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[quote=Anonymous]So. Virginia just beat Mississippi for "stupid," eh?

This is why the Founding Fathers actually did *not* intend for everyone to be able to vote--they considered that the general populace wasn't educated or sophisticated enough with the world to be able to manage it with any wisdom. Well, turns out--they were correct again!

With all the Religious Right insisting on home schooling their kids for well over a generation's time now, we have even larger numbers of very poorly educated kids--who've become voting adults. The subjects that fare the poorest in the home-schooled domain are: science, and history. (Both fact-based subject matter. Unsurprising, since the Religious Right has never been terribly big on facts.)

This kicks the Commonwealth back to the nation's earliest days, when witch trials were going on. You know, where an accused could prove her innocence that she was *not* a witch by drowning? (If she didn't drown, clearly she was a witch, because who else who was tied up and submerged could possibly survive it if she weren't a witch? Then she'd just have to be burned.)

Notice that it's the woman who is rather consistentky held criminal here. Doctors, EMTs, medical workers, fertility clinics--all are exempted--but not the woman!

Women's rights have been thrown so far backward this time, it's going to take some effort for us to return and regain our rightful spots on the gameboard. And that was part of the purpose.

There was good reason they coined the saying, "Keep 'em barefoot and pregnant": It wasn't just to maintain the free, on-demand sex--nor to maintain the free housekeeping and babysitting (all good perqs, to be sure)--but also to keep producing the free farmhands and free helpers (no child-labor laws back then, remember)--all a guy had to do was just keep her pregnant and without shoes. A woman wasn't likely to leave behind her little ones, out of love, and whom she'd have to keep in tow and barely make it off the acreage before they'd be slowing to a crawl; and she wasn't going to be able to do it when anemic and exhausted from being "with-child." A further guarantee was that, without shoes, she wouldn't get very far even if she tried.

Have you ever read "The Handmaid's Tale," by Margaret Atwood? Our being turned into breeding cows can't be far off.

This one should be termed the "Lock 'Em Up and Throw Away the Key" bill.

Alright, Virginia women, let's all practice together: "Moooooo!" (Quietly, though--we don't want them to know we can still communicate with each other. They'll remove our larynxes next. So--shhhh!)

The Religious Right has just gotten what this was really designed to do (and let's make no mistake about that being the purpose of crafting this in such a restrictive manner):

Supreme Court, here we come![/quote]

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