February 2012
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Pennsylvania’s HB1077 - Letter to the PA State...
Let me take a moment of your time. This bill is wrong. Women know what they are doing yet they have to have counseling, procedures and get ridiculed for many different reproductive healthcare. The same is not true for men.
I needed to get a vasectomy because my wife is unable to use any type of birth control and I am of an age where having children is not practical any longer. In order for her to...
“The Framers also recognized a second reason to oppose the linkage of state and...”
– PoliticalProf, laying it down. I recommend The Godless Constitution for further reading on the subject. Not a few of the strongest advocates for the Separation of Church and State in colonial America were religious leaders who recognized that melding church and state together (where the terms...
“And if I have to hear someone say that Republicans are racist ONE MORE TIME I am...”
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oh my god
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BLACK PEOPLE HAVING CONTROL OVER THEIR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IS RACIST NOW APPARENTLY
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JESUS FUCK THIS CAN’T BE REAL
NO
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Someone needs to stop drinking the Republican cool-aid…
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“The strategy followed by the Syrians and their allies is one that can’t stand...”
– Hillary Clinton, sounding like she knows something we don’t this morning in London. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
Watchsomeauthorgirl:
thedailywhat:
No Shoes, No Same-Sex Marriage, No Service of the Day: New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez will have find a new place to get her hair did after her openly gay stylist refused to allow her back in his salon until she changes her stance on same-sex marriage.
“The governor’s aides called not too long ago, wanting another appointment to come in,” Antonio Darden,...
Texas just cut funding for the reproductive health... →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
ereyes312:
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!
Reproductive rights are being dismantled at an alarming rate here in Texas. Can Amy Poehler do a segment about that on SNL? Can Jon Stewart do one on the Daily Show? Can we get some national media coverage of this? PLEASE!
Unless some last-minute agreement is...
7 worst international aid ideas →
baddominicana:
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obruniradio:
lysscglobal:
Maybe their hearts were in the right place. Maybe not. Either way, these are solid contenders for the title of “worst attempts at helping others since colonialism.”
1. One million t-shirts for Africa
2. TOMS Buy-One-Give-One
…dumping shoes in places where people might otherwise be employed to make them.
3. Machine gun preacher
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“She wore her sexuality with an older woman’s ease, and not like an awkward...”
– Zadie Smith (via monamade)
how do I learn to do that???
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Mrs. Zhounder does that.
“When you have 40 percent of kids being born out of wedlock, and among certain...”
– Mitt Romney, at Wednesday’s CNN debate in Arizona.
Hey, you know what prevents unwanted pregnancy? This.
Love the insinuation that poverty IS child abuse. And the racism. That throwaway remark is quite possibly one of the worst things to come out of last night’s debate.
I could say more, but...
Keep your Boehner out of my Uterus!: Hey, are you... →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
Get on Twitter and tweet to Mr. @RichLowry, of the “by any reasonable standard, we are one of the most lavishly contracepted societies in the history of the planet” fame, the following:
.@RichLowry, I’m contracepted. #prochoice #fem2 #lavish #diamondIUDs
Earlier today I tweeted about…
Cactus Tree Motel: stfuhypocrisy: All-Woman Panel... →
stfuhypocrisy:
All-Woman Panel Has Some Great Ideas About Men’s Sexual Health
[CLICK LINK TO WATCH HILARIOUS VIDEO]
Last week, Congressional Republicans assembled an all-male panel of experts to testify about why women’s employers should be able to determine what kind of health care…
“11. Bring consent out of the bedroom. I think part of the reason we have trouble...”
– Holly over at The Pervocracy with an excellent 101 post on Consent Culture. Read the whole thing.
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Even out of the micro-“lunch table” type examples, the idea of non-consent is so pervasively intertwined in western/north american culture. it is cousins to the “i know, better than...
Some Politics: Stock Market Does Much Better Under... →
liberalsarecool:
“While Republicans promote themselves as the friendliest party for Wall Street, stock investors do better when Democrats occupy the White House,” Bloomberg reports. In fact, since John F. Kennedy was inaugurated, $1,000 invested in a hypothetical fund that tracks…
VIDEO: Sandra Bernhard: War on women is ‘a whole... →
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Sandra Bernhard talks to Cenk Uygur of TheYoungTurks.com about Democrats’ apparent willingness to push back against religious groups that want to block insurance coverage of birth control. “This is a whole new level of ignorance that we’ve never seen in this country,” Bernhard says, especially when it comes to the candidate she calls “Sick Rantorum.” She says, “Now we just have ...
How the FBI Invents Terrorists Like the U.S.... →
Even the authorities admit the alleged suicide bomber apprehended near the U.S. Capitol posed no threat. Mansfield Frazier on how the feds create ‘terrorists’ so they can arrest them:
If federal authorities thought Amine El Khalifi was a clear and present danger to America, they could have easily solved the problem by deporting the 29-year-old Moroccan, who had been living as an illegal...
“The Virginia Legislature has passed this law that allows — or mandates — that a...”
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BILL MAHER, remarking on Virginia’s personhood bullshit, on Real Time (via inothernews)
Preach it!
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