Bro-Choice
Posted by Michelle Moquin on December 18th, 2012
Good morning!
I’m in the mood this morning…
Howie: As much as I was disappointed over Obama’s choice about Rice; I’ve already said my very big two on the subject, I keep HOPEing there was some good reason for his actions, but I cannot imagine what it could be. With respect to Obama and his potential agreement with the aliens, this is a very big deal for our president and not to mention a big deal for the world. I HOPE the vote goes Obama’s way if that is what is best for the world.
I HOPE you had a wonderful Hanukkah, and all is well with you.
Anonymous: How can you say “...she seemed to be ok with how they treat the women?“? Just because Hathaway didn’t bring up women doesn’t mean she is ok with how they treat women. She said nothing about women, which doesn’t say she is ok with the treatment of women or not. We have no idea what is going through her mind except her comments about dropping her religion because they don’t support her gay brother. She was speaking strictly about her gay brother. Your comment doesn’t sound like it’s “good none the less” – It sounds like you’re knocking her. (I’d like to hear what you’re doing in support of women or gays for that matter) Why not celebrate what she has done instead of knock what you seem to think she feels, without really knowing? At least Hathaway is one woman who took a stance…a strong stance against the Catholic Church – I don’t hear about many other people doing such a thing.
Zen Lill: What’s up girl? What’d you think of today’s funny? I know you’d be laughin’!
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December 18th, 2012 at 10:09 am
Hi Mischa, lots happening lately…will give you a holiday catch up call soon! It’s ALL good…now…I made some stupid overly forgiving moves to a few peeps but my Italiano finally showed up to fix shit. …and yes, you know I was laughing right out loud at the bro-choice rules! I love her : )
Luv, Zen Lill
December 18th, 2012 at 10:15 am
By ‘my Italiano’ I meant my flip side of Zen Lill which I affectionately call my Mt Vesuvius and when she blows (pun totally intended) it is a (mf-in’) mind blower, & clears the deck of those who are energetically and vibrationally attempting to lower my vibe, that’s NOT allowed.ever.
Luckily, the deck clearing only has to happen on rare occasions.
- ZL
December 18th, 2012 at 2:58 pm
How to Avoid Assuming the Worst
My friend’s husband was recently late coming home from work.
Instead of assuming that he was stuck in traffic (which he was), she immediately wondered if he had died in a car accident or was having an affair.
She doesn’t have these types of catastrophic thoughts all the time, but she has them on occasion—and they cause her a fair amount of anxiety.
She’s not sure how to make these kinds of thoughts stop.
So I called Ron Breazeale, PhD, a clinical psychologist in Portland, Maine, who has helped catastrophic thinkers throughout his career. He gave me some simple and creative ways to break this bad habit.
TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR THOUGHTS
The next time you have a catastrophic thought, stop yourself in that moment and consider following these tips from Dr. Breazeale…
1. Identify your thought as “catastrophic.” Recognize that what you’re thinking about is extremely unlikely to happen—think seriously about the realistic odds. Your partner getting run over by an 18-wheeler or cheating on you in a hotel room with a colleague on his way home from work, for example, are possible explanations for tardiness, but they aren’t likely explanations.
2. Think about the more likely explanations. Force yourself to come up with other potential scenarios—ones that are much more likely to happen in real life. With the above example, consider that your partner is stuck in traffic…on a long line at a gas station…stopping at a drugstore for some razor blades…picking up dry cleaning, etc. Then tell yourself that chances are one of these “more likely” scenarios is the real reason he’s late. The more that you consciously force yourself to do this, the more likely you are to start thinking rationally automatically when you’re stressed.
3. Take action (when possible). In certain cases, there’s an easy way to disprove your catastrophic thought and confirm a “more likely” reason for the problem at hand—for example, you could simply call your tardy husband on his cell phone to find out what’s causing the delay, and that might help you relax.
But here’s an important part of this step: Make only one call. If you call him and he doesn’t pick up, and that is going to prompt you to call him 10 more times or make calls to 10 other places (his office, the gas station, the drugstore, the dry cleaners, etc)…then skip this step altogether, because it’ll only inflate your worries.
4. Dig deeper. Ask yourself if your partner’s tardiness, for instance, is what you’re really worried about. Your anxiety might be manifesting itself as stress about your partner, but it actually may be stemming from a separate problem altogether.
For example, maybe you’re seriously scared because you’re struggling financially…or maybe you’re panicked about a serious health diagnosis…or maybe you’re not performing well at work. If you figure out the root problem and then take steps to solve that problem, you might find that your catastrophic thinking dissipates.
GET EXTRA HELP, IF NEEDED
If the tips from Dr. Breazeale above don’t curtail your catastrophic thinking and it’s interfering with your life in a serious way—perhaps it keeps you from sleeping or hurts your relationships, for example—then it’s time to seek help from a psychologist who uses cognitive behavioral therapy.
Find one near you at http://locator.apa.org, the site of the American Psychological Association, said Dr. Breazeale, and ask him or her, “Can you help me with catastrophic thinking?”
Source: Ron Breazeale, PhD, a clinical psychologist in Portland, Maine, who has helped catastrophic thinkers throughout his career.
December 18th, 2012 at 3:04 pm
The 2nd Amendment has been perverted by a handful of aberrant judges. Originally the Amendment justified the States in raising regulated official militias in order to protect themselves against rebellion. But now the Amendment has been interpreted to sanction vigilante terrorism against public order and the Constitutional government itself. The National Review’s lame defense of terrorist rebellion is sick making.
December 18th, 2012 at 3:04 pm
” Originally the Amendment justified the States in raising regulated official militias in order to protect themselves against rebellion.”
Originally, the constitution provided that Congress could “raise an Army and maintian a Navy”. We now have a standing army – several of them in fact, and the equivalent of several more in the guise of DHS, IC E, TSA, edt. The Second Amendment ios the only thing that affords me protection me against them.
December 18th, 2012 at 3:14 pm
When I read what some OTW person said about white people I was poised to write the strongest protest possible. But today I saw that fool governor from Virginia, McDonnell, say “It’s way to early” for gun-control talk on MSNBC.
Then I read this about the National Review. Mass murder is a sad but inevitable consequence of the wonderful Second Amendment, according to an inhouse editorial in one of America’s leading conservative magazines. National Review’s editors, writing in response to the recent massacre in Connecticut, delivered a full-throated defense of the right to own guns. When confronted with the reality of mass-killings, the editors said “too bad:”
The practical consequence of living for nearly two-and-a-half centuries under the almost universally benevolent protection of the Second Amendment is a society in which there are hundreds of millions of guns…Those upset with the order of things are welcome to try, and doomed to fail, to repeal the Second Amendment via the constitutional process. But the guns of America aren’t going anywhere any time soon, and generic calls to “do something” — even insofar as doing something is desirable — must reckon with this fact.
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This is disgusting! For someone to say that 20 dead children is the price for the 2nd amendment is despicable!
December 18th, 2012 at 3:19 pm
Howie, what is happening will we see aliens soon. I was told by a friend to check the blog for your post. I had given it up because I thought you had gone somewhere else.
Glad to see you are back.
December 18th, 2012 at 3:20 pm
Rights can be defined, the courts do it all the time. Rights do come with responsibilities and sensible limitations. We learn the first amendment, free speech does not mean you can yell fire in a crowded theater. Maybe the right to own a gun will be metered with what type of gun and ammunition. It certainly is not all or nothing.
December 18th, 2012 at 3:20 pm
What kind of freedom do we enjoy if we’re afraid to leave our houses? If we’re afraid to send our children to school? This isn’t freedom, and the framers of our constitution never meant for us to live in this kind of fear.
December 18th, 2012 at 3:23 pm
Huckabee said it happened because we’ve removed god from our schools. I’d like to send him to meet his god. Does any sane person think the current state of gun ownership and sale fits the phrase “well regulated?”
December 18th, 2012 at 3:24 pm
These are the same people who think “freedom of religion” means teaching creationism in our public schools, and “freedom of speech” means making up lies and reporting them as “truth” (while selling themselves as “fair and balanced”), the same people who think the freedom to vote should be restricted for political gain (they freely admit it!), and, oh, by the way, they are the ones who feel that the sanctity of life only counts in the womb. I think they need to be quiet for awhile.
December 18th, 2012 at 3:25 pm
“Universally benevolent” twisting of the Second Amendment by the cash-bloated gun lobby, ALEC and the NRA KILLS CHILDREN. the price is too high. Don’t let the T-Baggers and the NRA suppress real discussion about gun control! Top conservative seems least human!
December 18th, 2012 at 3:25 pm
Stick your gun where the sun wont shine.Lets start doing the right thing and not hide behind the second amendment. no body is going to take our guns away. just be reasonable.
December 18th, 2012 at 3:30 pm
What a wack. I am so sick of the right talking about how the second amendment is key to our democracy but then they are willing to trample all over others like the the 14th.
December 18th, 2012 at 7:09 pm
You left wing nuts don’t realize that you need automatic weapons NOT to hunt but to protect this country from the government. Traitors like Obama need watching. My home state of Michigan’s governor Rick Snyder is set to a bill sponsored by Sen Mike Green, R-Mayville.
Michigan’s ‘Right to Vote’ law will ensure Snyder is ‘vetoed’ in his next election. We will not stand for a traitor who will fuck with the 2nd Amendment.
December 18th, 2012 at 7:15 pm
mes amie moi j ai dit la virité est je ne peure pas de aucune force au monde en face de la virité.est vous conaisé que je suis un systimatique armés.est je refuse de rechésé ce monde mortelle.phyzique est chimic est biologique le dangés qui vous ne le voiyé pas.est aprés mon crime progurames automatique cominication de l avion son pilote.je regréte de se que j ai faits.pouisque j ai moi aussi une responsabilités de victime sivvile quion more acose de ce progurames.comme je refuse aussi de reposé le defondeure de ce mon progurames pour ne extensionné pas la crimes merci.
December 18th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
I, for one, am glad this will be vetoed… I do not want every crazed idiot out there with a carry permit to be free to roam the hallways of our schools…what if a child grabbed the weapon from its holster? what if the person with the weapon had a sudden fit of anger? what is (s)he gets a phone call from a significant other telling him(her) that they were breaking up? what if the carrier suddenly tripped and the gun went off accidentally? no…no guns in schools!
December 18th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
This is just a ruse. 6 months from now he will instate the law. Don’t vote for or trust any Republicans.
December 18th, 2012 at 7:17 pm
Guess he didn’t want the teachers packin’ when he came to visit the schools?
December 18th, 2012 at 7:17 pm
Mr. Snyder is a proven LIAR!
He says one thing, does another.
I do not believe him now!
He will wait for this to ‘blow over’ and sign it.
The People of my home State of Michigan.
will have an opportunity to right the ship.
in 2014 & 1016! VOTE THEM OUT!
December 18th, 2012 at 7:18 pm
It’s already legal to open carry in schools with a CPL, it has been for ten years… Obviously your fears are unwarranted. Would you rather kids be aware or unaware of the presence of guns? Because that’s all this law changed other than upping the restrictions upon getting a CPL
December 18th, 2012 at 7:19 pm
They are not just tiny penis white boys, they are stupid, murderous, selfish, cowards.
December 18th, 2012 at 7:21 pm
If one looks at which states take more money from the Federal Government than they pay into it, the reality is, it is the Red States. That’s right, the red states. And yet, during the entire campaign, it was the democrats, the do nothings, the 47% that don’t pay taxes and just suck the government dry.
Well, that’s a republican, Fox, Limbaugh, Beck myth. Well actually it isn’t a myth, but it is the republicans, not the dems. But Stan Williams below has it right.
December 18th, 2012 at 7:22 pm
The GOP has been cooking the books for years and blaming Democrats as the big spenders. The Republicans want a new paint job before they crash the car, then say they were’nt driving.
December 18th, 2012 at 7:23 pm
Todd Akin is poisin to a free thinking society. He and others of his warped thinking hide behind the cloak of Jesus to spread their hate then call themselves Christians. These people turn my stomach.
December 18th, 2012 at 7:25 pm
When I was a Naval officer (before the days of DADT), there was no prohibition on service members discriminating against others due to sexuality. There was, however, a prohibition against racial discrimination.
I had a sailor in my division who frequently uttered racial epithets in my presence; God knows what he was saying when his division officer wasn’t within earshot. Counseling did not change his habit, so when it came time to write his evaluation, I gave him the lowest score possible on support of the Navy’s equal opportunity policies.
Most sailors got the highest rating on this category automatically; it was one of those things that no one gave much thought. But by giving him a 1.0 on this item, I ensured that he could not be promoted.
Akin’s measure would deny officers and supervisors this remedy for discrimination by any of their troops, and would make it open season for hate speech and bullying in the military.
December 18th, 2012 at 7:26 pm
Actually a lot of so-called Christians are trying to make it OK for kids in school to bully gay kids without any punishment if it homosexuality is against the bully’s religion. They really want to keep LGBT people separate and “other” because if the rest of us notice they are not so different from us, they’ll be accepted, and the far right can’t stomach that.
December 18th, 2012 at 7:37 pm
Michelle, your UTube video did not appear until about five minutes ago. Some of my friends(23) called to say “Turn on Michelle’s blog, She did not publish a blog with a big hole in the center. Their is a Sarah Silverman video there. And don’t mention the cutie RGIII’s AD.”
I couldn’t believe it . There was your hole filling up. No pun intended. Fantastic!!!!! She speaks for me.
December 18th, 2012 at 7:40 pm
“Rule #1 – The way to a woman’s heart is never through a mandatory vaginal ultra-sound.”
Who are the men who can’t get this?
December 18th, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Who the fuck thinks it’s okay to own a gun that is for killing humans at 100 rounds a minute? Who are the sociopaths who the death of 5 to 7 year olds is a price we have to pay for the 2nd Amendment.
What the fuck is Scalia thinking when he says the founding fathers intended for crazy fucks to be able to own weapons of mass destruction.
Who the fuck are these men in Congress who can sleep knowing their regulations allowed a mad kid to send babies to their deaths with 3 to 11 high power bullets tearing into their flesh?
Children who went to school thinking of what their Christmas would be like going to death at the hands of pure evil. The evil coming from those legislators who voted to end the ban on assault weapons.
Fuck you all. I just hope you meet your end at the end of an assault weapon.
December 18th, 2012 at 8:22 pm
When will this stop? when will such stupid people not be found in the U.S. Congress? Those men writing laws to demean women are a disgrace. Thank you so much Michelle for this blog. If not for it, I would be insane.
When I see the women and men who feel the way I do. It gives me hope that change can occur. You are a Saint. When I told my daughters that I would pray that your prediction that Obama would win by a landslide they told me to save my prayers and go vote.
They said that you were the Girlz and that your word was Gospel. They were right.
This 63 year old woman has a new idol.
Love
Kathy
December 18th, 2012 at 8:52 pm
Hafa adai, just so you know Michelle, we have the BAPF pieces of shit on Guam too. Guam shooting club president Attorney Robert Kutz said “I don’t know whether she was a collector or exactly what it was but nonetheless anything can be miss used, it’s unfortunate, it’s tragic that this thing happened and there’s no excuse for it but it’s a people control issue more than it is a gun control issue,” said Kutz.
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This piece of shit didn’t tried to disguise the talking points of his NRA masters – “guns don’t kill people, People do.” So he tried a sneaky paraphrase – “…it’s a people control issue more than it is a gun control issue,”
What a hypocritical BAPF piece of shit.
Peter
December 18th, 2012 at 9:16 pm
The gun is called a Bushmaster .223. Lanza used the rifle, a modified civilian version of the military’s M-16 similar to the popular AR-15, as he stalked through the school and opened fire on children as young as five.
Dr. H. Wayne Carver, the medical examiner who investigated the massacre, told reporters over the weekend that all of Lanza’s victims had been shot more than once.
The .223 caliber load is popular, the article says, because it has better fragmentation upon impact, meaning it will deal a lot of damage to the human body.
The sexually incompetent white boy will use any excuse to continue to own the kind of fire power they believe they need to feel like a man.
December 18th, 2012 at 9:17 pm
LftCoast…it doesn’t matter if I want one or need one – that is irrelevant. Please tell me where the 2nd Amendment states I must need a gun to own it.
It says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed…sounds to me as if you wish to infringe upon that right without following the constitutional amendment process.
Here’s a challenge, please tell me how any gun control law will prevent any nut job from killing people…nut jobs don’t obey the law in the first place.
Seems to me that Timothy McVeigh didn’t use a single handgun and he killed 168 adults and children in OKC. The 9/11 terrorist used a plane and a box cutter. The terrorists who bombed the USS Cole used a bomb and a boat and so on.
You know evil does exist in this world and sometimes it gets its way. If we pass gun control the only thing that happens for sure is a little bit more of my liberty is gone…any other outcome is pure speculation and wishfull thinking.
December 18th, 2012 at 9:21 pm
I find it poor logic to blame the gun for the shooting anymore than the blaming of a car for the wreck. I think it is also wrong to make the mother out to be the monster for trying (LEGALLY)to find a hobby to spend time with her son.
Ultimately that young man is responsible for his own gruesome action. It is a terrible thing to choose to take another’s life. Maybe we need to take a deep look at what we are teaching our children.
What is filling their lives? What is social media telling them? Is it the dramatic way the shooter’s get their 15 minutes of fame after they commit an atrocity? Is it killing people in a video game; does that makes it more acceptable?
Watching movies where a vilian goes on a rampage and it makes him out to be a hero for wanton killings? Is this what we have come to in our nation? Where our kids live in fear of being in schools, movie theaters or malls?
How have we added to this? Are we slowly but surely desensitizing ourselves so we are no longer affected by what is in our homes and what we chose to put in front of us? These sad horrors were never in our nations past history prior to the 1960′s?
What have we done to promote such monstrosities? Maybe we need to look to the root of the problem? Not merely at the instuments used but at the individuals who decide that this outcome is acceptible.
So the question comes down to what can we do to prevent this? In my humble opinion the only way to prevent is to start with the individuals themselves.
Look around you… Is there anyone you know that you can help? You never know what you could prevent by being that person to someone who is on the edge. Je
December 18th, 2012 at 9:24 pm
It’s not the weapon we need to worry about, it’s the morality of the person who uses it.
December 18th, 2012 at 9:29 pm
See what I mean. The sick asses are these misogynists that choose to hate women because they are inadequate in bed with them.
Guns are the problem. A nut with a gun is much more lethal that a nut without. And a nut with an assault weapon is that much more lethal.
December 18th, 2012 at 9:33 pm
This is insane. If we need guns to protect ourselves when we go shopping, when we go to the theater, when we attend schools or even when we’re in our own homes, then America is a total failure as a civilization.
December 19th, 2012 at 8:24 am
Loving the lights. Did I see you fly by last night?