HELEN:
Margaret, my late husband Harold was a sports fan but he hated the Olympics. He said if your score included style points then it wasn’t a sport, it was a show. He still watched the Olympics though. I guess there was just enough sport in between the show to keep him interested. But when it came to gymnastics and figure skating he turned the channel. He used to say, “If you want to make it a sport put all the skaters or gymnasts on the floor and tell them to do flips. No scores. No judges. Last one standing wins.” I, however, love the Olympics. I think those Brits probably would like a few more medals, but they do put on a good show… even if the Queen couldn’t be bothered to pay attention. Funny how we went from Obama and Romney all the time to suddenly two weeks of Michael Phelps all the time. It’s been a nice break.
But while the Olympics will be over in a week, the Republican war on women rages on. The Affordable Care Act is finally making birth control, paps smears, breast exams and even breast-feeding supplies at least as affordable as Viagra. But Republicans were already putting forth bills to reverse that action. While the rest of us were watching the American women’s gymnastics team win gold, Denny Rehberg, a Republican Congressman from Montana, released a labor, health and education spending bill that would defund Planned Parenthood, block the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and allow any employer to deny women birth control coverage for “moral reasons”. It would also increase spending for abstinence-only education. And then there is Missouri Republican Senator Roy Blunt who has a bill to allow insurance plans to opt out of the requirement on contraception coverage if they have moral objections.
An insurance plan can have moral objections? So corporations can vote and insurance plans can find me morally objectionable. What’s next? Fast food companies can make kids gay? No wait. I’m getting confused. I’m old. It happens.
Yes. Not having sex is an alternative to taking birth control pills. But then again not eating fatty foods is an alternative to open heart surgery. Anyone have a moral objection to insurance companies covering Cheney’s bypass… es… what’s the plural for bypass?
You know what? I have a moral objection. I object to the Republican party deciding that a separation of church and state doesn’t apply to their churches. Last time I checked, my church didn’t have a problem with birth control and wasn’t trying to force anyone to use it or not use it. If Blunt and Rehberg object to birth control they can certainly start abstaining anytime they wish. Something tells me their wives already have. I have yet to see any law passed by Democrats that forces Blunt and Rehberg to eat cottage cheese.
Maybe it’s just me, Margaret, but I smell a rat. In the name of God, love of country and apple pie, the Republican Party’s biggest criticism is that President Obama is making healthcare affordable. They can’t even call it The Affordable Care Act. They have to call it Obamacare. What does Obamacare even mean? Sure sounds like “I hate poor people” to me. But I don’t always hear well at my age. Maybe it just means “I don’t like a black man as President.” Because I can’t for the life of me understand how else you explain their constant whining about taking care of the old and the poor. I thought that doing otherwise was the morally objectionable thing.
Oh well. Back to the Olympics. Maybe the gymnasts from Great Brittain can get that Queen of theirs to crack a smile. She’s beginning to remind me a little of Dick Cheney. I mean it. Really.
MARGARET:
I don’t understand it either, dear. The idea of politics not getting into bed with religion is a pretty simple one. But lately religion and politics aren’t comfortable with anybody getting into bed with anyone. Even Howard and I eventually gave up our twin beds. Now about the Olympics, I am afraid I can’t help you there. Howard and I don’t watch them either.
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By: ksuqbk on February 7, 2013
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I covered this too and I am not sure he is ready to be caelld the front runner this far out. But, he certainly is making a mad dash. The question is can he sustain the pace? All I have to say is remember the Republican and GOP primary seasons in the 2007-08. We had two expected front runners who got sent home and ended up with two unexpected long shots in the general.
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By: Timothy on December 18, 2012
at 11:59 AM
Good one Annoy-nymous. I suggest next time you might wanna contribute with an original thought, you MegaDittoIdiot.
But that might be expecting to much. I suspect you and your ilk couldn’t find your a$$h*le with both hands and a funnel.
PEACE ~ Δ
By: Whirled Peas Δ on August 12, 2012
at 7:46 PM
LMAO!!! that shut everyone up!!
By: Anonymous on August 9, 2012
at 10:48 PM
A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report says that under the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, 30 million non-elderly Americans will remain without health insurance in 2022.
One of the main arguments the Obama administration made for passing the Affordable Care Act was that it would provide coverage for the uninsured.
Currently, accoriding to CBO, there are 53 million uninsured persons in the United States, including uninsured illegal aliens. The CBO estimates that in 2022–8 years after the Affordable Care Act has been fully implemented–30 million people will remain uninsured.
Moreover, under Obamacare, 8 percent of legal U.S. residents will remain without health insurance in 2022, according to CBO.
By: Anonymous on August 9, 2012
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Report Reveals IRS Failing to Detect or Prevent Fraudulent Tax Returns
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=306103
By: uawtradesman on August 9, 2012
at 9:03 AM
“The great irony is that the candidate most likely to raise taxes on the middle class is Mr. Obama.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443792604577574910276629448.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
By: uawtradesman on August 9, 2012
at 8:58 AM
Maybe everyone who dislikes the tax laws should contact Rep Charles Rangel…….Oh wait…..he’s not the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee anymore……????????Oh ya…cheating on taxes……ethics violations……..
By: uawtradesman on August 9, 2012
at 8:23 AM
Here’s all everyone needs to know about Romney’s taxes……..if he did nothing wrong what’s the problem……….complain about the law(the same law used by Nancy Pelosi,Harry Reid, Hillary and Bill Clinton,and George Soros) not about following it………..
By: uawtradesman on August 9, 2012
at 8:13 AM
Here’s all everyone needs to know about Obama’s grades: They were good enough to get him into Columbia and Harvard, and they were good enough to get him elected as President of the Harvard Law Review. It’s fine if you don’t agree with his policies, but why question his obvious intelligence?
For fun, here’s something Romney DID release, his freshman report card. Not very impressive.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/mitt-romneys-high-school-freshman-report-card-released/
By: Terri in NY on August 9, 2012
at 7:21 AM
I just signed up. Way to go Helen! Hear, hear, Margaret! I thoroughly enjoy your blog. Comments, however, see to be more about “heat than light.” Think I’ll skip them in the future. Here’s hoping I have as much gumption in a couple of decades. And smarts. Thanks again!
Roberta
By: Roberta on August 8, 2012
at 9:58 PM
got that Cynthia…no more wee-wee jokes
By: uawtradesman on August 8, 2012
at 9:20 PM
Dear Helen and Margaret Fans:
Somehow we seem to have wandered far afield from Our Ladies’ actual post, and have gotten all tied up in Romney’s tax returns and, frankly, spending a lot of time arguing back and forth with one blogger who is just not going to stop commenting, or change his or her opinion, no matter what anyone else says.
I must suggest that – at some point – engaging in this kind of thing becomes a waste of our valuable spirit and energy – I am totally culpable here, myself – and I have reached that point.
No one enjoys a witty riposte back and forth more than I do – so long as it is intelligent and free of vulgarities and redundant irrelevancies. And there have been many wise and thoughtful comments here. Let’s stick with those, and try to avoid falling down into the outhouse hole with anyone who would like us to join him or here there…
Gato
By: gatodicima on August 8, 2012
at 7:43 PM
Not to change the subject but how about a YEAH for Kim Rhode’s gold medal in woman’s skeet shooting…..how about a YEAH for Jamie Lynn Gray for winning a gold in the women’s 50-meter three-position rifle…..My contributions got to USASHOOTING…..
http://www.usashooting.org/
http://www.usashooting.org/news/2012/7/28/278-rhode-to-history-in-womens-skeet-
http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2012/shooting/story/_/id/8233128/2012-london-olympics-us-jamie-lynn-gray
By: uawtradesman on August 8, 2012
at 7:41 PM
Yeah
With a big”ol hunk of dumb ass
By: Sophia on August 8, 2012
at 7:20 PM
Geez….I don’t know what Obama’s college records will reveal…….Just like to see them…..and have the media look at them…..kinda what everyone else wants with Romney’s taxes…tit-for-tat……I myself would like to see Obama’s tax records from the time he was a community organizer…..BFD thinks that it won’t show anything…OK….. SHOW IT…..SHIT OR GET OFF THE POT…..OOPS Potty mouth again……
By: uawtradesman on August 8, 2012
at 6:44 PM
Anyone who would suggest that others “zip it,” simply because their conversation is displeasing to him is a sadly limited person. And anyhone who refers to the President as “Messiah” or “God” is an immature asswipe. Many people, including myself, believe that Romney’s refusal to allow objective testing of his many claimed qualifications (Bain and the duration and nature of his ties there after 1999, the Olympics) is inexcusable in light of the many inconsistencies in his public statements.
By: Beverly on August 8, 2012
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Thank you Helen for another fabulous post. I have to wonder how any woman could vote Republican when it is the party who doesnt give a flying rat’s behind about them. Must be a patriachal thing.
I put my money where my words are, I $upport this blog. I hope all of you who use it to spew your shpeal, be it left or right or center-ish…put your money behind your words as well.
Missourians Pass ‘Right to Pray’ Amendment, hmm…I wonder if those who pray to the devil have the same rights?
I wonder if this will just be another excuse to skip science, history…classes? Just what we need, more ignorant Americans running the country.
BTW, would be nice to get real religious instructions as in ALL RELIGIONS so above mentioned Americans wouldnt be so afraid of those who do not practice same religion as theirs.
Have a nice day folks!
By: palinshutup on August 8, 2012
at 4:27 PM
Heres the Deal. Romney has released all the tax records he is required to do by law. If you Messiah worshipers want more, then have your God release his optional records. Otherwise zip it.
By: Anonymous on August 8, 2012
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BFD, I think uaw is looking for a listing of grad school classes, anything such as labor economics, that sort of thing which to the minds of some people would prove to be grounds for impeachment. My grad school records would reveal only that I attended a school somewhere, took a certain number of hours, that kind of thing. They would not contain anything such as the honors society I was voted into, etc. Any kind of school records would leave my eyes glazed over. They would be waste of time reading.
By: mageen in old virginny on August 8, 2012
at 2:14 PM
UAW:
What exactly do you expect academic records to show? My undergraduate records were middling to moderately high, just enough to get into a top tier graduate school. But they say nothing about holding down a full time job and commuting 65 RT miles every day to get to class. So they are modest, at best.
My graduate course records are similar to my UG grades but since I was required to take a large number of courses for which I didn’t have undergrad prerequisites, they show the same range of grades. But there were no failures.
Nevertheless, I fail to see how they might be relevant if I were seeking a political office. Also, they were not a barrier to getting my first college teaching position.
My thesis committee in grad school was satisfied enough approve me for my graduate theses but that approval only shows as “Satisfactory” with the only alternative being “Unsatisfactory.
I realize this may be over your head given that you probably spent most of your life as a production line robot, but that’s the way it is sometimes Growing up in America.
By: BFD on August 8, 2012
at 12:45 PM
here’s the deal…what could Obama be hiding in his college records???????no precedent yet but there’s always a first time………just like tax records……..
some people forget about the stink about George W belonging to the Skull and Bones until it was pointed out that Kerry was also a member……..inquiring minds want to know…..
By: uawtradesman on August 8, 2012
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