Ramona Grigg
- Location
- Upper Peninsula, Michigan, USA
- Birthday
- September 17
- Title
- Writer
- Company
- Ramona's Voices
- Bio
- I'm a liberal woman from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, old enough to remember where I was when FDR died. My website, Ramona's Voices, was first published on the afternoon of Barack Obama's Inaugural after hearing his call to service. I include many voices much more eloquent than mine, because one voice isn't enough.
Liberal-leaning with humor, except when the days are too dark and the enemy is too strong. Then it's war.
MY RECENT POSTS
- 6 Things Media Personalities
should avoid in Disasters
May 21, 2013 06:52PM - A Psychic Got it Wrong. Who
Knew?
May 10, 2013 09:33PM - Religion in Public Schools
not Frowned on in Mississippi
April 28, 2013 08:09AM - Politicians out of control:
Never Forgive, Never Forget
April 18, 2013 01:17PM - News from Michigan, the
Nation's First Dictator State
March 21, 2013 10:40AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Yes, we're all hoping
this and other insults will
be
remembered at the polls,
but…”
April 18, 2013 10:39PM - “Ben Sen, the
gerrymandering in our state
has grown beyond
ridiculous.
Now our Se…”
March 23, 2013 07:48AM - “Thank you all for your
comments. I had to be away
today and
couldn't get back
he…”
March 21, 2013 08:48PM - “Something new, thanks to
a commenter on my
blog:
Look at that
poster closely.
S…”
March 16, 2013 06:56PM - “I'm going to give Jeanne
the benefit of the doubt and
assume
she was being
sarcas…”
March 15, 2013 02:26PM
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6 Things Media Personalities should avoid in Disasters
On Monday, May 20, a devastating monster of a tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma; the second category 5 tornado to hit this little town. (It happened before on May 3, 1999, with 44 deaths.) Reports coming in today, the day after, state it was two miles wide,
… Read full post »A Psychic Got it Wrong. Who Knew?
As if it wasn't enough this week that three young women held captive and terrorized by a madman were found alive after 10 long years, we now learn that in 2004, celebrated psychic Sylvia Browne made an appearance on celebrated sinceremeister Montel Williams' television show… Read full post »
Religion in Public Schools not Frowned on in Mississippi
Politicians out of control: Never Forgive, Never Forget
Yesterday 46 members of the Senate voted down a proposal that would have been a logical first step to gun control--universal background checks. They were able to vote it down, even though 54 members voted for it because they rigged the way the votes count now. Voting it… Read full post »
News from Michigan, the Nation's First Dictator State
(Cross-posted at Ramona's Voices)
It could be that with all that's going on in the world you might have missed what's happening closer to home, in the sovereign state of Michigan. In just over two years, since businessman and venture capitalist Rick Snyder… Read full post »
CPAC 2013: Wingers Just Want to Have Fun
Every year around this time Republicans get to let their hair down and show the world that no matter what we've heard otherwise, they do have a silly side.
Doom and gloom and global warming is our problem, not theirs. Enough about the poor, the pregnant, and… Read full post »On clear mornings here at the beach I’m out on the… Read full post »
So I think I told you I'm working on a book. I've changed the title again, so now I'm calling it "Living to Tell About It". (The sub-title may or may not be "How to tell your story when it gets to be That Time," but don't hold me to… Read full post »
Me at the Oscars: Fabulous or Fizzle, 60 years and counting
When the first televised Academy Awards ceremony took place on March 19, 1953, I, a bedazzled 15-year-old movie fan, sat in front of our black… Read full post »
Panera Bread artisans Knead a union
In March, 2012, just six months after their franchise had been bought up by Bread of Life, a company owned by Manna Development, a former McDonald's franchisee, 18 bakers at six Panera Bakery and Cafes along the I-94 corridor in Southwestern Michigan decided… Read full post »
My childhood was a happy one. Unless I’ve Repressed it.
I was an only child for nine years, until my brother Mike came along. I was probably a very spoiled only child (I’ve heard stories . . .) but I adored that baby from the moment he came into our lives. He was a “blue baby”, meaning… Read full post »
I don't need to know their names
It's Saturday, the day after what will forever be known as the Sandy Hook School murders. Yesterday Adam Lanza, a 20-year-old man, broke into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and shot to death six adults and 20 small… Read full post »
It's Monday and Grover Norquist still hasn't been Elected
Something has gone seriously haywire with the Republican Party. Once it was the party of pragmatic Main Street businessmen in steel-rimmed spectacles who decried profligacy and waste, were devoted to their communities and supported the sort of prosperity that raises… Read full post »
Will Michigan be the first to privatize public education?
Ever since Rick Snyder soft-talked his way into the governorship in Michigan, throwing the doors wide open for his biggest donors, the Mackinac Center, ALEC and the Koch Brothers (All for One and One for All against the Rest of Us), I've grown…
Luke, you're too damn young. Give your job to someone else.
Election Day, 2012. It's Up to Us Now
I'm up and already nervous about what this election night will bring. I want the Democrats to win everything. I want the Republicans to lose in numbers large enough to show them the error of their ways. I'm so biased…
(NOTE: I had a bout with bronchial pneumonia last week and wrote about it on my blog but didn't post it here. That's what I'm referencing.)
Okay, I'm breathing again--raggedly, to be honest, but I'm seeing clearly and whatever fun writing I was… Read full post »
Hey, Liberals: Now is the Time to Panic
WARNING: Cheers for Obama here, at least until Tuesday, November 6. Don't come looking for relief from Obama luv. You won't find it on these pages. I'm getting ready to panic and, if past history is any indication, it's not going to be… Read full post »
After all That, I can Still be Shocked. That's Shocking
So this is what it’s come to.
After four years of invective, four years during which the right has called President Obama a traitor, a communist, a fraud, an affirmative-action case, a terrorist-sympathizer, and… Read full post »
Keeping Down with the Joneses was Never Going to Work Anyway
(Cross-posted at Ramona's Voices)
Months before the Republican and Democratic Conventions in the summer of 2012, when politicians fell all over each other trying to out-Poor-Me-Before-the-Bootstrap-Thing, Mitt Romney, Republican presidential candidate, had already had enough of pretend…Stop the Madness! Sign this Petition!!
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The Problem with Unions? They're not Corporations
WARNING: It's Labor Day and I'm feeling the love for labor, so what follows will be totally biased and in no way fair or balanced. (If you've been wondering what fair and balanced really means, go ask your two-year-old. It'll make as much sense as any other… Read full post »
Why You Gotta Lie? A compendium of the Worst from the RNC
The media is abuzz about the speeches at the 2012 GOP Convention in Tampa, critiquing them on style, effectiveness, the number of laughs, the number of attacks on Barack Obama--especially the attacks on Obama. Clint Eastwood even got an invisible Obama to sit… Read full post »
Bravo, Chris Matthews. I will Never Call you "Tweety" Again
I can't say for sure (because there's no definitive source that I could find), but calling Chris Matthews "Tweety" started about three years ago, probably on Twitter. All I can say about it is that the first time I saw it in print… Read full post »
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Magical Elves, sparkleponies and other assorted gay shit
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I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Thank You Note
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Death Realized
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An Update on OSer Ingrid Ricks
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DAMN YOU TWISTERS --- LEAVE OKLAHOMA AND OTHERS ALONE!!
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Interview with Syrian President Assad
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Hot Stuff Sugar Mama
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It's Just a Cold
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