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RWoW- Republican War on Woman 

- the latest hot political trend (RWoW - patent pending CoD). 

Now I would like to take a certain political party at their word when they say there are not waging a “War on Woman”. Just because some Misogynist (and I do not use that term lightly) Republican state senator¹said in support of a bill to repeal his state’s equal pay law that the reason women make less is because ‘Money is more important for men’. Nor would a comment from some woman hating Georgia Republican state representative² comparing woman to pregnant cows and pigs in support of a bill that that would make it illegal for women who are carrying stillborns to abort the baby. And certainly not the Republican governor³ who championed the repeal of his state’s equal pay law or the staff of a certain Republican presidential candidate⁴ who could not answer a simple question about whether he supports the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the first federal law signed by President Obama, in 2009, which makes it easier for women to sue for pay discrimination.  Nor legislation⁵ so extreme as to declare a woman pregnant two weeks before she conceives.

Now here's the facts..............

I am just another Old White Guy

¹                  State Sen. Glenn Grothman made the remarks following a recent decision to repeal his state’s equal pay law, a move that makes it more difficult for victims of wage discrimination to file lawsuits for lost earnings and back wages. Senator Grothman said that whatever wage gap exists is because women are more focused on raising children. “Take a hypothetical husband and wife who are both lawyers, but the husband is working 50 or 60 hours a week, going all out, making 200 grand a year. The woman takes time off, raises kids, is not go, go, go. Now they're 50 years old. The husband is making 200 grand a year, the woman is making 40 grand a year. It wasn’t discrimination. There was a different sense of urgency in each person. You could argue that money is more important for men,” he said. “I think a guy in their first job, maybe because they expect to be a breadwinner someday, may be a little more money-conscious. To attribute everything to a so-called bias in the workplace is just not true.”. Thank you Senator Caveman.

Yep another old White Guy

²                  Georgia Republican state representative Terry England gave a speech in which he said his experience on farms convinced him that woman should be forced to have their babies after 20 weeks of pregnancy. In debates over Georgia Bill 954 which would ban abortions after 20 weeks even if the baby is not expected to live, England recalled the time he had spent with livestock.

“Life gives us many experiences,” he explained. “I’ve had the experience of delivering calves, dead and alive — delivering pigs, dead and alive. … It breaks our hearts to see those animals not make it.”

England than continued while discussing dog and hog hunting and chicken fighting.  “You know a few years ago, I had a man come to me in our store, it was when we were debating, talking about dog and hog hunting, I believe, and at that point there was some language inserted in there that dealt with chicken fighting. And the young man called me to the side and he said, ‘I want to tell you one thing.’ And y’all, this is salt of the Earth people I’m talking about, someone I would have never in a hundred years expected to tell me what he told me that day.” Mr. Terry, I want to tell you something. You tell those folks down there when they stop killing babies, they can have every chicken I’ve got.”

So the offer from guy who conducts chickens fights to the guy who wants to force women to carry a dead fetus inside of them is that he will give up his chickens. Brings a tear to my eye.

damn 3 for 3 (okay younger)

³                  The Republican governor (Scott Walker of Wisconsin) signed the repeal of a 2009 law allowing the victims of wage discrimination to pursue damages in state court, which is easier than filing a federal complaint. The principal reason for the original law was to narrow a significant gap in compensation between men and women. . (Note to self Gov. Walker also exempted male-dominated sectors of government employees (police, firefighters) from his no-public-bargaining rule, but applied the rule fully to female-dominated sectors (teachers, social workers, etc.).

booyaah Number 4

⁴           Said Gov. Walker was warmly embraced during the Wisconsin presidential primary last month by Mitt Romney, who won that state. “I applaud your governor,” said Mr. Romney, who also called him a “hero” and a “man of courage.”. On Wednesday morning, his staff could not answer a simple question about whether Mr. Romney supports the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the first federal law signed by President Obama, in 2009, which makes it easier for women to sue for pay discrimination. A few hours later, the Romney campaign put out a bland statement saying he supports pay equity and “is not looking to change current law.” Mr. Romney has also said he wants to “get rid of” Planned Parenthood, just as Mr. Walker ended state financing for nine Planned Parenthood clinics in Wisconsin last year.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, in 2011, states enacted 135 new reproductive healthcare laws. Personhood amendments, transvaginal ultrasounds, and attacks on contraception actually mean that the war on American women is ongoing. 

BTW RNS spokesperson Sean Spicer stated that using ‘war’ in the description of an assault on women’s reproductive rights “borders on unpatriotic.”  That’s a good one…..  Feel free to google Republican accusations of Obama and his war on (fill in the blank).

I have raised one very strong daughter that I am very proud of and have assisted in the raising of two step-daughters.  I will in no way stand quiet and allow a bunch of old white guys decide what is appropriate or correct in women’s rights. If you have a dick you have no right to impose your rules on woman. You have no idea.

And to think of all those embryos you care so deeply about that is until they come out and you can start to bitch about them for not paying income tax.

Read what someone who has a little more at stake in this than me wrote-
Soraya Chemaly: 10 Reasons the Rest of the World Thinks the U.S. Is Nuts

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blackberry/p.html?id=1345214

What Pennsylvania had the good sense to do that the rest of you haven't figured out

Would you vote for someone running for president if he said some of the following things? For now let’s call him Mister X. 

Mister X referred to schools as “factories,” and argued that they are a tragic blip on the historical radar. After the Industrial Revolution, Mister X said  “people came off the farms where they did homeschool or had a little neighborhood school, and into these big factories … called public schools.” He added: “The idea that the federal government should be running schools, frankly much less that the state government should be running schools, is anachronistic.”

Mister X said “We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth, to use it wisely and steward it wisely, but for our benefit not for the Earth’s benefit,”  Mister X then went on to call climate change “an absolute travesty of scientific research that was motivated by those who, in my opinion, saw this as an opportunity to create a panic and a crisis for government to be able to step in and even more greatly control your life.”

 Mister X continued on the subject of global warming “When you have a worldview that elevates the Earth above man and says that we can’t take those resources because we’re going to harm the Earth; by things that frankly are just not scientifically proven, for example, the politicization of the whole global warming debate — this is all an attempt to, you know, to centralize power and to give more power to the government,”

Mister X said regarding birth control "It's not okay, because it's a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be," "They're supposed to be within marriage, for purposes that are, yes, conjugal... but also procreative."

In his book It Takes a Family, Mr. X called "mass education" an "aberration," writing, "It's amazing that so many kids turn out to be fairly normal, considering the weird socialization they get in public schools."

Mister X said “There are no Palestinians, All the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis.  There are no Palestinians.  This is Israeli land,".

Mister X said "President Obama wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob ... Oh, I understand why he wants you to go to college. He wants to remake you in his image.”

Mister X on the Crusades "The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical. And that is what the perception is by the American Left who hates Christendom. ... What I'm talking about is onward American soldiers. What we're talking about are core American values."

Mister X on same sex marriage  "Is anyone saying same-sex couples can't love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?" "What about three men?" "If you think it's OK for two, you have to differentiate for me why you're not OK with three. Any two people, or any three, or four."  "That's not to pick on homosexuality," Mister X said in another interview. "It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be," he said.

Mister X said “Mutually consenting adults do not have a constitutional right to privacy with respect to sexual acts.”

Mister X said that this year’s election was like the time between 1940 and 1941 when Americans didn’t act against Adolf Hitler because they thought he was “a nice guy” and not “near as bad as what we think.” “It’s going to be harder for this generation to figure this out. There’s no cataclysmic event,” he explained, but similar urgency. “Is anybody reminding us who we are, what made us great, and what these assaults are all about?”

I am sure you have figured out by now that Mr. X is none other than Rick Santorum. Maybe you hadn’t seen all of the above quotes.

 Now I get that Republicans are frustrated and I get the lack of love for Mitt Romney.  With all his money and the extensive political machine that has been in place for years he can’t shake Rick loose. I get that Republicans love Jesus more than Democrats. And no one loves Jesus more than Rick. Heck I love Jesus too (see my previous blog) but I haven’t lost my mind.  The good people of Pennsylvania had the sense to vote Santorum out of office.  In the November 7, 2006 Senate election, Santorum lost by over 700,000 votes, the largest margin of defeat for an incumbent senator since 1980. Come on people, draft Jeb or Christy or dig up the Gipper you can’t seriously elect someone who believes that God will replenish the earth after we ruin it or government shouldn’t be running schools or that birth control is wrong.  Do we need to have the good people of Pennsylvania to slap some sense into us?