Why Liberals Despise Sarah Palin
Strabo
It's a guilt thing.
The typical Liberal is in a life-long revolt against permissive and
confused parents.
For males, Sarah Palin represents the mother he wishes he had, strong,
confident and moral. He idolizes her but he also lusts for her. This
creates bad ju-ju.
Females are just jealous.
Betelgeuse
do republicans fear and detest Al Franken?
Topaz
wrote:
Here is the group she worships:
Jewish Leaders in the Homosexual Movement
Larry Kramer -- co-founder of "Act Up," a homosexual/AIDS activist
organization; co-founder of the Gay Men's Health Crisis
Alan Klein -- co-founder of group ACT UP, co-founder of group Queer
Nation, National Communications Director and chief spokesperson for
the Gay & LesbianAlliance Against Defamation [GLAAD]. Klein also co-
founded the successful multimedia campaign STOPDRLAURA.COM
Arnie Kantrowitz -- co-founder of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation [GLAAD].
Jonathan D. Katz -- founded and chairs the Harvey Milk Institute, the
largest queer studies institute in the world. A long time queer
political activist, was a co-founder of Queer Nation, [the key San
Francisco branch].
Harvey Fierstein -- film actor [Mrs. Doubtfire]; well-known gay
activist.
Moises Kaufman -- playwright and film director [The Laramie Project].
Israel Fishman -- founder of the Gay Liberation Caucus in 1970 [now
known as the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table of
the American Library Association], the world's first gay professional
organization.
Bella Abzug and Edward Koch -- both Jewish -- the first members of the
US. House of Representatives to introduce legislation banning
discrimination based on sexual orientation [1974].
Winnie Stachelberg -- political director, Human Rights Campaign [HRC]
Michael S. Aronowitz, The New York Log Cabin Republicans.
Tony Kushner -- gay activist; Tony and 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning
playwright [for Angels in America, 1992].
Len Hirsch -- president of the GLBT federal government employees
group, GLOBE.
Meg Moritz, Ph.D. -- a Director and member of the Executive Committee
of GLAAD.
Barbara Raab -- an NBC-TV producer; a "Jewish lesbian feminist
journalist, writer."
Charles Kaiser [?] -- author & founding member of National Lesbian and
Gay Journalists Association [NLGJA].
David Goodstein -- owner/publisher of the gay magazine The Advocate
[1975-1985]; co-founder of the National Gay Rights Lobby.
Judy Wieder -- Editor-in-chief, The Advocate gay magazine.
Alison Bechdel [?] -- cartoonist creator and author of the bi-weekly
comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For."
Kevin Koffler -- Editor-in-chief, Genre gay magazine.
Garrett Glaser -- National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
[NLGJA] national board member.
Ronald Gold -- reporter for Variety; a leader in the fight to overturn
the American Psychiatric Association's policy that homosexuality is an
illness.
Magnus Hirschfeld [d. 1935], early gay rights activist in Germany;
founded one of the first gay rights organizations, the Scientific
Humanitarian Committee; coined the term "transvestism"; fled Nazi
Germany.
Fred Hochberg -- deputy administrator, U.S. Small Business
Administration; co-chair of the Human Rights Campaign [HRC].
Michael Berman -- member, Human Rights Campaign Board of Directors.
Mitchell Gold -- HRC Board
Marty Lieberman -- HRC Board
Andy Linsky -- HRC Board
Dana Perlman -- HRC Board
Abby Rubenfeld -- HRC Board
Andrew Tobias -- HRC Board
Lara Schwartz -- Senior Counsel, HRC
Heather Wellman -- HRC Field Coordinator
Dan Furmansky -- HRC Senior Field Organizer, West
Sally Green -- HRC Associate Field Director
Rick Rosendall [?] -- President, Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance of
Washington, DC.
Barney Frank -- member of U.S. Congress; helped create non-
discriminatory employment policies in all U.S. federal agencies
Kerry Lobel -- executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force.
Robin Margolis, American coordinator of the Bi Women's Cultural
Alliance and author [Bisexuality: A Practical Guide].
Evan Wolfson, Senior Staff Attorney, Lambda Legal Defense and
Education Fund -- and -- the executive director of Freedom to Marry.
Jennifer Einhorn -- Communications Director, Gay & Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation [GLAAD]
Nancy Alpert [?] -- Treasurer, GLAAD
Judy Gluckstern -- Board of Directors, GLAAD.
Stephen M. Jacoby -- Board of Directors, GLAAD.
Matt Riklin -- Board, GLAAD
Carol Rosenfeld -- Board, GLAAD.
William Weinberger -- Board, GLAAD
Tanya Wexler -- Board, GLAAD.
David Huebner -- GLAAD Counsel.
Richard Goldstein -- Village Voice writer on gay culture and politics
Ron Schlittler -- Director of Field & Policy, Parents and Friends of
Lesbians and Gays [PFLAG].
Craig Ziskin -- Deputy Director of Development, PFLAG.
Debra Weill -- Senior Field & Policy Coordinator, PFLAG.
Dody Goldstein -- Board of Directors, PFLAG.
David Horowitz -- Board of Directors, PFLAG.
Shawn Frank -- Board of Directors, PFLAG.
Leon Weinstein -- Chair, Nominating Committee, PFLAG.
Kate Kendell [?], National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Gayle Rubin -- lesbian author/activist.
Hilary Rosen -- a founding member of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund;
former board co-chair of the Human Rights Campaign.
Roz Richter, American attorney and activist.
Bob Kunst -- long-time activist in gay and Jewish causes.
"Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network" [GLSEN]. Board co-chairs:
Marty Seldman, president
"National Gay & Lesbian Task Force" [NGLTF].
Board co-chairs: ..... Rachel Rosen in Santa Fe, N.M
Dave Fleischer -- Director of Training [political training], NGLTF.
Craig Hoffman -- Board of Directors, NGLTF.
Beth Zemsky -- Board, NGLTF.
Marsha C. Botzer -- Treasurer, NGLTF.
Jeff Levi -- first, Levi was NGTF's lobbyist, early 1980s [NGTF became
NGLTF in 1985]. Later, he was NGLTF executive director.
Bill Rubenstein, J.D. '86, developed the ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights
Project
Martin Duberman -- author/historian; founded the Center for Lesbian
and Gay Studies at the City University of New York.
Ben Schatz '81, J.D. '85, is executive director of the Gay and Lesbian
Medical Foundation.
Kevin Schaub, American; Executive Director and Dean of the Harvey Milk
Institute in San Francisco, the world's largest center for queer
studies.
Sarah Schulman [1958- ], American playwright, novelist, and activist
[one of the founders of the Lesbian Avengers, a direct-action lesbian
rights organization].
Susan Spielman -- principal/head of Common Ground, an education/
consulting firm specializing in workplace sexual orientation
education; her company has worked with hundreds of U.S. organizations,
helping them to implement domestic partner benefits plans; co-author
of the book Straight Talk About Gays in the Workplace.
Gertrude Stein -- wrote the first openly lesbian novel, "Q.E.D.," in
1903, but it was only published posthumously in 1950.
Rikki Streicher (1925-1994), American activist and businesswoman.
Michael Goff -- founded Out magazine in 1992.
Paulette Goodman -- founder of local chapter [Washington D.C.] of
PFLAG and served as President of the National PFLAG organization from
1988-1992.
Jeffrey Newman, American, president and COO of the Gay Financial
Network; president and CEO of out.com.
Jim Levin -- New York gay historian.
Barrett Brick -- GLAA [Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance] Treasurer.
Robin Tyler -- American comedian [born Arlene Chernick] who was the
first openly gay comic in North America; Tyler is also an activist who
was the stage producer for the first three gay marches on Washington
and the national protest coordinator for the "Stop Dr. Laura"
campaign; she produces women's comedy and music festivals, and
operates a lesbian travel-tour company.
Dr. Bruce Voeller [1935?-1994] [?] American gay rights activist,
molecular biologist, physiologist, and AIDS researcher (pioneer in the
use of nonoxynol-9 as a spermicide); cofounder and first executive
director of the National Gay Task Force; creator of the Mariposa
Foundation [an AIDS prevention research organization].
Mark Elderkin [?] -- co-founded Gay.com.
Leroy Aarons -- American professor, journalist, and founder of the
National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association (1990).
Dr. Donald I. Abrams -- American physician, HIV expert, medical
marijuana researcher, and past president of the Gay and Lesbian
Medical Association.
Johnny Abush (1952-2000) -- [Canadian]; archivist of the International
Jewish GBLT Archives.
Roberta Achtenberg [1950- ]; civil rights lawyer and federal official;
appointed as Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal
Opportunity by President Bill Clinton in 1993.
Miriam Ben-Shalom [1948- ], American Army Reserves drill sergeant and
gay activist; in 1986 she won a ten-year legal battle with the
Reserves
when a court ordered her reinstatement; founder of the Gay, Lesbian,
and Bisexual Veterans Association [GLBVA] in 1990, serving as its
first president.
Larry Brinkin, American gay activist who brought the first domestic
partnership lawsuit [against Southern Pacific Railroad, 1982].
Rob Eichberg, American psychologist, co-creator of National Coming Out
Day [October 11th].
Scott Evertz, American; in April 2001, President Bush appointed him to
serve as the Director of the White House Office of National AIDS
Policy [ONAP].
Gene Falk [?, Jewish name], American business executive; Senior Vice
President of the Showtime Digital Media Group; part of the team that
launched and marketed the U.S. TV series Queer as Folk; Chair of the
Board of Directors of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
[GLAAD].
Surina Kahn -- American lesbian activist.
Larry Kessler -- founding director in 1983 of the AIDS Action
Committee of Massachusetts, the largest AIDS support organization in
New England.
Kathy Levinson -- American investor and philanthropist; serves on the
board of PlanetOut; also on NGLTF Board of Directors.
Judith Light -- actress, activist for gay causes.
David Mixner -- gay activist, political consultant; co-founder of the
Municipal Elections Committee of Los Angeles [MECLA], a group of
wealthy gays and lesbians who became influential in local politics;
president Bill Clinton's Special Liaison to the Gay-Lesbian Community.
Dan Savage -- American author of gay-themed books [The Kid: What
Happened
After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant; Skipping Towards
Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in
America] and gay-themed- sex-advice columnist [Savage Love].
Susan Schuman, American executive vice-president and general manager
of the Planet Out gay and lesbian online service.
Scott Seomin, American entertainment media coordinator for the Gay &
Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation [GLAAD].
Jason Serinus [Jay Guy Nassberg] -- founder and coordinator of the
Lavender Healing Network; a former gay activist with the New York
chapter of the Gay Liberation Front.
David Sine [?] -- American CEO of C1TV, the first U.S. gay and lesbian
cable TV network.
Rex Wockner -- longtime gay, American journalist who has reported news
for the gay press since 1985.
Jack Fritscher -- became Editor in Chief of Drummer gay magazine
[1977].
Leslie Feinberg [1949- ], American trade unionist, transgender
activist and author [Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of
Arc to RuPaul].
Allan Ginsburg - late Jewish poet and leading member of North American
Man Boy Love Association
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Strabo
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:29:24 -0500, Strabo <str...@flashlight.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> It's a guilt thing.
>>
>> The typical Liberal is in a life-long revolt against permissive and
>> confused parents.
>>
>> For males, Sarah Palin represents the mother he wishes he had, strong,
>> confident and moral. He idolizes her but he also lusts for her. This
>> creates bad ju-ju.
>>
>> Females are just jealous.
>
> Here is the group she worships:
>
Is this list up to date?
Observer
<adrast...@live.com> wrote:
>Forget Palin (most Dems have along with the rest of the planet).
Yet, Tool seems fixated.
>Why do republicans fear and detest Al Franken?
Because he's tedious and his comedy sucks? BTW, yuou don't have to be
an (R) to find Franken tedious.
__
The last official act of any government is the looting of the nation.
Dan
So, now you are claiming you are a liberal???
Sorry, we've seen your work, and we do not accept you into the fold.
Poor, sad Strabo.
Dan
HH&C
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:53:17 -0800 (PST), Betelgeuse
>
> >Forget Palin (most Dems have along with the rest of the planet).
>
> Yet, Tool seems fixated.
>
> >Why do republicans fear and detest Al Franken?
>
> Because he's tedious and his comedy sucks? BTW, yuou don't have to be
> an (R) to find Franken tedious.
Unfunny. I fear all unfunny comedians. I wish they would all go into
politics.
Even Ellen Degenerate, the most unfunny comedianette ever.
Thanks for asking.
Too_Many_Tools
And dogs....they just see a bitch with lipstick.
TMT
HH&C
> Topaz wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:29:24 -0500, Strabo <str...@flashlight.net>
> > wrote:
>
> >> It's a guilt thing.
>
> >> The typical Liberal is in a life-long revolt against permissive and
> >> confused parents.
>
> >> For males, Sarah Palin represents the mother he wishes he had, strong,
> >> confident and moral. He idolizes her but he also lusts for her. This
> >> creates bad ju-ju.
>
> >> Females are just jealous.
>
> > Here is the group she worships:
>
> Is this list up to date?
Huh? I wonder what Gunner would say?
HH&C
Surprised that Curly isn't denouncing the outing of all his comrades.
Observer
Weren't you calling her a "pig with lipstick?" Make up your mind.
>TMT
Dan
"Outing" of WHAT comrades?
Do try to make sense...
Dan
Dan
I've seen what "Conservatives" think is funny. While I'm not a big
Franken or Degeneres fan, both are decently funny in much of their
comedy material. Both have moved away from comedy (perhaps this is why
you do not find them funny).
Both are infinitely more funny, cerebral, thoughtful, and coherent than
Dennis Miller or Rush Limbaugh...
Dan
Curly Surmudgeon
Am I still stalking the cockroach?
--
Regards, Curly
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Topaz
wrote:
>Topaz wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:29:24 -0500, Strabo <str...@flashlight.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> It's a guilt thing.
>>>
>>> The typical Liberal is in a life-long revolt against permissive and
>>> confused parents.
>>>
>>> For males, Sarah Palin represents the mother he wishes he had, strong,
>>> confident and moral. He idolizes her but he also lusts for her. This
>>> creates bad ju-ju.
>>>
>>> Females are just jealous.
>>
>> Here is the group she worships:
>>
>
>Is this list up to date?
Probably not. But here is some more:
Israel Line - Friday, June 10, 2005
Thousands Participate in Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv.
Thousands of people took to the streets of Tel Aviv this
afternoon to participate in the city's annual gay pride parade,
HA'ARETZ reported. The parade set out from Rabin Square and was to end
in Yarkon Park, where musical performances were planned.
MKs Yosef Lapid (Shinui), Eitan Cabel (Labor) and Zehava Gal-On
(Yahad), as well as Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, were set to speak at
the event.
The chairman of the national Association of Gay Men, Lesbians,
Bisexuals and Transgender in Israel, Mike Hamel, said today the parade
was organized with the "close cooperation" of the Tel Aviv
municipality. "It's great to see it, and great that it's one of the
few places in the world that has the support of a municipal body, a
government body," he said.
Hamel said the event is called a "pride parade," because it has
to do with "being proud of the way we are and the demand to accept
every person as a person, as he is, and not trying to change him."
Full story:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/586950.html
By 1992, lesbian and gay activists had succeeded in getting the
Knesset to amend Israel's Equal Workplace Opportunities Law to outlaw
discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
In 1993, the Israeli military rescinded its few regulations
discriminating against gays and lesbians. And in 1994, the Israeli
Supreme Court ordered El Al Israel Airlines to grant a free plane
ticket to the partner of a gay flight attendant, as the airline had
long done for heterosexual partners of employees.
http://www.thegully.com/essays/gaymundo/020220_gay_israel_history.html
Topaz
wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:20:37 -0600, in misc.survivalism you wrote:
>
>>Here is the group she worships:
>>
>>Jewish Leaders in the Homosexual Movement
>>
>>Larry Kramer -- co-founder of "Act Up," a homosexual/AIDS activist
>>organization; co-founder of the Gay Men's Health Crisis
>>
>>Alan Klein -- co-founder of group ACT UP, co-founder of group Queer
>>Nation, National Communications Director and chief spokesperson for
>>the Gay & LesbianAlliance Against Defamation [GLAAD]. Klein also co-
>>founded the successful multimedia campaign STOPDRLAURA.COM
>>
>>Arnie Kantrowitz -- co-founder of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against
>>Defamation [GLAAD].
>
>You left out the saga of Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin.
Sen. Clinton Calls Iran a Danger to U.S., Israel
The Associated Press
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,2498 03,00.html
Calling Iran a danger to the US and one of Israel's greatest threats,
US senator and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said "no
option can be taken off the table" when dealing with that nation. "US
policy must be clear and unequivocal, we cannot, we should not, we
must not permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons," the
Democrat told a crowd of Israel supporters ... Clinton spoke at a
Manhattan dinner held by the largest pro-Israel lobbying group in the
US, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Some 1,700
supporters applauded as she cited her efforts on behalf of the Jewish
state and spoke scathingly of Iran's decision to hold a conference
last month that questioned whether the Holocaust took place.
Clinton, Giuliani Top Survey of Jewish Voters
Forward (New York)
http://w ww.forward.com/articles/12257/
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani are the top
two hopefuls among American Jews, according to a poll released this
week. Clinton garnered a "favorable" rating from 53% of all
respondents to the survey, which was conducted by the American Jewish
Committee.
HH&C
> HH&C wrote:
> > On Nov 24, 8:23 pm, Observer <noone@nowhere> wrote:
> >> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:53:17 -0800 (PST), Betelgeuse
>
> >> <adrastea2...@live.com> wrote:
> >>> Forget Palin (most Dems have along with the rest of the planet).
> >> Yet, Tool seems fixated.
>
> >>> Why do republicans fear and detest Al Franken?
> >> Because he's tedious and his comedy sucks? BTW, yuou don't have to be
> >> an (R) to find Franken tedious.
>
> > Unfunny. I fear all unfunny comedians. I wish they would all go into
> > politics.
>
> > Even Ellen Degenerate, the most unfunny comedianette ever.
>
> > Thanks for asking.
>
> I've seen what "Conservatives" think is funny.
Kindly elaborate.
> While I'm not a big
> Franken or Degeneres fan, both are decently funny in much of their
> comedy material. Both have moved away from comedy (perhaps this is why
> you do not find them funny).
I'm sure they had to. What kind of a living can an unfunny comedian
and an unfunny comedianette make?
> Both are infinitely more funny, cerebral, thoughtful, and coherent than
> Dennis Miller or Rush Limbaugh...
I never got Dennis Miller's draw either. Pretty much unfunny, too.
He should go into politics or something.
Rush? I didn't relaize that he was a comedian. Cite?
> Dan
Dan
> On Nov 25, 4:34 pm, Dan <dnada...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> HH&C wrote:
>>> On Nov 24, 8:23 pm, Observer <noone@nowhere> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:53:17 -0800 (PST), Betelgeuse
>>>> <adrastea2...@live.com> wrote:
>>>>> Forget Palin (most Dems have along with the rest of the planet).
>>>> Yet, Tool seems fixated.
>>>>> Why do republicans fear and detest Al Franken?
>>>> Because he's tedious and his comedy sucks? BTW, yuou don't have to be
>>>> an (R) to find Franken tedious.
>>> Unfunny. I fear all unfunny comedians. I wish they would all go into
>>> politics.
>>> Even Ellen Degenerate, the most unfunny comedianette ever.
>>> Thanks for asking.
>> I've seen what "Conservatives" think is funny.
>
> Kindly elaborate.
Well, there are the examples of Miller and Limbaugh, the consistent
beating of the "dead/death" horse, the thought that the only source of
humor is the infliction of harm, sometimes egregious, to other people.
>> While I'm not a big
>> Franken or Degeneres fan, both are decently funny in much of their
>> comedy material. Both have moved away from comedy (perhaps this is why
>> you do not find them funny).
>
> I'm sure they had to. What kind of a living can an unfunny comedian
> and an unfunny comedianette make?
In the Republican Party: quite a good one.
Can you show me how they were a) unfunny, and b) unsuccessful?
>> Both are infinitely more funny, cerebral, thoughtful, and coherent than
>> Dennis Miller or Rush Limbaugh...
>
> I never got Dennis Miller's draw either. Pretty much unfunny, too.
> He should go into politics or something.
He has his own political talk show...
> Rush? I didn't relaize that he was a comedian. Cite?
Whenever he is called onto the carpet, he claims (erroneously) that he
is just fronting an entertainment show. Listen to it some time, and see
how often he laughs (signifying, to his audience, that what he just said
was "funny.") at his own material.
Dan
Dan
Dan
HH&C
> HH&C wrote:
> > On Nov 25, 4:34 pm, Dan <dnada...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> HH&C wrote:
> >>> On Nov 24, 8:23 pm, Observer <noone@nowhere> wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:53:17 -0800 (PST), Betelgeuse
> >>>> <adrastea2...@live.com> wrote:
> >>>>> Forget Palin (most Dems have along with the rest of the planet).
> >>>> Yet, Tool seems fixated.
> >>>>> Why do republicans fear and detestAlFranken?
> >>>> Because he's tedious and his comedy sucks? BTW, yuou don't have to be
> >>>> an (R) to findFrankentedious.
> >>> Unfunny. I fear all unfunny comedians. I wish they would all go into
> >>> politics.
> >>> Even Ellen Degenerate, the most unfunny comedianette ever.
> >>> Thanks for asking.
> >> I've seen what "Conservatives" think is funny.
>
> > Kindly elaborate.
>
> Well, there are the examples of Miller and Limbaugh, the consistent
> beating of the "dead/death" horse, the thought that the only source of
> humor is the infliction of harm, sometimes egregious, to other people.
You pretend to give an answer but only make more accusations. Show
the harm.
> >> While I'm not a big
> >>Frankenor Degeneres fan, both are decently funny in much of their
> >> comedy material. Both have moved away from comedy (perhaps this is why
> >> you do not find them funny).
>
> > I'm sure they had to. What kind of a living can an unfunny comedian
> > and an unfunny comedianette make?
>
> In the Republican Party: quite a good one.
Kindly list all of the former comedians and comedianettes in the
Republican Party.
> Can you show me how they were a) unfunny, and b) unsuccessful?
Apparently not funny enough or successful enough to keep their radio
station on the air.
> >> Both are infinitely more funny, cerebral, thoughtful, and coherent than
> >> Dennis Miller or Rush Limbaugh...
>
> > I never got Dennis Miller's draw either. Pretty much unfunny, too.
> > He should go into politics or something.
>
> He has his own political talk show...
Not interested.
> > Rush? I didn't relaize that he was a comedian. Cite?
>
> Whenever he is called onto the carpet, he claims (erroneously) that he
> is just fronting an entertainment show.
Barbara Streisand is an entertainer, too. Does that make her a
comedianette?
> Listen to it some time, and see
> how often he laughs (signifying, to his audience, that what he just said
> was "funny.") at his own material.
>
> Dan
People laugh when ther are happy, and some people laugh when they are
nervous or embarassed.
But you have a point. Barbara Streisand is too repressed to laugh at
herself or anything she might ever have done.