Godless Rachel

       It’s the end of a tragic era, 4 years of criminal and cruel behavior, where a minority of Americans unleashed torture, and pain on the most vulnerable. As we move toward a new day with just under a week to go, ask yourself if democracy is strong enough to withstand another blow. While Biden wants to build back stronger, the cracks, and damage lay in plain sight. The world has witnessed our vulnerability, and the doors to treason, sedition, and insurrection have opened.      What has to happen now, moving forward, is that we have to build a stronger America. If minorities, and women don’t feel like they are part of the integral structure of the democracy, it leaves it weak for being disenfranchisement. White men know that they have held all the power and control for ages, their fears of losing their grip on being the majority, of losing their power and control over women, their reproductive choices, minorities, and their ability to rise, and make...

                     2020 started out for me with hopes of getting ahead in life, and making this year better than last. Last year I faced hardships of barely hanging on financially, and I thought, since I was ready to works smarter than harder, I would be all set. Then the pandemic hit. The pandemic felt, and continues to feel like a wall. Like America smashed right into a giant wall, from which chaos and hardship ensued, and we continue to scramble from one tragedy to the next, barely able to breathe or even grasp how bad the last tragedy was, before heading into the next, blindsided by the horrors.  Just on Christmas Day, a terrorist committed suicide by exploding his RV, with him inside. America shrugged it off, like our exhaustion from all the hardships left us with empathy exhaustion. And we are all exhausted. Twitter feeds full of family losses, news media telling us how many are sick and dying, the president more inter...

Over the last week we have seen a lot of public testimony by long term servants of the United States, ambassadors, and Military personnel. During those days a lot was exposed. While it may seem boring to some, and a rehash of what they believed to be true, for many of us, it was important to hear. Much of what the GOP had been claiming was quickly torn away. Holding public hearings meant the GOP could not push only their narrative, and it quickly ended the narrative that this was any form of witch hunt. It took care of their lies about loyalties and partisanship. One of the things that became clear was how many people knew what the president and his staff had been doing, the role of Giuliani, and Sonland. Testimony showed that everyone was aware that Trump was withholding aid to coerce a meeting. As Dr.Hill said, she was on a diplomatic mission, and Sonland was on a personal political mission. That she approached white house lawyers to let them know what was going on back in Jul...

The 2016 election cycle was rampant with Trump-isms, the news media focused on him so much it was hard to notice anyone, but him. He mocked the disabled, he used racist dog whistles, he made sexist comments, and spread hate for immigrants. One thing Trump made clear was his hate for anyone who stood against him. He called Ted Cruz’s wife a dog. He said the women who accused him of sexual harassment and even assault weren’t pretty enough to assault. He made it known that minorities really weren’t welcome at his rallies. He told people he was going to build a wall, “a big beautiful wall between Mexico and America.” Everything he said spent hours on news sites. It was a wall to wall Trump show. So when he won, and by won I mean accepted help from Russia, he set to work to keep the praise of those who got him there, including Russia. Since then some people have grown weary of his constant attacks on the media, the constitution, the investigation, and his political enemies. These people ...

Unless you hid from everything that was happening this weekend, you know that McCain's funeral happened Saturday, and that millions were either watching or paying attention. It was around the same time as Aretha's. During the funeral many words of rebuke were spoken about Trump, while many words of the dedication McCain was recognized. John McCain was across the political isles from me, however, he did care for this nation, and stood by it before his political party. He played a role in the Russia investigation, he stood by Affordable Care, and he fought for this nation which led to his subsequent capture and 5 years inn a prison camp. During his time imprisoned in Vietnam he was tortured. While I don't agree with who he was, or what all he stood for, or even much of what his life was, I wouldn't show him disrespect in death. I also won't make hero's out of his daughter, or anyone who spoke against Trump during the funeral. Meghan McCain isn't some st...

In the past I published articles, some of which have errors. I want to go back and correct those, but I find that it would be better going forward. So I have decided that I will instead keep going, and in time make a point to do so. I have had years to reflect on who I was before, and who I am now. It began with healing, during my growth time I learned my role in a family that isn't healthy, and I was worried what that meant. Was I seeking to lead others, or were others seeking me to lead them. I still don't know, what I do know is that I like many people have a checkered past, its filled with a lot of pain, and things that are wrong. I can no longer be silent about it, or just let it fester under the surface. I want to write about politics, and life, and all the good, bad, bitter sweet, kind loving things I see in this world. So while I can't promise to be who I was, I can promise who I will be. Thank you for  reading this, and have the best day. Rachel

You hear white people say it all the time, "Black people are racist too." It gets so maddening explaining to white people over and over again why black people aren't actually racist. Yet, here I go again, this time I hope I have made it easier to understand. Maybe? In this era of racial unrest and BLM matter coming to the aid of their fellow people, because they need to, we need to get somethings straight. I am white, and if you are white you need to listen. I live in a predominately minority area, where I, by skin color alone am not trusted. I am often looked at with angry eyes, treated badly, and face rudeness from the black community. Right there you might say, see that's racism. You're wrong, and here's why. Though they might be angry, and they have every right to be, they have no power. Racism take power to employ, and they don't have it. They are angry because since their ancestors first stepped a shackled foot onto this land, they have endured ...

About a week or so ago I saw a post on  Facebook from a fellow atheist on the subject of Richard Dawkins, and Sam Harris. It addresses the issue of Islamaphobia, and sexism. It couldn't have been more off the mark, if it tried. No one wants to be the guilty one, we all want to think our point of view is the right one, but it was wrong, we are all wrong at times, and that's important, and I'll explain why. I am a white woman, one who can't and wont tell minorities what is and isn't racist. Why? Because I can't determine from a white privileged point what will, or will not hurt someone when I have no perspective on what they have been through. That is why this post by a white male, who has not had to live out sexism, in America has no place telling women when something is or isn't sexist. Most of the time men think their words don't have an effect when the name call women, but they do, and some words specifically are used to keep women "in their ...

If you, like me, were alive for the Bill Clinton Administration, then you know where this all began. For those of you too young, you need to understand some important history. Let's head back to my childhood, and I'll take you on a journey. It was shortly after Bill Clinton got into the White House that much controversy struck. Republicans hated the man with charisma, who seemed to charm the American vote. What they hated more was is pant suit wearing, highly educated, baking pies isn't for me, wife. She wasn't the traditional first lady, with reading programs, and tea, and entertaining all the wives of foreign leaders. She was instead an ambitious woman, with degrees, and a history of getting things done. To every Republican who believed women should stay at home and raise the babies, and bake cakes, and look good, she was far from any of that. It was about the time they Jerry Falwell's, and Jim and Tammy Fey Baker, the rise of Focus On The Family, and Answers...

I still see young ladies today facing all the same lack of information I did, and the same stigma, fears, and worries. With that in mind, I decided to write some tips down that may help some of you. Periods aren't easy, and they can be messy, but they aren't necessarily bad things. So I'm going to go over some tips to help. 1. How to know if your period is normal? A period should come every 21-23 days, depending on your body. That makes your cycle 28-30 days. You can mark the calendar and check, sometimes it's good to keep track, in case you need to see a doctor. 2. The average length of a period is 5 days, give or take a few. It's important to note here some ladies are steady 7 days. Some only get three or four days. If your period is going longer than 7 days, or shorter, and coming every few months, you need to see a Gynecologists, this can be a sign of some kind of abnormality, and many women have faced those as well, including myself. 3. Tampons and pads....

There is an ugly place in all of us, one where we hide things, like a junk drawer. Things that we might have been taught as a kid, or learned along the way. A garbage dump of memories, where all the negative things we learned in our society hides. Some of us know it's there, and we use it to help guide us away from being those bigoted, sexist, racist people who we have seen cluttering the horizon of our world, others have extracted tidbits and used them along the life we lead. You might be tempted to dismiss the fact that the Sanders movement became a religion, bu it did. You might be tempted to say that it isn't littered with sexism, but it is. The cult of Sanders is one of the worst, second only to the cult of Trump. As long as it was only men trying to be president, the world was safely in the hands of male sexism, chauvinism, and men were happy to keep it that way. Along comes Hillary Clinton, and all of her womanhood and the lies that must be believed about her. After...

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to firebrand America, where stupid is king, and everyone wants to be a cowboy. You know, those guys that ride horses, with the hemorrhoids, and rickets, and lice, and scurvy, who kill innocent animals and people alike. Yep, that's our America. Oh, you meant like the guys from the movies, well, I guess that fits, because America is stupid! We are so stupid, in fact, that we are willing to elect a man who has bankrupted four companies so far, and has a golf course going into bankruptcy. His schools failed, his steaks failed, his companies have failed, and Billionaire Donald, has been the man behind the failure. Don't let that stop you from voting for him. After all its better than an honest black man who worked his way into Harvard and then taught constitutional law. Sure Donald has exactly no foreign policy experience, and he seems to find all his wives outside of America, which is a kind of foreign experience. He doesn't know the first t...

You might have thought Roe V Wade ended the battle between the right of a woman to her own body, and the right of the state to treat her like cattle and tell her what to do with her body, but ladies, we aren't out of the breeding barn yet. At least, not with these narrow minded, knuckle dragging, bilovating, mysognists in offices, and places of power. In fact you might want to buy a gun, and form a vaginal militia, because that's the only way your going to get their attention. The lies told by anti abortion fascists include, but are not limited to: breast cancer, god hating you, you dying, the soul of an unformed fetus haunting you, and that your going to live with regrets for your life time. Aren't they trying to help you and protect your health though? Well, if by health you mean, several appointments, being forced to look at what you sincerely want to terminate, driving out of your way, spending your vacation week (If you have it, and trust me, I believe you don...

At the start of this election cycle I was going to take it easy, I already had my candidate picked, but was willing to listen to what others had to say. Then it happened, Bernie Sanders called Planned Parenthood, "The establishment." That was all he wrote, for me. I was done, and who was this socialist that was now adding the title "Democrat?' What I found out was not anything to be proud of, or happy about. That's okay, because I am a socialist, but I vote Democrat, and I still refuse to vote for Bernie. This man, who, for all intents and purposes, seems to have come from the sky on a cloud, and be the second messiah, has been through nothing. 30 years in the senate, and where was his history? I couldnt't find it. Till I went looking. What I found made me angry, mostly with people who say they are democrats, but with their double standards as well. Bernie Sanders evaded the draft. Not that anyone should be drafted, but we have said forever, if it is goo...

Wouldn't it be both amazing and sad to look on the human race as an alien species? Think about all the crazy things you would see, and hear. One species completely isolated from one another, by regions, by water, and by ideologies. America has lost the war on rational thinking, and paranoia is king. Worse than that is the facts surrounding the terrorism, and what in the world is going on. We can't be sure of our neighbors, and we sure can't be sure of ourselves. I remember back in my budding youth when the Internet and I were young, how I loved to talk to people from other countries. I was a Christian back then, and I was curious. I wanted to know why religions couldn't get along. All Abrahamic religions share the same God, so why not just be peaceful about it. So I spent many nights in chat rooms with people from around the world. I soon learned why they couldn't get along. Because everyone had this idea of religion that they created. In atheism we often us...

I am respectfully writing a rebuttal to a fellow atheist who says that religion is not a mental illness. This is not an attempt to belittle the work of my fellow atheist, but instead challenge what they think. I have this perspective on religion, that comes from the one church I went to when I was young, but since then have seen many examples of deviant and disturbing behavior on the part of religious people, and religions. That's why I think religion creates, employs, and uses mental illness to its self sustainability. Reason one for my thinking. The external locus of control. You must submit. "We are Borg, you will be assimilated." Religion teaches you to be codependent, you must rely on God, a thing, a higher power, nature, or just the wind for your better self to exist. You're not in control, other forces are driving you and you must either let them, or give into them. I'm not a therapist, but, that's dangerous thinking. Yes, it's sick, and yes it...

I have seen a lot of Bat-shittery in my day, I have, but this new thing where men act like helpless babies who are at the mercy of women, and they act like we are what is wrong with the world? Let me inform you. Women aren't the problem. Men and their constant need to control and dominate women in a regard that is shameless, and forthright are what is wrong with the world. Women are just trying to actually be equals with men, much to the chagrin of our male counterparts who happen to be blazing sexists. If it were up to men like Paul Elam, women would be in the kitchen with their mouths closed making him a damn sandwich. He's the boss and he's absolutely certain of it, except he's not. He is another example of why the women in this would still have to cry feminism. He says that women mess up the workplace for men, that they can't be a boys club if women and their nasty vagina's are unleashed on the work place, to cry sexual harassment, and feminine up the pla...

It is one of the fundamental values we take for granted every day. From our favorite football team, to that ice cream we don't like, to speaking out about corruption government and corporations. Free speech is everywhere, but so is the silence that is falling around it. While it may not be good to go around offending people, that can't always be said, and even if you don't like it, free speech isn't free if we don't all have the same access to it. Let me start out by explaining. Free speech is not consequence free speech. It is far from that. The language you choose to use, and the things you say can prevent you from ever getting a job in your specific field. It can make you have to go to court. It can cost you time, it can get you fame. It can bring you up, and it can throw you down. Some examples of this are the GOP, who have systematically attacked women and their right to their own sexual organs. Rush Limbaugh who has called women "Sluts" and accu...

Roe v Wade took so long that the fetus they were going to court over was actually born. When women celebrate the date of the victory, the boy who was born celebrates the fact that decision took so long. When we hear things like that it stirs our emotional connection to our fellow humans. We are biologically programmed to do so, social bonding is part of our biological rhythm. This has more to do with why some people are pro life, than any religious decision. Basically, we are programmed to desire altruistically to aid our own species. That is why abortion has been misunderstood by those who claim to be pro life. It is also why abortion is a difficult decision, compounded by social guilt, and societal pressure to bare offspring that a person may not be financially, or emotionally, or even psychologically ready for. What women who need an abortion are facing is one of the most insidious attacks on their choice, just short of taking their choices completely away from them. Roe V Wade...

      During a time when exposure to viruses like the measles and mumps, America took a stand and called on everyone to vaccinate their children. In fact, being in public school, meant, you had to show proof of vaccination. It was so successful that two things happened. The first is that we stopped worrying about people getting them so much, and we got healthy enough that some people challenged vaccines for various reasons. The reason for the anti-vacc hysteria was all due to one scientist who abandoned his moral ethics for a lump of cash, and claimed that vaccines caused autism. After hearing this, many concerned parents stopped vaccinating their kids, and the fire spread. Suddenly people were looking to blame vaccines for almost everything.  The effects of vaccinating the whole of a population was that diseases that had killed 4-500 people per year, like measles, and hospitalized 38,000, was not only a reduction in the number of cases of deaths, bu...