I made it!
Greetings, Dot Calm Readers and
fellow Truth Crusaders!
I made it back from my trip to the Big City! It was a great trip, and we had a great time.
And now...let's get down to bidnith!
Don't forget to read Dot Calm's shadow's favorite independent sources of news and information:
Daily Kos
AlterNet
Democracy Now!
Conservatives are Destroying our Future
Conservative Clown Car
Americans Against the Republican Party
Americans Against the Tea Party
Mrs. Betty Bowers
God, the Good Lord Above
...And, whatever you do,
VOTE BERNIE!!!!!
If at all possible, send him a buck o' five.
Don't forget to hug and kiss your loved ones today, and please be good to yourselves because I'd give all of you a great big hug if I could right now. I totes heart you! Totes ma goats!
- Dot Calm's shadow
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ATTENTION, REPUBLICANS!
Obama is coming
for your guns 'n' Bibles
November 8, 2016.
DO NOT
LEAVE YOUR HOUSE
THAT DAY
FOR ANY REASON!
The rights you save
may be your own!
may be your own!
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Roe v Wade didn't START women having abortions...it stopped women from DYING from them.
Just ask "agitated american," who wrote I used a hanger.
She was one of the lucky ones who survived to mother the children she already had and adored.
Too many Christians wish she had died a painful, agonizing death...slut that she was...how DARE she have sex, even while married?!??
I guess her painful, agonizing death would have been a real blessing from God for her husband and children.
It was 1971. I had given birth
to four live babies within 2 ½ years. I had no prenatal care for the
first three births. We were very poor, very ignorant.
I was just 20 in May, 1966, when my first son was born two weeks early, 7 ½ pounds. I wasn’t ready to be a mother, but I fell in love with him instantly.
My young husband told me he’d heard that new mothers couldn’t get pregnant while they were nursing. He was wrong. In February, 1967, my second son was born, two months early, 3 ½ pounds. He lived 36 hours in an incubator, since his lungs weren’t developed. “At least you have your firstborn!” people said, trying to console me.
We used a diaphragm after that. It hurt and slipped around, annoying my husband no end. My third son was born in January, 1968. He was barely 3 pounds, and lived only 24 hours in an incubator.
They asked if I wanted to see him before taking him away. As I held his little body my husband lost it and swept everything off the hospital tray table onto the floor in a fit of rage.
The funeral home attempted to have him buried beside his brother, with just a marker on his grave, but failed. My two infant sons don’t even lie side by side in a graveyard somewhere in North Georgia.
We used an IUD after that. It, too, was uncomfortable, and I never knew if it was inserted correctly. My daughter was born in December, 1968.
Looking back, I now realize I was in mourning during that pregnancy. My maternity clothes were brown and black. I tried to endure the pregnancy without thinking about the baby inside, always expecting the worst outcome.
But this time would be different. After learning I was pregnant, we moved to Central Illinois, and I finally hooked up with a gynecologist. Dr. H. carried a pager on his belt. He saved me.
My daughter sailed past her 28th week, into her 8th month, and beyond. I was so relieved. Came the day when Dr. H. said he’d induce labor in 2 more weeks.
She had other plans. He was in church when his pager summoned him to the hospital after my water broke. She was all of 7 pounds, and breathed on her own right away. I was ecstatic.
We thought we had finally gotten the contraception thing down when I awoke one morning in 1971 knowing I was pregnant again. I knew , too, that I could not go through that again.
Abortion was illegal. Roe vs. Wade wasn’t even on the horizon. We’d both been raised in very strictly religious families. It didn’t even occur to me to go see Dr. H. I couldn’t tell anyone, not even my husband. I knew I had to take care of this immediately on my own.
I’d seen the device Dr. H. had used for a dilation and curettage known as a D&C, the procedure doctors use to remove uterine contents. And I’d heard of hangers being used for abortions. I thought a hanger would make a useful D&C.
I didn’t feel any pain, but I knew I’d punctured the uterine wall when I felt sort of a pop. I was wrong about the hanger, but I still expected everything to be okay.
A week later we were in a restaurant when I began feeling faint. I had a raging fever: 106. Dr. H. said get to the hospital immediately.
They put me on an ice blanket to bring the temperature down. I was diagnosed with a “mysterious” pulmonary embolism, a blood clot on my lung. They didn’t let me see my children while I was in the hospital. After a long week I was finally allowed to go home.
I was lucky. A sustained temperature that high can lead to brain damage and even death.
Dr. H. saw me again in his office a few days later. Of course he knew I’d been pregnant, called it a miscarriage, and did another D&C. He never probed about what happened, I never volunteered.
What he said next told me that he didn’t have to ask. Another of his patients, he said, was experiencing the same “mysterious” symptoms I had had. I knew exactly what he meant.
He offered to do a tubal ligation — tie my tubes. I’d never heard of it. I had no idea there was such a simple procedure that could prevent me from ever getting pregnant again. My nightmare was finally over.
Two years later abortion became legal. My desperate circumstances almost cost my life, and my two beautiful children their mother. But I saw no other options for myself then. I deserved other options.
I was just 20 in May, 1966, when my first son was born two weeks early, 7 ½ pounds. I wasn’t ready to be a mother, but I fell in love with him instantly.
My young husband told me he’d heard that new mothers couldn’t get pregnant while they were nursing. He was wrong. In February, 1967, my second son was born, two months early, 3 ½ pounds. He lived 36 hours in an incubator, since his lungs weren’t developed. “At least you have your firstborn!” people said, trying to console me.
We used a diaphragm after that. It hurt and slipped around, annoying my husband no end. My third son was born in January, 1968. He was barely 3 pounds, and lived only 24 hours in an incubator.
They asked if I wanted to see him before taking him away. As I held his little body my husband lost it and swept everything off the hospital tray table onto the floor in a fit of rage.
The funeral home attempted to have him buried beside his brother, with just a marker on his grave, but failed. My two infant sons don’t even lie side by side in a graveyard somewhere in North Georgia.
We used an IUD after that. It, too, was uncomfortable, and I never knew if it was inserted correctly. My daughter was born in December, 1968.
Looking back, I now realize I was in mourning during that pregnancy. My maternity clothes were brown and black. I tried to endure the pregnancy without thinking about the baby inside, always expecting the worst outcome.
But this time would be different. After learning I was pregnant, we moved to Central Illinois, and I finally hooked up with a gynecologist. Dr. H. carried a pager on his belt. He saved me.
My daughter sailed past her 28th week, into her 8th month, and beyond. I was so relieved. Came the day when Dr. H. said he’d induce labor in 2 more weeks.
She had other plans. He was in church when his pager summoned him to the hospital after my water broke. She was all of 7 pounds, and breathed on her own right away. I was ecstatic.
We thought we had finally gotten the contraception thing down when I awoke one morning in 1971 knowing I was pregnant again. I knew , too, that I could not go through that again.
Abortion was illegal. Roe vs. Wade wasn’t even on the horizon. We’d both been raised in very strictly religious families. It didn’t even occur to me to go see Dr. H. I couldn’t tell anyone, not even my husband. I knew I had to take care of this immediately on my own.
I’d seen the device Dr. H. had used for a dilation and curettage known as a D&C, the procedure doctors use to remove uterine contents. And I’d heard of hangers being used for abortions. I thought a hanger would make a useful D&C.
I didn’t feel any pain, but I knew I’d punctured the uterine wall when I felt sort of a pop. I was wrong about the hanger, but I still expected everything to be okay.
A week later we were in a restaurant when I began feeling faint. I had a raging fever: 106. Dr. H. said get to the hospital immediately.
They put me on an ice blanket to bring the temperature down. I was diagnosed with a “mysterious” pulmonary embolism, a blood clot on my lung. They didn’t let me see my children while I was in the hospital. After a long week I was finally allowed to go home.
I was lucky. A sustained temperature that high can lead to brain damage and even death.
Dr. H. saw me again in his office a few days later. Of course he knew I’d been pregnant, called it a miscarriage, and did another D&C. He never probed about what happened, I never volunteered.
What he said next told me that he didn’t have to ask. Another of his patients, he said, was experiencing the same “mysterious” symptoms I had had. I knew exactly what he meant.
He offered to do a tubal ligation — tie my tubes. I’d never heard of it. I had no idea there was such a simple procedure that could prevent me from ever getting pregnant again. My nightmare was finally over.
Two years later abortion became legal. My desperate circumstances almost cost my life, and my two beautiful children their mother. But I saw no other options for myself then. I deserved other options.
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Headlines from HuffPo
I was sitting on the train headed home this evening and saw several great articles on Huffington Post. Unfortunately, the computer loads the home page differently, so I can't find them all now. D'oh!! Go check out HuffPo, though, when you get a chance--you'll see how big, profitable corporations are paying an average of 14% on their profits--many get rebates on their taxes...rebates that YOU and I pay for...and don't pay ANY taxes at all! And my Tea Party Christian friend thinks that Berners want free stuff...why would he rather pad the pockets of the already disgustingly rich instead of helping his fellow HUMANS survive until the next day?!??
Anyway, here were some kewl HuffPo headlines that I did find once I got home:
Bernie Sanders Joins Verizon Workers On Picket Line
Report: Trump Aide Who Roughed Up Reporter To Get Free Pass
A Coordinated National Effort to Decimate Public Schools
Lawmaker Wants 'National Day Of Reason' As Alternative To Day Of Prayer
It's Tax Time, But Corporations Aren't Paying
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Republicans like Rafael "BUSTed" Cruz
do not want women to have access
to safe, effective birth control or abortion.
They want to shame women who have sex
They want to shame women who have sex
and punish them for WANTING abortions.
They want pregnant women to become
They want pregnant women to become
wards of the state
so that they can force women to give birth,
whether they realize it
or admit it
or not.
Why?
Just so they can control
whether they realize it
or admit it
or not.
Why?
Just so they can control
women and their sexuality.
It has nothing to do
It has nothing to do
with saving the unborn...
these hypocrites couldn't care less about
life.
All they want is
All they want is
POWER.
Over you...over me...over all of us.
Over you...over me...over all of us.
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Petitions!
100,000 SIGNATURES NEEDED: Charge Donald Trump for inciting violence >>
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The law is clear: by going from state to state and expressly encouraging violence, Trump is guilty of inciting a riot.
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From UltraViolet
Will you call Google's VP of Government Relations, Susan Molinari, to demand Google dump Trump now? Here's the number: (202) 346-1100 (press 0 when prompted).
After you call, please let us know how the call went.
Google's known as a leader in corporate social responsibility, and it prides itself on having a progressive image.2 Google doesn't want to be associated with the Trump brand of hate, misogyny, xenophobia, and violence. Google's government relations office in Washington, D.C. handles all of its political relationships--like the ones it holds with the Republican National Convention. If we flood the Government Affairs office phone lines with calls, Google will hear our message loud and clear.
It's always best to speak in your own words, but here are some points to guide you:
- Google has been ranked as a top company for social responsibility. Does Google really want to be associated with Trump's brand of racism, sexism, xenophobia, and violence?
- It's not just about what Trump says--he's inciting violence. The Republican National Convention could be so dangerous, Cleveland is purchasing riot gear to prepare.
- Coca-Cola just backed out of sponsoring Trump's Republican National Convention. Will Google do the right thing too?
Will you make a call now?
Thank you for speaking out.
--Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Adam, Holly, Kaili, Kathy, Onyi, Susan, Clarise, Anathea, Audine, Ryan, Shannon, Megan, Kaytee, and Libby, the UltraViolet Action team
Sources:
1. Corporations Grow Nervous About Participating in Republican Convention, New York Times, March 30, 2016
2. The 2 Most Socially Responsible Tech Companies of 2015, Motley Fool, October 11, 2015
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This summer's Supreme Court case, Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt,
is hands down the biggest abortion rights case of the generation.
Seriously. Nervous you don't know all the facts? Luckily, the must-see
film Trapped, follows the case through the eyes of
abortion clinic staff fighting to provide quality abortion care in the
midst of constant attacks by anti-abortion extremists. This film is more
than informative--it's INSPIRING.
Thanks to a collaboration between UltraViolet and the filmmakers, you can see it for free by hosting a watch event in your community the week of May 1-7.
Trapped shows how the movement to end abortion access isn't just in the South--it will spread like wildfire unless we take action. The first step is getting informed by watching this film.
Whether you've been following every twist, turn, and anti-abortion law or this is your first introduction to the case, you can make sure your community is educated and ready to act by hosting a screening of Trapped. Can you make sure there is a screening in Fairfax between May 1 and May 7?
Hosting a screening is easy--we will send you a DVD and materials and be with you step-by-step as you prepare. You just need to recruit your community to attend and guide the evening.
Thanks for all you do.
--Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Adam, Holly, Kaili, Kathy, Onyi, Susan, Clarise, Anathea, Audine, Ryan, Shannon, Megan, Kaytee, and Libby, the UltraViolet team
Thanks to a collaboration between UltraViolet and the filmmakers, you can see it for free by hosting a watch event in your community the week of May 1-7.
Trapped shows how the movement to end abortion access isn't just in the South--it will spread like wildfire unless we take action. The first step is getting informed by watching this film.
Whether you've been following every twist, turn, and anti-abortion law or this is your first introduction to the case, you can make sure your community is educated and ready to act by hosting a screening of Trapped. Can you make sure there is a screening in Fairfax between May 1 and May 7?
Hosting a screening is easy--we will send you a DVD and materials and be with you step-by-step as you prepare. You just need to recruit your community to attend and guide the evening.
Thanks for all you do.
--Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Adam, Holly, Kaili, Kathy, Onyi, Susan, Clarise, Anathea, Audine, Ryan, Shannon, Megan, Kaytee, and Libby, the UltraViolet team
Want to support our work? UltraViolet is funded by members like you, and our tiny staff ensures small contributions go a long way. Chip in here.
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I need to share a story with you. It will probably anger you, but
hopefully it will also inspire you to take action in support of one of
the most courageous people I’ve met during this campaign.
Lucy Flores was the first Latina assemblywoman in Nevada and made
national news when she became one of the first elected officials to
testify about an abortion she had at the age of 16.
During her 2014 campaign one D.C. pro-choice group, EMILY’s List,
endorsed her and added that she was an "inspiring community leader."
They even kicked off a program to elect more Latinas to Congress in
2016.
But then Lucy Flores endorsed our political revolution before
the Nevada caucus, and everything changed. EMILY’s List decided to
endorse a different person in Lucy’s House race this time around. So I
want to support Lucy like she’s supported us, because we stand together.
And I am asking you to join me:
Split a contribution between our campaign and Lucy Flores today and
send a powerful message that we are going to win this primary AND elect a
Congress willing to stand up to the political establishment and
billionaire class of this country.
If you've saved payment info with ActBlue Express, your donation
will automatically be evenly split between Lucy Flores and Bernie 2016:
Throughout this campaign, I’ve told you that no candidate for president
– not Bernie Sanders, not the greatest president you could possibly
imagine – can take on the billionaire class alone.
Lucy Flores is exactly the kind of person I'm going to need in Congress when I am president. And we can help get her there. That’s why your contribution is so important.
In solidarity,
Bernie Sanders
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It's Equal Pay Day--Send a Letter to Congress!
Apr 12, 2016
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It’s Equal Pay Day, the day each year where women’s salaries catch up to
what men made the previous year. I am in Washington talking to Congress
about how the ERA will address this issue, and you can help. Send a
letter to your elected representatives by clicking here http://bit.ly/1SZQyYi It’s easy: just fill in your zip code and a letter will be sent to your Senators, Representative and...
Read more
...and fill out this petition!
Women in America are still paid 20¢ less than
men per dollar earned. We’ve made progress by passing the Lilly
Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, but we must do more; especially when it comes to
women working in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)
jobs, where women make $5.23 per hour less than their male colleagues.
...and, while you're at it, fill out this one, too! Women need all the help they can get!
Tammy Duckworth believes that women deserve equal pay for equal work, and she’s
consistently supported legislation that would help ensure women are paid
fairly.
Mark Kirk, on the other hand, repeatedly voted against equal pay bills
and even called the Paycheck Fairness Act “the most sexist legislation
you can have.”
On average, women in Illinois earn nearly $12,000 less per year than their male counterparts.
That’s not just a problem for women - it’s an economic issue for all
working families. When a woman earns less, her entire family has less
money to pay the bills. Failing to act on equal pay makes it harder for
families to make ends meet.
It’s time for Congress to put the needs of working families
ahead of corporate interests, and ensure that women receive the equal
pay they’ve earned. Add your name:
Thank you for speaking up,
Kaitlin Fahey
Campaign Manager, Tammy for Illinois
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From CREDO: Protect Net Neutrality!
CREDO Action from Working Assets
Click below for a sample script and the number to call:
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- Text of H. R. 2666, Congress.gov.
- Jon Brodkin, "Tom Wheeler: Bill banning “rate regulation” would kill net neutrality," Ars Technica, March 29, 2016.
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Protect Democracy: End Superdelegates Now!
Member, Bernie's Working Class Caucus
Paid for and authorized by Diane Russell for Senate.
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It happened again: peaceful Black protestor attacked by Trump supporters at rally!
Last night another peaceful Black
protestor was violently assaulted by Trump's supporters at a campaign
rally in Albany, NY. The protestor was violently attacked for doing
nothing more than booing Donald Trump.1
As deplorable as Trump is for
encouraging this hate and violence, the companies funding platforms for
him to incite this dangerous atmosphere share just as much of the blame.
This summer, Big Tech companies like
Microsoft, Google, and AT&T will fund Trump's biggest and highest
profile platform yet - the Republican National Convention (RNC).
As we barrel toward a convention filled with chaos, racist rhetoric, and potential riots these
companies face a history-making choice right now. Once they start
writing checks, they are committed to support the platform of someone
threatening riots at the convention.
We've already shown that we can get huge
companies like these to dump Trump when, just two weeks ago, we got
Coca-Cola to terminate its financial support of Donald Trump’s
coronation at the RNC. With your continued support we can get these Big
Tech companies to do the same.2 With your help we can
run a multi-pronged campaign that will eliminate millions of dollars of
financial and technical support for Donald Trump, and deny him the
resources he needs to spew his violent and hateful message.
Will you help us take on these Big
Tech titans and force them to cut their critical support to Trump’s
platform of violence and hate?
These Big Tech companies, who rely on our
dollars, shouldn't be comfortable aligning themselves with Trump's brand
of hate and violence - and we're already making sure they feel the
pressure for aligning themselves with Trump. Thanks to members like you,
we’ve already been able to drive thousands of calls to Microsoft
demanding that they cancel their sponsorship. We are now in a
critical moment in the fight to get big corporations to end their
sponsorships of the Trump’s hateful and violent message. And your
support is crucial to making sure we have the resources to rapidly
pressure these Big Tech titans before it’s too late.
Based on their previous sponsorships of the
RNC, Big Tech companies will give millions of dollars to the convention
as well as significant technical and communication support. Support that
will allow Trump to beam his violent rhetoric, racially charged
imagery, and calls for riots to millions of people around the world.3
These tech companies are the same companies that are under the gun for
refusing to hire black and brown folks. Publicly these companies say all
the right things, that they’re committed to and value diversity. And yet, when it’s time for them to make a stand about where they really are and what they believe in, they remain silent.
Make no mistake, corporate sponsors of these
lavish conventions are about more than promoting “civic engagement” – as
some of these companies continue to claim. This is about buying
access to power. And this year will be a coronation ball for Trump and
his white supremacist supporters sponsored by Microsoft and other Big
Tech companies. Bigotry will be front and center on prime time
television, with all the accompanying massage rooms, technology and
top-shelf drinks sponsored by the same corporations that make their
profits off of us.4
In 2012, Microsoft provided tools – like
Skype, Kinect, and Web application SharePoint – and consulting services
to convention organizers and participants in the planning and execution
of the RNC. In other words, they are the speaker box Trump, Cruz and
others will get to use to amplify their bigoted, xenophobic and racist
rhetoric, not just to those in attendance, but millions of people around
the world. Imagine Trump, spewing hatred and encouraging
violence brought to our screens by Microsoft, while the rioters he
promised circle the convention. Maybe those same people will even get to
relax in the Google lounge afterwards. This is absolutely unacceptable.
Let’s send a message that they can't
have it both ways. Either they are diverse and inclusive companies, or
they are the type of companies that sponsor the hateful and violent
message of Donald Trump. If these companies truly believes in
corporate civic responsibility, than funding a platform for an
anti-democratic demagogue preaching violently anti-Black, anti-Latino,
anti-Muslim, and anti-women bigotry should be the last thing they would
ever want to sponsor.
Until Justice is Real,
-- Brandi, Rashad, Arisha, Evan, Bernard and the rest of the ColorOfChange team.
Help support our work.
ColorOfChange.org is powered by YOU—your energy and dollars. We take no
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References:
1. “Violence returns to the Trump campaign:
Black protester assaulted by Trump supporters at “New York Values”
rally,” Salon, 04-12-2016
http://act.colorofchange.org/
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2. “Corporations Grow Nervous About Participating in Republican Convention,” New York Times, 03-30-2016
http://act.colorofchange.org/
http://act.colorofchange.org/
3. “Trump predicts 'riots' if he's not nominee,” The Hill, 03-16-2016
http://act.colorofchange.org/
http://act.colorofchange.org/
4. "Where the Elite Meet (Open Bar, Anyone?)," New York Times, 08-30-2012 http://act.colorofchange.org/
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come together for another debate ahead of the New York primary on Tuesday. As you sort through your primetime viewing options, here are three great reasons to watch tomorrow night's Democratic debate at 9:00 p.m. ET on CNN:
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My Tea Party Christian friend thinks it's OK
for women to die in childbirth
or to be forced into bearing
stillborn babies
rather than getting safe late term abortions
"because those conditions are rare."
Not that I would ever wish it,
but I wonder what he'd say
if his precious daughter-in-law,
whom he loves dearly,
became pregnant again and developed eclampsia.
Would he wave his hand and let her die,
Would he wave his hand and let her die,
quoting Martin Luther by saying let her die...
it's what she is there for?
Would he say it's ok for her to die
Would he say it's ok for her to die
because eclampsia is rare?
Or would he support her
Or would he support her
if she wanted to have an abortion
so that her other two children don't grow up
motherless?
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"You have never met me,
nor will you ever met me,
but I'm about to have a huge impact on your life.
My religion forbids your wife
My religion forbids your wife
from having that surgery to save her life.
My god will only be pleased if your wife dies.
My god will only be pleased if your wife dies.
...
I use my religion to decide
that I know what is best for your wife...
not her doctors, not you,
and certainly not her...
since it's her own fault she's in this mess.
since it's her own fault she's in this mess.
(Don't worry--I use my religion
to decide that you are blameless.)
My holy book states
My holy book states
that your wife is your property,
just like your house and your car.
But even though your wife is your property,
But even though your wife is your property,
I insist on treating your wife
like she is my property...
even though I pretend
my religion and holy book say
that men and women are
equal
(it doesn't...it says the exact opposite...
that women are less than men...
but we pretend it says men and women are equal
because it's not polite...or something...
to speak honestly in public..
or maybe we all just know but refuse to admit
that men and women ARE equal and that our
holy book is unjust and WRONG...
but you'll never catch us saying THAT out loud).
...
but I digress...
the long and short of it is that,
a total stranger,
I will dictate whether your wife lives or dies.
I will dictate whether your wife lives or dies.
I dictate that your wife's unborn, already dead
fetus
is more important than she ever will be...
until it's born...
then, if it's female,
it's as evil as your wife is
(while she's still alive, which won't be for long).
My religion states that vaginas are dirty
and evil
and that they pollute with sin
the innocent fetus passing through.
Just go check my holy book
if you don't believe me
(in which case, enjoy hell).
Make no mistake...
according to my religion--
which doesn't care whether you
believe or not, and which
holds you responsible for following it
to the letter, even if you don't believe--
your stillborn child
has more rights than your wife,
and I have more rights to dictate
your wife's health and future
than she or even you do.
Take it up with my god if you don't like it."
...
This is what American Christians want
for women,
whether they realize it
or admit it
or not.
whether they realize it
or admit it
or not.
How can they fail to see
that they are no different
from the Sharia law they claim to abhor?
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Movie time!
Polyticks...because politicians like Rafael "BUSTed" "Lyin'" Cruz and Donald "Money Boo Boo" "Trumpty Dumpty" Drumpf are like so many ticks sucking the life out of us....
Liberals know stuff, which makes conservatives mad.
HOW exactly do conservatives plan to enforce their new anti-LGBTQ potty laws? Methinks it-snot well thought out at ALL!
Tim Robbins on liberals supporting Bernie because they're sick and tired of compromising their ideals
This video is hi-larious--Bill O'Reilly's antediluvian (that means "pre-Noah's flood," ICYDK) brain (such as it is) melted by the concept of Facebook, which he has to have someone even more antiquated than he is explain to him. Too funny! What's even funnier (although more funny-weird than funny-haha) is that my Tea Party Christian friend and I are both in our 50s, but he gets his news from Fux Noise with the 70+ year-olds, and I get my news from Facebook with the millenials! I gno, right? So why am I BLOGGING rather than using Facebook? Because...Dot Calm started this blog before Facebook (I set her up, but she ran it, of course)...now, Dot Calm WANTED me to set her up on Facebook, too, and I groaned because I was already overloaded, and she wanted to mirror the entire blog in both places...but MAYBE, if I get a SHIT-TON of page views on THIS page, I will start a sister-account on Facebook for Dot Calm's Page of Truth and Sedition in her honor--and yours!
Sunday skool comes early this week with todaze Bible study--woo hoo!
Sunday skool comes early this week with todaze Bible study--woo hoo!
First the serious stuff...
Learn about the firmament
Jesus said it, but, nah...He didn't mean it!
WHICH day was Jesus crucified on? Was that Thursday Passover or Passover Eve? Morning or afternoon? The Gospels do NOT agree!
Self delusion
Do Christians understand the Bible?
Questions for Bible literalists
Why mom and dad are Christians
Christians say the dumbest things
Bible blunders
...now the goofy stuff!
Sunday skool's out!
Time for some FUN!
And since the last one cut off, here's the whole second song:
Did you know that the Atheist Hymnal is one page long? Now you know!
And just in case you needed just one more giggle, here's a goodie!
Once you've watched the above version a few times to read all the funnies, here's a sing-along version so you can learn the words!
posted by Dot Calm @ 7:08 PM
