Conservatives can legislate for vaginal probes but if a woman says the word, it's a scandal? Damn right, we should call it out
Brown, with strategic audacity, insisted that she was kept from the statehouse debate because of censorship around the word "vagina". House Republicans denied that this was the reason. They claimed something even more crazy, and more interesting: that it was her comparison of anti-abortion legislation to rape that led her — properly, in their view — to be barred, because, as they put it, the language she used was itself an act of chaos, disrupting proceedings. GOP Representative Lisa Posthumus Lyons, of Alto, said in a statement last week:
"Her comments compared the support of legislation protecting women and life to rape, and I fully support majority floor leader Jim Stamas' decision to maintain professionalism and order on the House floor."
Brown understands her moment, and that the best defense is a great offense. Female liberals understand that when you enrage the opposition, you don't back down; you go further. She staged a reading of "The Vagina Monologues" on the Michigan courthouse steps: 2,500 people, men and women, came to watch Brown, along with an appearance by revered playwright and rape campaigner Eve Ensler...
Proclivities
There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.
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Jun 21, 2012 - 5:13am
October 1905. Ecorse, Michigan. "S.S. William G. Mather — stern view before launch."
LANSING — Several thousand people thronged the state Capitol lawn this evening, to protest the treatment of two female lawmakers who were barred from speaking on the House floor last Thursday following an emotional debate over abortion.
The performance, kicked off by the work’s author Eve Ensler who flew in from California for the occasion, was the culmination of five days of reaction to the decision by House Republican leaders to issue one-day revocations of the right of state Reps. Lisa Brown, D-West Bloomfield, and Barb Byrum, D-Onondaga , to speak on the House floor...
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Dec 13, 2007 - 8:32am
rosedraws wrote:
Anyone else gonna be in Michigan this holiday?
Wow, I so wish. rd, thanks for resurrecting this! I'd forgotten that I'd started it years back. I'll head to TC probably in February, and then I'll be in Glen Arbor off and on from May to October next year.
KurtfromLaQuinta
My lug nuts take more torque than your import puts out
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My brother and ex-sister-in-law both went to Michigan, but she was from Columbus, so you could imagine the noise when those two teams played. And at Rose Bowl time...!
Oh my! I surely can imagine. But hopefully it was all in good fun :) It's a great rivalry, hard not to get swept up in all the hooplah. First game next weekend! Woo-hoo!! Time to put my beer can crushing foot back to work for another season!!
hippiechick
Did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind?
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Aug 25, 2007 - 9:30am
Jacksonstat wrote:
Go Bucks!
My brother and ex-sister-in-law both went to Michigan, but she was from Columbus, so you could imagine the noise when those two teams played. And at Rose Bowl time...!
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Aug 24, 2007 - 4:47pm
triskele wrote:
my best friend lives in "A squared".....and i am going to traverse city in sept.....
does any of that count?
My brother is a Coastie in Traverse... wave in his general direction as you drive around. And be CAREFUL driving with all those speed-crazed big-3-american-car drivers!
Rosedraws resurrected it...
That's what I said!
And be CAREFUL driving with all those speed-crazed big-3-american-car drivers!
