January 23, 2014 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Campers, I am as busy as grandma with four snakes and one hoe. We have Congressman Castro coming here tomorrow night and I’m in charge of stuff nobody else wants to do. I think I may be the only person in my county who knows who doesn’t want to sit with who and who will be insulted if they aren’t sitting with who.
So … Mike Huckabee. Discuss but don’t cuss.
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Discuss but don’t cuss…HOW???
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1Gee, I was unaware I was a victim of my gender. I guess being barefoot and pregnant is a better alternative…
2If I can’t cuss I can only say he is dumber than our front steps and there are none which means he is as dumb as our invisible steps and invisible too.
3How are Huckabee’s statements any different from Rush Limbaugh. Both seem to believe that women should either refrain from having sex or pay for their own birth control
4I’m with you all the way SomedayGirl.
Could Mr More-Holy-and-Righteous-who-knows-EXACTLY-what-God-wants-for-all-the-rest-of-us be more patronizing and condescending toward wimminz? I’d rather he didn’t try.
5He’s a little confused because women have always had no problem controlling their libido around him.
6Also, too, he could use a few basic lessons in biology and pharmacology. Such willful ignorance is painful and maddening as hell. (Sorry JJ, that’s the best I can do.)
7Tell him we don’t want the TPP to pass. NO FAST TRACK FOR TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP. One of my best friends says if the TPP passes, it won’t matter if the Democrats win. Pay attention!
8My sympathies, Juanita Jean.
when I was a chile, my middle brother came home in midrant about some adult woman in his life. My dad shocked us all by talking, making an indecipherable fatherly statement along the lines of “you gotta mother, a little sister, a Blue Tick-Plott dog and a girlfriend. And they’re all girls. Shut-up.”
9Dear Huckabee: Here is why it’s a war on women. The GOP–and you–do not care if we go hungry. You do not care if our children go hungry. You do not care if women and children have no home. You do not care if women and children have no access to health care. You do not care if women are not paid enough to support their children. You do not care if women and children get sick or die for lack of food, shelter, safety, adequate income, health care. You do not care if our children are poisoned by profitable toxins in the air, soil, and water. You do not care if our children do not get a good education. You do not care about anything except the one thing that will not cost you tax dollars: unborn babies. You SAY you care about unborn babies but you will not twitch your finger to ensure that the mothers inside whom they grow are healthy, have enough food, have a safe place to live during their pregnancy. You are willing to see women die rather than terminate a pregnancy, because that unborn baby, you claim, is precious. For nine months it is precious, and you care nothing for its mother. But once that baby is born, it’s just “a taker” and you don’t care whether the child lives or dies, thrives or doesn’t. You are willing to deny that child food, housing, clothing, education–and scapegoat the child’s mother, blaming her for “not controlling her libido” with no mention of the man who stuck his penis into her and squired his sperm into her and caused the pregnancy. Everything is a woman’s fault; nothing is a man’s fault; a woman’s life is worthless and not worth protecting. She’s not a real person; she’s not a real citizen; she had no right to even her own bodily integrity. All she’s good for is breeding, but if she doesn’t breed the way you think she should…you throw her and her children on the trash heap.
THAT is what I mean by the GOP’s, and your, war on women. Stick that up your posterior and shut that ugly, sneering mouth of yours.
(and not a cussword in there.)
10Brava~Brava Elizabeth
Extremely well said and no bad words either.
11He can’t tell me that women can’t control their libidos.
My girlfriend decides when sexy time is, not me.
And believe me it ain’t as often as I’d like it to be.
Just saying……..
12Could he possibly be anymore clueless and condescending?!
13Beautiful rant, Elizabeth! Huzzah!
14Well said Elizabeth! To bad they do not see themselves this way.
15Oh, Elizabeth, if only you could have shouted that in his face and we could all have watched. THEY DELIBERATELY DON’T GET IT!
16The unintended consequence of Old Huckster’s rant is that it drives millions of women away from the Repugs.
I think he might just know what he is talking about–remember this is the guy who had the Duggers (20 something kids and counting) stumping for tea party candidates in Arkansas. Apparently Michelle and Jim Bob are not very good at controlling their libidos. Huckabee was paying attention…
17Keep digging Mike, keep digging. Eventually that grave will be big enough for what little is left of the rethuglican party.
18I wish “painfully stupid” were literally true because I don’t want to be the only one suffering.
You go, Elizabeth!
19I googled trans pacific partnership and women and got this.
Where Waratah Room, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW
Description
Never heard of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement being negotiated by Australia, the US and nine Asia Pacific countries? Think that trade agreements don’t affect women’s rights? Think again!
Trade agreements can create global rules which mean higher prices for medicines and for seeds used by women farmers, privatisation of public services and less ability for governments to make laws to protect women’s rights.
The Australian Fair Trade & Investment Network (AFTINET) presents a special seminar to mark the lead-up to
International Women’s Day and the 16th Round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations being held in Singapore.
Speakers:
Dr Elizabeth Hill, Department of Political Economy, Sydney University – Women, Globalisation and Development
Dr Patricia Ranald, AFTINET – The Trans-Pacific Partnership: where is it up to and what are the issues for women?
Kelly Nichols, Doctors Without Borders – TPPA threats to access to affordable Medicines for women and other vulnerable groups
12:15-1.30pm – Tue 5 March 2013 – Waratah Room, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW
Free entry
20Note that the meeting I showed you above was last March, in Australia. How can we make enough noise to stop the TPP on FAST TRACK? I mean, does Huckabee know about the TPP? I googled trans pacific partnership and mike huckabee. He knows about it. Just poke around on the internet, different combinations of words. Oh, and I don’t know if China is involved in the TPP. Interesting. What’s the name of the Big Courtroom that would take care of disputes in the TPP? Not U.S. Supreme Court, but an international tribunal where corporations could sue governments? Stop the Fast Track for the TPP. Call your legislators to talk about it. OKay I will go hush and be quiet for awhile.
21Maybe we could trade him to one of the countries negotiating for the Trans Pacific Partnership, him and the McDonnells. If we could find him. Y’all got me worried.
22He’s an idiot.
He is ignoring the fact that it takes 2 to make a baby and the state’s with the higher rates of teen pregnancy and single mothers are republican.
Totally feel sorry for his wife.
23He has a wife? Okay my brain is done froze. I wanted to be able to trade Stockman. And I think Huckabee shoulda done stuck to preachin’. I’m gonna go play SCRABBLE.
24Lord, protect us from anti-science, non-credentialed Republicans who want to play doctor. The ignorance is only exceeded by the judgmental bombast. Brava, Elizabeth!
25When he was Governor Huckabee, he managed to hide most of his present assessments and attitude toward women. Of course, now, he’s super-rich so he’s a super-Republican, and apparently he drank the Kool-Aid. Florida is a good place for him.
26You poor thing, I’ll say a prayer.
27Hollowed be thy juanita…..,extreta ,extreta, forgot the rest….,amen.
Absolutely brilliant Elizabeth!!! Brava!!!!!
28And the thing is, individuals can’t get TO these people to say something to their faces, because they’re so scared of being disagreed with by women who might, you know, throw a little cylinder of cotton at them and, like ATTACK them or something, that they lock us out, block us, and then say they can’t hear women speak. It’s WON’T not can’t.
Would I like to say that to Huckabee’s face? And Cruz’s? And the whole group of them? You betcha. But I wouldn’t be allowed to get close to them and would be hauled out by security if I managed to sneak in. (Among other things, I’m sure–given the reactions of right-wingers to medical terms like “uterus”–that stating the medical facts of penis and sperm would make them start writhing and fainting in coils. Then it would be my fault if one of them hit his head on a chair on the way down.)
29Huckabee and the GOP must like the plaque Colson had in his office. ‘If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow’. And they all want to apply the tactic to wombs in hopes of controlling hearts & minds that they can’t get power over with the charms of their policies.
Poor fellers just can’t wrap their heads around the reality that we can have lady parts AND fully functioning brains. They sure can’t fathom how well we can multi-task.
30Like Rush Limbaugh, his brain is stuck on a sex track. He’s ignorant about the uses of birth control pills, he’s ignorant about libido, he’s stupendously arrogant about what he sees as men’s “rights” to decide women’s medical, legal, and political decisions, he’s — oh, heck, my fingers are tired of typing all that’s wrong with him.
But this is my real problem about him: People still invite him to speak at events. Organizations still ask him to speak. This should worry us. It means that we shouldn’t just make jokes about him and his ignorance, we should be very concerned about the people who pay to attend these events, who pay to listen to his idiocy. THAT is the problem. If it wasn’t him speaking, it would be someone else just as bad, but the real issue for me is all those people who want to listen.
31Elizabeth et al., I am surprised that The Huck can even spell libido. Ten to one The Huck and his ilk actually think the libico actually has a physical form, therefore it can be collared and leashed like a dog. Like my late brother in law once said, “Ya can’t get through to stooped.”
32Margaret and Helen have a response!
http://margaretandhelen.com/2014/01/24/uncle-sugar-needs-to-meet-aunt-flo/
33It is sad that we can’t get a Texas Republican to say things like that. I’m just waiting for Abbot or Dewhurst to have their “relax and enjoy it” moment. (If you don’t recognize that phrase, Google Clayton Williams!)
34There’s gotta be some way to make enough noise to stop the TPP. Enough people made noise to keep us out of Syria. (That, or it’s what TPTB wanted all along – she said cynically.)
The TPP is not an agreement among governments. It’s an agreement among corporations – to rule the world.
35And let’s not forget Viagra! (free on Medicare and many health insurance plans)
For men, sex is a health issue.
For women sex is a moral issue.
At least that is the Republican platform.
36And another thing I want to get off my chest.
Every abortion begins with a man. And it usually begins with a man doing something irresponsible. Men bear a minimum of 50% of the responsibility for most abortions, sometimes more than 50%. That is not to say that women bear no responsibility. But they can never bear more than 50% of the responsibility unless they took the sperm without consent.
If a woman wants to use a man’s frozen sperm for conception, she need written consent from the donor. But if a man wants to use a woman’s eggs for conception, all he needs is a quickie.
Okay, No more coffee for me.
37Dear Elizabeth,
Your essay is wonderful and you anticipated my first thought by observing that Huckabee and his ilk make sure that criticism such as yours never intrudes in their empty, soulless circles.
And yes, Huckabee has a wife. She is quite proficient with a gun. I wonder how that impacted their “love life” (you should pardon the expression.)
38@Elizabeth … what a fantastic rant. I’m going to copy that and plaster it on Facebook and give you the credit for saying it all so perfectly!
39ELIZABETH ROCKS! Sign that woman up for a speaking tour!
As for ol’ Huck, and the rest of the boys in the hoods, I think their words betray that they aren’t getting any, except maybe in airport restrooms and from “traveling companions.” Their rants say more about Republican women than they do about real women, and their finge-waving anger masks a deep-seated jealousy.
40Looney Louis, hating to be left out, just had to jump in with another of his usual brain farts…
“Coming off Huckabee’s comments this morning about incentivizing horny women with birth control, Rep. Louis Gohmert says government tries to “lure” single moms into “servitude” with welfare.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rebranding-going-great
41I dropped Elizabeth’s wonderful rant on Huckabee’s Facebook page … LOL It will probably be deleted, but there were other rants going on there, as well! Hopefully a few other folks will be able to read it before it disappears!!
42Let me give a nod to all the comments here, especially those by Elizabeth.
Let me also apologize in advance for going off-topic to address something that may seem unnecessarily critical. It’s just that I am an animal lover and in particular a lover of snakes. I appreciate the use of down home Texas maxims, but when they invoke the mindless fear-killing of snakes, even when the image evocatively connects us to our primal drive to protect ourselves and others, or perhaps especially when it does so, I think it has crossed a line. At least, it has for me.
Now, if grandma had faced four Texas Republicans with one hoe, that would have been a different matter.
Peace,
43Tom
Religious right wingnuts want to be able to use moral,religious rights to deny moral,religious rights to people they disagree with. Wingnuts think Dems want Uncle Sugar to help women make decisions about birth control and reproductive rights while rethugs use Uncle Sugar to take those same rights away from women. Hucksterbee wonders why women tend to vote Democrat?
44Yes Elizabeth classed us all. Well done!
Now when I began reading the rubric I stopped on the first sentence. Are we talking street hoe or garden hoe? And what do snakes have to do with it. I re-read the line and as Roseanne Rosanadana would say “Never mind.”
45I think Grifter Huckajesus needs to apply to Uncle Sugar for some help with his FORK LIBIDO:
46http://www.amazon.com/Quit-Digging-Your-Grave-Knife/dp/B00BV2NBDY
Thanks, Elizabeth, for summing it all up so beautifully.
47I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt, but here’s what
What-the-Huckabee and his ilk are opposed to:
(1) Non-procreational sex
(2) Women in control of the number of children they give birth to
The Hucks don’t understand:
(1) The pill and other birth control methods protect not only the woman — but the couple — from unwanted procreation on a 24/7 basis
Protection 24/7 is insurance, unike condoms or other case-by-case basis protection (this is key to the slut-thing)
(2) Why non-procreational sex occurs
A woman might be engaging in sex 24/7 because her other half (definitely a man) might want the sexual encounters., not necessarily because of her libido
(3) The man involved might not want a child; he might just be satisfying his libido, ie, again: non-procreational sex is not solely a woman’s decision
So they’re against the 24/7 protection that modern birth control (pill, etc.) provides is because: WOMAN/WOMEN
Signed: a card-carrying Texas Dem in FL
48Don’t you just want to shake him so hard all the Viagra falls out of his pants?
49“If a woman wants to use a man’s frozen sperm for conception, she need written consent from the donor. But if a man wants to use a woman’s eggs for conception, all he needs is a quickie.”
Ralph–Do you have that available on a t-shirt?
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