Maybe later, I'll diary on what the radical ("to the root" causes) movement for abortion access has been. I'm going to start instead, with what doesn't work. Today has brought yet another front page diary bemoaning NARAL and labeling them a women's organization, it's cute and all, but it's more important to set those preconceptions aside, and get down to what they are in reality and more importantly how we get back out of this morass. (And no, I'm not just blowing smoke out my ass, this is a diary solidly coming from `been there, done that'.)

The commentary by Mr. Patton included this sentence:

Medved compares the film, which is skillfully directed by Ang Lee ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") to "Triumph of the Will," Leni Riefenstahl's 1934 documentary of Adolf Hitler: a brilliant, convincing bit of filmmaking, the sole purpose of which was to promote a political and/or social agenda.

Mr. Patton gives no citation for the alleged quote.

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"The President seems to have admitted that he secretly eliminated this entire legal process."

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It probably feels like any other morning; you get up, take a shower, brush your teeth, head out to work... the usual.

Maybe this evening when you get home from work you'll kick off your shoes, sit down in front of the TV or the computer and take a look at Kos. At some point a small news story or a diary will go by, and maybe you'll think nothing of it.  It'll contain the "A" word- and maybe you'll tune out.

No biggie.

Unless and until of course, ...

What are some of the efforts that have been tried in relation to reduced access and the necessity of pilgrimages for reproductive services?

Unfortunately, the pilgrimages I speak of are not some prophetic future possibility, nor something out of a work of fiction such as "The Handmaid's Tale," they are a current reality and as close as Amtrak and I-95.

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I have very little to say at the moment. I am beyond rage.

There are tens of thousands dead, not just in the city, but across the region; I have no qualms about saying it. And there will be tens of thousands more even if everything went perfectly from this moment forward. And you can lay the blame for many, many of those deaths at the doorstep of the fucked up "Can't happen here, bad stuff happens only outside our borders" mentality of those whose responsibility it was to deal with it.

I can understand hurricanes, even been in the nasty edges of one once. It's the fuckers who refused to listen to every word of warning of how this was going to play out BEFOREHAND. You want a time for blame? The time for blame is now.

Bush and his administration have only one option now: own it.

America - whatever's left of it - and Americans can't even begin wrap their minds around the magnitude of this. It's nothing but dominoes from here.

It grew. It grew into both suggestion in favor of, and an effort to point at a pre-existing example of autonomist action in response to what is happening to our country.

As in, here's a real world example of what was tried and accomplished this last year in Columbus, Ohio prior to the election as Operation Save America attempted to drive the wedge issue of abortion in the run-up to the election. Instead, what they actually accidentally achieved was a community united against bullies who said with a collective chorus of united voices, No not in my town you don't. You can't have it.

Anna, and JAV

I did notice, I appreciated that, and I saw the recommend.

If it got you thinking and talking, well, I think a lot of people were thinking and talking.

I assure you that at absolutely no time have I missed there's a human being on the other end of what I type here or elsewhere. I don't post casually, I hope I never will.

Update [2005-6-15 2:29:0 by stormcoming]: No, it's not vitriol, it's calling a spade a spade. See below.

So this morning, I get treated to "One man's perspective on abortion" which is all very quaint, what with propagandistic terminology like 'unborn child' and all sitting in the middle of it. Always nice to hear such utter physical impossibilities as "when we were pregnant" out of someone quite cuntless. Lovely. I guess for the mere act of showing up and going to a clinic we should put him up for sainthood: Father-fucking-Theresa or something.

That would all be just cute were it not exactly the kind of crap I wrote against in my first diary. (Obviously we all learned a great deal from the experience - not.)

It's always painful when places you thought might be one of the last few outposts of saniety's owner and other readers decide they're willing to trade your life away, and the lives of others away, and ultimately their own lives away, because for some reason, they genuinely don't understand what's at stake. Words are important, and so tonight, at Daily Kos, I as one of the written off, am going to write a diary for the first time, raise my voice, and once AGAIN tell so called 'friends' how much they're hurting the people next to them. To say nothing of how much they're cutting their own throats in the process.