Ranting

Rantings:

http://jezebel.com/5934975/paul-ryan-sponsored-a-bill-that-would-allow-rapists-to-stop-their-victims-from-aborting

Really Paul Ryan?  You need to go dig a hole, climb in it and never come back out.

Ugh.  Paul Ryan decided to sponsor a bill that would allow rapists to sue their victims if the victim decided to get an abortion.  Moron.  If anyone supports this, they deserve a swift kick in the head.  First they rape the person then they can sue them?! Really Paul Ryan?!  And we wonder why rapes are under reported.  UGH.  Of course, only if the rape is legitimate should this matter anyway, right?  UGH.  These ignorant republicans make me angry.  Ignorant people make me angry and disappointed in my country.

In Walmart the other day and we walked by the weights.  It irritates me every time I walk by something like this.  The one, two, and three pound weights, of course, have to be brightly colored.  One pound HAS to be either pink or purple, otherwise, women probably wouldn't be able to lift it.  One it would probably be too heavy and, two, it just isn't stylish enough to pick up.  I do not like the color pink, however, I fully believe colors are for EVERYONE.  Anyone can like any color that they want.  Girls aren't limited to pink and purple and guys are limited to blue and black.  The "heavy" weights are usually always black.  Make them all bright colors or make them all black, don't turn this into gender specific.  Ugh.

Another pet peeve: Children toys.  We walk down what we call the "pink aisle" when we go into stores.  This is my nephew, we told him to pick something he wanted out.  He picked up a doll.  OMG!!!! We can't have that!!!! A doll is for girls and pink or purple?! OMG he must be homosexual!  Ugh.  Ignorant people irritate me (yes, again).  The dolls only came in pink and purple, designating them for girls in this society.  Well, not any more.  My nieces and nephew are learning they don't have to live in ignorance like our society allows.  Make dolls of every color, place them in the toy aisles without a "pink aisle."  Boys can wear pink, girls can wear blue.  End of story.  Stop teaching them that they have to fit within specific gender roles.  What if they don't fit within those gender roles?  What then?  Then we have taught them that they are wrong, even though they can't help it.  We have alienated them to believe the person who they are is wrong.  I will NOT support this, and you shouldn't either.

*Kristen

SIGN THIS PETITION!!!

Click on this link and sign the petition.  
https://www.change.org/petitions/mobile-county-alabama-prosecutor-bring-travis-hawkins-jr-to-justice

Here's the information from the petition site:

Mallory was an invited guest Thanksgiving Day to her gf fam dinner & brother, Travis Hawkins Jr, has been arrested, charged, and released on bail for ONLY 2nd degree assault! Mallory had experienced a brain bleed, reconstructive facial surgeries, (metal plates due to crushed cheek bones), and skull fractures! This at best was an attempted murder! Mallory deserves justice for the horrific attack & by the Grace of God her long road to recover! It is reported that the accused attackers family stood by, did not intervene, and have threatened the victim family!

Article:
http://www.queerty.com/alabama-woman-savagely-beaten-by-girlfriends-brother-over-thanksgiving-20121126/
Queerty is also where this image comes from:

How can someone do this to someone else?  Her life is completely changed now because Travis Hawkins Jr. decided he was better than her.  This is a hate crime and the family allowed it to happen.  Everyone present who did nothing to help her need to be charged.  By doing nothing, people allow this behavior to continue.  DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.  Sign the petition, write to the government, stand up for someone else, etc.  He needs to be charged with attempted murder.

People who think this is okay because she is a lesbian: DECENT human beings would NEVER believe this type of behavior is okay, this hate is not okay.  Also, if you say you are religious and think this is okay because she is a lesbian: you need to re-evaluate yourself and your morals because this is most definitely not even close to a religious act because this is hate.  Our justice system needs to prove that it can find justice system for people.  Letting him go will say our government and the people are willing to allow people to judge others and to physically attack and assault others.  She is equal to everyone else, regardless of sexual orientation.  Equality.

EVERYONE IS EQUAL, so why can he beat her and almost kill her and not be charged with attempted murder?

Misleading maps?

http://www.upworthy.com/we-have-been-mislead-by-an-erroneous-map-of-the-world-for-500-years?c=bl3

Interesting video and point.  We do tend to equate size with equality and things really aren't portrayed accurately according to size via the Mercator map we use today.  Possibly the Peters map could be of use?  Also, the end made me laugh, turn someone's world upside down when you turn a map upside down, even though a sphere doesn't really have a top and bottom.... :)

Back to equality: we associate northern and southern hemispheres and West and East with Good or bad or superior and inferior.  It shouldn't be that way, but people do it. If everyone works to set it straight that we are all humans living on the same earth, all equal we can work to change that mentality.  Again, I leave with this quote: "There is only one race: the human race."

*Kristen

PS. Hope everyone had an awesome Thanksgiving or for those who don't celebrate it, hope you had a happy weekend.

Obamacare

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/21/john-boehner-obamacare_n_2170722.html

After reading this article, I was even more unhappy with Tea Party Republicans than before.  If Congress continues to try to get rid of this even after WE the people agreed it would benefit the majority they are not working for us.  They deserve to be overthrown and kicked out on their butts.  They are wasting our money with their efforts and they don't care.  If they did they would have realized after the passing of Obamacare and the failed repeal that it is dumb to continue to try.  But no, they keep trying, knowing it is wasting our money.  KICK THEM OUT.  That's the only way to improve our government and get things passed the people want passed.  A contemporary republican is synonymous with selfish and greed, among other things.

Also, republicans who are still complaining about the outcome of the election = SORE LOSERS.  GET OVER IT.  Obama is President.  He was the best choice.  He's president for the next four years.  Stop whining.  If you're threatening to move out of the country, then do it.  Republicans are all talk, no action.  That's the problem.  Romney was all talk, no action, so are the rest of the sheep that follow him and the other Republicans.  Obama = action (for the people).  So if you say you hate Obama as president and want to move.  DO IT.  DO IT NOW.  We'd be better off without you.  Patriotism = supporting the president and the election process.  Sure, we may not always like the outcome, but once it happens there are ways to still get your voice heard.  Send your congressmen messages about things - they are the representatives for the people.  They'll get your message to the president.  If you call the election process fraudulent, then you need to have evidence supporting your claim.  If you don't you're just a sore loser and you must not be very patriotic. 

Kristen

Equality for Women

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP4e4vGP6oc

Ellen talks about trying to order 1 and 2 pound weights and how they come in only two colors: pink and purple.  As well as pink and purple pens "Her" pens, because, as Ellen points out: we could only write with our tears or lipstick.  You know, because we always have those on hand.  There is also a car made just for women and it comes in two colors: pink and eyeliner brown.  It has a climate control system to improve skin quality and windshield to prevent wrinkles.  Floral kiss computer for women which comes in feminine pink or elegant white and has a latch opening for women with long fingernails, pre-installed with scrap booking app and daily horoscope checker.  Wow.  Really?!  Do people want to move forward with equality or backwards?  I am a woman and I don't scrapbook.  I am a woman and I don't check my horoscope.  I am a woman and I don't like the color pink.  Ugh.

Women need to boycott these products.  Uniting under a boycott of these products will let these companies know women want to be treated equally and we don't need pens just for women to write or a pink car to drive.  Want to know the color of my truck?  Black.

"I checked my horoscope and it said: Today, your progress as a woman will be set back 92 years."

*Kristen

Rape camps?

In a FOX news interview with Megyn Kelly, radio host Michael Graham stated this about Obama:

“He ran on the Republicans are Satan incarnate and if women vote for them, they’re going to be forced into rape camps, and when that’s your campaign, you can’t be surprised when the people you ran against don’t want to work with you and you don’t have an issue to rally people around.”

Wow.  Really?  I'm fairly certain I never heard Obama once say anything about rape camps....though, since the Tea Party Republicans seem to not like independent women they may like the idea of rape camps.  Ugh.  This is getting even more ridiculous.

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/fox_news_guest_pushes_obama_rape_camp_conspiracy_20121109/

Another ridiculous thought for people: Use a word other than the "N" word, seriously?  Tracy Watson, learn how to use spell check and stop spreading hate.  Also, people who use welfare or receive "handouts" from the government aren't necessarily lazy.  Walk a mile in someone else's shoes, learn to have a little empathy for others and try to understand another person's situation.  Just because someone needs a little extra help to get by doesn't mean they are lazy or bad people.  It is people like Tracy Watson and the other racists/people who believe they are superior to others that we have people starving in our country.  It is because of hateful people that we have so many murders that occur in our country.  The Tea Party Republicans can be compared to the KKK. 

http://www.classwarfareexists.com/its-official-i-hate-this-n-gger-loving-muslim-country-just-saying/#axzz2Bu0htsvc

Hate is the problem.

http://www.kwch.com/news/wpix-map-shows-distribution-of-racist-tweets-after-obamas-reelection-20121109,0,6492014.story

This is a link that shows a map showing locations of racist tweets after Obama was elected, Mississippi and Alabama have the most with Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, North Dakota, Utah, and Missouri.  All I have to say is REALLY?!  We are still facing ignorant people who say things like this??????   Ugh, get some compassion and education people!  This article talks about a woman from California (Denise Helms, 22) who is under investigation by the Secret Service from her post: "Another 4 years of this (N-word), maybe he will get assassinated this term."  Then her response to this to a news crew: "The assassination part is kind of harsh. I'm not saying like I would go do that or anything like that, by any means, but if it was to happen, I don't think I'd care one bit."  People like this are the problem.  People who have so much hate in their hearts that murder or cruelty is the answer.  Wake up people!!!!  This hate hurts everyone, tears apart nations.  Our country has to be better than this, have we learned nothing from our history?  Have we learned nothing from others' histories?  We had a civil war here (though not alone, other countries have had civil wars) where we fought each other, brothers killed brothers...or did we learn nothing from WWII and the Holocaust?  People make mistakes, yes, but we are in 2012, we can't change history, but we can LEARN from those mistakes.  Yes, Barack Obama is black.  Is this really the most important characteristic about him people can bring up?  Ugh. 

"There is only one race: the human race."

*Kristen