September 25th, 2005
From Molly Ivins Freepress.org article “A Giant Snit“:
So here are all the liberals going into a giant snit just because George W. Bush appointed a veterinarian to head the women’s health section of the Food and Drug Administration. For Pete’s sake, you whiners, the only reason he chose the vet is because Michael Brown wasn’t available.
Tags: Quote of the Day, politics, Molly Ivins, George W. Bush, Women's Health
August 27th, 2005
Somewhere in my blog wandering last week, I saw a post about how there are basically four types of people in the U.S. I tried to find it again this morning because it really made me think about my stand on the War in Iraq, but sadly I was unsuccessful. I’m over 30 now and the brain is the first thing to go, you know. 
Anyway, the four types of people in the U.S.:
- Supported the Invasion of Iraq and think we should finish the job.
- Supported the Invasion of Iraq but feel we should pull out now.
- Didn’t support the Invasion of Iraq and feel we should pull out now.
- Didn’t support the Invasion of Iraq but feel we should finish the job.
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Tags: politics, George W. Bush, Iraq
August 21st, 2005
Thanks to brilliant at breakfast for the link to the following first hand account of one woman’s observations on the decline of women’s rights in Iraq since the occupation began. Clearly, this is a step backward for the women of Iraq. This is what Bush bragged about freeing the Afghanistani women from. Why isn’t more being done to protect the women of Iraq?
Across the country, a steady clampdown on women’s rights has been going unreported and unchecked by the government. Islamic terrorism is killing and injuring Iraqi women daily, employing among other weapons, acid attacks.
My women’s
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Tags: Women's Rights, Iraq, Afghanistan, Islam
August 14th, 2005
I am pro-choice. It’s not a choice I would make for myself and I don’t know who’s right about when a fertilized egg technically becomes a living being, but I am a supporter of a woman’s right to make that choice for herself. Granted I have all sorts of qualifiers about what I think is right or wrong. I do think there should be a cut-off of some sort. I don’t think women who are more than five or six months pregnant should be able to abort their child unless it’s for a medical reason, but
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Tags: pro-choice, John Roberts, Supreme Court, NARAL
August 7th, 2005
According to the Middle East Times:
Saudi women to vote in chamber poll
UPI
July 29, 2005
RIYADH — Some 600 Saudi women are expected to participate in the elections of the chamber of trade and industry in eastern Saudi Arabia for the first time.
The Saudi daily Al-Yawm said on Wednesday that the chamber of commerce and industry in the eastern province decided to allow businesswomen to take part in the elections of its board for the first time in the kingdom’s history.
The paper said that the elections would take place before the end of the year and ballot boxes for women
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Tags: Saudi Arabia, Women's Rights, vote
August 2nd, 2005
I’ve been trying to do a little research on how things are going over in US-occupied Afghanistan. You almost never hear about it on the news anymore and a quick search of CNN.com led to very little information beyond some recent insurgent attacks at the end of July and that the Taliban is now recruiting children — I thought we’d gotten rid of the Taliban. Isn’t that what Bush said?
A quick glance through Google only got me old documents and articles, nothing as recent as this year.
I’m particularly interested in women’s rights there since the Bush
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Tags: Afghanistan, Women's Rights
July 30th, 2005
Remember how excited we were when we went into Afghanistan and brought rights to women, made it possible for little girls to go to school, and women to vote. I think Bush might have bragged as much about how glorious it was to stop the religious control of women that the Taliban had as he over-related everything to 9/11.
And yet…the same cannot be said to be true of the conditions in Iraq, though Bush certainly made a big deal about women voting in Iraq and the number of women elected to office.
Here’s a little history lesson for you: In
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Tags: Iraq, Women's Rights, Islam
August 27th, 2004
The following was sent to me by a friend.
“Night of Terror” on Nov. 15, 1917
A short history lesson on the privilege of voting… The women were innocent and defenseless. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden’s blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of “obstructing sidewalk traffic.”
They beat Lucy Burn, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head
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Tags: Women's Rights, politics, history, vote
