Which century is this again?

As the political season slouches forward, and the gop candidate-picking contest continues to devolve into something more closely resembling 'Swamp People' rather than an attempt to find a bona fide contender to go up against the President, the relentless republican War on Women continues.

In Virginia they are on the verge of mandating 'State Rape' in the form of forced ultrasounds for any women wanting an abortion, regardless of the reason.

In Oklahoma they are ready to officially call a fertilized human egg a 'person', and bestow upon it all manner of constitutional rights. This would immediately make the destruction of a fertilized human egg a crime. So you know, if you were a pregnant woman that mis-carried, you would technically be a criminal and could face investigation and prosecution.

In the Senate there are various bills being put forth to try and allow employers to 'opt out' of paying for birth control, because you know, a woman's sole purpose is to pro-create here in the twenty-first century.

This all comes on the heels of the American Catholic Bishops getting all ginned up about being forced to pay for contraception by President Obama's health care bill, something they say that goes against their fundamental principles, although covering up the rape of thousands of children by pedophile priests in their midst apparently doesn't...

I have said it before, and I'll say it again, if you have a vagina and you vote Republican you need to have your head examined. What will it take for you to understand they HATE you? They don't want you to have access to affordable health care (see the outrage when Susan G. Komen walked back their ill-fated decision to fuck with Planned Parenthood), they don't want you to have control over your own reproductive cycle, and if you get pregnant and don't want to take it to full-term, well you are well and truly fucked aren't you?

Folks, politicians in the USA like to attach the word 'war' alot to things they want to get funding and support for, the 'war' on drugs, the 'war' on cancer, the 'war' on terror (how do you fight a noun exactly?), so make no mistake about it, the republican party has declared 'war' on women....oh they may try and wrap it up as some sort of benevolent "we're only trying to protect generations of future women from being harmed", but when their anti-abortion legislation is so strict it would prevent pregnant victims of incest and rape from aborting the fetus, I think you truly get what they are after, total control over women's bodies.

This issue has nothing to do with protecting cute, cuddly babies, and EVERYTHING to do with MEN telling WOMEN what they can do with their bodies, and bugger-all else.

So ladies, this fall, in State and Federal elections wherever you are, get out there and vote for candidates that will support women's rights, and fight to keep angry old white men out of your vaginas...

What "liberal" media?

CNN got caught being two-faced right-wing enablers this week when they suspended Roland Martin, one of their 'liberal' commentators for something he tweeted about during the Super-bowel ad-fest. Specifically something that was construed by many to be homophobic about the David Beckham underwear ads.

Why is that two-faced you might ask?

Simple, when Tea-bagger Dana Loesch said that the Marines that were being charged for pissing on the bodies of some dead Taliban fighters should have been rewarded instead, and that if she'd been there she'd have done it too , CNN not only didn't suspend her, they defended her...'CNN contributors are commentators who express a wide range of viewpoints - on and off of CNN - that often provoke strong agreement or disagreement. Their viewpoints are their own."

Now, call me old fashioned, but if that statement was really true, shouldn't BOTH commentators have been treated the same way?

"Liberal media" my arse....

There's stupid, there's dumb, and then there's this broad....

Dana Perino, pResident George Dumbya Bush's former public relations peroxide-pixie, was on the Faux "news" channel yesterday bitching about the Madonna half-time show at the Super-Dee-Duper Bowl, particularly the middle-finger displayed by MIA during that 'mutton-dressed-as-lamb' lip-synched dance session. Dana was all flustered because MIA wasn't "even an American" and why would any non-American be performing at the Super-Dee-Duper Bowl in the first place? Skipping over the fact that the finger-flip was on the air for even less time than Janet Jackson's nipple-slip, which for no apparent reason caused White America to lose its goddamned mind, is she really suggesting that it would be alright for an American to flip off the teevee audience? I don't think so.

Nope, I think this has bugger all to do with the country the performer is from, and everything to do with the skin colour of the performer....

Or does this mental midget really think that other previous half-time performers like The Who, Sting, The Rolling Stones, U2, Phil Collins and Paul McCartney are actually Americans too?

Think pink? Not so fast....

Folks, as many of you know my wife has breast cancer. Thankfully, due to early detection, we were able to catch it in its' infancy and the prognosis looks excellent for a full recovery. Due to this unplanned foray into an area that I formerly had very little knowledge about, I have learned a good many things. Most have been very positive, especially in the way family and friends and co-workers have come together to offer my wife their love and support. I have also come to realize just how vast the entire 'industry' built around this disease, has become. Most of it is geared at support and help for the cancer patients themselves, and some for researching the disease as well. But there is also a growing sector of this industry that is more and more involved in promoting their brand name, rather than offering support for cancer patients, or funding research for "the cure".

I am speaking directly about Susan G. Komen  for the Cure. This organisation started out with the very best of intentions, but has now become more and more consumed with promoting it's own brand, selling "pink", and preaching it's own political ideology, than it is in doing what it claims to do, i.e. "find the cure".

This all came to a head yesterday when their national office announced their decision to cut it's yearly funding to Planned Parenthood (you know, the folks that actually DO help women with their health). Not unsurprisingly this kicked up one hell of a fuss on the interwebs. As the news spread, Susan G Komen came under increasing fire for what most saw as a pathetic cave-in to the religious right who have been harping on them, and threatening them, if they didn't cut their funding to Planned Parenthood simply because PP provides access to abortions.

This actually should come as no surprise as their new V.P. of Policy is a radical anti-abortionist, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate, endorsed in 2010 by none other than Caribou Barbie herself, Sarah Palin for her aggressive "pro-life" stance (unless of course you are an animal, in which case she is decidedly pro-death, especially if it involves high-powered rifles, a pack of wolves and a helicopter).

So this got me to doing even more research about the whole "pink" industry that has mushroomed over the years, and I came across a fabulous website, http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org that offers everyone the opportunity to do a little more digging into the various charities and organisations that purport to be "pink", but may actually not be as pink as you think.

I highly recommend that you check that site out the next time you consider pulling out your checkbook or wallet and donating to the cause because the money you give, might not be used the way you think it is.

As for me, I e-mailed Susan G Komen for the Cure this morning and expressed my feelings about their cowardly decision, and then I donated $10 to http://www.plannedparenthood.org

I know that I am not alone in my outrage that a charity that presents itself as being "pro-women" would do something that is decidedly "anti-woman", and I respectfully suggest that you do your own research, and then give what you can to those organisations and charities that ARE interested in actually helping women, and not just selling "pink"...

Cheers!!!

I WIN!!!! I WIN!!! I WIN!!!

Even though this is the least read blog in the entire universe, my protest apparently worked....

In other news one of Newt Gingrich's wives had some unkind things to say about the porcine bastard and his sexual appetite...two things I never EVER want to have to type again...and Rick Perry dropped out of the race...comedians from coast-to-coast were devastated...

Also, President Barack Obama has reportedly found his balls and told Big Oil, and their republican whores in Congress, to fuck off by rejecting the Keystone XL project, for now at least. As with all decisions in the environmental battle, all defeats are permanent, and all victories are temporary, but this is a damned good start.

As for this blog, I took some time off to see if I really wanted to continue or not (lack of readership really does bum me out) but I have now accepted the obvious truth that all bloggers are just blatant attention-whores anyway, so I'm back, just as sassy, just as pissed off, and just as ready to hold every single wanker, moron, hypocrite and republican to account. Seeing as how this is a Presidential election year, that means I could be very, VERY busy.

For the four or five of you that read this, I hope you have a wonderful New Year, and remember, whatever you do, don't let the bastards drag you down...

Cheers!!!