I watched "Top Secret Rosies" on Netflix & compared it grand theft auto izza's "hearing" today. WOW

It is a very good documentary about a group of brilliant women mathematicians (spelling?) who worked in secret in the war effort and whose contributions GREATLY contributed to victory in the war.

While everybody knew about "Rosie the Riveter" (or in my mom's case, a "Marie the Meat Packer", nobody knew about these women who WERE the computers. In the days before "computer" was a machine, it was someone who was exceptionally skilled in figureing out all of the possibilities.

Most of these women went on to have remarkable lives. Some of them continued in business or government service. Twin sisters from Philadelphia eventually set up their own real estate agency and were instrumental in spreading integration and minority home ownership. Some, like the more traditional "Rosie the Riveters", simply became housewives and mothers. ALL of them contributed, secretly but greatly, to the defeat of the axis powers.

Now let's skip to today.

Today the republicans, led by grand theft auto izza, presented a group of stupid and pathetic old fart men to continue their campaign to insist that women in this country are possessions who deserve to have NO SAY about their bodies or their health. In republican land, women are so stupid that they need to follow the direction of these self-importand asses who apparently learned all that there is to know about women's health issues in divinity school several decades ago. The republicans are apparently so lacking in anything resembling an inkling of a clue that they believe that sarah palin(comparison)'s "mama grizzleys" are an actual force beyond the teabagger rallies and will get the women's vote in droves by disrespecting the entire gender.

Brilliant plan.

Something that infuriates me even more is that these old bastards are probably the sons of the women who kept this country going while the men were fighting.

The men who served in World War II and the "Rosie the Riveters" defeated one of the most evil forces in human history when many of them were teenagers. When I was the age of my parents at the time my father was serving and my mother was packing meat, I was concerned with 3 things; first was getting laid (usually not very successfully), second was getting beer and third was maybe getting good grades.

With that last sentence, I guess I got myself on the republicans' "santorum" list.

What happened to these dumb old turd heads that they hold women in such comtempt? Truthfully, I don't really give a damn what the answer to that question is. My most immediate concern is that these people not only be defeated electorally, but absolutely and resoundingly repudiated.

In the long run, my concern is to win back the ground that a teabagger dominated republican party and a compliant and lazy news media have lost for American women and ethnic minorities by their blatent sexism and racism. The republicans perpetrated it and the ass licking corporate rightist media unquestioningly advanced it.

Barring the idea of someone like rush limbooger possibly saying that anyone writing this doesn't exist and is a White House plant, I am a 56 year old white Irish Catholic (who is ashamed of his church right now for not the first time). I am a hopefully soon to be employed again husband and father who was born in Philadelphia and has made my home in Maine for the last ten year with a wonderful wife and a great soon to be 12 year old son.

And I practically tremble with fury at the way women were so comtemptfully treated today by a committee of the House of Representatives and their ineffectual, ignorant and quite possibly incontinent stooges.

Now that this is off my chest, I can probably go to bed. Good night, and as always...

PEACE!

BTW, I always end my posts and thread with "PEACE!" as a tribute to a DUer who passed away a few years ago. I don't remember this person's screen name, but I do remember something very important.

She was a woman.

PEACE!