Becky Ellisor

Some of the finest people I know attend these gatherings and have for many years.  I won’t mention any names but they are the salt of the earth. Actually most of the people who stay long term involved in Democratic Politics are good people who care about their neighbors.  They care enough to vote and help others to vote. More people should join us. I can’t and won’t say any thing bad about Republicans because they are most often nice people, too. They just haven’t had the fun we have: helping our neighbors.

Worked 18 hours yesterday, with a payrate of 14 hours at 8.50 an hour paid by the County of Harris for my services as an Election Judge in the Democratic Primary. The Democratic Party pays the County back, as do the Republicans.  What I really got was the honor of serving my country. I always swear to myself that this election  will be the last time, I serve. But like having a baby, the pain is gone at the finish and look what you have: an election that you know was conducted properly and fairly without any fear of cheating while the ballots were in your possession.

It is a damn small price to pay for free elections.

One in three women will have an abortion in their lifetime and the rest should support their decisions. It is their right as a human being to decide what happens to their body, not ours or anyone elses.

Now let’s work to get it done. Time is wasting.

State of the Union

I drove I-45 about 6:00 tonight and I saw the most beautiful full-sky sunset I have ever seen. I was on my way to the Texas Democratic Women of Harris County monthly meeting. A wonderful bunch of women who want to see women get ahead all over the county. You are going to start seeing a lot of good coming out of this group. I am the Communications Secretary. Come join us on the last Monday night of every month, currently at HCDP on 610 North. Andrea White is our speaker next month and we plan a big event with seats limited to 300. I will let you know as soon as the meeting place is set.

So I am going to add it to my quotes page. It is a quote by George Washington our first president, who in addition was a leader among the Constitutional writers and who led the Revolution against the English. He was a great strategist and warrior. Yet this quote tells us what kind of man he really was… a great one.
(see quotes page)

My Handbook on Ethics is moving right along finally. I had a couple of teenage muses working for me over the holidays and they did nothing but convince me even more of the need for teaching ethics in schools. So many kids really don’t understand how to determine right from wrong.  Kids always find it hard to grow up and accept responsibility and having nothing to fall back on to make decisions makes it even harder to choose the right road.

I loved watching you tell Lieberman how the cow ate the cabbage. If anyone deserves to be shutdown it is him.

In the summer of 1969 I was living in Anchorage Alaska. I took a trip to Seward  a short days ride from Anchorage, and we came upon Portage Glacier which lies south of Anchorage near Turnagain Arm. This giant glacier flowed from a distant mountain into Cook Inlet. In order to build a road south to the Kenai Peninsula the state had to carve off the end of that 40 foot thick glacier to allow for the road. Every year or two they had to come back with ice saws to trim the Glacier to keep it from destroying the road, as it continued to head down the mountain and across the Tundra into the sea.  I returned to Alaska in 1989 to vacation with my sister Fran. We again passed by Portage Glacier, only now there was a large expensive looking building that tells the story of the Glacier. The Glacier only 20 years later was a mile or more back from the road. This year my cousin Earl Ellisor sent me a picture of the glacier as it is now, 40 years later. It looks like a white teardrop between two mountains way in the distance…

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Governor of Alaska
It’s for real. We actually have a woman running for vice-president and she isn’t qualified. What a slap in the face for the women of America. A beauty queen no less. So right wing that she stays pregnant and would no doubt be barefoot if it weren’t so cold in Alaska.

May I speak for the women who were mad at Obama for stealing the first real chance we have had to see a woman in the highest office in the land. You look a lot better now.
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Sunday, June 8, 2008

ThankstoNasa.blogspot.com
I have started a new blog to help people remember and/or realize how much NASA and the space race has helped our country. Take a look and tell me how I can improve it. Don’t worry about offending me, I can take it. Check it out at www.thankstonasa.blogspot.com
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Sunday, March 16, 2008

Laura Ewing for the State Board of Education
I have added a new site to my recommended ones. Please go to Laura Ewing’s website and find out all about her. The State Board of Education in case you don’t know, decides which textbooks are used in our schools. Yes they decide what our children are taught. Right now this board is controlled by right wingers. They would like science textbooks to teach creationism right along side evolution. Personally, I don’t want my Doctor to think that the earth was created in six days or that diseases are a scourge from God. If I want to be prayed over, I know plenty of people who will do that for free or a small fee. That high-priced specialist better know something about the scientific theory and the latest theories on disease control before I let him poke around on me. What kind of education do we want our children to have? One that will get them into Oral Roberts University or one that will get them into a University where science is taught? Religion is taught in church and at home, as it should be. Public schools are mandated to teach the three r’s. We all know what the r’s stand for. The s is for science. I went to Public School in Pasadena in the fifties and sixties. In eighth grade science we used microscopes to determine our blood type. Why did my daughter have a teacher for AP Biology in the 11th grade who didn’t believe in the theory of evolution so all she learned was the Classification of animals and plants? This is the future of our grandchildren and their grandchildren we are talking about. We must be more forward thinking if America is to remain the bright spot of the world. Don’t just vote for Laura Ewing, get out and work for her. Go to her site and learn about what she stands for. For the sake of America’s future.

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Saturday, February 23, 2008

March 4 Primary
I hope that there is a clear winner in the the Presidential race. It will be easier that way. Don’t forget to learn about the down ballot candidates and vote for them even if they do not have an opponent. Attend your precinct convention and make sure your candidate for prez is represented at the State Convention.

May the best woman win

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Friday, December 28, 2007

Women in Commerce
Illiterate woman sells $250k of fruit a day.(see CNN Middle East Business news) for the video of this woman. Hoorah for her. Why make such a big deal over her illiteracy though. People have been buying and selling for a profit long since before writing and reading became important. The big deal here is that she is a woman wearing a burkha without the face covering and dealing with men. That’s the big deal. Hoorah for women in Yemen and the rest of the Middle East.

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Thursday, December 27, 2007

The Good Die Young
Madame Bhutto gave her life for her country and for women everywhere. Perhaps it will inspire other women in that part of the world, where women still live as the chattel of men. Regretfully though, many more women will be even more afraid to rock the boat and speak up for their civil rights. Life goes on despite it all.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

What a coincidence. First we have the erased tapes thing and now Cheney’s other office has a fire. Were we born yesterday? No-o-o-o-o-o. and of course our VP was in his real office at the time, but rushed over to thank the firefighters.

No wonder Time picked Putin as man of the year when we all know the only reason Bush signed the energy bill was because Gore finally convinced such a large percentage of Americans about green house gases that he felt forced to do so. Really it is pretty hard to stuff the ballots in Norway. The real man of the year was Gore.