I've neglected this blog shamefully and there is no excuse for it. I'm a little depressed lately now that Keith Olbermann's been fired and being snowed in is not doing anything for my disposition.
Having said that, I am now angry again at the latest disgusting and shameless attack upon women's rights by the GOP with the pretense of saving "babies". I say baby in quote marks because it takes a while for the zygote to grow into the beginnings of a person.
I am appalled with the coddling of pro-life crybabies who now have a legal leg to stand upon, to refuse to fill a valid prescription for birth control, instead these assholes should be given a swift kick in the ass and a cup of shut the fuck up and do your job. I type this as a Certified Pharmacy Technician and a woman who doesn't want to have children. I say this as a woman who supports the rights of other women to plan how many children they want, for the rights of all women everywhere to not be burdened with an unwanted child.
I write this with a shout-out to Angry Black Bitch . This is A Pro Choice Blog!
04 February 2011
09 January 2011
Arizona shooting
I wish for a full recovery to Representatve Gabrielle Giffords, and the people who were injured or died because of the attack that happened when Representative Giffords was meeting her constituents when she was shot and people died. I also hope that those who died have gone to Heaven, and that any other victims will make a full recovery.
An open letter to Sarah Palin
9 January 2011
Dear Governor Mrs. Palin:
Hi, we've never met, my name is Anastasia and I am your average liberal. I'd like to point out a few things we want for this country that you might not agree with, but let's see if I can help. I don't presume to speak for every liberal but I would like to share a few things.
As a liberal I want the following for America:
I want good schools for the children so we can compete in the information economy. I want good schools for children so that my child can have a better life than I do .
I want us to recycle more and start having green jobs until humanity figures out what's going on with global warming so we don't destroy animals and ourselves. I think it is practical to recycle and as Benjamin Franklin said, "Waste not, want not."
I want to be represented fairly, and so i vote. I have been registered since 1996 and have only missed a couple elections. I also write to my representative, my senator and president with my computer and the Internet.
I want widespread broadband Internet access for the whole country, and net neutrality so that information can be available widely and that people can communicate freely.
I want a secular government that does not favor any particular religion, in which the rights of the many are not trampled by the noisiest who lately seem to want government to favor evangelical Christianity.
I want freedom of religion for every American to worship as they see fit. I want freedom from religion as well for those of us who do not believe in God to not be coerced or harassed. I am an atheist, I had attended a Baptist church but it was not for me. I am an atheist and I am not an axe murderer, an addict and i am trying to be good without God, and there are people in every state and country doing this too. We believe that what we put out into the world is what we get back, like karma or the Golden rule.
We want universal access to health care so that children don't die young from untreated pneumonia, nor that adults suffer from undiagnosed diabetes or high blood pressure or cancer or any number of conditions. I think it is a waste when kids like Kara Neumann die from untreated diabetes. nor should other children like Ava Worthington, Neil Beagley, Aaron Gregory Grady have died from treatable illnesses. We want all children to be happy, healthy, and able to follow their dreams of going to college, being a professional athlete, being a musician, owning a bakery, traveling, owning a Camaro or even to get married and have their own children.
I want food that has NOT been tainted by fecal matter, E. Coli, salmonella and is not loaded with high fructose corn syrup or preservatives.
I want manufacturing jobs so that Americans can have good jobs that permit them to own their home, save for retirement and send their children to college without an outrageous debt load.
I want financial and bank regulations so that unscrupulous practices can be punished by law and that people won't lose everything due to shady banking practices, and that people understand hat they are getting when they get a loan or mortgage or a credit card. I want to avoid a disaster like we had in 2008 that brought the economy to its knees, and cost people their savings. I want to avoid another Enron so that people who have their investment portfolios loaded with company stock do not lose everything when their company crashes and burns.
I want widely available birth control and sex education to reduce the need for abortions, unwanted pregnancies, to reduce the number of neglected, unloved or abused children, and i want the adoption process streamlined to get foster children loving families. I want abused wives and husbands to be able to leave thier abusive spouses and have a healthy, happy life free from fear, pain and misery.
I want gays and lesbians to have the same chance that I do to get married and continue their families. I believe that it does not harm society to have more happy people and that it takes nothing from the lives and marriages of straight people for gays and lesbians to marry as they want.
I can't think of anything to add to this letter, but I will be happy to answer any other questions you may have about liberals, their beliefs and what we want for this country. I look forward to your reply.
Sincerely,
Anastasia
Dear Governor Mrs. Palin:
Hi, we've never met, my name is Anastasia and I am your average liberal. I'd like to point out a few things we want for this country that you might not agree with, but let's see if I can help. I don't presume to speak for every liberal but I would like to share a few things.
As a liberal I want the following for America:
I want good schools for the children so we can compete in the information economy. I want good schools for children so that my child can have a better life than I do .
I want us to recycle more and start having green jobs until humanity figures out what's going on with global warming so we don't destroy animals and ourselves. I think it is practical to recycle and as Benjamin Franklin said, "Waste not, want not."
I want to be represented fairly, and so i vote. I have been registered since 1996 and have only missed a couple elections. I also write to my representative, my senator and president with my computer and the Internet.
I want widespread broadband Internet access for the whole country, and net neutrality so that information can be available widely and that people can communicate freely.
I want a secular government that does not favor any particular religion, in which the rights of the many are not trampled by the noisiest who lately seem to want government to favor evangelical Christianity.
I want freedom of religion for every American to worship as they see fit. I want freedom from religion as well for those of us who do not believe in God to not be coerced or harassed. I am an atheist, I had attended a Baptist church but it was not for me. I am an atheist and I am not an axe murderer, an addict and i am trying to be good without God, and there are people in every state and country doing this too. We believe that what we put out into the world is what we get back, like karma or the Golden rule.
We want universal access to health care so that children don't die young from untreated pneumonia, nor that adults suffer from undiagnosed diabetes or high blood pressure or cancer or any number of conditions. I think it is a waste when kids like Kara Neumann die from untreated diabetes. nor should other children like Ava Worthington, Neil Beagley, Aaron Gregory Grady have died from treatable illnesses. We want all children to be happy, healthy, and able to follow their dreams of going to college, being a professional athlete, being a musician, owning a bakery, traveling, owning a Camaro or even to get married and have their own children.
I want food that has NOT been tainted by fecal matter, E. Coli, salmonella and is not loaded with high fructose corn syrup or preservatives.
I want manufacturing jobs so that Americans can have good jobs that permit them to own their home, save for retirement and send their children to college without an outrageous debt load.
I want financial and bank regulations so that unscrupulous practices can be punished by law and that people won't lose everything due to shady banking practices, and that people understand hat they are getting when they get a loan or mortgage or a credit card. I want to avoid a disaster like we had in 2008 that brought the economy to its knees, and cost people their savings. I want to avoid another Enron so that people who have their investment portfolios loaded with company stock do not lose everything when their company crashes and burns.
I want widely available birth control and sex education to reduce the need for abortions, unwanted pregnancies, to reduce the number of neglected, unloved or abused children, and i want the adoption process streamlined to get foster children loving families. I want abused wives and husbands to be able to leave thier abusive spouses and have a healthy, happy life free from fear, pain and misery.
I want gays and lesbians to have the same chance that I do to get married and continue their families. I believe that it does not harm society to have more happy people and that it takes nothing from the lives and marriages of straight people for gays and lesbians to marry as they want.
I can't think of anything to add to this letter, but I will be happy to answer any other questions you may have about liberals, their beliefs and what we want for this country. I look forward to your reply.
Sincerely,
Anastasia
08 January 2011
Some last thoughts on the lame-duck session
Harry Reid was right to admonish Reps. Cantor and Boehner for their whining about having to work two weeks before Christmas.
Maybe if ya didn't filibuster everything, including whether to have frenchfries or salad with your lunch you might have had that extra week off. That's your own damn fault, you chose to have those filibusters. As my Mom and Grandma would say, you made your bed, now lie in it.
The simple fact is that only kids and college students get long Christmas breaks, and that option is not available for many working people, doctors, police, firefighters, nurses, grocery workers, waiters and waitresses... the list goes on. Teachers get some time off then but they have work like lesson planning and tests or papers to grade. You chose to not do your job , with more than 80filibusters this year between campaigning, making commercials and God knows what else.
Maybe if ya didn't filibuster everything, including whether to have frenchfries or salad with your lunch you might have had that extra week off. That's your own damn fault, you chose to have those filibusters. As my Mom and Grandma would say, you made your bed, now lie in it.
The simple fact is that only kids and college students get long Christmas breaks, and that option is not available for many working people, doctors, police, firefighters, nurses, grocery workers, waiters and waitresses... the list goes on. Teachers get some time off then but they have work like lesson planning and tests or papers to grade. You chose to not do your job , with more than 80filibusters this year between campaigning, making commercials and God knows what else.
07 January 2011
Disgraceful
It worries me that this country owes China a fuckload of money, a bunch of manufacturing has gone there and now the Chinese kids are kicking the asses of American kids in math and science. Props to the Chinese for what they've done, but how we can blather on about how America is so great when we keep getting our fat asses handed to us?
How can we continue to be great when so many of our people are out of work, can't afford doctors and food and rent? How can we continue to be awesome when our scientific progress is hampered by religious fanatics who give women shit for buying birth control, but when they get sick everything the hospital can do is what they want.
How can we be incredible when we take our teachers for granted every chance we get? We give them shit because Lil Brayden and Alyvia can't read although their parents plop them in front of the TV as soon as they get home, and don't help them with homework ?
How can we make any progress when we insist on long summer breaks when the whole world has longer school years than we do? Long summers breaks because it's a "tradition" ... a tradition that dates back to the days when most everyone had a small farm. My Nana's parents had such a farm, but as for ME i have yet to try to make a small garden in a house my parents have owned for 21 years. And it's an outdated tradition that can make things difficult for modern working parents who don't get two and three months off in the summer to watch their children
How can things be copacetic when we refuse to take a stand against outfits like BP who, when their workers die by the dozens, when oil spews into the sea, and they use every tactic available to wiggle out of responsibility and cleaning up the MESS they made? How can we look at ourselves in the mirror when we won't do simple things to help ourselves like recycling, and insisting that we give American children am excellent education?
How can we continue to be great when so many of our people are out of work, can't afford doctors and food and rent? How can we continue to be awesome when our scientific progress is hampered by religious fanatics who give women shit for buying birth control, but when they get sick everything the hospital can do is what they want.
How can we be incredible when we take our teachers for granted every chance we get? We give them shit because Lil Brayden and Alyvia can't read although their parents plop them in front of the TV as soon as they get home, and don't help them with homework ?
How can we make any progress when we insist on long summer breaks when the whole world has longer school years than we do? Long summers breaks because it's a "tradition" ... a tradition that dates back to the days when most everyone had a small farm. My Nana's parents had such a farm, but as for ME i have yet to try to make a small garden in a house my parents have owned for 21 years. And it's an outdated tradition that can make things difficult for modern working parents who don't get two and three months off in the summer to watch their children
How can things be copacetic when we refuse to take a stand against outfits like BP who, when their workers die by the dozens, when oil spews into the sea, and they use every tactic available to wiggle out of responsibility and cleaning up the MESS they made? How can we look at ourselves in the mirror when we won't do simple things to help ourselves like recycling, and insisting that we give American children am excellent education?
13 December 2010
I'm not afraid of you, Sarah.
But I hate you. I hate what you represent, what you are and that you think you are more qualified to be President than Barack Obama,. So here is a list of the things I despise about you.
I hate that you have the intellectual curiosity of a boiled egg. You couldn't give a straight answer to Katie Couric when she asked you what newspapers you read.
I despise you for being the cheerleader of ignorance and incompetence. You are a cheerleader for the Joe Sixpack crowd, but you don't give a damn about them, you only want them to buy your books, vote for your daughter on Dancing With The Stars. I cannot vote for a person who quit being governor to chase the money people were throwing at you. I can respect wanting to strike while the iron was hot, but not at the expense of the people you claim to represent.
I hate the way you play victim. I hate that you think you have cornered the market on common sense, and call everyone who doesn't think like you a socialist, unamerican, a communist.
I hate your platitudes, for trying to wrap up your bullshit into pretty litlle packages like Godiva chocolate. "Don't retreat, reload." "Death panels" "Weeweed up."
I HATE what you did to the caribou. I get the point of hunting to put food on the table, but you seem to enjoy the bloodshed too much.
I don't get how you think your journalism degree is a more valuable credential for the Oval Office than a law degree. I can't even wrap my brain arond it. I hate that your fanclub pays for pictures with you.
I hate your excessive religiosity. I don't believe that fundamentalism is a healthy religious choice for the vast majority of Americans. I am not claiming wisdom here, because i know how much i don't know. But I believe that religion is a force advocating ignorance, misogyny and an anti-intellectual attitude. You haven't the spine to go on ABC or MSNBC and you don't give a fuck that this is wrong.
I am not religious. I have not set foot in a church for anything more than a wedding, for more than 10 years. I am a writer, a blogger and a scholar. I am a woman who has never had a child, who considers it immoral to have a baby without the means to care for it, mentally, physically, and finacially. Women need all the information availaible on birth control, and their options. Condoms are not a vector for the spread of disease. It is the right of a woman to have or end a pregnancy as she and HER DOCTOR see fit, and not the decison of any random man, or legislator. A man should not make this choice for a woman. If you are not prepared to make a baby, then you need to be careful. No glove, no love. It's not rocket science. Abstinence is great, but it doesn't WORK for most people.
I hate that you have the intellectual curiosity of a boiled egg. You couldn't give a straight answer to Katie Couric when she asked you what newspapers you read.
I despise you for being the cheerleader of ignorance and incompetence. You are a cheerleader for the Joe Sixpack crowd, but you don't give a damn about them, you only want them to buy your books, vote for your daughter on Dancing With The Stars. I cannot vote for a person who quit being governor to chase the money people were throwing at you. I can respect wanting to strike while the iron was hot, but not at the expense of the people you claim to represent.
I hate the way you play victim. I hate that you think you have cornered the market on common sense, and call everyone who doesn't think like you a socialist, unamerican, a communist.
I hate your platitudes, for trying to wrap up your bullshit into pretty litlle packages like Godiva chocolate. "Don't retreat, reload." "Death panels" "Weeweed up."
I HATE what you did to the caribou. I get the point of hunting to put food on the table, but you seem to enjoy the bloodshed too much.
I don't get how you think your journalism degree is a more valuable credential for the Oval Office than a law degree. I can't even wrap my brain arond it. I hate that your fanclub pays for pictures with you.
I hate your excessive religiosity. I don't believe that fundamentalism is a healthy religious choice for the vast majority of Americans. I am not claiming wisdom here, because i know how much i don't know. But I believe that religion is a force advocating ignorance, misogyny and an anti-intellectual attitude. You haven't the spine to go on ABC or MSNBC and you don't give a fuck that this is wrong.
I am not religious. I have not set foot in a church for anything more than a wedding, for more than 10 years. I am a writer, a blogger and a scholar. I am a woman who has never had a child, who considers it immoral to have a baby without the means to care for it, mentally, physically, and finacially. Women need all the information availaible on birth control, and their options. Condoms are not a vector for the spread of disease. It is the right of a woman to have or end a pregnancy as she and HER DOCTOR see fit, and not the decison of any random man, or legislator. A man should not make this choice for a woman. If you are not prepared to make a baby, then you need to be careful. No glove, no love. It's not rocket science. Abstinence is great, but it doesn't WORK for most people.
So much for bipartianship.
Seriously, I am so fucking over hearing shit from the GOP on bipartisanship and I am even more sick of watching the farce of the Democratic pary trying to negotiate with insane, selfsh and heartless people.
It blows my mind how i have to listten to crap from Republicans about how it's soooo important to balance the budget but heaven forfend that richer people pay their share. It is true that while i am unemployed - i do not pay income tax but I pay sales tax. If i was rich I would be ashamed not paying my fair share.
I'm tired of both parties. I could vote for third parties but i do want my side to win almost as much as i want a system where third parties have a fighting chance to win heats and pass laws. Fuck if I can have any respect for a party that won't spend a few billion dollars or extended unemployment compensation when they are quite happy to spend trillions of dollars for tax breaks for rich people who should be able to afford it. I would be ashamed to be a millionare and not want to pay my share, or to put it on the back of someone making $35,000 per year.
A trillion is $1,000,000,000,000. A trillion is a thousand billion dollars.A billion is a thousand millions. This isn't chicken feed nor chump change. Can't keep maxing out the bankcard and not expect a reckoning, we must pay our way and bring the deficit DOWN. We need to reduce defence and stop being the world's police because we cannot afford it. This is too riduculous.
It blows my mind how i have to listten to crap from Republicans about how it's soooo important to balance the budget but heaven forfend that richer people pay their share. It is true that while i am unemployed - i do not pay income tax but I pay sales tax. If i was rich I would be ashamed not paying my fair share.
I'm tired of both parties. I could vote for third parties but i do want my side to win almost as much as i want a system where third parties have a fighting chance to win heats and pass laws. Fuck if I can have any respect for a party that won't spend a few billion dollars or extended unemployment compensation when they are quite happy to spend trillions of dollars for tax breaks for rich people who should be able to afford it. I would be ashamed to be a millionare and not want to pay my share, or to put it on the back of someone making $35,000 per year.
A trillion is $1,000,000,000,000. A trillion is a thousand billion dollars.A billion is a thousand millions. This isn't chicken feed nor chump change. Can't keep maxing out the bankcard and not expect a reckoning, we must pay our way and bring the deficit DOWN. We need to reduce defence and stop being the world's police because we cannot afford it. This is too riduculous.
05 December 2010
Keith versus Bristol: a few more words
I am sure that it must be hard to have had a child either during high school or immediately after, however I am taking Keith Olbermann's side on this one.
I am sure that Bristol is a good mom..... but this is bigger than any family and must be addressed.
That commercial was lame. Although it was slghtly amusing I felt it failed to provide a useful messgae.
Abstinence is bloody difficult for humans. It is ridiculous to set yourself up as a spokeswoman for abstinence when you have a child. It is still more ridiculous that the abstinence-only crew relies on ignorance and misinformation to scare people into not having sex. It is shameful that these people refuse to use the brains and intellect that would have been a gift from their God. It is disgusting, what i hear about condoms, from the Vatican and Benedict. All rational people should reject such crap. It is ok to use condoms. It is not a sin to take care of your health and well-being.
It is appalling that there are children in a wealthy nation like this, with scientific research discovering new knowledge and creating new ideas, who do not know how their bodies work and that fluids and blood from intravenous drips are somehow "eaten."
Marriage is not a magical process that makes a person instantly responsible, nice. thrifty, and hard working form the minute that they say "I do. " Marriage is also not a remedy for ignorance, mental illness nor douchebaggery.
I can say right now that it's been more than a year since i have been with a man. I miss him like crazy. I am hoping to see him when I go to Florida in January. But it is much more important to me that i not hurt him and not be disloyal. I don't want to hurt a good man and friend. It's been almost three years that he's been in my life and i am glad he's there.
I am sure that Bristol is a good mom..... but this is bigger than any family and must be addressed.
That commercial was lame. Although it was slghtly amusing I felt it failed to provide a useful messgae.
Abstinence is bloody difficult for humans. It is ridiculous to set yourself up as a spokeswoman for abstinence when you have a child. It is still more ridiculous that the abstinence-only crew relies on ignorance and misinformation to scare people into not having sex. It is shameful that these people refuse to use the brains and intellect that would have been a gift from their God. It is disgusting, what i hear about condoms, from the Vatican and Benedict. All rational people should reject such crap. It is ok to use condoms. It is not a sin to take care of your health and well-being.
It is appalling that there are children in a wealthy nation like this, with scientific research discovering new knowledge and creating new ideas, who do not know how their bodies work and that fluids and blood from intravenous drips are somehow "eaten."
Marriage is not a magical process that makes a person instantly responsible, nice. thrifty, and hard working form the minute that they say "I do. " Marriage is also not a remedy for ignorance, mental illness nor douchebaggery.
I can say right now that it's been more than a year since i have been with a man. I miss him like crazy. I am hoping to see him when I go to Florida in January. But it is much more important to me that i not hurt him and not be disloyal. I don't want to hurt a good man and friend. It's been almost three years that he's been in my life and i am glad he's there.
24 November 2010
Hunting.
As a liberal I am pro-hunting. My brother-in-law hunts, as does his family. It's deer season here and i think that since i eat meat that i should get my hands dirty, field-dressing a deer. I think everyone should know where their food comes from, and how to cook it. I don't know that i'd raise my own chickens but i've seen people do it and their chickens were in their yards eating grass and bugs. I don't know if i have the right tools to cut my deer down into steaks and a roast, but i'd try. I have Cutco knives close to hand.
I shop at Whole Foods. I prefer that my food not be full of antibiotics, hormones high-fructose corn syrup and saline solutions. I think that the meat available at Walmart is of mediocre quality, I know it's not cheap to shop at Whole Foods in Hinsdale Illinois, but the quality is worth the time cash and effort it takes to get there. I'd shop at a Whole Foods Indiana if they weren't in the vicinity of Indianapolis.
I shop at Whole Foods. I prefer that my food not be full of antibiotics, hormones high-fructose corn syrup and saline solutions. I think that the meat available at Walmart is of mediocre quality, I know it's not cheap to shop at Whole Foods in Hinsdale Illinois, but the quality is worth the time cash and effort it takes to get there. I'd shop at a Whole Foods Indiana if they weren't in the vicinity of Indianapolis.
22 November 2010
Yo, tea partiers, a moment, please?
What can the tea party do for me; a thirtysomething atheist, unemployed woman, who doesn't want to have children.... Can you help me get a job? What can you offer me that i cannot get from the Democrats?
Why is it wrong to want to close Guantanamo and end use of tortures like waterboarding? Where were you hyperpatriots when Bush II was declaring wars he couldn't pay for, giving his ultrarich friends tax cuts he couldn't pay for?
Why is it that it's ok for Rush Limbaugh to want President Obama to fail? It was unpatriotic, unamerican and allegedly treasonous to question the actions of President George W. Bush, is it not? Is it because Obama is black; would it be different if his last name was Smith, or Jones, or Martinez?
How dare YOU call yourselves "grassroots" when you call to privatize Social Security,; reduce or eliminte the minimum wage*; end OSHA, and demand that gay people and single women submit to invasive exams to prove virginity before being teachers?
How do you call yourselves small government conservatives when you want goverment to monitor every pregnant woman to make sure that her pregnancy ends the way YOU WANT IT --to end with the birth of a live baby, regardless of the wishes of the woman and her doctor??
Why are you ONLY now pitching a bitch that Obama wants to end wars we AS A COUNTRY can't afford, end tax cuts we cannnot afford, and end other bad things your homeboy Dubya did?
What's up with your extreme pro-life agenda? What gives you the right to tell me how i have to spend my money, and why do i have to lose access to birth control because you don't approve of it?
What's with that crazycake Christine O'Donnell and masturbation? Can you PROVE measurable harm to another person caused whenever i use my vibrator, or watch porn?
And for the love of cupcakes, what is it with you people and "smears" when you are caught on tape spreading bullshit? What makes it a smear when your candidates are DUMB enough to put pictures on THE INTERNET of themselves in Nazi uniforms? Why is it a smear when your quotes are quoted on Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow, when its coming from your mouth or your writing? OWN your shit. Own your writing and your quotes for fuck's sake! What the fuck am i doing wrong here?
Am I wrong? What don't I get about the tea party? Is there an untruth in these questions i've asked?
Maybe I watch waaaaaayyyyyy too much MSNBC. Maybe the news sources I've read are wrong.... any volunteers to tell me where i've got it wrong? Anyone want to help me out?
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