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Author: The Arbourist

September 16, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Defending your Imaginary Friend

For a concise rundown of all the religious based stupidity going on in the Middle East please follow this link to the CBC where they have set up an interactive time line of all the idiocy that has, and continues to unfold, over a really bad film. People are going

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September 15, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: Gullible Hockey Fans – Angry now, demure later.

  Woo!  It is lock out time for the NHL and not a moment to soon.   The great showdown between millionaires is about to begin supported by the gullible hockey fan.  Just take in the love they have for fans as they gouge you for parking, beverages and food.  Oh

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September 13, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: So, Tell me again about Islam being the Religion of Peace – Innocence of Muslims

Islam, religion of Peace burns down American Embassy illustrating dedication to rational non-violent ways of resolving disputes. This just in the from insano-delusional land (credit CBC.ca): “Many Muslims find it offensive to depict the Prophet Muhammad in any fashion, much less in an insulting way. This week’s attacks on U.S.

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September 12, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: Objectification of Women – Tour de Fail

Thanks for pointing that out Sociological Images. “[…][A]nother over-the-top example of the objectification of female athletes. The commercial is for RoadID, a company that sells “identification gear.” Autumn saw it while watching the Tour de France; she found this shortened version online, which she says actually features less objectification than

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September 11, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: Busted! – The sleep in.

Ah yes, the dog that is not allowed up on the furniture. I return early to my room and find this – I’m napping here human, what gives? Not much you can do with a super cute dog now is there? Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: Busted!, Cute, dog, sleep in

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September 10, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: Slap me with a Fish! Liberal Viewer on Is the Economic system in the US rigged for the Rich

Americans force fed their concerns from the elites handbook need to see Liberal Viewers 101 guide to the economy or even just to get a sense of what is going wrong and how crazy it is to support people who are for “more of the same”. Filed under: Politics Tagged:

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September 9, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Religion makes me sad.

It’s funny, for all the take-down, all the arguing all the debate that has been featured here at DWR, sometimes a picture just nails what is so wrong with a concept.  In this case the idea is christian religion. The picture is so sad.  And yet people want to believe

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September 9, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The Canadian Office of Religious Stupidity.

Hey I need some help eroding the church/state separation. Lets ask the experts! I’m not really sure what is so shit-hot about the attitudes and conventions of the Dark Ages, but Harper and his government have decided to fecklessly dive into the land of pants-on-head stupid and establish a official

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September 8, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: Failures of Capitalism – Unquestioned Assumptions on Happiness

Did you ever wonder about economic growth?  Take the time to question your assumptions on economic growth and how it effects you?  Thomas Homer Dixon has and what he says is quite interesting.  From The Upside of Down pages 192 – 193. “One might even say that we’re collectively fixated

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September 7, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Bach, Three-part Invention #4, D minor (Sinfonia), BWV 790

  The vertical stripes show the rhythmic “grid” — showing the hierarchy of beats. The first beat in a measure is the strongest, followed by the half-measure point, followed by quarter-measure points, etc. This lets you see when a note is “suspended” through a strong beat. Filed under: Music Tagged:

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September 6, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: Rape Prevention Tips

This from Can you Relate, a helpful guide to Rape Prevention.   Ten rape prevention tips: 1. Don’t put drugs in women’s drinks. 2. When you see a woman walking by herself, leave her alone. 3. If you pull over to help a woman whose car has broken down, remember

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September 5, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: Rape – Victim Blaming 101

Let us establish something right here, right now and forever.  Whenever a women says in public they’ve been raped they are taking a huge chance.   The patriarchal fuckwittery that surrounds women speaking up against those that have violated them is sickening.  It is not her fault for what happened

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September 4, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: Contraception – Why is there *any* contention about this?

Other than libertarian or misogynistic concerns, both that are as useless as pants on on giraffe, I don’t see what the problem is.  Women win, their partners win and society wins. Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Common Sense, Contraception, Feminism, PSA, US

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September 3, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: My Launch into the Failosphere – Sparkling MRA Stupidity.

The manosphere welcomes you and your sparkling brethren. The red pen of justice is vibrating in anticipation of this particular post.  Admittedly, when going into the “Manosphere” it makes it shamefully easy to brandish the RPJ.  I again make mention of the insipid nature of the WordPress reader function because

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September 2, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Sometimes the soft sell works.

By now most people (the US being the notable exception) get that religion is a toxic entity that has no place in the 21st century.  The insipid nature of religion is usually highlighted in the DWR Sunday Disservice, however today will be different.  Today we get to share one persons

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September 1, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: Republicans, get in my Vagina!

Ah, political satire. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Feminism, Rant, Republican “strategy”, War on Women

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August 30, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: Abortion Saves Women’s Lives – Anti-Choice really is Anti-Woman

This is a snippet from the Raw Story. Go there and read the full article about how the republican party of the US want to happily join impoverished nations in destroying female autonomy.  The fetus-fetish crew never seem to key on the fact that women are alive and are actually

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August 29, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: Tell Me Again How Progressive the US is?

‘Nuff said.   Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Materinity Leave, Social Justice, US, Women

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August 28, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: Aww…Jesus!

I was unaware of the meme-status of beast jesus.  🙂 Filed under: Humour Tagged: Funny, Humour, Jesus

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August 27, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: The War on Women in the United States

If it happens down south, you know who is next in line.   Support this video, reblog it, post it everywhere.  The rights of women are threatened, take action and don’t let the bad guys (aka republicans) win. Filed under: Education, Feminism, Medicine, Politics Tagged: Abortion, Feminism, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive Freedom,

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