Wednesday, May 25, 2016

In Loving Memory of Rep. Marcia Moody

Super Deaniac, Rep. Marcia Moody, died today at age 80. 
Marcia, who threw her name into the ring when Howard Dean challenged us to run for office, 
was serving her sixth two-year term in the NH House. 
(Doing the math, she was about Alan's age when she first ran.) 
Her fighting spirit will live on, but she will be sorely missed.



23 comments:

  1. RIP Marcia

    She was one of the first people I became Facebook friends with. Though I didn't have much contact with her, all of her posts that I saw were extremely worthwhile. I'm very sorry to hear of her death♥

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  2. Can't say as I knew her, but she obviously set a fine example.

    --Alan

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  3. Elites vs. Too Much Democracy: Andrew Sullivan’s Afraid of Popular Self-Government [Click] A very good, if rather long, piece.

    On another note, Bill Clinton was here in Fresno on Monday and filled one of the smaller venues at the state college, 857 seats, with some folks (estimated one or two hundred) left outside. (There is another indoor venue at the college there that will seat more than 16,000.) On Friday morning HWMNBN will stage a rally at one of the larger city venues, seating more than 10,000. (Big enough for Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey, with three rings, elephants and aerialists.) Kind of small for a Bernie crowd, but not bad as such things go, and certainly well beyond the operating range of the Clintons.

    I see that Servergate has hit the fan, and there are rumors (strenuously denied, of course) that Debbie Wasserman Schultz may be replaced as chairman of the DNC because she has become too divisive for the good of the party. I should expect that rather than being fired, she would be “allowed to resign” so she can spend more time with her family or some such. I’d think Martin O’Malley would be a good choice for the job.

    Allegedly HWMNBN accidentally e-mailed politico.com with his next line of attack on HRC—Whitewater. But that was before the Servergate news popped up.

    —Alan

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  4. YEEEEEEEEHAAAAAA!!!!!!!

    BERNIE IN FRESNO SUNDAY EVENING--AND I HAVE THIS WEEKEND OFF!
    My first political rally--gotta make my rally sign!

    Alan

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    1. No signs permitted....a coworker suggested printable iron-on appliques on a shirt... I can use an old shirt--from a distance it won't make any difference. Gotta re-think the color scheme, though. And the layout.

      The park amphitheater seats only 3,500. Maybe I will take a pneumatic cushion...and a cane...and a hat...the latter suggests a location for a secondary sign....

      --Alan

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    2. Oh,Alan, that will be wonderful! I'll be with you in spirit. Hope all goes well.

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    3. Have a great time! I'm sure you will.

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  5. Marcia was the grandest Crushie of us all. A lovely soul.

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  6. Got my free Win10 upgrade installed and more or less sorted out yesterday, much to Dad's satisfaction. He's been pushing Win10 since he upgraded to it several months ago.

    As far as I can tell so far, the changes are piddly and annoying cosmetic things...except for one that has been niggling at me all day. I can't find any way to change the colors of individual screen elements to create a custom "theme" that suits my personal preference and visual needs. None of the presets is quite right, which isn't ordinarily a particular problem, because in all previous iterations of Windows it has been possible to tinker and set individual elements, like the color of the active and inactive window frames, etc. If there's a way to do so on this one, I haven't yet found it. It's unsettling not having everything the way I'm used to. But at least the OS itself seems to work all right. No doubt eventually I'll get the annoying bugs worked out.

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    1. Congratulations; I am also sure you will get the adjustments made.

      Alan

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    2. Have you tried Settings/Personalization/Colors? I can't check it out, since I use High Contrast settings, but it looks like it should work.

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  7. A brave woman, to step up as she did. A sad loss to the rest of us.

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  8. What bummer news. Demetrius says so too.

    I was always impressed with the way Marcia stepped up to the plate in response to Howard's "you have the power" message.

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    1. Thanks, Renee. It means a lot to me that you posted on the Marcia thread. ♥

      Marcia sure was impressive. She was Howard Dean's #1 Fan, and he knew it. He actually stayed in touch with her all these years. Jim Dean too. Jim spoke with her this past week. Such a treasure.

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  9. I hate it when people die in their 80s. 100 should be the minimum!

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  10. Yah, Bill!

    Actually, I'll be happy to make it to 80, since neither of my parents did.

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  11. The older I (and my family) get, the higher the bar is set. Demetrius' mom and my dad have both hit 80, and I have since redefined 80 as "not that old, really". Of course it's a matter of perspective. On my dad's side, I had a grandfather that lived to 98 and a grandmother who lived to 101.

    Considering the fact that my baby brother only just got around to having a child of his own, I know that my parents are extra motivated to stick around for a while. Eddie is pretty lucky to have so much contact with his grandparents--something I wish I'd been able to provide to my kids.

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  12. I figure that the normal human lifespan is 120 years--so 60 is barely middle aged. 80 is looking younger all the time...

    It's not reasonable, but I felt guilty--indeed I still do, a bit--when I outlived my father, who passed away at 54 (as the long-delayed result of rheumatic fever in his teens). It has been 52 years, and I still miss him--although he rarely comes to me now.

    Alan

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    1. My dad died at 55, 54 years ago on Halloween. He never saw his only grand. (We were waiting for Christmas. . . .)

      My mother died at 81, with 42 grands.

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  13. It is all a matter of perspective. When I saw that Marcia was eighty my immediate reaction was, curiously enough, "So young."

    My mother is seventy-seven and my dad will be celebrating his eighty-third birthday in July. A fair number of my friends, both real world and Facebook are in their seventies and eighties not to mention a good number of musicians I admire. Besides which, at fifty-two I don't feel a whole lot different than I did at thirty- apart from more and better aches and pains. I certainly don't *feel* middle aged. Mum says you never do. But as I see Bernie running for president at seventy-four and Engelbert going to Egypt for the first time at eighty, and riding a camel! and telling the television interviewer he can't imagine why he never visited before and he will definitely be back, elderly just doesn't seem like an appropriate word.

    My friend Linda is seventy-seven and she as survived not one but two bouts with cancer and is well and strong and happy; I know few people with her zest for life. What Alan says sounds a bit silly at first, but when you think about it, it really is true.

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  14. I have it now from two out of three sources that home-made signs are OK at the Bernie rally as long as they are not on sticks. I was thinking of making one side read "Geezer for Bernie", but that really doesn't feel right. So maybe back to "proto-geezer." Especially with Bernie so active! I though of taking my cane to take advantage of people's generosity, but that's cheating. Sunscreen and a broad-brimmed hat are certainly OK, though--I sunburn very easily, and I had better get in line by 3:00 PM. Gates open at 5:00 PM, and I think Bernie speaks at 7:30--not sure of that. I read that Trump's appearances are now generating significant counter-demonstrations.

    Off to the Bay Area for court tomorrow--no subpoena, no warning, just a phone call that (like a nice guy) I picked up after hours. It's an old case and all our original records are in remote storage, but the boss came in and was able to find the word processor file for the report in a computer. That's not as good as what I would normally like, but it is enough that when I have a copy of the report present to me in court I can compare it with the word processor file from the lab and say it is accurate.

    TTFN

    --Alan

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