and by ‘they’ i mean both republifuckers and democrats, they would
start talking about child support enforcement. Per the last census (i
can’t read the 2010 census on my phone) 70 percent of all child
support cases in this country have a past due balance and in many
states over 50 percent of all cases haven’t seen a payment in over a
year. Woman are logical creatures, and since a huge number of women
who have abortions are already mothers, perhaps they are having
abortions because they already know the partners aren’t going to pay
their fair share. The last time any politician talked seriously about
child support collection was Bill Clinton in the mid 1990’s. But child
support falls mainly on the shoulders of manly men, and heaven forbid
a politician of either party shame them for failing to do their part.
Shame is a women only business in politics.

Fucking AT&T, purveyors of extremely high-priced yet crappy cell
service, is buying T-mobile. I love T-Mobile. There service is great
and their prices are cheap-ish. they are decidely more expensive than
craptastic prepaid services, but it’s worth it as their product is
vastly superior. Or at least it was until fucking AT&T decided to buy
it. There will now be only one gsm cell phone service in the country
and really just 2 major nationwide cell phone companies, AT&T amd
Verizon (I’m not counting Sprint. Nobody counts Sprint). I know the
freemarketeers like to blather about competition, but where the fuck
is it? We pay more for cell phone service than Europeans & Asians and
have crappier quality to boot. And in a year I’m going to be faced
with jacked up rates and crappier service because we like utility
company monopolies. Fuckers.

You know, i’m still super peeved the Bush2 started the Iraq war on
MYFUCKINGBIRTHDAY 8 years ago. It was the one thing the Obama actually
had over Bushy. He didn’t start any wars on my birthday. Till today.
But really, I don’t need bombs over Libya to celebrate 36. A nice
bottle of spanish cava, gift certificates for bedding and cookeware,
or if you really want to be extravagant a jobs program, but bombing
yet another fucking country for humanitarian( read oil) reasons is a
gift I can neither use nor return. March 19th really needs to stop
being your go to date for bombing.

seen on facebook this morning: What’s the difference between our big
interstate banks and a mafia skimming organization? The mafia doesn’t
have atms.

In my addled brain I managed to forget the other big important thing
that today represents.
It’s the anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. 8 years in, no
end in sight. Shock and awe and mission accomplished. Do you think at
the Democratic convention in 2012 that the Obots chanting 4 more years
will be chanting it for Obama or for MOAR WAR!!!!!!!

babowdadump
It’s my blogs birthday too
babowdadump

Seriously, it’s been 36 years on this planet, but the last 5 have been
vastly improved by my friends in bloglandia. Thank you all.

go read the So That’s What They Meant By The War On Poverty link in my reader.
Hey you know who would be going to jail right fucking now if that law
happens? ME! I get food stamps and medicaid and I have $22.19 in my
purse right now. Omg peeps, I’m a criminal. I’m worser than rapists
and murderers and CEOs. I deserve jail. I totally do, because I am
obviously defrauding the government (though i report all my income to
both the Irs and DSHS and the numerous assistance programs that
require not just proof of income but for me to sign away my right to
privacy and allow them to monitor any bank accounts I have AND I pay
15.2% taxes on all of it) but I have cash so I must be doing something
illegal. Won’t someone think of the child(ren)? It’s so obvious that
the kid would be better off in some Dickensian group home than living
with a hardened criminal like myself.

A few days ago I went and looked at the most perfect apartment. great
location, 2 bedrooms, washer/dryer, dishwasher, and killer views from
the back deck. But it’s a little pricey. Well, actually for what it is
in Seattle it’s below the market average, but a little pricey if
you’re poor. I told the owner I’d get back to him after I talked to
the ‘program lady’ (i/e my caseworker). I dashed off a quick email and
waited. And waited. And waited. I finally got a call a few minutes ago
and instead of getting a straight up answer, i got a fingerwaging
paternalistic, ‘now Elizabeth do you really think that’s an
appropriate amount of your budget to spend on rent’. I was the told to
go look for something cheaper in 2 neighborhoods I wouldn’t feel safe
letting the Kid walk around in. She could have said ‘the top end of
what our program will cover is X’ without the fucking condescension,
but I’m poor so heaven forbid I go a day without someone condescending
to tell me how to live.

If you are a girl, or a member of any oppressed class, and have a
tendency to use forbidden words like shit, damn, fucking douchebag is
going to be wearing his ass as a hat if he keeps it up, etc. then you
have probably also been told that your filthy talk is not okay. Here’s
why it’s not just okay, but necessary to cuss like a sailor. Cuss
words serve as a type of social bonding glue. Using them in common
conversation means you think the people you are talking to are your
equals, not people who are less than you who you must appear more
refined than, or better than you who you must impress. Women aren’t
supposed to use that kind of language because we are not equals. We
are less than men andare supposed to set a good example for the
children. So a quick, easy, dirt cheap method of social equalization
is cut off from us when we are told to mind our dirty mouths. Of
course the only proper response to that kind of thing is ‘fuck you and
the horse you rode in on’.

I just finished the final book in the series (thanks to the Kid who go
it for me as a bday present) and OMG I am so jealous that teen fiction
seems to get the best stories (and the worst- twilight, blah) See
also Tamora Pierce. everytime I think I know where the story is going
the main character gets ripped out of whatever chaos and dropped into
a new fresh hell of figuring out just whose pawn she is. So on the
same day I finish the books, i also read about the whitewashing of the
hunger games that hollywood is doing, first by (maybe) casting
Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, the main character. Does Lawrence have
the chops to pull off thise role, abso fricken lootely. But only in
brownface and a black wig. Katniss, being from appalachia, looks like
my relatives, black haired, grey eyed, olive skinned. Perhaps I’m
projecting, but she sounds like the Cherokee, european mixed race
peeps whose ancestors hid in the hills and married whites rather than
be marched off to Oklahoma.