Wednesday Reads: Horrors of being a woman in a Pro-Life Hell
Posted: November 14, 2012 Filed under: abortion rights, Accommodation and Compromise, Barack Obama, birth control, Discrimination against women, fetus fetishists, fundamentalist Christians, Human Rights, legislation, misogyny, morning reads, Planned Parenthood, PLUB Pro-Life-Until-Birth, Psychopaths in charge, religion, Religious Conscience, religious extremists, Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights, Republican politics, U.S. Politics, Vagina, War on Women, Women's Healthcare, Women's Rights | Tags: big ass diamond, Brasstown, Fuck Chuck Todd, Ireland, Migraines and brain lesions, Pat Robertson, Possum Drop, retirement, Savita Halappanavar 29 Comments »
Good Morning!
**Updates on Savita Halappanavar story below**
While looking for links for you this morning, I was appalled to read about this woman, Savita Halappanavar, in Ireland.
Scandal in Ireland as woman dies in Galway ‘after being denied abortion’
Health authorities in Ireland are investigating the death of a pregnant woman whose husband says she was denied an abortion following severe complications.
Savita Halappanavar, who was 17 weeks pregnant, died of septicaemia a week after presenting with back pain on 21 October at University hospital in Galway, where she was found to be miscarrying.
After the 31-year-old dentist was told that she was miscarrying, her husband reportedly said that she had asked for a medical termination a number of times over a three day period, during which she was in severe pain.
But he said these requests were denied because a foetal heartbeat was still present and they were told at one point: “This is a Catholic country.”
Medical staff removed the dead foetus days later after the heartbeat stopped but Halappanavar died of septicaemia on 28 October.
Ireland’s health service executive, which runs the country’s public health care system, has initiated an investigation into the incident, which is also being investigated by the hospital itself.
Reports of the death sparked an outcry on Wednesday night in Ireland, where abortion is illegal unless the life of the woman is in danger.
It is disgusting that something like this has happened…and what bothers me the most is that it isn’t the first time a woman has lost her life because of an archaic religious belief…and it won’t be the last…look at these righteous faces:
Members of pro-life groups demonstrating in Dublin last year as a private member’s bill proposing legalising abortion in Irelandwas debated. The bill did not succeed. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA
Remember #Savita Send a message to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs dfa.ie/home/index.asp… #WaronWomen Women's Rights are Human Rights!
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J.J. Lopez Minkoff (@MinkoffMinx) November 14, 2012Apparently Republicans in the state of Ohio didn’t quite get the message from the election. Rather than back off unpopular efforts to restrict access to reproductive health care, they’ve gone all in, renewing efforts to strip family-planning dollars from Planned Parenthood and reviving the once-dead “heartbeat bill” which purports to ban abortions as soon as a heartbeat is detected.
Stephanie Kight, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio, reacted to news of the renewed attacks on women’s reproductive health care in a statement. “Just days ago, in an election where the stakes for women’s health were higher and clearer than they have ever been, Ohio voted to protect a woman’s ability to make her own personal medical decisions without interference from politicians,” Kight said. “The announcement to focus on these dangerous bills now makes Ohio a ‘battleground state’ once again.”
Exit polling from the national election showed that, of those voters who thought health care was most important, the vast majority are not with politicians who want to interfere with women’s private medical decision-making. To reinforce that fact, President Obama won Ohio women by 11 percent.
Just in case you weren’t positive that the Bishops-fueled right-wing freakout about birth control has fuck-all to do with “pro-life,” Forced Birth protestors in Wisconsin are protesting in front of a Family Planning Clinic that does not provide abortion services. Via Robin Marty at RH Reality Check:Wausau, Wisconsin, doesn’t have a clinic that provides abortion services. But that doesn’t mean anti-choice protesters in the community are willing to bypass the tradition that is the “40 Days for Life” vigil, a twice-yearly event where religious advocates try to pray to “end abortion.”
No, in Wausau, they simply took their protest to the sidewalk in front of Family Planning Services. Those services? Birth control, WIC distribution, STI screenings.
Oh, and basic health care, too.
Via The New Civil Rights Movement:
It’s 4:00 in the afternoon, and rush hour traffic has slowed so the looky loos can snap a picture of the disturbance with their cell phone cameras. The anxious girl hides her face, painfully aware someone passing by may recognize her, but she bravely trudges past the protesters. Some merely stare at her accusingly. Others hiss words meant to shame her. She wants to run away, but she has no money, and there is nowhere else she can go for help. Hers is a torment that cannot be prayed away. Her eyes fill with tears, but she refuses to let them fall. She keeps her gaze on the entrance; five more steps, three, two. One more step and a push of the door and this nightmare will be over. Inside she will find medical help. She will find compassion without judgment. After weeks of suffering, of tossing and turning and worrying about what she was going to do, the teen is about to find someone who will help her end her unwanted……… yeast infection.
No, I did not get that diagnosis wrong. Family Planning Services in Wausau does not offer abortion services. In fact, they are forbidden by the terms of their state grants from even referring a woman to an abortion provider. (Remind me to do a column about that little piece of injustice sometime.) What FPHS does, is help pregnant women of low to moderate means to have healthy babies. They educate young people about contraception and STDs. They help women (and men) avoid pregnancies that would end in abortions. Their WIC program gets fresh vegetables and fruits from local farmers into the diets of mothers and their young children. You would think the Catholics, with their history of community charity, would be holding fundraising Bingo nights and bake sales to help them. But nope, they have opted to go the pageant route instead.
As Cienna Madrid at The Stranger aptly put it:
Their overarching goal isn’t just to make abortion illegal, it’s to shame and punish modern women for having sex lives, for caring about their health, for being anything other than subservient, walking chattels whose uteri are wallpapered with Bible passages.
Indeed.
The teacher and his defender have the gall to call this an “X” because they think everyone is just as ignorant as they are.
In a case that has been litigated since 2008 (and is still ongoing), John Freshwater, a teacher who previously lived and worked in Mount Vernon, Ohio, insists that his First Amendment rights and “academic freedom” were violated when he was fired by the school district for teaching Creationism in class and burning a cross into the arms of students using a Tesla coil.
From the report that lead to his firing:
Mr. Freshwater was insubordinate in failing to remove all of the religious materials from his classroom as ordered by his superior, Principal White.
- Mr. Freshwater did burn a cross onto the complaining family’s child’s arm using an electrostatic device not designed for that purpose
- The Ten Commandments together with other posters of a religious nature were posted in Mr. Freshwater’s classroom. Most were removed after Mr. White’s letter of April 14, 2008, but at least one poster remained which Mr. Freshwater was again instructed to remove on April 16, 2008, but did not do so.
- Several Bibles were kept in Mr. Freshwater’s classroom including his personal Bible on his desk and one he checked out of the library placed on the lab table near the desk. Other Bibles that had been maintained in the room were removed by the time the investigators viewed Mr. Freshwater’s room.
- Mr. Freshwater engaged in teaching of a religious nature, teaching creationism and related theories and calling evolution into question. He had other materials in his classroom that could be used for that purpose.
- Mr. Freshwater engaged in prayer during FCA meetings in violation of the District’s legal obligations for monitoring such organizations.
- Mr. Freshwater participated and possibly lead a prayer during an FCA meeting that concerned a guest speaker’s health. There is no conclusion as to whether such prayer was a “healing” prayer.
- Mr. Freshwater gave an extra credit assignment for students to view the movie “Expelled” which does involve intelligent design.
It’s important to note that Freshwater did not work at a religious institute but a regular public school (not that branding would be acceptable at ANY kind of school). Freshwater knows, as does every Creationist teacher, that the courts have struck down (over and over again), in the harshest possible terms, any attempt to legally teach Creationism, Intelligent Design or any other phony variation of anti-evolution claptrap in public schools. It’s a direct violation of the Separation Clause in the First Amendment. Freshwater did not care. How do we know Freshwater knew he was breaking the law? Like any common criminal, he tried to hide the evidence:
There is a significant amount of evidence that Mr. Freshwater’s teachings regarding subjects related to evolution were not consistent with the curriculum of the Mount Vernon City Schools and State standards. Contrary to Mr. Freshwater’s statement, the evidence indicates he has been teaching creationism and intelligent design and has been teaching the unreliability of carbon dating in support of opposition to evolution. He has passed out materials to students for the past several years challenging evolution and then collecting the materials back from the students. He has done so in spite of specific directives not to teach creationism or intelligent design. He has taught students to use the code word “Here” to challenge scientific process that is considered settled by the high school science teachers.
However, it is equally clear that Freshwater is hoping to be a new test case. His claim of “academic freedom” is simply a new tactic to force religion into the classroom.
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco launched a Global Turnaway Study this year to explore the potential social and economic implications of denying women access to legal abortion. And after documenting the experiences of the women who seek to terminate a pregnancy but are turned away from abortion services, the UCSF researchers found that those women were three times more likelythan the women who successfully obtained abortions to fall below the poverty line within the subsequent two years.
The Gawker affiliate i09 summarizes some of the researchers’ preliminary findings, and notes that denying women access to abortion puts a strain on struggling women as well as federal assistance programs. Although the women who participated in the Turnaway Study were in comparable economic positions when they sought abortions, the woman who were unable to terminate their unwanted pregnancies were more likely to have slipped into poverty just a year later:
A year later, [the women who were denied an abortion] were far more likely to be on public assistance — 76 percent of the turnaways were on the dole, as opposed to 44 percent of those who got abortions. 67 percent of the turnaways were below the poverty line (vs. 56 percent of the women who got abortions), and only 48 percent had a full time job (vs. 58 percent of the women who got abortions).
When a woman is denied the abortion she wants, she is statistically more likely to wind up unemployed, on public assistance, and below the poverty line. Another conclusion we could draw is that denying women abortions places more burden on the state because of these new mothers’ increased reliance on public assistance programs.
The UCSF researchers also told i09 that their study did not find any statistical correlation between abortion and drug use, or abortion and clinical depression — in other words, women who successfully obtained abortions did not experience any negative emotional consequences stemming from their decision to end a pregnancy, including an uptick in drug abuse. In fact, the researchers explained, “One week after seeking abortion, 97 percent of women who obtained an abortion felt that abortion was the right decision; 65 percent of turnaways still wished they had been able to obtain an abortion.”
In fact, women often seek abortions for the very same reasons they seek access to affordable contraception: because they cannot currently afford to have another child. Women typically want to avoid unintended pregnancies in cases when having a baby would compromise their economic autonomy and prevent them from finishing school, keeping a job, or supporting their current families.
Nonetheless, conservative anti-choice advocates are currently pushing to limit access to both abortion and contraception — while simultaneously slashing funding for the social safety net programs that poor women rely on.
After nearly 10 years of follow-up of study participants who experienced migraines and who had brain lesions identified via magnetic resonance imaging, women with migraines had a higher prevalence and greater increase of deep white matter hyperintensities (brain lesions) than women without migraines, although the number, frequency, and severity of migraines were not associated with lesion progression, according to a study appearing in the November 14 issue of JAMA.
The Archduke Joseph diamond, sold at Christie’s in Geneva. Photograph: Laurent Gillieron/APA huge, internally flawless diamond from India’s fabled Golconda mines was sold at auction in Geneva on Tuesday night for a record 20.35m Swiss francs (£13.5m), Christie’s said.
The rare, colourless stone – weighing 76 carats and roughly the size of a large strawberry – once belonged to Archduke Joseph August of Austria (1872-1962), a prince of the Hungarian line of the Habsburgs.
It fetched more than double the price paid for it at auction almost two decades ago.
“It is a world record price per carat for a colourless diamond,” François Curiel, director of the international jewellery department at Christie’s, said.
(Chuck Todd: Republicans will give Democrats all the revenue they want, if they just agree to raise the retirement age. Trust them.)
I don’t know about anyone else, but as someone who has actually worked at one of those jobs where you take a shower at the end of the work day and not before you go in, I’m sick to death of watching these overpaid television pundits and their counterparts in the Congress, nonchalantly discussing raising the retirement age. It may not matter much to them, but there are real economic hardships involved when you force the average wage earner out there to continue to work until they drop dead if the retirement age is raised any higher than it already is now.
If our beltway Villagers and politicians really believe that it’s no big deal to raise the retirement age for the rest of America, how about we ask them to walk a mile in our shoes? I wonder if any of them would decide that maybe it’s not such a great idea to be doing physical labor well into your late sixties if they were the ones actually having to do those jobs?
I wonder if Chuck Todd would be a little more worried about when he might be able to retire if he were say, some migrant worker picking berries and in need of daily visits to the chiropractor he can’t afford because his back is screaming all day from being bent over?
A popular New Year’s celebration that draws thousands of tourists to the tiny North Carolina town of Brasstown for a party that ends in a “possum drop” may no longer be held there, a judge ruled.The 18-year tradition in the town of 240 consisted of lowering the animal to the ground at midnight in a see-through cage decked out in Christmas garlands, like the ball that is dropped in New York’s Times Square — except the possum is alive.
Believe me, these critters are not in danger, this is a big artist community…there is no way these pacifist, Birkenstock wearing, liberal artist will hurt the possums. Let them have their fun!
So, that is all…have a wonderful day!
**Updates to the #Savita story:
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| Huffington Post UK (blog) - 35 minutes ago |
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| Irish Independent - 1 hour ago |
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| The Guardian - 4 hours ago |
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Tis all about power – The PLUBs need to feel powerful, and if they don’t have the control over wimmenz who may or may not be of their religious stripe, then their g*d won’t smile upon them and give them their rightful reward – or something like that. Who can explain how those Morons think? Shake your head Plubs, it’s 2013 CE, not the middle ages.
Sorry about all the language in the post this morning, but I am pissed off about it and my head hurts…;)
Nothing wrong with your language. It could be a lot harsher without cutting those miserable PLUBs. It’ really a wonderful post.
TY Ralph…and everyone else!
That Ireland situation is certainly a horror show. Just lets us know what we would be in for if big religion ever got more of a handle on our laws. We must fight religion everywhere, and promote acceptance of rationality and atheism. BTW, my comments are sporadically disappearing again, so I won’t take too much time writing them…
I don’t know if this has been linked to yet, I still have not read yesterday’s post and comments: McSally Supporter Sues To Block Ballots In Latino Precinct | TPMMuckraker
disgusting!
Fabulous post, mink!
I don’t know where to begin. Wouldn’t surprise me to find Pat Robertson placing all the blame on Holly Petraeus for not “keeping herself up” thus driving her “esteemed” husband into the waiting arms of another younger, more attractive woman. Total hypocrite.
In Ireland, where a version of Sharia Law is practiced “in a Catholic country”, the name of the victim may be at the heart of the matter as well. She was probably not “one of them” and deserved to suffer as an example of “god’s will”. Insanity knows no bounds.
So much of this anti woman hatred is coming from Red States. We cannot set aside the fact that the GOP may have been defeated this time around almost half this nation voted in favor of them, Todd Akin managed to garner over one million votes in MO which tells us quite a lot about those who found nothing harmful in his message.
The House Committee on science and research is infested with Creationists who will go to any lengths to deny evolution and climate change which should send shivers up the spines of any progressive – or clear thinking individual – when it comes to public policy. My only hope is that they go far enough in their ignorance that come 2014 we can rid congress of these religio fascists and their superstitious beliefs that should be confined to whatever church they attend.
Inscribing the cross on the arm of a student than calling yourself a “victim” is about as crazy as it gets. But watch and see the number of people this teacher manages to appeal to under the guise of free speech and religious freedom.
As for the “Villagers”, when making a few million a year whatever happens in DC will have no long lasting effect on their way of life. Just a “tsk tsk” for those of us who must live under the “rules” set forth. This stuff makes for good tv.
Religious fervor is to blame for most of the world’s ills. That along with an unfettered belief in greed is marching the planet into the abyss.
Absurdity at its finest.
I thought the same thing Pat.
I worked for years at a hospital that performed abortions.
There was a “committed group” who stood by the main driveway each day carrying signs in protest. Some were draped with rosaries, others holding homemade crucifixes, a few on their knees in prayer.
They were a daily annoyance trying to block us from getting to our jobs but the looks on their faces and the glint in their eyes was rather unsettling. Unless one faces headon the behavior of fanatics you miss the whole point. They are truly scary!
This went on for several years but gradually the group dwindled down to a few before they finally disappeared altogether. I’m not sure why since abortions continued to be performed but they eventually melted away. Possibly because they did not attract the media attention they sought and they failed to attract new members.
Or possibly because the hospital was so large it would make it impossible to identify anyone in particular entering the premises seeking legal termination.
But what I clearly remembered was the look on their faces. Very unsettling. One can only imagine the fright they elicit when they gather in front of clinics catering to women.
Very little separates the “crazies” from those who are requiring medical treatment under any circumstances. These nutjobs consider themselves as being “in the right” and will stop at nothing to carry it through to conclusion.
This is what Dr. Teller was up against in his crusade to serve his patients.
Stories like the one that you highlighted in Ireland, Minkoff, are the ones that show the utter bogosity of our abortion fight in America.
Abortion is legal in Ireland when the life of the mother is in danger. However, the religiously insane in that hospital decided that her life wasn’t in danger, and/or it didn’t matter as much as the potential life of her fetus. Do we really have any illusions that this won’t happen if abortion is further restricted?
I say, women need to go back to the position that all abortion needs to be legal country-wide, even late-term abortion, and the Hyde Amendment must be overturned We also need to take the position that the states cannot overrule equal rights, which is what this fight is really about – the ability to control our own reproductive destinies, just like men do. And of course, we need to fight for the passage of the ERA by getting it ratified in the remaining states.
Coincident with the rise of the pro-deathers in our country, America’s women have been dying in childbirth at a shocking rate.
http://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2012/04/yes-childbirth-more-dangerous-women-abortion-pill
The fact is that pregnancy is ALWAYS a danger to the life of the mother. Therefore abortion should always be available to all women who may need it, as well as full medical care for all their scary ladyparts.
https://twitter.com/AngryBlackLady
Imani has been tweeting laws and proposed legislation here in the US that mirrors the anti-abortion laws in Ireland.
Also this:
Department of Foreign Affairs – Irish Embassies and Consulates Abroad
list of Irish Embassies, send them a message! Here is the email: Department of Foreign Affairs
Thank you for this brilliant, powerful post, JJ! It’s very disturbing to read these about these anti-woman zealots, but it’s also vital that we be eternally vigilant from now on. They simply don’t get it, and they are not going to give up until we completely crush them and their virulent bible-based idiocy. The only way to do that is for Obama to appoint 2-3 more liberal justices to the Supreme Court. This is absolutely essential to protect the lives and freedom of women.
My ectopic pregnancy was not even discovered until 16 weeks, and it was at 17 weeks that I had to have it removed. If I was in Ireland, my situation would have been like Savita’s…so it is even more personal to me. I hope that her death is not in vain, and that some changes come from the protest surrounding her passing. I’ve updated the post up top to include other articles from around the world.
When I used to teach Human Sexuality at Rutgers, it was mostly a fairly standard lecture course in biology/psychology of the subject. But I happened to be doing research with RU 486, AKA the abortion pill, and was somewhat involved in the literature. So I took a whole lecture to talk about RU, and how it was not an approved treatment, even though it has lots of medical uses besides abortion. It is a synthetic anti-progestin, blocking the progesterone receptors and preventing all its effects, notably implantation. It also is effective in the treatment of endometriosis, and It is also helpful for some hormone sensitive cancers.
My point is that while I usually had to deal with talkers, and various other types of inattention in the 400 person class, when I got on this, you could have heard a pin drop, the students were so rapt at my tale of their government banning a very useful hormone treatment for basically religious/political reasons. So there may be hope yet. RU 486, long used in Europe, was finally approved for use in the US in 2000.
Savita Halappanavar’s story is a heartbreaking reminder of what awaits women if we continue to allow zealots influence over our government and our healthcare. I can’t express the anger, frustration, and sadness I’m feeling over what she and her husband endured. Thank you for including her story in your post.
Speaking of women: Nancy Pelosi will “stay” as House Minority leader.
The FBI is hauling out mounds of boxes from the home of Paula Broadwell that may contain “sensitive information” she took from the Pentagon. WTF?
And Jill Kelley is close to bankruptcy, chaired a “shady” charity, and has ties to the mideast by way of Lebanon. Her sister, who lost custody of her child to her ex husband because of “shady dealings” she herself was involved in, is the same sister for whom both Petraeus and Allen wrote “glowing letters of tribute” during her recent court battles.
What the hell was going on here that has yet to be uncovered? Some of this stuff, still in the “conspiracy” column, is suggesting the GOP at work in getting their hands on information to take down the Obama administration since these women have ties to that party while Petraeus was known to have strong associations with some of the neocons.
This may be more than just who was “boffing” who if some bimbo was capable of getting her hands on this material for purposes we have yet to understand.
Which may give rise to the supposition that some of these generals were being less than objective about their strategies than first suspected. Keeping continual wars going offers more opportunities for advancement up the military ladder and keeps the military industrial complex leeching more money from the government with never ending conflcts.
In other words: money, money, money and the pursuit of the same.
The horror, horror of Ireland and the situation with this pregnancy and the death of a woman.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention………….I’m with you JJ, I’m cussing my head off this morning………….that’s why I could never be in politics, this kind of situation brings it out.
Interesting article on migraines. I have had migraines since 1970. I believe they started from a spinal anesthesia when I gave birth. In later years, I found my headaches were caused by certain chemicals in foods and scents, especially formaldehyde. Lately, I have had migraines from medicines. Chemicals are everywhere!
I get them from certain kinds of lighting, I always thought those lesions in my brain were from my epilepsy, now I wonder if maybe it is connected to my migraines. They are horrible…really anything can trigger mine. I have one or two a month.
Looks like elections can have consequences. Hang tough and get it done.
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The death of Savita Halappanavar should provoke outrage in anyone truly concerned about the health of women.
Hopefully the investigation will shed some light on why Mrs. Halappanavar was refused treatment for miscarriage, when this treatment is regularly administered in this country, and is allowed for by the law and by the Medical Council.
The treatment she needed was legal, so there is no question that a change in the law is what is needed here. It is medical negligence that she was not treated urgently.
In cases where the fetus is still alive, the Medical Council in part 21.4 of its guidelines for medical doctors states that treatment is allowed even if “there is little of no hope of the baby surviving”.
The treatment that Mrs. Halappanavar should have received is legal in this country. In fact, it is standard medical procedure in cases like hers. That she wasn’t treated is a failure of the hospital and medical team, not a problem with the law.
I suspect that the medical council will strike off one or more people because of this and rightly so.
The greatest thing we can do to honour Savita’s life is to insist on obstetric excellence – that is what saves women’s lives, not abortion.
It may be a standard in cases like hers, but there are many laws and proposed legislation in this country that are parallel to the Irish law. You can find all of the anti-woman info here:
State Legislative Trends at Midyear 2012
To say that this does or will not happen here is turning a blind eye to what is going on in state capitals all over the country. Whatever your position on abortion is, one thing I feel is certain. Having an abortion saved my life! If I had my ectopic pregnancy a year later, I would have had to wait until my uterus and fallopian tube ruptured before the doctor could perform my operation. A Catholic hospital had bought out the Woman’s hospital in my town and stopped doing tubaligations as well as abortions. I was 17 weeks and felt movement, the fetus was developing normally. So yes, abortions can save lives. Safe abortion saves lives too. Abortion needs to remain legal…period.
I beg to differ – safe abortions do save the lives of women. Obstetric excellence is needed in that arena, too, as it is in all aspects of pregnancy.
Things are exploding in Gaza: Hamas leader in Gaza killed by Israeli strike – The Washington Post I’m afraid at what all this could mean, and more importantly bring about re: Iran.
BBC News – LIVE: Israel strikes Gaza
JJ, sorry to hear about your headaches, I hope you feel better. All of your links are amazing today.. always. I don’t know if anyone has seen what Li’Luke Russert ask Nancy Pelosi today but it is just unbelievable. I bet no one at MSNBC will call out this little know nothing shit
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/14/russert-demands-to-know-if-pelosi-is-too-old-to-lead-house-democrats/
Andrea Mitchell did bring it up with Campbell Brown and they just giggled Asshats.
What a class act – meaning Congresswoman Pelosi. McConnell is 80, Harry Reid is 72, but somehow they aren’t too old. I’ve often wondered why the Right is so venomous toward Pelosi & the only answer I can come up with is misogyny. “That damn women doesn’t know her place” has to be the reason. Guess they want her home baking cookies & entertaining the grandkids. The world is filled with schmucks.
I apologize if this has already been posted. It caught my eye and I wanted to share…
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/fail-anti-obama-teen-wants-to-move-to-australia-because-we-have-christian-male-president/story-e6frf7jo-1226512853271