Ok, this is pretty funny.......Indiana women calling the Govenor regarding their periods......
Who do you talk to about your period—your best friend? Your doctor? Your conservative governor?
Last week, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed into law extreme anti-abortion legislation that bans abortions on the basis of the race, sex, or potential disability of a fetus. Now, a growing number of the state’s women have decided: If Pence cares so much about what goes on in their vaginas and uteruses, well, they should probably keep him in the loop. By telling him all about their periods.
For the past week, Hoosier women have been dialing up the governor’s office to fill him in on the details of their menstrual cycles. “I need to get a message to the governor that I am on day three of my period,” one caller told Pence’s office. “My flow seems abnormally heavy, but my cramps are much better.”
http://fusion.net/story/286941/periods-for-pence-indiana-women-calling-governor/?utm_source=fusiondaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=04012016
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Me: "Good Morning. I just wanted to inform the Governor that things seem to be drying up today. No babies seem to be up in there. Okay?"
Them: (Sounding strangely horrified and chipper at the same time) "Ma'am, can we have your name?"
Me: "Sure. It's Sue."
Them: "And your last name?"
Me: "Magina. That's M-A-G-I-N-A. It rhymes with--"
Them: "I've got it."
*Click*
a new thread about abortion but have held off posting it because I am so pissed off. Afraid it would come across as sheer anger so maybe it should go on the women's issues forum. I am sick and tired of listening to men talk about women's issues. unless they have ever had a period or the cramps they should STFU. Even the well meaning guys--it's like what do you say to someone who got a bad diagnosis or has just lost a beloved family member--nothing is better than anything else.
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If they'd STARTED calling on April Fools' Day, it WOULD have been disregarded as a joke!
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Abbie Hoffman and the YIPpies and others in the 1960s knew this.
I am also reminded of a story Molly Ivins told:
1993 http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1993/05/funs-fight
[font size="+1"]The Fun's in the Fight[/font]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/turk-pipkin/steve-fromholz-a-guest-in_b_4663250.html
Steve and I did quite a few shows together over the years, but our command performance was in 1993 when we joined hands with a group of adventurous Austin types and mooned the Klan in front of the Texas Capitol. That’s right, the KKK was coming to town, and rather than protest and scream expletives at their racism and hatred, we decided it’d be better to turn the other cheek.
“It came to me as a flash... of light,” said Fromholz, who dreamed up the mass mooning. “If you don’t feed their hate, they’ll starve to death.”
Let me summarize by saying that Fromholz’s idea was beyond sublime. Our group began by singing, “If you’re happy and you know it, Moon the Klan.” Unable to reach the front row of the counter-protest, we brought up the rear by dropping our drawers. Many of us were wearing boxers. Mine had smiley faces on them. One guy’s drawers said, “Support Live Music in Austin.” As Molly Ivins described the scene, “It was a gas.”
History! 
and mentioned hurting my back while on the cycle at the gym. The lawyer said, "Do you mean the stationary bicycle, or your menstrual cycle?" I paused a long time, and said evenly "the stationary bicycle." Then I glanced at the female court reporter who looked up at me and rolled her eyes. 
Why the hell would I say I was on my menstrual cycle when I hurt my back at the gym?! It's creepy that he would even think of that.
(No, I was not suing the gym. The lawyer was asking me every question under the sun about crap totally unrelated to another issue.)
We had a spoiler in each of the last 2 elections. I personally voted for the non-teabagger candidate most likely to win. Unfortunately, the 1st time around the official Dem candidate trailed with only 20% in the polls right up to the end, but wouldn't quit. Had she dropped out, the former Dem turned Indie would have won.
Instead it was LePage 38%
Indie Whatzisname 37%
Official Dem 20%
4 or 5 other indies 5%
Same thing happened the last election, except this time it was LePage 38%, Michaud 37%, and Indie Whatzisname 20or so %
I also have read that there was a lot of outside money (ie Koch) involved. Listening to the radio there were at least 3 LePage ads for every 1 Michaud. 
If the voters are not motivated to turn out and vote, it is ALWAYS a Failure of Leadership.
Blaming the voters is a recipe for continued failures.
If the "leaders" have the moral courage to truthfully examine their own failures, THEN something can be done, but to just blame the voters, shrug your shoulders, walk away, and do the same thing next election is STUPID.
It is EZ being Blue in a Blue State. All you have to do is follow the crowd.
In 2006, my wife and I moved from Big Blue Minneapolis to dark Red Rural Arkansas,
and have carried the fight to the front lines.
Due to the low population density, our vote weighs much more than it ever did in Minneapolis.
In 2008, 1 out of 3 people up in these old mountains voted for "the Black Guy"".
It wouldn't take much to flip our district.
Of course, you can just relax on your high horse and insult all the good, courageous, hard fighting Democrats who are working to change things.
I don't have much respect for those hollering insults from the peanut gallery.
Come join us in the front lines.
The South is BEAUTIFUL, and belongs to us all.
--bvar22 & Starkraven
changing the South Blue, one person at a time.
Call after, call after, call.... Week after, Week....
That is where there is real impact.
P.S. Separate government and religion. Thank you very much!
I told him my you know what down you know where was in hiatus and that when it ever came back I would send him snaps.
Told him to share it with the wife. It might do him some good.
all about Hoosier women's reproductive health!
Great idea, Hoosiers!
should follow suit! It's the only way to fight these f'ers. If it becomes a problem for them, they will drop it like a hot potato.
This was a brilliant idea! 
... of when Wellesley College didn't have insurance coverage for births (having had a history of un-married women on their staff). Along about the time Hillary was there 6 of us faculty wives were pregnant, due to deliver in the summer. We talked a lot about a possible birth-in in the president's office. 
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Maybe they should start sending pictures?
