One Way Trips & Bad Habits

A little housecleaning from yesterday's post for those that want to see how talented our Dona is and view her craftwork here is a link to her blog:

http://mrgreenjeans.blogspot.com/

Have you ever wanted to send someone on a one way trip to outer space? Charlie Sheen and Mel Gibson come immediately to mind as a candidates for what scientists are suggesting in the following article:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101115/ap_on_sc/us_one_way_to_mars

Who is on your list to take the one way trip in the above article?

Speaking of flights, I found the following article very disturbing:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_cocaine_airways;_ylt=AlxIBpm271iT_fQAwVhq05ms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNtaXBnczQ3BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAxMTE1L3VzX2NvY2FpbmVfYWlyd2F5cwRjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzYEcG9zAzMEcHQDaG9tZV9jb2tlBHNlYwN5bl9oZWFkbGluZV9saXN0BHNsawN1c2dhbmdzYnV5amU-

The lengths some people go to break the law is troubling. Just think if they put all that intelligence, money, and inventiveness to use doing good and helpful things. What a better country this would be.

One of my most charming features is how many bad habits that I have. To many to count. Fortunately, I don't have the bad habit mentioned in the following article, however, sixty-six percent of women do.

http://www.stylelist.com/2010/11/12/66-percent-women-use-expired-makeup/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl3%7Csec3_lnk1%7C184164

WHO AM I?

I was born in 1872 and died in 1952. My father was Italian and my mother was Irish. At the age of twenty-one I moved to Oregon with Bess. We had what was called a Boston marriage. There I was a subject of an article where I publicly threatened to horsewhip my employer for not paying the hundred bucks he owed me. I carried out my threat but still didn't get the hundred bucks. The whip became a subject of a raffle where more than a hundred bucks was raised and given to Bess & I. We took the money and moved to San Francisco. There I began studying medicine and completed my degree. I received my medical degree at the Portland campus of the University that right now has the number one rated college football team in the nation. Their Portland campus was on of the few medical schools in the U.S. to admit women. After the earthquake in 1906 in the city by the bay I organized a group of doctors and nurses to provide humanitarian aid in the wake of the disaster, earning me a special commendation from the United States Army. I was one of several doctors in Portland who performed abortions, and did so without regard for social class or status. I was active in the movement to provide access and information about birth control. I also knew Margaret Sanger and some have hinted that I may have had a relationship with her. I was active in the women's suffrage movement in Oregon, which achieved success in 1912 when the state granted women the right to vote. I visited the site of a strike by women cherry sorters at the Oregon Packing Company, a strike action supported by the Industrial Workers of the World among others. While attending to an injured worker I was attacked by the police, whose brutality in attempting to end the strike led me to denounce capitalism and become an anarchist. I adopted a girl who at age sixteen became the youngest woman in the Pacific Northwest to fly an airplane solo. On 31 December 1918 I was convicted of sedition under the newly-revised Espionage Act for a speech made at the IWW hall opposing World War I. My lawyers were unsuccessful in their attempts to overturn my conviction, and my daughter later recalled how she and I were spat upon in the streets during this period. In prison I wrote letters to friends, one of which expressed anxiety and doubt about her "queerness," If you don't know who I am by now hop on THE OREGON DOCTOR TRAIN and read about PORTLAND'S RESPONSE TO THE 1906 SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE. Then you can easily answer the question, Who Am I?