tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143191522024-03-14T01:17:25.998-05:00Lone Star Ma Blog"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics."
-Jane AddamsLone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.comBlogger2746125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-15672787632788947522018-01-12T12:57:00.000-06:002018-01-12T12:57:33.108-06:00Lone Star Facts on Friday: Tall Stuff<span style="color: red;">The highest peak in Texas, at 8,751 feet, is Guadalupe Peak.</span><br /><span style="color: red;"></span>Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-3264317424226951282018-01-10T12:52:00.000-06:002018-01-10T12:52:00.278-06:00Wednesdays with The Subversive Children's Book Club: Peace on Earth<span style="color: red;">The Winter Holidays always make me think of
that Wild Star's promise of Peace, so at this time of year, though a bit late, you get
another edition of the Subversive Children's Book Club with themes of
Peace. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Peace on Earth, Mamas. Enjoy. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">For the Primary and Lower Elementary Set: </span>
<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our Peaceful
Classroom</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by Aline D. Wolf </span></span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sitti’s
Secrets</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by Naomi Shihab Nye</span></span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rumpelstiltskin’s
Daughter</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by Diane Stanley</span></span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seven Brave
Women</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by Betsy Hearne</span></span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>The
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: an adaptation for children</i></span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by Ruth Rocha & Otavio
Roth</span></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cain and
Abel:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finding The Fruits of Peace</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso</span></span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Librarian of Basra</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by Jeanette
Winter</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></li>
</ul>
<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">For the Upper Elementary and </span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Teen Set (several of these are pretty heavily Quaker-influenced):</span></span>
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</div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Crash</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by Jerry
Spinelli</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>The Arrow
Over The Door</i> by Joseph Bruchac </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Summer’s
End</i> by Audrey Couloumbis</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Quaking</i> by Kathryn Erskine</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">T<i>he Eye of
The Heron</i> by Ursula K. LeGuin.</span></span></li>
</ul>
Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-89051557677006687142018-01-06T13:01:00.000-06:002018-01-06T13:01:06.915-06:00Feliz Dia de Los Reyes Magos<span style="color: red;">Happy Epiphany!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">May we all use our gifts for the goodness of our brothers and sisters in 2018. </span>Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-79141124640187772392018-01-05T10:56:00.000-06:002018-01-05T10:56:13.562-06:00Lone Star Facts on Friday: State Nickname<span style="color: red;">Our state nickname is the Lone Star State. We are not really the only one star state, or star state, but that is our nickname, just the same.</span>Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-7763980511771908932018-01-03T10:00:00.000-06:002018-01-03T10:00:16.132-06:00Wednesdays with The Subversive Children's Book Club: Winter Holidays<span style="color: red;">I am pretty late with this one this year, but I have at least until El Dia de Los Reyes Magos, right? In honor of Hanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and other winter
festivities, this edition of Wednesdays with the Subversive Children's
Book Club features books with Winter Holiday themes. I hope you have all been having Happy Holidays!</span> <span style="color: red;">Enjoy!</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>Three Wise Women</i> by Mary Hoffman</span></li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>Lone Star</i></span><span style="color: red;"> by Barbara Barrie</span><span style="color: red;"><i> </i></span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: red;"></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>A Dozen Silk Diapers</i></span><span style="color: red;"> by Melissa Kajpust</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: red;"></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>Too Many Tamales</i> by Gary Soto</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: red;"></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>The Winter Solstice</i> by Ellen Jackson</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: red;"></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>A Full House</i> by Madeleine L’Engle</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: red;"></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>The Gifts of Kwanzaa</i> by Synthia St. James</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: red;"></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>What Child Is This?</i> by Caroline B. Cooney</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: red;"></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>The Winter Gift</i> by Deborah Turney Zagwyn</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: red;"></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas</i> by Madeleine L’Engle</span></li>
</ul>
Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-43791832067329374392018-01-01T20:54:00.001-06:002018-01-01T20:54:28.921-06:00Happy New Year<span style="color: red;">Happy New Year, Mamas.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">Love and Peace and Joy and Health to you in 2018 and always.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">Solidarity.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">xoxo, </span><br />
<span style="color: red;">Lone Star Ma </span>Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-17305574655458017702017-12-31T18:29:00.001-06:002017-12-31T18:31:07.577-06:00New Year's Resolutions<span style="color: red;">We have so much to manage in this upcoming year with the Lone Star Girl's health, and with getting her hopefully graduated from college and secure in some sort of post-graduate education and a safe place...doing our best supporting her in all that and </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;">helping my youngest through the troubles of middle school and early adolescence and starting high school next school year i</span>s probably about all we can handle for the most part in terms</span> <span style="color: red;">of resolutions this year.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: red;">That said, I also am going to try to do a little more: </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">I want to grow and excel at work, as I always try to do.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">I want to spend more time outside in nature, working in my gardens. I want to eat more vegetables and make time to walk more. </span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: red;">I want to help my Girl Scouts earn their Silver Awards. </span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: red;">I want to go to lunch and breakfast with people and be a better friend.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: red;">I want to be a patriot, resisting fascism and helping others.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">What are your resolutions? I'd like to hear. </span><br />
<br />
<br />Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-34639740111276510472017-11-24T18:52:00.001-06:002017-11-24T18:52:44.911-06:00Oppose The Tax Bill<span style="color: red;">Please keep calling your Senators and telling them to vote no.</span>Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-52542149501747714382017-11-24T00:00:00.000-06:002017-11-24T00:00:05.008-06:00Lone Facts on Fridays: A Motto to Live By<span style="color: red;">Texas' State Motto is Friendship. Let's put the Friendship in Texas for real, y'all.</span>Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-80743342849895937372017-11-23T14:05:00.000-06:002017-11-23T14:06:31.149-06:00Holiday Squash<span style="color: red;">Every Thanksgiving, I make a holiday squash recipe as our signature Thanksgiving dish. Here is the recipe (serves eight): </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">Ingredients: Four acorn squash, 8 apples, butter, cinnamon sugar. </span><br />
<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;">Cut the acorn squash and scoop out the
seeds and pulp. Plant the seeds and pulp in the garden.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;">Put the squash
halves, flat sides down on a baking sheet and bake them for about 50
minutes at 350 degrees. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;">Chop up the apples.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;">Set the
squash halves cut-sides up</span> <span style="color: red;">in a baking dish and
sprinkle the scooped out part with cinnamon sugar, then put a little
pat of butter in each. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;">Stuff each squash half with chopped apples and
cover again with cinnamon sugar and dabs of butter. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;">Pop the stuffed squash back into the oven until the apples
are baked in the buttery, cinnamon goodness and the squash is toasty
again.</span> <span style="color: red;"></span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;">Enjoy!</span></li>
</ul>
Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-53910398276265653822017-11-23T13:53:00.001-06:002017-11-23T13:53:41.785-06:00Happy Thanksgiving!<span style="color: red;">I am so grateful to be spending the holiday warm and cozy with my sleepy Lone Star Girl, with lots of good food in the oven. We have learned a lot about gratitude for the small wonderful things in life since she has been ill and am so happy that we get to share them. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">I hope that you all have many things to be thankful for today and always.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">XXOO,</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">Lone Star Ma</span>Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-16634843182041823082017-11-22T14:17:00.000-06:002017-11-23T14:23:10.991-06:00Wednesdays with The Subversive Children's Book Club: Twas The Night Before Thanksgiving<span style="color: red;">Today's edition of the Subversive Children's Book Club is a good choice for families who may tie Thanksgiving traditions to teaching their children to care for animals as winter nears - <i>Twas The Night Before Thanksgiving</i> by Dav Pilkey.</span> <span style="color: red;"> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">This
funny little picture book tells the story of a class of schoolchildren
who visit a turkey farm, make friends with the turkeys and then discover
the turkey farmer's terrible secret. They manage to sneak the turkeys
away for safe Thanksgivings in their homes where they can be dinner
guests and not dinner served. It is funny and sweet and perfect for
vegetarian children.</span> <span style="color: red;">I highly recommend it.</span>Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-19034099975163220232017-11-16T18:55:00.001-06:002017-11-16T22:01:53.925-06:00Nightmare On Tax Bills<span style="color: red;">The House just passed a horror story of a tax "reform" bill. Please call your Senators and tell them not to sell out the sick and disabled and students and teachers and the elderly like their colleagues in the House did, Mamas.</span>Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-18806299796352540912017-11-07T00:00:00.000-06:002017-11-07T00:00:10.995-06:00Election Day!<span style="color: red;">Go vote!</span>Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-89683519764016480782017-11-06T22:48:00.000-06:002017-11-06T22:48:47.862-06:00Vote!<span style="color: red;">Tomorrow is Election Day, Texas! Constitutional Amendments. If you did not vote early, you need to get out there tomorrow and vote.</span>Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-17566259895320735692017-10-23T00:00:00.000-05:002017-10-23T00:00:09.198-05:00Gulf Frittillary Reserve<span style="color: red;">Something that has given me much joy in the past year is gulf fritillaries. I let some volunteer passion flower vines that had shown up in my yard take over the front of the house on both sides when I learned that they are what gulf fritillary caterpillars eat.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">I have enjoyed many moments this year inspecting their little rumpled-leaf cocoons, watching their science fiction-y caterpillars crawl about and, most of all, watching the gulf fritllatries flying about my yard and lighting to fan their wings on the vines and on our lime tree, which they also seem to like when they are in butterfly form. I have self-desginated my house to be a gulf frittillary reserve and plan to keep it that way.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">After the hurricane, though, I could not find any more butterflies, No rumpled-leaf cocoons. No weird caterpillars. I thought they had all died.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">But....one is back this week! Maybe two! I am so glad! I am hoping they will fill my yard with orange tapestries of flight again soon! </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> </span><br />
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<br />Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-1680477152236282792017-10-22T13:54:00.001-05:002017-10-22T13:54:41.741-05:00Staying afloat in the descent of a nation....<span style="color: red;">Times are tough.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">Our family has been struggling to find some new balance in the past couple of years due to the Lone Star Girl's health issues and meanwhile, of course, the other regular troubles that will come to every family in one form or another still come to us. Like all families, we often have enough on our plates just keeping our own little ship afloat, along with its own particular set of challenges.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: red;">Putting that in the context of these times, though....</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: red;">To be trying to support a disabled daughter with a serious chronic disease in a time when our "leaders" continually try to steal her health insurance and her civil rights is really difficult. </span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: red;">And then there are white supremacists running around everywhere, emboldened by the president's behavior, the president who says some of them are very good people. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">Climate change brings us more intense storms (and a bad season for avocados!) and we try to pay medical bills while feeling guilty that we are not doing more for our neighboring communities that had their homes blown away, counting ourselves very lucky that we only lost some siding, a refrigerator of food, a window board and a few days' electricity and productivity.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">The free press is under attack and the president and attorney general say more fascist things every single day and most people want to just pretend it isn't happening.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">People who used to seem reasonable and nice remain unoffended when their friends spout blatantly racist and otherwise (sexist, homophobic, ableist) bigoted screeds but will call out people who try to speak out against those screeds, or who just try to work hard to fight fascism, or for health care or for civil rights. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">I have no idea what is going on wth that equifax thing and my information.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">New terrible mass disasters and tragedies happen every day until we cannot even keep up with them all, much less give each the meaningful attention they all deserve. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">I work to be a good mother, a good worker, a good wife and friend and citizen. I work to keep my family afloat and still think of others. I am trying but these are tough times.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">Sorry the blog is so irregularly maintained.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">xoxo, </span><br />
<span style="color: red;">Lone Star Ma </span><br />
<span style="color: red;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> </span>Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-86444828045260884362017-10-11T06:51:00.000-05:002017-10-12T06:53:10.332-05:00Wednesdays with The Subversive Children's Book Club: Hispanic Heritage Month<span style="color: red;">In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, this
installment of the Subversive Children's Book Club spotlights books
about Hispanic characters for older kids and teens. Enjoy!</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: red;">Upper Elementary and YA:</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>Confetti Girl </i>by Diana Lopez</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>The Tequila Worm</i> by Viola Canales </span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>Taking Sides</i> by Gary Soto</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>Esperanza Rising</i> by Pam Munoz Ryan </span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>Ask My Mood Ring</i> by Diana Lopez</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>Trino's Choice</i> by Diane Gonzales Bertrand </span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>Finding Miracles</i> by Julia Alvarez</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>The House on Mango Street </i>by Sandra Cisneros</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>Aristotle and Dante Discover The Secrets of The Universe</i> by Benjamin Alire Saenz</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-69250473475475463792017-10-11T06:47:00.000-05:002017-10-12T06:48:26.182-05:00International Day of The Girl<span style="color: red;">Happy International Day of the Girl! This year's theme is about giving all girls a K-12 education. Our whole planet needs what educated girls can do!</span>Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-37614821494199042222017-09-27T00:00:00.000-05:002017-09-27T00:00:18.826-05:00Wednesdays with The Subversive Children's Book Club; Honoring Hispanic Heritage<span style="color: red;">To honor Hispanic Heritage Month, this</span> <span style="color: red;">edition of the Subversive Children's Book Club features books about people and events in Latino history and culture. Enjoy!</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>Harvest of Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez</i> by Kathleen Krull</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>Dolores Huerta: A Hero To Migrant Workers</i> by Sarah Warren</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez</i> by Monica Brown</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>Si, Se Puede!/Yes, We Can!: Janitor Strike in L.A.</i> by Diana Cohn </span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><i>Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation</i> by Duncan Tonatiuh</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><i>Tomas and The Library Lady</i> by Pat Mora</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><i>Frida</i> by Jonah Winter</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><i>Diego </i>by Jonah Winter</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><i>Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in The Bronx</i> by Jonah Winter.</span></span> </span></li>
</ul>
Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-28852500554952513782017-09-26T01:00:00.000-05:002017-09-26T01:00:02.790-05:00Action Alert: Keep Calling: Defeat The Graham Cassidy Health Care Bill<span style="color: red;">We have to keep calling every day, Mamas, until after September 30th when the bill will be finished without a vote.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: red;">We have to defeat it before it takes the lives of people with life threatening illnesses and disabilities.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">Please call your Senators today and demand that they vote no.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: red;">Please call Senators Murkowski, McCain and Collins today and ask them to please vote no. Keep them strong on this.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: red;">Every day.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: red;">Call, call, call.</span>Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-43250507943049461052017-09-26T00:00:00.000-05:002017-09-26T00:00:18.513-05:00National Voter Registration Day<span style="color: red;">Are you registered to vote?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">If not, get registered and never neglect to vote.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">If so, get deputized and register other voters.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Voting matters. </span>Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-40148240196631955092017-09-25T22:16:00.000-05:002017-09-25T22:16:19.572-05:00Protect Texans with Disabilities<span style="color: red;">Tell Senators Cornyn and Cruz to be as brave as Senator McCain and to vote no on the Graham Cassidy Health Care Bill!</span>Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-61659333238685764402017-09-25T22:05:00.000-05:002017-09-25T22:05:23.461-05:00Banned Books Week<span style="color: red;">Read subversively.</span>Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14319152.post-32970319220406466182017-09-25T07:40:00.002-05:002017-09-25T07:40:21.208-05:00Defeat The Graham Cassidy Health Care Bill<span style="color: red;">The Graham Cassidy Health Care Bill would allow states to remove protections for people with pre-existing conditions in a number of ways....by allowing them to be priced out of insurance or out of insurance renewal, by allowing states to decide that the health care they need to survive (prescription drugs, chemotherapy) does not have to be covered by health plans, and by allowing health plans to re-instate annual and lifetime caps on coverage.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">The bill is opposed by every major medical organization in America, by every major disability rights organization and even by insurers and a bipartisan coalition of the nation's governors. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">For people with life threatening illnesses and disabilities, this means death. It is once again playing politics through genocide. It must be stopped.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">The bill's sponsors are trying to make it more appealing to swing vote Senators by stuffing it with extra funding for their states but that does not help the people with pre-existing conditions at all.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Please call your Senators today, Mamas, and demand that they vote no.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Please call Senators Murkowski, McCain and Collins today and ask them to please vote no. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Please email the Senate Finance Committee at GCHcomments@finance.senate.gov before 1pm today and tell them you oppose the bill. Please call the Senate Finance Committee at 202-224-4515 before 1pm today and express your opposition to the bill.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Please.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Thank you.</span><br />
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<br />Lone Star Mahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com0