Differences in abortion stances

Last night I was talking to a friend who wasn't sure what the difference between pro-choice and pro-abortion was. I thought I'd take this opportunity and explain.

Being pro-choice does not mean you support or oppose abortion. It simply means you support the right for a woman to choose whatever she wants to do with her body. You may disagree with the idea of having an abortion but you will always support what a woman decides to do.

Being pro-life means you do not support a woman's right to choose. You want to see a ban on all abortions.

Being pro-abortion means you actually support the idea of abortions.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden are not pro-abortion. They are pro-choice.

John McCain and Sarah Palin are pro-life.

Words to live by

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." - Albus Dumbledore

No way. No How. No Palin!

Sarah Palin?! No way. No How. No Palin! Presumptive Republican Nominee for President John McCain has selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate for the Vice Presidency.

Now anyone who knows me knows I would normally applaud a woman being selected for the 2nd highest office in the land. But not this time. I have to give McCain kudos for choosing a woman but he chose the WRONG woman.

Let's see. Palin supports creationism over evolution. Palin believes global warming is a human made myth. Palin opposes all kinds of birth control including condoms even for married couples. Palin opposed the Bush administration's decision to add polar bears to the endangered species list because it would hurt the oil industry. Palin's husband works for BP so if elected we would have another Vice President tied to the oil industry (see Dick Cheney).

Nope. Sarah Palin. Wrong for America. She must not be elected Vice President. I have to congratulate McCain. He finally did it. He finally got me motivated for Barack Obama.

Review

Since I have had a long extended absence from this blog, I'm going to go ahead and touch base on few issues that has happened since then.

Gallaudet University Presidency
I was an early backer of Jane Fernandes' appointment as President, but after the 2006/07 school year at Gallaudet started, I became disgusted with the behavior of I. King Jordan and their treatment of the FSSA coalition. I felt at that point even though JF would have made a good President, she would not be able to lead the University so I called for her resignation. I wrote an open letter to FSSA declaring my position. You can read the letter here.

Election 2006
I took a role in the Culver/Judge campaign for Governor in Iowa. I could not be happier with the results. Democratic Secretary of State Chet Culver defeated Buch crony Congressman Jim Nussle withh 54%. Democrats also picked up two Republican held seats in Iowa, giving the state a Democratic majority in the Congressional delegation. Democrats also won control of the Iowa State House and Iowa State Senate. I'm equally proud to say I arranged for a large number of Deaf people to attend Culver's election night celebration. I also arranged for 8 Deaf people including myself to attend Governor-Elect Culver's inauguration ceremony and ball which will happen on Friday, Jan. 12th.

A few days ago, I was proud to be an American and a Democrat when I watched the House of Representatives vote for Nancy Pelosi to become Speaker of the House. The first woman ever to hold that post. It was a good day to be a Democrat and an American.

Personal Life
I'm still here. Taking time off school. I have a new puppy Beagle! We named her Peanut. She is so cute, but stubborn and wild as hell too!

To donate or not to donate

I know, I know. I keep saying I'm back then I disappear the next day. I promise this time I am here to stay. There's a lot that has happened to me and the world since my last post, but I wanted to touch on one issue that's now hotly debated in the deaf blogging world.

To donate to bloggers or not.

This whole thing erupted when Ridor asked for donations to his blog and another blogger attacked him for that, and told him to get a job.

The truth is - a lot of popular blogs ask for donations, but in different ways. DailyKos has a store where some of the proceeds go to the site. Bloggers have every right to do what they want on their blog. They can talk about whatever they want to talk about, and most certainly do they have the right to ask for donations. Don't like the idea? Then don't donate.

You can read the whole thing here.

Ridor's donation request post

Berke's response

Ridor's response

Berke's 2nd response

Say what you want about Ridor, but he is a legend in the world of Deaf Blogs. Just a sJerome Armstrong of MyDD is the 'blogfather" of Democratic party blogs, Ridor is the blogfather of Deaf blogs. We owe him a great deal of gratitude.

Uh-huh Baby!

I'm back! And there's a lot to say. I'll update tomorrow.

Bitches

It's odd. Whenever there's a villainous dominatrix style female in a movie, I tend to root for them. Last night, I watched "Teaching Mrs. Tingle" and I was enamored with Helen Mirren's portayal of Eve Tingle who reminded me of Louise Fletcher's Nurse Ratched. I also love the Evil Queen in Snow White and Dianne Weist's role of the Queen in "10th Kingdom". It is said that gay men are typically from families of distant fathers and domineering mothers, which isn't true in my case. But one has to wonder if there's a connection with me being gay and loving these characters.

Return!

I'm back! Stay tuned for more tidbits :-)

Idiots, idiots, idiots

Don't these people vet their staff anymore?

"George Bush has become something of an embarrassment." -Incoming White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, 5 months before being named to the White House Staff.

Clueless idiots.