PINK OUT EVEN THOUGH THIS POST IS APPEARING IN AMBER

Because, you know, Freedom of Reproduction.

#FreedomOfReproduction

Hillary Rodham Clinton/Bernie Sanders

Hillary/Bernie.

That's my ticket.

Blood, sweat, tears, misogyny, Hillary has paid her dues.  Bernie hasn't even had to.

She deserves the top spot;  he'll make a fine VP.

End of story.

No Surrender

Post by North Carolina NAACP.

Well, At Least The Local NJ Police Are Taking Dr. Snyderman's Quarantine Seriously.

Best coverage on the ongoing massive-yet-oddly-krypto-story of the "NBC Ebola Quarantine That Was So Voluntary It Had to Be Made Mandatory" is till coming from Planet Princeton.

Upside is that the story has finally hit one mainstream outlet, the New York Daily News, of all outlets.  Kudos to them for:  "NBC Ebola Crew Unable to Contain Itself"  and "No Soup for You."

It's A Small Small Small Small World, especially if you choose not to believe in cause and effect.

Oh, come on, Nancy.

You couldn't just say no?


"Several Planet Princeton readers have reported seeing NBC News Chief Medical Editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman in public over the past day.

Snyderman allegedly was seen sitting in her car outside of the Peasant Grill in Hopewell Boro this afternoon. A reader reported that a man who was with her got out of the car and went inside the restaurant to pick up a take-out order. Another man was in the back seat of her black Mercedes. Snyderman had sunglasses on and had her hair pulled back, the reader said."



State of New Jersey Issues Quarantine Order for Snyderman and Crew.

Forewarned is Forearmed

One feels there may be an upsurge in blogging activity all of a sudden.  Not a promise, just a mere possibility.  There's Martha Coakley to support and Scott Brown to defeat.  There's desperate people beginning to impeach Hillary Clinton before she's even a candidate for president.  B-B-B-Benghzi, Boko Haram, beheadings, bombings, human torment of every sort (as usual, alas).  There's Ray Rice KO-ing the woman he loves, then dragging her unconscious body, face-down, out of an elevator, saying, to onlookers, "She's drunk, right?  No cops."

Speaking of drunk, lest we forget, here's Scotty:

 Not so long ago, either.

Will NH beam Scotty up to the Senate?  Or will they beam Scotty up elsewhere?

Not Wanting to Waste One's Barbara Bush-esque Beautiful Mind et alia

on much more Woody, one has found an article which says pretty much what one woulda said had one spent one's time on him, so do read this here article, a fine analysis of Woody's response, his no mea culpa published in the New York Times.  Sleazy dude.

Woody or Woodn't He?

One has not blogged here for a looong time, but one fears the Woody thing may change that.  One shall see.

It's that rape culture thing, one just can't quit reviling it.  Well, one could, but why would one?

Heeeee-ere's Woody!  Oh no, wait, heeeee-ere's Woody! 

And heeeeee-re's a fun primary source.

And here's a re-cap of problems for Allen that won't be going away.

Of interest to yours truly:  that Ms Farrow, post Soon-Yi,  had been very generous in offering visitation to Mr. Allen.  Allen had already been attending therapy to address and to change his history of inappropriate behaviors toward Dylan.

During a visit on August 4th, Ms Farrow was away from home with a friend, Casey Pascal. Farrow's children were being supervised by Ms Groteke, and her friend Casey's babysitter Ms. Stickland was looking after the 3 Pascal children.

There was also a French tutor in the home.  The French tutor testified that on that day she found Dylan had had no underpants on. 

Ms. Stickland told her employer, Ms Pascal, on that day, that she had seen something that bothered her.  It was this:  having gone into a room looking for one of the children, she saw Allen kneeling down in front of Dylan, his head in Dylan's lap.


For fifteen or twenty minutes that day, Ms. Groteke, Ms. Farrow's nanny, was unable to locate either Dylan Farrow or Woody Allen.  Dylan Farrow says that she knows where they were and that she remembers very well what happened.

Allen says she's mistaken.  Well, he didn't say exactly that, but, you know, brainwashed, making it up, a thought disorder, la la la.

And this statement by Mr. Allen's experts:  “We believe that Dylan’s statements on videotape and her statements to us during our evaluation do not refer to actual events that occurred to her on August 4th, 1992.”

They heard what the little girl said.  They decided the events she spoke of weren't actual.  Okay.

This, too.

Pardon my bloggy minimalism, but you get the point.  Do you not?

Yes, exactly.

Rape Culture: This Is How You Do It

Yeah, this.

The following is a transcript of text-messages retrieved from individuals involved in the Steubenville case. This transcript was made using the notes of Don Carpenter and Amanda Blackburn, transcribing while listening to testimony in the courtroom as best they could. This is an excerpt from over 3,000 text messages read in court. Out of respect for the victim in this case, we will not transcribe messages sent between Jane Doe and the others involved in this case.
THIS WAS MADE By Don Carpenter and Amanda Blackburn (@nunyaman and @amandablackbrn on Twitter)
August 12, 2012

1:19 am
Anthony Craig to Trent Mays:
I’m comin with where u at?

1:21 am
Trent Mays:
Mark, we’re hittin it for real

Anthony Craig to Trent Mays:
Wait for me lol

Anthony Craig to Trent Mays:
Where u at? Where’s she?

Trent Mays:
Still at Mark’s but why?

Anthony Craig:
How dead is she?

Trent Mays:
Not at all. She’s lookin for her phone.

Anthony Craig to Trent Mays:
That shits probably long gone in the streets by now. What did u do with her?

Trent Mays:
Nothin lol. She couldn’t even move.

Cody Saltsman to Trent Mays:
Did u do it?

Trent Mays:
No lol. She could barely move.

Cody Saltsman:
I wanna see the vid of u hitting her with your weiner.

Trent Mays:
I don’t know who took it lol.

Brad Newburn to Trent Mays:
What was the deal with (Jane)?

Trent Mays:
What you mean lol

Bradley Newburn:
What did u guys do lol

Trent Mays:
Nothing. It was just me, Mark and Farrah.

Bradly Newburn:
Did u fuck her?

Trent Mays:
Yes.

Bradley Newburn:
Yeah boy!

(Group text message between Trent Mays, Bradley Newburn, Zach Birch and Lucas Herrington)

Zach Birch:
I had fun also

Lucas Herrington:
Was that on the couch downstairs lmao

Trent Mays:
Yes

Bradley Newburn:
I got a good 20 min of sleep in

Lucas Herrington:
She looks dead lmao

Unknown Party:
Lmao

Trent Mays:
She is

Bradley Newburn:
Shoulda moved her around and got a better angle


Trent Mays to Mark Cole:
What pics?

Mark Cole:
Why are you sending pics around?

Trent Mays:
Nodi just sent them to Ann

Mark Cole:
Quit sending that around

Trent Mays:
Just sent it to Nodi so Ann could have it

Mark Cole:
Don’t send it to anyone else

Mark Cole:
No really u can’t be doing that, is that your jizz on her stomach?

Trent Mays:
Yeah, hahaha

Mark Cole:
Did u fuck her?

Trent Mays:
No

Trent Mays to Anthony Craig:
She came thru, brought food, got fucked. She knew whats up.

Anthony Craig:
U a felon.

Trent Mays:
Not really

Anthony Craig:
(unknown message)

Trent Mays (best interpretation of testimony we could come up with):
See your fat p*ssy. I’ll stick it with a big f*** that I give              

Sean McGee to Trent Mays:
U shouldn’t have did it if she was that hammered

Trent Mays:
Only a hand-job

Sean McGee:
I saw the pics, bro. Don’t lie.

Trent Mays:
She was naked the whole time but she was like dead

Sean McGee:
If she tells someone, it could get back to her parents and then back on u

Trent Mays:
She knows what happened

Sean McGee:
No, she don’t

Trent Mays to Cody Saltsman:
I’m pissed all I got was a handjob. I shoulda raped her since everyone thinks I did.

Cody Saltsman:
You shoulda lol

Trent Mays:
She was awake the whole time lol

Cody Saltsman:
She’s gross lmao

Trent Mays:
I’d hit it

Multi-media picture message from Trent Mays sent to Anthony Craig and Mark Cole:
(picture is that of a naked Jane Doe; has a caption)
Bitches is bitches. Fuck ‘em.

Trent Mays to Evan Westlake:
I’m pissed we didn’t even fuck

Evan Westlake:
Handy-dandy

Evan Westlake:
How’d you get a handy from a dead body?

Trent Mays:
She woke up at 3

Anthony Craig:
U wanna be real with me for a sec?

Trent Mays:
Fo sho no doubt

Anthony Craig:
U have sex with that dead body?

Trent Mays:
No, but she fine lol

August 13, 2013

Anthony Craig to Trent Mays:
Dude, your jizz was on her chest lol. Tell me what happened.

Trent Mays:
I talked her into a handy cause if she moved, she’d get sick

Anthony Craig:
I don’t see how that dead body could give you a handy

Trent Mays:
She rolled over and faced me. I put her hand on my weiner and we started making out.

Anthony Craig:
So u eat ass?

Trent Mays:
Fuck no. I lick the cat lol

Trent Mays to Nick Mazer:
Just got a handy dandy lol

Nick Mazer:
Do anything with Jane Doe?

Trent Mays:
She was a deady, and I needed sexual attention just like u lol. I shoulda f*cked her.

Nick Mazer:
Why no head?

Trent Mays:
She woulda thrown up

Trent Mays:
Yeah dude it was bad, but she was naked so It was all good.

Trent Mays:
I fingered her before you asked though

Nick Mazer:
She’s loose as fuck tho

Nick Mazer:
You got any naked pics?

Trent Mays to Cameron King:
(Naked picture of Jane Doe)

Anthony Craig to Trent Mays:
Bro, why did Jane Doe say she tested positive for being roofied?

Trent Mays:
Hell no, she was drinking some red stuff

Trent Mays:
I even took a beer off her

Anthony Craig:
U still gonna wife her up lol?

Trent Mays:
Fuck no but I’m gonna f*ck her on the weekends

Anthony Craig:
Is she still talkin to u?

Trent Mays:
Trying to

Anthony Craig:
Trying to what?

Trent Mays:
Talk to me. It’s annoying. I keep saying ok and shit.

Anthony Craig:
What, is it annoying?

Trent Mays:
Yeah

Trent Mays:
Tell dat bitch text me

Cody Saltsman to Trent Mays:
U better check Jane Doe. She’s tellin people she got drugged

Trent Mays to Evan Westlake:
Deleate that off You-tube. Coach Sac knows about it. Seriously delete it.

Evan Westlake:
Deny to the grave.

Trent Mays:
Her dad knows, and if our names get brought up, if asked, she was just really drunk.

Trent Mays:
They knew she stayed at Mark’s. You just gotta say she was asleep by the time you got there.

Trent Mays to Cody Saltsman:
Nodi’s running his mouth saying how dead she was. If anyone asks, we just took her to Mark’s, and she fell asleep.

Trent Mays to Mark Cole:
Just say she passed out at your house if anyone asks.

Mark Cole:
IDK she was fucked up. It was her fault she was fucked up.

Cody Saltsman to Trent Mays:
I got you, man. I’ll say that you all were just taking care of her.

Cody Saltsman:
I can get her dad’s number if you need it

Trent Mays to Unknown Party:
What is she saying?

August 14, 2012

Trent Mays to the Father of Jane Doe:
Sir, this is Trent Mays. This is all a misunderstanding. I just took care of your daughter when she was drunk and made sure she was safe.

Father Doe’s Response:
What is on the video?

Evan Westlake to Trent Mays:
I wasn’t even involved. Why am I being questioned?

Trent Mays:
Did you take a video of me?

Trent Mays to Anthony Craig:
You didn’t take any pics or vids, did u?

Trent Mays:
Seriously, I need as much help as I can get, bro

Trent Mays to Father Doe:
The only vid is at Jake’s house when we carried her to the car drunk

Trent Mays to Gino Atkins:
Spaz on her for me, bro, please

Gino Atkins:
Did anyone f*ck her?

Trent Mays:
Nope

Trent Mays:
Me fingered her. That’s about it.

Gino Atkins:
F*ck that bitch

Unknown Contact to Trent Mays:
Hey buddy, wanna send me that pic cuz you love me?

Anthony Craig:
Nah, IDGAF I got Reno. Nothing’s gonna happen if it goes to court.

Trent Mays to Cody Saltsman:
She’s actin  like I killed her or something

Cody Saltsman:
She said you could take a picture

Trent Mays:
Yeah, she was so in love with me that night

Farrah Marcino to Trent Mays:
What about u f***ing her in the a**?

Trent Mays:
?

Farrah Marcino:
That’s what the picture is of

Trent Mays:
The only pic I have is her laying on the couch

Farrah Marcino:
Everyone was looking at the pics at Jake’s.

Trent Mays:
Neither of those happened. I wanna see those.

Farrah Marcino:
Don’t lie. I was at Jake’s house.

Trent Mays:
If you saw them, you lied.

Farrah Marcino:
Don’t lie to me. I saw the pictures at Jake’s. They were showing them all around.

Trent Mays:
No, you didn’t. You’ll feel salty when the DNA results come back.

Rape Culture: Steubenville/Onion

This.

From the Zero, on Steubenville

Andrew Vachss.

Another Important Word from Our General

Whatta concept!

Make little kids attack their adult attackers!

[Rallians who prefer to hyperfocus on drone deaths, deaths which are highly superior to all other forms of death and suffering, are invited to turn off their mirror neurons now.]

Hey, Moms & Dads & Kids! It's OK to Have Defective Mirror Neurons! Ted Rall Said So!

I dunno, I just get all turned inside out, I really get my panties in a twist when people I think of as oh you know kinda librul and kinda well-informed and kinda on the side of you know um like compassion or something, admittedly under unbearable pressure from the continual suffering of samsara (look it up; not the perfume), say stuff that just makes no f***ing sense.

I expect stuff that makes no f***ing sense from Bork and Cheney and Ryan and Bachmann, et al., I don't expect it from Ted Rall. I expect progressiveness, not faux-gressiveness, and I certainly neither expect nor want faux-gressive fascism masquerading as Uber Moral High Ground.  Silly me.

Actually, I tell a lie.  I do expect it from sha-touched cartoonist Ted Rall. I didn't used to, but now I do.

Alas.

"We Don't Have the Right to Care"? Excuse me?

Okay, right, drones trump twats, Rall's made that very clear. Yeah, it's a boy thing, missiles? Yeah, right, boy toys! Phallic stuff!

Phallic stuff counts, don't you get it? He knows which way the moral compass is pointed, and it's his guy way or the highway, because, you know, Rall.

Guess what? Drones trump massacres! Even kiddy massacres! Why?

Because Rall said so!

So, if you're out there looking to toe the line on permissible compassion, be sure to follow Rall. He'll be happy to bully you in the name of his sacred sexist nihilist dogma, because, why should he not?

In the immortal words of George III: "I desire the good, therefore all those who disagree with me are traitors."

Those With Uteri Shall Be As Ovens -- Prescient Post Published in 2012!! But Now, Post #DeathROEcult SCOTUS Six, Wombs ARE Mere OVENS

GOP Senator Rand Paul is pushing a new bill to establish Personhood For Fetuses.

Paul and his supporting cast intend to eliminate freedom of reproduction, forcing women to give birth against their will, and supporting a rapist's right to breed.  He also wants to repeal Roe v. Wade.

Lest you think this is only a right-wing problem, do recall the stance of Faux-gressives such as sha-touched cartoonist Ted Rall, who, sadly beset by the false belief that drones trump wombs, equates the struggle for reproductive rights as being on par with the fight to lengthen weekend hours at public libraries.

I'm not making this up.  I don't have to.  I never have to.

Election Day

1.  Timid centrist better than Bushist fascist.

2.   Wombs trump drones.

Faux Ryan: Photo Op for the Poors

Well, clean pots don't just wash themselves, do they?  It takes someone to make them dirty so they can be photographed making them clean.  So that that person has the appearance of compassion.  Not actual compassion.  Fake it till you make it?

Maine GOP, like Scott Brown, R-MA, Tries to Divert Attention from Dismal Record

Look!  Over here!  She's not Cherokee!

Look!  Over here!  She's an Orc!

Statement on Attacks

October 4, 2012 — Colleen Lachowicz

Here is a statement from our campaign in response to the personal attacks made on Colleen by the Maine Republican Party. If anyone has further questions, Ericka Dodge can be reached at 232-5892.
Ed Lachowicz
Campaign Manager, Colleen Lachowicz for State Senate
***
Waterville, ME—State Senate candidate Colleen Lachowicz released the following statement in response to an attack piece sent out by the Maine Republican Party.

Colleen Lachowicz says, “I think it’s weird that I’m being targeted for playing online games. Apparently I’m in good company since there are 183 million other Americans who also enjoy online games. What’s next? Will I be ostracized for playing Angry Birds or Words with Friends? If so, guilty as charged!”

Lachowicz added, “What’s really weird is that the Republicans are going after my hobbies instead of talking about their record while they’ve been running Augusta for the last two years. Instead of talking about what they’re doing for Maine people, they’re making fun of me for playing video games. Did you know that more people over the age of 50 play video games than under the age of 18? As a gamer, I’m in good company with folks like Jodie Foster, Vin Diesel, Mike Myers, and Robin Williams. Maybe it’s the Republican Party that is out of touch.”


According to the Entertainment Software Rating Board, here’s a break down and profile of a gamer in the United States:

• 65% of U.S. households
• 49% of 18 – 49 year olds
• 26% over the age of 50
• 25% under the age of 18
• 2 out of 5 people are female
• average age of a gamer is 34
• $24.8 billion industry

According to the Christian Science Monitor, 183 million Americans play video games.

To support Colleen, see Act Blue link, below.

GOP vs Gamer

 Well, really, they hate us for our freedoms.

But there are some freedoms we have that we shouldn't.  Like freedom of reproduction.

Or freedom to be a gamer and run for the Maine State Senate.

Support an orc, here.

Romney Tosses Notes on Podium

Why didn't he just write stuff on his hands?

Self-Appointed Heap Big Cherokee Genealogist Scott Brown Scalps Self

Well, it took me all of six minutes on Ancestry.com to find an Arkansas County marriage index a record of marriage between Harry Gunn Reed of Fayetteville, Washington, Arkansas and Bethania Elvina "Hannie" Crawford on 2 June 1893.  He was 20, and she was about 17.

Her residence was listed in this record as "Indian Territory."

Just sayin'.

Oh, this would be Elizabeth Warren's paternal grandmother, btw.

Hannie E. Crawford

Gender:	Female
Age:	17
Birth Year:	abt 1876
Residence:	Indian Territory
Spouse's Name:	Harry G Reed
Spouse's Gender:	Male
Spouse's Age:	20
Spouse's Residence:	Fayetteville, Washington, Arkansas
Marriage Date:	2 Jun 1893
Marriage License Date:	2 Jun 1893
Marriage County:	Sebastian
Event Type:	Marriage
FHL Film Number:	1034043 Then there is Hannie Crawford's father, Warren's great-grandfather, who moved from Missouri to Arkansas to Oklahoma, eventually settling down happily in Indian Territory, Cherokee Nation, Township 12, District 47.  John H. Crawford Birth: Mar. 26, 1858  Death: Jan 23, 1924  Father: Preston H.(Presley) Crawford b: 1824 in Tennessee Mother: Edith (Ede) Marsh b: 5 MAR 1826 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee  Marriage 1 Paulina Bowen b: BET 1858 AND 1860 in Missouri•Married: ABT 1874 in Missouri Children 1. Bethena Crawford b: 1875 in Missouri [Bethania Elvina "Hannie" Crawford]  2. Laura A. Crawford b: 1877 in Texas 3. Lula May Crawford b: MAY 1880 in Arkansas 4. John Walter (Walter) Crawford b: 1883 in Texas 5. Charles Houston (Charley) Crawford b: 18 JAN 1885 in Arkansas 6. Sisie Crawford b: 1888 in Arkansas 7. Eddie Crawford b: 1894 in Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, Oklahoma 8. Rosco Crawford b: 1896 in Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, Oklahoma 9. Bessie Crawford b: 1898 in Indian Territory (OK) Marriage 2 Sarah Elizabeth Smith b: 16 DEC 1860 in Laclede Co. Missouri (Bennett Springs area)• Married: 2 SEP 1904 in Laclede Co., Missouri  John H. Crawford's residence on this marriage certificate is listed as "Wetumka, Indian Territory."  Burial: Wetumka Cemetery, Wetumka, Hughes County, Oklahoma, USA. And here are other Crawford relations, who, though not running for the Senate, are apparently for political and social advantage concocting Indian ancestors [NOT].  Same lineage as Warren, fwiw. All those Crawfords who resided in Indian Territory, Cherokee Nation, Township 12, District 47, are listed on the 1900 Census as white. As is every single other resident of Indian Territory, Cherokee Nation, Township 12, District 47.  You do the math.

And Now A Word From Our General

Here.

I'm Not Calling Ted Rall A Gender-Biased FauxGressive

Just kidding.

Of course I am.

Take a look at this.

It's not Rall's most sexist and dismissive cartoon;  it's just his most recent dismissive and sexist cartoon.

Carrying on his fab tradition in which drones trump vaginas.  You get it, do you not?  Left side:  lazy selfish superficial American female harping on trivial girlie issue.  Right side:  drone victim! Blood! Death!  Real suffering! It's obvious where the moral center lies, right?  Hint:  it's not with that superficial selfish broad! 

Really, if Rall weren't such a self-proclaimed atheist, you'd think he must have been a Catholic priest in a past life.   Or lives.  Come to think of it, his current self-conception wouldn't contradict that frame, would it?

You can't be progressive if you're against freedom of reproduction, dude.

    

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Ted Rall Universal Press SyndicateSep 19, 2012 EditorialCartoonists.com

      

I'm Not Calling Ted Rall Ageist

No, really, I'm not.

He's doing that all by himself!