*sigh*

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These people are able to express the sentiments I hold in a much more eloquent manner than I am able to. Besides, writing out rants on all of these topics would take more time and effort than I currently possess. Therefor, here are some article links...

Bush Slaps you Sanctity: Oppress your Daughters and Slaughter Some Evildoers, it's (another) National Sanctity of Life Day

"And here we are, once more tied to the rack of the cripplingly painful irony that is Dubya's National Sanctity of Life Day, in case you didn't know and in case you forgot to buy a card or something, and isn't it just the most adorable slap to your karmic consciousness you ever did hear?"

"Because there's Dubya himself, stammering on from a prepared script clearly written by someone else given all the polysyllabic words, all about cherishing life and protecting the unborn and isn't life just this great fuzzywarm glowing hunk of precious blah blah blah, ad nauseam, hey whoops gotta run folks time to massacre some Iraqis and decimate some forests, smirk."

"What, too harsh? Hardly."

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"Dubya actually said it. He actually went so far as to pledge his administration's commitment to "build a culture that respects life," saying this with a straight face, no violent lightning bolt striking him dead on the spot, no gnarled filthy hell-beasts reaching with clawed fingers up from the ground and dragging him under, isn't that just the sweetest thing and don't you just feel the sentiment deep in your heart? Or perhaps your colon?"

"It really is just the kindest, most conservatively compassionate sentiment -- unless of course you happen to be, you know, a foreigner, or an animal, or the environment, or gay or female or non-Christian or anyone who's not really, really white and wealthy and who doesn't know Dubya Sr. personally or who hasn't bootlegged a half-rack of Coors Light from the local Liquor Barn for Jenna."

Hey Women Take That Ha Ha Ha: In Which the Antichoice Crowd Gets All Giddy About Further Restricting Women's Rights

"And furthermore, no female who ever became pregnant as a direct result of the lack of proper birth control information, or of the incessant stream of guilt-ridden conservative-cheered church-inhibited faux-advice masquerading as sex education in this nation, is right now saying to herself, oh joy, I get to go have this highly unpleasant, painful, frustrating, often depressing procedure. Are we clear?"

"But it is, as it has always been, her choice, and no one else's. Oh yes it is."

"It is not yours, not mine, not your God's, not Dubya's, not a lawyer's, not an old misogynist Republican senator's (hello, Sen. Brownback), not those who choose to interpret a barely formed fetus as a viable "life," and who scream that everyone else must agree with their interpretation."

"And certainly, the choice does not belong to Bible-waving antisex "pro-family" clusters of self-righteous, two-minute-missionary-position Christians living in Colorado Springs or Kentucky or Washington, D.C. Is this clear?"

"Is that stereotyping? Is that too mean? Not even. Not when you see how hell-bent they are on hurling the nation, and women, back to 1954, and enforcing their own narrow and bitter views of God and females and procreation upon the entire country. You know, just like Syria."

"...Women have always had abortions. They always have, and they always will, and the antichoice crowd can scowl and legislate and stomp their pious bunioned feet and refuse to ever have good sex in their entire lives and they will only contribute to the pain and suffering (and yes, death) of thousands of poor women worldwide, for whom basic health care funding has been cut due to Bush's abortion stance. How proud they must be."

The Barricade of Reproductive Freedom

"The Christian Right has taken over two branches of our government ­ the executive and the legislative ­ and is fighting desperately to take over the third, our judicial system. With a conservative, right-wing Christian president like George W. Bush, they will do just that. Bush will nominate only anti-abortion ideologues to the federal bench and the Supreme Court, and they will be quickly approved by a House and Senate dominated by Bush clones. Why is the right wing so determined to take over the courts, particularly the Supreme Court? They are pathologically focused on overturning Roe v. Wade."

"The anti-choice extremists in this country are on a perverted path that will lead to the same outcome as the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan ­ repression and control of women. The first step is to deprive women of the fundamental powers of self-determination, starting with the most basic human right of all, reproductive freedom. Most Americans do not realize that we are already engaged in a religious war that our opponents do not intend to lose, and a woman's body is the battleground. Abortion is their rallying cry and the centerpiece of their political strategy."

"The threat to our democracy is not from swarthy, middle-eastern Muslims who hate us in the name of Allah. The threat is from our next door neighbor with the innocent, peach-fuzz face who earnestly believes he's been called by Jesus to save our souls. It's these self-righteous Christian extremists, determined to use our secular laws to impose their personal religious beliefs on all Americans, who will be the ones to shred our Constitution in the name of God."

Complete sentences: Turning Students into Prison Inmates

"A simple solution would avert the budget disaster facing California's schools: We should declare every public school to be a prison. The kids would understand."

"Details need to be worked out, but I want every child in California to be given a 13-year prison sentence at age 5, with the possibility of a four-year extension."

"That way, the $7,000 the state spends per student each year could immediately be raised to $27,000 -- what the state spends on each inmate annually. And our criminally under-funded schools would qualify for the only category in the governor's proposed budget that's slated to get more money this year."

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"Given the alternative of layoffs, more crowded classrooms, fewer teachers' aides and disappearing supplies, school officials should jump for joy at the chance for their district's schools to be transformed into prisons and their students to become inmates."

Does anyone want to move to Canada with me? Or maybe Mexico would be better... I can speak (some) Spanish, and it's certainly warmer down there...