Heckuva job, Scotty

White House spokesman resigning
Rove to lose policy portfolio

Tip of the hat to ebongreen for pointing me here this morning. I only hope and pray that this is something of an indicator that Rove is in actual legal hot water. As for McClellen, those words were written on the wall weeks ago. Hell, every lefty blogger on the net was counting down to his resignation/firing. Can't wait to see who gets thrown to the lions next.

But I have to say that as much as this pleases me the fact that the only thing people can seem to talk or write about today is that Tom Cruise and his child brainwash victim have spawned. You know I can honestly say here that I don't give a flying fuck whether Scientology preaches that births must be silent or that she has to give birth on a trampoline, what the fuck does any of that matter? Jesus Christ, people, is this really all you fucking care about? If anybody talks about it in the office today I'm going to snap, I can just feel it.

The forced pregnancy debate

Amanda's got some great reproductive rights links up that I highly recommend taking a look at:

In Ohio, there’s a bill pending that not only makes forced pregnancy mandatory, it also deprives a woman of her freedom of movement by banning women from traveling to states where they can exercise their rights.

"Ohio house bill 228 introduced by Tim Brinkman, R-Mount Lookout, in April would make it a felony for a woman to seek to terminate her pregnancy and holds the same penalty if she chooses to leave the state for the medical procedure."

I wonder if Congress will pass something like the Fugitive Slave Act, to assist Ohio in tracking down its female property and returning them to their rightful owners after they escaped mandatory pregnancy. Which also makes me wonder if Ohio legislators realize that the official owners of said property generally support the abortion as well. Enforcement of these laws is going to be a nightmare–mandatory pregnancy tests at borders? Border patrols guards with gynocological examination rooms to check suspicious women coming in?

Why they could just do what they do South of the Border and get those Vagina Inspectors to check things out...and you know, confiscate the organs as "evidence".

And from the more enlightened side of the debate, more on the Fire Thunder reservation Planned Parenthood in SD:

Let’s get back to brainwashing. Some of the Indian people vehemently opposed to a Planned Parenthood Clinic are devout Catholics or of other religious denominations. When they first took up the mantle of Christianity they stepped outside of the beliefs of their ancestors. They embraced the religious beliefs of the foreigners who came to the shores of this continent determined to convert the Indian people to their own beliefs and to force them to denounce their own cultural and traditional beliefs….

One Lakota wicasa wakan (Holy Man) told me on the condition that I protect his anonymity, that those people attacking Fire Thunder do not know their own cultural history and he used the term I used at the beginning of this column. He said, “They have been so ‘brainwashed’ into thinking like the white man that they can no longer think as an Indian. Traditionally Indian men never interfered with the rights of a woman to do whatever it was she chose to do when it came to having or not having a child. He always assumed that the woman knew what she was doing and didn’t need direction from any man.”

Wow, imagine that, a whole culture that believes women can make up their own minds about what happens to their bodies. It sounds both strange and wonderful, doesn't it?

Hee

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