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Strange Bedfellows
Last week, a friend’s wife posted a picture on Facebook of her adorable baby, clad in the onesie to the right. Under the photo, she’d poured out the usual lamentations about how sad she was that her daughter would not witness the ascendance of Hillary Clinton. I’ve seen the same (and much darker) eulogies on hope from every Facebook friend who gave birth in the last three months. Like Michelle Obama, many of the women I know apparently have an extraordinarily narrow set of conditions that must be met before they can feel proud of their country at election time.
What stood out about this particular post though, was the tagline at the end about where to find the onesie: “From Otherwild, proceeds to Planned Parenthood.“
I checked the website and, sure enough, Planned Parenthood — the organization that was founded to make sure the future didn’t belong to anybody, male or female, whom they deemed “unfit” — is getting a 25 percent share of proceeds off the sales of … babywear.
Now that I know what easy marks my feminist friends are, both my capitalist and do-gooder sides are inspired. I think I’ll slap a catchy fem-friendly logo on a set of shot glasses with a matching flask, offer it as the must-have cold-weather accessory for protesters, and throw in a free bottle of the liquor of your choice with every order.
Of course, I’ll send 25% of all profits to AA.
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How many little ones were carved up in the womb and the body parts sold for profit out of that very organization – can we get all those Facebook supporters of these baby clothes to answer that?
They mean “safe” as in not going to a back-alley guy who performs the procedure with a knitting needle. In the 60s when abortion was illegal in my state, a friend of mine went to one of those down on Martin Luther King Drive, and she nearly died.
Onesies are apparently for adults now too.
Still happens but now they are legal and the government and media are complicit in covering the deaths up.
This is true, Gosnell was able to practice legally for 25 years in Philly
That is what bothered me. Gosnell was bad but when I looked into things at that time it was amazing how shoddy the abortion outfits were ran, how many complications from abortions there was and that the abortion doctor in many cases did not even have admitting rights to the local hospitals. Read a few stories on how they botched the abortion and basically just sent the women home to bleed to death.
I am not much of an abortion fan but if they are going to do it they need to adhere to modern medical standards. It seems in many cases they are not.
This was posted by a Jewish friend of mine on Facebook, showing his daughter and son in law at the march in San Diego. I had to comment on the irony of the signs, when the groups in the march support Palestinian terrorism and would cheer if Israel was destroyed and think Abortion is a sacrament.
Well, probably not you. Socks aren’t known for their strong grip.
I find it telling how the anti-life side reacts to attempts to make abortion more safe. They’re basically admitting that the majority of their “clinics” can’t meet basic standards of cleanliness.
Insane – there is a group thought in the world now – no one actually thinks and reasons independently.
Did she assume the sex of her child? Not very progressive of her.
Anytime anyone extols the virtues of “natural” this or that, I always remind them that natural is smallpox, bad teeth, and death at age 30.
You must have missed the invective that is routinely dumped on our Founding Fathers and the racist, sexist, xenophobic, and homophobic country they created and into which we were cruelly born.
Once again, these people make it so hard to create parody.
They’ll tell you they don’t need men. They just need the sperm, which can be stored and used without interaction with those yucky actual humans.
Depending on who you ask, they’re not really white anyway.
how sad she was that her daughter would not witness the ascendance of Hillary Clinton.
Funny, because she wouldn’t anyway. At the most she would be 8 when Hillary left office.
Anti sockite….
Grip socks
Problem has been solved….
Scientists create artificial sperm and fertilize eggs with it.
Come to think of it, if they are Eastern European their ancestors were probably part of the Roman Empire, which practiced slavery. Hence, they are also guilty.
Hitler clearly did not think they were…
But, more seriously, immigrant populations tend to become “white” over time, depending on how successfully they assimilate and how convienient it is for others to consider them to be “white.”
Case in point: Italians and Irish are both now considered “white,” even though they are not of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant persuasion that was considered “white” in their day. Even though “Irish need not apply” used to be stated explicitly in job advertisements, today they’re lumped in with the “oppressive” majority racial group.
Maybe. They’ll still need a source of genetic variability. It’s going to be hard to fake that. Either they’ll have to keep some us around like the human batteries in the Matrix or they’ll have to start an interstellar diaspora to meet new people.
Either that or they have Genghis Khan as an ancestor somewhere very indirectly, so they’re doubly guilty.
Then again, neither one of those slaver socities practiced slavery in or brought slaves to the United States, so I dunno how that means that I have to give Al Sharpton money.
Heh. I remember a Kenyan woman who took great pains to point out this confusion of race is hardly limited. Kenyans strenuously object to being lumped in with Nigerians, for instance, as merely “black”, and she had a string of Nigerian jokes every bit as bad (and funny) as polock jokes, Irish jokes, etc. And just about every Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Hmong, etc. I’ve known will easily point out the differences of the others, yet they are all lumped in even with Indians as “Asian”, to their mutual chagrin.