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Love everything about this.
Here is the english version of my now famous “Fallait demander” !
Thanks Una from unadtranslation.com for the translation :)
Why #ImWithHer
#ImWithHer
All politicians are sinful humans, and pretending otherwise is foolish. Hillary Clinton is definitely not perfect… because she’s not Jesus. But she has my vote.
I will be voting for the for her on this ticket in part because I identify myself as a Democrat. “I am a Democrat because I embrace a philosophy that says the government has an important role in society in terms of providing for the poor and marginalized. I don’t believe that private citizens are up to the task of providing for people in the way the government has, through for example, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.”
I like the free market, but with limits. “The Bible teaches us that left to their own devices, people are inherently sinful… so if you take government regulation out of the picture, why wouldn’t people behave in a depraved manner?… I think the government has a role to protect average citizens from the people who have all the power and are hard-wired to care only about increasing their own power, no matter who it hurts.”
I don’t support unchecked government power (which is what Trump is advocating for on the campaign trail almost daily). “There are limits. But there is also a significant role for the government to play in society.”
As a Christian, an American, a black woman, and a human being, I support Hillary Clinton. I’m trying my hardest to love my neighbor as myself, and to me that means supporting the government with my tax dollars to help an unknown person. I’m voting Democrat because in that party and at that convention “there’s a sense that poor people matter, that elderly neighbors should be looked after and that children deserve equal opportunities for school, regardless of where they came from or what ethnicity they are.” That’s why I’m a democrat. And that’s why I’m with Her.
But boy will I miss President Barak Obama, VP Joe Biden, and their lovely families. We’ve had classy, wholesome people in office for so long… we’re sure getting a rude re-awakening.
(Significant portions of this are taken from the inspiring words of an interview with Kirsten Powers and Jo Kadlecek’s “Unapologetic: Evangelical Christian, Pro-Life and Democrat.”)
I hate adoption.
Moving and worth a read…
We hear all about the adoptive parents side– how challenging it is, how difficult it is to raise traumatized children, but we never hear from the adoptive siblings point of view. All my life I have heard of what incredible parents I have (and I do), but never once has someone told me what an “incredible job” I have done or what my thoughts were on having adopted siblings. Mainly, because I was just a kid when it all begin. I understand that, and that’s okay. But I’d like to share my honest opinion on adoption.
When I was seven my parents started down the road of adoption, I was elated, so overwhelmed with excitement at the fact that I was going to have a new sister or brother. I remember meeting them for the first time, and they felt like family. We got along and we were happy. Until the…
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Presidents, The Pope, and Jesse McCartney
The great Jesse McCartney once sang:
“Now, I don’t speak Spanish, Japanese or French
But the way that body’s talkin’ definitely makes sense…”
When I heard this song, I was horrified. Not only because I couldn’t believe that Jesse McCartney had yet another radio hit, but because he was making a philosophical-ish statement about how humans operate. Though Jesse doesn’t speak the same language as the particular “Universal Lady” of which he “sings” (autotune anyone?), her body is telling him what she wants. He may not understand what she’s saying, but her body is “breaking it down articulately.” Apparently, it’s clear she wants this:
Oh Yeah…
Well, Jesse may have been on to something. Just look at these pictures of Presidents with the Pope:
Body language difference…? Oh yeah.
President Putin met the Pope in November. President Obama met El Papa last week. If you believe, as Jesse and these authors do, that body language tells us something meaningful about relationships and context, then these contrasting pictures just won’t stop talking. (Obviously these pictures were chosen by the authors to prove a point, but I still think there’s something there.)
Maybe I should give up writing about international organizations, and write my dissertation about predicting state actions by the body language of leaders?
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