20score’s Journal

The (RW) Letter Everyone Is Talking About – And My Answer To It

20score’s Journal – The (RW) Letter Everyone Is Talking About – And My Answer To It

3. Use the following form (I have it color coded and boldfaced, etc..: I don’t know if it shows up like that here)
(The Form can be saved as a "draft" in your email system, and called up whenever you need it.
I’ve found that when the recipients receive this form, they freak out, and in a number of cases have asked the sender to drop them from their contact list–GOOD! Stop this torrent of right-wing lies and bullshit right at the source.
WARNING!
You have been the recipient of a chain-mail that has been proven to be:
FALSE. (paste Snopes link here)
WHY WAS THIS FALSE CHAIN-MAIL SENT TO YOU?
In his book "The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right," David Neiwert argues that it is no accident that lies are believed by the extreme right wing. In fact, for them it doesn’t really matter whether an assertion is true; any belief, whether it is based on fact or not, is legitimized as long as the left is demonized by it. That is because the goal, for many of the extremists, is to eliminate the left as political opponents. Neiwert says that in America, this impulse to exterminate the opposition is almost uniquely confined to the right.
Thus, lies become part of the narrative of the authoritarian thinker. One would think that those in the Republican Party would discourage lying by their talk-show and Fox News brethren. When their assertions are repeatedly exposed as false, one tends to disbelieve everything they say

How to Deal with Bullshit Chain Mails – The Frank Factor

Not my chamber

Opposing the Employee Free Choice Act. Trying to raise $50,000 for a junk ’study’ attacking health reform. Denying global warming. Opposing sick leave for H1N1 swine flu. The bottom line? The U.S. Chamber is dangerously out of step with American values.

Help run new Google ads against the U.S. Chamber!

Horrifying to think that anyone could think this acceptable.

http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2008/09/17/sarah-palin-how-is-stoning-women-feminist/

or burning them to death in a ditch?

http://friendlyatheist.com/2009/04/19/burned-at-the-stake-after-being-accused-of-witchcraft/

Health and Justice

What does it mean to be healthy? Why is it, as Amiel asserted, “the first liberty?”

A measureof health is often made by assessing physical needs. This is central and inexorable. But, as reproductive justice advocates know, it is more, as well.

A woman’s ability to control her body and its reproductive capacity is central to securing overall health. Access to abortion and contraception are the tip of a very large iceberg of needs.

Acknowledging a history of eugenics and population control, the reproductive justice approach aims to ensure that women have all the medical and social resources they need to have children, or not, as well as the right to control if, when and how they become mothers. This awareness, while including access to abortion and contraception, extends to other needs, as well:

1. Maternity care, including pre- and post-natal care and infertility treatment;
2. A range of birthing options including midwives, doulas and alternative care providers;
3. Mental health services;
4. Preventative care, including but not limited to, Pap smears, vaccinations (such as HPV), childbirth education and mammograms;
5. Services that are ethnically and culturally competent;
6. Care that is sensitive to people of all different genders and sexual orientations and addresses their unique concerns;
7. Health care services that are economically and physically accessible to women and their families.

The reproductive justice movement thinks more broadly about the political, cultural, economic, racial, institutional and environmental factors that pertain to bodily health. A reproductive justice-based approach considers not only what illness a woman might have, but also the social factors (environmental toxins, access to preventative care, community health education, and so on) that make her more or less prone to getting sick and more or less able to afford treatment.

This comprehensive approach changes the meaning of “health” rather dramatically. “Health” no longer simply refers to whether or not a person is sick or whether or not a woman can get reproductive health care. Instead, it diagnoses the factors that contribute to, or detract from, overall wellbeing, not merely for a single woman, but also for her family and the community in which she lives. This is what Amiel means, I believe, when he says that in health there is freedom.

this is an excerpt, please read the rest of the article at:

On The Issues Magazine: Fall 2009: The First of All Liberties: Making Health Care Meet All Women’s Needs by Eesha Pandit

Sad, but true, indeed.

The goons of religion don’t get it. Speech is different from action. You don’t like queers? Fine. You want to express your hatred of homosexuality? Great, have at it. You want to kill or maim or attack them? That’s a whole different ball of wax. It is my personal conviction that religion should be outlawed from the public discourse and my First Amendment right allows me to express this. It does not, however, allow me to punch religious people in their faces. Sad, but true.

Fuck Your God: Religious folks aren’t very intelligent, are they?

“If women have to buy abortion coverage as a rider, all men have to buy special erection insurance in case they need medical care for sexual dysfunction. As far as I’m concerned, if a man can’t get it up, it’s God’s will and I can’t in good conscience have my money touch any money that pays for that. Those Viagra ads literally make my stomach lurch. It’s very, very icky.”

– Digby, 2009

http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/

3 out of 4 Republicans Agree- Rape Victims Should STFU

rape, franken, republican, justice
Due to the terrible injustice experienced by female employees of defense contractors, Al Franken suggested an amendment to the 2010 defense bill that would protect the rights of rape victims and help ensure that rapists are punished for their crimes. Guess who thinks that’s a bad idea?

Forever In Hell: 3 out of 4 Republicans Agree- Rape Victims Should STFU

A delicious recipe and some delicious healthful advice as well from Karina’s Kitchen:

2. Love is the best thing there is.
And that means all love, Babycakes. Not just one particular legal sanctioned religion supported super-hetero kind of love. I mean all the rainbow love shades in between from red to blue, from indigo to pink and even purple. So if you’re feeling snagged in a cartoon cut-out of your life for your family’s sake, or your church’s sake, or your Aunt Vilma’s sake, listen up, Doll.
Scrape off the Pilgrim tradition and the pressure to conform and the urge to please, fit in and be nice. Nice is overrated. And tradition is really overrated. As is the enduring myth that perfection is attainable. So shake things up. Be bold.
Love whom you love.

Acorn Squash with Green Chiles- and equal love | Gluten-Free Recipes | Karina’s Kitchen