Shame in any language is shame

I disagree that the sonogram bill in Texas is about women's health and completely agree with this blog. As blogger Mean Rachel highlights in her blog The Texas Shame Act, there is an uproar over a Doonesbury comic strip that is notorious for making light of political hot topics and ideas such as Vietnam and both Gulf Wars.

This time, the comic strip has shined its light on Texas' law on mandatory sonograms before abortions as a technique to shame women out of getting an abortion by showing them the heartbeat of their unborn child. Somehow the talk on wars and soldiers were not as big of an issue as the abortion commentary has become for many in Texas. Mean Rachel and others are trying to bring this law into the public eye, but before the voters of Texas could see something that opposes government policy, the comic strip was moved into other sections of newspapers or pulled altogether. In highlighting this controversial topic, the blogger is trying to inform women of the issue that many politicians have tried to hide, the issue that this law is in fact not for their "health benefit."

How does showing the patient wanting to get an abortion, their baby’s heartbeat, have anything to do with health risks! If it’s health risks that people like Carol Everett, CEO of anti-abortion non-profit the Heidi Group want to show patients, then make a damn chart with the health risks of abortions and since we Texans like to teach children to use critical thinking i.e. creationism and evolution, then on that same chart let us also put the health risks for pregnancy as well.

Instead the people that run this state, “Republications,” understand that in passing the sonogram law they are trying to get more support from conservative Republicans (who are normally against abortion), with no thought for women's health in their mind. Kudos goes to people like the writers of Doonesbury and Mean Rachel for getting out there to shake down this unlawful act of trying to control the way we live. As I have seen on cars around Austin, “you can control my uterus when you pry it from my cold dead body.”

Pick Up Your Own Damn TRASH!

In my search for an editorial that would make me so mad that I could rant and argue about American ideologies I found a very well written piece on the Dallas Morning News website titled “Editorial: Dallas should start over on advised trash law” . I agree with the author of this editorial that if the trash in Dallas is going be turned into renewable energy then the city has to show the residents and prove that the renewable issue is the main reason for wanting all waste at this specific dump, rather than just getting more revenue from making commercial waste haulers take trash there. The city should have included everyone, including the citizens in the area affected by the trash increase and the waste haulers in the conversation before they went and made decisions for what they thought was best for the city, aka, what the city got out of it in terms of money. A good idea for renewable energy was taken over by greed. The authors intended audience is the people of the city of Dallas. The author is trying to show how he/she is on their side and supports them. He/she does this when discussing how the money the city was hoping to get from this ordinance will directly come back to the citizens of the city in the form of higher fees for services, to pay for the higher trash fees of commercial businesses. The author doesn’t really take a stand on either side of the issue, and that is why I believe it is an anonymous editorial, because it means more coming from what is basically the general voice of reason.

Junk Mail

An article from the Texas Insider shows another uneducated Senator has taken it upon themselves to stop the important things they should be doing like working on the Texas budget or figuring out what the hell Texas residents are going to do if this drought continues, but instead has attacked the mandate for healthcare of faith based employers and made it a religious battle. This is the final time I am going to say this. They are all idiots!!!

There is something called the J-curve and unless you want to learn how not to breathe, eat, or drink dirty water, the human race needs to learn to stop breeding. This has nothing to do with faith or religious beliefs but everything to do with survival of the human race. If someone doesn't want to have a child (which is no better to the world then the Key Stone Pipeline), THEN LET THEM!!!  Like Planned Parenthood, just because they offer abortions takes out the account that they do way, way more in educating and healthcare for women. As individuals we are responsible for our own decisions.  Politics (poli= meaning many and tics= are blood sucking insects) must stay out of this fight. Healthcare must be on the employers now because who knows how long Medicaid will still be around to fund the uninsured.
We keep trying to find ways of lowering the extremely large deficit, which continues to grow and grow. From mushroom pickers to engineers, all of us need to be insured to ensure the survival of Texas and our nation as a whole.