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Celebrate the Women in Your Life During 2013 Women's History Month

Little known facts about women's achievements

The first windshield wiper was invented by Mary Anderson in 1902. Initially a rubber blade operated by a lever inside the vehicle, this concept became standard on all vehicles in 1916.

* In 1909, Alice Huyler Ramsey was the first woman to drive cross country, making the 3,800 mile journey from New York to San Francisco in only 59 days--a record for the time.

* Actress Florence Lawrence invented the first turn signal and brake light concepts around 1923. These original versions were modifed through the years but by the 1940s Flo's features were customary on most vehicles.
Visit "Women's History Month.

About Women’s History Month from the Law Library of Congress' guide to the legislative history of Women's History Month:

 

The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of women whose commitment to nature and the planet have proved invaluable to society.

Women’s History Month had its origins as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 which authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as “Women’s History Week."

Throughout the next five years, Congress continued to pass joint resolutions designating a week in March as "Women’s History Week." In 1987 after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month."

Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month.

Since 1995, Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama have issued a series of annual proclamations designating the month of March as “Women’s History Month.”

Drug-free Requirement For All Welfare Recipients

Hooray for Florida!
It could work in all 50 states!

I-95 and I-75 will be jammed for the next month or so with druggies and deadbeats heading North out of Florida, because this is the first state in the union to require drug testing to receive welfare!

Hooray for Florida! In signing the new law, Republican Gov. Rick Scott said,

"If Floridians want welfare, they better make sure they are drug-free."

Applicants must pay for the drug test, but are reimbursed if they test drug-free. Applicants who test positive for illicit substances, won't be eligible for the funds for a year, or until they undergo treatment.

 

Those who fail a second time will be banned from receiving funds for three years!

 

Naturally, a few people are crying this is unconstitutional.
How is this unconstitutional? It's a legal requirement that every person applying for a job has to pass drug tests in order to get the job, why not those who receive welfare?

Let's get welfare back to the ones who need it, not to those who won't get a job.

I AGREE, DO YOU?

Please work to get a Washington State law to the same effect! Find your legislator contact information here. Contact your legislators today.

(Government contacts: http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml)

 

Contact President Obama to lend your support to getting a federal law as well, http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

Mona Vanek, Editor. 

"Birding with a Kid with Brain Cancer at Blue Lyra Reveiw

Usually the stories offered here are local or Palouse regional in nature, and today I'd planned to introduce you to the following  two writers who impress me, and who are also fellow members of the writing list, Internet Writing Workshop.

Adrienne Ross Scanlan: “Birding with a Kid with Brain Cancer,” is a guest post at Shannon Huffman Polson's, A Border Life blog and website (http://tinyurl.com/bbvtagf), Blue Lyra Review's first issue of 2013 is now up and running! Take a look at http://bluelyrareview.com/issue-2-1/

Gary E. Presley, An essay including Freud, knives, Japan, France, and other people and places ... http://bluelyrareview.com/gary-presley.

However, you'll also find a treasure-trove of excellent writing in each month's IWW Members' Publishing Successes here when you scroll down, http://internetwritingworkshop.blogspot.com/.