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Cognitive Dissonance
“Nothing is true, everything is permitted.” - William S. Burroughs
Oklahoma Doctor Refuses To Provide Rape Victim With Emergency Contraception
ThinkProgress reports: “An Oklahoma emergency room doctor refused to provide emergency contraception to a 24-year-old female rape victim because the medication violated the health provider’s personal beliefs… ‘I will not give you emergency contraceptives because it goes against my believes,’ the doctor allegedly told the rape victim and her mother, Rhonda. ‘She knew my daughter had just been raped. Her attitude was so judgmental and I felt that she was just judging my daughter.’
Oklahoma law shields providers from offering the perfectly legal medication under a ‘conscience clause’ which could significantly hinder women’s access to contraception services.”
This is sick. You might have to carry your rapist’s child because MY beliefs say so? In what universe is that OK? Whatever happened to “first, do no harm” – and I mean the living, breathing patient in front of you, not a maybe baby conceived by a rape. The religious right whines about secularism intruding into their beliefs, but what is more intrusive than forced pregnancy?
This woman was luckily able to get EC at another hospital. Other people might not be so lucky.
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Colin Powell Throws Wet Blanket On Hannity's Obsession With Rev. Wright And Bill Ayers
And it’s awesome. A sample:
”During an interview with Powell on his Fox News show, Hannity said that he finds Obama to be ‘one of the most divisive figures in — that I’ve witnessed in politics today.’
Powell responded: ‘[T]hat’s a term that’s being used rather freely. I don’t think he’s that divisive an issue.’ Powell then asked, ‘What could have been more divisive than, when President Obama was inaugurated, for a number of Republicans, friends of mine, and a number of commentators to say, “We’re going to destroy him. We’re going to destroy him”?’
Hannity replied: ‘I was one of his harshest critics. I wasn’t out to destroy him.’ Hannity also asserted: ‘Well, I was critical about Bill Ayers and Reverend Wright.’ Powell responded: ‘I don’t know Bill Ayers from the man in the moon. Bill Ayers and Reverend Wright are just passing things through [Obama’s] life.’
Hannity then said that Obama spent ‘20 years’ in Wright’s church, to which Powell responded: ‘Well, so?’”
Bravo, sir.
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In Conservative Media, A "Race War" Rages
Essentially, conservatives give no fucks about being called racist any longer because there’s a race war raging.
Seriously.
It’s 2012, and here’s where we sit. From Buzzfeed:
But while Norfolk may be the most high-profile chapter yet in the “race war,” it’s hardly the only one conservatives have highlighted. Over the past four years, the Drudge Report has run dozens of headlines chronicling acts of violence against white victims — often by black youths.
In one particularly memorable Drudge front page last year, the site culled the newswires for articles about “urban” crime that took place over Memorial Day weekend, and then grouped them together. Among the headlines: “Miami ‘war zone’ during urban weekend;” “Rib fest at Rochester beach turns rowdy;” and “Unruly urban crowd shuts down Nashville water park.”
And on September 15, 2009, Drudge led with the headline, “WHITE STUDENT BEATEN ON BUS; CROWD CHEERS.” The story — which showed video of a black teenager in Illinois beating up a white classmate — went viral in the right-wing blogosphere, prompting Rush Limbaugh to weigh in. “In Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering,” Limbaugh declared.
It is an article of faith among many conservatives that Obama has exacerbated nationwide racial tensions. Ward Connerly, a veteran California anti-affirmative action activist and leading black conservative, accused the president of trying to take political advantage of “racial disputes,” rather than diffuse them.
“Obama has been more racial than any white president has ever been in my lifetime,” said Connerly, adding, “Candidly, I think that race relations are probably worse now among the average person on the street than they were the day President Obama was elected.”
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Dropkick Murphys to WI GOP Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald: Using our music as your intro like "a white supremacist coming out to gangsta rap"
Wisconsin Republican Jeff Fitzgerald is running against Sen. Tammy Baldwin, (D-Wis.) for the U.S. Senate. Fitzgerald is BFFs with Gov. Scott Walker and used the Dropkick Murphys song “Shipping Up To Boston” at the GOP Convention this weekend. This is the same band who released “Take ‘Em Down” in support of Wisconsin’s unions and the protesters at the state capital, and have long been friends to organized labor.
Well, they found about Fitzgerald’s musical selection.
We just got word that Wisconsin State Rep and Speaker of the State Assembly Jeff Fitzgerald used “Shipping Up To Boston” as his walk-on song yesterday at the Wisconsin GOP Convention in Green Bay.
The stupidity and irony of this is laughable. A Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate - and crony of anti-Union Governor Scott Walker - using a Dropkick Murphys song as an intro is like a white supremacist coming out to gangsta rap!
Fitzgerald: if you and your staff can’t even figure out your music you might wanna give up on the politics!!!!!
We stand beside our Union and Labor brothers and sisters and their families in Wisconsin and all over the U.S!
–DKM
Today, Fitzgerald replied:
Fitzgerald on Monday said he meant no harm, and has simply always liked the band and that song, which was featured in the Martin Scorcese film, “The Departed.” He said he doesn’t plan to play the song anymore, but doesn’t know what song he will chose next.
The Departed? Hey, way to burnish your image with a song featured in a movie about the Irish mob… if that’s your reasoning. “Ooh, that one song in that movie I like…”
I challenge Jeff Fitzgerald to name one other song by Dropkick Murphys he likes.
I’ll bet it’s not “Take ‘Em Down.” Or “Worker’s Song”…
Spotted on Third Street in Laramie, Wyo.
The bottom photo has two signs on the car. The first reads, “If Obama is a Christian, then I’m a flying pig.” The second one says, “18 to 30 year olds. Help us save America. Vote REPUBLICAN.”
Love the “I miss Reagan” sticker on the back. Not sure he understands St. Ronnie would never pass muster in today’s GOP.
Hey, at least it’s a Prius…
(Source: cognitivedissonance)
I got this.
Meet Abby Johnson. She thinks women have too many rights. Seriously. From toomanyrights.org:
Today, a hundred years later, women’s rights have come very far, but there is one of these rights that many Americans would question… The right to abortion is considered a “reproductive right” by many. They say it is the right of a woman to exercise control over her body, but is that what the issue is really about?
Ahem…
Yes. That’s what it really is about. I invite Ms. Johnson or her supporters to read The Fetal Focus Fallacy. An excerpt:
Although fetuses cannot enjoy legal personhood, anti-choicers argue that fetuses do have a right to life that outweighs the right of the woman to control her fertility and her life. But many anti-choicers support exceptions to a ban on abortion in cases of rape, incest, a threat to the woman’s life, or even health. This clearly indicates that they believe the right to life of a fetus is negotiable, certainly not absolute or paramount. By compromising their “right to life” definition in order to accommodate a woman’s rights, they inadvertently acknowledge that women’s rights are more important than the right to life of fetuses.
Even if a fetus can be said to have a right to life, this does not include the right to use the body of another human being. For example, the state cannot force people to donate organs or blood, even to save someone’s life. We are not obligated by law to risk our lives jumping into a river to save a drowning victim, noble as that might be. Therefore, even if a fetus has a right to life, a pregnant woman is not required to save it by loaning out her body for nine months against her will. In response, anti-choicers say that being pregnant is not the same as being a Good Samaritan, because the woman chose to have sex, voluntarily accepting the risk of pregnancy. This argument is sexist and puritanical because it punishes women, not men, for their sexual behavior. Moreover, sex is not a contract for pregnancy - people have a constitutional right to non-procreative sex because of legalized birth control, which implicitly provides the right to have sex without reproducing.
In conclusion, no. A woman does not have too many rights, Ms. Johnson — particularly with folks like yourself running around and attempting to limit them.
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Boehner: Romney’s Wealth Won’t Hurt Him Because ‘The American People Don’t Want To Vote For A Loser’
I do believe he just called anyone who’s not successful a loser. Exactly what is your definition of success? Those in the top 20%? The top 1%? Those not benefiting from government programs?
If the last point is the case, I’d like to introduce John Boehner to one of the biggest welfare queens in existence:
Meet Willard Mitt “Mittens” Romney. He’s used government programs and loopholes to reduce his taxes for years.
But that’s okay, right? Because at least he’s NOT POOR! What losers. Side note: You just know Boehner spells it “loosers” </sarcasm>
In summary:
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Considering a “communist, Muslim dictator” isn’t running for anything, I’d say that’s a big N-O.
I know the internet can be bright and scary, but communist? Really? Nothing says communism like kowtowing to Wall Street, big business, and the oil industry again and again.
And pro-tip for life: CAPS LOCK is not cruise control for cool, nor does it mean Jesus can hear you better. It just makes you look ridiculous.
House GOP Would Kick 280,000 Children Off School Lunch Program To Protect Tax Cut For Millionaires
This is why we can’t have nice things.
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We all should thank Newt Gingrich
Not only was he entertaining as hell (moon colonies, y’all!), he’s celebrating May Day by suspending his campaign on May 1st.
It’s about time a GOP candidate thought of the working class </sarcasm>
We should all tweet him and thank him for bringing attention to May Day and participating in a General Strike.
That’s what he’s doing, right?
No?
Eh, fuck it. Thank him anyhow:
(Source: cognitivedissonance)
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Who Would Jesus Destroy? From the looks of it, all my friends. Thanks evangelicals! #UWYO (Taken with instagram)
I’m a black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally, and there are some power-abusing corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth…
Ted Nugent, justifying remarks which have earned him an investigation from the Secret Service.
Dear Ted Nugent,
Things you are not:
- Black
- A Jew
Things you could be:
- At a Nazi rally
- At a Klan rally
Things you don’t have:
- The truth
- Anything close to it
Things you do have:
- Audacity
- People who despise you
- Lots and lots of angry white male privilege
That should clear up some of the confusion, you unbelievable asshole.
Cheers!
- Meg
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Bob Beckel screams “You don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about!” at a panelist while live on Hannity, and becomes my hero for the day. His reaction to not realizing they’re on-air, and Hannity’s squirming, is absolutely hilarious. The rest of the conversation is disgusting, complete with Tea Partier Neal Boortz calling poverty “a mental disease.”
I’d say the same thing too, Bob.
Well, Beckel wasn’t fired. On tonight’s edition of The Five, he pulled out a massive swear jar and began emptying his pockets into it.
New bucket list item: Scream ‘FUCK’ in any context on Hannity’s show.
Take a hypothetical husband and wife who are both lawyers. But the husband is working 50 or 60 hours a week, going all out, making 200 grand a year. The woman takes time off, raises kids, is not go go go. Now they’re 50 years old. The husband is making 200 grand a year, the woman is making 40 grand a year. It wasn’t discrimination. There was a different sense of urgency in each person.
You could argue that money is more important for men. I think a guy in their first job, maybe because they expect to be a breadwinner someday, may be a little more money-conscious. To attribute everything to a so-called bias in the workplace is just not true.
Wisconsin State Senator Sen. Glenn Grothman (R), who led the effort to repeal Wisconsin’s Equal Pay Enforcement Act because of his belief that pay discrimination is a myth driven by liberal women’s groups.
Yep.
No war on women caterpillars anything at all, folks, nothing to see here, right? Well, there’s this little factoid: “Women make up half of the American workforce, and in two-thirds of American families, the mother is the primary breadwinner or a co-breadwinner. But they make less than their male counterparts in all 50 states, though the size of each state’s wage gap varies. While the gap continues to close in places like Washington, D.C., where women make 91.8 percent of men’s earnings, it is growing in others, like Wyoming, where women’s earnings dropped from 65.5 percent of men’s in 2009 to just 63.8 percent in 2010.”
But it’s all lie, you guys! Made up by those money-grubbing Uteri-Americans who don’t really care about money, just babies! Their fragile ladybrains can’t handle being all go go go go!</sarcasm>
Wisconsin’s Repeal of Equal Pay Rights Adds to Battles for Women
On Thursday, with little fanfare, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker signed a bill repealing the state’s 2009 Equal Pay Enforcement Act, which allowed victims of workplace discrimination to seek damages in state courts. In doing so, he demonstrated that our political battles over women’s rights aren’t just about sex and reproduction— they extend to every aspect of women’s lives.
What war on women, amirite?!
This is an important point – reproductive rights are only one battle in a massive war.
