Republicans and Catholic Bishops muddied the waters on this story for a week. Now it's clear, this isn't about religious freedom.
Ed talked last night to Joan Walsh, Salon’s Editor at Large, and Krystal Ball, Democratic Strategist and former candidate for U.S. Congress, about the latest Republican plans.
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My Valentine's Day gift to the blog... especially the music lovers...
Fuse TV had a ten-hour marathon of the 100 Sexiest Videos... I managed to find most of them online... A note about Madonna's "Erotica"... This version is censored... An uncensored version exists on YouTube, but it requires a Google password...
http://davidmjohnston.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/13/10393737-fuse-tv-100-sexiest-videos-of-all-time
Republicons are not only waging war on the middle class because educated workers and professionals tend to vote Democrat . . . waging war on people of color because educated cultural groups tend to vote Democrat . . . waging war unions because union members tend to vote Democrat . . . but thet are also waging an out and out assault on women's ability to be independent and in charge of their own bodies and health care because educated, free-thinking women tend to vote Democrat.
Republicon men are in a HUGE panic in America because they know if they do not cheat, lie and brow beat people into voting for them . . . NO ONE WOULD . . . except beaten down rednecks who cannot think for themselves.
PS . . . Thank you for the Valentine and link David !
Poetry is the Language of Love, so it's a given that I've written my share of romantic sonnets in my time...
I've seperated them into the two Greek forms of love... EROS - sexual love, and AMICUS - soulmate love...
EROS
I see you, and my heart swells as the tide.
I shudder as I listen to your voice.
Anticipation guides me to your side.
I revel that you’ve made me your life’s choice.
I freely give my self to you in love
And trust you with the guiding of my soul,
To soar our passions up to skies above,
Until we reach our bright and shining goal.
I feel your fingers float across my skin.
My senses sing as choir to your command.
Elation pours throughout my nerves within
As waves of passion crashing on the sand.
There is little that I care to feel as much
As the sweet and tender torture of your touch.
I knead against your muscles’ knots and bands,
With pressure to relieve their painful stress,
Until the knots unravel in my hands,
And strong massage becomes erotic caress.
My fingers glide across your naked skin,
To tease and taunt, ‘til tensions touch their height.
I listen to the pounding beat within,
While earthquakes shake your soul with all their might!
Your nerves inside my hold convulse and strain,
Until release can steal your breath away,
And hot and pulsing butter fills each vein,
And fingers once again can start to play…
Until you beg me stop my bold endeavour,
While wishing I’d continue it forever!
I’ll teach you how to sing love’s sweet refrain,
The tenor of your tension taking voice.
My gentle gift will make your muscles strain
Until release can make your soul rejoice.
My fingers play ‘til passion fills your throat,
As bow draws sound from Stradivarius’ string;
As wood and wire yield a perfect note,
So, too, we make our heightened senses sing.
Our bodies clash in time to cardiac beat,
The friction of our skins excites each nerve.
Our hearts attune themselves in rhythmic heat,
Crescendoing into climactic verve.
Your voice resounds a symphony to my ears,
Your joyous cries, the music of the spheres.
AMICUS
The dogma of the righteous would preach doubt,
Constraining us with just one life to live;
Yet karmic lines from other lives reach out,
Connecting us with strands too strong to give.
The Spirit Guides who help us on this earth
May only hint at goals we’ve yet to do.
Unseen, they try to help us find our worth,
As mine help me, in reaching out to you.
Our spirits travel through each life, unknowing,
When we touch those souls we’ve known before.
‘Tis only in the soul that we keep growing;
‘Tis only through the eyes we touch once more.
My sole request to you, I hope to send -
To gaze into your eyes and see a friend.
A glimpse beyond my past, beyond my years,
Unveils the lives of dream’s unfocused eye.
Behind a screen of laughter and of tears,
Forgotten pasts await ‘neath misty sky.
Too long unknown, my dreams about my past
Flutter through my mind on gauzy wing.
My mem’ries in the waking fail to last
Though born of deep subconscious wandering.
Yet you are there, recalled of deepest mind,
A soulmate, brought of fate’s unerring chance,
To lend me sight, though eons leave me blind,
To touch my heart, when it forgot to dance.
Eternity began when we found one another.
Infinity awaits those destined to discover.
To feel the gentle touch of Hope so true,
To think that someone else may share your goals,
To know another one believes as you,
Can elevate the most contrite of souls.
The reason that you cried, you may not know,
‘Though I believe those tears I can explain.
They flow from joy, and don’t from sorrow grow,
For never more need you feel alone again.
I’ll hold you in my arms in full support.
I’ll gladly teach you how to touch the stars.
My heart I’ll give to you in deep rapport,
As long as you desire what is ours.
Accepting who we are, our spirits lift,
For unconditional Love’s our greatest gift.
The cautious voice of reason tends to say,
“Be careful not to give your heart too fast,
For harsh reality will come your way,
And castles built on clouds can never last.
Come live for just the day, but do not plan,
For false hopes fill your heart with fantasy.
Emotions lie as wounds in desert sand,
Uncovered, then burnt raw in reality.”
Yet I feel body, spirit, heart and mind
Cannot survive without imagination.
I must believe the future will be kind,
Or else despair will lead to desperation.
I must keep my dreams alive to feed my soul,
To keep my body, mind and spirit whole.
In past, those men you’ve loved have vowed to care,
And yet, their vows descended to abuse,
Worrying at your soul, small tear by tear,
To pull you down to levels that they’d choose.
I reach to you, to help you from the mire,
To teach you more, to care, to learn, to love.
I do not need a queen to raise up higher,
But a partner, to help us both reach heights above.
We both have flaws, yet our flaws complement,
Two forms which join in jointless symmetry,
To pierce the astral veil is our intent;
Our lives conjoined, there will no limits be.
As equals, we will search for worlds unknown;
Together, we are greater than alone.
Here is my love poem to America :
Oops . . . LOL . . . Here is my love poem to Americans :
I AM AMERICA I AM THE WORLD
*
I represent the truth of freedom's purpose
within the colors of our flag unfurled
not bound by Left or Right or Center Leaning
I am America . . . I am the world
*
I am a Christian, Hebrew, Buddhist
I am a Pantheist and Muslim too
the God of every culture's understanding
is wrapped up in the Red, the White and Blue
*
I am a black, red, yellow, brother
I am a tan, light-brown skinned sister too
with all my heart I pledge allegiance
and stand up for the Red, the White and Blue
*
I am a straight, gay, married person
I am a celibate, trans-gender too
I trust that all orientations
are honored by the Red, the White and Blue
*
I am for stewardship of this amazing planet
I am for commerce built upon free markets too
it is absurd to choose one or the other
because I can live Green, Red, White and Blue
*
I am a woman and a cultural leader
I am a liberated, stay-at-home mom too
the choice is mine to have it all if i decide to
here in the land of Red and White and Blue
*
I am a gentle man with a strong backbone
I am both brave and peaceful too
the power to protect and not destroy is
the essence of the Red, the White and Blue
*
I represent the truth of freedom's purpose
within the colors of our flag unfurled
not bound by Left or Right or Center Leaning
I am America . . . I am the world
*
( c ) 2008
Brava, MsT, Bravissima!
Wonderful praise coming from such a wordsmith as you my dear David !
Thank you, thank you and take a bow.
Ahhhhhh . . . nothing like sincere ' support ' from your blog buddies ey ?
David and Mst you are both wonderful. Such thought and words that come from the soul. Thanks for your beautiful VALENTINES.
Ya ver schure ya betcha !! Happy Valentines Day !
MsT....It grabs at the heart strings! And you played it alright!
DavidMJ: Great as always! The second one made me tired! I kid!
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2009-09-15-insurance-costs_N.htm
Insurance companies stand to make even more money if people have children and are under a family plan. Once again its seems greed raises its ugly head! Religious freedom I don't think so! The run away cost of health insurance is KILLING JOBS!
xxx ooo is your avatar a valentine gift? (;-)
Kinda hard to tell! But its a package deal! If ' a guy can't afford diamonds, Compromise!
XXX OOO, Are you saying you are the whole Enchilada ? LOL, Happy Valentines day !!!!
Si Senorita!
and a couple of tacos to boot. Mucho Grande.
Every woman who uses birth control or who has ever used birth control should be able to see that the Republicans are no friends of theirs and should vote accordingly. How the Reps think this is going to get them votes, I don't know.
MJB:PAC money from Insurance companies?!
This is the future of America if the Republicans have their way!
http://youtu.be/osocGiofdvc
I hope the First couple go to Ben & Jerry's so they can enjoy in some devilish delights and sign the GET the DOUGH OUT of politics!
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/7003/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9226
XXX OOO, Thanks I signed Ben and Jerry's Petition. You are on fire tonight. Keep great post rolling !!!!
http://youtu.be/osocGiofdvc
I would like to see the law change as far as people who work part time, Their employers get out from paying into the fund for unemployment because if you work less than 40 hours they need not pay in! Its one BIG loophole and more and more people are working these jobs If they can find a job at all. So they are on a life line unemployment compensation and it hasn't the funding and add to the shared National debt. I suggest that all employers pay in regardless of hours it would encourage employers to put them on full time and help the unemployment fund from adding to the debt. The way it is hurting this country in so many ways and is not fair to those who work two or more jobs and if they lose employment though no fault of their own are left with no unemployment benefits this loop hole should come to and end as workers, taxpayer and the government has been taken advantage of. This must change!,
A true republican keeps they`re women barefoot and pregnant! Look at the republican wifes! They have a boat load of kids and they do what they are told! But so does Michelle Obama! She is republican!
Republicon wives = Stepford wives . . .
Mrs. Obama is her own person.
You are absolutely right about that Larry !
richard vick jr.
if you think 2 children is a boatload, your nuts!
Womens rights ! Something the GOP has no clue about! The GOP thinks a womens place is in the home. The GOP doesn't care for educated women. Jan Brewer Governor of Arizona is Puppet . The GOP men are pulling those strings.
Republicons love to use ' token ' people to show they are not racist misogynists . . . Herman Cain, Micheal Steele. . . Michelle Bachman, Sara Palin . . . and then in at their private gun clubs they are as hateful as they want to be . . .
If you look closely Steve, I think you may find a MAN under that bleach blond straw pile! LOL She's not the best looker in the world!
MJB isn't that coffee? MJB? I kid!
It used to be. Are they still making coffee?
After seeing the response from the Catholic Bishops I am beginning to believe that the Catholic Church is now seeing the opportunity to stir up devout Catholics who might have voted for Obama or Romney, and who will now only support Santorum. This is their chance to support a devout Opus Dei member to become POTUS and make radical changes to government in their favor. Be careful what you ask for, we should be voting for a President not a Church Leader! There is separation of Church and State for a reason.
LEZ, They tried to make there move with John Kennedy and he said know. The Catholic Church would love to lets say control the roost and they may have found there puppet with Sanatorium. This is very scary stuff. If church and state are not separated we are in very, very deep trouble. I think Kennedy was the last and maybe only Catholic President. Someone chime in if this is wrong.
"think Kennedy was the last and maybe only Catholic President."
well correct me if i am wrong, but i think he was the first, the last and also only one.
A little tune for the GOP!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WD1mQPiVaJ4
xxx ooo, Love Bon Jovi. This is good rally song against the Re Pubs and there attack on Women. We do make the world go around and man there would be allot lonely men twiddling there thumbs with out us. WOMEN ROCK THE WORLD !!!!
Indeed, And the GOP is having to say, Mother told me I would have days like this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEGCjaTYh5o
Wow !!!!! President Obama Approval rating is 50% . This is glorious Valentine and we love it !!!!! HAPPY VALENTINES DAY TO THE FIRST COUPLE PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE FIRST LADY !!!!!
naaa! only liberal woman......................
I sure hope all those men who are voting no to contraception realize that they won't be getting it as much as they used to. Women who don't want to get pregnant will be cutting them off. Idiots!
Those men who vote no to contraception, (bar Saint-orum) are just hypocritical idiots, saying publicly, the opposite of their actions in private. Women, (bar Saint-orums' wife) will not have sex just to make a baby, and Saint-orum, will not get ten women to vote for him. Women are no longer a baby machine, not even Catholic, nor Southern Baptist women. Catholic and Southern Baptist men, want to play around often, without making babies. Heck, Saint-orum, may not get more than ten men to vote for him! Come on women, don't let your man vote for Saint-orum, the divorce courts will be backed up for years!
http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/event/contentEmail/id/55386/contentType/article/
S.D.Fraking still under investigation for safety. Keystone will have to wait until all the info is in for at least a few more months.
If insurance pays for "the BLUE PILL" but not contraceptives for women! The insurance companies make more $$$ if there are more families insured as compared to singles!
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2009-09-15-insurance-costs_N.htm
The republican right wing anti-abortion/ anti-contraception stand is a complete
fraud. The republicans are not against abortion. In fact every one of them
financially supports abortion. What they are opposed to is American women
having the right to choose to have an abortion. It makes for such an emotional
issue for those who have been led to believe that the republicans are opposed
to abortion and that the republicans are the only ones who care about the unborn.
Yet virtually every adult in this country financially supports abortion. If the
republicans and their brainwashed followers were truly against abortion, then
you would see protesters and picket lines at every Wal-Mart, Target, Penney's,
Sears and virtually every retailer in the United States. Each and every one of
them sells products made in China. China has a strict one child policy, and
women who violate that policy suffer severe consequences for such violations of
not choosing to abort that child. There isn't a single republican in the
federal or state houses or senate that would insist immediately stopping trade
with China to stop the American people financially supporting abortion through
their purchases of Chinese goods. No republican will call on their supporters
to boycott retailers to stop this financial support of abortion. As I stated,
this anti-abortion proclamation by the republicans is a complete fraud, they
are thrilled to financially support abortion as long as it puts a buck in their
pockets and helps them get the financial contributions that keeps them in
office living off of the gullible minions who support them.
The republican right wing anti-abortion/ anti-contraception stand is a complete
fraud. The republicans are not against abortion. In fact every one of them
financially supports abortion. What they are opposed to is American women
having the right to choose to have an abortion. It makes for such an emotional
issue for those who have been led to believe that the republicans are opposed
to abortion and that the republicans are the only ones who care about the unborn.
Yet virtually every adult in this country financially supports abortion. If the
republicans and their brainwashed followers were truly against abortion, then
you would see protesters and picket lines at every Wal-Mart, Target, Penney's,
Sears and virtually every retailer in the United States. Each and every one of
them sells products made in China. China has a strict one child policy, and
women who violate that policy suffer severe consequences for such violations of
not choosing to abort that child. There isn't a single republican in the
federal or state houses or senate that would insist immediately stopping trade
with China to stop the American people financially supporting abortion through
their purchases of Chinese goods. No republican will call on their supporters
to boycott retailers to stop this financial support of abortion. As I stated,
this anti-abortion proclamation by the republicans is a complete fraud, they
are thrilled to financially support abortion as long as it puts a buck in their
pockets and helps them get the financial contributions that keeps them in
office living off of the gullible minions who support them.
Well I understand why Santorum is against birth control. How many children do he have? Families of this size is just not the norm in this day and age. I had 4 children and I thought that was too many once you start to raise them and send them to college. Very expensive. It would be something if one of his children came to him and said I am on birth control pills or one of his sons that is not married come to him and say his girl friend is on birth control pills. Another suppose is if one of his children come to him and say I am Gay. Where would Santorum belief be then? Would he disown children on something of this instance? Check yourself Mr. Santorum. It is not easy when your children become adults but you should already know that.
please keep these "PERSON HOOD" and PELVIC ULTRASOUND BILLs in the news. VA. ST. LEGISL. are insane. I call this W.O.W, WAR ON WOMEN. according to the "PERSON HOOD" BILL, well if they want an unborn child to be a "PERSON" well there are so many questions can they vote, drive, maybe apply for food stamps and the list goes on and on. with regard to the "PELVIC ULTRASOUND, FOR WOMEN WANTING AN ABORTION,(FOR ANY REASON) if the state can make women do this, well, maybe women can come up with something as invasive for men. let's face it a women doesn't get pregnant ALONE. THEY DO NEED SPERM, AND WHERE CAN YOU FIND THAT? the BLUNT AMENDMENT is as horrifying. others, whether their beliefs need to stay out of the private lives and sex lives as others. when the GOP was railing against the HEALTH CARE BILL THAT THE PRESIDENT SIGNED, THAT WAS SOME OF THE GOP'S PROBLEM. REALLY BIG GOVERNMENT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. THEY ALSO MADE A FUSS ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT HOW THEY COULD TELL PEOPLE THEY HAD TO PURCHASE HEALTH INS., EVENTHOUGH IT WAS A REP. IDEA. CAN THEY MAKE UP THEIR MINDS?
the outrageous bills in VA. will hand that state to President Obama in 2012.