BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

90th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment



"The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920." 




 “ The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”
 



1.Illinois (June 10, 1919, reaffirmed on June 17, 1919)
2.Michigan (June 10, 1919)
3.Wisconsin (June 10, 1919)
4.Kansas (June 16, 1919)

5.New York (June 16, 1919)
6.Ohio (June 16, 1919)
7.Pennsylvania (June 24, 1919)

8.Massachusetts (June 25, 1919)
9.Texas (June 28, 1919)
10.Iowa (July 2, 1919)

11.Missouri (July 3, 1919)
12.Arkansas (July 28, 1919)

13.Montana (August 2, 1919)
14.Nebraska (August 2, 1919)
15.Minnesota (September 8, 1919)
16.New Hampshire (September 10, 1919)
17.Utah (October 2, 1919)
18.California (November 1, 1919)
19.Maine (November 5, 1919)
20.North Dakota (December 1, 1919)
21.South Dakota (December 4, 1919)
22.Colorado (December 15, 1919)
23.Kentucky (January 6, 1920)24.Rhode Island (January 6, 1920)
25.Oregon (January 13, 1920)
26.Indiana (January 16, 1920)
27.Wyoming (January 27, 1920)
28.Nevada (February 7, 1920)
29.New Jersey (February 9, 1920)
30.Idaho (February 11, 1920)
31.Arizona (February 12, 1920)32.New Mexico (February 21, 1920)
32.New Mexico (February 21, 1920)
33.Oklahoma (February 28, 1920)
34.West Virginia (March 10, 1920, confirmed on September 21, 1920)
35.Washington (March 22, 1920)
36.Tennessee (August 18, 1920)

Ratification was completed on August 18, 1920. The amendment was subsequently ratified by the following states:

37.Connecticut (September 14, 1920, reaffirmed on September 21, 1920)
38.Vermont (February 8, 1921)
39.Delaware (March 6, 1923, after being rejected on June 2, 1920)40.Maryland (March 29, 1941 after being rejected on February 24, 1920; not certified until February 25, 1958)
41.Virginia (February 21, 1952, after being rejected on February 12, 1920)
42.Alabama (September 8, 1953, after being rejected on September 22, 1919)
43.Florida (May 13, 1969)
44.South Carolina (July 1, 1969, after being rejected on January 28, 1920; not certified until August 22, 1973)

45.Georgia (February 20, 1970, after being rejected on July 24, 1919)

46.Louisiana (June 11, 1970, after being rejected on July 1, 1920)
47.North Carolina (May 6, 1971)
48.Mississippi (March 22, 1984, after being rejected on March 29, 1920)
 
Found it sweet Massachusetts and Iowa rounded out the TOP TEN.  
Butt......TEXAS sandwiched between! ARKANSAS, state born and raised in, close but not quite making it! GEORGIA, state I now call home, on the wrong side of history!
 
That...just... could not be right.  Had to find a way to justify that! 

Then I saw
topping all three

("HOORAY!  I'm for the other team!")
a
DOUBLE RAINBOW

"All the way across the sky! What does this mean?"

OMG! OMG! OMG!
Rainbows can be observed whenever there are water drops in the air and sunlight shining from behind at a low altitude angle. The most spectacular rainbow displays happen when half of the sky is still dark with raining clouds and the observer is at a spot with clear sky in the direction of the Sun. The result is a luminous rainbow that contrasts with the darkened background.


"YOU'RE  SO GAY!" 
 

It wasn't until I looked at my take on Kansas, in other words, almost done with
this blog entry, after noticing  the "N" in the center of Kansas. 

How odd......
Hawaii and Alaska not even on the list.


Could this be the......







 Yellow brick road - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The road of yellow brick is an element in the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, with additional such roads appearing in The Marvelous Land of Oz and The Patchwork Girl of Oz. It is the path that Dorothy is instructed to follow from Munchkin Country, in the East of Oz, to the Emerald City in order to seek the aid of the Wizard of Oz."


Note of interest,

But Obama is his mother's son. In his wide-open rhetoric about what can be instead of what was, you see a hint of his mother's credulity. When Obama gets donations from people who have never believed in politics before, they're responding to his ability—passed down from his mother—to make a powerful argument (that happens to be very liberal) without using a trace of ideology. On a good day, when he figures out how to move a crowd of thousands of people very different from himself, it has something to do with having had a parent who gazed at different cultures the way other people study gems.
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