Reblogged from reproductiverightscanada: As of April 1, 2013 abortion and birth control are free and legal in France. Free birth control and free abortion are both very important things to have. They both lower birth rates and provide women with more opportunities. If women have free access than women of
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 21, Andante (“Elvira Madigan”)
Elvira Madigan is the nickname of Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major,” which he wrote in 1785 within a space of 4 weeks. It is one of Mozart’s most popular piano concertos, and has three movements. The concerto was penned for a series of Lenten subscription concerts given
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Misogyny on Tap – The Fetid Beginnings
The RPOJ comes for thee DC. A previous encounter with this fine individual has inspired me to go to his blog and deconstruct all the vile shite that he churns out on semi-regular basis. Douche-Canoe (DC) is a dyed in the wool homophobe, misogynist and whinger makes for some fantastic
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sex Selective Abortion – High Octane Wankage from the Conservative Party of Canada
The Right in Canada was bloodily united a couple of years ago under the banner the old, yet new again, banner of the Conservative Party. The two precursor parties were the Progressive Conservative Party and the (Wack-a-loon) Reform (Alliance/fascist/reactionary/etc) Party of Western Canada. Sadly, as I hail from Western Canada,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: North Dakota abortion laws: the American Congress of OB/GYNs makes a statement
Reblogged from Dr. Jen Gunter: This is the e-mail that I received today from the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: Washington, DC — The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) strongly opposes all three restrictive abortion laws recently enacted in North Dakota. ACOG opposes laws regulating medical care that are
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Science of the Gaps – Religion & Pseudo Science
Theramin Trees produces another fabulous video, slamdunking both religion and pseudoscience. Filed under: Atheism Tagged: Psychic Powers, Religion, Sperm dreams, theramin trees
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – What Easter Is Really About
Happy Bunny Day or Happy Easter as the deluded like to say. 🙂 This merry bunny day, we have a short, but telling expose on how much bullcookery you have to swallow if you really want to get down the Jebus and hang out with him on Easter. God is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Spring – Imagine that.
Oh Spring, you wily devil you, it seemed that you’d taken a pass this year. Recently with temperatures in the -20 (C) degree range and 23 centimetres of snow, it seemed like you had pulled up your tent stakes and, along with the warmer weather, taken refuge in the warmer
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Battling Against the Odds? : Creationists Fail at Math
Potholer54 does a wonderful job of skewering the creationist stupidity involved with probability, he neatly lays bare the idea that MORE ZEROES = Scientific Fact because god said. Enjoy. 🙂 Filed under: Religion Tagged: Constructing the Straw Hypothesis, PotHoler54, Probability, Those wacky creationists
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Speech We Didn’t Hear from Obama in Israel.
Wouldn’t it be nice if this is what Obama actually said? Quotes taken from the Counterpunch article by Uri Avnery “No nation, great or small, can prosper for long without peace. War is the curse of mankind. It coarsens our spirit, consumes our resources, spreads death and destruction. In our
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Muscial Interlude: Virtual Choir Live
Back when the internet was just starting, there were many, how can we put this politely, ‘optimistic’ predictions in the vein of bringing the world together, unbounded communication, openness, a giant leap forward for mankind – blah blah blah. Unfortunately, what we got was a commercialized, sectarian echo chamber that,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Fluffing a Duck – Homeopathy: Still Absolute Rubbish
Ah homeopathy, how we’ve missed you here at DWR. It has been at least a year since we excoriated your incredulous claims with the biting scourge of rationality, but let’s refresh our memories and let Cool Hard Logic, with his most apropos music selection, remind us how bugfraking nutz Homeopathy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Breaking News(?):Bible Rife with Contradiction.
Shocking. There has been a poster knocking around that illustrate every contradiction (with footnotes) in the bible. I’m posting it here as a resource so not only can we tell the deluded that their magic book is inconsistent, we can show how inconsistent it actually is with a pretty picture.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Adria Richards: How many more examples?
Patriarchal Nonsense. How many more examples do we need to understand that our society is still in love with patriarchy and misogyny? Adria Richards makes a reasonable gesture, calling people out for their crappy remarks, and for her trouble she is fired and gets rape and death threats. We’re completely
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bullying in the Workplace – Qualia Soup
Bullying not only happens at school, but also in the workplace. Qualia Soup tackles the issue head on. Enjoy. 🙂 Filed under: Education Tagged: Bullying, Qualia Soup, Workplace
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Misogyny on Tap – Deconstructing A Demented Douche-Canoe.
Imagine, if you will, walking in a salubrious green meadow. The sun is shining, a cool breeze plays delicately with your hair, you’re lost in the rich tapestry of nature; all is well. Then imagine you step into a what appears to be the largest, most vile pile of dung
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – The Theory of Crevolution.
Picking on creationists and their loopy ideas is low-hanging fruit, however, every once and awhile, you find someone who does an exceptional job of skewering cringe worthy creationist ninny-poo while being laugh-out-loud funny. Paul Chartly, in my opinion, achieves this in his video. It is long at twenty seven
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Pet Adoption – Just do it. :)
Not caring if this is a repeat, it still rocks. Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: Pet Adoption, PSA, SPCA
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Prelude and Fugue in A-flat major – Book I of J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 862
The Well-Tempered Clavier (German: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier),[2] BWV 846–893, is a collection of solo keyboard music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. He first gave the title to a book of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys, dated 1722, composed “for the profit and use of musical
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Remembering Hugo Chavez
The Western press is/was conspicuously quiet when Hugo Chavez died. Our press is always mute when it comes to giving attention to official enemies or other successful political systems. Here is an excerpt from Alter.net about Chavez and some of his achievements. “The regional blocs he worked to create fostered
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