And He's Got Good Taste in Beer, too!

Pictured above (courtesy of the Root, of which Prof. Gates is Editor-in-Chief) are the beverage choices, L-R with President Obama's being the Red Stripe. I do like this man. =)

(psssssst...now get us a Single Payer Option!!!!)

Let the Games Begin!

Columbus, OH (LifeNews.com) -- An Ohio lawmaker has re-introduced legislation that would include a father's rights in the abortion decision-making process. Under Roe v. Wade, fathers are left out of the equation when a woman considers whether or not to have an abortion that would end the life of their child.

 

Ok, what has me dubious from the beginning is the name of that website. Ugh. That always means bad news for women. Let me point out that one is not a father until a baby is born alive. Until then it's really not an issue. Ok, and who writes these things? Is there some other type of abortion that doesn't end the life of that fetus? Just sayin'.

Rep. John Adams, a Republican from Sidney, wants to change that and the legislation he introduced today, House Bill 252, would require the biological father's consent before an abortion can be done.

The bill would apply to any abortion and would require written consent before it can be done.

Oh now this is disgusting. I can see where a victim of rape would go and find her rapist (and in so many cases a member of the family!!) and ask for written permission (wtf!!) to abort the product of that rape. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Adams told the Daily Reporter newspaper that abortion centers would "need to get consent from the biological father" before the abortion can proceed and he called the measure a "father's right bill" to protect the interest of fathers who are given no say in the abortion process.

Once they can conceive, carry, give birth to, and support financially the fetus they are more than welcome to have a say in the 'abortion process'. Until then, STFU!! Or, you know, get a vasectomy. Or, you know, wear a condom. Or, you know, don't have sex with pro-choicers. That way those poor men feeling left out can avoid the heartbreak of psoriasis. Or whatever.

He also said the bill provides for criminal penalties for women seeking abortions who do not obtain consent properly.

"Providing a false biological father would be a first-degree misdemeanor the first time, which means not more than six months and jail, and a maximum $1,000 fine," Adams said. "And on the second occasion, providing false information would be considered a fifth-degree felony."

Oh for fuck's sake!! Do we really have to take this asshole's rambling seriously? And, where is the proof of all this? How would it be obtained? Would they violate privacy laws regarding health records? Oh, right. yeah, they would love to do just that to keep those wimmin in line.

Adams told the newspaper that, in cases when the mother does not know the identity of the father, the abortion would be prohibited.

"There needs to be responsibility for actions," Adams said. "As someone who is pro-life, this is also an attempt and a hope to keep the two people who have created that child together, and I suppose if you just go back to the simple beginning, there is merit to chastity, and to young men and women waiting until marriage."

Yeah!!!! Let those sluts get what they deserve!!!!

Adams said the bill offers exceptions in cases of rape or incest or when the life of the mother is threatened by the pregnancy.

Well yeah, he doesn't have to risk his life or deal with lifelong consequences of pregnancy and childbirth, what the fuck does he care?

This is the second time Adams has introduced the bill and he expects abortion advocates to oppose it when it comes to a committee debate and vote.

Cause he didn't get the message the FIRST TIME it was voted down. And he's an asshole.

"The issue does stir emotion on both sides," Adams said. "When I introduced House Bill 287, I had some conversations that were less than pleasant."

Yep. Asshole. The truth reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally stings, huh?

He said Ohio Right to Life supports the bill and that he has more co-sponsors this time around, including a Democrat, Rep. Roland Winburn of Dayton.

So in Ohio if you get a divorce, are you still cousins?

(via Feministing)

"Ridicule is the only weapon that can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them."

-Thomas Jefferson

Dumb-Ass Update

Ok, I was #1 Wrong about the article. It was article #2 that had the quote.

 

Also! #2, I was wrong about the quote.

 

When the officer repeatedly told Gates he would speak with him outside, the normally mild-mannered professor shouted, "Ya, I'll speak with your mama outside,'' according to the report.

 

So yeah, I'm a dumb-ass. Does it count that I copped to it? Get it? Copped? No, I'm still a dumb-ass.

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"Ridicule is the only weapon that can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them."

-Thomas Jefferson

I Know, I Should Move On, But...

I can't get over this incredibly face-palm-inducing story about the Famous Harvard Professor who was arrested for breaking and entering his own home. I guess that's what, L.iving W.hile B.lack? True, he wasn't arrested specifically for b&e; it was more like the PD thought he was too damn uppity. As USUAL. I love what the Boston Globe quoted the poor guy as saying to the ignorant police sergeant when asked to step outside.

 

"I'll take your mama outside!"

 

It's fucking ridiculous what minorities have to endure in this country no matter what anyone says about a 'post-racist america'. There are way too many examples of racism alive and well. So we got ourselves a black president, so fucking what? That just pissed more people off! I work in a clinic full of veterans and someone took Obama's picture and turned it to the wall. What kind of respect is that?

 

I've seen such shit go on since the man ran for office. A co-worker of mine said she wasn't voting Obama because 'he's just going to get shot anyway, and I don't like Joe Biden'. Whoaaaaaaaaa, there. This is an otherwise nice, normal person saying racist shit. She then asked me if I thought he'd get shot. Did I mention this was while I was admiring a plane flyover with 'Vote Obama' streaming behind it? I think I was shocked speechless, which is admittedly kind of rare for me. I said that I definitely hoped not and expected better from our country, but damn!

 

I really truly hope that this incident sparks some kind of overhaul of the Cambridge PD's treatment of blacks. I know it usually takes shit like this to get into the mainstream, and usually a big-ass lawsuit to follow it.

 

UPDATE: They erased that version of the story!! What the fuck? Now it's one page instead of two, and the quote is missing!!

 

Now that's interesting. Maybe it's as or more interesting than the original story.

 

Heh. No way.

 

 

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"Ridicule is the only weapon that can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them."

-Thomas Jefferson

Too Funny (I think)

Today is the six-month anniversary of my dad's death, and I went online randomly to see what would come up with his name. Well! Someone in the family liked the obit I wrote so much they published it again!! This time in the Detroit Lakes paper, which serves the reservation where he and the family grew up. Huh.

They added some things to it, but basically it's the same one, even with my name spelled wrong (after we sent in the original one to the North Co. Times in Escondido the paper people put our names in spelled wrong) under survivors.

I still miss him. He was one of a kind, truly.

Thanks Dad!

Before you read this post, read this Op-Ed from the NYT.

What a crock of paternalistic shit. Thank you O Great White Man for trying to save the alcoholic injuns from themselves. I love it when Daddy runs to my rescue before I've said I need it. Where is this guy in the cities with a dozen pawn shops and check-cashing 'stores' on each block to take advantage of poor minorities? But no, he feels a 'deeper responsibility' to right what he sees as wrongs done to the poor widdle injuns of South Dakota.

When do the people of Pine Ridge get to grow up and eat at the big peoples' table? You'd think it's enough that they've been terrorized and reduced to poverty-stricken numbers.

According to Wikipedia (cause I'm lazy):

Although Pine Ridge is the eighth largest reservation in the United States, it is the poorest reservation. Unemployment on the reservation hovers around 80% and 49% live below the Federal poverty level.[2] Adolescent suicide is four times the national average. Many of the families have no electricity, telephone, running water, or sewer. Many families use wood stoves to heat their homes. The population on Pine Ridge has among the shortest life expectancies of any group in the Western Hemisphere: approximately 47 years for males and in the low 50s for females. The infant mortality rate is five times the United States national average. Reservation population was estimated at 15,000 in the 2000 census, but that number was raised to 28,787 by HUD, following a University of Colorado door-to-door study.[3]

So they drink and he thinks that taking away a source of alcohol is going to make things perfect for them? What about healthcare? What about schools? What about Wounded Knee, for fuck's sake? How about an apology for THAT - not because they get to buy booze. They are a sovereign nation so stop treating them like they attend a day care center for the mentally retarded!!

What the Cool Kids Listen To (aka random iPod 10)

1. English Trees - Crowded House
2. Jane - Ben Folds Five
3. Is She Weird - Pixies
4. Battle of Who Could Care Less - Ben Folds Five
5. All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem
6. Go to Hell - Nina Simone
7. Doorbell - White Stripes
8. The Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young
9. Magic - Ben Folds Five
10. Hide - Matthew Sweet

"new atheists?" (h/t PZ)

What the goddamn is a new atheist? I'm pretty sure that non-believers have always been the same, you know, non-believers. Well apparently there's a push from some quarters to separate the "new" from the "old." I'm not exactly sure why but I think it's the apologists who are so damned set on dividing the atheists. It's my opinion that we are not under any compulsion to beg, bow and scrape before religion or it's followers just so that we appear to be sweet and non-threatening as little bunnies while they strive to remove our rights under the banner of gods.

By my last count we were listed as the least trusted or liked population in the whole of North America. We're blamed for the downfalls of society while the religious right makes money by the bucket and causes upturns in cases of HIV and teenage pregnancy as well as divorce.

So, you know, all you religious, push-your-faith-based-laws-on-me types? Suck it.

Some People Aren't Worth the Oxygen They Waste

Lemme at 'em...LEMME AT 'EM!!!!

(awful picture in the article, fair warning)

No Soap in Mouth Required (part one)

Swearing actually helps with pain control? That's why I'm so goddamned tough.

I recall the rules of the household where I was spawned, and it was this: Don't Cuss!! Didn't matter if you were being killed, you'd better not utter so much as a "dang" or you were fucking TOAST. I was grounded for a month once for saying "gol dang." Seriously. I shit you not.

I heard my mother drop the F bomb ONE time in my entire life, and I'm still scarred by it. I was eleven (*sob*) and it was in the dining room of our place in Minneapolis. I remember gasping out "...MOM!" and with a shocked look on her own face she went in the other room and we tacitly agreed to let the matter drop.

(h/t Pam's House Blend)

Cat-Ass Coffee!

The new drink, new! From my cat, Patsy. This is coffee that is freshly ground, then brewed, put lovingly into a mug with delicious half and half, then just before you drink it, the CAT comes up and situates her ASS into it. 

I love pets. 

UPDATE!! 

I came back to my room and there was LITTER in my bed. YAY again for pets we love. 

Happy Friday!

I finally have my car back, sans bad brakes and oil leak, and I can go out and see my thousand pounds of horse love Sa-Fire tonight!! I think I'm addicted to becoming A1 in horsemanship.

After "researching" how to off myself the simplest way possible, I finally realized that I was doing it and called my psychiatrist. So! My meds are doubling. That might keep me around. And, did you know a barbituate overdose can put you in a coma and kill you in a record 26 minutes? Just sayin.

Another day, another bundle of bills

My car is such a piece of shite. I have no idea what it'll cost to fix the GRINDING noise that just started but I guess I'll find out after I get the estimate. In the mean time I'm bussing it and cannot get to the stables to see my horse. Dammit!

That was easy.

Who knew? All it would take to shut people up is tell them you know there's a problem.

 

NOTHING WORSE THAN ADMITTING THERE'S A PROBLEM IS THERE??

 

So that shut 'em up.

 

"There's a problem, it's not my problem, but please let me assist you so we can move on." I like that. I get to take the high road, and others get to STFU.

 

Wahoo! I do love me some gub'mint employees!!

 

 

S.N.A.F.U.

That's what they say in the military, right? Whoever came up with it needs a fucking medal. I'm drowning in a sea of unnecessary drama at work and I am just DYING to kick someone in the ballz.

What Gets Through the Spam Filters

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Pissed-Offed-ness

Yeah, I'm pissed off. It's hard to explain why because I feel like I should just be grateful to be fixed and apparently Crohn's free in my gut. But seriously, what the fuck? In 2005 when I had my ICD switched out they used conscious sedation and I flipped right the fuck out and they flagged me as "combative" under that type of anesthesia. So I've been telling my GI for years, positively YEARS that he should always use general anesthesia for any procedures. Nobody fucking listens to me! I talked with the nurse yesterday as they were prepping me for this colonoscopy with dilation (to fix strictures) and I specifically asked about the sedation. She said there was a note in my chart saying that there could be issues with it so they were "totally prepared" for it.

I then spoke with the sedation nurse to let her know there can be problems with it, so because the GI doc won't listen and do general that she should be ready. She said she knew about it and was "totally prepared" with extra sedation for me just in case. She started the dosing and after THREE doses I was finally out. Ya, THREE. So, great, right? No. Next thing I know I'm awake, alert, and being tortured. I heard the doctor talking about different balloon things (the dilation) and I felt the most horrible pushing and shoving pain in my gut that I've ever felt. So I said OW! OW! OW! over and over and they were fucking ignoring me!! I was AWAKE and they were just continuing like I was a piece of MEAT. I was yelling for them to give me more drugs because fucking OUCH!!! and then finally I passed out again and woke up in recovery. So how fucking long were they going to wait until they realized I was awake and screaming in pain before sedating me again?? They were "Totally Prepared," right? Fuck that noise. I was pissed.

I woke up and the nurse brought in the boyfriend and the first thing I did was have him give me clonazepam so I didn't kick the doctor in the NUTS when he came in with my "results." God-DAMMIT!!!!! I know I was short-tempered with just about everyone there until I got the fuck out, then I doped myself good and heavy, ate some lunch, and passed out for 5 hours. Then, I woke up, still pissed, played WoW for a bit, doped myself good again, and passed out for the night. ARRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

I shouldn't be this pissed seeing as how I now have an intestine wide enough to pass food so I won't be hospitalized every other month like I have been. Also, my medicine is working and there's no disease visible. That means no medicine regimen change either. So good news, right? Well Goddammit I'm still PISSED off. This hurts, for one, and for two, I fucking TOLD every fucking person there, including my doctor, for the past four YEARS that I need to be under general for these things, and I ended up being fucking TORTURED anyway!