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A Little Clarity re: The Monsanto Protection Act – Section 733

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bent priestess 3There’s been an enormous amount written re: the Monsanto Protection act and there were actually very long threads about it on this page. I, like quite a few people, did not know that the Monsanto Protection Act was only going to be in effect for 6 months. Ultimately what came out was that if Obama hadn’t signed the budget, HR 933, containing Section 733, the government would have shut down. This is all true.

But let’s be real clear here about what the bill says. Again keep in mind the bill applies only for the next 6 months…..From Collective Evolution….. “The Monsanto Protection Act allows Monsanto to override United States federal courts on the issue of planting experimental genetically engineered crops all across the U.S. The government has no power what so ever to stop Monsanto and other biotechnology corporations from planting and harvesting. After Obama signed H.R. 933, the provision was final, there can be no litigation against these corporations at all. Corrupt food corporations are now allowed to plant and sell their genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically engineered (GE) seeds…”

From HuffPo “Without any hearings on the matter, the Senate included language that would require the U.S. Department of Agriculture to essentially ignore any court ruling that would otherwise halt the planting of new genetically-engineered crops.”……

As per Business Times with whom I happen to agree……“It sets a terrible precedent,” noted the International Business Times. “Though it will only remain in effect for six months until the government finds another way to fund its operations, the message it sends is that corporations can get around consumer safety protections if they get Congress on their side. Furthermore, it sets a precedent that suggests that court challenges are a privilege, not a right.”

I am told, by both liberals and conservatives, that I am a fool and of very little brain for paying any attention to what is essentially a “non-existent act.” The Monsanto Protection Act is a throwaway, without impact, snuck into HR 933 to satisfy Republicans. In other words I am supposed to believe that Section 733 and its contents are going to disappear in six months. I don’t, anymore then I believed a pre-emptive war against Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, would stop terrorism. I also don’t believe that more regulation will make fracking safe, nuclear power is clean, the XL Pipe Line will create lots and lots of jobs, and that Jesus, whose Gnostic teachings I happen to enjoy quite a bit, died for my sins.

The Monsanto Protection Act will simply morph into another bill, another law. Why do I think this? Because in 2010, Obama appointed Michael Taylor, Monsanto’s Vice President and chief lobbyist, senior advisor to the commissioner of the FDA. Michael Taylor was in charge of FDA policy when GMO’s were allowed into the US food supply without one single test to determine their safety. Michael Taylor still has his job.

We fight on.

Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Kat Manaan MAWT

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hr933enr/pdf/BILLS-113hr933enr.pdf

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/21/1195868/-H-R-933-Sequestering-the-Sequester-What-s-the-Point

http://government.brevardtimes.com/2013/03/monsanto-protection-act-voting-record.html

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/27/farmers_and_food_safety_advocates_lead_monsanto_backlash_partner/#.UVOGc7yZMZs.reddit

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/27/farmers_and_food_safety_advocates_lead_monsanto_backlash_partner/#.UVOGc7yZMZs.reddit

http://www.ibtimes.com/monsanto-protection-act-shines-light-gmo-controversy-america-1159717

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/what_you_need_to_know_about_the_terrifying_monsanto_protection_act_20130328/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Truthdig+Truthdig%3A+Drilling+Beneath+the+Headlines

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/mpa.asp

http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/52314-obama-appoints-monsantos-vp-as-senior-advisor-to-the-commissioner-fda

In response to the recent spate of criticism I have received from women….

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Let me be very clear…

I do not believe a woman who stays home to take care of her child is less of a feminist then a woman who chooses a corporate job. I think the whole mommy war thing (I’m a better feminist than you) is really stupid, as stupid as the pubic hair argument, and takes away from the real issue(s) namely equal pay for equal work, affordable health and child care, the utter lack of jobs, the rising rates of poverty and homelessness, the re-emergence of debtors prison’s, and the fact that over half of our elected officials represent corporate profit (greed) rather then the needs of humanity.

I support reproductive freedom for women and have no patience with women who don’t. I would have patience for anti-choice women if all their energy went into prevention, namely safe, effective, and easy access to birth control, rather then enforced pregnancy. I am not politically correct. I am not here to get along with everybody. I find bigotry in any form abhorrent and will speak out and publish posts against racism, homophobia, misoygyny, rape, bullying, the wanton destruction of the environment, NDAA, the horrid treatment of whistleblowers, war, etc. I do not believe for one minute that cuts to social security and medicare are warranted, think chained CPI’s are evil, and the grand bargain is a crock of shit.

I am a lefty feminist and my last boyfriend was a firefighter, a 9/11 first responder. I get on very well with men; I do not get on with patriarchal assholes at all and that includes women. I have intensely close female friends, my 3 closest friends I’ve known for over 30 years. I live hand to mouth but life is rich. I will never vote for a woman because she’s a woman and I will never refrain from criticizing someone’s politics because she’s a woman. I would vote for a Bernie Sanders over a Cathy McMorris Rodgers any day because I am a thinking woman and research people’s voting records, and please don’t write me and say, “well he’s from Vermont and she’s from Washington, so it’s not like they’ll ever run against each other,” because clearly you’ve missed the point.

Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools, Kat Manaan MAWT

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i felt your heart next to mine
today on henry street
smelled you on me when i woke up
warm from my nap
you were looking at me you weren’t
even there i felt your heart
next to mine on henry street
distinctly yours i stayed soft
next to the questioning dark
of you.

Where Were You On 9/11 Rush Limbaugh?

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I am not a woman prone to vitriol, acerbic commentary yes, vitriol no, but this lastest from Rush has me frothing at the mouth which is why I wrote the following.

Here’s the link to the video that got me so upset:

Hey Pig Man, I didn’t see you running up the stairs of the towers on 9/11. I was there but I sure didn’t see you. Then again I seriously doubt you would understand the mindset of human beings who don’t think twice about sacrificing their lives for others and don’t think of themselves as heroes. That’s right Pig Man, they don’t think of themselves as heroes or expect to be treated like heroes, they step up to the plate, do their job, and if they live go on to the next job. And you know what else Pig Man? Fire fighters don’t care what the sex, politics, or color of the person is that they are rescuing and they certainly don’t go into the work for the fame or the money. The job is about public safety; the job is about people helping other people, the job is a living expression of humanity. It was my honor to work with first responders for over a year. I would love to see my tax dollars go to fire fighters and their health care; I would love my see my tax dollars go to cops and schoolteachers. Instead my tax dollars subsidize the oil companies to the tune of $10-$52 billion a year. My tax dollars go to the $700 billion used to bail out the banks during the financial crisis; it was their mistake, their profits are at an all time high and we’re still paying for it. And then of course there are the wars, which according to the research project “Costs of War,” at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies, will run at least $3.7 – $4 trillion and that’s just the money. We’re not even talking about the human cost, like the human cost on 9/11. As for the cop, the firefighter, and the schoolteacher not contributing to economic growth, these are the people keeping the economy going. These are the people going to the grocery store, ordering in Chinese, going out to the movies, going to home depot for paint. These are the people you are making out to be this year’s welfare queens living on the largesse of union demands when the real welfare queens breaking the economic back of the country are the multi-billion dollar corporations laying off workers in record numbers, holding onto record amounts of cash, and using tax payer subsidies to buy back their own stock rather than create jobs. You are a tool of the right Pig Man, meant to divide the middle class and set the people against the people. What’s ironic is should your home catch fire, a firefighter would ignore what you’d said and rescue you.

Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools, Kat

Woman Against Women – Kristina Daley Roegner The ALEC – Pro-Life Connection

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Kristina Roegner, (R-Ohio) a married mother of three, Tea Party candidate and first year state representative was seated on the Hudson City Council when the Republicans discovered and decided to field her as a candidate in the 2010 mid-term elections against democrat Mike Moran. Since her election the soft-spoken Ms. Roegner, who has co-sponsored and been instrumental in the passage of three anti-abortion measures, sponsored HB 298, a measure that would de-fund Planned Parenthood, with Ohio Right to Life and Families First backed Cliff Rosenberger. The Senate counterpart of the bill was sponsored by Kris Jordan. Jordan, who was under investigation for fourth degree misdemeanor domestic violence until his wife dropped the charges, is the only legislator in Ohio to vote against the Jessica Logan Act, the bill designed to protect children from bullying and named after the young girl who took her own life. With some slick machinations that reek of Charmaine Yoest and AUL, HB 298 was snuck into the state budget to avoid public scrutiny and the word “defund” became “re-prioritize,” the bill passed, and Planned Parenthood is now at the bottom of the barrel for receiving federal monies for health care for low-income and poor women. If I were to hazard a guess where Ohio was planning on steering some of those federal monies I would say to Pregnancy Centers. Pregnancy Centers are the pro-life movement’s Planned Parenthood, with scripture and without the choice, and are currently pushing free sonograms.

Ms. Roegner’s voting record reads like a template for ALEC’s agenda. She is pro-fracking and opposed an amendment to add an extra layer of environmental protection to Lake Erie. She supported bills for re-districting, limiting collective bargaining, school vouchers, and opting out of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. She is a proud signer of the Tax Payer’s Protection Pledge and has an A rating from the NRA for supporting the bill to authorize a concealed and carry licensee to possess a firearm in a liquor permit premise, providing said licensee is not drinking, and to openly carry a handgun in a car, rather than say in the glove compartment.

In case you’ve been living under a rock the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) promotes a wide range of profit geared “model legislation” of the corporation, by the corporation, and for the corporation. ALEC’s agenda includes, but is not limited to, gutting the rights and protections of workers (limited collective bargaining) privatizing and weakening the public school system, (school vouchers), eroding regulations and environmental laws (opposing environmental protection for Lake Erie) providing business cuts and corporate welfare (the Tax Payers Protection Pledge) undoing health care reform (opting out of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) and permitting greater corporate influence in elections (redistricting).

In order to draft and promote their “model legislation” ALEC operates Task forces that bring together Republican legislators and representatives from corporations. Kristina Roegner is an ALEC Education Task Force Member. Cliff Rosenberger is an ALEC Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force Member. Kris Jordan is an ALEC Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Member. In the past ten years ALEC has spent $9.3 million on the state; thirty-three bills were introduced in Ohio between January and October, 2011 that were identical to or contained elements of ALEC “model legislation proposals.” Nine of those bills, which contained thirty-three pieces of ALEC legislation, were signed into law. When Charmaine Yoest’s AUL, the legal wing of the pro-life movement, received the coveted Weyrich Award for “Grassroots Organization of the Year” she noted in her acceptance speech that eighty-eight anti-abortion measures introduced in thirty-two states were based on AUL’s “model language.” This is ALEC speak. Paul Weyrich, now dead, God rest his soul and keep it away from ours, founded ALEC in the 1970’s to oppose abortion, ERA, and to support school prayer. One of the men instrumental in ALEC’s early years was John Kasich, the Governor of Ohio, who just signed into law the bill Kristina Roegner sponsored, eviscerating Planned Parenthood and seriously jeopardizing the health care of 100,000 women, men, and children. It’s like playing six degrees of crazy conservatives and I’m barely touching the surface of a web of connections that go on and on and on.

Kimberly Yee, the subject of my last post, is an ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member. Cynthia Lumis (R–Wy), who a colleague of mine recently wrote about, is an ALEC member. Debbie Lesko (R-Ar), who said that women should be made to watch their abortion, is an ALEC state chairman. Jan Brewer was the featured speaker at the ALEC annual State & National Policy Summit in Phoenix. Rick Perry is an ALEC member. Fifty of the ninety legislators in Arizona are ALEC members, eight-two Texas legislators are ALEC members, thirty-six Ohio legislators are ALEC members, and the list goes on. It’s pretty damn clear that the more ALEC legislators there are in any given state legislature, or the House, the more legislation there is against abortion and women. The fact of the matter is the women I’ve been writing about, the so-called softer gentler face of the pro-live movement, are an integral part and intrinsic to the success of a conservative agenda that reaches far beyond women’s rights and the freedom to choose. They are part of a movement that would turn the country into a kind of feudal system run for profit by patriarchy and their God, and that is not only a crime against the tribe of women it is a crime against humanity. The backlash has started but the damage has been done and it is going to take time, pit-bull persistence, and a refusal to be easily mollified by shiny objects to undo.

Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Katherine Manaan MAWT

(1st posted addicinginfo.org 4/22/12)

Woman Against Women – Kristina Daley Roegner The ALEC – Pro-Life Connection

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Kristina Roegner, (R-Ohio) a married mother of three, Tea Party candidate and first year state representative was seated on the Hudson City Council when the Republicans discovered and decided to field her as a candidate in the 2010 mid-term elections against democrat Mike Moran. Since her election the soft-spoken Ms. Roegner, who has co-sponsored and been instrumental in the passage of three anti-abortion measures, sponsored HB 298, a measure that would de-fund Planned Parenthood, with Ohio Right to Life and Families First backed Cliff Rosenberger. The Senate counterpart of the bill was sponsored by Kris Jordan. Jordan, who was under investigation for fourth degree misdemeanor domestic violence until his wife dropped the charges, is the only legislator in Ohio to vote against the Jessica Logan Act, the bill designed to protect children from bullying and named after the young girl who took her own life. With some slick machinations that reek of Charmaine Yoest and AUL, HB 298 was snuck into the state budget to avoid public scrutiny and the word “defund” became “re-prioritize,” the bill passed, and Planned Parenthood is now at the bottom of the barrel for receiving federal monies for health care for low-income and poor women. If I were to hazard a guess where Ohio was planning on steering some of those federal monies I would say to Pregnancy Centers. Pregnancy Centers are the pro-life movement’s Planned Parenthood, with scripture and without the choice, and are currently pushing free sonograms.

Ms. Roegner’s voting record reads like a template for ALEC’s agenda. She is pro-fracking and opposed an amendment to add an extra layer of environmental protection to Lake Erie. She supported bills for re-districting, limiting collective bargaining, school vouchers, and opting out of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. She is a proud signer of the Tax Payer’s Protection Pledge and has an A rating from the NRA for supporting the bill to authorize a concealed and carry licensee to possess a firearm in a liquor permit premise, providing said licensee is not drinking, and to openly carry a handgun in a car, rather than say in the glove compartment.

In case you’ve been living under a rock the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) promotes a wide range of profit geared “model legislation” of the corporation, by the corporation, and for the corporation. ALEC’s agenda includes, but is not limited to, gutting the rights and protections of workers (limited collective bargaining) privatizing and weakening the public school system, (school vouchers), eroding regulations and environmental laws (opposing environmental protection for Lake Erie) providing business cuts and corporate welfare (the Tax Payers Protection Pledge) undoing health care reform (opting out of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) and permitting greater corporate influence in elections (redistricting).

In order to draft and promote their “model legislation” ALEC operates Task forces that bring together Republican legislators and representatives from corporations. Kristina Roegner is an ALEC Education Task Force Member. Cliff Rosenberger is an ALEC Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force Member. Kris Jordan is an ALEC Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Member. In the past ten years ALEC has spent $9.3 million on the state; thirty-three bills were introduced in Ohio between January and October, 2011 that were identical to or contained elements of ALEC “model legislation proposals.” Nine of those bills, which contained thirty-three pieces of ALEC legislation, were signed into law. When Charmaine Yoest’s AUL, the legal wing of the pro-life movement, received the coveted Weyrich Award for “Grassroots Organization of the Year” she noted in her acceptance speech that eighty-eight anti-abortion measures introduced in thirty-two states were based on AUL’s “model language.” This is ALEC speak. Paul Weyrich, now dead, God rest his soul and keep it away from ours, founded ALEC in the 1970’s to oppose abortion, ERA, and to support school prayer. One of the men instrumental in ALEC’s early years was John Kasich, the Governor of Ohio, who just signed into law the bill Kristina Roegner sponsored, eviscerating Planned Parenthood and seriously jeopardizing the health care of 100,000 women, men, and children. It’s like playing six degrees of crazy conservatives and I’m barely touching the surface of a web of connections that go on and on and on.

Kimberly Yee, the subject of my last post, is an ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member. Cynthia Lumis (R–Wy), who a colleague of mine recently wrote about, is an ALEC member. Debbie Lesko (R-Ar), who said that women should be made to watch their abortion, is an ALEC state chairman. Jan Brewer was the featured speaker at the ALEC annual State & National Policy Summit in Phoenix. Rick Perry is an ALEC member. Fifty of the ninety legislators in Arizona are ALEC members, eight-two Texas legislators are ALEC members, thirty-six Ohio legislators are ALEC members, and the list goes on. It’s pretty damn clear that the more ALEC legislators there are in any given state legislature, or the House, the more legislation there is against abortion and women. The fact of the matter is the women I’ve been writing about, the so-called softer gentler face of the pro-live movement, are an integral part and intrinsic to the success of a conservative agenda that reaches far beyond women’s rights and the freedom to choose. They are part of a movement that would turn the country into a kind of feudal system run for profit by patriarchy and their God, and that is not only a crime against the tribe of women it is a crime against humanity. The backlash has started but the damage has been done and it is going to take time, pit-bull persistence, and a refusal to be easily mollified by shiny objects to undo.

Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Katherine Manaan MAWT

(1st posted addicinginfo.org 4/22/12)

Woman Against Women – Charmaine Yoest

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The nationwide juggernaut of anti-abortion legislation we witnessed in 2011, and are witnessing daily in 2012, is clearly part of a perfectly coordinated and precisely executed strategy to chip away at abortion rights at the state level. It’s quite brilliant actually, why take on abortion at the federal level where a win is not guaranteed when with the right language in the right states, a win is guaranteed. This is the thinking of Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of Americans United for Life. “You don’t have to overturn Roe to actually make progress at state level,” she said. The point is to make Roe “crumble under its own weight and become irrelevant.”

This is why all the legislation you’re seeing is geared towards making abortion, a heart wrenching and remarkably hard choice to begin with, as horrifically difficult and humiliating as possible.

AUL, the legal wing of the pro-life movement and Charmaine Yoest, its President and CEO for the past three years, are players behind the bills for pre-abortion ultra-sounds, trans-vaginal ultrasounds, forced viewing of an ultra-sound, abortion waiting periods, parental notification, required viewing of state established anti-choice websites, re-defining gestation time, the question of fetal pain, abortion causes breast cancer lies, required pro-life counseling, and clinic regulations so restrictive that clinics have to close their doors. The effectiveness of the bills is due in large part to the language, what is called “model language” and that language is spelled out in AUL’s annual report, Defending Life: Proven Strategies for a Pro-Life American. Once the bill is written, and AUL will provide lawyers to help, it’s just a matter of getting it into the hands of a pro-life elected official, in a state friendly to anti-abortion measures, to move it through the legislature. Defending Life just happens to rate the states friendliest, and not so friendly, to anti-abortion legislature.

AUL under Charmaine Yoest put together the report, The Case for Investigating Planned Parenthood, which reads a lot like my divorce papers wherein my ex-husband described my daily Buddhist chanting as “strange rites and rituals involving loud noises and loathsome odors.” Along with accusing Planned Parenthood of misusing federal funds, which is impossible as Planned Parenthood is audited every year due to the Hyde Amendment, the report accuses the organization of “assisting those engaged in prostitution or sex trafficking,” “failure to report criminal child sexual abuse,” “willingness to provide women with inaccurate and misleading information,” and “willingness to refer to substandard clinics.” It also accuses Planned Parenthood and its affiliates of plotting to defeat common sense federal and state laws and legislation meant to protect women and families in order to “enrich their bottom line with attorney fee awards.” The investigation was opened in September 2011, by the vehemently pro-life Cliff Stearns, (R-FL), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations for the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Having had the honor of working with first responders I already knew who Stearns was; he was the man who decided that the names of the men who for months on end dug for bodies in the toxic wreckage of the World Trade Center and desperately needed medical care as a result, should be checked against all terrorist lists when they applied for aid under the Zadroga Bill.

On January 31st, 2012, Susan G. Komen announced that they could no longer fund Planned Parenthood as they were under federal investigation and their new guidelines outlawed funding any organization under state or federal investigation. Keep in mind the investigation began in September of 2011, Komen was defunded in 2012 so the guidelines had to have been written after the investigation into Planned Parenthood started. The loudly pro-life Karen Handel, who wrote the new guidelines, was hired in April, 2011. That someone so loudly pro-life and openly against Planned Parenthood was hired as a senior vice president responsible for federal and state advocacy efforts speaks volumes to Komen’s receptivity to the pro-life movement. Given Ms. Yoest’s remarks after the defunding, I’m pretty sure the next step of the movement was to align themselves with the “cure,” From an article by Sarah Kliff in the Washington Post, “Yoest says the anti-abortion community is exploring ways to support the group (Komen). Her group (AUL) for the first time will have a team in the D.C. Race for the Cure, called. Team Life. “Yesterday we were looking at Komen’s web site and how we can interact with them,” Yoest says, “I want them to get as much benefit as possible. We’ll have T-shirts and a pasta dinner. I’ve run in a couple of marathons, that’s why I always wanted to be a part of their great work.” Team Life disappeared with the backlash.

A married mother of five, a breast cancer survivor, a high-powered career – she testified against Sonia Sotomayor – Charmaine looks like the person you sold doughnuts with to raise money for your child’s class trip and comes across as the kind of reasonable, rational woman you’d believe if she warned you away from the produce at the store on the corner of Elm and Maple, in favor of the produce at the store on Main. Her appearance, her demeanor, her way of answering every question as if she is protecting and empowering women, perfectly masks the true thrust of the pro-life movement namely the harassment, coercion, and intimidation of women and the absolute annihilation of women’s reproductive freedom and choice. Charmaine Yoest is one of the female faces of the moral authority that is Patriarchy. She is a woman against women.

Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools, Katherine Manaan (MAWT)

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Woman Against Women – Kimberly Yee

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Republican Representative Kimberly Yee, the sponsor of HB 2036, is the first Asian American woman to serve in the Arizona State Legislation. She was originally appointed by the Maricopa County Board to replace Republican Representative Doug Quellan, who was removed from office in August 2010 for violating Clean Election Limits. The pro-life, pro-guns, pro-privatized health-care, Yee was recommended to the Maricopa County Board by none other than Governor Janice Brewer. At the time Yee was working as the communications director for the Arizona State Treasurer’s Office, the frosting on the cake of a work resume that included serving in Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger’s administration and working in California Governor Pete Wilson’s office.

The Chairman of strongly Republican Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to whom Brewer addressed Yee’s letter of recommendation was Don Stapley. Stapley is a real estate developer whose loan deal(s) with Silver State Banking have been linked to unsafe and unsound banking practices but the dealings are so convoluted the FDIC is having a hell of time making their case stick. Vice Chairman under Don Stapley was Fulton Brock, whose now ex-wife, the devoutly Morman Susan, was convicted of sexually molesting a fourteen-year old teenage boy and is currently serving a fifteen year prison sentence. Two months after his wife was arrested, Brock’s twenty-two year old daughter was arrested for molesting the same boy. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ten years of probation with one year of deferred jail time. This is the Republican pro-life, pro-family pool out which Kimberly Yee crawled.

As point person for the right of right, right wing Arizona Center for Public Policy Ms. Yee sponsored the horrific HB 2838, which would have banned abortions after twenty weeks. Due to the testimony and overwhelming response (phone calls, emails, petitions) against the bill from women across the country, it was pulled from the Arizona House Health Committee. The fact that Ms. Yee chose to then employ a “strike all amendment,” a political sleigh of hand to resurrect the bill, speaks to the evil genius of the willing and ambitious puppet’s puppeteers. The point of a “strike all,” is to completely remake a bill under the shadow of darkness without the pesky inconvenience of committee hearings and public scrutiny.

HB 2036 originally had something to do with regulations in the Attorney General’s office and had already passed the house and was in the Senate. Ms. Yee removed or “struck” all the language of the original bill that was HB 2036 and replaced or “amended” it with new language, namely the language of HB 2838. Now, if a “strike all amendment” is adopted by the chamber in which it was proposed, the new language in the “strike-all” becomes the language in the bill, which is exactly what happened. This is how HB 2838 became HB 2036. As per the workings of the “strike all amendment,” the amended bill, in this case HB 2036, is then returned to the chamber where it originated to be voted upon.

HB 2036 rendering a woman’s legal right to an abortion null and void after a gestation period of twenty weeks, passed with a strong majority in both the house and the senate and was signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer, April 12th, 2012. Ms Yee’s response, “I want to thank Governor Brewer for signing the Women’s Health and Safety Act. This vital bill strengthens Arizona’s laws protecting the health and safety of women and recognized the precious life of the pre-born baby.” Women’s health and safety? Cleary Ms. Yee, yet another woman’s face on the moral right of Patriarchy, has been reading the Charmaine Yoest handbook.

Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Kat

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Notes from the Uprising 04/02/12…Big Oil and God

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“And on the eight day man created money and man so loved his bloodless creation he built and ordered an entire world around it.” (Jane Lee’s Book of Door)

Oil is a finite resource and we’re running out. Big oil’s answer to this is nuclear power, fracking, the Keystone XL pipeline, and off-shore drilling, what I call the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Clearly when your God gives you dominion over the planet it’s ok to destroy it and remake it in the way you deem most profitable no matter what the cost to humanity or the eco-system on which the quality of life and the health of human beings depend. Just to be clear this is the same God behind the Republican War against Women’s Rights and Reproductive Freedom, the same God that was written into being by Patriarchy for Patriarchy in the Genesis story, and the same God who is invariably invoked to stop humane, social change. This is the God who insisted that Abraham sacrifice his son Isaac and the man, without missing a beat gathered up the wood to burn him, packed up his knife, motioned his son to follow, and up the hill they went.

Evidently the trek to the sacrificial altar had been made before as Isaac wonders out loud what they are going to sacrifice. Rather than saying, ‘you son,’ Abraham answers, ‘the Lord will provide.’ Fast forward a few verses and we find Isaac bound to the wood that will be his funeral pyre and Abraham knife drawn leaning over him, at which point, poof, the Angel of Lord appears and tells Abraham he doesn’t have to kill his son because now God knows that he, Abraham, ‘fears him.’ Rustle, rustle in the hedges behind them and there’s a ram, whereupon Abraham says to Isaac, ‘you see I told you God would provide, we will sacrifice this ram.’ The story, or parable if you will, is no longer about a man murdering his son because of the voices in his head, it has become a story about how God will provide. Clearly the writers of the Abraham-Isaac story were the world’s first spin-meisters and a prototype for future legislation writing lobbyists. Look! (forget that I bound and was about to kill you) A ram!”

Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools, Kat

Notes from the Uprising…Democracy Dawning

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The pressure coming out of facebook and twitter shattered Susan G. Komen. The pressure coming out of facebook and twitter can shatter Rush Limbaugh, the face and uncensored voice of the modern Republican Party, provided we keep up the pressure. Women are learning that they have a say, that they are not alone in their feelings, and the evidence is in our faces that together we are powerful. SGK is dead in the water, Limbaugh’s advertisers are pulling out in droves. This is because of women from all across the country started hollering, “NO MORE!” This is because we are connecting on facebook on pages put up and maintained by everyday heroines and heros, pages like one million pissed off women, stop the war on women’s rights, defund susan g, komen, southern liberal hippie lady, pragmatic progressive, the republican war against women, addicting info, organizing protests for women’s rights, the owl report, strong intelligent women choosing equality and freedom instead of religion, pagan liberal, the blue nut squirrel, the bucking jenny, and the lying liars. There are even more pages I’m sure, good pages, but these are my favorites, I get a combo of fair and balanced, justifiable rage, and some much needed humor because there are days it’s all just too fucking bleak and I have no idea how I or anybody else is supposed to keep going, how we’re supposed to deal with the pounding onslaught of information and at the same time live. But you know what? I’ll figure it out, you’ll figure it out, because that’s what we do.

Information comes so fast now and we are learning to mobilize quickly and that quick mobilization can in fact create an immediate change. Immediate change does not mean permanent/sustainable change. People like Limbaugh and his ilk may find it prudent to disappear for a while, but he/they will be back, like thalidomide, with the Republican’s God’s army of P.R. paving the way. What is quite clear is that we have entered a time where political awareness and action is becoming as much a part of our day as breathing. This is democracy in its purest sense, government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Kat