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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMandatory Wednesday Malloy Truthseeker Check In! Church Night!! Sinners!
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So many flying monkeys so little time. Should we focus on the senates vote against pay equality for women? The possibility of sending ground troops into Iraq? The latest accidental family shooting fatality? The most recent El Rushbo outrage? Seems more difficult than usual to pick a proper topic for our weekly Wednesday sermon, faithful Truthseeker.
The misogynist male legislators that dominate the GOP still maintain their medieval views where it concerns paycheck fairness. Huffington Post reports it this way:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/15/paycheck-fairness-act_n_5825644.html?utm_hp_ref=women&ir=Women
The Paycheck Fairness Act would ban employers from retaliating against employees who share salary information with each other, impose harsher penalties for pay discrimination and require employers to be able to show that wage gaps between men and women are based on factors other than gender.
The bill needed 60 votes to overcome a Republican filibuster and advance to a final vote on passage, but it fell short Monday by a vote of 52 to 40. Senate Democrats have brought the bill to the floor four times since 2011, and each time Republicans have rejected it.
Their lame excuse for refusing to support equal rights? That it would discourage employers from hiring women. Gimme a break. Any employer who would deliberately pay a woman less than a man for the same job is establishing basis for a lawsuit . . . and that women wouldnt be happy working for such a jerky outfit anyway.
Then there is the increased possibility that were sending more combat troops into Iraq, which if it comes to pass will make the president do a dizzying 180 rivaling King Georges the Firsts doomed proclamation about no new taxes. CNN has more:
Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that it was possible that U.S. troops advising and assisting Iraqs military could be deployed to fight.
To be clear, if we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific ISIL targets, I will recommend that to the President, Dempsey said during testimony before the committee.
Dempseys comments, which he made several times under questioning by senators, contradicts President Barack Obamas promise that the campaign to defeat and destroy the terrorist group that calls itself the Islamic State would not include American boots on the ground.
The President maintains there will be no boots, but stopped short of saying read my lips. Pour yourself a shot of Victory Gin and repeat this phrase Truthseeker we are winning the war with East Asia . . . . we have always been at war with East Asia . . .
Meanwhile, in the sunshine state, a birthday party turned deadly when the honorees brother decided to show off his gun-slinging skills and ended up fatally shooting his sister in the neck, right in front of her daughter. RawStory has the tragic details:
A Florida woman was shot and killed over the weekend when her brother unsuccessfully attempted to re-enact some fancy gunplay from the movie Tombstone. In the 1993 classic western, actor Michael Biehn, as Johnny Ringo, elaborately twirls his pistol during a barroom showdown with Val Kilmer, as Doc Holliday.
Eric Stayton attempted the same stunt Saturday night at his home in Chaires, where about a dozen friends and relatives were celebrating the birthdays of his sister, 39-year-old Renee Chaires, and her 23-year-old daughter, reported the Tallahassee Democrat. Chaires, a hair stylist who would have turned 40 this week, was standing next to her daughter in the homes carport when the 50-year-old Stayton began twirling his gun in the air.
As he attempted to holster the weapon, it slipped from his hand, struck the concrete floor, and fired. A single shot struck Chaires in the neck, and she later died.
The NRA has yet to issue an official response. Who slings a loaded gun at a birthday party? I mean, other than a member for the Palin tribe?
And finally tonight, Rush deaf by temptation Limbaugh has again put his foot in his piehole by claiming that rape victims often say no when they really mean yes. We understand why Rush may lack an understanding of consensual sex, given that he may have no personal knowledge of the subject, but to claim that the rapist is the true victim because the slut woman was saying no when she meant yes . . . thats pushing it, even for the Pigman. Heres Huffington Post again:
Rush Limbaugh is so sick of the modern definition of consent. When a girl says NO, she actually means NO. But thats just crazy talk, according to Limbaugh. How many of you guys in your own experience with women have learned that no means yes if you know how to spot it? he asked on The Rush Limbaugh Show Monday. It used to be used as a cliché.
Really? Was it?
Limbaugh then read off Ohio State Universitys definition of consent, which outlines how two people should behave once they have decided to engage in a sexual relationship. It states that you and your partner must agree to engage in the activity every step of the way, including agreeing on why you are doing so. But that just sucks all the fun out of it, Limbaugh said.
Agreeing on the why takes all the romance out of everything! he said. Seduction used to be an art, now of course its brutish and its predatory and its bad.
Ah those damn sexual assault laws, they take all the fun out of rape. Especially in college. I mean, how else is a guy going to have a good time, eh? How we long for the good ol days when we just threw women down on the ground and did our business, then shamed them and called them whores. rush wouldve made a great GOP senator, but then hed have to take a massive pay cut.
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Mandatory Wednesday Malloy Truthseeker Check In! Church Night!! Sinners! (Original Post)
cal04
Sep 2014
OP
Hi cal04! Hi Everyone! Crook & I are doing good, How are you all doing? & Here's a Lion gif
ralps
Sep 2014
#3
good evening, ralps. oh, my--what a gorgeous being that last one is!! thanks for the needed
niyad
Sep 2014
#11
David Pakman Show: Canada Trying to Unbundle Cable TV Subscriptions; Comcast Doesn't Like It
alp227
Sep 2014
#29
Liberal_Dog
(11,075 posts)1. Greetings From The Bluegrass State
Hi cal04. Hello Everyone.
cal04
(41,505 posts)2. Hi Liberal_Dog! You're 1st
ralps
(77,738 posts)4. Hi Liberal_Dog!
ralps
(77,738 posts)3. Hi cal04! Hi Everyone! Crook & I are doing good, How are you all doing? & Here's a Lion gif
Thanks for the kittehs & Maru!! & the group Mike & Kathy are playing is Hiroshima! THey're GREAT!!! http://www.hiroshimamusic.com
Liberal_Dog
(11,075 posts)6. Hi ralps
ralps
(77,738 posts)7. Here's tonight's LOL Kittehs!
niyad
(113,306 posts)11. good evening, ralps. oh, my--what a gorgeous being that last one is!! thanks for the needed
smiles and grins. please give crook a big hug from me, and I wish you both a wonderful and peaceful evening.
ralps
(77,738 posts)16. Thanks niyad! & Crook & I say thanks, Hugs & Hi. For Sure!
niyad
(113,306 posts)8. good evening, everyone.
Liberal_Dog
(11,075 posts)10. Hi niyad
niyad
(113,306 posts)13. hi liberal dog
niyad
(113,306 posts)21. hi cal04--hey, I want ALL of them!! thanks for the awww and squeeee.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)9. Hi, everybody!
Love the lion!
Liberal_Dog
(11,075 posts)12. Hi Brigid
ralps
(77,738 posts)19. Hi Brigid!! Thanks!
shenmue
(38,506 posts)18. Yay kittehs! Yay!
cal04
(41,505 posts)20. Hi shenmue
ralps
(77,738 posts)22. Hi shenmue!
Liberal_Dog
(11,075 posts)23. Hi shenmue
alp227
(32,025 posts)24. Hi everyone! I emailed Mike the Texas US history education story.
I also posted a thread in breaking news: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014897897
Mike must read DU, his email, or both! Or the AP wire.
ralps
(77,738 posts)25. Hi alp227, Thanks for The link!
alp227
(32,025 posts)28. You're welcome! And another link:
ralps
(77,738 posts)30. Wow What a MotherF****er he is!
Liberal_Dog
(11,075 posts)26. Hi alp227
thanks for the link
alp227
(32,025 posts)29. David Pakman Show: Canada Trying to Unbundle Cable TV Subscriptions; Comcast Doesn't Like It
Just played during the break on progressive voices!
cal04
(41,505 posts)32. Thank you alp227
If they don't make tons of money and rip people off, they're not happy
ralps
(77,738 posts)31. Here's the newest video of DrNworb's Cupcake & Roodi vs Thunder & Monkey fighting over the Cat tree!
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alp227
(32,025 posts)33. Pakman: Scott Brown Gets Cringeworthy Introduction
From the latest break on PV:
cal04
(41,505 posts)34. Thank you alp227
I've never seen Pakman, or heard his shows, except on the breaks.
ralps
(77,738 posts)36. Here's the link to the Australian terror plot live blog
ralps
(77,738 posts)38. Good Night Everyone, Have a great day tomorrow, Take Care & Keep It Lit!!