Category: Women

The Turn of We the People: Women

9/29/2026

Expectations

10/13

Women Reb.
Yes.
Our day ain't like today.
Expectations in both Gus.
Varina was expected to have babies.
It took several years.
Jeff worrying of course.
Mary Chesnut felt the pressure too.
You said she was anti-slavery and anti-Black.
Mary never had children.
Oh-oh.
Her father-in-law wrote his will against her for it.
Punished.
Wrote that if no male heirs were produced, his property would revert to a male descendant.
Mercy.
None given to Mary.
Men did that to women.
Women were mostly a rightless class.
Much like the enslaved.
Correct.

Underrepresented

Women today Johnny.
Right.
That's not much of an answer.
Right.
Maybe women today should speak for themselves.
Perhaps in a new house for We the People.
Represented according to numbers.
In a coalition of the constitutionally willing.
What is their number Reb?
Women are more than 50 percent Yank.
And how much representation in the usurpation do women have Johnny?
About 20 percent.
Whoa.
Women are the largest underrepresented group in America.
So they stand to gain with the thirty Thousand.
The most.
Exciting Reb.

Women are the key to America's greatness

Women are the key Gus.
The key to America’s greatness.
The turn of We the People is the turning of the key.
The key is representation.
The lock is Article 1.
Section 2.
Clause 3.
Of the US Constitution Reb.
Turn the great key America.
Open the door.
Become We the People.
Become who we are.
World leaders of republican representation.
Unlike any other in the world.
Unique even.
It is what makes us great Johnny.
It is America's foundation Gus.
It is America.
First order.

*Next Up: 6 October part 11/13 The Turn of We the People: Privy.

Posted by Bryan W Brickner / Support the US Constitution

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Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Berryvillin’: Front

10/22/2021

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Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Berryvillin': Telling

Part XIII of XIII

“… Here Yank?”
“Thanks Reb, I just …”
“Felt it too Gus.”
“I want to judge Benjamin Berry.”
“We must.”
“Then who judges us?”
“The present.”
“We didn’t treat women right Johnny.”
“We laughed when the idea of women voting was mentioned.”
“Derision.”
“Think of the flag here Gus, and how I once saw it.”
“Enemy.”
“And now?”
“Friend.”
“How’s that possible?”
“A higher value.”
“We the People.”
“We the People.”
“Represented according to numbers.”
“Our thirty Thousand.”
“Some southerners moved away, to places like Illinois and Indiana, to get away from slavery.”
“Burnside Johnny, his father, after the Revolution, moved from South Carolina to Liberty Indiana.”
“Telling.”
“Speaking of telling …”

Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Berryvillin': Somewhere

“… Arnold Burnside reminded me of our Somewhere unfinished business.”
“Ambrose.”
“Arnold to me.”
“Your laughing crow.”
“And Morgan said to start in Berryville.”
“We have started.”
“Now to finish.”
“Correct.”
“I think that means we go see the smudge.”
“I think so too Yank.”
“From here let’s poof over to Somewhere first, and then to DC.”
“I have a starting Somewhere place in mind.”
“Can we slow-poof it to Somewhere?”
“You want to walk through the Valley?”
“The Shenandoah Valley Reb.”
“Right on.”
“Walk-off some of this Berryvillin’.”
“I like it.”
“Let’s go to Harper’s Ferry.”
“And up to Shepherdstown from Halltown.”
“A.P. Hill’s march.”
“Then we’ll cross the Potomac Yank.”
“Garland?”
“On board seems.”
“Oh my Johnny ~ thanks for the Berryville time.”
“Berryvillin’ ~ thanks Gus.”

Next Up: 22 March 2022 and part one of the series Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Somewhere: Georgia Overlook.

Posted by Bryan W. Brickner

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Usurpation Day 2020: Jesus, George and Tyranny

4/9/2020

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Grace is an attribute of Jesus.

The I Ching describes grace as: inside, the strength of simplicity and self-knowledge, outside, the beauty of acceptance and gentleness.

On 9 April 1792, the US House of Representatives couldn’t override President Washington’s veto, so they usurped a right of We the People.

On 9 April 2020, the usurped right to representation according to numbers effects all We the People.

If one uses sex, females are the most underrepresented in the House, composing 51 percent of We the People and only 23 percent representation.

If one uses economics, the middle and lower classes are the most underrepresented.

If one uses constitutionalism, representatives of We the People supporting President Washington and the thirty Thousand are the most underrepresented.

We are no longer a republic: this is tyranny.

End the representation usurpation to become a republic again.

*Next Up: Constitution Day 2020 with Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Berryvillin’.

Posted by Bryan W. Brickner

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Homeostasis: If Not Cannabinoid Receptor Three, then Cannabinoid Receptor Third

6/7/2017

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The Cannabis Papers by Publius

In The Cannabis Papers: A citizen’s guide to cannabinoids (2011), we noted evidence for a CB3 receptor in addition to CB1 and CB2. The research suggested that there was more happening (things to be accounted for, scientifically) and another receptor was proposed. In 2017 it looks like the best answer is a third category of activity and not a specific receptor; notably, this third activity involves many other kinds of receptors.

The Guide to Pharmacology website has an introduction page for cannabinoid receptors; at the bottom of the page there is a section on this third activity (non-CB1 and non-CB2 modulation). The site notes it is “generally accepted” that other receptor types, and thus other systems, are modulated by cannabinoids; this is true for endo, plant and pharmaceutical cannabinoids.

This third signaling effect connects progesterone and nuclear receptors to cannabinoids; it also suggests modulating endometriosis is similar to homeostasis: both depend on cannabinoids for healing and health.

*Next Up: Wednesday 21 June and a 2020: Virtual Representation and We the People.

Posted by Bryan W. Brickner

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Homeostasis: Endometriosis, Progesterone and Cannabinoid Systems

5/24/2017

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Progesterone

Progesterone-dependent regulation of endometrial cannabinoid receptor type 1 (CB1-R) expression is disrupted in women with endometriosis and in isolated stromal cells exposed to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)

The above title was published in Fertility and Sterility in 2012 and can be found on PubMed.

The research finds that endometriosis, where cells grow outside instead of inside the uterus (endometrium), is caused by a failure to communicate between progesterone and the cannabinoid system; this failure is painful and contributes to infertility. Summary quote from the research: “Our studies reveal a role for the anti-inflammatory actions of progesterone in regulating endometrial cannabinoid signaling, which is disrupted in women with endometriosis.”

How does that work though? What is disrupted? If communication between progesterone and the CB1 receptor is disrupted (as cells grow, just in the wrong place), how do cells normally communicate in a healthy, undisrupted homeostatic way?

The answer involves cannabinoid and progesterone nuclear receptor signaling: let’s just begin there next week.

*Next Up: 31 May and a homeostatic view of Progesterone Nuclear Receptors and Cannabinoid Systems.

Posted by Bryan W. Brickner

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Word Wars: Napoleon’s Palm, Our Henry Lee and Hitler’s White Rose

8/25/2014

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Johann Phillip Palm ~ 1768 to 26 August 1806

War Cry Heal Union: The series (8 of 10)

For James Wright Foley (1973-2014) and free speech.

Word wars are always already moral. The powers of the moment, be it Emperor, Mob or Dictator, attempt to control the message through morality’s timeless twins ~ silence and violence.

The US Constitution recognizes this aspect of power in the ageless First Amendment (1791):

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

The story of free speech and press in Western Civilization ~ from Socrates to Foley ~ is a telling story …

Henry Lee III ~ 1756 to 1818

Napoleon’s Palm
On 25 August 1806, Johan Phillip Palm, a German publisher living under the rule of law according to the ideas of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte I, was tried in a mock court. Palm had published news ~ behavioral tales of Napoleon’s soldiers in Germany ~ and did not reveal the author to the mockery; the next day, 26 August 1806, Palm was executed by firing squad.

America’s Henry Lee III
On 27 July 1812, Henry Lee III, a famed American revolutionary living under the rule of law according to the ideas of a mob in Baltimore, was pummeled to incapacitation. Lee was defending Alexander C. Hanson and his First Amendment right to publish an antiwar editorial. The defenders of a free press were attacked by a “Be Quiet!” mob; Lee was never the same health-wise and died in 1818.

Hitler’s White Rose
On 22 February 1943, Sophie Scholl, a German teacher living under the rule of law according to the Nazis and Adolf Hitler, was tried in a mock court. Scholl and two Others, part of a group writing under the name White Rose, were found guilty of publishing antiwar pamphlets and writing anti-government graffiti. The three were beheaded almost immediately ~ five hours after the mockery.

And many Others ~ free speech and press ~ part of everyone's story.

*Next on Ew Publishing’s WCHU: a double feature honoring rebels and constitutions. The Rebels of Harlem Heights begin the summer series finale on Tuesday, 16 September ~ followed by Constitution Day 2014 on Wednesday, 17 September.
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Posted by Bryan W. Brickner

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US Republic, Hebrews and George Washington’s Cleavage

8/17/2014

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First US President George Washington ~ by Gilbert Stuart

(Bonus) War Cry Heal Union: The series (7.5 of 10)

George shows some (representation) cleavage.

Constitutional representation is our theme today with George Washington’s political cleavage our focus.

George wrote a Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport (Rhode Island) 224 years ago, 18 August 1790; his words are in response to a kind letter from the congregation. The year of the letter provides a frame for us; 1790 is the first constitutional Enumeration for the former subjects of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ~ they are now citizens of the United States.

George’s letter has bad and good in it – though that’s not the cleavage. The cleavage is in Washington’s mind; we can sense his humanness and all that goes with it.

The Letter is brief (300 words in 8 paragraphs) and warm; Washington reflects on his visit to Newport and the Revolution; he also applauds the new Republic and its citizens:

“The citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy – a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.”

Those are fine words there George ~ the promises of “liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship” deserve much reflection, particularly given the state of national and world affairs. Yet it is the applause Washington recommends that is the first cleavage: the United States Republic.

The “enlarged and liberal policy” Washington is noting is part of America’s Exceptionalism: constitutional representation of We the People according to numbers (Article I, Section 2, Clause 3). The Hebrew Congregation of Newport, meaning Jews, were protected and counted as US citizens; that was new and it’s American. We highlighted the anti-Semitism of Europe in the Willy-Nicky Were Willy-Nilly Emperors posting; the tribe of Judah, as Emperor Wilhelm eerily noted, were not welcome in Europe; America said it was okay … which was new … in 1790.

There’s more to this letter and George’s words; he goes on to make comments that are perspectival: things about no toleration of bigotry or persecution in the US. Washington doesn’t write like he’s aware of the aborigine, the enslaved or women absented. We won’t cover them today; they show a second political cleavage though, that, like slavery, needs discussion and light.

Glean from George and take what’s best (and then make it better); his high words regarding citizenship are an example of potential gleanings ~ just like America’s (constitutional) Republic.
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Next on Ew Publishing's WCHU: Emperor Napoleon, Palm and Hitler’s White Rose, posting on Tuesday, 26 August.
~ Posted by Bryan W. Brickner

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World War I: Willy-Nicky Were Willy-Nilly Emperors

7/18/2014

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Hannah Arendt and her Mother (1912)

War Cry Heal Union: The series (4th of 10)

Empires crumble in willy-nilly ways.

That’s Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and her mother in 1912. They are Jews in Kaiser Wilhelm’s German Empire ~ and Emperor “Willy” didn’t like Jews.

In Russia and cousin Tsar Nicholas’ empire, the world of Emperor “Nicky,” Jews weren’t liked much either. Examples: the 1891 Ukase (executive order) expelling 20,000 Jews from Moscow and the Russian language gave us the word pogrom ~ an organized, sanctioned and violent assault on a Jewish community.

In Germany the clearest example is Emperor Wilhem. John Röhl, in The Kaiser and His Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany (1994: p. 210), provides some choice 1919 anti-semitic Willy words. First, the former Emperor calls his abdication: “the deepest, most disgusting shame ever perpetrated by a person in history, the Germans have done to themselves... egged on and misled by the tribe of Judah ... Let no German ever forget this, nor rest until these parasites have been destroyed and exterminated from German soil!” Second, Willy praises Russia’s pogroms and, chillingly, said the Jews were a nuisance and should be gotten rid of; in 1919, the fallen German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm even stated how: “I believe the best thing would be gas!”

Kaiser Wilhelm ~ Tsar Nicholas (1905)

War cries.

From 28 July to 1 August 1914, the two Emperors exchanged telegrams with the intention of avoiding “bloodshed” ~ the Willy-Nicky Telegrams. The telegrams are ego-empiric (it is 1914 and Sigmund Freud is nearby in Vienna, Austria); they read nice at the beginning, both talking of peace and accommodation. In the end, on the eve of catastrophe, the letters expose the underlying insecurity and paranoia inherent to empire; Willy and Nicky boxed themselves into their hubristic minds, and in that state one never hears the cries of Others ~ emperor or Jew.

Willy and Nicky’s failure produced 15 million dead, the Soviet Union and Hitler's Third Reich (two more empires really), and sowed the harvest we call World War II. Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates in 1918 and is exiled to the Netherlands; he blames his “Hebrew subjects” and “the tribe of Judah” for his fall and writes Hitler congratulatory notes (on the 1939 invasion of Poland, for example). Tsar Nicholas’ fate is fatal: he abdicates in 1917, is imprisoned and then murdered on the orders of the new Others.

In October 1964, Gunter Gaus interviewed Hannah Arendt on “Zur Person” (The Person); the show was taped for a West German audience and she answers questions about heritage, growing up in Konigsberg and her mother’s influence. The interview highlights Arendt as a political theorist; when asked about 1933 Germany, the year the Nazis came into power, and what that was like, Arendt describes the motivating will of the Unrepresented ~ of the Other ~ that speaks in all ages: “Indifference was no longer possible in 1933. It was impossible even before that.”

Tomorrow on the War Cry Heal Union series ~ Civil War Battle Flags, Medals of Honor and Soldiers Unknown.
Posted by Bryan W. Brickner

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World War I: Empires Crumble and Others Build

6/27/2014

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Sarajevo 28 June 1914

War Cry Heal Union: The series (3rd of 10)

The United States is the Other today: Hannah Arendt cast in lead.

The painting of the assassination on June 28th 1914 portrays the heir to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife Sophie being shot by 19 year-old Gavrilo Princip on a Sarajevo street corner.

The painting encapsulates an era of endemic militancy that fueled 1914 Europe and the catastrophe called World War I: fired shots, stunned chauffer, blank-wall, sabered rider, plumed officer, soldiers sashed, lurched and rifled, and a grounded headless hat.

Those times and today’s circumstances are nicely summed in the Wall Street Journal article, Scars of World War I Linger in Europe on Eve of Centennial. The author notes war’s carnage is never simple (or just) and 15 million dead also means 15 million destroyed homes, families and relationships. Lyrically apropos war is not: it thrives and embellishes disharmonies in order to live off the discord. War needs Others, that is clear. One take home lesson for today is that Peace needs Others just as much (maybe more).

Hannah Arendt, who found citizenship in America, is today’s representative example of the Other. Born in 1906 in one of the Empires about to fall (the German one), Arendt “moved” to the United States running from the Nazis and their ideas of Otherness: Arendt became a US citizen.

Representative Arendt? ~ Yes, it has a nice sound to it.

Citizens like Hannah Arendt in Congress representing a district of thirty thousand as our constitution commands? That too sounds nice. Geez ~ she wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and The Human Condition (1958), and would have added much to any mid-century policy debate.

Maybe that’s one of our political bad habits we can grow away from, this always thinking it can’t matter who’s representing us.

We will learn the constitutional lessons of representing We the People, or, like the generations before us, some will survive the carnage and do what the Others always do – start building again.

Peace Others.

Bryan W. Brickner
Ew Publishing

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Solstice Serotonin (5HTP) Science Stories

6/20/2014

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Life ~ circa 2014

Serotonin activation was our topic on 19 April 2014; it’s serotonin life sciences today with the precursor 5-HTP (5-hydroxytryptophan) in highlight.

Below are four (brief) science stories from the National Institutes of Health (PubMed). Shortened titles should suffice to suggest the main themes: Therapeutic 5-HTP, Hot Flash and Breast Cancer Reduction, Irritable Bowels, and Morphine’s Efficacy. The links and quotes are from PubMed (1998-2014).

Healthy Solstice Everyone!
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Therapeutic 5-HTP Has Been Shown … (1998)
“5-Hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) is the intermediate metabolite of the essential amino acid L-tryptophan (LT) in the biosynthesis of serotonin. Intestinal absorption of 5-HTP does not require the presence of a transport molecule, and is not affected by the presence of other amino acids; therefore it may be taken with meals without reducing its effectiveness. … Therapeutic administration of 5-HTP has been shown to be effective in treating a wide variety of conditions, including depression, fibromyalgia, binge eating associated with obesity, chronic headaches, and insomnia.”
5-Hydroxytryptophan: a clinically-effective serotonin precursor.
Birdsall TC.
Altern Med Rev. 1998 Aug;3(4):271-80. Review.
PMID: 9727088 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Free Article
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Hot Flash (and Breast Cancer) Reduction: a hypothesis (2005)
“This would be particularly desirable for menopausal women with breast cancer or with risks of breast cancer. This article discusses the background information on hot flashes, SSRIs, tryptophan, and 5HTP, and possible clinical application of 5HTP for menopausal women with breast cancer risk.”
The potential of 5-hydryoxytryptophan for hot flash reduction: a hypothesis.
Curcio JJ, Kim LS, Wollner D, Pockaj BA.
Altern Med Rev. 2005 Sep;10(3):216-21.
PMID: 16164376 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Free Article
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A Serotonin-mediated Mechanism in Bowels (2014)
“Oral 5-HTP induced alterations in mucosal 5-HT metabolism. In healthy controls, a reinforcement of the intestinal barrier was seen whereas such reaction was absent in IBS [irritable bowel syndrome] patients. This could indicate the presence of a serotonin-mediated mechanism aimed to reinforce intestinal barrier function, which seems to dysfunction in IBS patients.”
Serotonergic reinforcement of intestinal barrier function is impaired in irritable bowel syndrome.
Keszthelyi D, Troost FJ, Jonkers DM, van Eijk HM, Lindsey PJ, Dekker J, Buurman WA, Masclee AA.
Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2014 Jun 18. doi: 10.1111/apt.12842. [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 24943480 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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Serotonin and Morphine’s Efficacy (2014)
“Systemic administration of morphine increases 5-HT levels in the spinal cord, and the increase in 5-HT contributes to morphine-induced analgesia in the normal state but attenuates that in neuropathic pain through spinal 5-HT3 receptors. The plasticity of the descending serotonergic system may contribute to the reduced efficacy of systemic morphine in neuropathic pain.”
Peripheral Nerve Injury Reduces Analgesic Effects of Systemic Morphine via Spinal 5-Hydroxytryptamine 3 Receptors.
Kimura M, Obata H, Saito S.
Anesthesiology. 2014 Jun 2. [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 24887968 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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Homeostasis: If Not Cannabinoid Receptor Three, then Cannabinoid Receptor Third

Homeostasis: Endometriosis, Progesterone and Cannabinoid Systems

Word Wars: Napoleon’s Palm, Our Henry Lee and Hitler’s White Rose

US Republic, Hebrews and George Washington’s Cleavage

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