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Maya Angelou: The Decision That Changed My Life: Keeping My Baby
Life News ^
| May 28, 2014
| Steven Ertelt
Posted on 05/28/2014 1:20:46 PM PDT by NYer
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To: johnsmom
She believed her own hype which is the death knell of every poet. Most the great poets were troubled people.
To: NYer
A certifiable leftist and Barakko-wacko with at least 6, count 'em, 6 autobiographies. A narcissist in the image of der leader.
Do we really celebrate someone who keeps her fetus? Crazy.
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posted on
05/28/2014 2:00:58 PM PDT
by
867V309
(GOPe? NOPe!)
To: NYer
Sorry. Don’t like the woman - at all.
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posted on
05/28/2014 2:02:23 PM PDT
by
ZULU
(https://www.facebook.com/freejustina)
To: ZULU
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posted on
05/28/2014 2:02:40 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: 867V309
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posted on
05/28/2014 2:04:58 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: GeronL
Well at least, unlike politicians, prostitutes do actually offer value for what you pay them.
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posted on
05/28/2014 2:07:13 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
Well at least, unlike politicians, prostitutes do actually offer value for what you pay them.
I've heard that sometimes they even give you something extra. :)
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posted on
05/28/2014 2:10:22 PM PDT
by
867V309
(GOPe? NOPe!)
To: 867V309
Even a very flawed person can be admired for giving birth to a baby when there were strong pressures to quietly destroy the child and get on with your life. She evidently didn't go on welfare or let her mother raise him, but raised him herself, and apparently very successfully, while working hard at many jobs for their livelihood.
And the fact that she would talk about it afterward --- well, that gives her a big
+1
in my eyes.
And as it has often been remarked, some esteemed writers were really practically insufferable in their private lives. People are complex. They change. They are contradictory. They are downright aggravating. But when they do right, we ought to give due credit.
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posted on
05/28/2014 2:15:47 PM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
("Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.")
To: 867V309
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posted on
05/28/2014 2:15:48 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
At least they go away.
That's why you pay them.
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posted on
05/28/2014 2:21:58 PM PDT
by
867V309
(GOPe? NOPe!)
To: NYer
Big time Leftie who wrote 2nd-rate verse.
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posted on
05/28/2014 2:24:55 PM PDT
by
attiladhun2
(The Free World has a new leader--his name is Benjamin Netanyahu)
To: trisham
Yes. Me too.
In 10th grade we had to read “I know Why the Caged Bird Sings”.
It had the story of her pregnancy at 16.
I must say, that was in the 70’s and I had forgotten the part about deciding not to abort.
To: 867V309
“Do we really celebrate someone who keeps her fetus? Crazy”
How do you differ from the psycho leftists when you say things like this?
To: Mrs. Don-o
But when they do right, we ought to give due credit.
There is a little sanity and compassion left around here...not much but a seed nontheless......
Amen
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posted on
05/28/2014 2:31:44 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Under Reagan spring always arrived on time.....)
To: ifinnegan
"Do we really celebrate someone who keeps her fetus? Crazy"
How do you differ from the psycho leftists when you say things like this?
What I meant was that the old "normal" was to keep your child rather than abort: no cause for celebration. So now we're supposed to celebrate everyone who doesnt kill their child? As I said, crazy.
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posted on
05/28/2014 2:36:31 PM PDT
by
867V309
(GOPe? NOPe!)
To: fwdude
"The femiNazis are going to go apple-shiite over this story."
That reminds me...where have the feminists been regarding the abduction of some 300 young girls in Nigeria? The NOW is now a useless shadow of themselves. They have no standing since the Clinton days when they supported him against Lewinsky and others billy-boy used and abused. I'm glad.
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posted on
05/28/2014 2:36:50 PM PDT
by
A Navy Vet
(An Oath is Forever)
To: 867V309
I see your point.
I’m not sure why you used the term fetus.
To: 867V309
There has been a constant news feed on her passing all day, national and local.
I think it’s reverse racism.
If some white author/poet croaks, it’s no big deal.
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posted on
05/28/2014 3:23:54 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
To: NYer
I’m really gonna miss that pretentious 3rd-rate poetry./s
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posted on
05/28/2014 3:28:30 PM PDT
by
Zman516
(Thought-Criminal #1)
To: 867V309
“What I meant was that the old “normal” was to keep your child rather than abort: no cause for celebration. So now we’re supposed to celebrate everyone who doesnt kill their child? As I said, crazy.”
A black comedian did a skit about that where a woman was bragging that her boyfriend had never been to prison (as though that was the greatest thing in the world); the comedian mocked that as the absolute least a woman should expect, not something praiseworthy in and of itself...
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posted on
05/28/2014 3:42:22 PM PDT
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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