If you want to know how women's rights would fare under a Romney/Ryan presidency, you need only look to Romney's approach to women as an official in his Mormon Church. Ryan's approach is abundantly clear from public statements he has made, all harmonious with the dismal history of Catholicism and their oppression of women. They make a very harmonious team.
A very insightful blog article by Geoffrey Dunn lays out a very disturbing account of what women can expect from a president Romney. Read about it here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/mitt-romney-mormon-women_b_1956568.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
As I said earlier in another blog, when I see Romney's snake-like smiling face, I see the evil emperor portrayed in Star Wars films. Barack Obama praised him as a loving family man. Sorry, Mr. President, you are dead wrong. He is not loving. He is not good.
He is pure evil.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
MORE RETHUG CLUELESSNESS
Newt Gingrich can't understand why so many people are upset over what Mourdoch said about rape and pregnancy. Here's the gist of his approach, word for word:
"He also immediately issued a clarification saying he was referring to the act of conception, and he condemned rape," Gingrich said. "[Mitt] Romney has condemned -- I mean, one part of this is nonsense. Every candidate I know, every decent American I know condemns rape. OK, so why can't people like Stephanie Cutter get over it? We all condemn rape."
Any decent person sees rape as a horror. That's not the point, clueless Newt.
The point is that you and the rest of your theistic bullies want to impose your interpretation of what your bronze age imaginary diety supposedly wills and decrees -- through you and whatever religious authority you espouse -- on everybody as the "will" of that non-existent bag of garbage.
There are a whole bunch of us who don't agree with your interpretations of the universe and ultimate reality. In your mind, we don't count because you and your ilk are the arbiters of ultimate truth that must be forced upon everybody else.
Mind your own damn business and quit trying to legislate your insane superstitions into our lives!
"He also immediately issued a clarification saying he was referring to the act of conception, and he condemned rape," Gingrich said. "[Mitt] Romney has condemned -- I mean, one part of this is nonsense. Every candidate I know, every decent American I know condemns rape. OK, so why can't people like Stephanie Cutter get over it? We all condemn rape."
Any decent person sees rape as a horror. That's not the point, clueless Newt.
The point is that you and the rest of your theistic bullies want to impose your interpretation of what your bronze age imaginary diety supposedly wills and decrees -- through you and whatever religious authority you espouse -- on everybody as the "will" of that non-existent bag of garbage.
There are a whole bunch of us who don't agree with your interpretations of the universe and ultimate reality. In your mind, we don't count because you and your ilk are the arbiters of ultimate truth that must be forced upon everybody else.
Mind your own damn business and quit trying to legislate your insane superstitions into our lives!
Friday, October 26, 2012
AIDING AND ABETTING RAPISTS
In addition to what I've had to say about stupid and totally reprehensible statements about rape that have proceeded from the mouths of our theocratic, christofascist politicians, I just camee across this wonderfully crafted article: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/10/25/a-fan-letter-to-certain-conservative-politicians/#comment-390067
No further comment needed. Just read it.
No further comment needed. Just read it.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
A "WHAT IF" FOR MOURDOCH
My last blog dealt with Richard Mourdoch and his stupid, inane statement that a pregnancy from rape would just constitute an example of "god's" rather ghoulish "will."
My wife came up with a rather thought provoking scenario. She wondered how he would react if his wife or teen-age daughter happened to be the recipient of this rather horrific manifestation of god's "will." After all, maintaining control over trillions of determined little sperm cells released worldwide every day could get a bit overwhelming even to a supposed omnipotent deity. Can't blame him if he got exhausted and threw up his hands and said "Aw, f++k it!
It's easy to be cavalier about such situations when they are only hypothetical and involve just plain ordinary people. Or, women, which it seems, are lesser beings than him, as far as he is concerned.
It would be indeed interesting to see how Mourdach would react if the hard, cold reality struck home in his own household. I have a feeling His tune might change -- dramatically!
My wife came up with a rather thought provoking scenario. She wondered how he would react if his wife or teen-age daughter happened to be the recipient of this rather horrific manifestation of god's "will." After all, maintaining control over trillions of determined little sperm cells released worldwide every day could get a bit overwhelming even to a supposed omnipotent deity. Can't blame him if he got exhausted and threw up his hands and said "Aw, f++k it!
It's easy to be cavalier about such situations when they are only hypothetical and involve just plain ordinary people. Or, women, which it seems, are lesser beings than him, as far as he is concerned.
It would be indeed interesting to see how Mourdach would react if the hard, cold reality struck home in his own household. I have a feeling His tune might change -- dramatically!
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
FLABBERGASTED
I am sitting here in stunned bafflement that any even moderately intelligent human being could say what GOP candidate Richard Mourdoch said. The article didn't state but I am sure he has to be a "teapublican."
Mr. Mourdoch stated that he opposed abortion for pregnancies arising out of rape because..."it is something that God intended to happen."
OK. Let's think about the implications of that ludicrous statement.
Let's not condemn Hitler and the Nazis for the holocaust. Obviously, since "god" didn't stop it, he intended it. Let's not jail or execute murderers, child molesters, terrorists, etc. Let's whitewash all the horrors of history. Lets just chalk all of it up to "god's will" and skip merrily along. That's really what all of them, from the Pope to the thoughtless laity in most churches confidently endorse. "It's God's will" becomes the mindless mantra that excuses every horror imaginable.
Mr. Mourdoch has actually clarified one of the main reasons I don't believe in or worship any "god." I have contempt for their definition of their god because he clearly, if he existed, is an accesory to the horrors that exist in the world. Neither he nor any of his vaunted "angels" rouse their lazy asses (that don't exist) to do a damned thing to protect millions of totally innocent and helpless people, no matter how desperately they cry out for deliverance.
I used to be deluded and think I got all kinds of help from divine sources. It was all happenstance. I've had just as much -- actually more -- seemingly benevolent outcomes after coming to my senses and chucking those superstitions overboard simply because I've lived more years in unbelief than I did in belief. Life is a crapshoot and the dice sometimes come up in your favor irrespective of what or who you believe in.
Can the American people actually be dumb enough to put people like that in office? I hope not, but recent history can only cause me to question.
Mr. Mourdoch stated that he opposed abortion for pregnancies arising out of rape because..."it is something that God intended to happen."
OK. Let's think about the implications of that ludicrous statement.
Let's not condemn Hitler and the Nazis for the holocaust. Obviously, since "god" didn't stop it, he intended it. Let's not jail or execute murderers, child molesters, terrorists, etc. Let's whitewash all the horrors of history. Lets just chalk all of it up to "god's will" and skip merrily along. That's really what all of them, from the Pope to the thoughtless laity in most churches confidently endorse. "It's God's will" becomes the mindless mantra that excuses every horror imaginable.
Mr. Mourdoch has actually clarified one of the main reasons I don't believe in or worship any "god." I have contempt for their definition of their god because he clearly, if he existed, is an accesory to the horrors that exist in the world. Neither he nor any of his vaunted "angels" rouse their lazy asses (that don't exist) to do a damned thing to protect millions of totally innocent and helpless people, no matter how desperately they cry out for deliverance.
I used to be deluded and think I got all kinds of help from divine sources. It was all happenstance. I've had just as much -- actually more -- seemingly benevolent outcomes after coming to my senses and chucking those superstitions overboard simply because I've lived more years in unbelief than I did in belief. Life is a crapshoot and the dice sometimes come up in your favor irrespective of what or who you believe in.
Can the American people actually be dumb enough to put people like that in office? I hope not, but recent history can only cause me to question.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
ROME ALL OVER AGAIN?
What's been happening on the political scene the past four years has made me so mad and disgusted I could spit tacks, nails, barbed wire (you name the analogy). This article sums it up pretty well: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/21/mitt-romney-ad-massachusetts_n_1998052.html
We elected a president four years ago and he came into office with high hopes and solid plans to turn the nation around. Millions, including me, had high hopes.
The opposiiton blatantly set out to sabotage everything that president Obama set out to do -- even denouncing and standing in the way of things they originally were in favor of and championed. All to discredit and drive out of office that very president. And, they were cocky enough to do it while owning the fact of what they were doing.
Now, a great many of my fellow Americans are too dumb to see the subterfuge and the hypocrisy. They're falling for the lies! We're in danger of having these lying would-be despots actually pulling it off.
If they do, America is doomed, as far as I can see. Like ancient Rome, we'll be headed into fascism driven by theocracy. Our democratic republic will probably be over -- forever. What follows will only be a deceitful sham.
Romney would load the federal government with hand picked purveyors of his insane Mormon philosophy. He'd also let Ryan run rampant with his Catholic doctrine as long as it agreed with his mormonism (much of it does). I remember the fiasco Ed Mecham brought to the state of Arizona. Romney would do even worse to the United States of America. Our standing in the civilized, rational world would go to zilch overnight.
Forget any real freedom of conscience and personal belief if this cabal seizes power! The same lies and subterfuge seen in this campaign would soon become the modus operandi of our national government. They'd load the Supreme Court with fanatics like themselves.
Denounce me as an alarmist or whatever you wish. I stand with Cato, the great Roman patriot and inspiration to Washington and his army, who was so distraught over Caesar's rise to power that he commited suicide by disemboweling himself. We all know, or should, what happened to Rome. But, then, not many people like history, and they very well may be doomed to repeat it, as numerous historians have pointed out.
We elected a president four years ago and he came into office with high hopes and solid plans to turn the nation around. Millions, including me, had high hopes.
The opposiiton blatantly set out to sabotage everything that president Obama set out to do -- even denouncing and standing in the way of things they originally were in favor of and championed. All to discredit and drive out of office that very president. And, they were cocky enough to do it while owning the fact of what they were doing.
Now, a great many of my fellow Americans are too dumb to see the subterfuge and the hypocrisy. They're falling for the lies! We're in danger of having these lying would-be despots actually pulling it off.
If they do, America is doomed, as far as I can see. Like ancient Rome, we'll be headed into fascism driven by theocracy. Our democratic republic will probably be over -- forever. What follows will only be a deceitful sham.
Romney would load the federal government with hand picked purveyors of his insane Mormon philosophy. He'd also let Ryan run rampant with his Catholic doctrine as long as it agreed with his mormonism (much of it does). I remember the fiasco Ed Mecham brought to the state of Arizona. Romney would do even worse to the United States of America. Our standing in the civilized, rational world would go to zilch overnight.
Forget any real freedom of conscience and personal belief if this cabal seizes power! The same lies and subterfuge seen in this campaign would soon become the modus operandi of our national government. They'd load the Supreme Court with fanatics like themselves.
Denounce me as an alarmist or whatever you wish. I stand with Cato, the great Roman patriot and inspiration to Washington and his army, who was so distraught over Caesar's rise to power that he commited suicide by disemboweling himself. We all know, or should, what happened to Rome. But, then, not many people like history, and they very well may be doomed to repeat it, as numerous historians have pointed out.
THAT INDOLENT 47%
Sorry, Mitt. We just can't seem to keep ourselves from showing up your inane pronouncements. We're such troublesome debunkers of your stereotypes.
Here I am, at 78, With a carpet repair job booked for Friday afternoon and a wedding ceremony for Saturday. Maybe another call will come in for earlier in the week. And, I'm working Aflac as well. Have to get busy tomorrow making the monthly checkup on active accounts. I'm so lazy and dependent, you know. I just can't bring myself to take any responsibility for my own welfare.
On top of that, can't seem to keep myself off this internet and feel compeled to voice my opinions on so much nonsense and drivel that you and others feel compelled to spout.
Then, there's my little wife, Phyllis. She's been tossing around ideas for doing something productive as well -- at the ripe young age of 76. Just this past week, an opportunity dropped in her lap.
For many years, she taught defensive driving classes here in the state of Arizona, evenings and weekends while holding down a regular career job during the day. She was very good because she set up the state program when she worked for the Arizona Supreme Court and knew it and Arizona traffic laws backward and forward. I used to go with her and do the paperwork.
Seems the state of Arizona is in deep need of qualified class monitors to go around to defensive driving classes periodically and check up on schools and individual teachers, so she has been offered a position as one of those monitors.
She plans to take it. It entails three days of preparatory classes in Phoenix to get certified and a good bit of driving around the state. I will likely accompany her most of the time. I'm very good at finding locations and programming the GPS. She, not as much.
So, Mitt, want to comment again about how dependent and irresponsible we of the 47% are?
Incidentally, we have already voted in this election, and not one single vote went to you or any of your theocratic fascist friends. Go run for Mormon president. They'd love to have your closed, deluded mind running their so-called "Christian" cult! It's only a little more stupid than regular Christianity.
Here I am, at 78, With a carpet repair job booked for Friday afternoon and a wedding ceremony for Saturday. Maybe another call will come in for earlier in the week. And, I'm working Aflac as well. Have to get busy tomorrow making the monthly checkup on active accounts. I'm so lazy and dependent, you know. I just can't bring myself to take any responsibility for my own welfare.
On top of that, can't seem to keep myself off this internet and feel compeled to voice my opinions on so much nonsense and drivel that you and others feel compelled to spout.
Then, there's my little wife, Phyllis. She's been tossing around ideas for doing something productive as well -- at the ripe young age of 76. Just this past week, an opportunity dropped in her lap.
For many years, she taught defensive driving classes here in the state of Arizona, evenings and weekends while holding down a regular career job during the day. She was very good because she set up the state program when she worked for the Arizona Supreme Court and knew it and Arizona traffic laws backward and forward. I used to go with her and do the paperwork.
Seems the state of Arizona is in deep need of qualified class monitors to go around to defensive driving classes periodically and check up on schools and individual teachers, so she has been offered a position as one of those monitors.
She plans to take it. It entails three days of preparatory classes in Phoenix to get certified and a good bit of driving around the state. I will likely accompany her most of the time. I'm very good at finding locations and programming the GPS. She, not as much.
So, Mitt, want to comment again about how dependent and irresponsible we of the 47% are?
Incidentally, we have already voted in this election, and not one single vote went to you or any of your theocratic fascist friends. Go run for Mormon president. They'd love to have your closed, deluded mind running their so-called "Christian" cult! It's only a little more stupid than regular Christianity.
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