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10945. iiibbb - 6/26/2013 5:28:55 PM I looked up that video clip you posted Pincher... oh the irony of you choosing that one. I hope Karma bites you in the ass. 10946. judithathome - 6/26/2013 6:17:19 PM Now THIS is how you filibuster!
Why Wendy Davis' Filibuster Matters
On Monday, the Texas State House voted overwhelmingly to pass a draconian proposal that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks, as well as adding stringent new restrictions on how clinics get licensed. The intent was clear: Supporters of the bill, known as SB 5, openly acknowledged that the law would have closed 37 of the state's 42 clinics, leaving hundreds of thousands of women in Texas and neighboring states like Oklahoma with no way to access abortion care. With a conservative majority in the State Senate and the support of Governor Rick Perry, the measure seemed certain to become law.
But on Tuesday, Democratic State Senator Wendy Davis, backed by an army of feminist supporters, launched an epic 13-hour filibuster and shut the whole thing down.
Davis began her filibuster just after 11 A.M. yesterday, reading aloud testimony from doctors and women who would be impacted by the restrictions. For the filibuster to work, Davis had to speak until midnight – the deadline for the end of a 30-day special session called by Gov. Perry to address left-over GOP priorities like closing nearly all the abortion clinics in the state and redistricting. This wasn't the kind of symbolic filibuster in name only seen in the U.S. Senate: Under Texas' parliamentary rules, Davis was required to speak continuously and only on the topic of the bill the entire time. She couldn't take breaks to eat, take a sip of water or go to the bathroom. She could not lean against anything for support. If Davis broke any of these rules, the filibuster would die and SB 5 would become law.
10947. arkymalarky - 6/26/2013 6:40:55 PM aren't you proud of that judith!I was going to ask you about her. 10948. Ms. No - 6/26/2013 7:15:20 PM So thrilled about this --- Mom had read in the morning paper that she'd been dismissed or overrun and the bill had passed. Very excellent news to find that this isn't so! 10949. PincherMartin - 6/26/2013 8:14:59 PM "I looked up that video clip you posted Pincher... oh the irony of you choosing that one. I hope Karma bites you in the ass."
For a lady who claims to be all sweetness, you sure are nasty and hurtful in your comments. 10950. iiibbb - 6/26/2013 8:31:41 PM I've never called myself sweet... or a lady. Mostly because I am not really that sweet... and I'm not a woman.
However, you are still an asshole and I hope you reap the rewards.
Be careful who writes your obituary... you are on a bad trajectory. 10951. PincherMartin - 6/26/2013 8:45:38 PM You make no pretense to being sweet? That's good. Maybe we can reap the karmic rewards together then, asswipe.
Since we're now in this as a team, you should know that a proper asshole doesn't care what his obituary says. He knows it's just another press release. He won't bother posing in the mirror, staring at his reflection, so he can guess how it will play with the unlucky fuck the local paper forces to write about dead guys.
But thanks for the laugh. The idea of you sitting at home thinking about your how your actions in your life relate to your future obituary is a very tasty one. 10952. iiibbb - 6/26/2013 9:31:03 PM You are very obtuse if you think that's the core message of that video. 10953. iiibbb - 6/26/2013 9:31:41 PM But it is telling that I figured you'd interpret it that way. 10954. PincherMartin - 6/26/2013 9:55:12 PM Hey iiibbb,
How's that obituary looking?
10955. judithathome - 6/26/2013 10:32:25 PM Jeez, is traffic slow at TPW or something? 10956. PincherMartin - 6/26/2013 10:35:01 PM Can't a guy just enjoy your company, Judith? 10957. arkymalarky - 6/26/2013 10:53:17 PM step 1:toss a provocative statement with no basis in fact, using an unpleasant word like mistake to describe children.
step 2:wait for responses.
step 3:answer responses as though, contraory to all of the evidence, you're the reasoned rational one.
step 4: keep responders engaged in Trivial Pursuit until they get bored or mad.
step 5: if respondents choose the former, ratchet up comments to a level that will elicit an emotional response.
step 6:continue to respond content free,smugly self satisfied and totally delusional about the image of yourself you're creating. Lather, rinse, repeat.
After what, 15 years of this crap? You'd think people Like Pincher Martin would find better ways to entertain themselves.
You know, back in the day people used to worship at the altar of PE. To some degree I feel like a number of them tried to emulate the style without ever really realizing that it doesn't work without the substance, to say nothing of the fact that people who try to imitate the styles of others are rarely effective at whatever it is they think they're pulling off.
10958. arkymalarky - 6/26/2013 11:05:34 PM I almost forgot step 7: throw in a little humor, Dr went, showing that you've got some disarming charm, and your intentions are being totally misconstrued. 10959. arkymalarky - 6/26/2013 11:06:20 PM dry wit. Gotta love voice to text 10960. PincherMartin - 6/26/2013 11:24:49 PM Arky,
I enjoy your insults. You're far more honest and entertaining when you insult me than when you engage in the trivial social flatteries with the few other dwindling posters here who wouldn't shed a tear or even give a shit if you died a horrible death tomorrow. This forum could use a little more honesty. So I applaud your clumsy attempt at it.
But you keep insisting I'm sacrificing accuracy to deepen the malice in my comments, and that's just not true. While it may be something you're not very good at it, I can be accurate and provocative at the same time.
There's not a single statement I've made in this thread that I would back down from. They reflect my beliefs. And while I am being deliberately provocative for effect, you (and others here) just don't know how to counter my arguments, so you wail about my rudeness. The best you've come up with so far is to suggest I'm like Rush Limbaugh - a plainly ridiculous statement since when has Rush ever used evolutionary arguments to convince his audience?
There's no need to worry, Arky. I'll be gone soon. There's not enough here to keep me hanging around for more than a week. And then you and the other ladies can go back to your online sewing circle, where you can pass along little tidbits of information and gossip. I wouldn't even be here if Alistair was where he was supposed to be and showed he was prepared to pay off a debt. But he isn't, and so here I am. You can take it up with him when he gets back. Or don't. 10961. judithathome - 6/26/2013 11:26:29 PM I wonder if you could do an entire messege voice-to-text that would resemble nothing you actually said? Ha! 10962. PincherMartin - 6/26/2013 11:37:25 PM For you, Judith, I can do anything.
Except leave. 10963. arkymalarky - 6/26/2013 11:55:24 PM oh yeah. I've done it. What's funny is if you're in a hurry and send without reading it first. One day Stsn thought I was going nuts over a text I sent him through voice. it was hilarious. 10964. arkymalarky - 6/27/2013 12:47:23 AM I knew I remembered posting it:
Of course Ranchita has no money because calling my purse so I'm not on a DB-15 yellow red velvet home anyway I'll call you when I pinworm going that night zero. But I have no money to buy gas. I'm on E yellow.
I found it n the teaching thread.
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