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Victories for Princess Barbie Talibania

by: RadicalRuss

Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 03:42:34 AM EDT


(Cross-posted at the shiny new Radical Writ - promoted by RadicalRuss)

I am on the mailing list of my favorite orange-skinned virginal warrior for Christ, Princess Barbie Talibania.  I've documented her work for some time now here on The Blend -- her pro-life government-enforced procreation stance, her work to display the Ten Commandments graven images in public spaces with taxpayer money, her fight to save Terri Schaivo force-feed a brain-dead flesh muppet against its stated wishes, her battle to prevent condoms from being distributed to 2002 Olympic athletes in Salt Lake City, her quest to remove The Joy of Gay Sex from my hometown library, her struggle to prevent the performance of The Vagina Monologues at Boise State University, her comparison of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey to Nazi sadist Dr. Josef Mengele, her oblique support of Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic comments, and her 2006 city council election loss by a 70%-30% margin.

Barbie just sent me a couple of e-mails detailing two successes in her attempts to institute Christian Sharia law in America.

RadicalRuss :: Victories for Princess Barbie Talibania
Her latest efforts have to do with the so-called "lack of intellectual diversity" among the speakers invited to speak at Boise State University.  You know the drill; the wingnuts complain that universities are notoriously liberal* and only left-wing speakers are invited.

So, under the pressure of being situated in a state that STILL gives a 55% job approval rating to Chimpy W. McFlightsuit, BSU has caved and set up the following system:

At the student meeting yesterday with Boise State University officials, President Kustra and Vice President Michael Laliberte, the decision was made to create a new lecture board controlled exclusively by students. ...The organization of the new board will be designed by an ad-hoc committee of three conservatives, three liberals, and the ASBSU President and Vice-President. ...Theoretically, if conservatives control the spring semester program, they will have $30,000-$35,000 to spend on speakers of their choosing, while liberals will decide on speakers during the fall semester with an equal amount of funding. This would be intellectual diversity and balance at its finest.

Brandon Stoker
BSU Student

This is a fine example of what can happen when the public speaks up. I am encouraged by President Kustra's swift action. Thank you to everyone who was passionate about this issue of freedom in the market place of ideas! The sky is the limit on the list of potential speakers we will now be seeing at BSU. Ideas for potential speakers include: Laura Ingram, Dr. Alveda King (niece of Martin Luther King, Jr.), Ann Coulter, Glen Beck, and many others.

Blessings,
Brandi Swindell

I couldn't help but dash an e-mail response back to the object of my unrequited lust**
Ms. Swindell,

Brandi, congratulations on your fine work.  I am glad conservative speakers will be coming to BSU to call presidential candidates "faggots" (Ann Coulter), demanding that the first Muslim representative to the Congress prove he's not "the enemy" (Glenn Beck), encouraging listeners to jam voter fraud hotlines during election day (Laura Ingram), and insinuating that all gay people are pedophiles (Alveda King).  Unlike other progressives, I encourage conservatives to appear in public before an uncensored microphone to let their true agenda show through.

Sincerely yours,

"Radical" Russ Belville
Your biggest fan

Her next e-mail concerned the passage from the Idaho House of a bill to offer the opportunity for women seeking abotions to see an untrasound of the fetus:
The "Woman's Right to View" bill, HB 248 passed through the Idaho House Health & Welfare committee this afternoon. It should hit the House floor for debate next week.

This legislation will require that any woman seeking an abortion be offered the opportunity to view an ultrasound image of her pre-born child prior to having an abortion. The majority of abortion minded pregnant women who see an ultrasound image of their pre-born child decide to carry their baby to term.

Knowledge is power. Women deserve access to an ultrasound image in order to make an informed decision. Members of the abortion industry in Idaho testified against HB 248. I guess ultrasound images and informed women are bad for business

Now, who couldn't resist responding to that?
Ms. Swindell,

Kudos to your efforts to help passage of HB 248 ("Women's Right to View").  As I understand it, the bill will allow women the opportunity to see an ultrasound of their fetus when seeking an abortion.  I had no idea that the State of Idaho was forbidding doctors from showing their patients the images from an ultrasound.  I was as outraged at that situation as you were!  How dare we allow a woman to seek a private medical procedure, to enter into a personal, private, doctor-patient relationship, and then let the doctors get away with refusing to show the woman an image from one of her medical tests?

After all, a woman's reproductive health is a very serious issue, and we should always allow a woman to ask of her doctor any question and to review the results of any medical test.  I just can't believe the State of Idaho would intervene between a woman and her doctor like that!

Oh, wait, hold on.  I just did some Googling and discovered there is no such prohibition in Idaho.  A woman (or man, for that matter), has always had the right to view the results of any personal medical test.  Any woman seeking an abortion at any time in Idaho can turn to her doctor and say, "Excuse me, may I see my ultrasound?"  Not surprisingly, many women undergoing this emotionally traumatic decision choose not to see the ultrasound.  Hmm.  I guess I'm confused.  What exactly do the words "offered an opportunity" mean in the context of the law?  Could that mean the doctor is required to put the ultrasound on the viewing screen and say, "Hey, if you wanna see your fetus, it's right up there on the screen"?  What, then, about the women who didn't want to see it?  Are you asking the State of Idaho to force them to see it?

On another note, I am glad to see that you believe that women deserve to make informed decisions about their reproductive health.  That's why I'm sure you'll be supporting efforts to increase sex education for our young girls, including birth control and family planning, After all, knowledge is power.

Sincerely yours,

"Radical" Russ Belville
Your biggest fan

* Funny what education does to people, huh?  How come these same people never complain that the military is overwhelmingly conservative?

** Please forgive me.  The big head despises Barbie Talibania, but the little head has a fetish for sexually-repressed blonde virgins with Daddy issues.

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RadRuss, you're entirely correct regarding the right to the ultrasound, but...
...query who's going to pay for it.

On a more somber note, where is the US$35-35000 supposed to come from to pay for extra-curricular speakers fees at the BS-U (love the name)?  From student fees?  Why should students at BS-U be charged extra just to import extra-curricular speakers?  They pay more than enough in tuition just to pay for curricular speakers.


BS-U
We used to say, "Boise State University... where the BS comes before you."

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson

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BSU Press Release
Here's the official BSU press release about the Lecture Series. It appears that the students will pay $2/semester in fees for the new lecture series, as voted by the student body in 2000. (You've gotta love a student body voting on something that happens 7 years down the line, when probably 90% of those students are gone.)

http://news.boisesta...

While the press release does say that the committee will be student led and organized, it doesn't say that it will be a politically polemic set up with alternating semesters for conservatives and liberals, but rather that lectures are "inclusive and representative of the entire Boise State student body." Ha! Good luck with that one.


[ Parent ]
Wait a minute!
The panel will have liberals, conservatives, but no moderates?

Check out my brand new Huffington Post blog http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Beyond their invective, their slurs, their bigotry, and their...
...warmongering, there is a reason many colleges don't invite the likes of Coulter: she's not a serious thinker.  She substitutes invective for substantiation.  She lacks the wherewithal to modify her position.  She's a good and evil thinker, where fundies are utterly good and progressives are utterly evil.  No nuance.  No reasoning.  Why waste money on that?  One can go to a shabby pub and find some drunk who'll present the same degree of certainty and the same quantity of bile as Coulter and her ilk.  That they are included in the national discourse has coarsened America and diverted attention from serious people willing and wanting to face serious issues.

Very nice job, Russ!
Though frankly, someone at Boise State should just purchase DVDs of "All In The Family" and let the Archie Bunker rants serve as legitimate purpose in presenting con-servative thought. Archie was certainly just as astute with his bigotry as the rest of the wingnut clowns, and students might learn something about how right wing rhetoric rarely changes - it just becomes more hostile and more demanding.


No objection to conservative speakers
, just eliminationist ones, assholes, and folks with no scholarly credentials or commitment to the truth (ie, have researched their statements and can back them up with credible citations).

That eliminates all the radio pundits, and the great majority of conservative newspaper pundits.

BTW, I would like to add that the liberal speakers also should fit the above restrictions. This is an academic institution, after all. Invite good academics or ethical journalists.


Re: Terri Shiavo comments
Radical Russ,
Do you think it is appropriate to refer to Terri Shiavo as a "brain-dead flesh muppet" and "its"? While I thought Michael Shiavo had every right to make the decision to stop tube feeding his brain damaged wife, she was still a human being, a wife and daughter. To refer to her in that way is wrong, callous and just plain mean.

Not Terri Schaivo...
I'm not referring to Terri Schaivo.  Terri Schaivo left this plane years before her life support was terminated.  That body lying there, being fought over in the federal congress, was not Terri Schaivo.  It was a brain dead flesh muppet.

Yeah, I know, it's a bit on the mean side, but I use that term to rile up the fundies.  After all, they are the ones who are always saying our body is but a shell and our soul is paramount.  I use the term to highlight the fact that anything called "Terri Schaivo" did not exist in that shell, and the disgust someone may take from that description pales in comparison to my disgust for the circus that surrounded her circumstance.

If I shouldn't call her a brain-dead flesh muppet, then I shouldn't call Bush "Chimpy W. McFlightsuit", Cheney "Big Dick Cheneyburton", Gozalez "Abughraibo Quaintzalez", Rice "Kindasleezzy Lies", Rumsfeld "Donald Rumsfailed", and Brandi Swindell "Princess Barbie Talibania".  After all, they are all human beings, spouses (some), and sons/daughters.  Actually, I really shouldn't, if my goal is perfectly reasoned polite discourse.

I ain't here to be polite.  I'm here to entertain, inform, push buttons, and be controversial.

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson


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Dave's got a point
I think there's a clear distinction between name-calling Bush, Cheney, Rummy vs name-calling Terry. The former bunch are perpetrators. The latter is a victim. It might have made more sense to name-call the fundies who tried to force feed her, rather than calling Terry a "brain-dead flesh muppet"

Let's be honest. You say your remark was aimed at the fundies, not Terry, but who specifically are you calling the "brain-dead flesh muppet"?

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate your larger point. And yes the fundies who force fed her are a greater evil than your name-calling. But these days with hate words being a new trend, I felt it important to make the call.

But blessings to your greater work for defending progressive values! I know your heart is in the right place.


Well... OK, I'm a jerk
But I still stick by the accuracy of my name calling.  Was she brain dead?  Yes.  Was she pretty much just animated flesh kept alive through heroic scientific means?  Yes.  Maybe muppet was out of line, though.  At least Kermit responds to external stimuli.

I understand how people, perhaps even most people, will be offended by that term.  But I think you can only take offense if you ascribe to that brain-dead animated corpse more sentience than she possessed.  The whole point of removing her feeding tube was the fact that she was not there anymore, and she had stated that if the lights were on and she wasn't home, she wanted the house condemned.

So, alright, sorry.

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson


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And...
to avoid hypocracy, we should avoid hate words on our side as well as condemn them. How we do that while expressing our justified anger and rage...that's just part of the fun ;)

No, some hate words are justified
Why do Republicans win election after election?  One piece of the puzzle is that Joe Sixpack from Midwesternville, Redstate thinks that Democrats are spineless, effete, latte-sippin' pussies who won't put up a good fight.  (John Kerry.  Swift Boat.)  "How can I trust Dems to kick Osama's ass," they ponder between swigs of PBR, "when they won't even fight back against a political hack besmirching their honor?"

Also, strong, controversial language can set a tone and attract attention the way polite discourse will not.  So long as it is focused on the (lack of) content of their character, and not broadly painting all such-and-suches as so-and-so's, and sticks to the facts, I don't have a problem with some hate words.

For example, it would be wrong and hateful for me to characterize all Republicans as heartless, money grubbing, selfish bastards who'd rather all minorities, women, and gays would "mind their place", and would prefer a return to feudal society where the rich were kings and the poor were serfs and there was no middle class.  No matter how accurate it might seem, there are certainly many Republicans who do not fit all of those conditions all of the time.

But to call George W. Bush an AWOL cokehead dry-drunk treasonous criminal idiot son of an asshole illiterate smirking chimp Bible-thumpin' grandson of a Nazi war profiteer horrific shame of an unelected president, why, that's just good ol' fact-based justified rage.

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson


[ Parent ]
Russ, I'm having second thoughts about my criticism of you
Maybe this is because I liked your South Park piece or because
"brain-dead flesh muppet" is a guilty pleasure for me, but I wanted to re-evaluate my prior criticism of you.

I see a need to block hate speech in discourse, and will not abandon that idea, but I think I also believe in balancing ourselves out. I mean, a little humor is Ok, right?

I guess what might make "brain-dead flesh muppet" Ok (other than the fact that we found it too entertaining) is that...she's a vegatable and she can't hear us?

I'll try that rationale for now, then create a better one tomorrow...;)

Anyway, that kind of physical state is so close to death in everyway except the absolute technical that calling the body a vegtable, flesh muppet, etc is actually quite close to how we feel about OURSELVES being in that state. To be a vegtable is perhaps more feared than death, and probably only right-to-lifers, who want to sound non-hypocritical, would actually say, "If I'm in that state, keep me going".

I feel us normal, sane people would understand PERFECTLY that at that point pull the plug on me.

In the end, we will never really know what Terri wanted. How could we? How could anyone in that sitch? Hence why you should write your living will, Russ ;)

The court did what they thought was reasonable. And we outsiders can't know enough to evaluate that. Of course, right-wingers never cease to force judgment whereever they see fit.

In recap, Russ, I want to replace my original criticism and with the more nuanced points I laid here. That said, I still strive to fight hate speech of minorites (who can move)

Fuk to Ann Coulter, Ted Hardaway, Mel Gibson, and Mike Richards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But not to you Russ ;)

Final note: write a living will!!!!!!!!!! lol 


Thanks for reconsidering
But that doesn't mean I can't be a jerk when I need to be.  ;)

Already have the living will, too.

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson


[ Parent ]
On Living wills
Oh you have a living will! Yea!!!!!

That makes one of us...sigh


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