Couple this with what I’ve learned from American friends over the last ten years, and a recent three week visit to DC I can safely say:

The US political system is a mess. The whole two-house system is a good idea poorly executed. Both houses are inhabited by people who have to curry votes, and therefore have an agenda.

You have a head of state who can pretty-much veto any decision anyone else, including the people at large, make.

Lastly the people of the US can’t even consider their vote counted. Proportional representation is an evil political device that essentially rigs elections.

Sorry, I’ll stop ranting now.

Arrrgh. I have a stupidity-induced migraine now.

V xx

How could someone possibly think that liberals want abortions? We are pro CHOICE, not pro abortion. No one is pro abortion, no one wants an abortion! What kind of horrible person thinks that anyone could WANT an abortion? Sicko.

I just know that if it’s illegal, there are going to be all kinds of terrible “coat-hanger” abortions done in back rooms that will put the woman in just as much risk as the fetus. There will be women dying all over from the aftereffects of something like that. I simply think that there should be a way to ensure the safety of the woman. Do you think that woman that wrote that cares about women’s health, because I don’t think she does?

Also, the original post is about a pregnant woman smoking and complaining about something, so she’s labeled a liberal. Just because she’s complaining about something she’s a liberal?! So liberals are just a bunch of whiners? I should just shut up and not complain about how my civil liberties are going down the drain, and just be glad that I still have enough rights to complain (but I’m only allowed to have them if I don’t use them!).

And the fact that she’s smoking and pregnant leads me to believe that she’s not a liberal. Liberals and progressives are found to read more and to have a better understanding of the issues in this country in general. I therefore postulate to you that this woman that is stupid enough to be smoking while with child is not a liberal. Also, there is evidence to suggest that children that receive abstinence only sexual education are not prepared for when they do have intercourse and therefore do not know what to do to prevent STD and teen pregnancy. Comprehensive sex ed is found to be far more effective in preventing both. I can therefor assume that this girl did not receive proper sex ed, and was raised in a conservative area where sex ed is thought of as “scary.” Should my assumption be true, this girl is a product of what happens when conservative policies are put into practice, and thus is the reason that abortion should be legal.

She probably didn’t vote, because she doesn’t know that she’s allowed to vote.

Rather, I submit to you this: Ann Coulter thinks that we should take away a womans right to vote because it will no affect her at all. Her Adam’s apple is evidence enough to suggest this hypothesis.
You know what Ann? As long as we are taking away the right to vote (and that’s what it is: a right), let’s take away the right to run for office, because seriously, who’s going to vote FOR someone that can’t vote? You know what? Why do we even let them read and goto college, they should just stay home all the time and cook (I’d suggest this to my wife, but she’d beat the shit out of me).
Ann calls it her pipe dream, and hopefully it stays that, a pipe dream: something that you know can never come true. I have a pipe dream: that everyone in this country of inalienable civil rights is treated equally, and fairly. That everyone really gets equal rights, and they get equal representation and that everyone is treated fairly, and that we pursue peace above all else, along with fiscal and environmental responsibility. That we are not subject to prejudice. That we use the power of the government not to rise up the richest amongst us, but to rise up the least amongst us, that we help our fellow man, not our rich contributors and co-conspirators.
And yes, Ann, on that day we will pay for health care, and tuition, and day-care and so much more, because this is the United fucking States, and that’s what this country is about: everybody’s supposed to get a shot, everybody’s supposed to have a chance. I know that’s Ann’s parent’s bought her chance, but shouldn’t everyone get an equal chance, and that way the smart ones run the show, not the rich ones?
I’d respond to the anti-choice news, but I’ve taken enough of your space.