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stoney321Dear McCain: if you insist, as your running mate does, on using her special needs child as a prop, could you at LEAST get it right? Her son has DOWN'S SYNDROME. Vastly different from AUTISM.
His statement (that evidently went under the radar) on how he wants to CHANGE OUR CULTURE in this convo about Roe v. Wade scared the ever loving piss out of me. Did anyone else catch that?? incidentally, and you don't have to take my word for it, you can check with the Center for Disease Control (the stats the Dems use) and the Guttmacher Institute (who the Repubs use) abortion rates were visibly lower with Democratic presidents vs. Republican presidents. (Studies lean towards better access to health care and education during those Dem presidencies.) So if you're Pro-Life, you might think about the two opponent's health care plans and economic policies, as those two go hand in hand.
You'll notice that there's a jump in the Carter Administration: this is after it has been made legal, so it follows that there would be more that are reported instead of the back door butcher jobs that were common among women of little affluence. Also important to note is that during the current administration, fewer doctors are providing abortions, so I'm waiting for people to recognize that THAT is a contributing factor to the decrease in numbers during Dubya's tenure. Also important to note that the minor discrepancies between the two reports are this: CDC gets data sent to them for compilation and the Guttmacher institute contacts abortion clinics directly. They mirror each other, if off by numbers. (Meaning: their graphs are parallel.)
POSITIVE THINGS: each one of these pictures makes me so happy my heart (and ovaries) are near bursting. The picture with Obama shaking the young man's hand while touching his head? GAAAH! <3
Remember that before there was the Carlton dance, Alfonso Ribeiro was a breakdancer? HAHAHA! (And that song in the background at the end... "I'm....in...heeeeeaven....with my boyfriend. My laughing boyfriend!"What the hell is the name of that Genius of Love by the Tom Tom Club, I just remembered!! Do you have an mp3 of it that you will share with me???) Got it! (In comments if you want it, too)
His statement (that evidently went under the radar) on how he wants to CHANGE OUR CULTURE in this convo about Roe v. Wade scared the ever loving piss out of me. Did anyone else catch that?? incidentally, and you don't have to take my word for it, you can check with the Center for Disease Control (the stats the Dems use) and the Guttmacher Institute (who the Repubs use) abortion rates were visibly lower with Democratic presidents vs. Republican presidents. (Studies lean towards better access to health care and education during those Dem presidencies.) So if you're Pro-Life, you might think about the two opponent's health care plans and economic policies, as those two go hand in hand.
You'll notice that there's a jump in the Carter Administration: this is after it has been made legal, so it follows that there would be more that are reported instead of the back door butcher jobs that were common among women of little affluence. Also important to note is that during the current administration, fewer doctors are providing abortions, so I'm waiting for people to recognize that THAT is a contributing factor to the decrease in numbers during Dubya's tenure. Also important to note that the minor discrepancies between the two reports are this: CDC gets data sent to them for compilation and the Guttmacher institute contacts abortion clinics directly. They mirror each other, if off by numbers. (Meaning: their graphs are parallel.)
POSITIVE THINGS: each one of these pictures makes me so happy my heart (and ovaries) are near bursting. The picture with Obama shaking the young man's hand while touching his head? GAAAH! <3
Remember that before there was the Carlton dance, Alfonso Ribeiro was a breakdancer? HAHAHA! (And that song in the background at the end... "I'm....in...heeeeeaven....with my boyfriend. My laughing boyfriend!"
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Date: 2008-10-16 02:27 pm (UTC)THANK YOU. I thought I had gone crazy when he kept saying autism and not Down's syndrome; I haven't seen any of the pundits mention it?
how he wants to CHANGE OUR CULTURE in this convo about Roe v. Wade scared the ever loving piss out of me.
Yeah, I caught that, too, and agree. That's some scary stuff.
Yes We Can Hold Babies is possibly my favorite thing about this election. It warms my heart!
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Date: 2008-10-16 02:30 pm (UTC)That website has made me feel SO GOOD this morning. I <3 men holding babies. :D
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Date: 2008-10-16 04:36 pm (UTC)(Edited because I gave you the wrong link. *facepalms*)
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Date: 2008-10-16 05:00 pm (UTC)Oh my god, I want him to be my President so bad it ACHES.
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Date: 2008-10-16 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-16 02:31 pm (UTC)The breakdancing made my world a better place. :D
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Date: 2008-10-16 02:34 pm (UTC)Either way, get it right, doofus. MASSIVE discrepancies between the two, I thank you.
Oh, yay!! Hahahaha, that breakdancing vid cracks me up. Then again, I'm old enough to remember him on the Michael Jackson/Pepsi commercial. :D
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Date: 2008-10-16 02:39 pm (UTC)http://www.box.net/shared/78c79qjdtq
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Date: 2008-10-16 03:02 pm (UTC)Re: Song Lyric
Date: 2008-10-17 03:34 am (UTC)Breakin' and Poppin'
Date: 2008-10-16 03:12 pm (UTC)I'm so glad we have youtube now to learn any dance we want to.
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Date: 2008-10-16 03:16 pm (UTC)He was on Silver Spoons with Jason Bateman and Ricky Shroeder, too.
DUDE. I feel old now. :D
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Date: 2008-10-16 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-16 03:20 pm (UTC)I have the song now, but thank you! (I need to add an eta to spare people the trouble...)
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Date: 2008-10-16 03:22 pm (UTC)Oh cool glad you have it. *rocks out *80's style*
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Date: 2008-10-16 03:43 pm (UTC)I love those pictures!
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Date: 2008-10-16 03:53 pm (UTC)Aren't they wonderful? I love it when little kids hug super tight, too. <3
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Date: 2008-10-16 11:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-16 03:57 pm (UTC)I totally want that rad break dancing collection, but right this minute I'm putting Tom Tom Club on the turn table!
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Date: 2008-10-16 04:04 pm (UTC)I TOTALLY want that breakdance board. *cough* I may have had the actual book and wore parachute pants to school.
I looooove that song by the Tom Tom Club! There's a dance song I'm wracking my brain to figure out who did it (and the lyrics) I can only remember a snippet of the music. BAH. It's like... New Order, but it's not. Erasure + New Order = ???? When I figure it out, I'll find a link and share so we all can shake our booties.
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Date: 2008-10-16 04:25 pm (UTC)By the way. I own a tiny piece of your ass on your 3-day. You better WALK bitch! LOL. Kidding. I'm so proud of you and what you're doing and it's an absolutely worthy cause.
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Date: 2008-10-16 04:59 pm (UTC)Isn't that picture just so sweet?!? I really love the picture your icon is based on, too. <3 <3 <3
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Date: 2008-10-16 04:28 pm (UTC)Wow. Those picture. The sweetness on Obama's face and the trust in all those little kids eyes. What an incredible thing it must be to have little kids just glom on to him like that. And that he stops and just takes the moment, genuinely is so awesome. I mean, I'm sure that yeah, the pictures help his image, but his face is all "Baby!Cute!Baby, Cute!Little!Kids! YAY!!" I'm sure he's been spit up on or peed on a time or two, but I suspect he just laughs it off.
What a guy. I am SO ready for the campaign to be over and just GET ON WITH IT.
Do you watch Keith Olberman? From MSNBC. He is awesome, and I think right up your alley.
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Date: 2008-10-16 05:01 pm (UTC)Ditto on ready for the campaign to be over. This has been the most nerve wracking election of my life.
Do I watch Keith? The man that looks like my husband in glasses? HELLS YEAH. I have such a crush on that man. Rawr.
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Date: 2008-10-16 04:33 pm (UTC)Julia, the only other thing that makes me a little nuts is the idea most abortions can be prevented by birth control, because it doesn't always work and even intentional conception can become a bad idea quickly
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Date: 2008-10-16 05:20 pm (UTC)Late term abortions are maor medical procedures, and expensive in proportion. The idea that one would "whoops" oneself into that level of hassle and pain shows a complete lack of understanding of human nature, to say the least.
Upon rereading, I'm reminded of an important point: given the number of women I know who have had abortions, and the way their stories have effected my politics on a lot of levels, I suspect that the antichoice side suffers a case of information deprivation. The louder and more negative people are about their anti-choice positions, the more likely it is that they won't know about the way that women they know well have ended up finding that abortion is the only reasonable choice in their circumstance.
Julia, this goes equally for gay issues, I expect.
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Date: 2008-10-16 04:40 pm (UTC)McCain makes me ill. And his finger quotes around 'mothers health' - like that's something to be handwaved away. Grrrrr!
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Date: 2008-10-16 06:48 pm (UTC)And yeah, the fact he kept saying Palin's kid has autism was just weird.
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Date: 2008-10-16 08:48 pm (UTC)I don't know where the autism came from. pay attention to your own running mate!
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Date: 2008-10-16 09:09 pm (UTC)On
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Date: 2008-10-16 10:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-16 11:08 pm (UTC)McCain really does seem to be struggling with speech in general; I can't help but wonder if the stress is getting to him or if he's suffering TIAs.
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Date: 2008-10-16 11:13 pm (UTC)I recognized it from typical Catholic anti-choice rhetoric. Example: http://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=155
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Date: 2008-10-18 10:23 am (UTC)I am not pleased with abortion and this election. Yesterday, my daughter asked me at dinner, "Mom, Leah at school says Obama kills babies--is that true?" (I see the origin and trajectory of this statement easily: Tactless, Anti-Choice Parents + Child's View of the World and Social Niceties = Republican Agenda Propaganda in Elementary Schools. But ohhh, I am SORELY tempted to hunt down Leah's parents and ask them to explain to their daughter that their self-righteous, sex-negative, puritanical stupidity needs to stay at home. I can't stop them from poisoning their own child's mind, but I won't have it done to mine. And what kind of assholes talk to their first grader about abortion, anyway?)