Seems I’ve drawn yet another troll who’s taken issue with my comments about the Bush Administration’s dismal record on women’s civil rights.  So here it is, yet more dirty laundry that seems to be the lot of women in this country (I’m not even going to bother with the travesty perpetuated by this Administration that passes for advocacy of women’s rights in Afghanistan and Africa): 

·         Ashcroft and the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department are demanding abortion records – why are women’s medical records not protected?  Do we not merit privacy?  What about OUR civil rights?

·         Unborn fetus rights sought – at the expense of women who bear them?  At what point will women cease to have more rights than the fetus within her?  At what point in this society are we only breeding vessels instead of humans?

·         Gag Rule cuts funding to healthcare for women and children – any healthcare provider which even mentions abortion will be cut off from funding, including those who provide services to the indigent.  Conservative? in the short-run, yes.  Compassionate?  my eye.

·         Bush: Discrimination Against Women Not As Serious As Racial, Ethnic Discrimination – so discrimination against a majority of citizens is no big thing, right?

·         Bush’s 2002 budget proposed cutting expenditures on maternal and child health care programs – yeah, this will get that deficit back in shape, won’t it?  Those unhealthy. unwanted pregnancies will certainly be a LOT cheaper to care for over the next eighteen plus years…

·         Bush supports ban on servicewomen getting abortions while serving abroad, even if they pay with personal funds – but I’ll bet other services like male sterilization are just fine with him, at taxpayers’ expense.

·         Emergency contraception in limbo – don’t rape victims deserve not to be victimized again?  Or is it okay when it's the federal government that's the victimizer?

·         Bush has tried to close several of the women's empowerment and advocacy offices within government, such as the regional offices of the Women's Bureau in the Department of Labor – I can’t even think of anything more to say, it speaks for itself.

·         Bush closed White House Office for Women's Initiatives and Outreach and ended the Labor Department's "Equal Pay Matters" initiative – ditto.

·         Only 26% of the vacant positions in government were filled with female appointees by Bush – and yeah, ditto again.  Women count for squat with this pretender to leadership.

There, troll-boy, hope that’s enough details to satisfy you for starters (although knowing your kind, there will never be enough justification for anyone to have the same rights you have). 

I didn’t include this laundry list citation of civil rights diminishment in my post yesterday simply because the average American citizen should already know this: the rights of more than 50% of its population are under siege.

I guess that make you less than average, troll-boy; you’re certainly less than 50%.

Oh yeah, as for your slam about women running for office: we’re all over it, babe.  We certainly aren’t sitting around counting on presidential appointments to federal positions.

We’re working on it, we’re getting it covered.  Just watch your backside.  Or whatever you have in the way of cojones, troll-boy.

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Yeah, it’s been a bit slow on the Frog Walk front – but it’s still cooking, simmering slowly on the back burner.  Looks like it’s almost ready to serve, too.

We now have a very good chance of seeing Karl “Wunderkind” Rove do the Frog Walk.

So who are the six others that Wunderkind named?  Any guesses?

Perhaps I should rephrase that, since six people would take out most of the Veep’s highest staff members.

Is Cheney going to be able to skate, or is he in the stew, too?

I can hardly wait to find out!

6:20:19 PM    comment []

The war’s not over.  In fact, if you’re a member of the U.S. Armed Forces serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, it may not end for one helluva long time.

Note this little blurb from Atrios:

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A Plastic Turkee in Every Pot

From NBC News tonight:

Halliburton has a multi-billion dollar contract to feed and house the troops in Iraq. But there are problems. A food subcontractor that runs 10 percent of the dining facilities in Iraq claims it hasn't been paid by Halliburton for months, and is threatening to stop serving hot meals.

The company, Event Source, serves 100,000 meals a day in Iraq under a contract with a Halliburton subsidiary. Event Source claims Halliburton owes it $87 million, including payment for President Bush's Thanksgiving dinner with the troops.

"When you get stuck out there for $87 million dollars," explains Event Source Chief Executive Officer Phil Morrell, "it's a question of economics."

In an interview with NBC News, Morrell says he's already laid off employees in the United States and soon will have to feed sandwiches to the troops, instead of hot meals, because his company is running low on money.

Last month, Halliburton was accused of overcharging the government for feeding troops and agreed to forego further payments until the issue is resolved.

Morrell says he believes Halliburton and its other food service contractors did overcharge, billing the government not for meals actually served, but for meals a facility could have served.

I didn't think Lisa Myers could get through an entire report without mentioning Clinton.

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After my stepson came back from Iraq and confirmed the troops only got three bottles of water a day during summer heat, I was pretty f*cking p*ssed off.

But this really takes the cake, it's the lowest of lows. This Administration is a mockery of democracy, a sham of patriotism, a pus bucket of putrescence pretending leadership.

Thank the stars this is an election year so that we can do something about this. Just hope the troops don't go hungry or thirsty before then.

If you want to help out the troops directly and bypass the g*dd*mned scumsuckers at Halliburton: http://www.anysoldier.us/

I’d be grateful to you for the assistance; I know that any family member of a service person would be grateful to you.  Imagine these folks, serving their country while enduring hardships, getting stiffed by their government every time they turn around – and imagine how they would feel getting a package from you, a letter from you.

It could help them keep the faith, help them stick it out until the war really ends.

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