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Monday, 18 February 2008
Jealous woman slaughters would-be father and ex
Topic: Assholes in the news

[cross-posted from my Blogspot, Aiken Area Progressive]

NEW YORK CITY -- A 34 year-old woman is in jail for maliciously killing her ex-boyfriend after he came to get his belongings. Via the New York Daily News (NY Daily News' story is in black).
 

If a Bronx woman couldn't have her young lover, she made sure no one else could, cops say.

Doomed Harry Ward, 22, showed up at Jackeline Brown's Tremont apartment Tuesday to collect his things and say goodbye to his 34-year-old ex, witnesses said.

But when Ward's new girlfriend, who is pregnant with his child, entered the home, Brown snapped and stabbed Ward to death, police said.

"I heard his piercing scream," said a neighbor who refused to give her name. "It went through to my bones."

Ward stumbled out the door, leaving a trail of blood from his chest, witnesses said. Brown, a mother of two, grabbed a towel and tried to stop the bleeding.

The pregnant woman "was fainting away, saying, 'That's my baby's daddy. That's my baby's daddy,'" the neighbor said.

Even as Ward was dying in the hallway, the women argued, witnesses said.

"He was breathing heavy, but he couldn't talk," said Edgar Guerrero, 15, who saw the fight. "They were both screaming about how she was pregnant. I was scared. I thought she was going to kill everybody." Brown told cops that Ward had arrived already stabbed, but they didn't buy her story. She was charged with murder and weapons possession.



I'm glad that NYPD didn't buy Ms. Brown's story. Her intent was clear and it was clear that she killed Mr. Ward in cold blood.

And all of the people who posted on the NY Daily News's boards should be ashamed of themselves. The misandrist assholes on the board were all blaming the victim for what this murderous woman did. Mr. Ward did nothing wrong. He was just packing up his stuff, about to leave.

Also, I don't want to hear things like the man shouldn't have brought his pregnant girlfriend to his ex's house. That is just an excuse for Ms. Brown's actions. She is a killer and she should be seen as such, not as this woman scorned. Condoning what Ms. Brown did is misandry at its worst.

Posted by jovan29853 at 5:29 PM EST
Saturday, 16 February 2008
Sacramento Kings cheerleaders' photos appear on the web

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The Sacramento Kings cheerleaders were just having fun when their partying showed up on the web.  Via Fox News.

The Maloofs are pretty miffed over this. But what is even more sad is that some asshat took pics of these females without their permission.  I believe that the Kings were on the road when the cheerleaders came out to party.  This story has all the similarities of a story of a Texas High School cheerleading squad who posted pics of themselves on MySpace that was supposed to be fun, but ended with them drawing multiple days of OSS because of the pics.  The posting of the Sacramento cheerleaders pics by another asshat is meant to shame these women for acting like whores and sluts, the very slut-shaming that we fight against every day.  And one thing that I don't understand is why we as a society tell cheerleaders and other women to stay sane and sober when we should be telling these asshats with the cameras to stay sane and sober and leave the cameras at home?  The Sacramento Kings cheerleaders are not to blame for these pics going on the web.  The asshat(s) who posted these pics on the web are directly to blame for this fiasco.

Pretty damn sad that people can't have any fun without being embarassed by the media or some other asshole.


Posted by jovan29853 at 8:32 PM EST
Updated: Saturday, 16 February 2008 9:04 PM EST
Friday, 15 February 2008
Taliban-like bill introduced in South Carolina
Topic: Misogynist Assholes

[Cross-posted from my Blogpost, Aiken Area Progressive]

COLUMBIA -- Just when you thought big government conservatives would really want to repair their image, the misogynist state legislatures here in my home state want to ban all abortions by stating that life begins at the point fertilization. And one of the most vocal supporters of this Taliban-like measure is none other than Mr. Taliban of South Carolina himself, Johnny Gardner. From The State (the newspaper's report in black):

<quote>

The abortion debate is heating up again this year at the State House with a new bill that asserts life begins at the moment of fertilization.

But others who attended the subcommittee meeting, including members of the S.C. Coalition for Healthy Families, say the bill threatens women’s access to birth control.

In particular, it might affect access to the morning-after pill, an
emergency contraceptive that is a high dose of the drug found in many regular birth control pills. Taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex, it greatly reduces the risk of pregnancy.

“Do these lawmakers want to tell the women in their districts that
they’re denying them access to birth control?” said Brandi Parrish, coordinator and legislative liaison for the coalition.

The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Greg Delleney, R-Chester, said the subcommittee will get clarification from McMaster on whether and how the bill would affect birth control access before scheduling additional public hearings.

The bill is viewed by some as the latest attempt to chisel away at
abortion rights in the Palmetto State.

Last year, a bill was introduced that would have required a woman
seeking an abortion to view an ultrasound image of the fetus.

Thursday marked the fourth time the Right to Life bill has come before the House subcommittee. Last year, it made it out of the House but died in the Senate.

Some women, like Kathy Finger, of Columbia, say only pregnant women and those close to them have the right to decide whether an abortion is the right option.

In 2004, Finger, who was pregnant, learned she had cancer and needed chemotherapy to survive — a move that would hurt her fetus.

She opted to take a limited amount of chemotherapy drugs until after
the baby was born.

Today, Finger and her daughter are doing well.

“Myself, my husband, my family, we were the only ones who could decide what was best to do in our situation,” she said. “For anyone to presume to make the decision for us, that would be audaciously presumptuous.”

</quote>

I absolutely agree with Mrs. Kathy Finger.  The very people who are pushing for this so-called "Right to Life Act" are all men, all of whom can never get pregnant: Gov. Mark Sanford, AG Henry McMaster, Gardner, and state Rep. Greg Delleney. This is yet another attempt by the anti-choice lunatic fringe to rape women on the spot. The SC Coalition for Healthy Families is correct: this bill would outlaw birth control. And did anyone notice that this is a trigger law -- meaning that it would take effect should the Supreme Court strip what little rights women have left right out of our Constitution?

This bill is a blatant attempt by our state government to control women's bodies. And it must be stopped at all costs. The people of South Carolina have an obligation to defeat any and all measures by our state government to control women's bodies. And there is one co-incidence I found with the bill: it was introduced on Valentine's Day. We tell women that love don't have to hurt, but the state government sure don't want women to be free. I have posted about attempts by Colorado, Georgia, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Mississippi wanting to force its sharia laws on women. Other bloggers -- such as Cara from the Curvature -- have talked extensively about attempts in Missouri, North Dakota and Indiana by rogue state legislatures to put their sharia laws on women. All of these laws would allow the government to rape women. Forced pregnancy is rape. And these laws make the antis very similar to the Taliban.

We must change the faces of the people who make laws if we are going to assure that women are going to be free.


Posted by jovan29853 at 1:08 PM EST
Updated: Friday, 15 February 2008 1:21 PM EST
Monday, 11 February 2008
Get to know the real John McCain

WASHINGTON -- In case if you have missed anything, Sen. John McCain is still being painted as an independent by the media.  Fact is, he is no centrist, moderate or maverick.  He is a far-right ideologue.

Since becoming a Senator in 1987, Sen. McCain has voted for women's freedom zero percent of the time (out of 113 votes scored by every major women's group), making him staunchly anti-woman.  He is also anti-choice, voting only 3.4% of the time with NARAL.  Out of 117 votes, he has voted with NARAL only four times -- all four of those votes were on stem cell research.  In fact, since 1999, he has had a perfect (or imperfect) zero percent rating from every major women's group, including NARAL.

Here is the info on Sen. McCain here.

And Feministing's Ann "Fashionista" Friedman has a lot more on Sen. McCain's ultra-conservative record.

And then there is this: Planned Parenthood is airing ads on all DC radio stations telling people to quit listening to the not-so-straight talk coming from Sen. McCain and listen to his own words behind closed doors.


Posted by jovan29853 at 1:37 PM EST
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Happy Roe v. Wade Day! Here is my entry for Blog for Choice 2008
Topic: Special Days

[Cross-posted from my Google blog, Aiken Area Progressive] 

Today, I am here to honour the 35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Here is why I am pro-choice and vote pro-choice, and have been pro-choice since January 31, 2003:

I am pro-choice and I vote pro-choice because I CARE ABOUT WOMEN. In case if you don't know, my best friend is a woman.

I am pro-choice and I vote pro-choice because I WANT THE ATROCIOUS HYDE AMENDMENT TO BE ABOLISHED.

I am pro-choice and I vote pro-choice because ANTI-CHOICE LAWS HAVE KILLED MORE THAN 261 MILLION WOMEN DURING PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH SINCE JULY 4, 1776.

I am pro-choice and I vote pro-choice because I DON'T WANT WOMEN TO DIE DURING PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH.

I am pro-choice and I vote pro-choice because I WANT THE GLOBAL GAG RULE TO BE REPEALED AND CONGRESS TO PERMANENTLY BAN THE GLOBAL GAG RULE FROM EVER BEING REINSTATED.

And most telling of the reason why I am pro-choice and I vote pro-choice is because I TRUST WOMEN TO MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT THEIR OWN BODIES, I WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO STAY OUT OF WOMEN'S LIVES AND I WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO STAY OUT OF THE MEDICAL ROOMS.

Ok, readers -- it is your turn. Why are you pro-choice and why do you vote pro-choice?


Posted by jovan29853 at 11:36 AM EST
Updated: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 11:41 AM EST
Sunday, 6 January 2008
Graniteville, three years later
Topic: News

GRANITEVILLE -- It is a day that changed me personally and Graniteville directly.

January 6, 2005.

2:33 a.m.

The exact time in which two trains collided when one of the trains wasn't even moving.  People in that town said they heard a loud BOOM as if something had exploded.

When I woke up at 6 a.m., I was stunned at what I saw.  USC Aiken was now a makeshift ER.

At 7 a.m., then I knew it was something far worse.

That is when I knew that lives 28 miles apart was going to be altered forever.  The 5,400 people in Graniteville had to levae their homes.  And for me and my best friend, we knew that this horrible event was going to be forever linked with her birthday.

By the time noon had gotten here, we got word of casualties.

At 8 p.m., that figure stood at eight people dead.

By 2007, the number stood at 11 people dead. Ten Americans and one Canadian.

And what has happened in Columbia?  Business as usual.

Our incompetent state government still as incompetent as ever for the past five years.  They have offered only meager help to the people in Graniteville.  And it is a disgrace.  And the State of South Carolina should hang their heads in shame.

And when you look at what our officials in Columbia has been doing to help us out, it is easy to see why the residents of Graniteville or Aiken County don't want to talk about the incident.

This is also one more reason as to why we need to change the faces of our do-nothing state government.

Today, let's remember the people of Graniteville, even if our state government doesn't.


Posted by jovan29853 at 6:00 PM EST
Monday, 24 December 2007
BlueProgFemBlog is taking the remainder of the year off...
Topic: Lycos
WILLISTON -- BlueProgeFemBlog will not be posting again in 2007.  We will return on a semi-daily basis on January 6, 2008.

Posted by jovan29853 at 10:23 AM EST
Friday, 21 December 2007
Woman arrested for indecent exposure at NBA game
Topic: News

MEMPHIS -- A 35-year-old woman was arrested for showing her breasts at FedEx Forum.  Stephanie Simpson was arrested for indecent exposure at the game.

Incidents like this in a very large stadium shouldn't be defended by feminists as liberation unless they plan to join the fight to overturn all public indecency laws.  Keep in mind, a man would have been arrested much more quickly if he was to show his penis at a sports game, such as the situation seven years ago when someone showed his penis to former Atlanta pitcher John Rocker at Dodgers Stadium.

Hopefully, she will know that there are a time and a place for everything as long as we have these so-called 'morality' laws.


Posted by jovan29853 at 5:51 PM EST
Updated: Friday, 21 December 2007 6:16 PM EST
Thursday, 20 December 2007
Review: Live in Boston 1970 by The Doors
Topic: Music

NEW YORK CITY -- Live in Boston 1970 is the live album by the Doors.  They performed for the last time before Jim Morrison's untimely death the following year in the Massachusetts capital city.

It may not sound like your typical Doors, but according to music experts, it is better sounding than most of the other Doors bootlegs and live albums.  As for the songs, there is a 17-minute "Light My Fire" medley on the second disc that is really intriguing.  Other than that, there is not much else that is of note, except for the speeches -- nearly all of which is under 30 seconds.  Also, of note, Mr. Morrison turns down an offer to strip naked.

But, in this box, are raw material that made the Doors who they are.  I would recommend this album to your collection, even if it isn't up to the task like Live In Philadelphia or Absolutely Live.

Final Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5


Posted by jovan29853 at 9:31 PM EST
The Dictator-in-Chief talks about 2008 presidential race
Topic: News

[Cross-posted from my Google blog, Aiken Area Progressive]  

WASHINGTON -- George Bush, the never-elected dictator of this nation, now talked about what qualities the next president should have in 2008. He mentioned that the next president must have knowledge of the world's problems. Well, guess what? Bush don't even know about the world's problems, and it is pretty evident he don't know jack because he has put our very honourable servicepeople in his own personal slaughterhouse that is Iraq.

What Bush really wants is another dictator in the White House, just like him. And each of the Republicans that are running for president (including the recently dropped-out Tom Tancredo as of 2 p.m.) are also all dictators.

So, if our democracy is to be saved, the Democrats are the only correct choice. And until we have a very pro-choice, very pro-gay, very pro-ERA independent running for the White House, the Democrats will continue to be the only correct choice for public office.

As for Bush, he is the worst current dictator far and away, even worse than Time magazine's Person of the Year, Vladimir Putin and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega.


Posted by jovan29853 at 9:20 PM EST

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