Pink is a color that DOES run

Pink is a color that DOES run

I’m sick of people who believe that life begins at conception and ends at pregnancy.

I’m tired of groups going after a woman’s right to choose and then blame the backlash on “politics.”

I’m tired of the backwards talk of the right.

I’m tired of The Komen Foundation blowing pink smoke while undermining women’s health.

Last April the Komen Foundation hired virulently anti-choice republican Karen Handel as Senior Vice President for Public Policy. Karen Handel has gone so far as to promise to eliminate funding for breast and cervical cancer screenings provided by the organization.

http://jezebel.com/5881057/susan-g-komen-foundation-bows-to-pro%20life-bullying-stops-contributing-to-planned-parenthood

And now, with Komen eliminating funding to Planned Parenthood, she has a chance to make good on that promise.

But the craven, money grubbing, hypocrisy doesn’t stop there.

A major sponsor of The Komen Foundation is Georgia-Pacific, a subsidiary of famously anti-regulation Koch Industries and major manufacturer of epoxy resins that contain BPA.

Numerous studies have shown that in human cell cultures, BPA has caused breast cancer cells to proliferate and has also reduced the effectiveness of chemotherapy.

And The Komen Foundation has made numerous statements denying the BPA-breast cancer connection.

And BPA makers, like Georgia-Pacific, use the statements made by The Komen Foundation to justify the continued production and sale of BPA containing plastics in consumer goods, in particular consumer goods used by women.

http://motherjones.com/environment/2011/09/breast-cancer-komen-bpa

So while they splash their nauseating pepto color across every product from shotgun shells to mp3 players they’ve handily hijacked all the woman-power they can and funneled it neatly into consumerism, while at the same time running interference for the kinds of pollutants that will make sure the cancer game has no end.

What does Komen give women?

A run for their money.

Occupy Democracy

I’m just sick of politics.

How did I ever campaign for a guy who would appoint a Monsanto Lobbyist to oversee Food Safety?

Meanwhile we have the GOP parade of fools: the screeching fundamentalists, the philandering, hypocritical blowhard, the heartless ken-doll who specializes in stripping communities of their jobs, the second idiot from Texas, the blithering lemur with the gay husband, and the take-your-money bus tour from Alaska. There are more, of course, but that’s discouraging enough.

I listen, amazed, while my countrymen spew barely veiled racism, and falsehoods so wrong they would be laughable, except that they are now deeply held beliefs by a group seemingly taken over by a mass hysteria.

And I listen to the news reports saying that the only choice away from this is to endorse a man and a party that has already betrayed my faith.

You know who I’m supporting this year? The Occupy Movement.

Let go of the “parties” and all of their balloons of hot lies and their clowns.

Stand up against corporate rip offs and false promises.

Give your loyalty to each other. Withdraw from the political theatre of the absurd.

Democrat vs Republican.

It’s a false choice.

Choose yourself, your family, your community.

Occupy the Election… with your own commitment to yourself.

Uncharitable

I have something horrible to say.

There’s a charity that involves being nice to dying children and I hate it.

It horrifies me and it saddens me. Not my own reaction. The charity itself horrifies me and saddens me.

A friend of mine approached me, knowing that I am charitably minded, knowing that I spend a portion of my yearly income on charities, specifically to help women and children, and she asked me if I would help out.

I’m lucky that her initial request came in the form of an email so she couldn’t see my face.

The charity raises tens of thousands of dollars every year to send dying kids to corporate theme parks.

I could not have thought of anything more cynical if I tried.

Tens of thousands of dollars for airlines, theme parks and marketing; all driven by the image of dying children.

Bald children.

Skinny children.

Big eyed, bald, skinny children, almost all of them Caucasian toddlers.

I read through the plea, felt a little confused and then did some online research.

It turns out that you don’t have to be actually dying, much less a toddler. The one she wanted help with was to send a young man of sixteen to a specialty camp that any kid would have loved to go to.

And he wasn’t dying. He wasn’t even sick. He just happened to be under the age of 18 and had previously been diagnosed with an illness that could have been fatal, even if it wasn’t.

And those are the rules.

And corporate donations to this charity get the same tax breaks as to charities that support research to cure disease, or offer the struggling parents of the actually dying help with bills, or a place to stay near hospitals.

But this charity just sends kids to corporate theme parks on regular air planes.

I’m lying, they also do something else.

I got another email asking if I would join her for a day of helping terminally ill children go shopping.

Because kids can’t think of anything they’d rather do to celebrate the season of peace than to go shopping.

Our kids can’t think of anything else.

Even when they are dying.

That’s our legacy to them.

They want to shop.

It makes me ill.

I'm baaaaack!

Just a quick note to my fans.

After a five year hiatus I have returned and I'm ready to dish.

Buckle up.

Sophia

The Head of the Beast?

I'm still trying to get my head around the fact that George Jr is our 9 trillion dollar man. Did you like the little 300 dollar tax rebate you got from him 3 years ago? Well, it got biblical on you. It went forth and multiplied. Sort of.



According to thedenverchannel.com "The increase to $9 trillion represents about $30,000 for every man, woman and child in the United States."

"Is this the first time?" you ask.

Answer: "It's the fourth such move - increasing the debt limit by a total of $3 trillion - since Bush took office five years ago."

Ah, I guess not.

This from the man who promised fiscal conservatism. Georgie has presided over the 3 highest deficits in our history. Is this a math problem? Surely this drink addled idiot doesn't really understand the damage that he's done. Maybe he's just fallen in with bad company, with gun slinging oil industry servants posing as vice presidents, with Arab business connections that get free rides out in the middle of terror attacks and saucy business deals opening up our valuable ports.

Yes, this whole thing has reached mythological proportions. Just what did the heroes do in mythology when confronted with such a destructive beast?

Cut off their head.

But, we know that in this case, targeting the president would be cutting off the wrong end.

Our country is being led by the ass-end of the beast.

Dick Lamm and the anti immigration phone spam

Here's an email I just got from a friend, thought I'd just share it with "all" of you!

Hi,

Are you a Colorado voter? Did you recently get phone spammed by former
Colorado governor Richard D. Lamm?

Perhaps you remember Dick's 2003 speech warning about the fatal dangers of
multiculturalism? "History shows that no nation can survive the tension,
conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures."

The text of it is here:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/lamm.asp

Well, what I don't like about phone spamming is that generally you get no way
to respond back. Well, maybe there's a way if you listen to the whole thing,
but I personally disagree strongly with Mr. Lamm's position and don't want to
spend time listening to a recording of it.

But I did want to call him back and tell him so.

It's only fair. After all, he did call me first. And I'm on the Colorado No
Call list.

It took a while, but I found some contact information for him on the internet.


If Dick has called you, perhaps you'll take the time to call him back. Issues
like immigration are important enough to dialog about and dialog requires that
you have a chance to respond.

Here's the contact information.

Richard D. Lamm
Center for Public Policy and Contemporary Issues
2199 South University Blvd.
Denver, CO 80208
303.871.3400

Fax 303.871.3066

I encourage you to share this information with anyone you think may be
interested. A dialog on the issues can only happen when we speak back.

Emergency contraception

A pharmacist refusing to fill a prescription for emergency contraception is like a vegetarian waiter refusing to take an order for steak. If it's against your personal values, then get another job.

Meat eaters don't show up for a burger at a vegetarian restaurant. Yet they reasonably expect to find beef at a burger joint. Ordinary citizens reasonably expect a pharmacy to be the place where they can fill the prescription given to them by their medical doctor.

Anti-choice activists should ply their trade openly and politically and not hide behind the white medical coat of a pharmacist. And pharmacies should fire the infiltrators that take positions intended for legitimate pharmacists.

Faulty Intelligence

Did you vote for the democrat in the last election? I did. I even supported his campaign. But I've discovered that my decision was based on "faulty intelligence." Happens to the best of us.

In fact, the fellow who's senate campaign I supported has something to say about "faulty intelligence." Ken Salazar's website blames a whole lot of things on "faulty intelligence."

Specifically he thinks that the U.S. invasion of Iraq was based on "faulty intelligence." The administration says that the attacks on September 11, 2001 were possible because of "faulty intelligence" and this same group of actors claims to not have known that the levees would break in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

But the missteps of the current administration haven't been the result of faulty intelligence. They aren't even the result of a lack of intelligence, although a good case can be made. The mistakes and tragedies of the current administration are based on the fact that they have a different agenda than the rest of us.

Let's take the biggie: the attacks of 9/11/01. Faulty intelligence? Nope. The towers had been targeted repeatedly, the administration knew it. Planes flying into buildings? The administration knew it. An excuse to militarized everything in sight? Priceless.

What about Katrina? Have you seen the latest video? Well, I guess that all of that smoke and mirrors about being "uninformed" falls into the same big box of horse pucky as the faulty intelligence about the 2001 terror attack. The president stayed on vacation, Condi Rice went shoe shopping and then out to the theatre. New Orleans drowned. The worst U.S. disaster in history should give ordinary citizens the opportunity to spot the problem, but it is being used to justify militarization of domestic resources.

Let's be clear. Democracy is not a military state. The closer we move toward militarization of domestic civilian life, the farther we move from our democratic values.

Most of us recognize that the Patriot Act and the administration's militarization designs are a part of moving us away from our democratic values...but not our Democratic senator, Ken Salazar. He supported the president's plans to invade our privacy and jeopardize our freedoms. Oh yes, he stood against it until they produced a legal fig leaf to cover up the gross assault on our constitution. But once he could dance to the music of obfuscation he jumped up to jig.

What we need is a democratic candidate that actually supports democracy.

I guess my previous support of him was based on faulty intelligence.