The Iron Gauntlet
Just trying to figure out what's next for me. I have a really good life honestly, I just wish I had some idea about who I'm supposed to be. On this blog you will see plenty of the following:
[X] Personal thoughts concerning my life
[X] Left-leaning political ideas
[X] Science and technology
[X] Lots of anti-religious sentiments
[X] Atheistic quotations and ideas
[X] Pro-humanism / pro-secularism
[X] Philosophy and psychology
[X] Pro-choice / pro-gay rights
[X] Disdain for cultural pride and nationalism
[X] Humor that might offend you
[X] Fantasy and science fiction things
[X] Medieval themed artwork
[X] A Song of Ice and Fire
[X] Game of Thrones
[X] Dragon Age
[X] Star Wars (original trilogy)
[X] The Walking Dead
[X] Lord of the Rings
[X] Mass Effect
[X] World War II inspired posts
[X] Mythology and ancient history
[X] Plenty of Christopher Hitchens
[X] Lots of Dawkins and Sam Harris
[X] Lots of animals (birds,cats,deer,reptiles,etc.)
[X] Face Off on the Syfy Channel
[X] The night sky, moon, and stars
[X] New York Rangers Hockey
[X] Stand-up Comedy
[X] Posts that are overall funny
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The Inner Machinations of My Mind
This handsome son of a bitch :)
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forrsaken asked: what do you like the most about Sasha?
i love how empowering she is, i love how she can do the most disgusting shit in the world and still prove to be doing it on her own terms, how she...
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Stannis deserves the Iron Throne.
He’s literally the fucking Batman of Kings. He’s not the King Westeros that they want, but he’s the King that they...
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there is power in king’s blood
Which one was the dick leech though?
I was slightly unhappy with this...
There is often a gender gap between the two political parties, with woman voters tending to favor the Democrats while a majority of men support Republican candidates. In recent weeks, however, as the Republican Party has become embroiled in the contraception issue, that gap has widened into an abyss.
GEE! I WONDER HOW THAT HAPPENED!?
-Joe
WELL GOLLY GOSH, I JUST HAVE NO IDEA.
Lets hope that this lead will be enough.
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We’ve gotten to the point where legislation and rulings that should be common sense are now being framed as victories. Yippee.
Seriously. I almost find it difficult to even be happy about these victories anymore. These shouldn’t even be controversial issues. Fuck the catholic church and everything it stands for. I grow so tired of the constant bullshit every fucking day.
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Exactly how the conservative movement demonizes women.
Amazing how most politicians just stand idly by.
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JohnKWilson | DailyKos
While Rush Limbaugh has offered his fake apology to Sandra Fluke for calling her a slut and a whore, it’s important to recall each of the 52 times last week when Rush insulted Fluke. So I’ve compiled a comprehensive list, each of them linked to Limbaugh’s own transcript of what he said. Does one half-hearted apology make up for 52 smears?
Feb. 29, 2012:
1) “she’s having so much sex she can’t afford her own birth control pills”
2) “they’re having so much sex they can’t afford the birth control pills!”
3) “essentially says that she must be paid to have sex, what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.”
4) “Sandra Fluke. So much sex going on, they can’t afford birth control pills.”March 1, 2012:
5) “You’d call ‘em a slut, a prostitute”
6) “she’s having so much sex”
7) “are having so much sex that they’re going broke”
8) “they want to have sex any time, as many times and as often as they want, with as many partners as they want”
9) “the sexual habits of female law students at Georgetown”
10) “are having so much sex that they’re going broke”
11) “having so much sex that it’s hard to make ends meet”
12) “four out of every ten co-eds are having so much sex that it’s hard to make ends meet”
13) “Now, what does that make her? She wants us to buy her sex.”
14) “to pay for these co-eds to have sex”
15) “she and her co-ed classmates are having sex nearly three times a day for three years straight, apparently these deadbeat boyfriends or random hookups that these babes are encountering here, having sex with nearly three times a day”
16) “Therefore we are paying her to have sex. Therefore we are paying her for having sex.”
17) “Have you ever heard of not having sex so often?”
18) “Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here’s the deal: If we are going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. And I’ll tell you what it is. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.”
19) “we want something in return, Ms. Fluke: And that would be the videos of all this sex posted online so we can see what we are getting for our money.”
20) “’If we’re paying for this, it makes these women sluts, prostitutes.’ And what else could it be?”
21) “essentially says that she must be paid to have sex. What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right?”
22) “I’m having sex so damn much, I’m going broke.”
23) “She’s having so much sex that she’s going broke! There’s no question about her virtue.”
24) “having so much sex she’s going broke at Georgetown Law.”
25) “Here’s a woman exercising no self-control. The fact that she wants to have repeated, never-ending, as often as she wants it sex — given.”
26) “She’s having so much sex it’s amazing she can still walk, but she made it up there.”
27) “Maybe they’re sex addicts.”
28) “to pay for her to have sex all the time.”
29) “she wants the rest of us to pay for her sex.”
30) “She wants all the sex that she wants all the time paid for by the rest of us.”
31) “Here this babe goes before Congress and wants thousands of dollars to pay for her sex.”
32) “a woman who is happily presenting herself as an immoral, baseless, no-purpose-to-her-life woman.”
33) “She wants all the sex in the world, whenever she wants it, all the time.”
34) “If this woman wants to have sex ten times a day for three years, fine and dandy.”
35) “to provide women from Georgetown Law unlimited, no-consequences sex.”
36) “so she can have unlimited, no-consequences sex.”
37) “You want to have all the sex you want all day long, no consequences, no responsibility for your behavior”
38) “The woman wants unlimited, no-responsibility, no-consequences sex, and she wants it with contraceptives paid for by us.”March 2, 2012:
39) “she’s having so much sex, she can’t afford her birth control pills anymore.”
40) “she’s having so much sex, she can’t pay for it — and we should.”
41) “She’s having so much sex, she can’t afford it.”
42) “this, frankly hilarious claim that she’s having so much sex (and her buddies with her) that she can’t afford it.”
43) “And not one person says, ‘Well, did you ever think about maybe backing off the amount of sex that you have?’”
44) “Does she have more boyfriends? Ha! They’re lined up around the block.”
45) “It was Sandra Fluke who said that she was having so much sex, she can’t afford it.”
46) “By her own admission, in her own words, Sandra Fluke is having so much sex that she can’t afford it.”
47) “they’re having a lot of sex for which they need a lot of contraception.”
48) “Her sex life is active and she’s having sex so frequently that she can’t afford all the birth control pills that she needs.”
49) “who admits to having so much sex that she can’t afford it anymore.”
50) “she’s having so much sex, she can’t pay for it.”
51) “As frequently as she has sex and to not be pregnant, she’s obviously succeeding in contraception.”
52) “Ms. Fluke, asserts her right to free contraceptive, to handle her sex life — and it’s, by her own admission, quite active.”
All the shit he said is deplorable. I hope all of his sponsors tell him to fuck off.
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Patrica Heaton is a slut-shaming, pro-limbaugh shitstain.
Fuck Patricia Heaton.
And seriously, fuck Rush Limbaugh.
I can’t believe this argument has gone on as long as it has.
Rush Limbaugh is a fucking scumbag just like every other big-mouth conservative.
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Kicking women’s rights in the teeth probably is not a good idea considering 50% of voters are women. Just sayin’. ~ Steve
The thing that I find to be most terrifying, is that any women support this man at all.
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Dear Catholics,
Now because the majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester, if you’re going to get an ultrasound image, as the Virginia law requires, the law states, basically, that any woman seeking to have a legal procedure known as an abortion, whether she wants to or not, first lay back in a chair, spread her legs, (put her) feet in stirrups, and have an eight- to ten-inch wand put inside her — even if the woman in question is pregnant as the result of a rape.
I don’t really have a joke here. I just thought I’d tell you.
JON STEWART, on Virginia’s inhumane, inhuman and shameful “personhood” law that requires women wanting to get an abortion to, in essence, be subject to rape, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
Jesus Christ, this is so nauseating.
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The GOP are great at politicizing issues without accounting for facts. Or science. Or reality. Americans have sex. Lots of it. All the time.
How disturbingly out of touch, how invasive, how disastrous are your goals for controlling people, that, at the core of your opinions, you fail to acknowledge the private sex lives of millions of adult citizens?
They speak of contraception as if sex is a theory. “If” people have sex. “If” they were to get pregnant. How can you seriously deal with real life situations if you impose your “babies come from the stork” infantile intellect on very adult and diverse issues?
It’s not enough that republicans want to limit what they do in the bedroom. They want to limit what everyone else does in the bedroom. And you might ask yourself why they even care, or why your private/sex life is any of their business.
There is only one thing they use to justify their trespass: religion
Disagree if you want, but you’d be wrong. Rick Santorum doesn’t hate condoms because he finds latex to be a deplorable material; he hates them because “god” told him that sex is ONLY FOR MARRIED HETEROSEXUAL COUPLES. And it is ONLY TO BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROCREATION. Going by his biblical standards, you’d have to redefine marriage pretty narrowly. In his eyes, the following couples should never get married:
- homosexual couples
- men who are infertile or have low sperm counts
- women who are barren and can’t carry an infant to term
- couples who do not want children
- couples who have sex for pleasure in addition to procreation
- couples who have sex for pleasure in general
None of these people would really be able to get married under a Santorum regime. And he justifies all of this nonsense with the bible. A book full of fairytales and violent nonsense that hasn’t been relevant for at least 1,000 years.
This is why religion is a poison.
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No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your “religious freedom.” If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs. - Barack Obama
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Love, love, love this.
for fucking real.
Well I’m glad he fucking said it. lol
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I’ve decided I want to own a business just in case the GOP manages to pass their overbroad conscience bill. I have a moral objection to providing any kind of healthcare to a person who would strip it from others based on what a sky-god supposedly meant.
Yeah, I have that moral objection. But I would provide comprehensive health insurance anyhow. Why? Because it’s the right goddamn thing to do, even if I feel those folks should reap what they have sown for others.
If you have a moral objection to birth control, psychological treatment, etc. – don’t use that service. Don’t use contraception.
If you want to live by the Bible, hooray for you. Not all of us want that. Some of us don’t see an unintended pregnancy as a miracle. Some of us don’t think you can pray away depression.
No one is preventing you from attending church or practicing your faith. No one is stopping you from attempting to ram your version of Jesus Christ as a science-denying patriarch down my throat. All we ask is that you obey the laws passed years ago.
If a church wanted to violate child labor laws would politicians support an exception? After the start of the 2012 election cycle, I’m afraid to ask. We already allow churches to waive anti-discrimination laws and give them privileged tax status based upon their status as a church. If churches are going to lobby to control my body, the least they can do is acknowledge their organizational purpose is no longer shepherding a flock – it’s ringleading the political circus.
Until you render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, I argue churches pay taxes and follow the laws of any other political organization/business. There’s my moral objection – currently, they’re not. Assuming the GOP throws a successful tantrum on this issue, I will continue to make this moral objection.
I want to think the American people can see this conscience clause BS as a reactionary throwback, little more than circuses in a time of limited bread. But when the people elected to lead us are leading that circus parade of morality police instead, I fear my faith may be misplaced.
So in the future, come work for my law firm. I’ll provide comprehensive coverage for contraception and the like – even for those who change their minds and join the 98% of Catholics and 99% of Americans who admit to using contraception at least once. You won’t have to ask for it because it will already be there.
Why? Because it’s the ethical, moral thing to do.
This deserves way more notes.
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sinidentidades:
Female Republican Senators go rogue, back Obama on contraceptives
Two female Republican members of the U.S. Senate, Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, have broken rank with their party and come out in favor of a new rule issued by the Obama Administration that requires private health insurers to fully pay for the cost of contraception products.
The two lawmakers extended their support after the administration tweaked its rule to exempt religious non-profits from paying any part of the cost for contraception.
“It appears that changes have been made that provide women’s health services without compelling Catholic organizations in particular to violate the beliefs and tenets of their faith,” Snowe said in a prepared statement. “According to the Catholic Health Association, the administration ‘responded to the issues [they] identified that needed to be fixed,’ which is what I urged the president to do in addressing this situation.”
Collins added that she was glad to see the administration had “finally listened to the concerns raised by many and appears to be seeking to avoid the threat to religious liberties posed by its original plan.”
Their support comes as Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) is shopping around an amendment to the rule that would allow any employer, not just religious non-profits, to do away with workers’ contraception coverage. He was backed up by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who said Sunday that he supports taking the teeth out of the president’s rule by exempting any employer that wants out.
The rule initially required employers to pay in workplaces that cover the cost of health insurance for their employees, but it was strongly opposed by the Catholic Church, which considers contraceptive use to be a sin unless the user is a prostitute.
Oh, Snowe and Collins - every time I think your party is totally irredeemable, you go and say something sensible. [Also, I read the title and just KNEW it was these two.]
It’s good to see that some republicans have retained their sanity.
Also, Blunt and McConnell can go fuck themselves.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzdftfIPWS1qcujoko1_500.jpg)
Female Republican Senators go rogue, back Obama on contraceptives
Two female Republican members of the U.S. Senate, Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, have broken rank with their party and come out in favor of a new rule issued by the Obama Administration that requires private health insurers to fully pay for the cost of contraception products.
The two lawmakers extended their support after the administration tweaked its rule to exempt religious non-profits from paying any part of the cost for contraception.
“It appears that changes have been made that provide women’s health services without compelling Catholic organizations in particular to violate the beliefs and tenets of their faith,” Snowe said in a prepared statement. “According to the Catholic Health Association, the administration ‘responded to the issues [they] identified that needed to be fixed,’ which is what I urged the president to do in addressing this situation.”
Collins added that she was glad to see the administration had “finally listened to the concerns raised by many and appears to be seeking to avoid the threat to religious liberties posed by its original plan.”
Their support comes as Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) is shopping around an amendment to the rule that would allow any employer, not just religious non-profits, to do away with workers’ contraception coverage. He was backed up by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who said Sunday that he supports taking the teeth out of the president’s rule by exempting any employer that wants out.
The rule initially required employers to pay in workplaces that cover the cost of health insurance for their employees, but it was strongly opposed by the Catholic Church, which considers contraceptive use to be a sin unless the user is a prostitute.
Oh, Snowe and Collins - every time I think your party is totally irredeemable, you go and say something sensible. [Also, I read the title and just KNEW it was these two.]
It’s good to see that some republicans have retained their sanity.
Also, Blunt and McConnell can go fuck themselves.
(via stfuconservatives)
