Courtesy of Portland, Maine's West End News
Ed King of Portland, Maine's West End News found this old Women's Christian Temperance Union photo and thought he could do something with it. (History buffs: Temperance Prohibition started in Portland, and a Temperance Union chapter there lives on.)
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It's wonderful!!! It is now my new computer background picture!
Ladies in the streets....freaks in the sheets!!!
I didn't know where to put this, so I'll put it here and hope people will read it. This is not what we are as a nation, this needs to be stopped.
Subject: Enemy Expatriation Act H. R. 3166
Hi,
If this passes every single American is at risk of losing the rights and protections of their citizenship without trial. Combined with the NDAA, we will have lost every protection we have against the Federal governments ability to remove citizenship, arrest and detain people indefinitely. 112th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3166 To add engaging in or supporting hostilities against the United States to the list of acts for which United States nationals would lose their nationality. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 12, 2011 Mr. DENT (for himself and Mr. ALTMIRE) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
So I created a petition to The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama, which says:
" H.R. 3611 and its sister in the senate, S 1698 will close the loopholes in NDAA and put at risk, the citizenship of every single American. The following summary was written by the Congressional Research Service: 10/12/2011--Introduced. Enemy Expatriation Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include engaging in or purposefully and materially supporting hostilities against the United States to the list of acts for which U.S. nationals would lose their nationality. Defines "hostilities" as any conflict subject to the laws of war. This article, from the conservative magazine American Thinker, sums it up: “Introduced as S. 1698 in the Senate and as H.R. 3166 in the House of Representatives, the Enemy Expatriation Act is expressly designed to add engaging or supporting hostilities against the United States to the list of acts for which United States nationals would lose their nationality.’ “These bills are inconsistent with current law and Supreme Court precedent. They appear to be tailored to cow the American people, without regard for the 14th-Amendment guarantee prohibiting Congress from divesting an American citizen of his citizenship. on their face, S. 1698 and H.R. 3166 make it appear that any citizen ˜engaging in, or purposefully and materially supporting, hostilities against the United States would lose his citizenship. This is unlike current law, which also requires proof that the citizen does so with the intention of relinquishing United States nationality. Thus, the new bills would make it much easier for the government to strip a dissenting citizen of his citizenship. “Six of the seven expatriating acts in the current law require proof of formal actions either a direct renunciation of citizenship, or a similar act unmistakably demonstrating a change of allegiance to another country. These bills would require neither. Rather, they describe a newly minted offense, the commission of which may give rise to the inference of an intent to renounce citizenship, but without requiring any direct evidence of such an intent. “To be sure, current law provides that the commission of treason or other serious acts may justify an inference of renunciation of citizenship. However, before such an inference can be made, the person previously must have been convicted beyond a reasonable doubt of one or more specified criminal acts. Under the proposed bills, the government could take away a persons citizenship in a civil action without that person having been previously convicted of a crime in a court governed by traditional procedural safeguards of trial by jury, confrontation of witnesses, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt. "
Will you sign this petition? Click here:
http://signon.org/sign/enemy-expatriation-act?source=c.fwd.in&r_by=267107
Thanks!
Looks exactly like the group that protested the arrival of Hooters here in Charleston.
Whaddya mean, "looks"?
What's up with the two shameless hussies not wearing hats?Did they leave them on the floor of their bedrooms?
dumb blonds!
Shock! Dismay! Oh, the humiliation and embarassment to their families.
I'll bet these ladies know how to throw a tea party.
Those weren't tomato plants in their garden! No fruit but plenty of punch?
I've seen these women! I swear it was their daughters who protested putting flouride in drinking water when I was a kid as well as the introduction of daylight savings time because it wasn't "god's time." So it must be the daughter's sons who now object to contraception - three generations of total whackjobs in one group of families!
What amazes me is they keep regenerating. Once upon a time decades and decades ago when I was young, hopeful and naieve I believed society would get beyond such people. I was wrong. They were growing up with me and inhabiting the world with me as crabbed, intolerant and ingnorant as ever.
I simply did not see them.
PS: They are still out there on the Flouride thing. Hard as that is to fathom.
The anti-flouride brigade is still around - decades into tens millions of kids enjoying healthier teeth and fewer cavaties?!? They are probably the Deliverance-like cousins of the folks who think vaccinations will harm their grotesquely overweight children but a steady diet of fast food burgers, sodas and doughnuts is just fine.
Well you know, they have to keep the quiver full.
Look at all those dead varmits they're wearing. Guess there was no PETA back in the 1850's!
Funny thing is that the photo was taken in July . Seems when they all got together in the same room the temperature dropped forty degrees. Two men died of frostbite helping the female photographer set things up.
That's not an 1850s photograph. I'm not really an expert on the subject, but those dresses look to me no earlier than mid-to-late 1920s.
Those are Gingrich's other mistresses.
It isn't about boners, it's about freedom of religion!
The freedom to religiously persecute women.
OMG! That is the funniest thing I have ever seen.
As a 75 yr old woman we fought this stuff long ago. I wonder if they're doing it now to "keep women barefoot and pregnant" so men can take their jobs - new jobs program.
Also seem to want to "put women in their place" like they used to do (feminist bra burners). Too many women today are too young to remember what it was like.
A little side note here, the US Copyright office denied Pfizer the Trademark on Viagra as it was too close to the active ingredients in "Horny Goat Weed"...the name in itself for the diet supplement is funny enough:)
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2010/02/viagra-patent-rejected-by-us-trademark.html
The lady at the top left is checking someone out.
Is that a bottle in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
I stayed at that boarding house and was picked upon for my lack of posture and occasional poor grammar. The meals were starchy yet, punctual and when I was late, I went to my 6 by 8 room hungry. They glared down on me for my home-schooled ways and fondness for the drink. Selling papers on the corner became my only oasis from their cold arrogance and harshest demeanor. Nightmarish, they were.
Couple more side note here, how doe women get an FDA approved vibrator? Men have one and it's made here in the good old USA...
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2011/07/fda-approves-first-male-vibrator-for.html
If that isn't good enough, they are growing them now with hoping to move this into the human area in time. In the meantime one happy rabbit had a penis grown for him and he produced offspring..
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/11/regenerative-medicine-news-fully.html
In view of this the panel in the picture above is a sure winner for me:)
Best Maddow read ever.
I saw this posted on my Facebook...
Back in 1960 the Republicans were afraid that JFK was follow his marching orders from the Pope...Now the Republicans are mad because Obama isn't.
Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander!
I'm a 65 year old man. About forty years ago my wife at the time and I had a son and did not want to have any more children. We decided the best form of contraception for us was for me to get a vascetomy. Would the Republicans now try to prevent insurance companies from paying for vascetomies since they are a form of contraception used by many couples? Years later I got a divorced and then was remarried. Since I had a vascetomy the purpose of that marriage was obviously not procreation. Should I, according to the Republican line of thinking, have not been allowed to marry that second time since I wasn't going to procreate? However, I suppose I would have been allowed to marry the second time even if it was known that I wasn't going to procreate. But if it's OK for me (a heterosexual) to marry without any intention of having more children, why isn't it OK for gay and lesbian couples to marry without any intention of having children? I would like Rick Santorium and Governor Christy to answer these questions--but I'm certain they won't.
Good point, excellent question! Or good question, excellent point? Anyway, thanks for putting that out there. Now I'm thinking about other ways their "thinking" might or might not apply to real-life circumstances.
Your point is well taken here. However, Santorum wouldn't address your question, but instead state that you & your wife are living in sin as adulterers by his Catholic rules. Gingrich would go into a convoluted high-minded speech about getting your first marriage annulled without even acknowledging you asked a question. Christy would just call you a smartazz & move on to the next person.
Republican prejudice could be used to make that vasectomy topic into a funny skit.
KISS - Keep It Simple, Sisters. tell 'em no glove, no love. and last I heard, the latex kind were legal.
with a 10-15% failure rate? Awesome!
I wonder if under those long dresses they have aspirin between their knees.
smooth, soothe, smooth!!;-]
That's why they look so determined. Their trying not to drop them. Tough to do when your standing up!!!!
Personally, I still think men who want Viagra should have to have a digital prostrate rub, to be sure they're healthy enough to tolerate it.
And now for a juxtaposition accompaniment song. Geez, it's too bad we don't know anybody that can play this for on the ukulele!!;-]
Viagra was intended as heart medication (not sure exactly what for), but then discovered it caused long-lasting erections so it was patented as "erectile dysfunction" medication. The first ad featured Bob Dole calling it his "little blue magic pill" - yet men still ask the doctors for that purple pill since that's the only ad they remember. Seriously!
Someone did a funny story about this on the radio in the early 1990s.
Viagra started as a medication for hypertension and angina. The "failed" clinical trial put a few geriatric men into the hospital with priapism.
The "guinea pigs" didn't want to stop when the clinical trial was over.
By the way... has anyone told you they recognize their great or great-great grandmother in this photo? Surely some of these fine ladies had kids, grandkids, and great grandkids. How about some actresses with access to period costumes dressing up for a current photo?
Who actually takes the pill for preventing birth anymore anyway? It does way more fantastic things than that! You don't even have to be sexually active to take it ;)
Noncontraceptive benefits and therapeutic uses of the oral contraceptive pill.
Dayal M, Barnhart KT.
Source
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
Abstract
The oral contraceptive pill is one of the most extensively studied medications ever prescribed. The health benefits are numerous and outweigh the risks of their use. Definitive evidence exists for protection against ovarian and endometrial cancers, benign breast disease, pelvic inflammatory disease requiring hospitalization, ectopic pregnancy, and iron-deficiency anemia. It has also been suggested that oral contraceptives may provide a benefit on bone mineral density, uterine fibroids, toxic shock syndrome, and colorectal cancer. Minimal supportive evidence exists for oral contraceptives protecting against the development of functional ovarian cysts and rheumatoid arthritis. Treatment of medical disorders with oral contraceptives is an "off-label" practice. Dysmenorrhea, irregular or excessive bleeding, acne, hirsutism, and endometriosis-associated pain are common targets for oral contraceptive therapy. Most patients are unaware of these health benefits and therapeutic uses of oral contraceptives, and they tend to overestimate their risk. Counseling and education are necessary to help women make well-informed health-care decisions and improve compliance.