In Defense Of Teachers

Another one of the reasons I despise conservafools and the GOP is because as a proud card carrying TK (teacher's kid) I despise the decades long attacks on the teaching profession and teacher's unions by the conservafool movement.

Had to post this video which is probably the most vigorous defense of teachers you'll hear this year.

Happy Anniversary Health Care Law!

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, AKA the Health Care Law is one year old today.   I would rather have universal single payer health care like Canada and the rest of the civilized world has, but it's a start.

The GOP's still lying and trying to kill this bill, but as they're finding out the more the truth comes out about the health care bill and what it positively does for people and the clock ticks inexorably toward the 2014 date of full implementation of the law and its provisions, the better the knowledge deprived American public finds out about it and what it positively does for them, the better they like it..

I think it's a travesty and a shame that one of the wealthiest countries on the planet has such piss poor health care for its citizens, and it is an embarrassment to me as an American we don't have Universal Single Payer health care like other comparable industrialized nations.

Yes, the health care reform bill signing to paraphrase Vice President Biden, was a big fracking deal.   One of the many reasons I want the GOP bums thrown out of power on November 6, 2012  and President Obama to get a second term is to continue the work toward ensuring that all Americans have access to affordable high quality health care.

I know that it won't happen with a Speaker Boehner or the Republifool Know-Nothings in charge.

Happy Anniversary Health care reform law! 

Update On Texas Senate Bill 723

I received this alert message yesterday morning and posted this action alert on the blog because the Reich Wing, Lone Star State Division tried to pull a fast one and slide Senate Bill 723 through the Senate Committee on Jurisprudence.

HB 3666 in the 2009 session clarified the list of acceptable identity documents that could be presented for use to obtain a marriage license.   One of those documents was a court ordered name and gender change.

This bill was penned in response to the ongoing Nikki Araguz case and the coverage its getting in the Houston area and in the blogosphere in which our trans sister is being sued for her widow's benefits by her late husband Thomas Araguz III's ex-wife Heather Delgado and his mother Simona Longoria.

The bill proposed by Sen. Tommy Williams (R-The Woodlands) seeks to remove a court ordered change of gender from the lengthy list of approved identifying documents a person in the Lone Star State can present to obtain a marriage license.

S.B. 723 amends Section 2.005(b), Family Code, by removing "or sex change" in reference to documents acceptable in proving an applicant's identity for obtaining a marriage license.

As proposed, S.B. 723 amends current law relating to the proof of an applicant's identity and age required for the issuance of a marriage license.


You can use a school ID or prison ID card to obtain a marriage license in Texas, but if Tommy Williams gets his way,  no more presenting those court orders of legal gender change.     We God fearing Texas loving Tea Klux Klan members can't have you transsexuals getting married in the Great State of Texas.  It'll make it harder for us to keep oppressing them homosexuals (sarcasm meter on maximum)

The update is that according to Cristan, we had five people show up to testify against this bill and no one testified in favor of it.   You can watch the March 22 hearing testimony starting at the 1:13:08 mark.  The phone lines to all the senators on that committee were lit up by our supporters.. 

SB 723 is still showing ' left pending in committee' status, but we will still have to keep an eye on it because the Texas legislative session runs until May 30.


Cristan also says thanks to everyone who called (and are still calling) the senators who make up the committee, came to the hearing on short notice and got the word out about SB 723 with literally no warning.

You're welcome.

Thanks to you Cristan for making that last minute drive to Austin to testify.   

TransGriot Nuke A Troll 10- Another Chucky Defender Tries Me

Well, looks like the USS Monica is going to have to leave port on another cybercruise to blast the ignorance coming her way in her comment section.

Today we've locked and loaded our troll nuke tipped informational Tomahawks at commenter James, who posted this gem on my post blasting Chuck Knipp for sending a contribution to my blog donation button I promptly returned.   He then started showing his true KKKolors and sent a few  .88 cent ones which also got returned.

FYI people 88 is white supremacist code for 'Heil Hitler'.   (8= the eight letter of the alphabet, and 88=HH)

Heeeeere's James.

Chuck is a very sweet person and would that you might try to see things from his perspective, you might know that he is not making fun of African Americans, or women. In fact, he is making a social and political statement about stereotypes. Albeit an uncomfortable statement, it is none-the-less an examination of stereotypes through humor.

Whoopi Goldberg told an incredibly "offensive" joke to make a point about stereotypes and language and I think it is relevant here. Watch it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OXLDiKMe_A Be forewarned it may be offensive, but it's thought provoking. Chuck is thought provoking as well and if you dig under the surface you might just see that what he is saying is how ridiculous stereotypes are.

Sometimes funny is rooted in what we are afraid to say. But, before you condemn him, see the show. If not, then you're a hypocrite. 

5...4...3...2...1  launch

To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, there y'all go again.      Chuck may be sweet to y'all, but his actions to POC's don't convey that message, James.

That same sweet person as you characterized him posted on his blog a photoshopped pic of Jasmyne Cannick a few years ago on the body of a African-American porn star named Annie Hawkins-Turner.

'Nice' Chuck did so because Jasmyne is not only one of many fierce critics of his 'act', she led the protest that successfully killed one of his LA shows.

According to you Chuck is not making fun of African-Americans?   Really?    A character that speaks in Ebonics, has 19 'chirren' named after discount stores and talks about drinking 40's isn't in your clueless vanilla flavored privileged mind 'making fun of African-Americans?  You've watched a few too many Fox news shows.

It's not just my opinion, there's a long list of African Americans that since 2002 haven't found his New Millennium Minstrel Show to be funny and have expressed themselves about it..  

And please don't try to equate Whoopi Goldberg to Chuck.  She's said some jacked up things as well, but the difference between her and Chuck is she light years more intelligent and doesn't do a racist minstrel show for a living. 

'Thought provoking' are not words I'd use in a sentence to describe Chuck Knipp.   He's about as thought provoking as Christine O'Donnell.
   
Let me break it down for you and any other Chucky defender a point that y'all repeatedly seem to be oblivious to. . There's a fine line between funny and offensive.  You don't as a white person get to tell me or my people what is or isn't offensive to us or any POC.    If we tell you the racial joke your buddies laughed at is offense, better that that as the gospel truth.

Duck and cover, and don't look at the flash when the troll nuke goes off.

Like Comments....But

In case you missed it on the left hand sidebar, I don't mind receiving comments on the things I post here.    

However, due to the fact that I am an unapologetic African American transwoman who tells it like it T-I-S is, I do get my share of hate and racist commentary.   It's why the TransGriot comment section is on moderated status, and that will not change in the forseeable future.   

That means because of the idiots, lil ol me is the one who has to approve all of your comments good, bad or indifferent.  They'll get posted when I get the time in my busy life to go through them.   

Yes, contrary to public opinion and the unsolicited opinions of my detractors, I do have a life that doesn't revolve around this blog.

Since this is my cyberhome, your First Amendment free speech rights extend to the end of my nose.    If your comment is offensive or racist, it will not see the light of day unless I feel like embarrassing you or making you look like the anus you are for the world to see.

Some I hold in the que for the Nuke A Troll segment, and I reserve the right to edit your comment for clarity. 

There is no need to repetitively send your comments, it'll show up once I approve it.

Thank you for your patience.