Tag-Archive for ◊ politics ◊

Author:
• Sunday, May 31st, 2009

link to article here.

I honestly don’t care if people are against abortion. The cliche of “then don’t have one” is true. They have no right to dictate what another woman does with her body. However, as a woman who’s personally MADE THIS CHOICE, I am infuriated with the “pro-life” (which actually is just anti-choice.. let’s be truthful here) mindset, particularly the people who are celebrating this doctor’s death.

Want to fight abortion? Get involved in promoting safe sex, birth-control, and start promoting less bureaucratic ways for women to get prenatal health care if they’re supposedly going to give these children up for adoption (the “pro-life” ideal).

I’m an adoptee, too, by the way. And I still firmly support the right to abortion access.

Share
Category: Misc. Musings   Tags: ,  | Leave a Comment
Author:
• Thursday, May 28th, 2009

The Big Gay Chip on My Shoulder.

Share
Category: Misc. Musings   Tags: ,  | Leave a Comment
Author:
• Friday, April 03rd, 2009

Unanimous decision to uphold the ruling that the state ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional.

And better yet, the ruling is written brilliantly, negating the argument that is a religious (only) intitution:

“Civil marriage in Iowa is the only gateway to an extensive legal structure that protects a married couple’s relationship and family in and outside the state,” Hanson ruled in Des Moines. “Iowa reserves an unparalleled array of rights, obligations and benefits to married couples and their families, privileging married couples as a financial and legal unit and stigmatizing same-sex couples.”

Complete ruling is here:

http://www.iowacourts.gov/wfData/files/Varnum/07-1499.pdf

Share
Category: Misc. Musings   Tags: ,  | Leave a Comment
Author:
• Friday, March 27th, 2009

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

Share
Category: Misc. Musings   Tags: ,  | Enter your password to view comments.
Author:
• Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

Share
Category: Misc. Musings   Tags: , , ,  | Enter your password to view comments.
Author:
• Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

Share
Category: Misc. Musings   Tags: , ,  | Enter your password to view comments.
Author:
• Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

Share
Category: Misc. Musings   Tags:  | Enter your password to view comments.
Author:
• Wednesday, November 05th, 2008

Conservatives are already whinging, using the retort “well, we listened to you for eight years.”

Here’s my reply to them, under my “elemenopy” username there:

Here’s the irony – the stuff we complained about? We were right about, for the most part. We went into Iraq under false pretenses. We failed to get bin Laden. The “No Child Left Behind” act was not funded, and schools are ridding themselves of music, sports, and other activities that help develop children’s minds beyond teaching to a test.

You did not listen to our concerns. Our concerns were brushed off and we were called terrorists, traitors, and anti-American. Since you refused to work with us, we worked together – community organizing, if you will – to change the direction of this country.

Now, we’ll welcome you to work with us and find compromises. You’ll find that despite some hard feelings, many of us want to work together. And if you don’t feel you can work with us to improve our great nation, you’re welcome to wait it out, do your own community organizing, and vote another candidate into office.

And we, unlike you, won’t mock you or your candidate for doing so.

Your call.

Thread: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3997520

Share
Category: Misc. Musings   Tags:  | Leave a Comment
Author:
• Tuesday, November 04th, 2008

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

Share
Category: Misc. Musings   Tags:  | Enter your password to view comments.
Author:
• Tuesday, November 04th, 2008

Go blue!

(and all is now right with the world. Stewart/Colbert is on… now we can get the real news!)

Share
Category: Misc. Musings   Tags:  | Leave a Comment
Author:
• Tuesday, November 04th, 2008

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

Share
Category: Misc. Musings   Tags:  | Enter your password to view comments.
Author:
• Tuesday, November 04th, 2008

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

Share
Category: Misc. Musings   Tags: ,  | Enter your password to view comments.
Author:
• Tuesday, November 04th, 2008

I came, I saw, I voted. And if you’re a U.S. citizen, you should today as well.

Rhode Island polls are open from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m. With our work/commute schedules, we always go first thing, as the polling place is right around the corner from our house.

We arrived at 7:10. Short wait – people had definitely been there for the door opening, as there were a stack of the ballot privacy folders on top of the optical reader already (signifying that people had already cast ballots, for those of you not familiar with them). Rhode Island votes the basic way – pen and paper, draw a line to connect the head and tail of an arrow toward the person you’re voting for.

There were six different candidates, plus a write-in line, on our ballot for President. I voted straight Democratic Party ticket, plus yes on both of our budget concerns – we have bridges crumbling (notably… I-95, which now has a severe weight limit on it) that need to be fixed. I pay taxes for civilization – and fixing crumbling infrastructure is a big part of that.

I’m glad I’m done, I did my part. Now I just have to sit back and watch the results. While yes, it looks good for Obama, I’ve learned never to take anything for granted with some portions of American society.

And I’m damn proud to 1) have survived the nightmare of George W. Bush, and 2) voted for Obama. The last dark eight years are almost over.

Thank Gods.

Share
Category: Misc. Musings   Tags:  | Leave a Comment
Author:
• Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you’re in a heterosexual marriage, and you don’t want it “protected” by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

Share
Category: Misc. Musings   Tags:  | Leave a Comment
Author:
• Friday, October 10th, 2008

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

Share
Category: Misc. Musings   Tags: ,  | Enter your password to view comments.