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Men should be offended when someone claims that women should prevent rape by not wearing certain things or not going certain places or not acting in a certain way. That line of thinking presumes that you are incapable of control. That you are so base and uncivilized that it takes extraordinary effort for you to walk down the street without raping someone. That you require certain dress code be maintained, that certain behaviors be employed so that maybe today, just maybe, you won’t rape someone. It presumes that your natural state is rapist.

Common sense. (via itscandidlycara)

(via eachwildidea)

10/27/12

[TW: Rape] GOP official says God chooses to bless raped women with pregnancy

stfuconservatives:

sinidentidades:

The state of Missouri has been in the national spotlight recently because of comments made by Republican Congressman Todd Akin who claimed that raped women rarely get pregnant. After his statements hit the Internet, immediate outrage burned across the country. Akin later apologized, but his statements have rekindled a nationwide debate. One that republicans desperately do not want to have, lest they alienate a wide majority of female voters.

Sharon Barnes, a high ranking state Republican, came to the defense of her conservative colleague who she believes only “phrased it (his statement) badly.”

Barnes was quoted by The New York Times saying, “abortion is never an option.” Barnes went on to biblically claim that, “If God has chosen to bless this person [the rape victim] with a life, you don’t kill it.”

Barnes did not elaborate on her views for post-pregnancy care, or costs.

Barnes has been a figure in conservative St. Louis politics for years, and currently holds all of the following titles according to her Linkedin profile:

President of The 2nd Congressional District Republican Women

President of The Republican Women’s Club of St. Louis

Vice President, Membership Committee at National Federation Of Republican Women

Vice President of The Missouri Federation of Republican Women

Chairman of The St. Louis City Republican Central Committee

State Committeewoman, 4th Senate District at Missouri Republican Party

Committeewoman, 24th Ward at Missouri Republican Party

Volunteer at GOP Missouri Republican Party

As her comments become more known the GOP will attempt to spin Barnes’ clout in the party as little, when in reality she is a big player behind the scenes.

no words

I have two words: Christian Taliban. Oh, and two more: fuck off.

(via stfuconservatives)

08/24/12

“I apologized but the liberal media is trying to make me drop out.” - @ToddAkin via Twitter

underthemountainbunker:

Bob Cesca collects some of the “liberal media” names that Todd Akin must be talking about:

Sarah Palin

Rush Limbaugh

Ann Coulter

Sean Hannity

And Charles Johnson mentions a couple others:

Mitt Romney

The Editors at National Review Online

Mean ol’ liberal…

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08/23/12

campaignmoney:

Cartoon of the day, via Los Angeles Times (and making light of this)

(via sinshine)

05/17/12

#StopRush - Limbaugh demands YouTube remove Sandra Fluke video

paxamericana:

Remember Sandra Fluke? She’s the law student who sent Rush Limbaugh into a multi-day rage for daring to speak out on behalf a friend who needed access to contraceptives for non-reproductive medical reasons. As a result, Limbaugh decided she was a promiscuous slut and prostitute who needed to videotape herself having sex for Limbaugh’s own sexual gratification.

Overall, Limbaugh attacked Fluke an astonishing 53 times over three days. We took snippets of each of those attacks and spliced them together for the world to see, then uploaded it to YouTube.

Today, we got notice from YouTube that the clip had been pulled for copyright violation:

Dear dkostv:
We have disabled the following material as a result of a third-party notification from The Rush Limbaugh Show claiming that this material is infringing:

53 of Rush Limbaugh’s most vile smears against Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke
http://www.youtube.com/…

The video is clear Fair Use. It’s not even a close call. We’ve already asked YouTube to reconsider. And I’d be happy to litigate this issue with Limbaugh’s lawyers in court, if they want to take it that far.

But I am perplexed—why is he suddenly so shy and retiring about his views on Sandra Fluke? He should be thrilled that us liberals are helping spread his noxious views. Or is he now embarrassed by them? In either case, we put the video up on Vimeo:

This isn’t 1823, no matter how much Limbaugh might wish it so. He gets the video pulled from one place, it’ll simply pop up somewhere else. If he really wants it offline, he’s going to have to meet us in court. And even that won’t do the trick.

That darn First Amendment will get in his way.

04/26/12

fearandwar:

The GOP in a nutshell.

(via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)

04/26/12

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….only 48% of voting-age women have ready access to a birth certificates that reflects their current legal name, and only 66% of voting-age women have proof of citizenship documents reflecting their current name.

The War on Women Voting | The Nation

This is an issue I don’t think has gotten near enough attention.

Personal story: I accidently left my driver’s license at the bank when I went in to cash a travel check to go to a conference. The bank policy is to shred driver’s licenses if not picked up in 24 hours. As I was out of town, I didn’t get the call to retrieve my license in time to save it from shredding.

I was born in a state different than the one I live in now. I did not have a copy of my birth certificate as it was destroyed in a flood. A driver’s license was needed to get a new copy of my birth certificate. Lucky for me, I did take my maiden name back after my divorce - not sure how that would have complicated things if I hadn’t. It still took me 4 months and $125.00 to get a new driver’s license.

Women, please check that you are registered to vote and have the documentation required in your state. And be sure to start talking to other women about this issue. Because we often change our name when married, it can be much more difficult for women to get the papers necessary to get the required ID to vote.

(via sarahlee310)

(via randomactsofchaos)

04/16/12

So actually there IS a war on caterpillars, too. #WoW #WarOnWomen

climateadaptation:

Republicans, “More pesticides, please.”

theatlantic:

The Truth About the Republican War on Caterpillars

In a statement widely taken as a metaphor, the chairman of the Republican National Committee on Thursday said his party is no more trying to hurt the nation’s females than it is larval butterflies and moths.

“If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that Republicans have a war on caterpillars, then we’d have problems with caterpillars,” Reince Priebus told Bloomberg Television, in response to a question about the party’s supposed “war on women.” “It’s a fiction.”

But the war on caterpillars and other innocent insects, it turns out, is not a fiction at all.

Under the guise of aiding the agriculture industry, Republicans and their allies in Washington have been waging a long-running campaign to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from limiting bug-killing pesticides. Last year, GOP Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas authored a letter, signed by several others in his party, calling on Democrats to “address the continued regulatory overreach by the Environmental Protection Agency that is a growing concern of farmers, ranchers, foresters and agribusinesses throughout the nation” by bringing up their bill to ease pesticide regulations. This obvious attempt to run roughshod over the rights of many-legged herbivores everywhere was laughably justified as a matter of “public health as we enter mosquito season.” […]

Republicans may claim that they have no anti-caterpillar agenda — that they’re just trying to protect people and plants from being bitten, that they’re merely the victims of a liberal media that sympathizes with the radical bugs’-rights lobby. But the truth is clear, and it’s nothing new: Republicans just don’t care about caterpillars.

Read more. [Images: Reuters]

(via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)

04/8/12

sarahlee310:

At a town hall meeting yesterday with his constituents, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) made an unexpected revelation — he attended the Affordable Care Act oral arguments in the Supreme Court as the personal guest of Chief Justice Roberts. In King’s words, his seat was “not the cheap seats, but the chief’s seat.”

[…]

ven in an era of conservative radicalism, King is an unusually radical conservative. He does not simply believe that that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional, and he has not simply led a single-minded crusade to repeal or defund it, he’s suggested that any national effort to regulate the insurance industry would violate our Constitution. He also denies that the Constitution protects access to contraception, and has expressed strange views on contraception generally — at one point suggesting that President Obama’s plan to ensure all women have access to birth control will make America a “dying civilization.” He’s claimed that unemployment benefits will transform America into a “nation of slackers,” he called for congressional hearings after President Obama’s estranged uncle was arrested for a DUI, and he’s openly admitted that he believes congressional hearings should be used to “publicly humiliate” President Obama.

(via Radical Rep. Steve King Reveals He Attended Health Care Arguments As A Personal Guest Of Chief Justice Roberts | ThinkProgress)

Remember that King is up for reelection - running against Christie Vilsack. Iowa, do something about this guy.

(via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)

04/6/12

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1.8 million pregnant and post-partem women would lose their benefits. One-hundred thousand would lose their support from food. Something like education: $2.7 billion cut, that would cause the loss of jobs of 38,000 teachers and their aides, disproportionately women…Women represent the majority of Medicare beneficiaries. Fifty-six percent of Medicare beneficiaries are women. So anything bad you do to Medicare is going to disproportionately hurt women. Taking an unbalanced approach to Social Security will disproportionately hurt women because they live two years longer, because they benefit from the progressive benefit formula that gives you a proportionately larger benefit if you’re lower-wage.

Three senior officials from the Obama administration walked reporters through a forum being held today on women and the economy — TPM’s Brian Beutler looks at the Friday three-fer which the administration seems to be going for. (via tpmmedia)

(via silas216)

04/6/12

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