Margaret and Helen

Where are you two young girls?

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Dear relatives of Margaret and Helen. Please post what has happened to my two favorite “reporters”. it is so sad not to have their comments to look forward to. I fear the worst but hope for the best. Please let us know what has happened.

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Please please tell us why there are no more posts. I miss it so

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Love your blog! Are you writing a new one soon?

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I wish to subscribe to your blog. 👍🏼❤️😊
Veronica

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Dear Margaret and Helen,
You are the best. In the middle of this crazy time, you got me laughing and reading this to my husband. I even sent it to my mother-in-law who might be the only Democrat in Idaho. Keep it up!
Kathy from Oakland, CA …yes we are in lock down here…

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You’re awesome. Been reading your blog for years. Thank you for your wit and wisdom.

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I keep watching, hoping you all are ok. Love your writing, your ideas, your lovely humanity

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Thanks for the laughs!

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Thank you so very much for this down to earth view of the unreality we currently are experiencing. My mission is clear now.

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I want to be your new best friend. I know ALL the cuss words, so I could contribute and carry my own weight!

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You made me day.
Needed a good laugh.

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My daughter thought I’d enjoy your writing, and I do! I’ve shared your info with my sister. She’s 82 and I’m 74.

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I love your posts and share them with my best ‘girls’ who haven’t discovered you yet. Keep it up, we all need your no bullshit wisdom. Blessings upon your gr andson for encouraging you to share.

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H & M
Haven’t been on the site in several years but it’s nice to see that you are still knocking it out of the park. It’s also nice to see some of the same posters who have been here since the beginning

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Dang, I am sorry, I thought something had happened to you two. I haven’t really heard much of anything from you in months. :s glad to hear you are back online 🙂

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My name is Helen Philpot. My grandson taught me how to do this so that I could “blog” with my best friend Margaret Schmechtman who I met almost 60 years ago. I have three children with my husband Harold. Margaret has three dogs with her husband Howard. I live in Texas and Margaret lives in […]

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Short and definitely sweet: I missed you and am so happy you are back. I was a little worried something might be wrong with you so i’m quite relieved. Keep ’em coming and use swear words and racy topics as much and as often as possible!

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Where are you? I am desperate for some levity from two of my favorite dames after last week’s elections.

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A thoughtful opinion and ideas I will use on my blog. Youve obviously spent some time on this. Congratulations!

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I’m missing you and wondering what’s going on lately. Has the stupidity around us driven you silent? I hope not, please don’t let the asshats win.

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Dear Margaret and Helen,
You could be the ‘original slacktarts’ giving a voice to ordinary women leading normal lives! Bravo to you both. All the best, Chocolate (www.slaccktarts.com)

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Thank you for sharing your incredible humor with the rest of us,it is much appreciated,a joy, and a reality check,to buck up and face this country’s politics with common sense,plainspoken.You remind me of a wonderful Texan politician,AnnRichards,and writer,Molly Ivins. Good on ya! from another grandma from Minnesota.

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OMG! Where have you been all my life? You remind me so much of my late grandma (and mother who I lost a week to the day before I turned 8 years old…God rest both their kind souls) Your blog has officially become my favorite website…just might become my home page! Can’t wait to hear more from you!

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Ohmydog, I do believe that I must be a long lost relative of yours. Your candor about EVERYTHING is endearing, enlightening and frankly, funny as hell. May I please pattern my behavior for the next 30 odd years after yours?

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Hilarious! Sounds llike something my grandma should write!

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I just want to thank you for your holiday rules. Rules which people in my own family could, should, and need to abide by. It’s wonderful that you and your BFF have been able to stand the tests and trials of time.

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I’ll let my mind go if I can keep my sense of humor. It’s one thing I can’t live without

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Outstanding, ladies! I’m a young 50, but you make me look forward to getting older. Keep up the great blog even after the election, please! 🙂

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YGG!!! I’m 75, and have no intention either of keeping quiet or of cleaning up my language because I don’t fit some ignorant person’s stereotype of an old woman.

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What is the secret of your lasting friendship? Did you ever have any falling outs where you didn’t speak for a long time or asked for a “divorce” from each other? If so, how did you find your way back to each other?

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I mistakenly indicated that I wanted to receive comments on this matter after I made a comment–and ever since I have been trying to get off the list to receive comments because they are flooding my computer but they keep coming. I do not have the time to deal with this. Can anyone help me get off the list to stop getting these comments. I have emailed Margaret and Helen many times but nothing happens. HELP!

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Dear anonymous,
Those who choose to hide are cowards

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Someday, I will be exactly like you guys. You are awesome.

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Ladies, love your senses of humor. I am a former Texan (turned Californian) who is turning 50 in two months. I write a humorous blog about aging (Aging Gal). Wish I had your pluck when it comes to taking on Mr. Etch-a-Sketch, but, frankly, he makes me so angry that I want to spit and (as an ex-Texan) none of my friends would read my blog if I did. So, please, keep on writing what I’m thinking!

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Was it Schmeckleman or Schmechtman who was a character on Jamie Lee Curtis’s TV show? In any event, please keep writing, don’t take time off, give your grandson a major huge thank you hug for setting this up. We need you now that Molly Ivins is gone.

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This is my first time reading this blog and I’m hooked! My grandmother is 92 and she still is who I consider the first feminist in the family. She still believes in women’s rights and I absolutely adore her! I don’t get to see or talk to her as much as I like, maybe, but I still love her oodles. She reminds me of you a little bit. Sassy and full of piss n vinegar as the saying goes. Don’t stop, please after the election is over. Because we all know that even defeating Romney and Ryan won’t stop the war on women. You are so refreshing, and its nice to know that not every female senior citizen believes that the GOP politics are best. Lots of love and a long life to you and Margaret both!

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I absolutely love your blog. My childhood friend recently moved away and your blog has inspired us to create our own blog to correspond until she is finished with her doctoral program in three years. We have been friends for about a third of the time that you all have, but we’re definitely in it for the long haul, however long that may be. Thanks for the great commentary! Looking forward to many more posts!

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Hey awesome ladies
I see that the also-awesome grandson has a page for donations, would you ask him to include a post office box address so those of us who don’t feel safe entering credit card info online can send support with an old-fashioned check/money order?
Meanwhile, thanks for the blog and keep up the great commentary!

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introduced to you by my baby sister (I know, i know, Potser, but you will ALWAYS be the baby sister, and at 60+ that must be annoying, but I’m 70 and nearly EVERYTHING is ‘ridikkulus’.

mostly I want to respond to the mis-use of 4+ letter words: BITCH is not profanity, it is a verb, a skill I have worked very hard to achieve, i

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There must be many women “best friends for life” in this country who have the combination of personalies of you, Helen, and Margaret. My best friend for life, Zee, lives in California (she followed me there then I left, meadered the world and ended up back in Okla..go figure!). I live in south central Oklahoma. I write, act as a literary agent for a chosen few, and like to fb. She doesn’t know how to face book, finally learned to email but also prefers a good phone chat. (Our usual time on phone is over an hour.) I am becoming addicted to your blog already! Very “like minds” but your humor is better. I haven’t made it to octo yet, finishing up sixtes.

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I’ve shied away from politics for a long time- from reality in general, truth be told, but mostly politics. I discovered one day that every issue has a side (gasp!), and that every proposed law has something lurking within it that has absolutely nothing to do with the law proposed. This scared me because I felt there was no way I was ever going to make a truly informed decision. There was no way I will ever be able to keep a butterfly effect from destroying one thing by trying to protect another. (I hope that makes sense.) So I became passive, figuring that people smarter than me could make all the decisions, and I would stand by and accept whatever poop rolled down the hill.
I’ve slowly begun to realize (yes, I’m slow that way) that those people I expected to be smarter than me were not. And there is no way I can ever be completely informed over every nuance of an issue. All I can do is do the best I can, and pray I have made the best decision possible.

I told my daughter one time I wanted to be Betty White when I got older (she tells me I already am). Now I have a loftier goal- I want to be Helen Philpot.

Lisa L.

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Love love love your blog! You are the type of women we are in desperate need of these days. Keep blogging, keep on being forth right, keep on keeping on!

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Hi – just discovered your blog today and wanted to tell you I love you (in a total-stranger-on-the-internet-but-non-creepy-way). You remind me of my mom who is 86 and also very cool. I bet she would like your blog, if I could just get her on the internet!

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Loved the piece on vaginas. My mother would have laughed her ass off. Please keep going with your blog, the younger generation needs it badly. As a father of daughters, they need to hear of women with steel in their spines.

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I love you Margaret and Helen. You make my world a better place even if I occasionally pee my pants when I read your posts. Keep up the good work ladies!

Helen for President…Margaret for Vice President 2012!!!!!

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With tears of laughter streaming down my cheeks, I salute Margaret and Helen as the kind of mentors our generation of vaginas have been waiting for- you ladies rock!!

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I found your page when Nikki Knepper (of Moms Who Drink and Swear) pointed it out. Hope to read more, sorry, no cussing today. Nikki probably took care of it. Watch out, she’s crazy. But she’s MY kinda crazy, and a great writer! Thanks for the smiles, looking forward to reading more in the future!

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I just love you to pieces.

My vagina would be proud to march with your vagina anywhere, anytime.

: )

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Any suggestions on how to read the new format. I like to read the comments in chronological order and now that is very difficult. Is there a way to resort??

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How do we know Terry G didn’t intend “humor-filed”? Terry is a lawyer. Terry files all sorts of things — motions, briefs, suits. It’s a reflex.
Terry, keep posting! Ignore the carpers.

Regards, Bob

PPS It’s Molly Ivins, not Ivans

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You also misspelled “filled”… 😉

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Helen and Margaret – your blog is the best thing I read on the net!

Thank you so much for your intelligent insightful humor-filed views. I agree with you 100% and I’m not as elequent or spot-on (not a surprise, I’m a lawyer.)

I found you during the 2008 election. I am thrilled you have continued writing and look forward to every post. I’m sure Molly Ivans is smiling.

THANK YOU Matt for setting this up! (You are the luckiest grandson in America). I am waiting for the cookbook… or the BLOG book. I’d buy several copies and give it to everyone I know.

Terry G
Charlottesville, VA

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How do you have sex 1 1/2 times a day? Just wondering. Was that an average? If that person is getting paid for sex, they need the help paying for their medications because they certainly aren’t making a living.

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Viagra? Never used the stuff…never will!… But I don’t understand where you get the ‘PATIENT’ from…I thought maybe someone would come up with “SEX ADDICT” or “SLUT” because I didn’t want to be the one callled “Name Caller”

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I don’t know.
What’s your punch line?

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Hi Margaret and Helen,
This is a comment on rush limppaw’s slur on women. I am a 63 yr old grandmother who thinks that rush is a drug addicted brainless thing. I will not call him a man as he isn’t. A real man doesnot resort to name calling. And only a drug addicted thing blames the victim. And that so called apology was such a farce. He clearly does not have the brains or courage to do the right thing which is clear put and never open his mouth again. But then a drug addict will do or say anything for the money to get his drugs so I suppose he will inflect himself on us a while longer. What none of these “men” who want so much to tell women what to do has thought of is that many women take birth control pills for medical reasons. Oh silly me! They don’t care about that. Guess they’d be happy to see 50% of us die in childbirth too.

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I’ve read through quite a few comments and there’s references to a blog concerning Sara Palin…don’t know what you said about her but I do know this:
No matter how she comes across whether on the liberal front or the conservative front she is a danger to our sovereignty for supporting and encoouraging the Law Of The Sea Treaty (LOST)…I know most people don’t know that but she did write letters to the Senator from Alaska while she was governor. If you don’t know about LOST its because the main stream media refuses to write about it. In any event its a treaty signed by Bill Clinton in the early 90’s that has never been ratified by the U.S. Senate (a Constitutional requirement)…if ever ratified you can kiss your red, white, and blue banner of freedom good-bye to be replaced with that blue rag of the United Nations. Don’t believe me…go read the 200 plus pages of the document especiall subsection g.

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Love this blog!!!

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Loved it!!! As soon as I started reading I could “hear” the sound of your voice because I have heard you on Ellen. As a senior citizen I am inspired by your humor and your courage. Good for you!

Katrina

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I have two daughters, 2 and 3.5, and I hope they turn out as sensible and insightful as you two women. I can’t imagine what it was like going to college as women during the Civil Rights Era (maybe even just before it really started), but it’s clear that you’ve brought that “fight” and sense of justice to our generation through this blog.

Keep doing what you do!!!

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I work with a community cancer program in Kentucky and a friend sent me your last 2 blogs which contain information about Komen and Planned Parenthood. I learned more from your blogs than I did all the other drivel I’ve read the past week.

Ladies, you rock. I’m new to your blog but I will not miss anything else in the future.

You made me chuckle. You made me think.

Thank you.

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This blog is an INSPIRATION. You are hilarious & brilliant. I am a new follower and can’t wait for more posts! I have also shared this with friends and will continue to do so. Thank you for being you. Ignore the nay-sayers…they all need to find something better to do. Like their own blogs, for other dip-shits to read and comment on. Keep up the great work!!

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Margaret and Helen, I am a new-comer to your blog (generally I avoid these things), but there was a link at PoliticalIrony regarding your Newt comments. Although I am only 73, just a kid, but I have seen a lot, I deeply admire anyone who can string a couple of words together and actually say something.

Ain’t the GOP scary?

Peace.

Jim

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I just found you this week…. Sharing with all…..

I wish my Mom was still alive to read this because you ladies rock….

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I relish, cause I discovered exactly what I used to be looking for. You have ended my four day long hunt! God Bless you man. Have a great day. Bye

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very nice blog post on the pizzas and massive amounts of cheese in IA yesterday

so did robstellar-2 ever get a clue, or did he just consume bandwidth until he cindered?

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Helen,
Would you happen to have family in Newfoundland? My family came from NF down to Boston and we have Philpots in our family.

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Hi, Margaret and Helen, I’m a wife of 44 years, mother (2) randmother (5) and a voter. Right now I am actually so frustrated and pissed off by both parties and their 12 yr old brat attitude that I am sounding off. My husband and I worked hard, saved (no vacations or extras) paid for our kids’ education and are no told by congress that Social Security is an ‘entitlement’ .. Gee, Ladies, I thought the deductions all those years from our paychecks was my money. As far as cutting entitlements, lets start with what congressmen and senators get for free. Even if they serve only one term they receive the finest healthcare in the world for FREE the rest of their miserable lives. They also get a pension. Yes, Ladies, that’s for as little as 2 years’ service. A life time pension. Paid for – you guessed it US the taxpayers. I often wonder how many of their consituants are aware of those facts. I think that savings should begin at home. So congress, pay for your own healthcare like the rest of us. Put your own money aside for your old age like the rest of us must. And stop stop stop giving more perks to the wealthy who don’t need them. And, congressional children, if you can’t work together LEAVE and the voters will find congress persons who can.

Margaret and Helen, love your blog

Ann
12 Sept2011

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Thank you for your comments.

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Just found your blog through Facebook and you seem like my kind of gals! I am 80, live in Vermont and spend an inordinate amount of time on the computer. I have belonged to a group of Crones for 15 years and we are so divided politically that we have it on our ‘do not discuss’ list, though those of us who lean left communicate among ourselves.

I’ll be back!

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I am greatly honored to read your blog and am attracted by your charm
! Hope your friendship is forever ! All are well !

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enjoyed your words

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What a hoot! My 25 Yr old daughter socked me on this websight suggesting it was the best gift she could find for my birthday. Haha

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I keep checking this site, hoping to find that you’ve put what’s happening in Wisconsin (and elsewhere) in your unique and wonderful perspective… No luck yet. Hope you are well.

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Hope you ladies are doing all right. Miss your posts.
Take care.

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I want to be just like you when I grow up!

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Love this stuff ladies. Keep it coming. Thanks for the encouragement to not be afraid to say “I don’t like Sarah Palin!” Hell, half of my FB friends have clicked the “I Like Sarah Palin” button and I just want to throw up every time I see another Palinbot line up on my news feed. I’m a scribe and may have already shared too much on my FB notes, but I finally figured out how to customize the view to “Only Me”. Maybe when I gain more confidence, I’ll get on Twitter and let her rip. 😉 Blogs are great…I don’t know what that RobSteeler66 is talking about blogging being the most cowardly form of smack talking…his friend Sarah P does it all the time. Get over it Rob, you seem to make enough time to read the blogs to counter with your nonsensical 2 cents worth. Have a good day and Happy Thanksgiving.

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Helen and Margaret, I love your blog. I was just introduced to your website a few days ago, and I go to say, Im impressed. I think it’s a wonderful thing your grandson did. Keep up the good work, and I’ll keep looking forward to reading your blogs. I LOVE EM!

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Love your musings about politics. Seniors are the fastest growing group of the population and people had better start listening to them. I’d love to see your site spur more progressives to vote than it appears will do so. There are so many incompetent people running for office, it’s scary. Keep up the good work and keep ’em laughing. There’s no substitute for common sense like yours.

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CharinOhio: How cruel can you be? There are way too many of your kind voting out there. I bet you vote Tea Party and feel virtuous about it. What a sad outlook on life you must have.

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Thanks for being you – you’ve made my day!

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Hey, you two,

I love the way you bait the Sarah-huggers, and how readily they rise to it. Thanks for exposing them for the clueless idiots they are, and for showing Palin for the know-nothing empty husk she is. She has done a great job of parroting what the far right wants to hear, but in reality, all she cares about is self-promotion. She cares about her followers as much as a pig cares about lipstick. Sad to think there are such easily-led sheep in the world, but as long as folks like you ladies are around, at least they’ll have the truth to consider.

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You can rely on me to read your blog every single time anything is posted. Thanks for your wisdom.

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CharInOhio: Sarah Palin is a sociopath, bent on destruction. If you can’t see that, you’re a moron.

As for your hope that there are “death panels” for Margaret and Helen: You’ve merely shown yourself to be the nasty kind of follower that only a monster like Sarah Palin can inspire.

By: malapropism2 on August 24, 2010
at 11:46 PM

Oh yeah and this blog is really filled with NICETY ? Please…..you are an idiot…..I call em like I see em….You WANT RESPECT …SHOW IT.

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CharInOhio: Sarah Palin is a sociopath, bent on destruction. If you can’t see that, you’re a moron.

As for your hope that there are “death panels” for Margaret and Helen: You’ve merely shown yourself to be the nasty kind of follower that only a monster like Sarah Palin can inspire.

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Want to receive daily.

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Missing you and hope you are both okay…

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I haven’t seen anything new posted by you gals in some time – is everything alright?

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If you are not in Hell by now,You will be soon, You old fool HOW DO YOU LIKE THE “CHANGE” Now?

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Love the blog – friend just sent it to me. Sorry I did not follow sooner. As far as age goes, my 92 year old Mother feels the same Palin, women’s choice, Bush, politicians, war, etc. While she is an 8th grade graduate, she reads and thinks, and on the way to 92 started a business on her own 61 years ago and is very successful. Age is just a number. Look forward to more insightful posts.

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This is just the best blog.

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Oops! I meant Helen (no offense to you, Margaret). I just love how outspoken you are.

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How can I get in touch with Mary Beth Croncrite?

I believe I know the young lady from Wash. DC

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I’m so glad a friend sent me this link, I’m absolutely in love with what I’ve been reading here, and the awesome gals that write it. For my opinion, to all you folks out there who take issue with it, doesn’t matter if they’re a couple of octogenarians or a couple of chihuahua puppies. It’s THEIR BLOG, and they can say whatever they wish to. For those who don’t see things that way, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE??? Go away and let those of us who do enjoy it. HA! Thanks ladies, don’t ever stop!

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It is my first time here.
True to my monicker… oh my!
You gals are just too hip.
If ever there was an indicator that with age comes wisdom, you two are the poster-girls for the cause.
Thank you ahead of time for what appears will be a joyous reading of your previous posts.

And as to why you’re living so long: attitude!

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I thought of something that I believe is why so many younger people find it hard to imagine 2 old ladies doing this Margaret and Helen act.

They are totally convinced that grey hair is caused by dead brain cells.

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Dear Helen and Margaret,
My stepmother just died, no, no it isn’t sad, she was the sort of stepmother they write fairytales about. The sad part is her son systematically looted my father’s estate before she died. You column today put the first smile on my face in days. If ever I needed to stumble on some sanity now is the time.
I noticed the quilt blocks next to the comments so I think I will copy them and make a sampler quilt for my bed to remind myself there are still good, thinking people in the world. After reading the comments, I will select those blocks with sane comments, like Kate’s and avoid the negative comments, like Carl Spangler. Waking up wrapped in a sanity quilt is probably a good way to start the day.

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Hi you two! Why is it so hard for some young people to accept that your brains don’t dribble out of your ears when you get past fifty? I might dribble a bit, but only when I’m asleep.

PS: I love to curse when people least expect it. Shakes them up, and why not?

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I love your straight forward comments. Reminds me of my own grandmothers. Since they aren’t here any more, I’m making you two my my adopted grandmothers.

Some people think too much and make things way more complicated than they are. You cut to the chase! And you rock!

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I just found this, haven’t read through anything but the most recent entry, and already I hope to be as awesome as ya’ll are when I am old (older then my current twenty!)

Ya’ll are amazing!
Melinda

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Helen and Margaret,

LOVE your blog!

I only wish more people had the common sense you have shown in your posts. Why is it so hard for people to see past the glitz and bull-shit of politicians like Sarah Palin? All they do is throw out massive amounts of crap for the masses to devour. She has no substance, and all the brain mass of a cockroach. (Not to insult cockroaches BTW.)

Anyone that can “see Russia from their back door” just ain’t all that intelligent, plus are NOT “all there” for that matter! (Winky, Winky). I also agree, she is a bitch with a VERY vivid imagination, and a piss poor grasp of either history or reality. She’ll fit right in with her cohorts at FAUX news.

A great addition to Glen Beck, Shaun Hannity, Bill O’Riley, and the rest of the idiots that want our president to fail, along with our country. On that note let’s also not forget a couple other ass-hats that fit the profile. Rush Limpballs, and twit favorite Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

I hope you and Harold are in good health, and your holidays were wonderful. Time permitting, please post a short note and let us know all is well. Many of us worry when we don’t see anything from either you or Margaret for a while.

Wishing you, Margaret, and your extended families good health and many good things for 2010!

Love you both!

Jim from Michigan

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Dear Helen,
I left my comments about my cruise to Alaska (disappointing and I still have mud on my shoes.) on the question part of this thing. Could you read it on the questions part and tel me if you have been on an Alaskan cruise. My husband and I found Alaskan ports to be about as exciting as Mrs. Palin’s book. That means the hype was better than the cruise. Please read my blog and tell me if you and Harold have been. I don’t know my way around on this website. I am 84 and I learned the computer to send emails to my family. When I read your stories, I just had to write.
Signed,
Mrs. Clara Van Sharples

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Steve Reed, you are an idiot. Sarah Palin is now a “blogger”. In fact, she is too lazy to create her own blog, so she just spews off her opinions on facebook. If you want to talk about limiting the views of others, Palin’s facebook page takes the cake. They delete all things that are not positive about Saint Sarah.

There are tons of right wing blogs. How narrow is your world that you think bloggers are are liberals? Take a look around the intertubes, you might learn something.

BTW, I love this site. Ladies, you rock!!!!

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The Rob Steeler/Grandma/Pat arguments highlight something I’ve seem in every conversation between liberals and conservatives lately. Rob et al, all of those things you think liberals do? Censor, call names, deliberately misinterpret statements, manufacture unreasonable prejudices, try to crowd you out, disparage your patriotism, call you stupid?

*That’s just what we hear from your side of the aisle.*

I’m a flaming liberal socialist, but much as I hate to admit it, we either all have a point or none of us does–not so much on policy but the way we treat each other. It’s difficult to find common ground when we look at the same circumstances and I see black and you see white.

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A friend of mine gave me a link you your Thanksgiving letter. Loved it, I’ll be back for more.

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You two are a hoot! I have a dear friend Patty, and I hope she and I get to have our photos taken with our matching scooters someday just like you! You sound like a lot of fun.

I’ll think of you while my guests clean my Thanksgiving kitchen.

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With your wit and “sass”, you do Molly Ivins proud!!

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Margaret and Helen,

Has something catastrophic occurred? Or you both on hiatus? We have not heard anything from you since September 23rd. Although I miss your entertaining and provocative posts, I sincerely hope that you are taking a vacation rather than experiencing some difficulty.

I patiently await to see your next column.

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Dear Margaret and Helen, I write letters to the editor here in Homer, Alaska, and I would like to share my last letter with you and see what your comments are on the health care situation.
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INSURANCE COMPANIES REAL CULPRITS
It may take more than an education to solve the issues of the healthcare system, but one thing for sure, it belongs to all the citizens of this country, not just the few who think they are safe because they can afford good health insurance. My mother’s health insurance did not save her life, and, she could afford it. This right-wing campaign is about scapegoating bogus targets by using conspiracy theories to distract attention from insurance companies who are the real culprits behind escalating healthcare costs. Taxpayers are in debt for things they did not wish to own.

In order to wipe out the corrupt insurance companies who steal from the poor to give to the rich, the government needs to intervene. We all witnessed this when the former president started bailing out the corporations before his term ended. Most tax paying citizens had never heard of Bear Sterns, or American Insurance Group, AIG, and many other corporations. These people were all failing completely on their own, as were the banks. When has any insurance company, or bank, rushed to bail anyone out when they were failing? They take the property. If a teacher bailed out a failed student by passing him, would we call that a good teacher?

Acorn is only connected to the government by the IRS 501 (c)(3) nonprofit status. Like any other nonprofit organization, they are not the government. There are over 120 nonprofit tax exempt agencies in Homer at this time. Are we to believe these are government agencies? They are Business Plans that have been approved by the IRS. They write grants and throw benefits for survival. Acorn is allowed to do those things according to the IRS.

Maka Fairman

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Hi Helen, you too Margaret, I just stopped in from East Tennessee and I hope you don’t mind that I stick around for awhile and catch up on some of your older posts. My mom is 83 and lives between Massachusetts and Florida. We all tried to get her on-line but she just can’t seem to get comfortable there. You seem very comfortable here! See Ya!

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How about a link to social networking sites such as Facebook so I can share with my friends and annoy Repblican acquaintances and family members?

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I. love. this. I’m sharing it with everyone I know! I’m leaving instructions to loved ones to dispose of me if I’m not this uppity when I’m your age.

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This blog is an absolute, screaming hoot (I just wish I hadn’t been reading it at supper – food went down the wrong pipe!) Thank goodness someone let me know about it! I want to be Helen when I grow up (and I’m almost 60).

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For all of those who think Margaret and Helen aren’t real, well my mother is 80 and talks just like Margaret.

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When Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, my mother and one of her little old lady friends dreamed of being suicide bombers— one of them would take out Bush and the other would take out Cheney, making Nancy Pelosi the President!

When she (jokingly) was telling me this idea I had to remind her that the Patriot Act was being used to monitor phone calls!

Let’s hear it for Grannies who can call bullshit when they see it!

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ANYBODY who has 1/2 a brain (like most posters) can figure out this is NOT a blog written by an 80 something year old woman. Get out from behind your computers people

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David….why didn’t you post this comment under Helen’s latest post??

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You know – I could only take so much of the responses before I quite reading – Rob, Dave, Hellen and quite a few others – I could care if Helen is 82 or 2. My dear mother who passed away at 76 would have been using the exact same language and that does not make me doubt the ages mentioned.

I do have issue thinking this would be a 22 year old. IN this illiterate society we are bringing up nowadays, I have a problem thinking a 22 year old could write this well.

Now for the good ole left versus rigth, repubs versus dems, etc. Everyone has a right to their view and I am all about letting you voice it. However, just like Helen quit lumping my views in with everyone else – you have no idea if I am white, black, dem, repub, str8, gay or what – but I do have an opinion that is mine – not the sheep herding that was thrown around in the comments at voting time.

While this country is in such a MESS – and sorry – it took us all to get it here Dems and Repubs – Helen at least speaks correctly – I get the feeling she is most definitely a bit to the left – however, when the left needs their butts kicked – she does it. WELL DONE HELEN!

I will continue to read your blogs for nothing more than you make me smile and laugh – and in today’s society that’s enough for me.

For the rest of you – we are all pissed off at what is going on Repubs and Dems alike – why not just vote ALL of them out and start over – with our first part of the agenda limiting Congress terms to the same as the President’s.

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Love the blog, no matter who you are, how old, etc! Just learned of it today and can’t stop laughing! You are so dead on with your assessments of politics and the “politicians”!! Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts!

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Keep them coming!

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I don’t care if you’re real or not. This is as entertaining and intelligent a blog as I’ve run across in a very long time. Keep up the great work!!

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Again, you gals hit the nail on the head. Let’s hear it for education, common sense and decency and a weekly trip to the hairdresser!

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Dear Margaret and Helen:

I have missed Molly Ivins so much. But now I know where to go for a fix of her style of common sense, straight talk and tarty humor.

You rock.

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Margaret & Helen, you are simply the best bloggers I have ever read. You represent the finest response to stupid Republicans (but I repeat myself) we have in the land.
Thank you.
By the way, have you yet addressed the Republican religious cult, known as The C Street “Family”? I would love to hear your views. see Salon.com’s recent article.

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You two make me miss my Gram. Keep it up.

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You ladies are fantastic! If, when I get to your age, and I’m fast approaching and still have my wits about me like you do, I will feel I have arrived. Needless to say, love you blog!

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Hi:)
An old friend in Iowa sent me a heads up & the link to your blog today. I’ve read several of your observations & commentaries……thre great:) I’d enjoy and would feel honored if i could buy you a beer and shoot the breeze. The wars in Iraq & Afghanistan…American politics & culture…the causes of the national financial mess…the sad decline of newspapers and the shallow bellowing of cable news…..Coke vs Pepsi:) Please keep on ‘raising cain’ and storming the ramparts of America’s complacent attitude towards it’s own hypocrisy.
A new fan:)
Neil

p.s.
Any thoughts about the cable news networks or the successful Republican portrayal of all media that disagrees with them as the unAmerican ‘liberal media’.

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Dear Helen & Margaret,
This is the best blog since the Rude Pundit, I haven’t laughed so hard in months!
You keep blogging, I’ll keep reading.
Love from Houston, TX!

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I forget the Latin phrase exactly, but basically the translation reads “If Caesar were alive, you’d be chained to an oar.” That’s how I feel about Palin, Bush and these other Christian Radicals who put themselves above everyone else.

Keep up the good work, both of you. For so long I took to heart the phrase “Never trust anyone over the age of 30.” Well, after I turned 30, I realized everything wasn’t so cut and dried!

By the way, I am from Texas and am ashamed of how these money grubbing freaks in Highland Park have been slobbering over themselves to get that “Prestigious” GWB Library. HA!

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I love you!!! Keep blogging!

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Helen and Margaret, you are wonderful; I found you through Fast Company’s feature on the most influential women in technology!

My grandmother passed away at 96 a couple of years ago. She had a junior high education and was smart, progressive, curious, and well-informed…because she wanted to be! She loved dirty jokes and was sassy even by a young person’s standards.

She’d always been like that, I suppose. Really, why do some younger people assume that older people cannot have or voice strong opinions, and that they lose their core personality somewhere around their 80th birthday?

The people who comment here that Helen and Margaret cannot be who they claim to be, simply for reasons of style and spitfire, have probably never gotten to honestly know more than one or two older folks. Surely no one who actually spends much time with older folks would hold this foolish opinion. Perhaps such people will realize this in irony when they wake up at 80 and find they themselves are the same as they have ever been, but their grandchildren sadly treat them like ancient babies.

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I love this place!!!

Mac

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I love your link. I just found it today when I was searching under Sarah Palin is a Bitch. I’m glad to see there are others who can’t stand her as much as I do. I can’t believe she is even considering running for President in 2012 when she was too stupid to even run for Vice President. I just hope we don’t have to go through that freak show again.

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you are inspiring

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Its long after the election but I just found you and I will be a frequent visitor. Partly because I enjoy gratuitous swearing.

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Okay – heading off to catch some zzz’s. 72 hours on my feet is long enough. Magus, come back and play when I’m awake.
PS “greyt” is simply a way greyhound owners refer to their pets –
okay. ‘nite.

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On November 29, 2008, Jaynine wrote:

It is a shame when people find it enjoyable to read and spew such hatred. How is the Country ever to unite if people continue to be so very rude and hostile to one another? Aren’t adults suppose to be setting the example for the younger generation? Old age is not a license to be rude and ugly to others.

As we enter the Holiday Season don’t you think it is time to remember the reason for the season?
Peace on earth and goodwill toward man….(this applies no matter what your faith and beliefs).

Let’s all be positive role models for our younger generation. There is enough war and hate in our school systems and across the internet without adding more to it.

Jaynine
USMC (Ret)
Mom of 3

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My question is, were you referring to Helen/Margaret/fans and commenters on this blogsite?

Or were you referring to Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and the ones still waiting for the disasters that President Obama will call forth?

Sally

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Dear Margaret and Helen,

I just realized I hadn’t been by for a while. I just wanted to say hello, and to wish you and yours a very happy, healthy, prosperous New Year! I have had so much enjoyment from your blog, and I hope that you get back some of the pleasure you’ve given in 2009!

Tammy in Syracuse

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Dear Margaret and Helen:

You guys rock! It’s so refreshing to read honest, thoughtful opinions from folks who are wise enough to recognize bullshit when they see it and who aren’t too polite to call it bullshit.

Your analysis of my governor is spot on.

Only a couple more days to go before we get a smart, honorable president and a VP who isn’t a damned war profiteer and war criminal. Yes!!

Thanks for the soup recipe — it sounds really exotic — I’ve just got to try it! (Peanut butter is a food group in our house.)

Love & Hugs from a fan in Alaska

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Oh my. Hmm… robsteeler certainly got her panties twisted didn’t she? Ever notice how whenever disagrees with the neocons, they start spouting off their military service time, their employment, etc? Hey rob – guess what? You aren’t applying for a job no one here cares about your damn resume. Offer your opinion, realize this is america where freedom of speech is part of the Bill of Rights (sorry but Amendment 2 simply isn’t the only thing on the bill of rights), and move on. Don’t like what you read here? Anyone holding a gun to rob’s head? Nope? didn’t think so. So rob, you’ve said your piece, ,move on, and go find the Michigan Militia. . .I think they’re in the Upper Peninsula near the Canadian border. . . they’ll like you. Lots.

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By the way I love your little quilty patterns, I am a quilter, too as well as a writer.

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I’d wager that the same disproportionate vote totals exist among right-wing conservative talk radio listeners, which is dominated by a handful of broadcasters who likely reach more people than the bloggers do. If the internet is so liberal, Steve, then so be it. It could be that conservatives, like John McCain, are still trying figure out how to log on, as soon as they figure out how those tubes work.

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You couldn’t be more damn fabulous if you tried. Saying what we’re all thinking. Having one more rage attack and letting it out just like projectile vomiting. You do it for the rest of us. And we thank you!!!! And thank you.

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Thanks Jimmy, but topic-neutral blogging sites like wordpress are still composed of mostly the same type of folks. Not bad folks, just people who think differently than I on several issues. Didn’t u see the blogger vote held here during the election? Way out of proportion to the actual nation-wide election (same outcome, but not nearly so close as the popular vote). Etsy.com is a craft site my wife frequents, and it’s the same there. Bunch of liberal crafters lol. Cheers!

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Oh please, Steve Reed. There are plenty of conservative and/or right-wing bloggers out there, along with blogs about knitting, cooking, auto mechanics, gardening, pictures of peoples’ kids, etc. Get a life.

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LOL, that proves my point!! Apparently the internet is so liberal, that the odds that two people of a non-liberal persuasion would comment on the same thread are so close to 0 that one can only assume it is the same person. Hehehe.

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Rob Steeler: You are spot on. These people aren’t elderly, but it is cute and almost convincing. One word of advise for you though, sir. Don’t waste your time with people on the internet. Bloggers are, as a general rule, on the far left. Strike up a conversation with the folks in line with you at the grocery store and you’ll probably find someone who thinks the same way you do. The ones who shout longest and loudest tend to convince the rest of us that everyone agrees with them, but it ain’t so. Internet bloggers are definitely NOT representative of America, just a radical segment. Our family doctor advised us to spank our child with the hand on the posterior. He said if anyone had a problem with it, to call him. He said that while it could cause the child to cry, it would be better than her getting burned by touching a stove we had told her not to touch, or sticking something in an electrical socket. Makes sense, right? Plus, my parents spanked my butt and I am extremely grateful for it. Of course there are other methods of discipline (time out, etc), and different styles seem to work for different kids. I prefer time-out myself, but sometimes a spanking seems to get the point through pretty effectively. I KNOW that the world is full of all kinds and some people don’t know how to lovingly discipline for the kid’s good. Bottom line is, that kid is gonna learn that authority exists and should be respected. If mom and dad fails to teach that lesson, it will probably be learned (at much greater pain and cost) from teachers, the boss at work, police officers… All that to say, if you start a discussion like this on the internet, watch how many will say you should never spank your kid. That’s all I’m trying to say about bloggers 😉

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who cares whether you’re an 82 yr old grandma or an 18 yr old pot smoker – this blog is someone’s opinion – an opinion that is dead on and rings true with many of the visitors.

those who don’t like, should grow up or if not, just turn on rush limbaugh, grab their blankie, and curl up for the next 4 years. America is tired of their wining.

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where is robsteeler66 the douchebag now?

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I love your blog. I got here from Newsvine.com on a recommendation from VMS (a screen name).

Thank you! You are both certainly correct; it is not a good idea to use your last name. One never knows when “flaming” could turn into fire bombing, so it is best to stay safe.

T.S. Eliot just popped into my mind:
“…To prepare to meet the faces that you meet….”

NOT to be two faced! I was almost killed when holding a “NO IRAQ WAR” sign by the driver of a pickup truck who tried to run over my daughter and myself.

Keep blogging so that the rest of us can be enlightened and entertained.

Thanks to you both.

Antigone2

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By the way, that would be fantastic in the “extremely excellent” sense, not the more traditional “not grounded in reality” sense!

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Everyone that enjoys this blog will also enjoy this:

Molly Ivins’ final book out in paperback.

Rights and ‘Wrongs’

Has there ever been anyone able to express political outrage with more Texalicious bemusement than Molly Ivins? In her final book, now out in paperback, the late Ivins scoped out her target: the Bush administration’s handling — or, as she saw it, mishandling — of the Bill of Rights.

Those parting shots are gathered in Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch’s Assault on America’s Fundamental Rights, co-authored by former Texas Observer editor Lou Dubose.

Keep in mind that Ivins was the woman who dubbed George W. Bush “Shrub,” so you won’t find much objectivity in these pages. As with most of Ivins’ work, what you get are essays colored by her inimitable sharp tongue and anti-Bush exhortations. (She refers to one of his speeches as a “well-rehearsed keep-fear-alive campaign stem-winder.”) However, that’s not to say the book isn’t well-researched: It’s backed up by 20 pages of sourcing.

In her unique manner, she dissects and blasts away at the Patriot Act, wiretaps, the arrests of T-shirt-wearing protesters, and the creation of a “free-speech zone” in Crawford (far from Bush’s ranch) — the only place in the area where it was acceptable to dissent against the president.

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we must listen to the windbag to see what idiots are talking about

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I just wanted to say I think you ladies are awesome. You are insightful,spot-on and hysterically funny. I am loving what you have to say. Keep up the good work!

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A good friend just sent me you blog…she knows my frustrations with our friends Sarah and Lizabeth H…. I can not even watch the View any more…You have said it so well, I thank you! I so hope you are really 82, as that gives me hope… I want to be just like you! I am 61, retired teacher and busy writing kid’s books… I would like to knw more about you both… thanks… Lynn in Oregon

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Helen, you are such an inspiration. With only days to go before the election, I am disgusted by how many people around me are “undecided” or “apathetic.” In my head I hear that as “desperately needing a punch in the face to know their ass from their elbow” and if ONLY I could oblige! Your sharp insight, witty writing and hilarious language (bad words will ALWAYS be funny!) are such a breath of fresh air. Please keep writing as much as possible!

As a fellow worshiper of strong, intelligent women who speak their mind, I’ve passed this blog along to my mother (whom I know will love you just as much). She’s the type for long letters of gratitude. You’ve been warned! 😉

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Carollyn,

Yes, you’re right. And I think that it’d be great fun to sit, have beer and “chew the fat” with you and rob..66, not to mention Helen and Margaret!