http://www.judyrozzelle.com/Columns Essays and stories by Judy Rozzelle, author of "Shuffletown USA: A Multi-Voice Memoir" Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:33:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Republicans think we are not watching them. Michigan now has what the Governor calls Financial Martial Law and no one reported it on the three news stations...wonder if they will face this autocratic objective: child laborers. Are we watching them? Not closely enough. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/19/paul-lepage-child-labor-laws_n_851113.html http://www.judyrozzelle.com/Columns/2011/04/19/child-labor/ I do not understand a group of people who stupidly named themselves Tea Baggers. This is my problem with them. These underpaid folks, tea baggers, seem to want to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. If they have their way, our grandchildren will not have social security or ... http://www.judyrozzelle.com/Columns/2011/04/15/tea-baggers/ In honor of the women of Athens, Greece, I am requesting that all 555 wives of our elected goverment officials stop sleeping with their husbands, if they do? Tell them to forget sex, until your elected husbands stop screwing the rights of American women. http://www.judyrozzelle.com/Columns/2011/04/13/american-lysistrata/ I am a very unlikely person to post the article below. As a child, I knelt on my knees each night before bedtime and my father led us in saying, "The Lord's Prayer." It is a habit, I have not broken. It is a memory I have always carried along ... http://www.judyrozzelle.com/Columns/2010/10/25/christianity-socialism/ I read this on Salon.com today and thought the author, Elon James White wrote a humorous and correct essay. I believe that the word, socialism is a substitute word for prejudice. If you went to public schools, you participated in a socialistic program. Obama is not socialism...He has ... http://www.judyrozzelle.com/Columns/2010/08/12/how-to-scare-white-people/ There is so much chatter about the oil explosion in the Gulf, but so little action. We do know now that possibly every Friday, Obama will walk the coast and talk to strangers. When he returns, nothing happens. We in the people watch media images of talking heads, oil-soaked birds, ... http://www.judyrozzelle.com/Columns/2010/06/11/we-are-americans/ I own a cemetery and it is occupied by relatives. This might seem like a strange sort of investment holding, but there’s nothing untoward here. I had nothing to do with the demise of any of the relatives, and the cemetery is not in my backyard beneath the rose bushes. ... http://www.judyrozzelle.com/Columns/2010/05/27/dead-relatives-and-me/ Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known. ... http://www.judyrozzelle.com/Columns/2010/05/25/the-wisdom-of-water/ There is unrest among the neighbors of Mountain Island Lake. Newcomers want to halt efforts to increase regulation and fees related to recreation on the lake, while old-timers -- many of whose families were living on its shores long before the Catawba River was dammed, in 1924, to create the ... http://www.judyrozzelle.com/Columns/2010/05/25/saving-historic-mountain-island-lake/ Gym memberships are out, the latest to-die-for accessory is a militia membership. It is time for the Westside liberals to man (and woman) up. According to news reports, Oklahoma is considering raising a state militia. Sean Murphy and Tim Talley spoke with Oklahoma’s Tea Party leaders and conservative lawmakers who ... http://www.judyrozzelle.com/Columns/2010/04/28/to-arms-liberals/