gonna do something a little different this time. First, I was gonna tell a story about how long ago in the eighties I gave a woman a ride on the back of my motorcycle to the Alameda County Social Services building so she could sign up for Medi-Cal and get her abortion paid for, and how on the form she filled out there was a box she checked asking if she was pregnant so the application could be processed on an emergency basis on the spot (Medi-Cal usually takes 120 days) and how aside from the hour long wait to be seen, the process was smooth and efficient, and she got her paperwork right there to take to the clinic the next day.
Then I wondered whether the Hyde amendment put a stop to all that, so I did a quick Google search and found out that right now Medi-Cal and all private health insurance in California are required to cover abortion care.
Thank god for the socialist hell hole of my birth, I remain Californian by birth, by nature, and by choice.
Yes, I have already mailed in my ballot, and got the email from BallotTrax saying it was received and counted.
OK, yeah, this was a shitty week for news, and sometimes it feels hard to be optimistic about things, so here's something I've been wanting to share with you for a while. It's optimistic, maybe to a fault, but it's also just fucking brilliant. Back in 2000, I knew a woman, a girl, really, named Amber, who was 18. We played music together and I helped her with some problems she was having with her living situation. We were talking about female musicians, and she said there weren't many who impressed her, with the exception of Aimee Mann, who she was sort of pissed off at for getting the best Penn brother. It was years later that I discovered that she was talking about Aimee's husband Michael Penn, who usually makes his living doing film scores, but found himself unemployed because of covid in 2020 and went back to writing songs.
Now this song, A Revival, and its accompanying video are four minutes and fifty six seconds that have the power to turn a darkening political mood around, I mean the image of Richard Nixon bowling while Michael sings "You got zero-sum game", along with the three uses of the word "commonweal" make it a health benefit if nothing else. Anyway, here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvChdCA_h-o
Thank you again for the podcast. I'm kinda hoping that they've poked the sleeping bear this time, but I feel a little guilty about hoping that women save our asses yet again...
-Doug in Sugar Pine
I wrote my republican House representative (republican).
I am asking him since it is okay for his House minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to outright publicly, threaten private sector communications corporations with his perceived future House speaker power to punish them.
If they obey a legal subpoena(s) from the very House congress that provided emails of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton over Benghazi when his GOP controlled the house.
That adhering to a legal subpoena for republicans is lawful but as long as it is for fishing bait of a Democrat.
I ask him, is it now legal for me to threaten him with harm if he votes for something I do not care for? Or, will he turns me over to authorities for threatening him.
Waiting for his answer. providing he will respond to his constituent.
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