Did I really just hear that??

Watching CNN's coverage of the shootings at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin. Media guy is saying that their overhead pics won't include police locations in case the shooters have a television on. Then he brings in someone whose mother is inside the temple and before asking the son for any update, media guy notes that the mother had called from her hiding place in a bathroom. Then the son says they're worried because they haven't heard from her again. Has the media guy mentioned where others are hiding? OMG.

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Rethink

I morally object to being morally objectionable to Republicans. (Margaret and Helen)

Margaret, my late husband Harold was a sports fan but he hated the Olympics. He said if your score included style points then it wasn’t a sport, it was a show. He still watched the Olympics though. I guess there was just enough sport in between the show to keep him interested. But when it came to gymnastics and figure skating he turned the channel. He used to say, “If you want to make it a sport put all the skaters or gymnasts on the floor and tell them to do flips. No scores. No judges. Last one standing wins.” I, however, love the Olympics. I think those Brits probably would like a few more medals, but they do put on a good show… even if the Queen couldn’t be bothered to pay attention. Funny how we went from Obama and Romney all the time to suddenly two weeks of Michael Phelps all the time. It’s been a nice break.

But while the Olympics will be over in a week, the Republican war on women rages on. The Affordable Care Act is finally making birth control, paps smears, breast exams and even breast-feeding supplies at least as affordable as Viagra. But Republicans were already putting forth bills to reverse that action. While the rest of us were watching the American women’s gymnastics team win gold, Denny Rehberg, a Republican Congressman from Montana, released a labor, health and education spending bill that would defund Planned Parenthood, block the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and allow any employer to deny women birth control coverage for “moral reasons”. It would also increase spending for abstinence-only education. And then there is Missouri Republican Senator Roy Blunt who has a bill to allow insurance plans to opt out of the requirement on contraception coverage if they have moral objections.

An insurance plan can have moral objections? So corporations can vote and insurance plans can find me morally objectionable. What’s next? Fast food companies can make kids gay? No wait. I’m getting confused. I’m old. It happens.

Yes. Not having sex is an alternative to taking birth control pills. But then again not eating fatty foods is an alternative to open heart surgery. Anyone have a moral objection to insurance companies covering Cheney’s bypass… es… what’s the plural for bypass?

...read the rest: http://margaretandhelen.com/2012/08/02/i-morally-object-to-being-morally-objectionable-to-republicans/


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Jobs, eh?

Hah! Post this as your facebook status...

Darned good message

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Veep race?

Potential veep candidates are clamoring to be on the Romney ticket in much the same way that insects enthusiastically volunteer to be test subjects for a new bugspray.


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One cramp.

Just one cramp, of the menstrual variety. Not one of these congressional republican men could withstand even one without hitting his knees in agony. Never mind the assorted discomforts of pregnancy, or the horror of rape or incest. Yet here they go AGAIN with all their overly-scripted weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth over abortion. Give it a rest, guys. You'd be a helluva lot more convincing if you actually gave a crap about kids after they're born.




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Starting August 1st

Starting August 1st, thanks to Obamacare, being female is no longer a "pre-existing condition" that precludes healthcare coverage. Starting in 5,000 B.C. congressional Republicans vow to repeal Obamacare and put women back under men's thumbs where they belong.


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