So, Todd Akin ain’t quitting, and why should he? His position is no different from anyone else’s in the Republican Party, since they got taken over by a bunch of wacko extremists. His only sin was in not using his indoor voice.
Here’s the best part: Akin launched a website saying he wasn’t quitting and it prominently featured a picture of fetus — which was then quickly removed:
Woops, This Picture Was Not Legitimate
So let that one sink in for a minute. Todd Akin aborted his fetus photo. Hilarious.
Now would be a really good time for Democrats to go out and find a bunch of pissed-off liberal women to recruit to run for office. You know, how they went out and found veterans when they thought the war would be a big issue in 2008? Like how the GOP found a bunch of doctors to run for office when they thought healthcare reform would be President Obama’s Katrina?
Actually, now is a terrible time. The time to have been doing this was when we were all pissed off about the Susan G. Komen stuff back in February. Or any of this other crap that’s been going on.
I know I sound like a broken record, but seriously: when is the fucking march? When is the rally on the National Mall? Where is the bra barbecue? I’m ready to sign up, show up, you name it. Someone tell me where to go, when to be there, what to do. I just don’t know why we aren’t better organized. This Akin shit is stirring the outrage and no one seems to be capitalizing on it. Do we not have the infrastructure?
I don’t want to sign a fucking petition. I want to kick some ass.
I don’t know where your march is, but I think I left mine in 1970 or so when we were right about the war in Vietnam, and no one listened. Or maybe it was the march in 2003 when we were right about the war in Iraq, and no one listened. Or any Earth Day when we were right about global warming, and no one listened. I have Cassandra fatigue. We warn them, they don’t listen, we were right, repeat.
Sigh.
And yet, Glenn Beck’s nutters march on Washington, are horribly wrong, and everyone listened. Why the fuck is that?
Because some large corporation made a buck from it.
And anyway, this issue is COMPLETELY different. There is no ExxonMobil or Military Industrial Complex to benefit from ignoring the millions in the streets. This is more of the Bible banging religious nutters trying to legislate their religion instead of live it. This is not people trying to do something new, like cut carbon emissions. This is some old white fucks trying to take away rights half the population received 30-40 years ago.
So no, it’s not the same as those other issues you mentioned and marching on Washington is not futile. It won’t be ignored.
Hey, girl, I KNOW how you feel. I have been marching, signing petitions, going to rallies, protesting under the office windows of Alexandra and Corker and our 2nd generation for life Congressman all last summer…and this past session, well, these old white men voted against the ACA, against jobs for our people AND FOR all the anti-women laws they could find. I watched our State bunch of crazied ANTI- women, anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, and PRO- every damned gun they could wanted in their very own homes and churches. We did march State-wide back in March for the rights, medical rights, health care for WOMEN…here we had over 500 marching. The problem is that we HAVE NO leaders who will take the time to continue teaching and encouraging women of all ages how to stand up for themselves. And our ‘female politicians in Nashville…forget it.’ The TEAs in Nashville…and of course Marsha Blackburn…just HAVE to vote WITH all these crazed white men who throw their own mothers, wives and daughters under the bus of FALSE moral values. So I continue to raise hell for my own daughters and now, granddaughters…I haven’t lost hope but we will have to struggle awhile longer.
OT but I was having a conversation with a gent from Ontario, Canada this evening. We got on the subject of healthcare and he said that basic care up there was, well, basic and pretty much on demand. He also said that if you want an MRI you might wait a couple of months. I agreed, but I then said, “wanting” an MRI might entail a two month wait, but “needing” an MRI would probably result in having one before the admissions form was completed–he agreed.
When discussing things with reasonable people, I’m a reasonable guy. When talking to asshats, well, fuck ‘em. Lying to me, no matter how politely it’s done is asshattery in my book.
Demo – I found a really cool website for Ontario Canada healthcare. You can search for wait times at hospitals for typical services.. For instance, the shortest wait time for an MRI near Ottawa is 66 days. Typical wait time is 86 days (9 out of 10 patients receive their MRI within 86 days). One hospital in Ottawa currently has a 279 day wait time for an MRI. http://www.waittimes.net/Surgerydi/en/PublicMain.aspx?View=0&Type=0
The bullshit about those “wait time” scare stories is that they never apply to emergency situations. It’s for regular check-ups and non-emergencies. And I’m really not going to get my panties in a twist about this crap when I know people who had to wait 8 weeks for an APPOINTMENT with a neurologist to diagnose a brain tumor RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA. Shocking!
Please, Jim. Our system sucks, everyone knows it and only idiots like you who repeat Newt Gingrich’s lies about healthcare believe otherwise. You know what? STFU. If you think everything is so wonderful and awesome right now, great. Nothing is going to change for you. Carry on paying more for healthcare than anyone else in the developed world and getting less — Shorter life spans, higher mortality from heart disease, higher cancer deaths. Those of us who don’t drink right wing talking points for breakfast and live in reality know better. And you’re stupidity is killing us.
You know what’s really idiotic? Every one of you assholes LOVED this fucking reform when it came from the Republicans. Newt Gingrich fucking loved it. You ALL loved it when Bob Dole was spouting it, Romney ran on it. It was awesome until you fucking morons had to be told to hate it.
Fuck off, Jim. I’m done with you.
A wait time for MRI is better than what I have now: if I NEED an MRI, my plan requires a huge deductible plus a 10% co-insurance payment by me. I cannot afford it unless I want to not pay my mortgage and utilities.
First of all, Southern Beale. Sorry if I’ve jacked the thread.
Jimbo, you ignornat clown. Nowhere did I say that there werent’ significant wait times for an MRI, outside of emergency medicine.
I’ll address your moronic, kneejerk reactionary assertion, at length, on my own blog, later today.
Try doing a little background reading on the subject of Canadian healthcare, turn off Rush and open a fucking book.
Yeah I clicked on Jim’s link. It’s the usual BS. One hospital in Ottawa has a 279 day wait time for an MRI? I didn’t see that. I did see that Stratford General Hospital had a wait time of 10 days for one. The longest that came back was Woodstock General Hospital at 41 days.
But you have to input a zip code and I didn’t do all of them. The fact is, if you can’t afford to pay for the test in the first place, “wait times” are irrelevant.
This reminds me of the time Jim passed off that Newt Gringrich healthcare “report” where they fearmongered about all the horrible things the Affordable Care Act was gonna do, and they said it was the actual, real language of the bill! So read for yourself! Except when you actually read the bill, you realized Gingrich’s “report” removed words and sometimes whole sentences, entire blocks of text, to misrepresent what the legislation said. When I called JIm on this BS (because clearly he’d never read the bill, just read what Gingrich said about it), he got all “well excuuuuse me for quoting actual legislation!” Um, no. You were quoting propaganda about the legislation.
Silly wingers, don’t think we’re going to fact check them.
You know what? I’m really sick of providing a forum for Jim to repeat his Heritage Foundation-provided talking points. Go get your own damn blog, Jim. When you have an original thought, let me know. Until then, we just keep hearing the same noise from you that’s been debunked about a thousand times by FACTS. Take your bullshit elsewhere.
I’m depressed about things today but your rant make me feel better. Thank you.
A friend sent me an extremely well done video ad on how Catholics were all getting their religious freedoms taken away because they were going to have to include women’s health issues in their insurance coverage for employees. Why have we let them turn this around on us? Aren’t they taking our religious freedom away by forcing us to accept their religious view on when life begins? Isn’t my religious freedom being taken away by forcing me to pay for the Middle East wars? (I believe in Defense but not offense with all my heart.). Your view on abortion is a religious view and it negates my religious freedom if you try to use the force of law to make me accept it. Why aren’t we screaming this at them?
I mean, pointing out that they are idiots doesn’t really get us anywhere. Everyone can plainly see they are idiots. Calling them religious extremists who want to take away a woman’s religious freedom has teeth. Small teeth so we have to bite often to hurt them.
We’ve also pointed out that the Catholics are trying to get the government to legislate what they’ve been unable to get their congregation to do — say no to birth control. Frankly, that puts MY religious freedom at risk. I’m not a Catholic; if they don’t want their flock using contraceptives, then they need to take it up with them. Don’t force the non-Catholic school secretary or school nurse to abide by Catholic doctrine.
Interestingly, other things against Catholic doctrine include wars and capital punishment. But you sure didn’t hear the Catholic Bishops raising a stink about all of their tax money going toward those things, did you?
Which tells you ALL you need to know: this is about politics, not religious belief. 100%. And when church institutions allow themselves to be corrupted by politics then they are spiritually irrelevant.
I’ve worked in the VA healthcare system a little over 3 years now. Not long after I started a Vietnam Vet with PTSD posed a question regarding Iraq, Afghanistan…”Where are the hippies?” Code Pink wouldn’t let me join being as how I’m a man and all but I agree-where are the malcontents? Can’t the network from Occupy be used to organize?
In her final column, titled “Stand Up Against the Surge,” Molly wrote:
“We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. … We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, ‘Stop it, now!’ ”
See ya in the streets
I suppose I should add that quote is Molly Ivins of course.
Also I was not trying to draw a direct parallel to the antiwar effort as you mentioned in your reply to greennot green above. I was endorsing what seems to be a theme in the post that their is a diminished appetite among dissenters for public demonstrations.
Seems to me feminists sort of have an opening in public awareness at the present time. Would it be unreasonable to suggest the staging of an American “Pussy Riot.”
I’m not sure that there is a diminished appetite. There were more people at the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert Sanity/Fear rally than attended Glenn Beck’s thing. I think the thing about it is, we have to do it differently. People may not want to march for women’s rights because dammit we already did that 30 years ago. We need something different.
“There were more people at the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert Sanity/Fear rally than attended Glenn Beck’s thing.”
I’ve never watched any of the video on either event. I’m guessing that if I did the videos of the B(l)ec(h) and other RWAdickwad rallies would be mostly from FuckTheNew’sCorpse and that they would all be “push” zooms to show the fever pitch of the dozens strong mob surrounding the poodlium whereas those of Stewart and Colbert would be “pulls” clearly showing the insignificance of a crowd of only a few thousand people on the National Mall.
BTW, Mr. Aiken did not abort his fetus photo. It was already outa-teh-woom, livin’ on its own. He fucking KILLED IT!