Feminist Friday: Sometimes, You Just Gotta Snark
Posted by: madamab on: August 13, 2010
I wish we could!
Well, we can’t ignore what’s going on with feminist issues today, but if I don’t laugh, I’ll cry! So, here are some snarky laughs for you today.
The Onion mocks the recent abortion law insanity in the red states .
Stephen Colbert skewers the idea of overturning “birthright citizenship” because of evil wimminz and their “anchor babies.”
And, for Hillary fans, the Onion again:
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN—As members of the international press looked on, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rode on horseback through the streets of Kabul Monday, dragging the mutilated remains of Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Jalil through the dirt behind her. “Graaaaaggghh!” Clinton shouted as a frenzied crowd of supporters shot AK-47s into the air. Earlier in the day, Clinton had led a band of mercenaries through rugged mountain terrain to hunt down Jalil, whom the former senator eviscerated with a single stroke of her gleaming scimitar. U.S. soldiers marched alongside the triumphant, blood-soaked Clinton to the center of Kabul, where she ordered the Taliban leader’s gutted body be hung from the town’s tallest spire, where “all may behold it.” White House sources confirmed that upon returning to Washington, Secretary Clinton burst into the Oval Office, threw Jalil’s head down on the president’s desk, and let out a deafening war cry.
Something tells me the Onion wishes Hillary were President, too. 
This is an open thread.
26 Responses to "Feminist Friday: Sometimes, You Just Gotta Snark"
August 13, 2010 at 9:09 AM
Yes, the abortion one is a little too close to reality, but it’s still brilliant. I hope the Onion hasn’t given the fundies any ideas! :-p
August 13, 2010 at 10:28 AM
Thanks for the laughs, MB. I laughed out loud over the panel discussion in the Onion piece; especially the Texas “Take a life, save a life” plan. Great stuff, I needed the laugh!
August 13, 2010 at 11:03 AM
Thanks, janicen. I needed it too!
Can you believe, I was fortunate enough not to know what an “anchor baby” was until I saw the Colbert show? WOW. What is wrong with these people who want to overturn the 14th Amendment? (I know I keep asking but I just can’t believe how nasty and hateful they are.)
August 13, 2010 at 12:21 PM
Welp – looks like Russia is going to go ahead with plans to help Iran build its first nuclear reactor. The story in the Times is surprisingly NOT alarmist.
The factory itself is not going to be online for many months, and supposedly, the materials that could be used to create any nuclear weapons are going to be shipped back to Russia.
In the step set for Aug. 21, fuel will be shifted from storage to the reactor chamber. The second involves loading the fuel into the hardened stainless steel core. The final step is bringing the fuel rods closer together to begin the nuclear reaction.
Once the fuel is irradiated in the final step of the start-up, it will begin to generate plutonium that could be used in an atomic weapon, which is why Russia had insisted on its return as a condition of completing and fueling the plant. The process will not introduce new nuclear material into Iran; Russia delivered the shipment of low-enriched uranium fuel under an agreement that would require Iran to send the spent fuel back to Russia for disposal. The Russian fuel has been kept under International Atomic Energy Agency seal.
In fact, the United States under a policy put in place by the Bush administration has supported the Russian fuel shipments, though not the decision to start the plant. The Russian fuel meets all the needs for the Bushehr plant, largely removing the rationale for an enrichment program.
I wish I knew whom to trust on this. I certainly don’t trust our press or our CIA or our government, but that doesn’t mean Russia and Iran aren’t lying too.
Oy vey, what a mess! HT, how many of us can you host at your place in Canada?!
August 13, 2010 at 1:04 PM
I remembered it but had to look up what Carville said about HRC during the primaries in ’08:
if Hillary “gave [Obama] one of her cojones, they’d both have two.”
August 13, 2010 at 1:51 PM
Fredster so true so true! Obama is a poster child for Pampers and he will go str8 to being a poster child for depends….with out ever truely being toilet trained….
August 13, 2010 at 2:09 PM
Fuzzy-after seeing what my poor mom went thru in the n.h. (and it was a “good one”) I hope he ends up in one on medicaid! 
August 13, 2010 at 2:35 PM
Fredster re Carville – LOL!
If karma gets Obama he’ll be on Medicaid for sure! AND Michelle, Malia and Sasha will have ditched his sorry butt!
Am on my way to an interview – wish me luck, everyone!
August 13, 2010 at 3:54 PM
I am so sick of these xenophobes running their mouths on TeeVee about “Anchor babies!”
Being an APACHE/Mexican I find it amusing that we have, people of “German ancestry, Italian ancestry, Irish ancestry, Polish ancestry” among others…. advocating this nonsense. must be great to be able to forget how THEY were treated when they ,and lets call a spade a spade.. ILLEGALLY landed on MY country!
I do not nor have I ever heard of any Chief or tribe that welcomed these “illegals” to set up shop here.
Now…
That being said. I understand that we are a nation of so-called Immigrants ( much to the dismay of my indigenous ancestors…LOL ) and something must be done to fix our immigration policies but what these animals are advocating is lunacy and will have far reaching implications if ever this insanity takes hold!
by the way…how many of you know this…..
Mexican Repatriation
The Mexican Repatriation refers to a forced migration that took place between 1929 and 1939, when as many as one million people of Mexican descent were forced or pressured to leave the US. (The term “Repatriation,” though commonly used, is inaccurate, since approximately 60% of those driven out were U.S. citizens.)[1] The event, carried out by American authorities, took place without due process.[2] The Immigration and Naturalization Service targeted Mexicans because of “the proximity of the Mexican border, the physical distinctiveness of mestizos, and easily identifiable barrios.” [3]
The Repatriation is not widely discussed in American history textbooks;[4] in a 2006 survey of the nine most commonly used American history textbooks in the United States, four did not mention the Repatriation, and only one devoted more than half a page to the topic.[4] In total, they devoted four pages to the Repatriation, compared with eighteen pages for the Japanese American internment.[4]
These actions were authorized by President Herbert Hoover and targeted areas with large Hispanic populations, mostly in California, Texas, Colorado, Illinois and Michigan.
You see…mexicans have been the bogy man in this country longer than many think and this is just an ongoing racist attitude towards those of the “Brown” color. Many of these folks WERE US citizens and many were here for HUNDREDS of years before the white man showed up!
I never thought I would live to see this become such a hot topic. When i can go to the store and have a teenager SPIT at me and run, then i know we are in some dangerous times here at home.
That is a true story by the way. The punk took off after spitting at me and calling me a RED NIGGER SPIC!!!!!!!!! I didn’t tell my wife nor did I tell anyone when it happened. I was just shocked that someone would, in broad daylight, choose to spout their garbage. The boy had no fear as he was surrounded by what he thought were, “His kind.”
Sorry…this has gotten way out of hand and it is ripping opens some wounds that had best been left closed. It’s sick. It’s disgusting and someone needs to step up and call it what it is….SHAMEFUL!!!!
August 13, 2010 at 3:55 PM
This “Anchor baby” thing is disgusting and anyone touting this Terror baby nonsense needs to be medicated!
August 13, 2010 at 4:08 PM
Red@11: Have you seen the AC360 spots on that? My God, the people they had to represent their p.o.v. on that just cracked me up! Putting them on the teevee just confirmed the wackiness of their claims!
August 13, 2010 at 4:37 PM
Yeah Fred…I did. Sigh
I went on a rant over on my blog about it…LOL
August 13, 2010 at 4:39 PM
Thanks guys! Toughest interview I ever had! I guess we’ll see.
What is a “terror baby?!” Geez, with all these scary babies around you’d think the fundies would favor birth control!
August 13, 2010 at 4:47 PM
Terror baby?
I don’t know what these crazy GOP’ers are talking about but I have a few nephews that were terrors!
Does that count?
August 13, 2010 at 5:12 PM
A “terror baby” is one born here to parents of an unfriendly group. Supposedly, they can then return in adulthood as US citizens.
August 13, 2010 at 5:51 PM
Here ya go Mad. I swear, this guy and the woman who was on before almost make the GOP from Alabama look civilized! 
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/08/east-texan-louie-gohmert-lacks.html
August 13, 2010 at 6:18 PM
I’m sitting here playing the AC clip again with that yayhoo from Texas. I’ve got to keep this one for when I need a good laugh!
August 13, 2010 at 6:41 PM
Masdamab-Maybe they will start telling of mean women with unshaven body parts getting knocked up on purpose just so they could have abortions and kill more poor innocent lives….
These would be Mean nasty feminist women…and the wingnutz to could go on TV and babble on and on about this without ever providing any evidence?
Damn they already thought of this on I think their bag of tricks empty?
August 13, 2010 at 7:22 PM
Oh no, Fuzzy – the always manage to think of something else!
Randi Rhodes, before she lost her mind, used to play a compilation tape of all the things we were supposed to be scared of after 9/11. There were terror cows, terror model airplanes…it was quite something.
But is there really anything scarier than ladyparts to a fundie? 
August 14, 2010 at 8:30 AM
fingers crossed for you Madamab. BTW, 1 spare room with double bed, and empty basement with queen bed chesterfield plus room for another bed – so six people can be comfortably accommodated.
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August 13, 2010 at 8:10 AM
These Onion pieces are hilarious! And the abortion one is not a little scary because I see so much truth in it!