thanks to oldturtle13 for this link.  i had a good chuckle over the bit about the kid wanting the yogurt but not eating what was fixed for dinner. as i was reading that my thought was-why not give the kids the yogurt? he's not old enough to understand and at this stage you want them to eat!  this led me to some mental rumblings about parenting and the like ( Read more... )

we were out of town this weekend. i didn't hear the news until we got home and i turned on the computer.

i'm appalled.

thebcman's first comment (intended to get a rise out of me)  "does that mean we can start shooting them too?"  don't fucking tempt me!!!

of course i go to Feministing.com to see what they have to say.  reading in the comments of this ( Read more... )

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/01/breastfeeding_r

The first time a male hand touched my breast, I was 14. The breasts themselves were considerably newer, arriving in the sudden rush of puberty that turned me from a short, skinny 13-year-old to the round-hipped, DD-cup young woman I was that day. I hadn’t really thought my breasts had ( Read more... )

watched the inauguration on tv in the office. had a good chuckle when the judge presiding over the oath screwed up and obama hesitated until it was recited correctly HA! (i think it was one of the shrub's appointees ( Read more... )

i can sleep easy now. there is someone to lead the country that gives me hope. hope that things will improve. hope that the country will move in a better direction. hope for fairness. hope for justice ( Read more... )

gods, the weekend went by way to fast and seemed waaaaay tooo short ( Read more... )

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this video will be preaching to the choir for most of my friend's list. hopefully it will help enlighten those who think he is competent.

thank you adammaker for the link. i've been laughing my ass off! even tho i only focused on mcbush/palin, there were some damn funny clinton ones....


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Protect women's reproductive health. That means protect access to birth control pills, IUDs, Plan B and abortions, what ever form works best for the individual woman. A woman's right to current, accurate health information and care trumps a doctor's or pharmacists right to force their religious beliefs on the woman patient. If a pharmacist does not ( Read more... )

mentally ill and guns-
it seems there is a rash of this happening, or at least making the news. first Virginia Tech and Cho who was taken in for evaluation for being suicidal and deemed a danger to himself yet he never got help.

sunday, in KC another individual who had a mental illness tried to go on a shooting rampage-fortunately, only 2 ( Read more... )