Well, now. Didn’t expect they would do it. I seriously thought that Limbaugh was entrenched and nothing short of him murdering someone would they cut the strings. I’m happy that they are cutting off the hate-filled blather. Who are they going to get now to bang the drum for the rightwingers…?
I just hope they aren’t replaced with more hate-filled blather by someone even worse than Limbaugh and Hannity.
This post has got to be one of the worst I’ve read in a looong time. The misogyny coming from someone claiming to be a feminist (well, actually, she doesn’t claim it, but the insinuation is there) is something to behold.
As I said in my comment, the vitriol here against women who make the choice to stay home is one of the reasons I no longer call myself a feminist, even though I very much believe in equality.
The feminists in the 70s railed against women staying home…I understand the historical context–their mothers were forced to stay home after WWII, and forcing anyone to do anything will inevitably result in resentment…especially when staying home is characterized as “doing nothing” and “contributing nothing to society…”
Not only that, but the stance that abortions should be allowed at any time–even at the eighth month–are the reasons that feminists lost many women who were against that but believed in equality.
And sadly, that is still true today. Women who believe in equality but are against abortion or want to stay home are marginalized by feminists such as nonny mouse.
It seems to miss the point that it’s not the staying home part, but how culture values it. Our culture doesn’t value much of what women do…whether it is at home or in the corporate world. It’s the culture that needs changing, and that’s not going to happen by minimizing women’s role at home.
As I posted previously, other cultures, such as in Europe, provide support to women. They try to prevent abortions by preventing pregnancy in the first place–the ideal, for me. And guess what–they don’t have mothers having baby after baby (as the repubs and some dems like to argue.)
Many of those arguments are tenuous at best, but it is the continued reference to European abortion laws that most represent a convenient cherry-picking of facts to support the rollback of women’s rights. Many European countries do indeed regulate abortion with gestational limits, but what SB1 supporters conveniently ignore is that those laws are entrenched in progressive public health systems that provide quality, affordable (sometimes free) health care to all individuals and prioritize the sexual and reproductive health of their citizens. Most SB1 advocates would scoff at the very programs and policies that are credited with Europe’s low unintended pregnancy and abortion rates.
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More here on the women’s right to decide how she will give birth. I love this–midwives have been targets of a well-run campaign against them since medieval times when they have as good a record of healthy childbirth as physicians.
This will give one moment to pause…when you look at the statistics for the U.S. at the bottom– the maternal death rate in this country is 1 in 2,100. The article states it’s typically 1 in 7,600.
Pretty sobering in a country that likes to think of itself as such a beacon of healthcare.
(hat tip to Diane Ravitch)
Well, now, teachers may be the nation’s punching bag right now….but this one isn’t down with this predator’s actions. As she said, she would have lost her job if she had done what Weiner did. Not only that, she would be in jail.
(hat tip to fatster at FDL)
John Boehner, while constantly saying “The American people want, need, demand…” while ignoring what the American people want, need, and demand….has promoted the XL pipeline…while investing in the companies tied to it.
I’m just shocked, shocked, I tell you, that a politician who stands to benefit financially from legislation is…promoting that legislation. /snark
Where have all the good ones gone that did what was right for the country and not for their bank accounts…?
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Also from fatster~~
Related to this is a heartwarming story of a small group of folks protesting the Enbridge pipeline….unfortunately, they’re from Michigan…that will be the day when Hoosiers start protesting Enbridge…
I can’t believe they were charged with felonies. Seriously? Like a commenter said on the website, we should be concerned about the crackdown on public assemblies….you know, that First Amendment thingy?
From the comments:
Enbridge is being disingenuous. No one has come to harm from these non-violent protests. On the other hand, from the Athabasca Chippewa cancer rates to the impacts of climate change, many will be harmed if the tar sands industry achieves its goal of tripling production by 2030. Just imagine Bangladesh flooded by rising sees. That’s millions of refugees in that region alone. We should be working to stop changing the climate. We should have global peak emissions by 2020 then steadily decline. Tripling tar sands production is inconsistent with that goal. These protesters are the modern equivalent of Rosa Parks, who incidentally was hated by conservatives also. As FDR said “I welcome their hatred.” It’s a sign you’re doing something right. Go M-CATS.
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I have to admit a chuckle at the enthusiastic guy commenting on how beautiful state Michigan is…which it is…but then the conservative joker does have a point about him never being in poor Detroit, the dumping ground of the Kochs and anyone else who feels like it. But let’s say that MOST of Michigan is quite beautiful… NOT the parts that conservatives and DINO’s (Democrats in Name Only) have polluted.
It’s always interesting to me that these polluters will trash one area, and then move to a non-polluted area. It should be a rule somewhere that if you pollute an area, you must live in that area for the rest of your life…
…not only that, but your children and grandchildren must live in that area, too. Seems fair, eh?
Diane Ravitch has this and this up on the continued invasion of privacy…only this time, it’s your kid they are gathering information on. This critical information gathered by a Foundation that now owns 500,000 shares of Monsanto, .
…and what about Rupert Murdoch getting hold of your family’s records? Especially since the newspaper he owned invaded people’s privacy already…even after a warning about his dealings went unheeded.
From the first Guardian article:
When the high court last summer ordered the News of the World to pay damages to Max Mosley for secretly filming him with prostitutes, the paper was furious. In an angry leader column, it insisted that public figures must maintain standards. “It is not for the powerful and the influential to run to the courts to gag newspapers from publishing stories that are TRUE,” it said. “This is all about the public’s right to know.”
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Does anyone else see the irony of a paper that is invading innocent people’s privacy complaining about maintaining standards….apparently lying and invasion of privacy are not standards someone should uphold…?
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One of the commenters here called the absence of real oppositional parties the “Uniparty”. …yep.
See…the Dems really believe in the Fourth Amendment and the rights of the American public to be let alone…
bwhahahahaha *snort* bwahahahaha…
Don’t blame me. I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000. The first time in all the years that I had been voting that I wrote a candidate’s name on the ballet. Of course, now Indiana has changed to the computerized system so a voter wouldn’t be able to just write in a candidate. Supposedly, they have paper ballots at each voting station, but this voter was not told there were paper ballots available, not even when I voted early, nor were there any paper ballots visible so that one could ask for it.
They changed the law so that one had to have 2% of the general votes cast for the Secretary of State in the previous election. Note the deadlines were repeatedly pushed back in order to diminish the ability to gather signatures during summer events where crowds gather…
I found this page absolutely fascinating. I had no idea that we had other candidates to choose from, as the write in candidates were not on the electronic ballot. And being without access to media (no TV antenna in the community room at the time), nor did I have more than an hour per time from the library’s internet computers…so information was limited, as are most poor. And I would venture a guess that even with cable TV, many middle class were also ignorant of this–funny how the nooz just doesn’t seem to get around to covering important issues like this….they’d rather scare you into getting a vaccine that will likely cause as much harm to your body as any good or tell you not to take Vitamin E because some bogus *study* says it’s bad for you…pfft.
Diane Ravitch has this up.
As I said in my comment there, bullying from children is just a reflection of the adults and culture around them. We have shows like “Survivor” that encourage groups to pick apart others and zero in on a target. My Boomer generation didn’t have violent video games which desensitizes one to violence.
I think these all feed into the bullying mentality. Pick on those that are different or weaker. Keep at it until they disappear–either through suicide or crushing their soul until their light goes out…the effect is still the same.
It has even broader implications than “just” bullying–creativity comes from thinking differently. Bullying will crush the ones that think differently, limiting the greater impact they might have had on the world.
I don’t think the solutions are campaigns telling kids to stop bullying. It’s too complicated a problem. And it’s not the kids fault as much as it is society’s.
(I didn’t get much sleep last night, and my ADD is always worse when I’m tired, so forgive any faux pas.)
I’m flipping through the channels this morning and land on CNBC with Dan Gilbert, the grand pooh bah wizard of rejuvenating Detroit. I only caught the last part of his schpiel, but what I was hearing made me sick. He spoke of bringing in “interns”. Interns? Yep, he’s bringing in young minds that can be manipulated into believing what they’re doing is innovative and exciting and the right thing to do….
…I find it more than mildly curious that 50-somethings are by appearances being ignored.
And it’s disturbing how the article below reads that the sharks are circling to see how much they can get away with–everyone is watching to see who wins the “tug of war” between the unions and the moneyed interests.
From the NYTimes article:
….Detroit officials have proposed paying off small fractions of what the city owes, they have indicated they intend to treat investors holding general obligation bonds as having no higher priority for payment than, for instance, city workers — a notion that conflicts with the conventions of the market…
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An obligation is an obligation. I don’t know why the city would be any less obligated to the workers who labored and were made a promise than to bond holders who were also made promises but did nothing to earn that but sit on their butts? In my view, EVERYBODY should be made to give a little. Everybody loses a little bit for the good of the whole.
Now I know folks will be saying that “investors won’t invest if they aren’t getting top dollar…” I don’t believe that if they are still making money for doing nothing that they are going to pass on that opportunity. Investing is a risk….why shouldn’t the investors share in the losses as well as the gains?
(Ironically, or not, I’m playing David Crosby’s “Hero” )
My other blogs on Detroit here and here . Note the link to Dan Gilbert profiteering off of the carcass of Detroit.
Background on the “Emergency Manager”
A post script to this blog…what I meant when I referred to Katrina is that I told them I thought the George W. Bush administrations’ slow response to the emergency was racist. It was September, 2005, so it was only a month after the storm hit, but it was apparent to me. What really shocked me was how only the one black woman agreed with me, again, subtly, but she saw it, too. This why I probably began to think that Daniels was dismantling or weakening the Civil Rights Commission and blurted that out.
When I think about that interview and how I missed such a fabulous opportunity–a life changer- because it would have been a career I would have enjoyed with its daily change, using the creative along with the analytical, and fighting for the underdog—and all the misery that mercury has caused me, I want to cry in despair. This poison has taken so much more than can be neasured…
I give myself 24 hours to feel sorry for myself, and then move on…
Eagle 
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