Palin, doin’ it, equal opportunity (not related to each other..ew)

Lots of things have been milling around in my brain lately.  they really have nothing to do with each other, but i will write them here.

Firstly, Sarah Palin.  yeah, yeah, i know, this shit is played out.  The problem is I’m conflicted because on the one hand, I get mad about questions of her fitness because of the she’s a mother and a woman.  on the other hand, I want the democrats to throw every fucking sexist argument at her and john mccain because the republicans and conservatives have been doing that to every somewhat powerful liberal/democratic woman forever.  But in the grand scheme of things, she’s just a fucking token.  I mean, I don’t think I’ve felt a greater sense of wanting to call someone a fucking sell-out, a fucking token, a poor example for women, as I do about Sarah Palin.  Gaining power at all costs by being the conservative poster girl (and totally looking like the librarian from every porn i’ve ever seen) a’int hot, and I don’t give a fuck.  it’s also times like these I remember why I hate fucking candidate politics…because I could give a fuck about her, or whatever, and she was just picked to try and woo hillary voters because women only think with their vaginas (and, btw, that’s the only important part on us!).  Please forgive my mom analytical, factual, “good feminist” reaction to this because I do what I want.  Lol.

Also, how is mccaing up in polls?  it’s because he stole obama’s message and is acting like he’s about change.  and the obama campaign is”where?”  yeah.  let’s lose this fucking election too.

i really don’t wanna go back to the porn store, but i really miss the sex education part of my life, as much as it involved sex-positivity and fun and harm reduction and shit.  so, in my future (after i help elect obama), i wanna go back to sex stuff.  i’m thinking of getting a masters in sex education, maybe?  that would be fucking fun.  although, how can we bust out of the box of sex as a white, straight male construction and make it awesome for all sorts of folks?  i know there is a lot of good work going on around this, but i find it extremely pretentious and judgemental because people still hold some fucked up judgements of sex if it doesn’t look a certain way (whether it be straight, gay, queer, etc.).  Also, I sometimes find that queerness has to be expressed in a certain way yo be acceptable…as in, you have to be all gay rights-y and working on marriage and allyship, or you have to be all mysteriously radical and anti-capitalist and shit, at least in denver.  I guess a lot of me doesn’t fit either of those things, and I’m not one to fret my identity, but it’s hard to see where you can build a community when you either have to disavvow things you enjoy, act fucking pretentious and academic, or be totally boring and non-controversial.

Please, please, please watch Jessie Ulibarri debate Jessica Corry, the person in charge of the deceptive amendment 46.  Maybe I’m biased, but after her opening sentence, she descends into making absolutely no sense.  Additionally, she never addressed how people can rememdy current discrimination, how the amendment advocates for the supposed “class-based alternatives” she kept talking about, and she lies about Ward Connerly endorsing the KKK, which you can see him doing here:

Also, watch the actual debate here.

Also, so we’re clear, Amendment 46 bans equal opportunity initiatives in Colorado that help qualified individuals achieve their full potential.  Ms. Corry claims that minority enrollment has gone up at the UC schools, but doesn’t talk about how this is asian (ah, east asian) enrollment increases and that the numbers for Black and Latino students have decreased.  She also talks about poor women as if being poor causes them to make less money (no, please, explain away the pay gap) and somehow makes their inequity in math and science.  Additionally, her claim that women make up 58% of college students nationwide is true, but it is a red herring.  The thing she doesn’t talk about is that most women are in programs that are more “womanly” like teaching or nursing, and that women are severly underrepresented in math and engineering programs, as well as science, history, etc.  Subjects that have generally been considered the subjects of men.  Such lies!  Also, 46 is not a homegrown initiative.  Ward Connerly paid for the petitions to be collected, many of the signature collectors were from out of state, and he gets paid millions of dollars by the American Civil Rights Institute (which doesn’t have shit to do with civil rights) to travel around the country limiting equal opportunity for all.  Must totally suck to get paid millions of dollars to gurantee people aren’t given the opportunity to succeed and acheive.

Also, my flickr feed should have pictures of my slow decline until election day!  lol.  i’m doing some ridiculous picture each day til obama wins!

 

Hurrican Gustav info.

via BFP

8/31 As Hurricane Gustav bears down on the Gulf Coast, Common Ground Relief is preparing for the worst. The levees have not been fully repaired, so widescale flooding could once again hit the city of New Orleans. Residents who were forced out of their homes in 2005 for a supposedly ‘temporary’ evacuation, and then found themselves kept out of their homes for 18 months or more, are understandably wary of the forced evacuation that is currently taking place. Common Ground Relief is committed to helping the people of the city survive this storm, no matter what happens.

But to do this, we need your help.

Here’s a basic list of what we need right now:
Generators: Diesel or Solar
Food, all kinds
Cooking Utensils (pots, pans, spoons, etc) for quantities of people
Water
Hygiene Supplies
Volunteer Health Care Providers (doctors, nurse practitioners, para-medics,
herbalists, etc)
Medications
Emergency Health Clinic Type Equipment
Refrigerated Supply Van or a Refrigerated Truck & Trailer
Shovels
Respirators
Tyvek Suits
Crowbars
Hammers
Wheel Barrows
Huge Tents to Set Up Distribution Centers, Temporary Medical Clinics, Office
Space, Living Quarters
OR… MODULAR STRUCTURES To Provide the Same
Bicycles
Chain Saws
Safety Goggles
Heavy Duty Work Gloves

ANOTHER OPTION IS TO MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS ONLINE HERE.
Links to more updates:
Gustav Info Center
Infoshop news
New Orleans Indymedia
Hannah Sassaman’s blog

 

Sarah Palin, uh, who?

As y’all prolly know by now, Sarah Palin is McCain’s CP choice.

It reminds me of that time GWB nominated Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

Although, maybe she’ll get the cougar vote.

My friend sent me this:

 

PeTA; still a bunch of racist, sexist douchenozzles

Another Fucked Up PeTA Ad

via Racialicious, a new ad from PeTA that says (in English and Spanish), “If the border patrol doesn’t get you, the chicken and burgers will. Go Vegan.”

As is shown in the Racialicious article, PeTA has previously used images of lynchings compared to that of a cow hanging at a meat plant, and also used images of the Holocaust next to those of chickens in cages.

The best part of this whole thing, too, is that PeTA is giving money to the US Border Patrol to advertise on their property, aka, the walls and border offices, which is funny seeing as it certainly signals to me that PeTA really does care more about their ad campaign, and animals that it does about Human Rights, what the border wall symbolizes in regards to human rights, and the fact they have no qualms giving money to an organization that has consistently actually treated people as less than human, or as “animals” if you will. I feel like addressing the fact nursing babies are forcibly separated from their mothers by the Border Patrol, that people who bring water and aid to the desert where hundreds of migrants from Mexico, Central and South America die each year, and that those who are detained by our government for being “illegal” are not given habeaus corpus or whatnot, might be more important than making a joke about what happens if the Border Patrol doesn’t apprehend you. Many people are deathly afraid of the unchecked power of la migra, and yet, PeTA feels they can make this into a joke, that totally denies the reality of immigration and denies human dignity in the process (like they’ve done so many times before).

PeTA is the fucking joke. Makes me want to go to Good Times.

And, yeah, this is my first post here. We’ll see how often I update.