I believe the most offensive comment I have heard regarding Hurricane Dorian was uttered by our own City of Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg. He was being interviewed after Dorian had made his way up the coast. He said that he was... and as he paused I filled in "relieved" but I was wrong. He said he felt "blessed" that the worst of the storm had passed us by. BLESSED.
BLESSED.
Each day, as I watch the devastation that befell the people of the Bahamas, the word echoes in my mind. What hubris! That God would choose to give us a break after wreaking havoc on the people of the Bahamas.
I wonder that we wouldn't rather give credit to science for the path and effects of the storm.
Holy City, my ass.
And for the record, Mayor Tecklenburg, with that comment, for once beats out Donald Trump for tastelessness and insensitivity. Congrats, Mayor.
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Monday, September 9, 2019
Friday, March 2, 2012
Contraception and Jobs
The republican plan to protect "our" freedom is moving along quite nicely. Wonder that dems don't get it.
Once the Supremes determined that corporations are people, it became obvious whose freedoms the right wingnuts were fighting for. Obviously. Churches are people. Not the church members, just the churches. Hospitals are people. Not, of course, the nurses, doctors and patients therein, just the hospitals.
So we want to protect their individual freedoms: the freedom to pay low wages, the freedom to cut an employee's benefits, the freedom to charge anyone any amount for anything, the freedom to cut government services so that they might have the biggest share of the consumer-and-profit pie possible, the freedom to not have to pay taxes.
These, of course, are the job creators. Much as their God, they should be all powerful. Because the republican right wing, i.e. the republican party, are all about jobs. Just ask them. Which is why they are determined to outlaw contraception.
Now, a lot of people are confused about this. How does preventing women from using contraception help with creating jobs. Simple.
When you (or your wife, daughter, sister, mother) no longer have access to birth control, you are more likely to get pregnant. Of course, since birth control is now illegal, abortion would also be banned, that leaves women (and girls) with a couple of options: enforced pregnancy and childbirth, and illegal abortion with risk of death.
This is where the jobs part comes in. Not only will there be thousands of job openings when women have to drop out of the workforce, there will also be openings resulting from women dying from illegal abortions.
And that is just the way God and the Republican Party have planned it.
Once the Supremes determined that corporations are people, it became obvious whose freedoms the right wingnuts were fighting for. Obviously. Churches are people. Not the church members, just the churches. Hospitals are people. Not, of course, the nurses, doctors and patients therein, just the hospitals.
So we want to protect their individual freedoms: the freedom to pay low wages, the freedom to cut an employee's benefits, the freedom to charge anyone any amount for anything, the freedom to cut government services so that they might have the biggest share of the consumer-and-profit pie possible, the freedom to not have to pay taxes.
These, of course, are the job creators. Much as their God, they should be all powerful. Because the republican right wing, i.e. the republican party, are all about jobs. Just ask them. Which is why they are determined to outlaw contraception.
Now, a lot of people are confused about this. How does preventing women from using contraception help with creating jobs. Simple.
When you (or your wife, daughter, sister, mother) no longer have access to birth control, you are more likely to get pregnant. Of course, since birth control is now illegal, abortion would also be banned, that leaves women (and girls) with a couple of options: enforced pregnancy and childbirth, and illegal abortion with risk of death.
This is where the jobs part comes in. Not only will there be thousands of job openings when women have to drop out of the workforce, there will also be openings resulting from women dying from illegal abortions.
And that is just the way God and the Republican Party have planned it.
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