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clevermanka) wrote2011-02-26 09:03 am
clevermanka) wrote2011-02-26 09:03 am
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Dear Government: Get the fuck off our bodies
The USDA has presented a woefully late-to-the-game revision of their eating guidelines for staying healthy. Those last several they gave us have been real winners! Unsurprisingly, there are a very few gems in their load of crap, but most of it is still a load of crap. Here is an extensive blog post by someone smarter than I am, who pretty much picks the whole thing apart, point by point.
People bitch all the time about government. People don't want the government in their health care. People don't want the goverment in their personal lives. People don't want the government telling them what to say. Why do those same people listen to the government's advice on what to put in their bodies? It makes no sense. None.
And while we're on the topic of government and bodies, everyone's aware of the horrors being proposed all over the place about investigating miscarriages, and putting ridiculous limits on abortion availability, right? It wasn't enough to try to destroy Planned Parenthood. So much for personal freedoms and small government, Republicans.
Admittedly batshit-insane Bobby Franklin proposes a law that would define a miscarriage as "prenatal murder" and put the bereaved mother at risk of the death penalty.
Yeah, you might think "this'll never pass," but people, we thought a lot of things couldn't happen. Like, you know, the reintroduction of public executions.
And a little (lot) closer to home--just a few hundred miles to the north of us here in Lawrence--Nebraska suggests a bill that would allow the "justifiable homicide" plea that Dr. Tiller's murderer was denied.
This shit is happening, people, and it's happening all over. Start fighting. Start writing. Start talking. I know, I know, I want to bury my head in the sand, too. I want that so bad. I can't. We can't.
Get your dander up and get active.
People bitch all the time about government. People don't want the government in their health care. People don't want the goverment in their personal lives. People don't want the government telling them what to say. Why do those same people listen to the government's advice on what to put in their bodies? It makes no sense. None.
And while we're on the topic of government and bodies, everyone's aware of the horrors being proposed all over the place about investigating miscarriages, and putting ridiculous limits on abortion availability, right? It wasn't enough to try to destroy Planned Parenthood. So much for personal freedoms and small government, Republicans.
Admittedly batshit-insane Bobby Franklin proposes a law that would define a miscarriage as "prenatal murder" and put the bereaved mother at risk of the death penalty.
Yeah, you might think "this'll never pass," but people, we thought a lot of things couldn't happen. Like, you know, the reintroduction of public executions.
And a little (lot) closer to home--just a few hundred miles to the north of us here in Lawrence--Nebraska suggests a bill that would allow the "justifiable homicide" plea that Dr. Tiller's murderer was denied.
This shit is happening, people, and it's happening all over. Start fighting. Start writing. Start talking. I know, I know, I want to bury my head in the sand, too. I want that so bad. I can't. We can't.
Get your dander up and get active.
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I read that the whack jobs in the government and their proposed INSANE bills are normal when the whack jobs get control of whatever they have control of now. My wish is that people remember this crap come election time and stop voting the bastards in. But they won't Remember or Vote. They are to busy watching wife swap and eating their processed corn.
I also wish to have a chat with Mr. Franklin about murder and loss.
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I read Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do years and years ago. It made me the woman I am today. =D
Your second paragraph...spot on. I was trying to explain this to
I looked at him and raised my hand. Then explained to him that he'd just exhibited a perfect display of male privilege. It was a really awesome conversation.
I also wish to have a chat with Mr. Franklin about murder and loss.
I bet you do, hon. I would be there for it, you bet.