Am I the only one who would like to take a break from outrage and moral indignation?

Yes, there is injustice in the world.

True, George W. Bush is a bad mother-bleeper who needs to go sit on a ranch and think about what he’s done for a while.

Yes, there are still homophobics in California. They love marriage and monogamy so much they don’t want to share it.

There are also gays in California and some of them want to get married so they can have all the legal rights and responsibilities marriage provides.

And yes, there is a crazy group in Colorado who hopes to declare a fertilized egg a legal “person” to trample Roe v. Wade.

Yes, the auto industry needs a bail out though they appear to have “set aside” millions of dollars in “bonuses” for their executives to have a Merry Christmas, even as they didn’t have the foresight to retool their factories for a new generation of environmentally friendly and economical cars. Of course, it defies logic. But, are we that surprised?

Yes, lay-offs are immanent and it might be you (or my husband) this week. It was my cousin last week.

Motrin dares – how dare they – suggest that carrying a baby in a sling or other contraption might actually hurt a mother’s back (hello, Chiropractor, did you say my insurance is pretty much making me pay full price now?)

Yes, health insurance premiums are up and benefits are down and no one can afford to pay full price for healthcare.

Yes, people are going to lose homes they couldn’t afford to buy in the first place and mortgage brokers intentionally sold them those loans knowing they couldn’t afford to pay them and effectively crashed the economy.

Ditto credit card companies and auto makers.

What I find most interesting is that the Obama Celebration only lasted about a week before people found something new to be incensed about. Or they didn’t know how to give up the negative emotional feed they were getting off their moral indignation that people would dare to see things differently in the first place.

Even the people who WON are still furiously incensed – I can’t tell you how livid a friend of mine was that California would dare give gay people the right to marry.

Except, they didn’t, so why aren’t you happy and celebrating your win? Why are you still so angry? I wondered.

All over twitter I’m reading about how loathsome that group in Colorado is for wanted to give personhood rights to the unborn.

Except that the bill lost by 73% of the vote.

We just elected a Pro-Choice President who will support a justice to keep Roe v. Wade safe and sound.

And the Supreme Court would likely overturn a personhood bill that was worded in such extreme language that even Religious Conservatives would defend their right to take the birth control pill and other hormonal contraceptives – so why are you giving this group free publicity?

We just elected a President who promised to address the serious problems with the healthcare industry and insurance issues. The guy has yet to fail, so why aren’t we saying “thank goodness we’ve done what we can about this issue,” as we pay our medical bills now?

Are we now getting an emotional feed off the incensed morally outraged high we’ve all been riding on during the campaigns?

Were we expecting people with opposing views to say, “Oh, you were right. I see that now.” Really?

Sane people, people not acting out of fear of “potential wrong” sigh and remember,

Less than one month ago the majority of legal citizens of the United States of America collectively chose to change the face of the President of the United States, The United States Senate, The United States House of Representatives and likely at least one justice on The United States Supreme Court.

Let’s assume that when our new elected officials do take charge on Jan. 20 of 2009 they will do what we sent them there to do. Sitting ducks can only do so much harm over the next 2 months and little of it will be permanent.

We’re in an economic pickle. It’s not going to be pretty, or comfortable but it will turn out OK. It will.

We did what we could on election day and the work will begin as power peacefully changes hands in January. Now, we’ve got to think of creative ways we can personally stimulate our own economy. If everyone does that we’ll be all right.

Take a deep cleansing breath America.

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Outrage & Moral Indignation Addiction

We left the party and sent the kids to bed last night when we were sure of the election outcome.

Obviously, I’m thrilled that my children will have a fundamental mood in the country, and from their leaders, be one of optimism rather than fear.

Forget fear people. It will do nothing to empower anyone.

I’m going to soak it in today. Optimism and hope taste a hell of a lot better than fear and anger as an American Sentiment.

My daughter is as thrilled to wake to a world of Barack Obama even though her friends’ parents tell them that “Obama is a baby-killing Muslim and will likely be killed because he’s black.”

More about how I spoke to her about those fears on Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me.

Yet, I spent 13 hours yesterday with a wide grin on my face hoping that not everyone in my East Texas town feels this fear-driven.

My Republican Election Judge informed me that “he doesn’t think women should have the right to vote – we’re not ’stake-holders,’ you see.”

I chuckled and politely informed him that “He probably didn’t own enough property to have the right to vote if we’re going on original Founding Fathers’ sentiments and everyone who pays taxes is a stake-holder and that includes everyone, even women and blacks.”

But, every now and then I’d see a voter registration card marked Democrat and I’d take hope.

And at the end of the day my fondness for Texans grew as I saw that nearly 1/2 of my fellow citizens chose light and healing and future over darkness and fearful anger and past.

We didn’t turn completely blue but, we are at least a deep shade of Purple.

Of course, We’re still stuck with the wholly unenlightened Republican DinkWads John Corynn and Ralph Hall here in Texas – we’re sorry America.

Then I read this quote from, “The people have spoken. We hear the people and now it’s time to come behind our president,” Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, told “The Early Show” on CBS on Wednesday. “The Senate is going to have to work things out in a bipartisan way, and I think the test is going to be right there.”

I hope to see Republican women reinvent their party over the next 8 years. Maybe Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Sarah Palin will lead the way to that.

I was thrilled to see that four the Emily’s List candidates I sent money to won their races. Democrats have a clear majority and if Republicans like Kay Bailey act in a spirit of compromise rather than fear (or fear of not being reelected in 2 years – either way is fine).

I’ll keep this strategy in mind in 2 years when more representatives come up for election. We have vested interest in our representatives in other states and our chances to win may be better elsewhere. Some states, some people, are just more resistant to change – any kind of change – even good change.

Oh and bring on the affordable health insurance!

Heal the racial divide!

This man will be a healing force in the American Psyche.

Big Wide Grins and Sighs of Relief all around.

Photo Source: President-Elect Barack Obama with me at the Texas Democratic Convention courtesy Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me.

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President-elect Barack Obama

What are you doing here?

GO VOTE!

Photo Source: Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me

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What Are You Doing Here?

Joe the Plumber sits on Joe Six Pack.

John McCain and Sarah Palin’s depiction of the American man:

Drowning his anxiety in beer every night, after being knee deep in shit all day long.

(Of course this is most excellent if you happen to be in the beer industry like the McCain’s.)

Image Source: Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me

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2 American Joes

What We Could Have Done with the Money: 50 Ways to Spend the Trillion Dollars We’ve Spent on Iraq, by Rob Simpson looks like it’s worth reading.

For only $9.95 you could buy a book that examines how short sighted your government has been by going to war with Iraq.

I myself have just been thinking – we could have developed all the energy technology we need right now over the last 6 years of the war, if we were only willing to spend the money here instead of fighting Iraqis for their oil (and don’t pretend our international “security” policy isn’t about oil – wake up and smell the petroleum people).

This guy literally worked out the math for 50 alternatives: pave the streets with gold, literally; paying off the entire country’s credit card debt; give everyone on earth an iPod; take all the Iraqi’s to a baseball game; pay for every high school kid’s college education making us more globally competitive; rebuilding the entire city of New Orleans; rectifying Social Security and Medicare.

I’m in the mood for long term strategy and smart thinking and better financial priorities.

To make myself feel powerful I spend my $1 Trillion on the cool online shopping spree and I was able to literally change the world. For the better.

I rebuilt levies in New Orleans, fed a lot of starving children until they were 18, conserved natural habitats and forests, fed the hungry all over America, bought goats for families, empowered 1,000 business women all over the world, provided health care for many.

I voted for Barack Obama last week!

Cause John McCain seems to think doing all those kind and generous things for people makes “the big scary government too big – but big fat expensive violent wars in Iraq do not.” I just don’t happen to agree.

Think. People. Think.

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What Would YOU Do with $1 Trillion?

I’m Tracee Sioux and I write Blog Fabulous here at b5media’s Lifestyle’s Channel.

Quick, subscribe to my RSS feed, otherwise what if we never see each again?

I write a lot about feminism and that includes the types of B.S. undergarments and hygiene marketed to women in articles like these: Her Way Sucks, I Prefer His, “Clean” Bikini Line and Mood Shaper in which I actually published a photo of myself in a full body girdle (what won’t I do to make my point?)

I write about feminism and the changing roles of women and how women can create their own power in articles like this: Battle Ground of Feminism: The Home, Logistical Problem with Feminism.

Economics – I talk a lot about economics: Recession or Sanity, Bank Crash – Economics 101 .

Oh, and I’m also an advocate for Girls at Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me (giving away a Portable Hard Drive).

I’m giving away an Ultreo Toothbrush, $149.99, the only toothbrush which combines ultrasound wageguide technology with sonic bristle motion,

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Leave a comment by Oct. 31 and you’re entered to win one Ultreo Toothbrush. I’ll announce a random winner on Nov. 1. Really, subscribe so you can find out if you won. This makes a great Christmas gift.

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Ultreo Toothbrush – Bloggy Giveaways

My dad retired a few years ago as a Col. in the Utah Air National Guard. He was active duty Air Force when I was growing up.

Last week he swore my little brother into the Navy. My brother will be a Navy Chaplain, serving those men and women who need compassion and spiritual guidance in the face of the extreme conditions of war and separations from their families. He’ll serve in the reserves until he completes a masters degree in theology.

“Was dad really, really proud when he swore you in?” I asked my brother.

“Are you really, really proud?” my brother asked?

I am really, really proud. I hope it is everything your family expects. I hope you get to see the whole big wide world and I hope it makes you happy.

This is a Blogtoberfest Post. The item I’m giving away is something I sought out specifically in honor of my brother’s family.

My sister-in-law, Janet, was previously in the Army herself. I nearly died when I got to see a photo of her sporting a machine gun in camouflage at their wedding. She’s a military wife now and this woman knows what she’s getting into. It looks like a hard road to me, but it’s a familiar life for her. They have a 2.5-year-old daughter named Liberty, and Janet’s pregnant with another baby girl. She traded camouflage for nursing bras. The item I’m giving away will help them communicate with their kids. . .

Leave a comment guessing what it could be on this post to enter to win. A random winner will be awarded this fantastic surprise one week from today.

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Photo Source: Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me really, it’s from my SIL’s Facebook page, but I don’t think the whole world is invited.

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Military Men

No regulation, they say. The market will take care of itself.

Let the heads of banks make whatever loans they want. Their sense of self-preservation will protect the people from greed and fraud.

Turns out, unregulated, bankers are greedy and don’t care much whether Joe Blow can make his mortgage – cause they sold it as soon as the bad loan papers were signed.

So today, The United States Government becomes, essentially, the fiduciary principals (owners) of quite a large portion of private property with their massive bailout.

Its communism by way of the failure of extremely deregulated capitalism.

Irony?

That makes The People – Us, You and Me – a share holder in a great deal of real estate.

I’ve heard you can make a killing in real estate. And mortgage loans – do you know how much you can make on compound interest?

Perhaps then we’ve invested in an alternative funding source that will eventually lower taxes?

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Capitalist Irony?

John McCain may not show up to the debate tonight – essentially his job interview. He has to take a nappy nap after working on the economic crisis HIS Party CREATED with all their deregulation. Here’s what I have to say about that:

PUSSY!!!

What’s the Matter? You SCARED?

You Chicken!!!!

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(Apologies to all women. I mean no harm by relating wimps to your lovely and delightful vajayjays.)

Photo Source: 10 million websites including this one.

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If McCain Doesn’t Show for Debate