The hubby says I clearly have way too much time on my hands. Come on, at least I’m not blogging multiple times a day >every< day, my love! In fact, this is just making up for the blog-free days! And I’m gonna paint the frame around the air conditioner today! And maybe haul some woodchips! And, of course, do laundry! Kisskisskiss.
This is nothing new, but since I’m on a being-pissy roll, I had to share this:
Notice the distance between the sprayer intake tube and the level of the cleaner. And don’t think it’s limited to Windex. Even in those opaque bottles, this is what they’re giving us. I don’t see why – it’s not going to make us buy more, I don’t think. I know I’m not the only one that pours the last bit of the old stuff into a new container. It just makes it more annoying, because now you have to have two open bottles of liquid cleaner, waiting to use up just that last bit until the new container has that much emptied out of it. Maybe the marketing department guys throw this out when they get a new container, so they thought the rest of us would, too? I don’t know. However, the industrial spray bottles they sell at Costco still have the tube that goes all the way down to the bottom, and Sharpie markers are pretty impervious to cleaners, so you can use those to label the different bottles. Plus, you can always buy the big, cheaper per ounce, refill bottles of cleaner, then you can have only one spray bottle at a time open and store the refill out of the way. It’s actually no more work than dealing with this^^ stupid stuff, and it’s a nice little Bronx cheer to the marketing geniuses who came up with it.
Ok, next infringement of freedom brought to you courtesy of Christian Right Old White Dudes (I’m gonna call them the CROWD from now on. You might not find it particularly catchy, but I thought it was amusing. The CBS story has snippets of both sides, but it seems that the supporters of the bill, which makes it illegal to transport minors across state lines to get abortions in states without parental consent notice, have a fluffy happy bunny mentality, so far removed from the reality that is driving young girls to get help in avoiding a parental confrontation, it’s just not funny. Of course, a girl who gets pregnant at a young age has a fluffy happy bunny relationship with her parents. In fact, it may be so fluffy and happy that her Dad or Uncle is the daddy! And maybe they have a fluffy happy bunny time at home getting beaten up when the parents are drunk or high! That sure would be a great family moment to break the news and ask for a ride to the clinic, dontchathink?
Parents who have good relationships with their daughters don’t need parental consent laws. They’ve talked to their daughters about the facts of life, they’ve taught them about morals, about actions and consequences, but at the same time, let the daughters know that they will be loved and supported no matter what.
Who needs parental consent? The parents who haven’t given their daughters enough support to give them things to do other than sneak out and fool around unsupervised. The parents who’ve imposed a strict code of behavior and brooked no deviation from that, warned of dire, frightful consequences if their rules are not followed to the letter. The parents who abuse their children. The parents, in short, who had a hand in getting their daughters into the situation in the first place. The ones that the girls are so afraid of that they have to have the procedure done in utmost secrecy. The ones who, in all honesty, don’t really deserve to know or have a say in it.
Mr. Bush said in regard to this, “Transporting minors across state lines to bypass parental consent laws regarding abortion undermines state law and jeopardizes the lives of young women”. Well, of course. Because unless they have a boatload of money and time, they’re going to be forced to have it done on some hack’s kitchen table. The abortion is expensive. Transportation is expensive. Parental consent laws make it so that the procedure is delayed, and the later the pregnancy is, the more difficult and expensive the abortion is. And physically dangerous. Given that, a poor girl, finding herself in that situation and afraid to tell her parents is going to find someone to do it illegally, cheaply, and sometime in the next week. So, yeah, if they didn’t have to get parental consent or go across state lines, they’d be able to go somewhere close and have a real doctor do it in a sterile environment, so bypassing the laws jeopardizes their lives. Oh, wait, no – it’s the law itself doing that. But that’s not what the CROWD wants to believe, or wants us to believe.
In actuality, the CROWD has it all worked out! Check this quote:
Abstinence is the best way to prevent teenage pregnancy, responded Senator Tom Coburn, R-Okla. “How many people really think it’s in the best interest of young people to be sexually active outside of marriage? Does anything positive ever come from that?” Coburn asked.
This is sheer genius. To clear up the whole abortion issue, we’ll just tell kids not to have sex. I’m absolutely stunned by the simplicity and elegance of this solution, and I can see how it can be applied to all the other problems in the country. . .
Eliminate welfare by telling everyone to go get a job.
Eliminate hunger by telling people to eat something.
Eliminate homelessness by telling people to find a place to live.
Eliminate the healthcare crisis by telling people not to get sick.
Eliminate the war on drugs by telling people not to take drugs.
Oh, man, it’s so simple, and it’s been right here under our noses the whole time! You go, Mr. Coburn, your grasp on crisis management is spot-on, and if you aren’t on the Republican presidential ticket for the next election, then something’s definitely wrong with this world!