Bigfoot Caught Rubbing One Out
February 28, 2012 Leave a comment
That’s what I thought too, but it’s actually Bigfoot holding a fish.
Don’t Do It. Fight The Urge!
February 27, 2012 Leave a comment
Ahhh, ya weakling. =) It does really sound like that, huh?
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Will Women Rise Up In 2012?
February 25, 2012 2 Comments
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The barbarians are not at the gate: they are inside, raping and pillaging, and it’s the women who need to put a stop to it.
According to Emerge America, the US ranks 84th in the world for women in elected office. We lag behind Mexico, China, and Pakistan – and 80 others.
Women make up only 17% of office holders in the US Congress.
Those numbers are responsible, at least in part, for the following numbers.
Women have the right to choose whether or not to have abortions in the US, thanks to the Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade in 1973.
Or do they?
According to the National Abortion Federation, 88% of counties in the US have no identifiable abortion service provider. If you live outside a major metropolitan area, good luck – 97% of counties have no identifiable abortion service provider.
One number I don’t have but would like to have: what is the average distance a woman outside a major metropolitan area would have to travel in order to obtain abortion services?
According to the Guttmacher Institute,
11 states require verbal counseling or written materials to include information on accessing ultrasound services.
20 states regulate the provision of ultrasound by abortion provider
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 11 states have laws on the books that permit doctors or pharmacists to refuse to provide contraceptive or other services on moral or religious grounds without fear of being sued. This is not just abortion. This is contraception, including emergency contraception. It may be legal, you may choose to use it – and some guy in a lab coat may legally deny it to you.
You think you have choice? It depends on how far you are prepared to travel, and who is on duty when you get there.
If you know women who would make good office holders in a local, state, or national level, send them this article and put them in touch with Emerge America. They train women to run for office. They currently have affiliates in only 9 states. My guess is that you could travel from one of the other 41 states for a training elsewhere. (Women have to do a LOT of traveling to get things done in America. That needs to change, too.) 40% of their workshop graduates are women of color. 60% of graduates who have run for office after one of Emerge America’s workshops have won their elections. You could also check out the resources at Emily’s List, to see if they have trainings closer to home.
We need more women like Elizabeth Warren and Gabrielle Giffords to counteract the Santorums and Gingriches and Issas of our country.
It’s time for women to either Take Over, or Take Cover. This year. This election. Enough is Enough.
"The state legislature did WHAT?"
Alex Kingston, in Warrior Queen.
UPDATE:
There will be marches on April 28, on DC and, more importantly, to state capitols all across the country, where most of the inroads against women’s freedoms have been made. You can find details about the state and national marches here.
But please, be advised: no march will make the difference that needs to be made. They make an important statement, and are a rallying battle cry, no doubt. But Women Must Run For Office. There are other ways to be take up arms, too. Go to med, nursing, pharmaceutical or law school, and determine to provide the services women need, whether mandated or permitted or not. Elect pro-woman men to office, if no women are ready for a particular election. Most of all: improvise. Women are great creative thinkers and multi-taskers. Last thing you need is for me, or any man, to tell you how to run your revolt. But count me in!
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They love that
February 25, 2012 1 Comment
Can we be feminist and still have a sense of humor? I think so. Try not to laugh. Discuss.
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Santorum’s Theme Song: “Every Sperm Is Sacred” – Flash Mob, Anyone?
February 10, 2012 2 Comments
With Rick Santorum surging in the polls, it reminds me of a song that should be his theme song. Just imagine interrupting his next speech with a rousing rendition of this – from Monty Python‘s “The Meaning Of Life”
Instant Karma: They Fired The Dumb Bitch
January 18, 2012 Leave a comment
That’s right, the asshole PRODUCER got fired. Of course, if he hadn’t been on the air, he might’ve got promoted for being such an asshole.
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Re-Elect Obama: Should We, or Shouldn’t We?
December 16, 2011 Leave a comment
In response to the endorsement of Obama’s re-election by the All Pueblo Indian Council, I suggested on Facebook that that endorsement was inconceivable. One commenter simply replied, “OBAMA 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
” I asked, Why? Her very enthusiastic response basically boiled down to, “Because he’s not a Republican, and he got a Nobel Peace Prize.” She named not a single accomplishment.
Likewise, I have seen erstwhile critics of Obama who are now prepared to jump on the bandwagon for his re-election, and the most common reason, if not the only one, is that the Republican would be worse.
My own feeling – and I volunteered for his campaign, and voted for him in the Democratic primary – is that no one with so abysmal a record in office deserves to be re-elected. That’s a gross over-simplification. I know the subject is fraught with complexities, but I want to get to one particular thread in the whole issue, and that is this:
What has he done – not spoken eloquently about, but accomplished – that you think justifies his re-election. Or, on the other side, what has he done or failed to do, that you think disqualifies him from re-election, or would, at the very least, make it hard for you to vote for him?
Please make up your list first, before reading mine, so you can follow the thread of your own priorities. And please make this a dialogue. I want to know what others think.
Here’s what I give him credit for, with qualifiers where necessary:
> (Belatedly) ending the war in Iraq (more or less).
> Getting health insurance reform that admittedly covers millions more people (while making government the enforcer, bringing new clients to insurers, who by all rights should have been eliminated)
> Makes damned pretty speeches.
> He sometimes greets the bodies of KIA soldiers when they return to the US, and allows their caskets to be photographed
> He got bin Laden (but did not bring him to trial)
Here are a few of the problems I see:
> No coherent environmental policy, or even posture, at a time when we should be operating on a state of environmental emergency.
> No energy policy that would take us away from Old Carbon or from dependence on other nations
> No effective use of the largest party majority (Democrat OR Republican) in Congress since, I think, the 1930s
> Constant capitulation to Republicans on budget talks
> Opposed the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell – and now tries to take credit for it because it happened on his watch
> Guantanamo is still in operation
> He appointed Geithner AND Summers to positions of leadership in his administration
> No prosecutions of those who crashed Wall Street have happened, and no investigations are apparently underway
> Has not ended Bush’s tax cuts for the richest, nor increased taxes or reduced subsidies on companies recording record profits
> Has not supported marriage equality
> he may (reports differ utterly) have requested the power to indefinitely incarcerate Americans without trial. It’s bad enough that we do this – still – to foreign nationals in Guantanamo. But this would effectively make this a police state. Obama supporters: you want the next Republican president deciding that Occupiers or environmentalists are terrorists and can be held indefinitely?
Unless the president accomplishes a number of significant – I would say revolutionary – steps in these matters before next November, I have no more intention of voting for him as I would any other president with a largely corporatist, anti-environmental track record.
How about you?
Whither #OWS? Lefter or Broader?
December 16, 2011 Leave a comment
But Can OWS Do That?
Addressing a very important issue as the movement grows, this article asks, do we become more radical in a particularly leftist kind of way, or more inclusive?
The author says, “If you believe that the Occupy movement is still struggling for a mass base, as this writer does, then you’ll likely agree that Occupy needs to immediately focus on broadening its base and wage militant struggles for demands that will bring in the wider working class community.”
And further, “an Occupy movement that ignores these popular demands and fails to unite the vast majority–and instead fights for more radical demands that are now only embraced by a relative few–has no real revolutionary potential, since it ignores the basic needs of the majority of working people.”
What think you?
