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I'm sick and tired of the world and celebrities top my list

sugarbritches26 — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:08:33 -0600

Great post. I've often wondered about my middle son. We've seen a doc and they say no he is not autistic, just a bit in his own world. I was a fan of Mr. Leary before reading this. I enjoyed his characters in the Ice Age movies, but there is no excuse for that kind of cruelness regarding children. I'm sure he meant to be funny and keep up his asshole persona but please give it a break. I would much rather hear what bloggers have to say than self centered celebs trying to make waves.

I was shocked when he did

devbloom — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:36:49 -0600

I was shocked when he did that in the debate but I guess it all caught up with him Obama recieved the majority of the woman vote!

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Hmmm...

Gwynneth — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:27:32 -0500

Crunchy Carpets:

Guess I misread your post! I don't do well with subtlety, nor especially with the kind of backward criticism that say, Stephen Colbert uses. If I didn't know he'd started out on The Daily Show, I might really believe he was a Republican, like the crowd did who invited him to that banquet as a speaker to *cough!* honor Bush!

I'm too freaking literal, I guess. Sorry!

Ok whoa..I AM canadian and so is the poster....

Crunchy Carpets — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:16:59 -0500

That was the reference....

and being that some of the conservatives around her have been slamming me for my 'soc i al ist' views and 'lefty' views...I was making a joke.

Because someone making air quotes about women's health IS disgusting and Samantha Bee rocks.

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I loved that video

PunditMom — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:32:37 -0500

It sums it all up so nicely, doesn't it?

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Hilarious!

Gwynneth — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:41:11 -0500

First off, GREAT POST! FOMCL (fell off my chair, laughing)!

I saw that Daily Show, and Samantha Bee, as always, is as irreverent and right on target as a junior Hunter S. Thompson! Stewart's remarks, of course, were hilarious...and well-deserved. SHAME ON MCCAIN! I guess we know where he ALSO stands on women's health! No surprise, but still, sickening!

To the poster who wrote:

"Ahh..but you are Canadian and isn't Sam Bee
too?

our wacky pro women's rights and strange leftist notions are just out of touch with what the American public want!!"

Your reference to Canadians: What's the point there? As for "leftist notions", I'm SO sick of the word "leftist" being bandied around (like "socialist" is now...maybe because "leftist IS more common?)...for every belief/stance/political platform that Right-wingers and Evangelists don't like!

Since when do anti-choice fanatics get to declare that THEY represent America?! Well, since we have Free Speech, they can declare it all they want...but that doesn't make it so. And saying women LIKE having abortions! McCain's dumber than I thought...and meaner.

Thanks for the good belly laugh--I needed it!

P.S.: To all you fellow closet "Socialists" out there: my advice is not to watch any more of the McCain/Palin circus. It's bad for your blood pressure and makes it easier to keep your food down! :P

This man..

Bonafide Liberal — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:10:01 -0500

...disgusts me to the nth level. He is a fail. How in the hell could you do that, sit there and refer to woman as being worthy enough for some "air quotage" as you will? I mean COME ON. I suppose Cindy didn't have anything to say either. Wonder if he considered her past health issues worthy enough for some air quotes as well?

Perfectly said, ~Susan

lilmommythatcould — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:09:16 -0500

Perfectly said,

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This isn't an issue of being pro-choice or pro-life

Her Bad Mother — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:37:49 -0500

... it's an issue of being respectful of women. As the stories you'll find through some of the links I provided tragically demonstrate, abortion is not a straightforward issue - and women's health is very often a complicating factor. To trivialize the physical or mental health of women who might need or choose abortion is profoundly disrespectful, and not fitting behaviour for any moral person, Christian or otherwise

In defense....

Gracegirl — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:21:42 -0500

Was it appropriate to be so cavalier? No. But let me say, for many people, being pro-choice is a matter of faith. We believe that (according to the books of Psalms and Isaiah) God knows us before we are in the womb. And there are Biblical references concerning the punishment for those who murder or unintentionally kill a woman during her pregnancy. For us, as believers, to accept the idea of abortion would be to blatantly defy the Word of God. It has nothing to do with us hating life or thinking that the mother is less important than the child and everything to do with us trusting in God's purposes. I imagine this will incite some nasty gestures, but it's the simple truth. Nonbelievers often go on about how hypocritical Christians are and then when we try to live and act according to the Word we are chastised all the more. Which is it?

Love the title!

RenaissanceTrophyWife — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:31:18 -0500

Nevertheless, it still scares me that there are people who can be so cavalier about life and death.

If you're pro-life, since when did the mother's life not become important?

And for a few facts on the bad things that can happen (not "bad things", mind you)...

http://renaissancetrophywife.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/health-of-the-moth...

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I just spit my coffee...

ByJane — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:11:24 -0500

...and Laughed Out Loud aLot! First at your title, which sums up Samantha's piece...and then at Sam herself. Oh wow...would we be laughing if Obama didn't seem--please God--about to win?????

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Divided...

Atena — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:58:12 -0500

When I saw him do that during the debate, it hit me like a brick how divided we are in our values - that he would actually think this was a good idea, that such a statement/gesture would be considered appropriate in any way (esp. with the whole nation watching) - that's what gives me the chills. Knowing that somewhere, someone is saying "Finally! I'm so glad he addressed this phony "women's health" masquerade!" As if abortions are some kind of black market luxury item and women routinely steal and make up lies to get them and show them off to their friends.

It makes me sad. And angry.

And I finally saw the Samantha Bee response last night - laughed so loud at "dick fingers" that my 3 year old daughter kept asking me what I was laughing about from the next room. I was so pleased I almost told her.

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Shoot... I did something

crousehaus — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:50:45 -0500

Shoot... I did something weird to my attempt at a post, so I'll try again....

I am a pro-life deomcrat. I would never vote for John McCain and his air quotes at the statment of the health of a mother disgust me. I am against abortion, except in cases of the health of the mother -- no air quotes.

Ahh..but you are Canadian and isn't Sam Bee too?

Crunchy Carpets — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:33:26 -0500

our wacky pro women's rights and strange leftist notions are just out of touch with what the American public want!!

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