She So Funny

Joe Biden's 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act changed the face of our society. It denied Pell Grants to prison inmates, funded billions for new prisons, incentivised longer sentences in general and established a 3 strikes provision that mandated life incarceration for violent felons with priors.

This "law" in practice super-charged our biased penal system. As a white supremacist tool Biden's law criminalized, convicted and impacted an entire generation.

And yes, Biden is often nostalgic about his work with Southern segregationist. I say all this to say,


This IS recognition of how easy it is to be bamboozled.  My attention was captured by a video of Biden in my twitter feed. The post quoted below is in the article at this link. 


There were numerous replies. Some said the post was doctored. I googled the original video and saw that the clip was NOT doctored just presented OUT OF CONTEXT. The source video offered no comfort to an "alt-right, klan rally." It was in fact the exact opposite!

Biden was responding (in a detailed / long winded way) to a question about his work to PREVENT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. The "rule of thumb" was the focus of his reply. That in early England after the death of so many women at the hands of their husbands, it was deemed a man could not  beat his wife with a stick thicker than his thumb.

The etymology may or may not be true, but Biden stated the tradition of  condoning violence against women, came from England - THAT EUROPEAN CULTURE! Not an African culture. Not an Asian culture. That European culture.

The original post has since been deleted, but it's damage has been done. I now suspect EVERYTHING EVER POSTED by this person I followed on YouTube and Twitter. With all the negative he could have said about Joe Biden why choose something so blatantly false?

How many posts have YOU liked or reposted WITHOUT researching the source. Social media + laziness = DEATH.

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Happy Valentine's Day VAWA!

The Violence Against Women Act was reauthorized this week by the US Senate.  Yeah!!

As a 10 year old girl I felt helpless when I saw my mother victimized by her abusive new spouse / monster. Sidebar: the entire, mercifully short, time he actually lived with us, I could never bring myself to call IT my stepfather.  As much as I wanted to grab a butcher knife and plunge it somewhere, anywhere in that man; a Catholic child's fear of mortal sin's reward - an eternity in hell - stayed my hand.  In view of my history, I'm delighted that re-authorization of VAWA is another step toward protecting women, men, old and young from the  abuse only those nearest can inflict.

Now if you are Native American, undocumented or LGBT there may be some hemming, some hawing, and down right denial of equal protection from violent stalkers, because some persons can make it so.  Yes there's potential for a fly in the buttermilk, a turd in the punch bowl, so to speak.  Geez, I've never liked that (turd in punch bowl) expression; its so graphic it leaves its shitty image lingering way too long  in my overly suggestive mind's eye.  Be that as it may, who are the floaters* in our VAWA celebratory libation?




As the the Violence Against Women Act moves on through the House I hope our legislators can keep their turd count to a minimum.   But on this day honoring love and kindness, I ask perpetrators and victims of domestic abuse to pause and wish VAWA safe travels in the House and Happy Valentine's Day!

*http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/02/12/1556601/senate-passes-vawa-again/