Friday, May 4, 2012
GOP Saving Women From Eternal Damnation
Since the GOP swept (thundered?) into office state-by-state since 2010, they have systematically written and passed laws across this great land that will save American women from eternal damnation by taking control of and decimating all Pro-Choice (and heretofor LEGAL) healthcare options; by defunding cancer screening availability for the poor and middle class; and by cutting affordable access to birth control even when access to certain drugs is necessary to combat cysts, cancer, etc.
The reasoning of these predominently caucasian men echoes a primary tenant of conservative Christian Right-ness: that women of any race, creed or education are incapable of making informed, moral, ethical or righteous decisions when it comes to their reproductive and/or other internal organs.
A vote for Mitt Romney, a Morman whose religion bars women from any power or leadership position in ministry (a position far beyond that taken by Catholics) and who has embraced the state-by-state reduction of woman personhood in favor of the personhood of TWO CELLS!!! and who has supported the many laws that have wrestled away a woman's autonomy ... voting for this chamaleon of many colors/ideas/professed beliefs/ this Romney who has supported the RYAN BUDGET that will gut childhood lunch and Planned Parenthood programs but give an extra $200,000 a year to millionaires ... this will be another blow to the sacred self-determination of 51% of America's adults. Females.
If you believe that women are second citizens without morals or reasoning or the ability to rule their own lives and bodies or that this world is a better place when women are IN THEIR PLACE, vote RED/GOP.
If you feel that women should master their fates; be responsible for their pasts, futures and progeny; and have the same opportunities as men, vote for Mr. Obama. Why? Just look at his family ... his two daughters and his intelligent, powerful, strong, attractive spouse. His choice in a partner will tell you all you need to know about his opinon of women ...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Elect Santorum and Get the Pope in a Twofer!
Rick Santorum is a Catholic whose religion overrides everything else in his life. His world views, circa 1949, would be laughable if they weren't so scary. Return women to uninterrupted pregnancy; keep them barefoot; keep them so busy raising and teaching children they can't affect the world around them or even the choices in their own lives.
Castigate and revile gays and lesbians and preclude them from enjoying the same legal protections as heteros. Oh, and don't forget to remind them THEY ARE GOING TO HELL.
There's a reason to separate church and state. Santorum is the poster child for this wise decision from the framers of our Constitution - unless of course, you're excited about getting the Pope as our real president! The way Cheney was the real president during W's 8 years.
"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God, the things that are God's."
Even Jesus of Nazareth understood the separation of church and state.
Castigate and revile gays and lesbians and preclude them from enjoying the same legal protections as heteros. Oh, and don't forget to remind them THEY ARE GOING TO HELL.
There's a reason to separate church and state. Santorum is the poster child for this wise decision from the framers of our Constitution - unless of course, you're excited about getting the Pope as our real president! The way Cheney was the real president during W's 8 years.
"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God, the things that are God's."
Even Jesus of Nazareth understood the separation of church and state.
Friday, February 3, 2012
AZ Gov Brewer Hastens Cancer Deaths
GOV. JAN BREWER HASTENS CANCER DEATHS
Gov. Brewer, we’d like to introduce you to our friend, Lucy, an Arizona resident. Unfortunately, due to the fiscal policies enacted by you and your Republican cohorts, this hapless young woman died in January, 2012 at the ripe old age of 42. So you can rejoice! Another deadbeat your tax payers won’t have to support fell silently off the rolls. Well, maybe not quite THAT silently … we’re still in her corner.
After watching many of the Republican presidential debates and listening to the cynical and often heartless audiences cheering for executions and a hypothetical young man dying of cancer because he had no health insurance, it is obvious that your feelings and decisions regarding “the least of these, My brethren,” are in lock step with conservatives everywhere across this grand land. Ayn Rand would be proud – and so should you!
For some reason, the party of the wealthy, by the wealthy and for the wealthy believe Lucy got herself into her situation through her own laziness or her inability to properly handle money … or maybe even because of a gambling or drug addiction. But you would all be wrong.
Lucy graduated from a 4 year college in Arizona; worked in radio; went back to school for her Masters and became a teacher with adequate health benefits. Then she got her cancer diagnosis and took leave to fight her disease. When she was fired for taking leave, she lost her benefits. In short order: Lucy could not get a job; was initially denied for SSDI; and subsequently signed up for state assistance under Arizona’s ACCESS plan.
While she awaited a response from the state, she tried selling jewelry online and even held a yard sale to raise money for her cancer treatments. The state eventually approved ACCESS which gave Lucy medical benefits but no income to live on. Of course, by then the cancer had spread to her hips and liver.
Always a fighter, Lucy started the chemo and after four treatments, she was notified that her SSDI appeal was approved and that she would be receiving disability. But under Arizona law, Lucy no longer qualified for ACCESS. So now she had income to pay rent and utilities but had no insurance to continue her cancer treatments. She went to court and the judge said sorry that’s the law.
Gov. Brewer, the most blessed of the terminally ill live out their last days saying goodbye or finalizing the last bits and pieces of a too short life. Instead Lucy, and all those like her in your state, will continue to engage in a losing battle against governmental red tape right up to the bitter end, all the while understanding in their hearts they never had a fighting chance.
Gov. Brewer, your policies and those of your state legislators helped put this woman where she is; in the ground. Congratulations! You have knocked thousands of the terminally ill, profoundly handicapped and transplant patients without absurdly expensive insurance into the aid boondocks, thereby adding tremendously to their burdens – and those of the folks who love them. You should be shouting to the rooftops what you and your fellow Republicans have accomplished! When it comes to saving money and cutting off all support for the most dispossessed in your society – and what a financial drag THOSE people have been – you have succeeded beyond even your wildest dreams. Of course, Arizona spends about $60,000 per inmate on Death Row – more than enough to pay for cancer treatments in many cases. But it’s obvious that, to folks like you, executing the living is way more important than saving the dying.
As for Lucy? Well, she thankfully left your tender Darwinian mercies behind. And whatever else you do, please don’t be hypocritical. Don’t give her death a second thought when you thought so little about her life. We knew Lucy well and have no doubt that the Carpenter from Nazareth will welcome her with open arms. We have to wonder, though, what your fate will be when your time comes.
Reprinted with the permission of:
Lucinda Sue Crosby
Laura Dobbins
Ridgecrest, CA
Gov. Brewer, we’d like to introduce you to our friend, Lucy, an Arizona resident. Unfortunately, due to the fiscal policies enacted by you and your Republican cohorts, this hapless young woman died in January, 2012 at the ripe old age of 42. So you can rejoice! Another deadbeat your tax payers won’t have to support fell silently off the rolls. Well, maybe not quite THAT silently … we’re still in her corner.
After watching many of the Republican presidential debates and listening to the cynical and often heartless audiences cheering for executions and a hypothetical young man dying of cancer because he had no health insurance, it is obvious that your feelings and decisions regarding “the least of these, My brethren,” are in lock step with conservatives everywhere across this grand land. Ayn Rand would be proud – and so should you!
For some reason, the party of the wealthy, by the wealthy and for the wealthy believe Lucy got herself into her situation through her own laziness or her inability to properly handle money … or maybe even because of a gambling or drug addiction. But you would all be wrong.
Lucy graduated from a 4 year college in Arizona; worked in radio; went back to school for her Masters and became a teacher with adequate health benefits. Then she got her cancer diagnosis and took leave to fight her disease. When she was fired for taking leave, she lost her benefits. In short order: Lucy could not get a job; was initially denied for SSDI; and subsequently signed up for state assistance under Arizona’s ACCESS plan.
While she awaited a response from the state, she tried selling jewelry online and even held a yard sale to raise money for her cancer treatments. The state eventually approved ACCESS which gave Lucy medical benefits but no income to live on. Of course, by then the cancer had spread to her hips and liver.
Always a fighter, Lucy started the chemo and after four treatments, she was notified that her SSDI appeal was approved and that she would be receiving disability. But under Arizona law, Lucy no longer qualified for ACCESS. So now she had income to pay rent and utilities but had no insurance to continue her cancer treatments. She went to court and the judge said sorry that’s the law.
Gov. Brewer, the most blessed of the terminally ill live out their last days saying goodbye or finalizing the last bits and pieces of a too short life. Instead Lucy, and all those like her in your state, will continue to engage in a losing battle against governmental red tape right up to the bitter end, all the while understanding in their hearts they never had a fighting chance.
Gov. Brewer, your policies and those of your state legislators helped put this woman where she is; in the ground. Congratulations! You have knocked thousands of the terminally ill, profoundly handicapped and transplant patients without absurdly expensive insurance into the aid boondocks, thereby adding tremendously to their burdens – and those of the folks who love them. You should be shouting to the rooftops what you and your fellow Republicans have accomplished! When it comes to saving money and cutting off all support for the most dispossessed in your society – and what a financial drag THOSE people have been – you have succeeded beyond even your wildest dreams. Of course, Arizona spends about $60,000 per inmate on Death Row – more than enough to pay for cancer treatments in many cases. But it’s obvious that, to folks like you, executing the living is way more important than saving the dying.
As for Lucy? Well, she thankfully left your tender Darwinian mercies behind. And whatever else you do, please don’t be hypocritical. Don’t give her death a second thought when you thought so little about her life. We knew Lucy well and have no doubt that the Carpenter from Nazareth will welcome her with open arms. We have to wonder, though, what your fate will be when your time comes.
Reprinted with the permission of:
Lucinda Sue Crosby
Laura Dobbins
Ridgecrest, CA
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