Don't Get Me Started with Linda Sharp

Ear Worm - American Style

 I am a poor sleeper.  I just am.  I accept that my lot in this life is to stare into the dark and ponder life's foibles, fallacies, and deeper meanings.

And to sometimes be driven to the edge of madness by what manages to sneak out of the back boxes of my mental attic...

Today ... 4:34am ... THIS began playing on a continuous loop in my head ...

Complete with cheesy logo font, shooting fireworks, and hearts aplenty - it has stopped only long enough to now alternate with this...

 

So... as I am obviously stuck in some late 60s - early 70s time warp, what were your favorite memories of that time period?  TV shows?  Songs?  Characters?

Share - and in doing so, perhaps help get this &*^%$@ ear worm out of my head!  :O)

Flying On Airforce Dumb

It was insulting when McCain chose a bag of hair named Sarah Palin as his running mate four years ago.

I don't even know what to call the actions of the GOP in putting forward a candidate like Mitt Romney.  Then again, the barrel - from top to bottom - contained some of the most batshit, ignorant, incoherent, theocrazy loving candidates in history.

Yesterday, while fundraising in California, Mitt spoke about his wife's airplane mishap from last week when an electrical fire resulted in smoke and an emergency landing.  I don't admire her or like her, but I am glad she and her entourage landed safely.

Mitt, already having been revealed for the out-of-touch, elitist (yes, Republicans I am using your favorite word ) snob he is when he made his now infamous comments about the "47%," proved he is not even smart enough to audition for a spot on Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader with this nugget...

“I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. And I don’t think she knows just how worried some of us were,” Romney said. “When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous. And she was choking and rubbing her eyes. Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she’s safe and sound.”

Seriously.  He said this.  In front of a room of donors who continued to donate.

because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous.

This is his intellectual Waterloo.

If this man is so ignorant as to why an airplane, cruising along at 30,000 feet at roughly 575mph doesn't have windows that can open, he has no business anywhere near the Oval Office.  He doesn't even deserve a tour.

The idiocy is stunning. 

Truly, a fifth grader understands things like air pressure, oxygen masks, and what fuels a fire best:  OXYGEN.

Yet this brain trust is lamenting the fact that they could not get MORE oxygen into an already flammable situation?  That the plane isn't tricked out like a Greyhound with wings so Annie could just crank the windows open and breathe easy.

The bigger problem is that people will vote for him, despite his obvious intellectual deficiencies, his blatant pandering (loving that Snooki complexion, Governor), and his utter bullshit about half this country.

You see, Sarah Palin made it fashionable to be intellectually dim.  She made it virtuous to stop learning.  She and her party have cast aspersions on higher education - calling it elitist.  She made it OK to be the dumbest person in the room.  In fact, she made fashionable to settle, to never pick up a book (unless she had someone write it and put her name on the cover), to stop learning.  And even Rick Santorum admitted that smart people will never be on their side.

Amen, St. Rick.  Amen.

But back to Mitt - you go ahead and use some of your money to buy a new private jet with automatic windows.  We'll be waiting for the day you decide to get some fresh air and your airhead explodes off your shoulders.

Oh, The Shoemanity!

I imagine you, like me, are suffering from ED - Election Dysfunction - which like its better known counterpart (Erectile Dysfunction) , also shares symptoms such as droopiness, irritability, frustration, a desire to "get back in the game" but it is just so hard to get up and moving.

Beaten down by constant Facebook memes, graphics, email forwards, and a constant loop of secret video clips on the news, I was happy to stumble upon a feel good story this morning out of Canada.

It seems a public bus driver - a young man in his 20s - in Winnepeg has paraphrased that age old saying about feet and shoes, turning it into "I cried because I had no shoes, until a bus driver pulled over and gave me his."

Yes, that's right.  Tuesday morning, when temps were in the low 40s, a bus driver noticed a barefoot homeless man on the corner.  He paused midroute to pull over, get out of the bus, and give the man the shoes off his feet.

He finished his route in socks.

According to passengers, the driver said, "I couldn't stand seeing someone walking barefoot in this temperature like this.  I just saw him walking and thought, ‘Hey, I could do something’."

Would that we all have moments of such selflessness, generosity, and kindness towards strangers, or that strangers have towards us in our hours of need.  The world would be a better place.

To that end, just a reminder that Yes, Virginia will be looking to work its DGMS magic again this Christmas, providing toys, clothes, coats, and yes, even shoes, to children everywhere.

Yes Virginia / Namaste  You don't have to give the shoes off your feet, but a few dollars can help us put shoes on someone else's.

Helping others - the perfect cure for ED.  Sure to put a spring back in your step.

 

 

In fact, THIS is how good it feels to donate (or take Viagra apparently).

 

Your Brother's Keeper? Be Your OWN Keeper

"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason." ~ Charles de Secondat (social commentator, political thinker who lived during the Enlightenment, and whose theory for the separation of powers still lives on today)

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Religions, especially when viewed through the lens of modern day travails, are the biggest cause for concern, conflict, and constant emotional conflagration.

One need only look at the recent upheavals, attacks, and deaths attributable to the reaction towards the inept, misleading, bigoted, asshatted Innocence of Muslims - the film bandied about on Youtube - in which the prophet Muhammed is portrayed in a less than favorable light.

But how he is portrayed is completely eclipsed by the fact that he IS portrayed.  And in Islam, that is a massive no-no.

For those who have not cared enough yet to educate themselves on why there is such a visceral response when Muhammed is cartooned, lampooned, or played by an actor, here's the upshot:  While the Quran does not specifically forbid or condemn depictions of the prophet, there are plenty of writings to uphold the widely held belief that Muhammed did not approve of idolatry, especially directed at himself.

That is the basis for the firestorm each time a publication puts out a cartoon, or as we saw last week, some seriously misguided (I am being generous here) Christians decided to put their money and efforts into a film reviling all of Islam and their prophet.

People died.  Innocent people.  People who had served this country in foreign lands for years and years, working hard to advance not only relations, but the image of the United States.

Today the offices of the French satirical weekly, Charles Sebo, is guarded by riot police after their decision to publish cartoons depicting the prophet in various ways, including naked.

We'll see what the fallout is by the purists, the extremists in Islam.  If recent history is any indicator, there will again be protests, fatwahs, and the calling for the death of those responsible.

And again many in the world will be staring at them asking, "What the f*ck?"

Every religion has its set of extremist literalists.  In that regard, Christianity is right up there battling for batshit rights.  Throughout history, in the name of the Christian God, blood has been shed by the oceansful, people persecuted and condemned for differing beliefs, and the bodies stacked high enough to practically reach to Heaven.

In modern times, extremists shoot abortion doctors, deny gay people basic rights, and vociferously condemn people on the other side of the world.

Laughable since they are truly two sides of the same coin.

Do I think that our country's freedoms of expression and speech should be dulled, dimmed, or downgraded to appease one religion?  Absolutely not.  And that includes Christianity.  Keep your Bible in your church and out of my governance.  Do I think the rioting Muslims are right?  No. 

But culturally, so many of those you see rioting have no true understanding of how our governance works.  They don't grasp that anyone can make a video about anything and distribute it freely.  They don't grasp that because that is not the reality of their world in which the government (mostly religiously influenced) calls all the shots.

Do I think creating images of, or lampooning anyone's god, deity, or prophet should be off limits?  No.  What you believe in should have no bearing on my life and what I believe in. And quite frankly, if your faith is that threatened by a cartoon or person questioning/mocking your chosen path, then perhaps you need to re-evaluate your stance.

What I believe is that the people within each religion should be responsible for policing the people within their own religion.  I believe it is the responsibility of every sane, thinking, peaceful person within a religion to stand up and not allow the extremists to become the representative face of said religion.  Be your brother's keeper, in this case, your brother being those who believe the way you believe.

But bear this in mind - your beliefs in your religious world do not buy you a free ticket to harm others, kill others, incite others out here in the secular world.

It would be wise if every person in every religion opened their eyes to the fact that their way is not the only way.  Their way is not the certain right way.  Deluded certitude is the hallmark of so many in any religion.

And you're wrong.

Simply because you were born in a certain locale and raised to believe one thing, does not negate the billions of other people born in different places and taught to believe something wholly different.

The wholesale writing off of an entire religious people stymies me.  People in this country, so desperate to cling to their faux righteous indignation and holier-than-thouism paint every Muslim with a wide, ugly, wrong brush.  They loudly trumpet that every Muslim wishes death on every non-Muslim.  The reality being that those who are screaming this rhetoric the loudest have never actually met a Muslim.

The extremists in Islam no more represent the billion Muslims than does Timothy McVeigh and his penchant for fertilizer and rental trucks represents every American or the Westboro Baptist folks represent every Christian.

But, but, but the Quran tells them death to all infidels!

Um, no, it doesn't.  In certain chapters it speaks of fighting in self defense those who have attacked based on their religion. Yes, it is also replete with violent imagery - AS IS THE BIBLE.

It does not contain some set in stone, broadbased attack-and-kill-every-nonbeliever directive.  Nor does every Muslim live the Quran literally any more than every Christian lives the Bible in a literal fashion.

Seriously, when was the last time you stoned your daughter or killed someone who works on Sunday?

Cherry picking is one of the hallmarks of Christian hypocrisy.  My question is then, why is it OK for a Christian to defend their right to not follow some of the writings in their holy book, but that same mindset and courtesy is not extended to someone in another religion?

Serious question.

You know, it is not impossible to inhabit this planet and get along.  To follow what you have been raised to believe while affording that same right to others.

It is not impossible to sweep your own doorstep before remarking on the soil on someone else's stoop.

And it is not impossible to open your mind and allow additional information in, even when it makes your inner narraitive pee down its leg in fear.

Fear is at the heart of so much misunderstanding these days.  Take responsibility for YOUR actions.  Because long before you are fit to be your brother's keeper, you have to be your own.

We The Sheeple - Just Who The Hell Is Voting For Mitt Romney? And More Importantly: WHY?

It's no secret that I have little in common with the Republican ticket.  The GOP has about as much appeal to me as a root canal performed through my anus.  Their platform, drenched as it is in God makes my blood curdle.  Revisionist history, something at which they excel, drives me crazy.  And their misogynistic view of my reproductive organs as somehow falling under their eminent domain?  Well, they can all get f*cked.  (But only if they are doing it to make a baby, mind you.)

Watching the campaign for the Presidency the past 12 months, I am surprised I haven't snapped my neck from shaking my head so hard at the utter bullshit and lies spewed by the right.  From crackpots like Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain, to, well, crackpots like Rick Santorum and Donald Trump, it has stymied me how so many people in this country would willingly support such vapid, ignorant, self promoting losers.

Then I remind myself of one thing:  President Barack Obama

Yes, that Kenyan, Marxist, Socialist, community organizer with the perma-tan is sitting in their White House and must be evicted.

They are led by politicians who stated their sole purpose the last four years was to deny Barack Obama a second term.  (See:  precious little accomplished with their help)

I have watched as Mitt Romney, like John McCain in the It's-MY-turn stakes, became the front runner, then the nominee.  Despite a list of lies (so many they are being charted by fact checkers - 553 as of 8/29), and the balls to have a campaign in which a spokesman actually says "the campaign will not be run by the fact checkers" (read:  We can say whatever we damned well please because we are only addressing those voters who hate Barack Obama anyway), people still turn out for his campaign stops, still dig their heels in and support him.

Just curious - what the hell are you supporting?  He refuses to elaborate on ANYTHING.

Oh, wait - PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA. 

It doesn't matter that Romney's full of shit, and empty on plans and ideas, that he refuses to disclose his income tax returns, that his money requires a passport to be visited, that he is a Bishop in a religion that gives many people pause, that he is the pure definition of "elite" - a word the right has so casually flung at the left for so long - he is NOT Barack Obama, ergo, in Tinfoilhatland, he is the man.

24 hours ago, video began being released of Mitt holding court at a $50k per plate fundraiser.  Speaking "off the cuff" his true disdain for the little people is brought into glaring focus.

Apparently, I am part of the 47% of people who suck off the government teat because that is the only reason I could possibly be voting for President Obama.

Mitt's words: 

“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…

“And I mean the president starts off with 48, 49 … he starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn’t connect. So he’ll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. I mean that’s what they sell every four years. And so my job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. What I have to convince the five to ten percent in the center that are independents that are thoughtful, that look at voting one way or the other depending upon in some cases emotion, whether they like the guy or not.”

To those Mitt supporters who are desperately trying to spin all this today?  It matters.  It is in context.  Give up trying to defend it.  Even Mitt knows.  Why else would he call a hasty press conference at 10pm last night to address these videos? Because he KNOWS.  He knows what is still to come and is trying to get in front of it.  Good luck with that, Mr. Romney.  Standing in front of a tsunami won't stop it from obliterating you.  And offering up some pathetic excuses like what you said was "not elegantly stated"?  Again, good luck with that.  (Oh, and you may want to be careful using 5 dollar words like "elegantly."  Not exactly playing to your baser base there.)

OK, Mitt, let's start at the start, shall we?  I will NOT vote for YOU, no matter what.   Your grasp of the common man/woman is nonexistent.  Your wife's dressage horse lives better than the majority of this country, definitely better than the military members who defend your right to write off the care of your dressage horse on your taxes ($77,000+).

I will not vote for you because you endorse a party platform based on misogyny.  My body is not yours to govern.  Just as your rapidly decaying weiner is not mine to govern.  If you want to ply your pole with Viagra or Cialis, go for it.  Do I think insurance should cover the expense of insuring you can still go all missionary?   Um, no.  If women cannot have birth control covered, then why should the other 50% of the pregnancy equation be enabled?

I will not vote for you because you lie.  And when caught, you double down and lie some more.  FACTS do not have a bias, Mitt.  FACTS are just that - FACTS.  That they tend to trip up the GOP so regularly is the GOP's fault.

I will not vote for you because you have absolutely zero finesse on the international stage.  You offend every time you open your mouth.  Your pandering, self promoting comments and lies as people lay dead in the attack on the embassy?  You are an embarrassment to this country.  And President Obama never "apologized" regardless of how many times you say he did.  When will Repubicans grasp the simple concept of RECORD - PLAY?

I will vote for our President AND I pay income tax.  In fact, I can prove I pay income taxes!  Can you?  Will you?  Ha.  We all know the answer to that.  You will stand there pandering to a room full of rich people, painting all Obama supporters as slackers who don't pay taxes, yet you won't come clean with your own and prove you pay ANY.

As for tax cuts?  He cut ours.  An inconvenient truth for your side, akin to global warming, but truth nonetheless. 

Now, let's take that whole "healthcare, food, housing" slur.  Mr. Romney, I am a liberal, and I believe healthcare, food, and housing is the least we should be able to pull together as a nation and insure we all have.  I'm not talking caviar and champagne, or a mansion with a car elevator.  I am talking basic human needs.  Not sleeping in a box, not serving your country and being evicted from your home.  As for healthcare?  It doesn't matter how your supporters chant "We're #1!!" over and over.  We're not.  Not in healthcare, not in production, not in anything but the creation of specious, lying, power whores like yourself.

I don't need you to convince me to take "personal responsibility" for my life and that of my family.  Doing that already. As are the vast majority of Americans who try to get from sun-up to sundown with a job, food on the table, a roof over their heads.  And if sleep comes, it doesn't come easy because we, unlike the privileged car elevator set, worry about having to lather, rinse, repeat the process all over again with the next sun-up.

Are we victims?  Hell yes.  Of A Republican president who cronied his way through 8 years in office, who lied us into two wars of choice, who ran us into an economic ditch rivaled in breadth and depth by the Grand Canyon (or Rush Limbaugh's piehole).  We "victims" lost our investments, 401k plans, retirement opportunities, homes, jobs, THE AMERICAN DREAM when it all came crashing down on us - circumstances completely beyond our control, set in motion by devious, selfish pricks who run the money world.  We "victims" try daily to find work, we want to work, we don't want to be on food stamps or welfare.  We are dignified, patriotic, hard working, family loving AMERICANS.

As for it not being your "job to worry about those people"?  You seem to suffer from Palinitus - the belief that only REAL Americans matter (oddly, REAL Americans being defined as "those who buy what you are selling")   If you want to be President of this country, we are ALL to be worried about. 

Oh, and a little piece of trivia for you and your supporters, Mitt:  The top 10 aid receiving states - you know, welfare, food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid? - RED.  Yes, RED states take far more than than pay into the system, while BLUE states provide the largest percentage of $$ into the teat system from which those RED states suckle.

By the way - a large % of those freeloading tax dodgers you spoke about?  They are the elderly who have paid into the system for years through their own hard work.

Finally, you mention emotion being a reason people vote one way or another.  Well, Mitt, you struck a nerve, and nerves feed emotion.  So good luck with that.

The clips from the video will continue to be released, and Romney's disdain for the American people and power-at-all-costs ambition orgy will continue to be revealed in greater detail.

And that's fine by me.  At this point, Mitt is truly just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.  And while it stymies me as to why, he still has a lot of help as his campaign sinks into the icy depths of failure.

Catching Up

Hi everyone -

Many thanks to those of you who have popped in via email and FB to see where/what/how I am.  As always I truly appreciate being part of such a wonderful group of people.

Life is what is usually is on this end - busy.  Even with one child at home, that one child doesn't stop moving unless she is asleep, so we are always on the go.

Carson's ankle continues to heal.  Today marks "two weeks in, two week out" - meaning two weeks that she has been in the cast, and two weeks till she is released from its captivity.  She is doing well, out of pain, and still as focused as ever.  As frustrating as it is to not be able to play, she is still working out at CATZ, attends every training session with her team, and this past week was again selected as Captain for the upcoming playing year.  Proud indeed!

Culley and Kendall are doing well at their colleges in their first apartments.  Busy balancing studying, time with friends, football games, and work (Culley).  Just this evening, Kendall called to excitedly tell me she received an email from a Professor regarding being an undergraduate research assistant for a study he is doing.  Fingers crossed for her!  Culley is mulling over internship opportunities at the Smithsonian next summer.  Yeah.  The SMITHSONIAN.

I miss them both so much, but love how independent and focused they both are.

Rudy is enjoying his new assignment in Colorado - working around the clock, helping to build it into something even more amazing than it already is.  Still trying to figure out when he can get home for a visit, when I can get out there to see it in person.

As for me, life is still too hectic for me to take up pole dancing fulltime...

:O)

OK, ok - seriously - busy, evolving, juggling.  Watching the sands of my life be reworked  by the waves, and marveling at the changes.  Carson ordered her class ring yesterday and it really dawned on me that this chapter of my life is fast approaching a conclusion. 

And that's OK.  The waves are not eroding the beach of my life, just smoothing out what has been etched there and leaving a blank canvas for me to scratch the new stories into the sands.

Thinking about what the tide pulls out and away, the ebb and flow of life, and Tom Hanks' speech in Castaway about the miracle of the waves, "Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?"

Not being maudlin, just a rainy day and some reflection.

Actually, I have been reflecting a lot.  Looking back on the years, marveling at the changes, the people who have been like the waves - coming in, moving back out. I have spent hours lately going back through the thousands of entries (5,052 to be exact) I have written here, watching as names came into the comments and stayed to build this family.  There have been such good times, so many good times, connections, efforts we have undertaken together, lives we have touched, sharing my family with you, you sharing your families with me.

It's amazing, really.

My life is certainly richer for it.  I hope yours is, too.

Linda

It's Jennifer's Day!

Remembering

Happy Birthday, Eryn!

Oh, God, Your Cup Runneth Over With Asshats

It's not enough that Sandra Fluke is still called a slut for daring to speak out about insurance covering birth control (she has not asked for taxpayers to fund her personal supply, contrary to what so many with festering pools of pus for brains believe courtesy of Rush and Fox).  Don't even get ME started on the fact that insurance, Medicare, etc, covers VIAGRA.

Then we have great thinkers like Rick Brown-Stuff-Running-Down-A-Leg espousing that a rape pregnancy is a gift from God.

Not to be outdone in the asshattery sweepstakes, Todd Akin opened his ignorant piehole (seriously, he shouldn't even have a penis, let alone be holding court on women's reproductive systems) to educate us all on "legitimate rape" vs that other kind.  I still don't know what that other kind is, but apparently when it is legitimate, my body sends forth a battalion of spermacidal ninjas to thwart the intrusive hate sperm.

Now comes another old white Christian fart to tell us WHY we have so many babies with deformities and problems...

I hope you're listening, Sarah Palin.

It's because the woman has obviously had a previous abortion.

Yes, that's right.

Virginia lawmaker, State Delegate Bob Marshall (R - color me shocked) said this:

“The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children.  In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.”

Yes, Bob, CHRISTIANS suggest a lot of things while performing their most amazing miracle - that of being able to talk out their asses.

They suggest that an 11 year old rape victim be forced to bear her stepfather's child.  Being a totally unique gift and all.

They suggest that a woman be forced to have a cold ultrasound wand shoved up inside her, with no purpose or medical necessity.

They suggest that my husband and I cannot have sex for fun, only for precreation.  (Looking at you, St. Santorum.)  Sorry, but at this point in my life, sex is purely RECREATIONAL.  And if I want to don a catsuit, swing from a chandelier, or paint Rudy with chocolate syrup and lick it off, it is none of your damned business.

And now, this one suggests that compromised babies spring from the wombs of women who have previously aborted a pregnancy.

Sarah?  Madame Palin?  I have the timer set.  How long before you come forward to confess to the abortion you surely must have had in order to be punished with Trig?  Or how long before you come forward and call bullshit on this member of your political party who is including you - like it or not - in his condemnation and judgement?

Don't worry, I'm not holding my breath.

Children with deformities, abnormalities, all manner of compromises are born daily to women who have done little more than get pregnant and eagerly await the arrival of their child.  No previous abortion.  No lesser than thou morals.

Just an unfortunate roll of the genetic dice and the short circuiting of one of a million things that must happen in utero to develop a ball of cells into a functioning human being.

Bob, your declaration is the perfect example of everything that is wrong with religion.  It is an infection.  It disables a person's ability, hell, their willingness, to think for themselves, it turns their brain to shit, and forces this type of putrescence out of their mouth.

Abortion is legal.  This is a battle long fought, hard won.  Stuff your goddamned Bible and get it the hell away from governance.  It has no place.

My body is just that.  MY BODY.  Mine to do with what I want, what I decide.  It is not up to you, him, her, them, what my decisions are. 

If you don't believe in abortion, don't have one.  But don't even begin to act like no abortion has ever darkened the doorstep of a Christian home. (And just how many Christian children with deformities, mental handicaps, physical challenges occupy pews each week?  I guess their mothers are all abortion loving whores, huh?)

If you don't believe in homosexual marriage, don't have one.  No one is forcing you to marry someone of the same sex, and a gay marriage in no way threatens the sanctity of the bullshit we heteros call marriage these days.

If you don't believe in birth control, don't use it.  I have yet to see anyone cramming pills down people's throats while they wait for the subway or bus.

And if you want to buy into this type of crap constantly, consistently being spewed forth by the Republican leadership, go for it.  Just know you are on the wrong side of history, decency, intelligence.

Oh, and you'd better never give birth to a baby who is not perfectly perfect in every single respect.  Because if your baby is born with Down's, CF, a club foot, a cleft palate, etc - you'd better be ready to sew on a scarlet A for ABORTION because now we ALL know that's why babies are born with challenges.

Right?

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FOLLOW UP

Just as predictably as night follows day, Marshall is now attempting to walk back his  offensive asshattery on his website. 

TRANSLATION?  I said what I believe, but you mean people have now called me out on it so I have to act like I didn't say it and that you all misunderstood me.

His post:  "No one who knows me or my record would imagine that I believe or intended to communicate such an offensive notion," he wrote. "I have devoted a generation of work to defending disabled and unwanted children, and have always maintained that they are special blessings to their parents. Nevertheless, I regret any misimpression my poorly chosen words may have created as to my deep commitment to fighting for these vulnerable children and their families."

Sorry, Bob, but your words were not a "misimpression."  You spoke clearly, with vigor, easily disparaging and condemning not only the children, but the women who give birth to them and are there biggest champions.

Your service, sir, deserves a late term abortion.