Here’s where I ask the fearless readers to do something icky for the Kid

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As i mentioned, the Kid is studying the constitution and in a few weeks they are having debates on various topic. The Kid was going to do pro-gay marriage, but that got shot down by the principal (I think they didn’t ant to make anyone take the anti-side).

Since the Kid, lovable moppet that he is, is perpetually late to his first class, he missed the sign up period and got stuck with………

wait for it………..

wait for it………

Arguing the pro side of governmental wire tapping.

Now he is my kid and we are nothing if not kick ass debaters. Even though we both shudder at the idea of wiretapping, we want him to win his debate.

So I need you darling readers to put on your best scary republican face and make like wiretapping is a good thing. We need 6 pro-wiretapping sources by Monday. We need good arguments. And I need your help cause I’m having a hard time bending my mind around it (don’t forget- I’m already one of those people who gets chosen for “random” bag searches nearly every time I fly so I find it hard to be cheery at more forms of government invasion into privacy).

Help my kid kick ass and I will write a post on any topic of your choosing. Wanna hear about porn? Religion? My trashy sex life? Shameless confessions about anything. Help me and you get to read about whatever you want.

Sore Loser Whiners

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I keep hearing the same line of shit from the Obots “Stop being a sore loser”.

This is not a sports game, and that you are treating it like one goes straight to the heart of the problem with this entire campaign. You don’t say “stop being a sore loser” to someone in the middle of a war. And that is what we are in the middle of- a political war.

We are not going to lose a silly bet or bragging rights by losing this primary season. We will lose the heart and soul of the democratic party and all of the values that have made this party great since FDR will be thrown out the window. We are fighting to have our voices and our lives count. We are fighting because our party has been the big tent forever, but in this election cycle more and more of us (women, the poor and working classes, minorities) are being shoved out into an open field in a thunderstorm. Just like in my little roof metaphor, only now it is people who are supposed to by our allies doing the shoving and trampling.

Our votes cannot and should not be disenfranchised, marginalized, our disrespected. Our votes are earned, for us women we worked a fuck of a lot harder to get them than any of the Blogger Boyz ever did. We even worked harder than African American men did, though we worked to get them their votes too (and got thrown under the bus for 70 years for our troubles). So when someone tries to threaten and bully us into voting against our own self-interests,we know exactly what we are giving up.

Votes are earned. And Obama has not earned our votes. He has casually and callously dismissed them. And to be honest, I can’t see a moment when when there is enough water under the bridge for me to forgive that. You can’t shove us into the down pouring rain and then threaten us with broken umbrellas if we don’t agree with you. We’re all ready wet. A little more water won’t hurt us.

Dear Blogger Boyz

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It’s too late for flowers and candy.

Perhaps if your candidate hadn’t spent the last 6 months being a misogynist douchebag things could be different.

Perhaps if he hadn’t thrown everyone under the bus except for you, things would be different.

Perhaps if you all hadn’t jumped on the Why won’t the stupid bitch quit already campaign, things would be different.

Perhaps if you all hadn’t spent the last three weeks declaring that the white underclass couldn’t possibly have valid opinons and that they are all just racists, things would be different.

Perhaps.

But it’s too late.

In fact, I think another post-sexual white woman said it best with this.

Compliments

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One of my favorite questions to ask people is “What is the best compliment you’ve ever received?” It tells me more about the person than anything else.

So I’ve gotten a good share of compliments in my life. I’m a pretty girl, I don’t think there is a body part that hasn’t been complimented. While I love getting these kinds of compliments, they don’t generally make it into my favorites list.

Until the other night when the Hot Bulgarian (now to be known as THBWTPSC- the hot Bulgarian with the porn star cock) said I have black cherry eyes. I love black cherries. I think that’s awesome.

In lots of countries, people with my coloring, black hair and near black eyes, have a special name. Here, we don’t even think of them as black eyes- they are brown.

Before THBWTPSC, my favorite compliment was that I am dynamic. I like that. I like the idea of being quick and powerful and a force for change.

So fearless readers- what’s your favorite compliment?

Yay California!

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As I’ve told you all, the Kid is studying the constitution in school and last week he had a debate about gay marriage in his classroom.

The Kid, being a child who has always been around gay people and who has a mom who falls pretty near the middle of the Kinsey scale, came out to me as straight when he was 8. Conversation went like this-

“So mom, I think I’ve got it figured out”

“What do you have figured out”

“There are men who love other men and they are gay”

“Yes”

“And there are men who love women and they are straight”

“Yes, and there are also women who love women and they are gay too”

“Okay, I think when I grow up I am going to be straight”

“Okay kiddo, but those aren’t the only choices, there are people who love both men and women too”

And at that point I think gave his little 8 year old brain more info than it could handle. But I am told that it is pretty normal for kids who are around lots of gay and bi people to come out to their parents as straight (if that’s what they are).

So we have been more than tolerant (tolerant implies being kind to people who you think are different- we think people are just people and should get to love who they want)in our home. And he of course took this into the debate with him.

But the interesting part was talking to him about the constitutionality of DOMA afterwards.

My favorite poly sci professor ever, Mac Murray, is an old school civil rights attorney. He’s the one who enlightened me about how the gay marriage debate is finally going to end in this country. And I got to pass this little nugget onto the Kid.

In article IV is the full faith and credit act.This means that all states must give credit to the public and judicial acts of other states. This includes honoring the marriages of people married but moved to other states. Once we have states that have full legal marriage for gays and one of those couples moves to state that doesn’t have full legal marriage, they can challenge on constitutional grounds. And if the Supreme court (where it eventually will end up) stays true to the constitution then gay marriage will HAVE to be allowed.

But it must be marriage. Domestic partnerships don’t fall into the full faith and credit act. And as we all know, domestic partnerships are a half assed attempt at placating people without giving them real rights. It’s the gay version of separate but (not) equal.

So yay California. Your supreme court’s ruling that domestic partnership does not equal marriage puts us one step closer to that day when the Supreme Court says “a marriage in one state between gay people must be honored in all states”.

And the Kid will be happy yo hear this when he gets home tonight.

Dear NARAL, a break up letter

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I received this morning’s email regarding your endorsement of Obama for president. All I can say is “et tu, NARAL?” Did ya drink the koolaid?

Since when has “some control over their own bodies” meant bodily autonomy. I already have “some” control over my own body. I choose what to eat and when to sleep and thankfully who I get to fuck. But NARAL, I counted on your political action to work towards getting me full bodily autonomy.

And now you’ve gone and endorsed a candidate who not only wouldn’t know reproductive rights from a hole in the ground (No, seriously- he had to be reminded by an aid that voting to confirm Roberts wouldn’t be good news for any of his female supporters because he just doesn’t think about things that don’t involve his penis) but he also thinks misogyny, race baiting and classism are viable campaign tactics. being that you are a POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE I would takes this to mean you think his political actions are just and good.

And for an organization whose stated goal’s include electing pro choice candidates, I am surprised that you endorsed Obama who has in no manner, way, shape or form shown himself to be pro choice. He has shown himself to be dodgey with his “present” votes in the Illinois senate on the issue and changeable with his comments on parental notification. But so far there is nothing about him that says definitively- “I believe women should have the full rights to their own bodies that men have”. Quite the opposite actually.

I applied to be one of you summer canvassers. Please tear up and or burn my resume. I will instead give my time and my money to PATH or Planned Parenthood or hell I’ll just stand on the streets and hand out free condoms, but I will not support an organization for choice that supports candidates who want to restrict my right to choose.

Sincerely,

RQ