by I thought the height of White Men Invading a woman’s private parts ended with the trans-vaginal wand, but the hard Right Wing of the GOP have totally gone off the side of their flat-earth world when the likes of Congressman Steve Stockman uses the logo of the United States Congress to spew public hatred of women and the families of shooting victims like Sandy Hook Elementary.
Using a second “re-election” Twitter account that doesn’t use the U.S. Congress logo, Stockman is selling this ridiculous bumper sticker for a dollar: “If babies had had guns they wouldn’t be aborted.”
Let’s forget syntax and grammar and just try to focus on what Stockman is trying to argue.
He’s suggesting that fetuses — and it has to be a fetus and not a “baby,” because all this gunplay the Congressman wants is happening inside a woman’s womb when the abortion doctor visits to scrape away the cells of the fetal gunman — should be armed to prevent the end of life.
I guess the unspoken joke the Congressman is making is this: “Don’t bring a scalpel to a gunfight!”
Is the loaded fetus supposed to shoot the mother or the doctor?
We know the Congressman is trying to be provocative, but there’s still a line of credulity and taste that must be measured and honored when you push around hot-button issues like abortion rights, but the GOP tend not to care about doing the right thing for the goodness of all Americans.
The GOP instead want to wallow in false pride while poking you in the eye, just as Congressman Stockman did on his official Twitter page with the Congressional logo as a backdrop:
The GOP don’t wholly care to comprehend the hypocrisy of their public wailings. They want fetuses to be armed, but if the fetus were say, Gay, then the doctor could go ahead and scrape away. When the GOP take to social media to spew their private hatreds in public, something deep and careful and stately is destroyed in the hearts of all Americans.
Why do we have cruel and nasty blowhards like Steve Stockman representing us in the U.S. Congress? How do people like that even get elected in the first place?
I find this beyond belief ……………. and I am asking the same question – how on earth did he get elected ???
It is stunning — but I guess there are similar minds like his in Texas who want him representing their foolishness in D.C.
I didn’t even get into his bold support for fracking — he loves it only because it pays non-college educated workers $128k a year. Gads!
well I know the Texans are a peculiar lot …………….. but this is beeyond the pale.
Fracking deserves a campaign all of its own ………………… I need an ABC – or idiots guide to understand it – know it is not good ,,…. know it is just the opposite.
Yes, Texas loves being outside America — They’re Texas, and they don’t want any part of the rest of us. To that, I say, “Fine, go your own way, and we’ll see how well you do without any Federal money. You will shrivel and die.”
Fracking:
http://goo.gl/1yhTd
Think that is an excellent plan for Texas.
thank you for that quick lesson – knew it was pretty horrific and dangerous but not the “mechanics”.
Some claim fracking causes earthquakes:
http://goo.gl/4sCW9
You know me too wel l – thats what I have just put into google – earthquakes are one of my areas of fascination – along with volcanoes.
Ooo! Let us know what you find. Some say it is oil drilling that is causing some earthquakes and not fracking…
I have a dream – a computer screen the size of a wall of the world – with all the relevant data being fed in – earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, etc – a kind of world watch .
I like that!
Here’s a little bit of a start:
http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~fxg1/ewall.html
Like that – Need mine as a graphic …………….. and then be able to layer them all – or take out one layer of data – would idealy like to add socio-economic data as well ………….. then join up all the dots and patterns .
I know what you mean!
yes I hve found the maps – clicked through ……………………
Oh, that’s good news!
Play time !!!
Let us know if you find any fun stuff!
I cannot believe this man is serious. Even Jewish law does not consider the child to be a child until after he or she has been born. Until the child is born, if there is a threat to the mother’s life, the mother’s life always takes precedence — gun or not!
Gordon —
Don’t move to North Dakota! Personhood now begins at conception — by law:
http://goo.gl/DWVuB
This is disgusting. So as long as the precious fetus lives, we should have complete disregard for the mental and physical health of its mother? That is the opposite of humanitarianism.
I think it is a difficult to make the case that an unborn child can trump the life of the mother — but that’s what the GOP believes, and that’s what they want for America, and they will not stop until they achieve that goal.
Thinking on that a bit, that means the unborn child, by default, controls the family before it is even born. The fetus is more important than the mother and the father and, once born, the next logical step is that the infant will set the discipline and decide the family expenses and run the household — because once you are deemed more important than your mother as a group of cells, how can you become any less important the moment of your live birth? You are a God who controls other lives from a womb.
Right on point with the absurdity of it all! I just hope that this all-powerful fetus will grow up and learn to differentiate from those moral “guidelines” the GOP wants to set.
Exactly right, Emily. How can one life, unsustainable from another, trump the living, breathing, human being?