I'll listen to this shortly, but I missed the Arkansong.org feature about Tav Falco on KUAR, so waiting for it on KUAF's Ozarks at Large.

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The new Virginia Republican majority Senate joins the outrage parade.

Virginia is now for Lovers . . . of guns!
Evidently the VA Senate knows that the episodes at VA Tech were just an aberration or can be controlled by having more pistol packers around to shoot down the crazies???
http://www.newser.com/story/138907/lock-n-…

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"Do you wear your bullet proof vest everyday OR at least HAVE ONE?
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Speaking of outrage. The Wall Street Journal reached new heights of assholery in their editorial "Race for the smear". Apparently the old boys at the WSJ can't imagine that us proles would rise up spontaneously in protest of anything--- especially us women proles. It has to be orchestrated from above since we aren't likely to think for ourselves in their minds. Lots of Godwining in the comment section as well as a couple of invocations of Alinsky. They really are scared of us. These folks really do think "The Handmaid's Tale" is a fine blueprint for the future. Now I have to go find brain bleach after clicking on the RupertRag opinion page. Here's a handwringing paragraph from their screed.

"Planned Parenthood is not about to let anyone escape without exacting retribution. With the help of allies in politics, the media and other advocacy groups, this week it undertook a vicious campaign against Komen that explicitly urged corporate donors to cut off the charity if it didn't relent. Individual Komen board members have been publicly attacked, as if trying to stay neutral in abortion politics is a crime against women."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%…

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Outlier, that's no less dishonest and condescending as any of the statements from Komen, either.

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Mrs. BEF, Chris Hayes covered the Stearn's investigation last October by interviewing Charmaine Yoest of American's United for Life. She hedges and doesn't answer when Hayes asks her if her organization is working with Stearns.

http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_new…

The WSJ and others are already promoting the meme that PP supporters are a bunch of Birkenstock-wearing, hairy-arm-pitted DFH's. I really think the final battle in the culture war will be in November 2012.

The victory/non-victory yesterday had SGK parsing words but not really ceding anything. In spite of that, the right perceives that they have been severely wounded. A wounded animal is a dangerous animal. The next 9 months are going to get really ugly---as if things aren't ugly enough already.

We have to stay on the attack and not imagine that they will ever play nice with us.

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Yoest also accuses PP of performing more and more abortions, specifically in Indiana. She completely ignores the fact that through assassination and other forms of terror, they have driven private abortion providers out of business. For many women, PP is the only choice.

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And just in case you are under the illusion that SGK is an apolitical organization, Bush press secretary Ari Fleisher was involved, for a fee, in the interview process to hire a Senior Vice President for Communications and External Relations. I don't think Norma has posted this link.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/02/…

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Norma has NOT posted that link, Outlier -- and thank you for it.

Norma has links galore. If each link were a little gold bead she could make a lovely Pandora bracelet from them worth around $8,000. Instead, Planned Parenthood gets my gold.

In case anybody retains any doubts about Susan G. Komen for the Cure -- I'm talking any doubts that they're a right-wing religiously biased anti-choice, anti-abortion, anti-women organization out to crush funding for any competition, spend a fortune legally fighting anybody else using the phrase "for the Cure," and lie through their teeth (about their Mission, their religious bigotry and their ongoing attack on Planned Parenthood and women generally -- stem-cell breast cancer research anybody?) -- here's a link that's not so lovely.

Just more ugly truths.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/fal…

There is sorrow in Komenland as heads of affiliates across the fruited plains are nonplussed and hurt that women in their communities no longer look at them the same way.

I've talked with a few -- those who feel as betrayed as the vast majority of Americans who have blindly supported SGK and the Race until four days ago.

I haven't talked with the ones who're peachy keen on SKG's anti-abortion, anti-choice, anti-stem-cell-research, anti-women religious stance. (That would include no conversation with the presumably lovely Sherrie McBryde of the Arkansas affiliate, who's so far stood up for national, though what else can she do at this juncture, really?)

"People ask me how I feel about it and I don't know what to say," confides one SGK ED in my neck of the woods. "It's suddenly all political. If I say I'm appalled at what they've done, I alienate one huge section of donors. If I say I applaud them reversing their decision, same thing. If I say I'm against abortions and stem-cell research, which I'm not, of course, then I offend the whole OTHER huge group of donors. If I say nothing, I alienate EVERYBODY."

The appalling actions of SGK have, virtually overnight, created massive rifts between friends, donors, staff, businesses -- average people and leaders in communities around the country -- rifts where there were none -- by politicizing breast cancer and women's freedom of health choices, including abortions.

"I don't see how I can, Norma. I need the job and I LOVED the job, until this. But I can't go around town pretending I agree with Nancy Brinker and Karen Handel. And trying to raise money under false pretenses. I feel like a thief."

There, my Razorbabies, goes a gal with Heart. Not to mention Conscience, Ethics, Integrity and Self-respect.

I'm pretty sure what she's going to do.

But if ALL SGK affiliate EDs act on those same admirable traits so they can, you know, live with themselves, then SGK will be entirely staffed and run by, you know, people like Nancy Brinker and Karen Handel.

Couldn't be happier.

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Speaking of religious battles on other fronts, isn't it reassuring to know that Israel won't pull out of the next Middle East war until Hizbollah is annihilated.

I dunno. Christians, Mormons, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Scientologists . . . .

I'm NOT feeling the love, God.

You kind of remind me of all those advanced civilizations from other galaxies who can't bother to just land their UFOs at Harvard or the White House and be done with it. Instant world unification and peace.

I know you're almighty and everything, but why do you always pick sexually-dysfunctional greedy porked-out hicks with führer-complexes, minimal educations and chips on their shoulders the size of Gibraltar to tell us so when I've let you know till I'm blue in the face that I'm available, work cheap and couldn't care less about signing with Trifecta?

Why?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/…

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Meet Karen Handel.

http://jezebel.com/5881642/meet-the-komen-…

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Norma, the comments at the jezebel link are telling. One woman who is in third stage kidney failure was told by her own mother that insurance shouldn't have to pay for organ transplants. Mom also told her that medical insurance is a privilege, not a right.

In other news, I stopped at the local Walmart just now to pick up a couple of things and there was a hastily thrown together table with a pink cover, one of those large water bottles and an unofficial label saying "Race for the Cure". I am sure pulpits will be in high dudgeon tomorrow.

Here is a very brave, heroic woman with her message to SGK.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZwpSwm_4as…

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Hope everybody watches (or at least listens to) that video, Outlier.

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