June 2012
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Why Did The Weapons Manufacturer Bribe The Armed...
More powerful than the killing machines they manufacture Northrup Grumman has given more money to Buck McKeon, (R-CA), Chairman of the Committee on Armed Services then any other member in Congress. In March, 2011, in a tit for tat move, McKeon tapped vice-president and lobbyist for Northrup, Thomas MacKenzie, to oversee defense contracts. Grumman reportedly paid MacKenzie “$500,000 a few weeks...
Email The Supreme Court! Tell Them to Give Us Back...
The Supreme Court will meet this Thursday 6/14/12, for a private chat about Citizens United, you know the ruling that gave corporations the same rights as people, which when you think about it is exactly what the anti-choice movement is trying to do with fetuses. I digress. The reason Citizens is back before the Supreme Court is not because corporate money has completely corrupted the democratic...
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Where Were You On 9/11 Rush Limbaugh?
I am not a woman prone to vitriol, acerbic commentary yes, vitriol no, but this lastest from Rush has me frothing at the mouth which is why I wrote the following.
Here’s the link to the video that got me so upset:
Hey Pig Man, I didn’t see you running up the stairs of the towers on 9/11. I was there but I sure didn’t see you. Then again I seriously doubt you would understand the...
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Nuns On The Bus Tour
American Catholic nuns are going on the road, taking their fight against the Ryan budget cuts for programs for the poor, to the people. As per Sister Simone Campbell, in an excellent NPR interview with Michel Martin…
“If Congressman Ryan hadn’t mentioned his faith, I don’t know if we would come up with this idea, but the fact that he was claiming – it’s an outrageous claim in my view that the...
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North Dakota Religious Freedom Amendment Would...
In order to form a more perfect theocracy, the latest from the lunatic fringe is the North Dakota Religious Freedom Amendment, or Measure 3, due to appear on the North Dakota Ballot, this Tuesday, June 12, 2012. As ever when you hear the words “religious freedom” you can be sure that whatever is being discussed has virtually nothing to do with religious freedom and everything to do with...
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Recall Election Fraud in Wisconsin? You Betcha!
When I heard the election had been called for Walker, I posted on my fb page, “something’s hinky here.” I felt that way then and I know it for sure now. The early exit polls predicted the race between Walker and Barrett to be a virtual tie. A second round of exit polling data gave Walker a small lead over Barrett but was still “too close to call.” MSNBC and Fox called the election for Walker an...
May 2012
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ANTI-ABORTION GROUP'S VIDEO LIES TO PUSH PASSAGE...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
When I read a few weeks ago that Planned Parenthood suspected yet another sting was going on I wondered what that little, lying viper Lila Rose and her anti-abortion group Live Action were up to now. The last hoax of a sting led by Rose was part of the AUL report that would become the grounds for opening up a Congressional Investigation into Planned Parenthood. That would...
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GOP Women - Supporting Wage Discrimination Against...
Gotta love an election year, first 14 GOP women come out with an Op Ed for Politico, “The GOP is the Real Party of the American Woman,” and then a few days later twenty-four GOP women announce the formation of the GOP’s Women’s Policy Committee complete with a get-to-know-us-we’re- just-like-you-video meant to put that pesky rumor about the Republican War Against Women to rest. Kind of curious as...
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Senate Committee Approves Bill Allowing Military...
Friday, May 25, 2012
When Fox Pundit Liz Trotta was told that there has been a 64% increase in sexual assaults in the military since 2006, her response was, “Now what did they expect, these people are in close contact.” Obviously the Senate Arms Committee, which voted yesterday, 16-10, in favor of the Shaheen Amendment, does not agree with Ms. Trotta.
That the Department of Defense already...
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Rape Causes Prostate and Testicular Cancer in Men
The link between rape and prostrate and testicular cancer was verified today by noted psychic and spiritualist, Jancee Dobson. Jancee, who rose to prominence when she spotted Jesus’s face in a strawberry milkshake, says that the opening created by the latest eclipse allowed for the information to be downloaded into her, with love, from the Universe. She hopes that by sharing the information to...
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Notes from the Uprising 5/22/12
Yesterday, May 21st, 2012, twelve lawsuits were filed against the Obama administration, by 43 Catholic groups. What the suits would have you believe is that insurance mandated coverage of contraception interferes with the practice of Catholicism. This is a stretch even for Catholics who are behind the record number of anti-choice restrictions introduced and passed over the last two years that all...
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Billboards of Aborted Fetuses Coming Soon to a...
Clearly abortion is the central issue of the 2012 election for Mark Harrington, former Executive Director of the Midwest office of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform and ringmaster of the Center’s visiting circus that is the Genocide Awareness Project. GAP is a traveling photo show that tours college campuses utilizing the overwhelming power of image to link abortion to victims of the holocaust and...
April 2012
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Shoot Out at the Va Jay Jay Corral
Republicans Say, “Woman Up!” (posted on addicting info 4/30/12 under the title “Republicans Send in the Women to Speak Against the Women”)
The Republicans are starting to fear for their jobs. Who knew that Komen would trigger off a perfect storm of women on facebook organizing for rights and reproductive freedoms. Who’d of thought it’d catch like a match on dry tinder, and that the...
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Woman Against Women – Kristina Daley Roegner The...
Kristina Roegner, (R-Ohio) a married mother of three, Tea Party candidate and first year state representative was seated on the Hudson City Council when the Republicans discovered and decided to field her as a candidate in the 2010 mid-term elections against democrat Mike Moran. Since her election the soft-spoken Ms. Roegner, who has co-sponsored and been instrumental in the passage of three...
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Spank Me?
916 anti-woman bills have been introduced by the GOP since March 2011, over three-quarters of pro-choice women can’t put names and faces to the women who are writing/sponsoring pro-life legislation, women have pretty much lost the rights that we have worked over sixty years to attain, and an editor of a major magazine, a woman who yields considerable structural power, decided this would be a good...
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Woman Against Women - Charmaine Yoest
The nationwide juggernaut of anti-abortion legislation we witnessed in 2011, and are witnessing daily in 2012, is clearly part of a perfectly coordinated and precisely executed strategy to chip away at abortion rights at the state level. It’s quite brilliant actually, why take on abortion at the federal level where a win is not guaranteed when with the right language in the right states a win is...
Woman Against Women - Kimberly Yee
Monday, April 16, 2012
Republican Representative Kimberly Yee, the sponsor of HB 2036, is the first Asian American woman to serve in the Arizona State Legislation. She was originally appointed by the Maricopa County Board to replace Republican Representative Doug Quellan, who was removed from office in August 2010 for violating Clean Election Limits. The pro-life, pro-guns, pro-privatized...
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Hilary versus Ann Notes from the Uprising 4/12/12
When I was married I could stay home and raise my son because my husband was bringing home a sizable paycheck. When I got divorced I could no longer afford to stay home, I had to get a job. For me, and most of women in the United States, and the world for that matter, the difference between choosing to be a stay at home mom and a working mom is a matter of economics. Hilary Rosen has been...
Max Tucker
Oh dear, Max Tucker’s publicist is upset because Planned Parenthood said no to Max’s offer of $500,000 to either set up a clinic in his name or keep a clinic open and rename it the Max Tucker Clinic. He’s even said that Planned Parenthood is doing to Max what Komen did to Planned Parenthood. Who knew Max Tucker was a low-income woman in need of a mammogram? We all thought he was just your garden...
Notes from the Uprising 04/02/12...Big Oil and God
“And on the eight day man created money and man so loved his bloodless creation he built and ordered an entire world around it.” Jane Lee Randall
Oil is a finite resource and we’re running out. Big oil’s answer to this is nuclear power, fracking, the Keystone XL pipeline, and off-shore drilling, what I call the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Clearly when your God gives you dominion...
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Notes from the Uprising 04/01/12...Insurance
I don’t want the government ordering me to buy anything, nobody does, at the same time I am told that in order to guarantee health insurance for everyone, the young and the healthy must buy it in order to offset the costs of insuring the elderly and the infirm. What I am supposed to believe is that insurance companies can’t afford to offer affordable premiums until everyone is required to buy...
March 2012
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Notes from the Uprising 03/14/12...Wryd Thinking
My father told me when I was little that if the Democrats had their way they’d give away all the money and if the Republicans had their way they’d keep all the money. Remembering this I think, as a Woman of the Wyrd, of the tension of the opposites; it is in the tension of the two, the middle, that the balance is found. Continuing to think along the lines of a Woman of the Wyrd, if the ‘whole’ is...
Notes from the Uprising...Thoughts on the Rich...
“We won’t survive four or eight years of GOP reign. Seriously. So let’s get our collective shit together, liberals, progressives, Democrats, and hippies. All you rich muckity-mucks out there, start ponying up some serious cash.” Bill Maher
“Until a few weeks ago, the president might have credibly campaigned against the undue influence of special interests on his Republican rivals. He...
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Notes from the Uprising 03/07/12...Are Women Being...
I can’t shake the feeling that on some level women are being played. Clearly the timing of Obama’s mandate for insurance covered contraception was a political move. During his term in office he lost the support of virtually all the women who put him there and what would bring them back faster then insurance covered birth control. There is no doubt the brains behind his re-election knew this would...
Notes from the Uprising 03/03/12...Democracy...
The pressure coming out of facebook and twitter shattered Susan G. Komen. The pressure coming out of facebook and twitter can shatter Rush Limbaugh, the face and uncensored voice of the modern Republican Party, provided we keep up the pressure. Women are learning that they have a say, that they are not alone in their feelings, and the evidence is in our faces that together we are powerful. SGK is...
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Notes from the Uprising 03/06/12...Adam was a...
That misogyny threads through every aspect of American life is a given, a fact, and directly due to Patriarchal religion which holds woman responsible for the downfall of mankind. Because of a woman man got himself thrown out paradise and by golly we’ve got to pay for it. Of course if Adam had any balls at all he would have said, “yo Yahweh, Eve didn’t make me eat the apple, it was my decision,”...
Notes from the Uprising 03/01/12…A Review
I woke up this morning thinking what is now apparent to so many (the Republican War Against Women, the 1%’s a abuse of power and global control, the rampant destruction of our natural resources) has been apparent to quite a few people for a long, long time. They have been in the trenches fighting back for years and are now being joined by even more people, thousands of men and women, all...
February 2012
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Notes from the Uprising 02/26/12...Propinquity
There’s a price we pay when we quit questioning because there are no easy answers and we live in a world of either or; there’s a price we pay when we refuse to bump into and sit with the unfairness of it all, and the impossible to know why. Unless we consciously stay with our grief and our pain, let it run its flooding course and in the raw aftermath of tenderness reach out to others to hold and...
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Notes from the Uprising...Thoughts on the Rich...
“We won’t survive four or eight years of GOP reign. Seriously. So let’s get our collective shit together, liberals, progressives, Democrats, and hippies. All you rich muckity-mucks out there, start ponying up some serious cash.” Bill Maher
“Until a few weeks ago, the president might have credibly campaigned against the undue influence of special interests on his Republican rivals. He...
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Per Erectile Dysfunction - A Letter to the...
From: Katherine Manaan - The Kitchen Table Caucus
To: The Republican Party
Dear Sirs and Madames,
In answer to the document we have recently received….if erectile dysfunction is to be defined (and it is) as a medical condition deserving of coverage what is actually being said is that a man’s inability to achieve tumescence is as harmful to his health and quality of life as say asthma or high...
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Notes from the Uprising 02/22/12...We Need a New...
from “Genesis 2: The Passion of Emma Ray Earle,” by Katherine Manaan
‘I am Creation, Mighty Creation, and I danced the earth into being, the stars and the heavens I danced, the seas the lakes all humming life I danced. Created by Me out of Me, I am Creation and I live in the Created. I am Creation, Mighty Creation, and I drew the true God into being, from Me I drew the true God, the...
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Notes from the Uprising 02/21/12...What it is,...
Women’s reproductive freedom is not a war against religion; it is a war against religion imposing its will on the tribe of women. To say that the battle for women’s rights and women’s reproductive freedom isn’t about religion though would be a lie. It is about a religion; an extremely loud and rich group of men and women are using their God and the holy texts from which He sprung as sacred and...
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Notes from the Uprising 02/20/12...United We Stand
As the momentum of the women’s movement for reproductive freedom continues to build we have to be careful not to let them split us apart. They will try. The way to break a movement is to play the members against each other. You get the angry members over here mad at the peace freaks over there mad at the young ones over there mad at the oldsters over there and the next thing you know the whole...
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Notes from the Uprising 02/19/12......
I read this morning that the upcoming election is supposed to be about jobs and the economy, not the social issues of contraception and women’s reproductive freedoms. I say the war against women is being led by the same men and women who support the 1%; the same men and women who believe that corporations are people; the same men and women who believe that people who are out of work are...
November 2011
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ECON 101A - my very first post ever!
One of my very young women friends asked me the other day what I thought about the cougar phenomenon. I said I don’t think about it at all, I’m too busy witnessing the end of civilization as we know it, which I find infinitely more interesting than the distraction of a media manufactured archetype. My poor friend looked confused and a little hurt by the curtness of my tone and as she is a sweetie...
June 2011
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Consider the Light Bulb
1st posted 6/20/11
I had no idea light bulbs were about to be discontinued until I read an article in the New York Times a couple of weeks ago about people who were stock-piling them. I had no idea that the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 phases out incandescent light bulbs, that would be the normal ones, the ones we’re using right now, by 2012-2014. What is being touted as a...
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Consider the Light Bulb
I had no idea light bulbs were about to be discontinued until I read an article in the New York Times a couple of weeks ago about people who were stock-piling them. I had no idea that the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 phases out incandescent light bulbs, that would be the normal ones, the ones we’re using right now, by 2012-2014. What is being touted as a superior and green...
December 2010
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Thoughts on Consciousness, Context, and Change…
As I was making my leave-to-the-dark-to-make-room-for-the-New-Light list, one of the things I decided I’d like to create in my life is a more positive attitude. Within two hours after I completed my ritual, my entire shadow, around why I can’t be more positive, erupted. The excuses are good ones, valid, but they are rooted in an old context,...
