Some Few Liberal talking points

So here are a few things that concern me as a liberal, as a woman and as an American.   

It worrries me that there are very few manufacturing jobs in the United States.  I think we should be MAKING stuff here and not merely consuming it.  I was glad when the bailout of General Motors succeded. I am the daughter of a steelworker, and I am sure that some of the steel that was made where he worked went into Detroit cars.  I want to buy stuff made here, not just in China. 

I'm a little concerned about the crap I've seen on the Ed Schultz show about how single women and gay men cannot be both sexually active and good teachers.  Who does it hurt, when consenting adults participate in  sexual intercourse in the privacy of their home?  How does it hurt me as a woman when a gay couple does whatever they like in their home?

I think there should be more recycling. Where my sisters live, recycling bins are delivered by the county and everyone fills them, to reuse stuff and keep it out of landfills. I don't really know what to do with trash but there is only so much landfilll space to go round.   I also believe that  "waste not, want not" is a very good principle.  

I am listening to the rebroadcast of Rachel Maddow, during the interview of  Art Robinson and he isn't answering any of her questions,  and he accused her of smearing him, being sarcastic and misquoting him, when she attempted to ask him about what he has written on paper and online.

I think that the hypocrisy and selfishness of the Republican candidates, and pundits is appalling and astonishing.   I am listening to Lou Dobbs on Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell spit hairs about how he has not hired illegal immigrants to work on his estate and look after the horse.  I am watching him dance around it, with the reporter who has spoken to the workers he has hired.

I see Sharron Angle call for the privatization of Social Security, and the VA when both she and her husband benefit from government pensions and healthcare.     I see a woman who wants to make all abortions illegal, with absolutely no exceptions allowed, nor for rape, not for incest.  This makes me feel cold all over, although i have never been raped, not by a stranger, nor acquaintance and certainly not by my family.   I wish all babies were loved and wanted, and that they have parents who will take excellent care of them and love them madly.   But I live on Earth.  I went to a high school with a fair number of teen moms.   I read about children being abused in the paper and online, and it's so very sad, and mostly preventable.   

I have heard about Linda MacMahon of the WWE and Senate candidate in Connecticut say that the minimum wage needs to be reduced.  This is the same Linda MacMahon that is a billionaire and had $46  million dollars in income last year.   How can you take home so much and yet be agianst those who have nothing? Doesn't your conscience trouble you?

I have heard Rush Limbaugh scream about how addict should be in jail, and yet he has a problem with Oxycontin. Why aren't you in jail, Mr. Limbaugh?  How do you sleep at night:? 

I suppose you sleep just fine on a bed filled with money. If I had that kind of cash to my name, I'd be ashamed.   I'd want to stay in my house for  a year and hide from the world.  It would bother me to be a hypocrite on so massive a scale as Ms. MacMahon and Rush Limbaugh. 

I'm by no means good or perfect. I'm a packrat.  I drink way tooo much Diet Mountain Dew, I'm up late with the owls and goth kids, and vampires. I curse fucking constantly.  I hate most people.  I always have my face in a book or the internet.   I argue with evangelists, Witnesses and proselytizers.   I watch too much MSNBC.  I think about sex for at least an hour every day.   I think Keith Olbermann is one of the sexiest men in cable news.   My home is cluttered but i am working on reducing the clutter and getting rid of stuff;  by giving good stuff to charity and pitching the crap.  I am good at cleaning the house but i hate the work, and find it boring, lame and unbelievably fucking tedious.

I hope that if I make a really obvious factual error in this blog, someone will call me on it, so i can FIX it.