Oklahama: A True Friend
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 4:50PM Man, Oklahoma is really kicking it up a notch.
Both of Oklahoma's senators vote Nay on Franken's Amendment, and that's fantastic, only three out of four Senate Republicans gave us that kind of support. Now, as a commenter on an earlier post has pointed out, Oklahoma has put in place a law requiring rape for abortion seekers. That's kind of an oxymoron, I guess. Only sluts get abortions and you can't rape the willing! Hah! The AP reports:
Abortion rights supporters have challenged two new Oklahoma laws that would give the state some of the strictest abortion laws in the country by forcing women to answer questions about race and their relationships, and to listen to a doctor talk them through an ultrasound.
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Opponents of the laws, including the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, have sued to stop them from taking effect, arguing that both were rolled into larger bills, violating a state constitutional provision requiring bills pertain to a single subject. A district court judge issued a temporary order this week preventing the questionnaire law from taking effect.
Another district court judge overturned the other law, which would require women seeking abortions to undergo an ultrasound and to have a doctor talk them through what they're seeing. The law would require a doctor to use a vaginal transducer in the earliest stages of pregnancy, since that provides the clearest image when the fetus is small. The method is more invasive than the abdominal ultrasounds most pregnant women undergo.
The state has appealed that decision to the Oklahoma Supreme Court. In the meantime, lawmakers who backed the abortion laws have said they'd likely resubmit them as separate measures during the next legislative session.
I applaud you, Oklahoma, in your quest for mandatory rape, and I am praying for your victory in your fight to uphold these laws against the dictates of these activist judges!
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Oooooooooooooooooooklahoma where the rape comes sweeping down the plain.
You know, when I first read this story a few days ago, this element of "object rape" (the legal term for what Oklahoma now is trying to mandate by law), came to mind.
Being a guy, I didn't want to tread in this area for obvious reasons. That being said, I am so glad you have made this point so clearly.
It made me rethink what Jamie Leigh Jones has been through. She was brutally (physically) gang raped by Halliburton/KBR employees. She was raped a second time by KBR corporate in her imprisonment, the destruction of the evidence, blocking her access to the courts with this obscene arbitration claim, etc.
If all that wasn't bad enough, 30 "family values" "Conservative" Republicans have chosen to symbolically gang rape her again by suggesting what she survived really doesn't warrant KBR/Halliburton being punished.
This time, the rape was done out in the open, so we know the names of all the perpetrators. They are:
Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
John Barrasso (R-WY)
Kit Bond (R-MO)
Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Jim Bunning (R-KY)
Richard Burr (R-NC)
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Tom Coburn (R-OK)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Bob Corker (R-TN)
Mike Crapo (R-ID)
Jim DeMint (R-SC)
John Ensign (R-NV)
Mike Enzi (R-WY)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Judd Gregg (R-NH)
Jim Inhofe (R-OK)
Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
Mike Johanns (R-NE)
Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
John McCain (R-AZ)
Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
James Risch (R-ID)
Pat Roberts (R-KS)
Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
Richard Shelby (R-AL)
John Thune (R-SD)
David Vitter (R-LA)
Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Oklahoma isnt the most progressive state.
>> Oklahoma isnt the most progressive state.
Hmm... Jennifer, you win the coveted "Can't tell if it's sarcasm" in the thread award.
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Wikipedia: Oklahoma > State Symbols
Oklahoma - you paradox! It's home to Oral Roberts University yet somehow - and I really want to know how - they have a state fossil. How was that approved? Other bible belt states don't have state fossils, do they?
Oklahoma, you took a very tiny progressive step forward but then you take a huge step back towards bible belt stupidity.
They made the state rock song: "Do You Realize??" by The Flaming Lips, but now it seems that they want to make the state symbol the vaginal transducer (The link is an google image search).
Don`t know much about Okla., but those skanks running around in their cowboy boots & tight jeans, are asking to be raped. The real men there should make sure they get what they are asking for I know that they don`t have much education in Okla. so they want be able to write up a report about the rape.
Unfortunately for rapists they weren't Halliburton employees in Iraq. I wonder what will happen to the kids standing around taking photos and laughing. It will be interesting to see Fox News take on this. They probably won't overplay it. Doing so risks comparisons.
RFR - you are my HEROES
every single one of you.
H-E-R-O-E-S
... and a big shout out to Bill's conscience. That was awesome.
Real cowboys, such as Oklahoma's two GOP Senators Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn, know that rape is just part and parcel of the rugged plains life lived by grizzled oilmen and rough-and-ready saddle tramps in the 'OK' state. Often those Good Ol' Boys didn't see a woman for months when they were out on the trail, so naturally they raped the nearest woman (usually with her giggling consent) when they came into town. It's all right there in the Hollywood movies about the Wild West Inhofe and Coburn grew up watching, the very basis of Reagan Republicanism. As long as you raped with a white hat on, you were a good guy and, should the lady become pregnant, she could have the kid and, when he grew up, he could join Dad to do some manly cattle poking around the campfire, just as Zane Grey, John Ford and God Almighty intended.
And Jim and Tom have their priorities straight -- they make sure their cowpokes don't earn too much money or smarten up in school so that the rich folks always have a pool of cheap labor available to drive the herd or wildcat the oil strike. After all, what would all those dumb Okies do with money except blow it on gambling or gettin' likkered up?
I'm truly sorry. I live in Oklahoma and grew up here since early elementary school years. The communitiy that I grew up in was, at one time, listed in the "US Top 25 PhDs per Capita" primarily because of Phillips Petroleum research facility. I now work for a major research university so I know there are educated Oklahomans. I joke that I have what I call "The Living in the Red State Blues".....because while there are those of us who don't fit the mold to which you refer, obviously there aren't enough of us. Fear, superstition and distrust seem to control the Oklahoma voting public support but I honestly can't tell you why. It's not the first time that it's dawned on me that perhaps I should move but it's home. In daily life, honestly, you won't meet nicer people. Before you say it, I realize that "nice" is a pretty empty word and doesn't count for much if heads are turned from atrocities. We are in the stranglehold of the Bible Belt and honestly, I think that most people just listen to what their minister says and go with it. Others just have a hard time "jumping ship." The Republican Party is nothing like it was in the 60s or even the 70s so to many, it signified less government, less taxation, independence, etc....but as we know, that's really not what the Republican Party is anymore. Some people have a hard time divorcing themselves from that original concept.
For what it's worth, I vote every time. I have never supported Coburn or Inhofe. I see Coburn as a lunatic who is an embarassment and Inhofe as small-minded, evil man in the same vein as Cheney. I talk to people. We organize. We hope. And yet, the results are virtually the same each time: "He who holds the Bible & the American flag the highest, and looks the most WASP-like is probably going to win."
I had to write because it's painful to hear anyone respond to a problem with more stereotypes. I don't blame you but caution you that this isn't the answer either.
PS I have emailed my legislators regarding my opinion. I'm sure that they are "quaking in their shoes." LOL.
Clearly not supporting abortion is in fact supporting rape.
also...
"The method is more invasive than the abdominal ultrasounds most pregnant women undergo."
Did I miss something? These women are pregnant. This is a baby we are talking about not a inconvenient hangover.
30 white men, 30 white men ... see how they, see how they run ...
I don't see what the problem is. Rape has been a naturally occurring thing on our planet since the dawn of time. I mean, you you don't like rape, you must not like children. Rape helps make babies. Rape fuels the passion in my pants. Rape is the culmination of everything that's true and just in this world. Rape helps take the edge off after a long day at work. Besides, we all know that when a women cries rape, it's just the guilty feeling of her slutty ways that made it happen.
I'm glad I found this site, now I know to whom to send monies. I'll do my part to assure that my children can rape, just as their forefathers did. I, for one, will not stand by and watch while the freedom to rape gets taken away. Not this time!
Hey, let's take it the next level and just accuse these people of committing rape! A no vote is morally equivalent, no?
When you people get off your moral high, you may want to send a letter to President Barry, ask him why he supports rape just like the evil republicans. Change you can believe in.
Sorry to be such a party-pooper, but did you hear...
"...the 5th Circuit decided, Ms. Jones does not have to arbitrate her sexual assault claims and can take them to court. "
Nothing like unenforceable, emotional legislation to make us feel better about ourselves.
Undoubtedly the stupidest website of a generation.
Rush Limbaugh is outside my apartment going balls deep in the behind of a an eight year old Dominican boy right now while screaming "I'll teabag you next, you little brown love slave!" Funny6 how a guy with so much money can't even pay a woman to be with him, isn't it?
And now we have Republican's for breast cancer! Aren't these people wonderful? I mean, truly, if God wanted women to have breasts, he wouldn't have made breast cancer! Why should we intervene with His plan?
Here's the vote results:
Link
I recently moved to OK from the east coast. If I didn't live here and see the mentality myself, I truly would not believe it. When I first heard about the abortion bill, I was mortified. Not only because I see it as many others --as a complete and total invasion of privacy, but also because I feared what this small "victory" would do for the "angry mob". Heck, Oklahoma has court houses that still refuse to comply with the law by removing Ten Commandment monuments.
http://www.huddlestonlawoffices.com/2009/07/haskell-county-ten-commandments-monument-case-wont-be-reheard/
On a sidenote: Look how "adultery" is spelled on the monument....
I also can't figure out why I still keep getting shocked by the actions of the Republican Oklahoma Senators.
P.S. Love the sarcasm here. :)
Repugnicans and Blue Dog Dems hate women.
Any woman who votes for these misogynistc twerps needs her head examined.
blueredneck:
Gotta love being lectured on morality by illiterate fundies.