This is not an unusual story.

We are a country, even with a global pandemic still unresolved, of nearly 330 million people. That is a lot of people on planet Earth in the USA. There are a lot of women managing their gender and it's potential for pregnancy everyday. There are also a lot of women becoming pregnant. There is an enormous amount of genetics at play in a country that proudly touts itself as "a melting pot." Those genetics can play tricks and physical ailments or physiological interruptions cause pregnancies to hang in the balance. The ONLY person qualified to assist in the decisions women make everyday regarding their fertility, unwanted pregnancies, pregnancies and some of those wanted pregnancies with troubles unique to the woman, is her doctor(s).

There is NO ONE IN THE USA qualified to assist every woman to make these decisions besides her doctor(s). 

NO ONE in the USA are licensed to practice medicine to assist American women with these difficult decisions. Women have worries about birth control, the kind that works best, unwanted pregnancies at a time in their lives that will set them back in their own pursuit of happiness and/or betterment in life than their parents. Women worry the entire time they are carrying a pregnancy. They think about the baby and wonder what it will be like to hold their children in their arms for the first time. 

Women worry about their husbands and/or partners as to what they will say and think when a surprise pregnancy is revealed. They worry about whether or not the future will be secure enough to provide for the ideals floating in their heads and hearts about the future expectations. 

Do you know there was a significant drop off in the number of pregnancies in 2020 because men and women thinking about having a family or having more of a family might be effected by a coronavirus. The financial insecurity that accompanied it alone was enough to postpone pregnancy.

Women with or without husbands worry a lot. They also experience great joy with pregnancy and childbirth willing to have their lives changed within nine months of a healthy and successful pregnancy. That goes unsaid. Americans love children. But, what no one in government stops to realize is that women don't want to have to worry about them, too. They have enough to worry about without having old, white guys in office call them irresponsible women for deciding an abortion is necessary for the reason they find it necessary.

Texas has passed laws that guarantee malpractice because highly qualified doctors have to first consult an attorney before doing the right thing for the woman and the family. THAT IS WRONG AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!!!

July 26, 202
By Carrie Feibel

New, untested abortion bans (click here) have made doctors unsure about treating some pregnancy complications, which has led to life-threatening delays and trapped families in a limbo of grief and helplessness.

Elizabeth Weller never dreamed that her own hopes for a child would become ensnared in the web of Texas abortion law.

She and her husband began trying in late 2021. They had bought a house in Kingwood, a lakeside development in Houston. Elizabeth was in graduate school for political science, and James taught middle-school math.

The Wellers were pleasantly surprised when they got pregnant early in 2022.

In retrospect, Elizabeth says their initial joy felt a little naive: "If it was so easy for us to get pregnant, then to us it was almost like a sign that this pregnancy was going to be easy for us."

Things did go fairly smooth at first. Seventeen weeks into the pregnancy, they learned they were expecting a girl. They also had an anatomy scan, which revealed no problems. Even if it had, the Wellers were determined to proceed....

My mother was right.

She is frequently right. Long time ago when Trump first started his shenanigans with the White House, my mother said, "That man has a lot to hide. That is why he is in the White House. If he were a successful businessman like he portrays he would not be in the White House. You wait and see, he will end up against the law before long."

From the first day she heard the name Allen Weisselberg she said he would be convicted of law breaking. She stated, "He will probably die in prison when this is over."

I said, "Mom, please can the facts come out and we will see what occurs?"

She replied, "You have got to be joking, Donald Trump has been hiding from reality and the truth all his life. He wouldn't know the truth if it bit him in the butt. He is guilty and so is Weisselberg. And if Weisselberg takes the blame alone then Trump is threatening him. Cohen wasn't enough. Trump had to ruin lives to do what he did all his life. He doesn't deserve the time of day from any American in this country."

I guess if there has to be a moral to the story it is that many people like my mother have lived their lives within the law, paying their taxes, fighting for their country in war, raising their children to do better than they did and expecting their souls to go to heaven to be in the presence of the Almighty.

That is how my parents have lived their lives and they have a sixth sense when politicians are lying and/or promising something they can't deliver. The "can't deliver" part is a lie in a campaign that is unrealistic to any possible outcome. The "can't deliver" part is not about obstructionists like McConnell. My parents expect everyone elected to be forthright and honest and deliver what the country needs. My parents would not heap praises on a man who likes to be called "The Grim Reaper" or "Moscow Mitch." 

They were and my mother, now a widow, are very Middle Class. They didn't mind it. Both of their parents made their living as coal miners. In the case of my maternal grandfather from the age of 13 he went to work in the mines with his father. My paternal grandfather was a Blacksmith for the Pennsylvania coal mines. Anthracite coal was the commodity and it is gone now. But, they were poor. My parents didn't have nice homes as children growing up. My father went into the Air Force after graduation from High School and sent his pay home with instructions to buy a house for his return. Four years later, he returned to his parents and they had bought a two story house and he lived upstairs. 

Those are my roots. I am proud to this day to be the daughter of Middle Class adults who were in dirt poor poverty as young people and pulled themselves up through legitimate work and strong moral values. My grandparents on both sides are just as admirable and I still miss them to his day.

These people I speak of from my family have a sixth instinct. They know when something is wrong. They can sense it. It doesn't fit their moral fiber. So, when my mother says, "He will break the law, you just wait and see." I know she is right. I just like to have the facts before I "...get on my high horse about things."

I don't value living a lavish life. I value living. I value the quality of life I am afforded as an American and the freedom that accompanies it. My father and my uncles fought for it. I know when my mother protests the portrayed reality as false she means it and I know where she is coming from.

There is a Middle Class morality that many of us learn from the Unions that we join and the honor of representing others as Shop Stewards. We know the values that maintain the honor within our lives and we stand up for it every time.

I am glad Mr. Weisselberg is cooperating with the prosecutors. It is the right and moral thing to do. I am glad he will be in prison a short time and be able to be with the ones he loves for the rest of his life. I hope he holds this cleansing of his past dear to his heart and brings it to his god in humility. He is forgiven by the people of the USA. Mr. Cohen is, too. 

Donald John Trump is a traitor and he will not get away with it.

August 18, 2022

By Sheila McClear and Mark Berman

New York - Allen Weisselberg, (click here) the longtime top financial officer of former president Donald Trump’s company, pleaded guilty on Thursday to committing more than a dozen felonies, including criminal tax fraud and grand larceny.

Weisselberg and the Trump Organization were indicted last year by authorities in New York who charged them with concealing certain financial compensation as part of a years-long scheme to avoid paying taxes. The case is part of the churning legal maelstrom still surrounding Trump and his close allies, with local, state and federal authorities scrutinizing everything from his namesake business to his handling of classified government documents since leaving office.

Appearing in a Manhattan courtroom, Weisselberg, 75, acknowledged his part in the scheme outlined by prosecutors — and agreed to testify, if called, at a pending trial for the company. As part of his plea agreement, Weisselberg, Trump’s close and trusted associate for decades, would spend five months in jail, followed by five years of probation....

Rents are too high

 The reason there is a shortage of workers is because the rents and homes prices are far too high, especially rents. If workers can’t afford the rent they won’t be where they are needed. 

There is no reason for the increase except greed. The taxes haven’t gone up and city services are the same. Greed is the driving factor and when one landlord raises the rents they all do it.