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I May have to scream….

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After beginning this post I realized I was just too angry to write a nice explanatory post.

I’m angry…I’m angry that some really think that a womans’ right of control of her body is something they can have high school level debates about.

I’m angry for my daughters. I’m angry because of the young woman I know who was kept away from all friends and family until it was too late to abort and then beaten so badly that she miscarried at 22 weeks.

I’m angry for the victims of rape forced to carry the evidence of the sperm of the prick they never wanted in their body.

I’m angry for the women who birthed till they died. I’m angry for the women who had to beg and be shamed by a panel of doctors who decided whether their choice to abort was frivolous or not.

I’m angry for all the women who have had to deal with some bastard thinking he had any fucking right deciding what she could or could not do.

I’m angry for the women fought and bled and died to get us as far as we’ve come only to have their victories put up as dartboards on frat boy walls.

Perhaps the white knights could climb off their high white horses for just a second or two and pay attention.

Abortion= a woman’s right to control a) her own body b) her own destiny c) her own life.

Why would you even put that up for debate? Who the fuck gave you permission to discuss what goes on in my womb?

Will we next be treated to a debate on whether or not rape is really a crime? If a woman has no say over her own body then how can rape exist?

And after all we wouldn’t want women saying no frivolously.

Reproductive rights are not up for political wankers wonkers to debate.

My body MY FUCKING CHOICE!

Book Tagged

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I got tagged.

The instructions:
Find the nearest book.
Turn to page 123.
Go to the fifth sentence on the page.
Copy out the next three sentences and post to your blog.
Name the book and the author.

It turned out, however, that Douglas had been just slightly ahead of his time. This was the era of the common front; in Europe especially, socialists and Communists united to fight the fascist threat. THere were no declared fascists in Saskatchewan politics, and few Communists, but CCF supporters set out to find allies to overthrow the Liberals, whom they regarded as the worst of all possible ruling parties.

Tommy Douglas
The Road to Jerusalem

Thomas H. McLeod
Ian McLeod

Consider yourself tagged

Domestic Dispute

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Dispute: to debate, question, to argue.

Sounds so innocuous doesn’t it?

In this story three people including the one doing the “disputing” died.

Mayor Scott Lang said the shooter died of a self-inflicted wound. Police said there was an exchange of gunfire with officers and would not confirm the shooter killed himself.

The club’s owner, Tom Tsoumas of Easton, told WBZ-AM his nephew Tory Marandos, 30, who was managing the club, and a floor host, Bobby Carreira, were killed by the man, who had been told to stay away after a failed relationship with a bartender.

Tsoumas identifed the shooter as Scott Medeiros. He said the club had hired him about two years ago to install a security system.

Tsoumas said Medeiros had dated a bartender at the club, and she feared him. He went to the club about two weeks ago and Carreira told him to stay away.

‘‘He said, ‘This isn’t the place for you. She doesn’t want to see you. It’s only going to cause problems.’ And he went away, but he evidently came in last night,’’ Tsoumas said.

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Abuse as Humour

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How nice to know that abuse can still generate a chuckle or two.

There’s nothing that says ‘I do’ more than having your rear end forever marked with your husband’s initials on your wedding night. Officials are questioning a 54-year-old man who forcibly used a cattle brander on his 22-year-old wife the night before their wedding.

The jealous husband explains that he tried to justify the branding by saying he wanted to make sure that other men knew right away that his new wife was his, and only his.

A woman branded on the night before her wedding makes a cute news story. Does it really?

What exactly is cute about the scar she will now carry the rest of her life?

What is cute about the damage to her body and psyche?

What is cute about the breach of trust? The fear? The pain?

There’s nothing that says ‘I do’ more than having your rear end forever marked with your husband’s initials on your wedding night.

How could these lines be written unless there was some agreement that she is property? That he had a ‘right’ to commit this act of abuse.

The police say “he has some explaining to do”.

Some explaining? What explanation would make what he did alright?

Well this humour challenged radical feminist sees no humour in this story. I do however find it funny that anyone can say with a straight face feminism is not needed.

Waterboy strikes again

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On the November 27 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, in response to claims made by King Abdullah II of Jordan on the November 26 edition of ABC’s This Week that “we could possibly imagine going into 2007 and having three civil wars on our hands,” Rush Limbaugh said: “[W]ell, let’s just have them. Let’s just have the civil wars … because I’m just fed up with this.” Limbaugh then asserted: “Fine, just blow the place up. Just let these natural forces take place over there instead of trying to stop them.” Additionally, Limbaugh claimed: “[E]verbody comes to us. … So we go and try to fix it and our own people, Democrats and the left in our country do their best to sabotage our efforts, and then we get blamed for trying to clean up the messes that these people start.”

One thing we know about Rush AKA The Waterboy;

“Something’s wrong with his medulla oblongata.”