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For those of us who will peddle push our way to the polls it is an exciting time. Many people want to take their daughters, sons and grandchildren to witness the most dramatic and unpredictable election in recent American history.
Before I begin, I need to give an ancestral shout out to Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Ida's career included being an homemaker, teacher, writer, pamphleteer (pre-Internet print based blogger) and journalist.

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underthecanopy; 460 views
Right after my post about an organic cotton top that didn't fit right, a pretty one that fits perfectly arrived in the mail!
I'm a little frustrated about not hearing more concrete answers from the presidential candidates on the health-care crisis in America. Let me clarify that; I am hearing a lot about how bad the "crisis" is, what I'm not hearing is how we are going to "fix" it. Why is that?
Statistics from the NCHC...
Forty-seven million Americans, or 16% of our population is uninsured.