So far I’ve been
- Told to drown by a “pro-life” activist
- Told to die by a “pro-life” activist
- Told that my life is meaningless by a “pro-life” activist
- Told that no one will care I’m dead by a “pro-life” activist
So much for “pro-life.”
If you say shit like this, you are NOT pro-life. Don’t even have the audacity to call yourself such.
I’ve seen this thing going around Tumblr where some feminists say that feminism fights for both men and women’s rights by “smashing the patriarchy”. And since all men’s problems are the results of the patriarchy, men don’t need their own movement.This is usually as a response to the existence of MRAs who want to fight for men’s rights and believe feminism isn’t doing that.
On the other hand, when MRAs or egalitarians ask that feminists treat men’s issues such as prison rape and custody battles, some feminists accuse them of derailing by saying “WHAT ABOUT TEH MENZ” and ridiculing these concerns and claiming that these problems are the patriarchy backfiring against the men, therefore feminists don’t need to fight against them because it’s not their responsibility, so why don’t these men get their OWN movement instead of derailing the feminist one?
Fucking news flash: if you say that men don’t need men’s rights or masculism because feminism solves their problems, then YOU need to solve their problems. If you tell them their problems are not YOUR problems, then you don’t get to bitch and whine when they try to solve their problems.
Hypocrites get on my nerves.
“The idea that Barack Obama — whom Republicans regularly accuse of being a foreign-born anti-American socialist communist marxist who is slowly carrying out a plan to destroy America — is the one "demonizing" his opponents is pretty laughable.”
—Paul Waldman
blue pill v. birth control
- news: men are able to buy viagra online now.
- society:
- news: plan b will be available and over the counter to 15 year old girls now.
- society: gfcsvJDHB WHAT?! THAT YOUNG?! THIS IS WRONG! THESE ARE BABIES! PRETTY SOON HOMOFASCIST OBAMA IS GONNA DEMAND ALL NEWBORNS ON THIS ABORTION PILL. IMPEACH! NOW.
31 Senate Republicans Opposed Sandy Relief After Supporting Disaster Aid For Home States | ThinkProgress
thinkprogress.orgWhen the Senate passed the long-delayed $50.5 billion Hurricane Sandy relief package Monday, 36 Republicans voted against the bill. But of the 32 no-votes from Senators who are not brand-new members, at least 31 came from Republicans who had previously supported emergency aid efforts following disasters in their own states.
Most incredible among the no voters were Senators Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Pat Toomey (R-PA). Those two had not just backed disaster aid in the past — they actually sought disaster aid for their own states for relief from Hurricane Sandy. And Sen. John Boozman (R-AR) endorsed disaster relief for snow storms damages in Arkansas just four days before casting his “nay” vote.
The “hypocritical” list includes:
1. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH): Requested disaster aid after Hurricane Sandy.
2. John Barrasso (R-WY), Republican Policy Committee Chair: Requested disaster aid after flooding.
3. Roy Blunt (R-MO), Republican Conference Vice Chair: Demanded the Senate be called back from recess to pass disaster aid during a drought and boasts: “When a disaster surpasses the ability of states and communities to rebuild, Senator Blunt believes the federal government should prioritize spending to help the people whose lives and livelihoods are impacted. During his time in the Senate, he has fought tirelessly to ensure that Missouri gets its fair share of those federal resources specifically dedicated to disaster recovery.”
4. John Boozman (R-AR): Requested disaster aid after snow storms in January 2013.
5. Richard Burr (R-NC): Requested disaster aid after severe storms.
6. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA): Requested disaster aid after flooding.
7. Dan Coats (R-IN): Requested disaster aid after tornadoes.
8. Tom Coburn (R-OK): Requested disaster aid after winter storms and for extreme drought.
9. Bob Corker (R-TN): Requested disaster aid after flooding and asked for supplemental emergency flood relief.
10. John Cornyn (R-TX), Republican Minority Whip: Demanded drought relief aid and requested disaster aid for wildfires.
11. Mike Crapo (R-ID): Boasted of obtaining a FEMA fire safety grant and pushed for a bill providing emergency drought relief.
12. Mike Enzi (R-WY): Requested disaster relief after flooding.
13. Lindsey Graham (R-SC): Requested disaster relief after freezing and boasted of obtaining emergency drought relief.
14. Chuck Grassley (R-IA): Requested disaster relief after severe hail storms.
15. Orrin Hatch (R-UT): Requested disaster relief after flooding.
16. James Inhofe (R-OK): Boasted of obtaining disaster relief after severe storms and drought.
17. Johnny Isakson (R-GA): Requested disaster aid after flooding.
18. Mike Johanns (R-NE): Requested disaster relief after flooding and blasted Democrats for “inaction on disaster relief” for drought and wildfires.
19. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Requested disaster relief after a blizzard.
20. Mark Kirk (R-IL): Appealed after FEMA denied assistance following severe storms and tornadoes.
21. Mike Lee (R-UT): After calling federal disaster relief unconstitutional, endorsed relief aid after flooding in Utah.
22. John McCain (R-AZ): Endorsed disaster relief after flooding.
23. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Republican Minority Leader: Requested disaster relief during a drought and after tornadoes.
24. Jerry Moran (R-KS): Requested disaster relief after tornadoes.
25. Rand Paul (R-KY): Requested disaster relief during a drought and after tornadoes.
26. Rob Portman (R-OH): Endorsed disaster relief during a drought and after storms.
27. Pat Roberts (R-KS): Boasted of obtaining disaster relief after drought and wildfires and criticized the Bush administration for inadequate emergency relief after a blizzard.
28. Marco Rubio (R-FL): Requested disaster relief after severe freezing.
29. Jeff Sessions (R-AL): Requested disaster relief after tornadoes and during a drought.
30. John Thune (R-SD), Republican Conference Chair: Requested disaster relief after flooding and snow storms.
31. Pat Toomey (R-PA): Requested disaster relief for Hurricane Sandy before it even hit landfall.Not one of the opponents has co-sponsored Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-NV) “Extreme Weather Prevention and Resilience Act” which would encourage Congress to “prepare and protect communities from extreme weather, sea-level rise, drought, flooding, wildfire, and other changing conditions exacerbated by carbon pollution” and “reducing pollution, promoting the use of clean energy sources, and improving energy efficiency.”
ThinkProgrss previously reported that at least 37 House Republicans who opposed Sandy relief had also supported disaster aid for their home states.
Vote all these morons out in 2014, 2016, or 2018!
Applebee's fires waitress who posted pastor's nasty commentary
news.yahoo.comAn Applebee’s waitress who posted a receipt with a note from a pastor complaining about the automatic gratuity added to the bill on the Internet was fired on Wednesday after the pastor complained to her manager.
Chelsea Welch, the waitress, wrote in an email to Yahoo News that the pastor (who has since been identified as Alois Bell) told Welch’s manager at the St. Louis-area Applebee’s that the ensuing firestorm had “ruined” her reputation.
“I give God 10%,” Bell wrote on the receipt, scratching out the automatic tip and scribbling in an emphatic “0” where the additional tip would be. “Why do you get 18?” (There were more than eight people in Bell’s party, triggering the auto-tip.)
Gosh, I wonder what Jesus Christ must be thinking of this woman. Probably something long the lines of “Did this idiot not pay attention to a single word I said? Did she seriously skip over the entirety of Matthew? Especially Matthew 25:31-46?!”
Oh, but it gets better!
“[It was] a lapse in my character and judgment,” Bell told the Smoking Gun, adding she did not expect her easily recognizable signature would be, as her friend informed her, “all over Yahoo. You went viral!”
“My heart is really broken,” Bell added. “I’ve brought embarrassment to my church and ministry.”
Not “My heart is broken because this young woman lost her job,” but because she embarrassed her church and ministry.
Yes, Mrs. Bell, your horrid and uncivil God-bothering is a gross embarrassment to your church - far, far more so than your waitress’ behavior was to her place of employment. But, at the end of the day, you’re a vile, horrible person who still has her job and a steady paycheck, while your waitress - who did absolutely nothing but post a completely innocuous photo online - does not.
And you’re the one preaching at people to be “good” and “moral?” Give me a break.
Florida Republican and evangelical leader is arrested on child porn charges.
nwfdailynews.com“He has for sure got some pretty significant images.” That’s what Walton County Sheriff Mike Adkinson said of Lane Rees, 61, a GOP higher-up now charged with possession and transmission of child pornography.
Rees is a party committeeman, though the Republican Party of Florida appears to have purged him from its directory of leaders (an archived listing from last August listing Rees is here.) He also helped oversee the GOP’s state budget in 2011, and was appointed to serve on several policy panels by then-Gov. Jeb Bush and the Republican speaker of the Florida House. (A sparse user of Facebook, Rees excitedly updated his personal page in January 2011: “At Florida Inauguration for Governor Rick Scott, LT. Governor Jennifer Carroll and other members of the Cabinet — awesome time.”)
Rees until recently served as chairman of the board for the Foundation for Evangelism, which is associated with the United Methodist Church. (He continues to serve on the board.)
Just last month, Rees reportedly helped train other lay ministers at a retreat in Alabama. His lesson was titled “Living our Beliefs: The United Methodist Way.”
(h/t NW Florida Daily News)
