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Don't worry, Frank. Despite the title of the article it isn't Hillary I mean as your favorite woman. It is the woman who should be, but isn't, considered for the $20 bill. Only leftist approved women need apply.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2015/04/07/hillary-political-operative-behind-women-20# (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2015/04/07/hillary-political-operative-behind-women-20#)
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Whoa.
What a fitting tribute to the most remarkable woman of the 20th century.
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Do you know who else wasn't on the list?
Raquel Welch, that's who!
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Another one who's missing from that list:
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/mcs_zpsazzno5l8.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/mcs_zpsazzno5l8.jpg.html)
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And this one:
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(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/nlk_zps6yskctew.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/nlk_zps6yskctew.jpg.html)
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I'm thinking of all sorts of women who aren't on that list, who made this world a better place.
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/eb_zps3wamlxjm.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/eb_zps3wamlxjm.jpg.html)
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(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/j_zps2apho0ys.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/j_zps2apho0ys.jpg.html)
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Is Margaret Thatcher eligible? That should really tweak them.
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Liberal women are so freaking shallow! They're being deliberately pandering to, no different than patting a 2 year old on the back and giving him a cookie so he'll go sit down and be quiet for a few minutes. They're either so immature and self centered they don't see it or are so easily lead aroung by their vaginas they think putting a woman on money would be some kind of victory. Then again, when the only men you surround yourself with are "feminists"...
Cindie
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Who's the woman who spoke out so forcefully against the ERA back in the early 80's? Phyllis something. Put her on there. That would put their panties in a wad. Or do something really different and put a couple on there. I'm thinking Ron and Nancy standing in front of a china cabinet full of new china.
Cindie
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(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/bt_zpsx628j5bo.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/bt_zpsx628j5bo.jpg.html)
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I'm coming up with lots and lots of women who made life better in this world, than those on the women's-libber's list.
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/mh_zpsfzm98npr.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/mh_zpsfzm98npr.jpg.html)
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(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/mt_zpsohlxix7p.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/mt_zpsohlxix7p.jpg.html)
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(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/em_zpsv1w616br.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/em_zpsv1w616br.jpg.html)
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There's just all sorts of remarkable women the women's-libbers omitted:
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/oj_zps77x2pxhf.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/oj_zps77x2pxhf.jpg.html)
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(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/fb_zpslrwrxgo5.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/fb_zpslrwrxgo5.jpg.html)
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Obviously, the women's-libbers quit studying history after the second grade.
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I'll bet 99.9999% of the primitives, and 100% of the women's-libbers can't identify but more than one or two of these most remarkable women.
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To be non-partisan, here's a Democrat woman who made the world a better place:
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/ntr_zpsccvclcc9.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/ntr_zpsccvclcc9.jpg.html)
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Oh my.
And yet another Democrat woman who did much for humanity:
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/rf_zpsrutuz06s.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/rf_zpsrutuz06s.jpg.html)
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Damn.
Of course the women's-libbers overlooked Republican women, but one's stunned at how many Democrat women they omitted, who were a gift to humanity.
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/hc_zps5qq5al1z.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/hc_zps5qq5al1z.jpg.html)
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I swear, any of these women did more good, than the usual-and-standard women's-libber icons.
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/ew_zpsygsmyjll.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/ew_zpsygsmyjll.jpg.html)
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How about this one?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Od_jeane-kirkpatrick-official-portrait_1-255x301.jpg/220px-Od_jeane-kirkpatrick-official-portrait_1-255x301.jpg)
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How about this one?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Od_jeane-kirkpatrick-official-portrait_1-255x301.jpg/220px-Od_jeane-kirkpatrick-official-portrait_1-255x301.jpg)
Oh yeah, her too, definitely.
I would've gotten around to thinking of her sooner or later, but damn, there's so many remarkable women the women's-libbers overlooked that the head's crowded with those who should've been included.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Nancy_Reagan.jpg)
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Now, this one's not going to be popular here, but it is a sincere choice of mine.
<<<always had a lus--er, fondness, for women of Judaic derivation.
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Yeppers, her too, although unfortunately she's been saddled with that stupid son of hers.
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Her politics were never franksolich's politics, but she's admirable anyway, definitely not an affirmative-action politician; she grew up knowing what it's like, being of African derivation in America.
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Yeppers, her too, although unfortunately she's been saddled with that stupid son of hers.
And daughter . . .
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Another one who knows what it's like, growing up black in America.
Her politics aren't franksolich's politics, but I'm trying to be non-partisan here.
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/yb_zps64xrjluh.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/yb_zps64xrjluh.jpg.html)
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Another Republican femme, who when it comes to the betterment of humanity, was worth more than all the screeching women's-libbers put together.
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/lh_zpsmpctacir.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/lh_zpsmpctacir.jpg.html)
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I'll bet the primitives can't name but one or two of the remarkable women on this thread, and I think for sure the bra-burners can't.
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Oooops, wrong image. Sorry.
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The right image:
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<<<bets most of the primitives can't even name.
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Ooops.
Gave a clue; the primitives can figure out who she was now.
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Well, that's all I'm gonna do.
The primitives don't know nearly all of these.
And the women's-libbers have no idea, no idea at all, what all these remarkable women did, for both women and all of humanity in general.
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I don't know but I've been told that one VIAGRA pill is $20 bucks....so why not a picture of a stiff one on the bill instead of all those deflating broads.
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Now, we all know looks don't count, and this one while having contributed a great deal for the good of mankind, didn't contribute quite as much as some other women here.
But this is what I call the height of aesthetics, the way she's oozing grace and class and elegance out of every pore.
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Frank, I'm sure glad you know all these women because I sure don't. How about a little later go back and drop a few names.
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Frank, I'm sure glad you know all these women because I sure don't. How about a little later go back and drop a few names.
Well, which ones do you wanna know?
Just "quote" the comment and I'll reply.
I'm sure you'll recognize the southern women, though.
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Her politics were never franksolich's politics, but she's admirable anyway, definitely not an affirmative-action politician; she grew up knowing what it's like, being of African derivation in America.
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/sc_zpskdm5a3nn.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/sc_zpskdm5a3nn.jpg.html)
You know, even though Shirley Chisholm's politics sucked rotten eggs and her persecution of Richard Nixon verged on the irrational, I always thought she was probably a nice person to know.....as a person.
She was first elected to the House sometime when Nixon was president, and franksolich was still a kid, although a literate one by then.
The Democrat leadership in the House named her to the Agriculture Committee, at which she balked, pointing out that she was from innermost New York City, and knew nothing about farming.
The plantation owners then transferred her to the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, and she was happy with that.
From 1500 miles away, out in the Sandhills of Nebraska, a boy then wrote her a letter. Okay, so she didn't want to be on the agricultural committee because she wasn't a farmer, but how come she was willing to be on the veterans' committee even though she wasn't a veteran?
Not being able to help myself, I was impeccably polite in writing her, acknowledging that I wasn't a constituent of hers, but I'd really like an answer.
Now, one can usually discern if a congressional response is written (or more usually, dictated) by the representative, or if it was simply an aide's response; the tone's different, and noticeable.
The letter I got back from Shirley had obviously been dictated by her, personally.
She pointed out that, true, she wasn't a veteran, but she had lots and lots of veterans as constituents, while she didn't know of any constituents who were farmers.
Okay, reasonable.
Then she assured me I was a nice kid, probably one of the nicest kids one could ever hope to meet.
That's something for the primitives on Skins's island to keep in mind, especially MrsCorpio and the bravenak primitive.
<<<was called a nice guy, one of the nicest guys one could ever hope to meet, by Shirley Chisholm (D-New York).
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Margaret Tutweiler was spokeswoman for the State Department during the War for the Liberation of Kuwait, 1990-1991.
I was manager of a privately-owned student union at the time, and while there were televisions all over the place, being deaf, I never paid attention to them.
That is, unless she was on the screen, at which I dropped everything and gazed in open-mouthed wonderment at her.
I had no idea what she was saying, but her body language betrayed that she was saying it straightforwardly honestly, and with authority.
This was a woman people needed to listen to.
Don't quote me on this--I usually don't nadin such things, instead just yanking them out of the memory (and sometimes the memory's wrong)--but I believe when the second George Bush was in office, she was U.S. ambassadress to Germany.
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Oh my.
And yet another Democrat woman who did much for humanity:
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/rf_zpsrutuz06s.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/rf_zpsrutuz06s.jpg.html)
History lesson for the lurking primitives and history-challenged bra-burners:
Rebecca Felton was the first femme, ever, to serve as a U.S. Senator, back in 1922.
The first woman senator.
And she represented.....the "redneck" "NASCAR-loving," "reactionary," Confederate.....Georgia.
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Damn.
Of course the women's-libbers overlooked Republican women, but one's stunned at how many Democrat women they omitted, who were a gift to humanity.
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/hc_zps5qq5al1z.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/hc_zps5qq5al1z.jpg.html)
Harriet "Hattie" Caraway, U.S. Senator from "redneck" "hillbilly" Arkansas.
I'm just going from memory, but I think she started in 1931. I know she ended in 1943, having been beaten in the Democrat primary of 1942 by later-Senator John McClellan.
It's truly remarkable, how many women U.S. Senators first came from the "backward" "sexist" areas of the country. Nebraska, for another example, was the first state to have women as both U.S. Senators.
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I read the title...my first thought was Bainsbane at Newsbusters?
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I read the title...my first thought was Bainsbane at Newsbusters?
Well, she is here.....somewhere.
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Well, she is here.....somewhere.
Her enormous, over-educated, misandric breasts are everywhere. One can not escape them.
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Her enormous, over-educated, misandric breasts are everywhere. One can not escape them.
Woody Allen made a movie about one of them.
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To be non-partisan, here's a Democrat woman who made the world a better place:
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/ntr_zpsccvclcc9.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/ntr_zpsccvclcc9.jpg.html)
Nellie Tayloe Ross, the first woman ever elected governor, in "cowboy" "sexist" Wyoming, back during the 1920s.
She was a Democrat, but since it was cowboys who voted for her, it's reasonable to assume she was all right.
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Woody Allen made a movie about one of them.
I hate Woody Allen.
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Elsa Maxwell, who needs no other identification.
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I'm thinking of all sorts of women who aren't on that list, who made this world a better place.
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/eb_zps3wamlxjm.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/eb_zps3wamlxjm.jpg.html)
Eva Bowring, U.S. Senator (R) from Nebraska, the early 1950s.
She was dutch508's neighbor (really), and probably dutch508 as a little lad dined at her house from time to time.
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Hazel Abel, U.S. Senator (R) from Nebraska at the same time as Eva Bowring above.
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Mari Sandoz, the best writer Nebraska ever produced.
She would've been a neighbor of dutch508's too, if dutch508 had been born circa 60 years earlier.
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She would've been a neighbor of dutch508's too, if dutch508 had been born circa 60 years earlier.
That would make him 120. :p
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According to the article, one of the women being legitimately considered for the $20 bill campaign was Margaret Sanger.
Once I got over my initial bout of nausea at that idea, I realized how hypocritical it would be for her to be even considered on such a list, considering what a blatant racist and eugenicist she was.
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Okay, ownership and management got an e-mail from a lurker, telling us how much he liked this thread, so I'll carry on, for at least a bit, about women who did a Hell of a lot more for women in particular and humanity in general, than the bra-burners' "celebrities."
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/april2015/SenatorDixieBibbGraves_zpsh8ys3af3.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/april2015/SenatorDixieBibbGraves_zpsh8ys3af3.jpg.html)
First femme U.S. Senator from Alabama, and the first one who wasn't a spinster or a widow when she served--way long before the screeching she-women feminists came into being.
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The first femme governor of Texas, a really long time ago.
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The first femme U.S. Senator from South Dakota, back when Eleanor had been in the White House a few years.
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The second woman U.S. Senator from South Dakota, like her predecessor above, an (R).
Bess was in the White House when she served.
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The first woman U.S. Senator from Florida, an (R) again.
What is about Republicans, red states, and so many "backward" southern states, that they've been choosing women office-holders for the longest time?
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The first woman ever to serve in Congress, in the House of Representatives.
Back before women even had the vote.
A REPUBLICAN from Montana.
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By the way.....
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I dunno if he was the first Native American U.S. Senator, and whether he was from Chicago or from Kansas--remember, I'm going off the top of my head, not wasting time nadining--but I do know he was the first Native American vice-president, and probably the only one thus far.
Vice-president under either Calvin Coolidge or Herbert Hoover; I forget which one.
REPUBLICAN.
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One more man, and then later I'll come back with more women who made America a better place to be, who're overlooked by the women's-libbers.
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The first U.S. Senator of Oriental derivation, from Hawaii.
REPUBLICAN
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I don't see why options should be limited to elected women...
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Phyllis Schlafly, the female William F. Buckley.
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I don't see why options should be limited to elected women...
It's not; anyone can add his or her own choices, and one can't deny the great influence conservative and Republican women in the arts and sciences have had, on making America a better place--much more of an effect than most of these penny-ante choices of the women's-libbers.
I myself am not posting choices in any organized way; just pulling them out of my head, and they seem to be mostly women politicians, although the writer Eudora Welty, the historians Barbara Tuchmann and Doris Kearns Goodwin, the educator Julia Richman, and the red social worker Ruth Pastor Stokes were presented earlier but not identified. along with the already-identified Mari Sandoz.
Again, they had a more significant impact upon America, and were more of an expression of woman-ness, than most of the bra-burners' choices.
The other deal is, what randomly pops into mind about these other sorts of women is that the ones I think of, tend to not be American. Such as Golda Meir, undeniably the most remarkable woman of the 20th century, period; or Rebecca West, surely the most cerebral femme writer of the 20th century; or Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott, certainly the classiest woman of the 20th century.
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Of course, my own choices are the choices of a man who might, or might not, see remarkableness in women the same way as women do.
There's a whole long queque of photographs of remarkable women I've thought of, waiting to be posted, but a brief overview would be my personal top three choices:
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^^^the perfect woman, although of course more intellectually than in appearance
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^^^a selfish sentimental choice; although from Maine, she was prominently featured in newspaper stories out here in Nebraska when I was a child and adolescent, and although she was too liberal for Nebraska tastes, she was popular.
She, by the way, was the first woman ever, to win a presidential primary of a major political party (Illinois, 1964).
She was also the first woman ever, to have her name placed in nomination at a major political party national convention (Republican, 1964).
Democrats, liberals, primitives, and bra-burners can shove that up their rectal apertures and smoke it; when it comes to women, Republicans, conservatives, and the pre-1960 Old South (those of course tended to be Democrats), have always been on the cutting edge of recognizing and rewarding remarkable women.
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^^^and there's this, strictly a carnal choice--although of course she's more than, much more than, just simply eye-candy.
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Democrats, liberals, primitives, and bra-burners can shove that up their rectal apertures and smoke it; when it comes to women, Republicans, conservatives, and the pre-1960 Old South (those of course tended to be Democrats), have always been on the cutting edge of recognizing and rewarding remarkable women.
When franksolich was a kid, there was one woman in the U.S. Senate, one black, and one guy of Chinese derivation.
This was 1967-1973.
All three of them were.....Republicans.
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You know, it always pissed me off, the way the media, and hence the popular public perception, gives the idea that women in politics are a reasonably new phenomenon, and a Democrat one.
Since I don't do a whole lot of television--geezuz, maybe six hours a year--I tend to remember things I see on it.
Election night 1992, I watched as the smug smirking Dan Rather pronounced 1992 as "the year of the woman," given the Democrat femme candidates who were running, as if women had suddenly sprung into national politics.
I wrote him, pointing out that the preceding election, the mid-term election of 1990, there'd been more Republican women running for high office, than there'd ever been in history, and considerably more than Democrat women running, in both 1990 and 1992, this "year of the woman."
The rectal aperture of course didn't reply, but I hadn't expected him to.
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Congresswoman Florence Kahn of California, the first congresswoman, ever, of Judaic derivation. Republican.
Suck on it, primitives and bra-burners.
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Women elected to high offices, like blacks only count if they are democrats.
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Winnifred Stanley of New York, a congresswoman during the Truman regime.
An attorney.
This Republican introduced the first ever "equal pay" or "equal rights" legislation--I forget which. Of course, with the Democrats running Congress at the time, and not really interested in equality, her bill got nowhere.
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Katherine Langley, a Republican congresswoman from Kentucky, during the late 1920s.
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The women's-libbers wouldn't like this one.
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Alice Mary Robertson, the second woman to serve in the House of Representatives, during the early 1920s.
The first congresswoman or senatress to win election by defeating an incumbent.
A Republican from Oklahoma, she was stridently anti-feminist, and vigorously pro-Native American.
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Now, we all know looks don't count, and this one while having contributed a great deal for the good of mankind, didn't contribute quite as much as some other women here.
But this is what I call the height of aesthetics, the way she's oozing grace and class and elegance out of every pore.
So I wasn't the only one who admired her looks back in the day.
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So I wasn't the only one who admired her looks back in the day.
Even the name, "Margaret Tutwiler," reeks of class and elegance, suggestive of a good women's college, autumn weekends in rustic Connecticut, "woody" station wagons, croquet, horses, Sunday lunch with Clare Boothe Luce, &c., &c., &c.
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But as mentioned earlier, looks aren't everything.
I used to gaze at her, utterly enchanted, whenever she was on television. But being deaf, I didn't hear what she was saying, as spokeswoman for the State Department during the War for the Liberation of Kuwait in 1990-1991--all I could do was admire, and read her body-language, which was that of a confident honest plain-speaking woman.
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I'm trying to "diversify," going into women who through assertion of their woman-ness, made America a better place, for both women and men. I'll wander away from politicians sooner or later, but I still got a lot of Republican femme office-holders to post yet.
Beginning with the one after this one, I'll start mixing them up, politicians and non-politicians, although I'm having no luck, no luck at all, finding images of Meta Givens and Martha Bohlsen, conservative-leaning women who in their own time vastly impacted the culinary arts.
We all have to eat, and so dining's pretty damned important, more important than access to abortion profiteers. If we don't eat, we don't live, and both Meta Givens and Martha Bohlsen had a significant influence on what, and how, Americans ate.
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Irene Baker of Tennessee, a Republican congresswoman who first won election during a really bad year, a really lousy year, a really crummy year, for Republicans nationally, in 1964.
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The Barry Goldwater-supporting journalist, Hedda Hopper, who in her day was much bigger than the radicalib Gloria Steinem or Maureen Dowd are today; coming from a poor dirt-farming background, she ultimately exercised a great deal of influence upon American opinion and tastes.
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The third woman to serve in the House, during the administration of Warren Harding, after the already-mentioned Jeanette Rankin (R) and the old battle-axe from Oklahoma (R).
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Winnifred Huck, Republican from Illinois. During her tenure, she was joined by another femme--but in the U.S. Senate--the first female senator ever, the already-mentioned Rebecca Felton of Georgia.
With two women now in Congress, femme office-holders were on their way up.
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And here we come across what's thin ice for franksolich; celebrities in the cinema, in the theater, in music, on television.
Once when I was in college, it was suggested I try out for the television show Jeopardy because according to some people, franksolich knew a lot of things.
I desisted however, because I could win "history" and "geography" and "politics" and "great writers" and "economics" and "cuisine" and "travel" and somesuch similar topics with one hand tied behind my back, there were certain other categories in which I'd abysmally flunk.
Because I'm deaf, I'm woefully ignorant of topics such as "Hollywood" or "famous stars" or "television celebrities"--I always get Roseanne McDonnell and Rosie Barr mixed up, for example, as they look too much alike--or "movies" or "music" and somesuch.
But I recall at the time, this woman exercised a great deal of influence in music, although I had no idea of her political leanings. So many people talked about her that she must've been very effective in her art.
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Sarah Caldwell, famous symphony conductress. I dunno if she's alive or dead any more, though.
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Edith Nourse Rogers, Republican congresswoman from Massachusetts, in Congress during the mid-section of the 20th century.
She was the woman who served the longest time in Congress--both House and Senate--until that old cow (D) from Maryland recently surpassed her.
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Although seemingly only eye-candy, Letitia Baldridge exercised a great deal of cultural influence in American society. Earlier in her career, she'd been an aide to Clare Boothe Luce when the latter was U.S. ambassadress to Italy during the 1950s.
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I'm thinking of women who've served as governess of Texas, and wondering why their quality's declined so precipitously since this first one, Miriam "Ma" Ferguson during the 1920s.
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The first femme governor of Texas, a really long time ago.
Recalling once again the election of 1992, the first and only election franksolich ever watched on television, there was a segment where the smug smirking Dan Rather interviewed that old bitch Ann Richards, at the time (D) governess of Texas, asking her why the incumbent George Bush was losing.
I.could.not.believe.it.
Why is it that modern (D) women office-holders are so nasty, so negative, so mean-spirited.....so undiplomatic? A piece of shit has more grace and class in it, than these angry bitter she-women.
Of course, the old bitch got her comeuppance a few years later.
I was out wandering around the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants during the mid-term elections of November 1994, and being so isolated, it wasn't until May 1995 that I finally learned Republicans had taken over both houses of Congress, and Nebraska had won the national championship in college football.
So great was my jubilation I did hand-springs and cartwheels across the steppes of lower Russia.
And it was even more joyous than that, when I finally learned the spiteful old bitch had been defeated in her attempt for re-election.....by George Bush Jr.
I of course wasn't aware that the second George Bush was destined for even more greatness; as far as I was concerned, his ousting Ann Richards was cause enough to admire him.
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Another woman journalist, who had a profound effect on American opinions and tastes; I'm not sure what her political orientation was, but given the crowd with whom she ran around, probably conservative.
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Louella Parsons, a contemporary of Hedda Hopper, already named.
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Emily Post
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Amy Vanderbilt
Two women who greatly affected American manners until the hippies came along, after which rude and crass social behavior became acceptable, if not in fact encouraged.
It's too bad, because contemporary Democrat women office-holders seem to sadly lack any sense of good manners and self-restraint. In fact, it seems as if they make it special point to be rude, coarse, badly-mannered, inconsiderate, and bitterly vindictive.
The bra-burners might insist, "well, they're just being assertive, to show they're not dominated by men."
Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.
I dunno how many conservative and Republican women I've listed here so far, but as much as I've ever read about them, I don't recall any of them being described as rude, or even mildly impolite.
It's true that Ma Ferguson, long-ago governess of Texas, had her moments, but hey, it's Texas.
And I defy anyone to find one of those I've named, who was "dominated" by a man; these were, and are, all fiercely independent women who accomplished Great Things because they got along with men, instead of hating them.
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Just to get them out of the queque, because I really want to concentrate upon more-ancient Republican and conservative women who, through their feministness made America the best country in the world.
And besides, modern-day conservative and Republican powerful influential women are a dime a dozen now, there's so many of them. They're just not recognized by the media or the primitives on Skins's island, because they're usually not anti-life, or if so, not enthusiastically enough so.
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Constance Morella, former Republican congresswoman from Maryland.
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Christine Todd Whitman, former Republican governess of New Jersey.
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Jane Swift, former Republican governess of Massachusetts.
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Nancy Johnson, former Republican congresswoman from Connecticut.
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Jodi Rell, former Republican governess of Connecticut.
Okay, while there's hundreds of modern Republican and conservative women influential in our world, I'm not going to bother with them any more; only ones from the past, to show that the Republican party and conservatives in general, have never waged any "war on women." Yesterday, today, nor for the upcoming elections.
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Dorothy Thompson, like Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, an influential journalist; because of her pieces about life in socialist (1933-1945) Germany, by today's standards, she'd be considered a flaming.....conservative.
Like s-o-o-o-o-o-o many other women I've described so far, she was multi-talented; she wrote not only sharp, erudite political-opinion pieces, but also about cooking and baking, gardening, and raising infants and children.
For some reason, though, Clare Boothe Luce used to snipe at her.
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Now, this one, I'm gonna catch Hell for, for sure.
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Forget that she's been a far-left extremist, immune to sanity and reason, on the Supreme Court; that's unfortunate, very unfortunate, but nobody's perfect.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's been remarkable in her stories about growing up female and Jewish in America; they're wonderful stories, heart-warming stories--the sort of maudlinity franksolich's main critic Judy grasswire on Skins's island doesn't like--and it's too bad she never just kept on writing, instead of going to the Supreme Court.
She's an awesome writer; as a Supreme Court Justice, uh, no.
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Ruth Pratt, the first woman congresswoman from New York, a Republican.
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I can't remember exactly when it was--it was some years ago--but one time I tabulated things, and discovered that franksolich, who voted the straight Republican ticket (if there was an (R) I didn't like, which happened two or three times, I just left that box blank) in Nebraska, voted for more women than someone who voted the straight Democrat ticket in Nebraska during the same years.
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Congresswoman Virginia Smith, who represented the third district of Nebraska 1975-1991. The third district of Nebraska was at the time the western two-thirds of the state; nowadays it's the western three-quarters of the state, an area larger than all of Florida.
There's Democrats out there, too.
In the Nebraska Republican primary of 1974--this is while I was growing up, and I remember it well--she bested her opponent, a dentist, by a record-breaking paper-thin margin.
And then in the general mid-term election of 1974, she bested her opponent, a prominent Democrat male, by yet another record-breaking razor-thin margin.
But after that, she never had any more worries. While Democrats such as Vast Teddy in Massachusetts was running around hustling up dough for his campaign, millions and millions--despite that he was guaranteed re-election anyway--her campaign expenditures totaled $425, period, in her subsequent runs for the office--the state filing fee.
Definitely not anybody who owed anybody any favors, and thus could be trusted to vote for the good of the people, rather than on behalf of money-donating cronies.
I used to gripe about it; "well, geezuz, if she'd spend a little bit of money, she might break 90%, instead of the paltry 84%, 87%, 88%, she usually gets."
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Looks like Tony Curtis in "Some Like it Hot."
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Two women who greatly affected American manners until the hippies came along, after which rude and crass social behavior became acceptable, if not in fact encouraged.
It's too bad, because contemporary Democrat women office-holders seem to sadly lack any sense of good manners and self-restraint. In fact, it seems as if they make it special point to be rude, coarse, badly-mannered, inconsiderate, and bitterly vindictive.
The bra-burners might insist, "well, they're just being assertive, to show they're not dominated by men."
Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.
I dunno how many conservative and Republican women I've listed here so far, but as much as I've ever read about them, I don't recall any of them being described as rude, or even mildly impolite.
It's true that Ma Ferguson, long-ago governess of Texas, had her moments, but hey, it's Texas.
And I defy anyone to find one of those I've named, who was "dominated" by a man; these were, and are, all fiercely independent women who accomplished Great Things because they got along with men, instead of hating them.
Spot on.
Very few seem to care about manners, civility, grace, or common decency anymore.
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Now, this one, I'm gonna catch Hell for, for sure.
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Forget that she's been a far-left extremist, immune to sanity and reason, on the Supreme Court; that's unfortunate, very unfortunate, but nobody's perfect.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's been remarkable in her stories about growing up female and Jewish in America; they're wonderful stories, heart-warming stories--the sort of maudlinity franksolich's main critic Judy grasswire on Skins's island doesn't like--and it's too bad she never just kept on writing, instead of going to the Supreme Court.
She's an awesome writer; as a Supreme Court Justice, uh, no.
Yeah, I'm kinda pissed that you included her. I will defer to your judgement on this one, as to her writing skills. (And only her writing skills.)
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Yeah, I'm kinda pissed that you included her. I will defer to your judgement on this one, as to her writing skills. (And only her writing skills.)
That's all I'm asking, that's all you have to do, respect her for her wonderful writing.
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Cecil Harden of Indiana, Republican, who was a congresswoman during the 1950s.
franksolich actually broke bread with her, long after she'd been congresswoman and gotten pretty old, during a big meeting of midwestern Republicans in Indianapolis when I was a teenager.
It was a really big meeting--Michigan by the way was represented in part by women of African derivation--and there was a big fancy banquet in a hotel ballroom, where people were seated, eight to a table, around round tables.
I was seated right next to her, and I wish to God I could claim we had a delightful conversation.
She was very nice, and seemed much interested in me--franksolich was the youngest person, by at least forty years, at our table--and valiantly tried chitchattery with me.
The problem being, when I wish to impress, I hide the fact that I'm deaf; that I can't hear.
"Reading" her body language was difficult, as the ballroom was full of light, color, and movement--things which are "sound" to the deaf. And it was pretty "noisy," all that was going on.
<<<was polite, cordial, pleasant, but it was all very superficial.
<<<always wondered what the late congresswoman thought of franksolich.
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Okay, now I'm going to wax maudlin, which is sure to drive Judy grasswire on Skins's island nuts, but screw Judy grasswire.
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She wasn't any Republican woman of any particular fame, but as far as franksolich is concerned, next to my own mother, she was the most remarkable woman I've ever known. She departed this time and place back in 2002.
She was once Republican National Committeewoman for Nebraska, and married to a big corporate attorney in Lincoln. Old Money, Much Money.
We met when I was 18 years old, and headed to a Republican meeting down in Wichita, Kansas; there were a bunch of teenagers going, and we were going under adult supervision. By the luck of whatever draw, I was assigned to go with her.
My mother drove me to Lincoln from our town in the heart of the Sandhills, to catch this ride.
The driveway was, like, half a mile long, and curved.
My mother and she had never met each other before; never even knew each other existed, but being Republican women, they had a pleasant conversation before my mother left, going back to the Sandhills, and she and I going down to Wichita.
We got back from the meeting, and in less than a day later, before I saw my mother again, she unexpectedly died.
I never told her that; she had to read about it in the newspapers.
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She cared very much about me. She and her husband weren't "substitute" parents or anything--oh God no, one can have only one set of those--but they were the main people in this life until decades later, they were gone.
I know I presented many vexations for them; it's just the way we deaf are.
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Ruth Thompson, first woman to represent Michigan in Congress, during the 1950s; Republican.
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Ruth Hanna McCormick, from Illinois, a Republican congresswoman during the late 1920s; served one term, and then was Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Illinois, but lost to a male chauvinist pig Democrat.
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Marguerite Stitt Church, Republican congresswoman from Illinois during the presidencies of Eisenhower and Kennedy. A psychologist.
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Jessie Sumner, Republican congresswoman from Illinois during the 1940s; an attorney and a bank president, without benefit of affirmative action.
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Marian Clarke, Republican congresswoman from New York.
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Mae Nolan, Republican congresswoman from California.
The fourth woman to serve in the House of Representatives, after the Republicans Jeanette Rankin (Montana), Mary Alice Robertson (Oklahoma), and Winnifred Huck (Illinois), making the score 4-0 in favor of Republicans by this time.
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Coach franksolich is singlehandedly putting the lie to the lib/dem's accusations of the conservative war on women.