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I saw private caller and almost let the call go to voice mail. Almost. With one daughter out of the country and the other running my errands while her phone lay on my kitchen counter, I reconsidered. Should it be a bill collector I could hang up. A whispered what are you wearing might make me feel young again. And if it was one of the girls I would be glad to hear from her. With nothing to lose, I answered.
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An infuriating pause warned me the call was computer generated so the caller had no respect for my time or me. I should have hung up then but I hated to waste a good mad without knowing to whom I owed the displeasure. So, I hung on, things got worse, and there was no one on the other end to answer my questions or receive my comments.
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Infuriating, rude caller introduced himself as Aaron El Wmmthmmn (closest I could guess), Christian Conservative. The last part was all that I, Sandy Knauer, non-Christian liberal really needed in order to know that I had no interest but I still couldn’t hang up without knowing the name of my caller. Without a name, how could I positively know for whom I would never vote, who to campaign against, or how to title this article?
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He continued in what I thought was a fake accent, repeating El something-that-never-got-any-clearer. I was confused because the accent did not resemble Spanish or Italian. El? On what seemed like at least the tenth time he repeated the name, I finally decided El was a middle initial. Now, I wanted to know who wastes time on a middle initial instead of enunciating his last name.
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Since Mr. Christian Conservative promised to stick his nose in my uterus, and to deny my right to escape his religious intrusion, and to trample my choice if I help put him in a state rep seat, I knew exactly where to turn. First, I called the Republican Party of Kentucky and spoke with a kind woman who wished she could help. Unfortunately, even with a first name, middle initial, and district, she could not identify my caller. She apologized and gave me a local number. The Jefferson County Republican Party was less help. Everyone was either on another line or out of the office, but if I would leave a “very detailed†message, someone would return my call. I was not in the mood to leave a “very detailed†message about someone whose name I didn’t know so, after three tries I gave up and did what non-Christian liberals are often criticized for doing. I searched the internet looking for facts.
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I found Aaron L. Wilson, State Representative – District 30 on Facebook, where I ‘liked’ him long enough to leave a message letting him know that not once in all the times he repeated his name on his ‘hidden caller’ message was I able to understand his name. While there, I read about his gratitude to the Republican Party for freeing his ancestors, and that his goal is to see Republicans control the General Assembly and restore liberty and justice for all Kentuckians.
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Mr. Wilson, if you are reading, please take your nose out of my uterus long enough to study recent history. Sure, a few Republicans along the way might have helped to free your ancestors from slavery, and a couple of Democrats were less than perfect when it came to Civil Rights. More recent history (the part your handlers conveniently avoid when providing your talking points and hoping you will accept their revised history) will tell quite a different story. You might start HERE (thanks, William Windsor)
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I’m sad for you – and for me and everyone else watching – that you don’t see the duplicity in bragging about being freed while in the same campaign you phone women to tell them you want to take away their freedom. I’m no expert, but this does not seem like a wise campaign strategy to me.














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American Heart Association says: When is an LVAD used? This device is sometimes called a "bridge to transplant." People awaiting a heart transplant often must wait a long time before a suitable heart becomes available. During this wait, the patient's already-weakened heart may deteriorate and become unable to pump enough blood to sustain life. An LVAD can help a weak heart and "buy time" for the patient.
I think this is sorta like what DeVries designed and used to keep some guy alive for a couple of years and pretend he had done the first artificial heart transplant. They guy had no quality of life and only "left the hospital" because they rented an apartment across the street and moved him and the equipment over there. He did not go 'home' as suggested. But I'm not positive it's the same so please don't believe me ;-)
(seriously) Heard on the news that they're now thinking of LVADs as a long term solution.
Somewhere around here, I have a picture of Cheney as the Tin Man. Gotta look for that, too.
Why do so many spiritual or intuitive systems see so much power in denial? If you believe in a divine presence like a “god,†why would a “god†give you gifts and then expect you to not use them? Seems awfully mean-spirited. Even more so, why would anyone worship such a mean-spirited “god?â€
I'm a leading exponent of the International Accent, an accent that sounds like that of no known country, but Wilson is not one of my students. My wife and daughter leave the room when I start talking like that. I think hanging up was the right way to treat him. Dialect humor is passe and the great dialect comedians could do the accents accurately.
The accent really bothers me more than anything else about this call.
No. I don't think that was the purpose.
I love this from his FB page (Sorry, I had to look this guy up)
I will fight to protect the lives of the unborn, improve education with charter schools, create good-paying jobs, and reduce government waste.
Nice talking points, if those are your "thing", but how about some info on HOW you're gonna get those done?
Yeah killing the unborn is like a breath of fresh air and to deprive the school teachers unions of much needed political contribution funds by giving it to private schools, who do a better job of teaching, hurts democrats so it is evil! There outta be a law!!!
It shouldn't BE a necessity. There was no reason that he couldn't get help, other then they just didn't want to do it.
Math with Dad was always interesting. I helped our daughter with algebra. We had our ups and downs. One of my proudest moments was when I helped her learn how to factor polynomials. I explained it to her in a way that made sense to her and we didn't get mad at each other.
Another cure-all (remember vouchers?) that isn't.