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TheUptightMidwesterner
10/09/09

In reply to Michele Bachmann Calls MSNBC Anchors "Stalkers"
This woman thinks SHE is being stalked? I swear, she could make Jesus put out a restraining order against her.
I want to stalk her across the face with a copy of the Constitution.
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Trulymadlyme
10/08/09

In reply to Michele Bachmann Calls MSNBC Anchors "Stalkers"
This is going to somewhat controversial but the whole use of "stalker" when it's clearly not the case?

See that big bad man. He keeps asking me questions! He won't stop!

There is this severely fucked up undercurrent of playing the helpless female, damsel in distress, that her comments definitely implicate. And it pisses me off when women are truly dealing with stalkers, abuse, rape, and other horrific crimes that are the result of the inherent sexism in society. She wants to be the bully without getting the push back.
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curiousgeorgiana
10/08/09

@Trulymadlyme: Yes. Thank you. There are real stalkers out there and true victims. This is insulting.
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redqueenmeg
10/08/09

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Ooo, is this part of the "I'm so pretty the left can't leave me alone" schtick?
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curiousgeorgiana
10/08/09

In reply to Michele Bachmann Calls MSNBC Anchors "Stalkers"
Anyone notice that Palin and Bachmann have the same hand motions? Double finger pointing-- is there a school that teaches that?

On the idiotic stalker remark-- like way too many people on this website, I've been stalked. I had a gun held to my head while my ex opened his trunk and showed me the handcuffs, plastic garbage bags, and syringes full of tranquilizers. Without the distraction of a passing car, my ever present can of mace, and some pure luck, I have no doubts that I would be dead right now. And that that death would have been horrific.

Keith's got it right--terror is the only word to describe it. Michelle needs to get a clue or just stop talking altogether.
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lisas
10/08/09

@curiousgeorgiana: I read that politicians are trained to speak with two hands as much as possible. One-handed gesturing looks dishonest apparently. I have no backup for either of these assertions.
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curiousgeorgiana
10/08/09

@lisas: Interesting! I'd like to see a study on that. In general, the fewer motions the better for me, but I do like Obama's one handed finger jab. It works for him.
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maude_flanders
10/08/09

In reply to Michele Bachmann Calls MSNBC Anchors "Stalkers"
She is such a fucking stupid piece of shit. She's Congressional Speidi, and she's in good company (Sarah Palin, Jon Kyl....people who are either brilliant in their courting of controversy and their base, delusional assholes, or both).

I hope she and Jon Kyl and anyone else who obliviously and glibly brushes off real victims (I haven't forgotten Al Franken's amendment recently...good for him, and I hope the MSM is covering the bill and the "nays") of the system's shortcomings--be it women in the healthcare system, or stalking victims--is REAMED and punished.

Fat chance.
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WashingMyHair
10/09/09

@maude_flanders: Congressional Speidi will now forever be burned into my mind.
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Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini
10/08/09

In reply to Michele Bachmann Calls MSNBC Anchors "Stalkers"
Yeah I've had two full-on, dangerous, restraining order-inducing stalkers in my life and it's terrifying. Go Team Keith!
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morninggloria
10/08/09

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She sort of reminds me of the leader of Heaven's Gate. You know, that guy with the crazy eyes who convinced all of those people to put on sweat suits and Nikes and eat poison pudding and then die on bunk beds.
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rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
10/08/09

@morninggloria: To be fair, thinking that Hale Bopp was masking the arrival of an intergalactic spaceship that was going to whisk you away is like .2 percent less crazy than some of these people.

Minus the mass suicide, there's little funny about that.
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cynicalbeatle
10/08/09

In reply to Michele Bachmann Calls MSNBC Anchors "Stalkers"
God, what I wouldn't give for a reanimated Paul Wellstone right about now. *sigh*
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
10/08/09

@cynicalbeatle: Is anyone looking into the cryonics thing?
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Brian Fowler
10/08/09

In reply to Michele Bachmann Calls MSNBC Anchors "Stalkers"
Knocking on wood here that she talking crazy batshit right until her election, and gets voted out in place of an 'inanimate carbon rod'.
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suddenvalley
10/08/09

@Brian Fowler: Here's hoping!
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whats_in_a_name
10/08/09

@Brian Fowler: No way, inanimate carbon rod doesn't stand a chance against buckminsterfullerene
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willwriteforfood
09/30/09

In reply to Anti-Abortion Amendment To Health Care Bill Defeated
Why don't Republican congressmembers just come out and say it: They don't care about women (Do I need Kanye here to back me up?). They don't care if we have 1 child or 20, because they'll find a way to weasel out of helping us care for them anyway. They don't care if we die in back alleys. They don't care if the babies have birth defects (which we wouldn't know about if we don't have the health insurance to pay for pre-natal care), just as long as we don't abort those babies. They don't care about women except the ones they married or raised.

Fucking fuckers. Mitch McConnell and John Kyl can kiss my ass.
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DutchessOfDork
09/30/09

@willwriteforfood: They want live babies so they can have dead soldiers.
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amusezvous
09/30/09

In reply to Anti-Abortion Amendment To Health Care Bill Defeated
OK, I've got a serious nerd-crush on Senator Stabenow. This and her putting the smack down on Senator Kyl about maternity care?! She's my hero. Can we please have more women in Congress (and men for that matter) who will stand up for women's issues? I mean, there are more women than men in this country (about 4.5 million more, if you believe the Census Bureau), it's about time that legislation start reflecting that fact. I'm getting all fired up over here!
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TheGuvnah
09/30/09

@amusezvous: might i direct you to EMILY's List or the Women's Campaign Fund?

www.emilyslist.org
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JillJitsu
09/30/09

In reply to Anti-Abortion Amendment To Health Care Bill Defeated
You will note that people who want to restrict this funding are not willing to restrict funding to programs that allow access to erectile dysfunction medication... And Olympia Snowe (R, Maine) voted against her party so she deserves a shout-out.
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serreca
09/30/09

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So not only do we have Orrin Hatch not wanting insurance to cover abortion services, but we've got John Kyl saying insurance shouldn't have to cover prenatal/maternity services? Does not compute. These people are idiots. And Debbie Stabenow is now on my "Awesome List".
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sybann
09/30/09

In reply to Anti-Abortion Amendment To Health Care Bill Defeated
Orrin Hatch is a douchebag.
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envirodesigner
09/30/09

@sybann: i think we should make a word like Santorum, for Mr. Hatch, who's with me on this one?
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amusezvous
09/30/09

@envirodesigner: Definitely. The phrase should be something like, "Orrin your Hatch." As in, "This dude came over last night and tried to Orrin my Hatch," meaning when the guy pretends he's going for your vadge but sticks it in your ass instead. I'm open to other suggestions.
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envirodesigner
09/30/09

@amusezvous: good but i should reflect more of the whole hypocrisy of the thing. Sure he wants to go in my hatch but won't do anything afterwards. But, i dunno I'm still brainstorming it.
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whats_in_a_name
10/01/09

@amusezvous: Just to add some extra hypocrisy i would change the situation a little. He pretends that he is going for your vadge but sticks it in your boyfriend's ass instead, then leaves brochures about the evilness of homosexual activity on your night stands when he leaves.
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Flackette Goes Retro
09/30/09

In reply to Anti-Abortion Amendment To Health Care Bill Defeated
I called Mitch McConnell (my senator) today and told his phone-answering person that as a former intern in that very office, a former Republican and a lifelong Kentuckian, I did not want to see women's health options restricted. I called at the urging of the message I received after donating to Planned Parenthood today. I wanted them to know there are pro-choice people in Kentucky, because I know the anti-choicers are vocal. And I hope someone stops to think about the fact that a 30 year old woman who spent her very early 20s working in conservative politics (before the party went all Bush and Cheney on me) is concerned enough about women's healthcare to call up her recalcitrant GOP Senator and give his office an earful about healthcare reform.
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serreca
09/30/09

@Flackette Goes Retro: Very cool! I always *want* to call up my representatives, but I never know what I'd actually say. I tend to get tongue-tied when frustrated.
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TheGuvnah
09/30/09

@serreca: it's very easy and i encourage you to do it. A staffer will answer and you simply say where you live and what you want your rep to do (support repro health in health reform/ vote against the Hatch amendment, whatever, be as specific or nonspecific as you want) and they will say thank you and hang up. easy peasy!
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Triana Orpheus
09/30/09

@serreca: I've actually campaigned at my state's capital. When you get there and you're speaking with them, the anger and the passion that you have for your cause makes you so eloquent. It's like an out of body experience.
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