Ohio Girl

1-If an administrator in a work meeting says the word “exciting,” or “dynamic” enough times that means the meeting IS exciting and dynamic.

2-If i use Xenical–the diet drug now available over the counter–exactly as directed i will not only lose weight, but i will be able to ROLLER BLADE by the beach. I am not sure which beach.

3-If a construction company buys up foreclosed farmland and names the new subdivision they build “country estates,” it still FEELS like you live in the country.

4-If the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) erroneously deports a US citizen with diagnosed mental disorders to Tijuana, they have not committed an error as long as they THOUGHT they were deporting a non-citizen.

5-If the President of the United States breaks  US law but has written a letter describing why he does not LIKE that particular law, he has not broken the law.

I have started to emerge from a haze of round-the-clock news coverage. My eyes are still squinting. I have no words for what has happened, but this is a blog and not an interpretative dance. My words are: heart-broken, ashamed. As I write them I am sensitive to usurping someone else’s tragedy. It is convenient to be distracted from my own, everyday, malaise. But at
2 AM–watching the pictures–alone in the house–even the TV reporter dissolving into tears–the sadness and the outrage are all one.

“Unacceptable” doesn’t begin to cover it.  

http://www.alternet.org

http://www.moveon.org

http://www.icrc.org/eng

http://nifamatic.blogspot.com/

http://www.aspca.org