the word panties upsets me to the point where if someone says it i give them a dirty look and im not sure why
The word panties makes me want to throw up
I HATE the word panties
I also abhor the word “panties”.
The word “panties” makes me cringe.
If you say the word “panties” then I will walk away.
But the anti-antis were loads funnier:
This is right up there with the petition asking Obama to “stop using the ‘wives, mothers, & daughters’ rhetorical frame that defines women by their relationships to other people.”
So the word “panties” has got their, um, panties in a wad?
Isn’t it refreshingly cathartic to learn that knee jerk, Pavlovian students of Wymmin’s Studies get upset at a word accepted as common parlance and vernacular for more than a century?
Word Police, get a life. Please.
Apparently liberal women dislike the word “panties” which means I probably need to find ways to use it more often.
But dressing up AS A VAGINA IN PUBLIC is OK?
if you hate them that much then just go commando and STFU!
Asinine. Is this what American feminists are really worried about? How about women’s rights in Iran? Or gettin’ me a sammich?
Does this mean the word ‘panties’ will have the same effect on feminists as garlic has on vampires? No downside there.
I should’ve hung my panties around my neck where they would be available to wave at silly females who ignore the fact that the battle for women’s rights has already been fought and won.
I hate the word “panties,” too, but I think in light of that article, I’ll have to learn to love it.
I’m ahead of the game. I always call them ‘bloomers,’ anyway.
EXCERPT: The violent crime rate in Great Britain is the highest in Europe. It is four times higher than ours. Some say it’s not fair to compare, because the way crimes are recorded varies from country to country. But it’s tough to overlook the fact that the number two most violent country (Austria) recorded 18% fewer violent crimes per capita than Great Britain. And you only have to go down to fifth place to get a full 50% drop from the UK’s high. Meanwhile, the USA doesn’t even make it into the top ten. Who woulda thunk?
Chivalry: The Opposite of Good Manners? By Mona Charen
EXCERPT: When feminists set out to remake the sexes back in the 1970s, they seemed to choose all the wrong traits to emulate or eliminate. Women were encouraged to match the promiscuity, aggressiveness, and irresponsibility of men. … wasn’t it preferable to label boorish behavior as such, rather than celebrate it as a victory for sexual equality? … an anecdote that sums up the case for chivalry. Samuel Proctor, pastor of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church in the 1970s and 1980s, tipped his hat to a lady. She was offended and demanded, “What is that supposed to mean?” He replied: “Madame, by tipping my hat I was telling you several things. That I would not harm you in any way. That if someone came into this elevator and threatened you, I would defend you. That if you fell ill, I would tend to you and if necessary carry you to safety. I was telling you that even though I am a man and physically stronger than you, I will treat you with both respect and solicitude. But frankly, Madame, it would have taken too much time to tell you all of that; so, instead, I just tipped my hat.”
EXCERPT: Guess which political party made these demands … “We ask that the government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment and earning a living. The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within its confines and be for the good of all. Therefore, we demand: … an end to the power of the financial interests.
If you’re as old as I am — not that I would wish that on you — then you remember Dan Quayle, George H. W. Bush’s vice president. And if you remember Dan Quayle, then surely you remember the notorious spelling bee incident, for which poor Dan is still derisively remembered even now, twenty years later.
Here’s what happened: Vice President Quayle was visiting an elementary school classroom in Trenton, New Jersey, where the students were having a spelling bee. The teacher asked Quayle to be the one to read the words to the students. She handed him a stack of flash cards, on one of which was written the word “potatoe” [sic]. Quayle thought the word was misspelled on the flash card, but he deferred to the teacher. When the student spelled the word correctly, Quayle told him he needed to add an “e” at the end. The lamestream media, who detested Quayle, pounced on the mistake, citing it as incontrovertible proof that Quayle was a blithering idiot.
Ever since the moment Quayle had been chosen as Bush’s VP, the LSM had been trying desperately to destroy him. They spared no effort in searching for dirt on Quayle, but apparently the guy had led a pretty squeaky-clean life, because they weren’t able to find any of the kind of stuff they were hoping for — no affairs, no love children, no DWIs, not so much as an overdue library book or an unpaid parking ticket. By the time of the spelling bee incident they were truly desperate, and they pounced on Quayle’s little mistake like a shoal of starving piranhas on a three-legged cow. Quayle is an ignoramus! He can’t even spell potato! What a dumbass! He’s not qualified to be vice president! Hell, he’s not qualified to live!
Why am I dredging up this old story? Because I find it instructive. If an army of investigators spends insane amounts of time and effort trying to find out something horrible about someone they despise, and the worst they can come up with is that the guy isn’t the world’s greatest speller, what does that tell you? They might as well give up. They won’t, of course — they’ll seize on anything, no matter how trivial, if they think it will humiliate the object of their loathing — but the whole thing positively reeks of desperation. Even if Quayle had not been handed a card with the word misspelled on it, even if he had actually spelled it incorrectly himself, so what? If that’s the worst thing you can accuse a guy of, then your hatred of him obviously has no logical or factual basis. It says more about the accuser than the accused; in fact, it says precisely nothing about the accused, while saying a great deal about the accuser.
Which brings me to Mitt Romney’s innocent little comment at the last presidential debate about “binders full of women.” Without exception, everyone who heard that statement knew exactly what Romney meant by it. If Barack Obama or Joe Biden had referred to “binders full of women,” the lamestream media would have given it as much attention as they give to every other infelicitous phrase uttered by those two — which is none whatsoever. It became a story only because Mitt Romney said it, and the left hates him with a passion, possibly even more than they hated Dan Quayle. The “binders full of women” thing is Romney’s “potatoe” moment.
If the left had succeeded in finding out anything truly damning about Mitt Romney — and their failure was not for want of trying, or lack of resources, or insufficient time — would they be harping endlessly on the “binders” comment? Of course not. They harp on it because they have nothing else to harp on. As gaffes go, it wasn’t even very funny — not half as funny as Joe Biden telling a guy in a wheelchair to stand up, or Barack Obama saying asthmatic kids need breathalyzers, or Bob Schieffer talking about the SEALS killing Obama bin Laden, or Chris Matthews saying that he forgot for a while that Obama was black. But when you’re desperate, you’ll grasp at anything, no matter how lame.
Thus it was that a small coven of feminists who had too much time on their hands and nothing worthwhile to do decided to show up outside the Ohio Republican Party Headquarters dressed as binders. You probably wouldn’t be able to tell they were supposed to look like binders had it not been for their chanting “Equal rights, not binders” as they traipsed around in circles on the sidewalk. (Ladies: Next time you hold a protest, consider hiring a professional writer to come up with a more inspiring slogan.)
Mark Steyn comments:
Yes, indeed. Romney wants to return us to the 1950s, when a woman’s place was in the binder, when every predatory male had his little black binder, and condescending misogynists would interview applicants for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts and smirk, “Why, Miss Jones, you’re beautiful without your binder . . . ” It was the age of patriarchal sitcoms when the little lady would greet her man at the front door with his pipe and binders, where girls were told they could aspire no further than to ace Home Ec and thereby persuade some eligible young man to put a ring file on their finger. We all remember the careless sexist assumptions of the so-called family shows of those days — Leave It to Binder, Ozzie and Binder, Binder Knows Best, My Three Binders, Gilligan’s Binder, The Binder Bunch — until eventually the mold was broken by The Mary Binder Moore Show in the early Seventies. By then, feminists across the land were burning their binders, and Erica Jong had popularized the “zipless file.” As Gloria Steinem famously said, a woman needs a binder like a fish needs a three-tab manila hanging folder.
(Read the rest of Mark’s rant here — you won’t be sorry.)
The left is going bonkers. They are more desperate than I have seen them in a long, long time. When an innocuous little comment about binders can send them into such a frenzy, there’s only one explanation: Their days in power are numbered, and they know it.
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Romney: I Want the Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade
In an interview with the Columbus Dispatch newspaper, presidential candidate Mitt Romney said, once again, that he wants the Supreme Court to overturn the infamous Roe v. Wade decision that has paved the way for 55 million abortions.
Romney wants states to be able to protect unborn children and, in his interview with the newspaper, indicated overturning Roe was more possible in the current political climate than a Human Life Amendment. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/15/romney-i-want-the-supreme-court-to-overturn-roe-v-wade/
The Obama Abortion Agenda: Reviewing The Last Four Years
Over the four years of Barack Obama’s presidency, substantial damage has been inflicted to longstanding pro-life policies. In addition, new programs have been created which, during the years ahead, will result in large-scale federal subsidies to health plans that pay for abortion, other federally driven expansions of abortion, and rationing of lifesaving medical care, unless remedial legislation is enacted. In addition, Obama placed two strongly pro-abortion justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/15/the-obama-abortion-agenda-reviewing-the-last-four-years/
Obama Campaign Can’t Name One Abortion Limit He Would Support
Leaders of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign insisted that Obama doesn’t support unlimited abortions but, when asked, they failed to come up with a single abortion limit Obama would support. The failure is not surprising given that Obama has taken 231 pro-abortion actions as president. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/12/obama-campaign-cant-name-one-abortion-limit-he-would-support/
Joe Biden Lies Again: Planned Parenthood DOES Perform Abortions
Campaigning in Wisconsin, pro-abortion Vice President Joe Biden misled voters today by saying Planned Parenthood, the nation’s biggest abortion business doesn’t do any abortions. Planned Parenthood does about one-in-four of all the abortions in this nation. Under law, Planned Parenthood can’t use the federal funding it gets to pay for abortions, which is a distinction without a difference, since it does use federal funding for rent, utilities and staff salaries, all of which contribute toward its thriving abortion business. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/12/joe-biden-under-law-planned-parenthood-cant-perform-abortion
Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz Blasts Romney in New TV Ad
The nation’s largest abortion company is up with a new television ad blasting Mitt Romney over his positions to overturn Roe v. Wade and revoke its taxpayer funding. The ad will air in the battleground states of Virginia and Colorado. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/11/planned-parenthood-abortion-biz-blasts-romney-in-new-tv-ad/
Chris Christie, Ralph Reed: Mitt Romney is Strongly Pro-Life
Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey and leading pro-life activist Ralph Reed have both given new interviews in which they vouch for presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s pro-life credentials. Christie said Wednesday and said he firmly believes Romney is pro-life and talked about his own conversion on the issue of abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/11/chris-christie-ralph-reed-mitt-romney-is-strongly-pro-life/
Bus Driver Tells Kid With Romney Sign: You Should Have Been Aborted
A bus driver recently told a 12-year-old boy who was riding the bus he should have been aborted.
The boy’s parents have a Romney/Ryan sign in their front yard and the bus driver seemed to have a problem with it. When the bus driver engaged the young boy into a political conversation, the boy told the bus driver that Obama was pro-abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/11/bus-driver-tells-kid-with-romney-sign-you-should-have-been-aborted/
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[Caveat: I recognize there is a small class of lazy women who give birth, then dump the kids on grannies, nannies and others, so they can either live it up on their trust funds, sugar daddy allowance or welfare checks. For simplicity’s sake, let’s just agree to call these women Not Moms, k?]
In 2007,55% of new moms returned to the workforce, while 45% stayed home.
IOW, we’re about evenly divided. And we ALL work!
A search for internet lingo located SAHM (Stay At Home Mom) and WAHM (Work At Home Mom, which I assume means someone with a job that can be done from home or a home-based business). I was not able to find an acronym for moms who have part- or full-time jobs that take them outside their homes; unless someone knows something better, I’m going to invent WOHM (Work Outside Home Mom).
For reasons that escape me, some SAHMs criticize their opposites for “choosing career over their children”, while some WOHMs criticize their opposites for “giving up their ambitions and income for an apron and a vacuum.”
Both of these criticisms are ridiculous. While the feminist movement has given women many more choices than my female ancestors had, life doesn’t always let us take advantage of them. Plenty of WOHMs would prefer to stay home with their babies and vice versa. Besides which … wasn’t the whole point of feminism to let women CHOOSE? Why then are we condemning each other for MAKING CHOICES?!
Frankly, I’ve never understood the kind of women who make sweeping judgments about entire classes of other women. I’ve been the brunt of this kind of prejudice a few times … always by someone who had no idea of my family’s situation. It seems to me such prejudiced women are very far from the alleged ideal of feminism. What’s right for one is not necessarily right for another. If all of society is supposed to support my choices, why do these women feel so justified and self-righteous about condemning them?
When we criticize other women for their choices, we criticize ourselves as women. Not that this stopped bitchy DNC advisor Hilary Rosen from pompously declaring that Mitt’s wife, Ann, “has never worked a day in her life.”
Sorry, you pathetic excuse for a modern woman, but your sneering, politically-driven opinions have NO BASIS in the facts of Ann Romney’s life. The following comes from the Wikipedia bios of Mitt and Ann Romney. It’s all public record and easily accessible. And just for full disclosure … I voted for Newt.
The Romneys married in March of 1969 after Mitt returned from his Mormon mission tour. Their first son was born in 1970 while both were undergraduates at Brigham Young, living in a $75-a-month basement apartment.
In 1971, Mitt was graduated (Summa cum laude) from BYU with a BA in English and Ann gave birth to their second son. The young family then moved to Boston so that he could attend a new four-year program coordinated between Harvard Law and Harvard Business Schools.
In 1975, Mitt was graduated with a joint Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration. He was in the top third of his law school class and the top 5% of his business school class. Also in 1975, Ann gave birth to their third son AND received a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree with a concentration in French language from Harvard Extension School.
While Mitt was working at his first job, Ann gave birth to their fourth (1978) and fifth (1981) sons. Then, in 1984, with five children, ages 3 through 13, Mitt and Ann decided to jump feet first into following Mitt’s dream of running his own company, a private equity investment firm he and his partner, Bill Bain, called Bain Capital.
In the face of skepticism from potential investors, Bain and Romney spent a year raising the $37 million in funds needed to start the new operation, which would focus on venture capital opportunities. Their first big success came with a 1986 investment to help start Staples Inc. when Mitt and Ann’s youngest of five was just 5 years old.
Bain Capital eventually made the Romneys wealthy, but that didn’t mean that Ann’s life as a wife, mother and penny-pinching homemaker would suddenly be filled with maids and bon-bons. In 1998, when her youngest was 17, Ann could have been looking forward to moving on to a child-free career of her choice.
Instead, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She designed a mixture of mainstream and alternative treatments and credits them with helping her continue to live fully. MS is incurable, yet since contracting the disease, she has helped Mitt run for governor and, from 2003 to 2007, served as First Lady of Massachusetts, where she worked on faith-based initiatives and children’s charities.
During Mitt’s 2008 presidential bid, she was an active participant and perhaps the most visible of all the Republican candidates’ wives. She was also diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a lumpectomy. She has been cancer-free for four years and credits her husband’s unwavering care and devotion for helping her through it all.
Their sons have gifted them with sixteen grandchildren and, when she is not doting on them, she is working hard with Mitt on his 2012 presidential campaign.
A special thank you to my dear friend,Ting,who turned me on to this site shortly after its inception.Yesterday was my 250th post.Being a part of this family has given me a sense of peace and self-worth that cannot be measured.I will continue to try to entertain,inform and perhaps provoke some thought as only the truly deranged and seriousy delusional can do.
DEMOCRAT SCOLDS FAITH LEADERS WHO CAME TO HEARING TO DISCUSS RELIGIOUS FREDOMS
CBO:LONGEST PERIOD OF HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION
This really frosts me.While Bush was president and the GOP controlled both houses, we had 51 straight months of employment gains.Unemployment was 4.5% and all the media pigs could whine about was a ‘jobless recovery.’ Remember?Now they trumpet any bit of positive news,even if fraudulent, as a sign things are getting better somehow. http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/02/16/cbo-longest-period-of-high-unemployment-since-great-depression
SORRY,FOLKS.I JUST CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF THIS MAN.I KEEP ASKING WHY HE ISN’T OUR NOMINEE?
CRISCO KID:RELIGIOUS GROUPS SHOULDN’T IMPOSE THEIR VIEWS ON EMPLOYEES
She also said all women have a constitutional right to contraceptives.She really did.
MAXIE CLAMS UP AND RUNS WHEN CONFRONTED ABOUT HER GOP ‘DEMONS’ INSULT
People of low moral character and no courage never want to be held accountable for their actions.
WISCONSIN PUBLIC EMPLOYEES PRAISE WALKER’S REFORMS
I can’t remember if I posted this before.Hell,I can’t remember getting up this morning.
KASSOPEDIA:THE ONLY URBAN DICTIONARY YOU’LL EVER NEED
John Kass is a columnist for my employer,The Chicago Tribune.These are hilarious.
Chumbolone (pronounced Chum-buh-loan): Now listed in Urban Dictionary as a moron, idiot and long-suffering Illinois taxpayer since we keep eating what they serve us. “I gave him lip service. I didn’t know what he was talking about. I don’t wanna look like a chumbolone, an idiot, stupid,” former Chicago cop and Chinatown errand boy Anthony “Twan” Doyle said from the witness stand in the “Operation Family Secrets” trial.
CHICAGO TEACHERS ASK FOR 30% RAISES OVER TWO YEARS
Now you know why my state is $14 billion in debt.
If you click on the link,the giant hippopotamus with the cornrows is the the head(and belly) of the Chicago Teachers Mob,Karen Lewis.Mayor Tiny Dancer should tell her to shut the hell up and go eat another dozen cheeseburgers.
I often fantasize,of late,about my speech accepting the nomination for president.One of my points would be naming an AG who will charge Holder with manslaughter in the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
My Catholic priest, Father Larry Swink, delivered a homily on Sunday that I told him would make headlines. In the toughest sermon I have ever heard from a pulpit, he attacked the Obama Administration as evil, even demonic, and warned of religious persecution ahead. What was also newsworthy about the sermon was that he cited The Washington Post in agreement—not on the subject of the Obama Administration being evil, but on the matter of its abridgment of the constitutional right to freedom of religion.
What is happening is extraordinary and unprecedented. The Catholic Church is in open revolt against the Obama Administration, with Fr. Swink noting from the pulpit that priests across the archdiocese were joining the call on Sunday to rally Catholics to resistance against the U.S. Government. He said we are entering a time of religious persecution and that Catholics and others will have to make a final decision about which side they are on.
The issue is what the Catholic Bishops have called a “literally unconscionable” edict by the Obama Administration demanding that sterilization, abortifacients and contraception be included in virtually all health plans.
At a time when the media are full of reports about who is ahead and behind in the polls, and who will win the next Republican presidential primary, this incredible uprising in the Catholic Church is something that could not only overshadow the political campaign season, but also may have a major impact on the ultimate outcome—if Republicans know how to handle it. This matter goes beyond partisan politics to the growing perception of an unconstitutional Obama Administration assault on religious freedom. To hear the Catholic Bishops and Priests describe it, our constitutional republic and our freedoms hang in the balance.
The administration claims there is a religious exemption in the mandate, but the bishops say it is so narrow that it fails to cover the vast majority of faith-based organizations, including Catholic hospitals, universities and service organizations that help millions every year. “Ironically,” they say, “not even Jesus & his disciples would have qualified.”
The bishops go on, “Now that the Administration has refused to recognize the Constitutional conscience rights of organizations and individuals who oppose the mandate, the bishops are now urging Catholics and others of good will to fight this unprecedented attack on conscience rights and religious liberty.”
Interestingly, The Washington Post, as Father Swink indicated, agrees with the bishops. The paper said, “In this circumstance, requiring a religiously affiliated employer to spend its own money in a way that violates its religious principles does not make an adequate accommodation for those deeply held views. Having recognized the principle of a religious exemption, the administration should have expanded it.”
So why would the administration pick a major fight with the Catholic Church? There are two main reasons. (1) The administration wants to please its progressive and feminist, secular pro-abortion base. (2) The administration believes Catholics are divided on the issue and will ignore their leaders and follow Obama.
Support for the latter explanation comes in the form of the Obama Administration’s efforts to co-opt the Catholic Church, primarily through appointing nominal Catholics to high-level positions in government and keeping funding going to the church for “social justice” causes. Another player in this effort is the hedge-fund billionaire George Soros, an atheist who nevertheless has found groups that are “Catholic in name only” to accept his financial largesse. These groups, including Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, are designed to give the impression that Catholics are less concerned about issues like stopping abortion and protecting the sanctity of traditional marriage than passing government health care. The Obama/Soros gamble may be backfiring.
It’s true that the bishops went along with Obama’s health care scheme, even lobbying on its behalf. But now they seem to be realizing that the plan was a Trojan Horse designed to force population control measures on the people of the United States. It will be difficult for the bishops to continue working with the administration on other issues, like immigration. They have drawn a line in the sand. They cannot back down.
Father Larry Swink of Jesus The Divine Word Catholic Church in Huntingtown, Maryland, is not alone in his tough language. Pittsburgh Bishop David A. Zubik posted a letter on the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh’s website that said, “It is really hard to believe that it happened. It comes like a slap in the face. The Obama administration has just told the Catholics of the United States, ‘To Hell with you!’ There is no other way to put it.” He added, “This whole process of mandating these guidelines undermines the democratic process itself. In this instance, the mandate declares pregnancy a disease, forces a culture of contraception and abortion on society, all while completely bypassing the legislative process.”
You know it’s serious when the bishops are talking about heaven and hell.
Indeed, Fr. Swink opened his discussion of what he described as the evil nature of the Obama Administration by reading from scripture about Jesus casting out demons. He saw the order on health care coverage as the start of religious persecution. The congregation joined him in calls of “Amen” when he challenged them to stand tall with the church.
You cannot expect the secular Washington Post to go along with such rhetoric. But even its liberal editorial writer saw the ramifications of the health care order, perhaps anticipating the confrontation that we now see developing. From the point of view of this liberal paper, the Obama Administration is not only undermining religious freedom but risking a major backlash to its overall “progressive” agenda and even a second term in office.
Some may see this battle as just another church-state dust-up that will be resolved through litigation. But when apocalyptic imagery is used, such as what I heard at my church on Sunday, one must wonder if there is an awakening on the part of the Catholic community and if there is something else going on here besides politics as usual. In short, is the Catholic Church beginning to finally recognize the real nature of the Obama Administration?
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