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By now you should all be familiar with K-Lo’s Papist Army Rebellion at Notre Dame, where wingnuts are mad that President Obama — whose morning routine includes having a MASSIVE partial-birth abortion between potty and tooth-brushing time — will be the University’s commencement speaker. A Wonkette operative in South Bend writes: “How are you not writing about the Abortion Plane?! I’m here at Notre Dame, future speaking site of President Obama (unless he wises up and makes a run for it), and the ever-awesome Center For Bioethical Reform has hired a plane to circle over campus over the last few days, trailing a giant fetus poster.” And in a later e-mail the operative adds, “They brought baby carriages and fake blood, too!” But the best part here is a letter the Center for Bioethical Reform sent in response to one student who had asked them to maybe stop being so annoying. It includes such gems as, “The sewers of South Bend are literally running red with the blood of Notre Dame’s children.” LITERALLY.
We’re including Greg Cunningham’s phone number because he is probably a good target for prank calls. If you cannot read this full letter, we have bolded some “fun” sentences.
Dear [REDACTED]
Thank you for writing. As someone about to graduate from Notre Dame, you say you “don’t think it is fair to have your home bombarded with disgusting [and disturbing] images.” Come now, [REDACTED]: If these babies were just blobs of tissue, would you be so distressed at these pictures? How could the images be “disgusting” unless abortion is “disgusting?” And if you think abortion photos are “disturbing” who aren’t you more disturbed by abortion itself? Why do you care more about your own “comfort” than you care about the survival of the little children who are being slaughtered? Is that what the priests taught you at Notre Dame; that your comfort is more important than someone else’s life?
You admit that the “majority” of Notre Dame students voted for Mr. Obama. That means they must not be allowed to graduate in comfort. No one should be allowed to become comfortable with baby killing. Many of your classmates have had abortions and many more will have them in the future. Some of these students, at least those with functioning consciences, could be talked into saving their babies if they were forced to look at what abortion is and does. We know that from our extensive experience with these pictures. You can read their testimonials for yourself at www.abortionNO.org. These students need truth more than they need comfort. If pro-abortion students are going to revel in the presence of this serial-killer president, they need to squirm in the presence of the babies he is killing. Most abortion supporters want to be able to kill babies and have the evidence swept under the carpet. No more, [REDACTED]. It is only fair that pro- abortion students be forced to look at the carnage their votes are making possible. Then we will see if they are still so “excited,” as you say, to have Mr. Obama address them.
You say Mr. Obama is coming to honor you. We are going to make your class look at the hidden reality for which he stands and then you can all better decide how much of an honor his presence actually confers on you and your classmates. You say he is not coming to discuss abortion. That is correct but he IS coming to signal that abortion should be of little concern to Catholics. We intend to forcefully rebut that contention, not with arguments, but with pictures. You find it “disrespectful” that we would force our “extremist” message on your class, but as I asked above, how could an abortion photo be “extreme” unless abortion is “extreme?” We find it disrespectful to butcher babies. If you think the use of the term “butcher” is an exaggeration, then why do you find abortion photos so “upsetting,” to use your term?
We want your family and the family of every graduating senior in Joyce Center to have these sickening pictures gaging them as they applaud the man who glorifies this carnage. Our avowed purpose is to respectfully, lawfully, ruin this ceremony; not to be vindictive but to force people to stop acting as though everything is normal at Notre Dame. It is not normal for a Catholic institution to honor a man who supports infanticide. The sewers of South Bend are literally running red with the blood of Notre Dame’s children. We are going to figuratively pry open the manhole covers and force the entire university community to smell the stench of death. No more business as usual. I assure you that by the time the Class of 2009 has received their diplomas, both “town and gown” will be more bothered by abortion than they ever dreamed possible. Every time they look at that diploma, framed on their wall, we want them to see a dead baby. Then perhaps they will take this issue as seriously as the graduate of a famous Catholic university is obligated to take it.
Lord bless,
Gregg Cunningham
The Center For Bio-Ethical Reform
P.O. Box 219
Lake Forest, CA 92609
Office Phone, 949-206-0600
Cell Phone, 714-240-6976
Again, the blood running through the sewers is literal, but they are only going to pretend to open the sewers up to let everyone smell the dead babies everywhere. And that’s a cop-out.
I can confirm that the sewers of North Bend, do indeed run red with the blood of Notre Dame’s children. Except on St. Patrick’s day, when they are dyed green.
This makes me long for the good ol’ days when you could still stone Papists to death
“serial-killer president”?
I think the Holy Church soaked its hands in blood for several centuries. Wars, torture, antisemitism, besides pederasty.
Is that what the priests taught you at Notre Dame; that your comfort is more important than someone else’s life?
Well, that and that we had a little secret we mustn’t talk about with anyone else.
My favorite part is that the letter closes with ‘Lord Bless’.
Mmmm that’s one tasty looking fetus up there; thanks for making me hungry, embryo-fetishits.
Tell him when he grows a vagina, uterus, and ovaries, then he’ll be able to voice an opinion on the subject……
WadISay: Nah; Notre Dame’s students are all over the age of consent, so the priests aren’t interested.
How does one respectfully ruin a ceremony?
“Many of your classmates have had abortions and many more will have them in the future.” Yeah, that’s why we would like to keep them, you know, SAFE.
Our avowed purpose is to respectfully, lawfully, ruin this ceremony;
I’m not sure it’s possible to “respectfully” ruin a ceremony of any kind. Also I think Notre Dame students would find just about any “clump of tissue” – like say, a severed limb – disturbing on a huge banner flying over their graduation. But thanks for playing, wingnuts.
I’m confused. Did these “dead babies” get to go to heaven, or are they permanently stuck in limbo?
Also, can we assume South Bend-ians are ever so slight constipated, given the makeup of their sewers?
Wait, does anyone get an honorary PhD out of this?
Sometimes, life imitates the Onion a little too much.
That picture looked like it was buzzing Notre Dame too close for comfort which has caused me great distress about terrorism at Irish-Catholic Universities. Didn’t we learn from Sunday Bloody Sunday?
I don’t like looking at pictures of the insides of porta-johns, either, especially when trailed by airplanes, but that doesn’t mean that pooping is morally repugnant.
Why is this guy running around smelling sewers? Looks like a job for Super TruckNutz!
Ahh, abortion protests. I forgot how fun they were since they disappeared over the last 8 years (even though actual abortions did not). The fake blood, the threats, the shootings, the bombings. Good times. This is exactly what baby jesus was talking about during the sermon on the mount.
I don’t think I’ve ever been “gaged” by a picture while I applaud.
When I kill babies, I prefer to have the evidence mopped up. Sweeping it under the carpet gets to smelling really bad after a few days, and always leaves stains that won’t come out no matter how hard I scrub. Out, damn spot!
I hope they attempt to do a fly-over the graduation while BO is speaking. The carnage Greggy speaks of may be his own. The Secret Service doesn’t much like unapproved fly-overs, also.
You can’t kid me: they don’t have sewers in South Bend. It’s in fucking Indiana, for fuck’s sake. He must have meant to say the roadside ditches are literally running red with the blood of aborted Notre Dame students, or whatever the fuck he said. This so-called Center for Bio Ethical Reform is in the dreary Orange County (CA) suburb of Lake Forest, so STFU about Notre Dame, you twunt!
BigIrish: YES.
in the meantime, one of my favorite anti-abortion arguments is, re: their gross imagery, If these babies were just blobs of tissue, would you be so distressed at these pictures?
I once saw about 15 seconds of footage of a face lift, and I nearly threw up. I never watched televised surgeries for a reason. I would be disgusted if someone flew over repeatedly with a graphic image of an appendectomy, and it’s not because I want to save the poor little appendix.
another favorite part of the letter: respectfully, lawfully, ruin this ceremony
how does one respectfully ruin a graduation ceremony?
Having this plane flying around near buildings is like a third 9/11, also.
Gregg Cunningham is a virgin. I desperately hope someone remembers this when his miserable ass dies and “respectfully ruins” his fucking funeral.
Sassette: damn, got in ahead of me on that “respectfully” thing.
I’ve had just about enough of these motherfucking abortions on this motherfucking plane!
I totally understand now: when I get grossed out at pictures of surgical procedures, like tumors getting removed, it is because deep down I understand that those procedures are MORALLY WRONG.
My campaign starts now: outlaw all gross medical procedures! God gave you that tumor for a reason, LOVE IT!
Notre Dame students! There’s still time to take advantage of the 50 Percent Off sale at Uncle Guido’s Fetabortorium in beautiful downtown South Bend! Any procedures completed before we close the doors on Friday qualify for the discount AND a coupon good for similar savings for a friend! Graduating seniors - now’s the time to erase any evidence of that little indiscretion after the Christmas kegger. Start your post-graduate life as pure as the pope! Offer void where prohibited.
Hasn’t this issue been settled? Isn’t it legal to have/perform an abortion in the United States. Are these people saying that the President should not uphold the law? What a crock of shit!
Most girls at ND don’t even have access to abortion. The nearest clinic is in the scary part of the ghetto, none of the nearby (catholic-affiliated) hospitals provide them, and the effing campus pharmacy won’t even fill birth control scrips for medical reasons. My roommate freshman year had her baby, in part because she was forced into the decision by lack of options… so I highly doubt that many of this graduating students classmates have had abortions, Gregg.
It is amazing how many non-ND graduates have taken to trying to make a private ceremony a public issues. Obama’s views on social justice, the death penalty, his opposition to pre-emptive war (which violated Catholic just war doctrine) are all far more in line with Catholicism than his predecessor. I’m a Democrat precisely because I’m a Catholic. If Obama cannot get an ND degree because he’s prochoice, I suppose my entire group of girlfriends from college will have to send back our degrees.
If my mother had named me “Redacted,” I would be bitterly pro-abortion, unless there is a St. Redacted with a really cool feast day.
my first QUEER/BUTTSECS bar was in South Bend. i grew up on a HOG FARM in Indiana. Now I live is LOS CARNITAS INFLUENZA LAND aka Mexico and will soon die from lack of hand sanitizer or surgical mask or morning after pills or something. But, no doubt, the end is certain. The end.
i see dead babies.
Lemming Caution: “If these babies were just blobs of tissue, would you be so distressed at these pictures?”
My poops are just blobs of tissue, but you don’t see me scooping them out of the toilet before I flush them away forever.
Ok, fine. You do see that.
funny how he doesn’t mention how god aborted a 22 month old mexican baby in texas using the mexican pig flu. does god have double standards?
Ah, but for the love of unnecessary quotation marks.
Then we will see if they are still so “excited,” as you say, to have Mr. Obama address them.
If fetuses are people, how come we don’t give funerals to miscarriages?
Abortion is extreme? Then I’m pulling for a new X-Games event: EXTREME ABORTIONS
iwillsavethispatient: My recovering Catholic friend told me limbo has been done away with. So its into Purgatory for the little blobs. And they’ll have to work hard to get to heaven.
quick question - why are babies more important than little boys’ asses?
I’m “in a womanly way” at the moment, so I’m gong to grab a quill pen and write them a nice letter.
Catholices, Also.
Sure, abortion is plenty disgusting, but that doesn’t mean it should be made illegal any more than it means you should take pictures of it and shove them in people’s faces.
Hey Gregg, guess what else is disgusting? Periods. They’re real too, not that you would know about these things. Want some pictures? I’m sure I can arrange dozens of fanatical operatives to come by your home and shove pictures of my period in your face.
why can’t they fly NANCY GRACE behind that plane? she’s way more scary. the fetus’s would detach themselves from the womb and fly to the nearest sewer (chicago i think) and that’d be that. the end.
I think the Secret Service will be interested in that personal information. Thank you Mr. Newell.
I hope they get some stimulus money to fix the sewers in South Bend, that shit sounds gross.
slappypaddy: You don’t want to go there; trust me.
Ewww, the Magic Internet made an ad for anti-choice “items” appear next to this article. How come when we talk about buttsecks, I can’t get a sweatshirt that says “BUTTSECKS” out of it? Doesn’t buttsecks kill babies?
“The sewers of South Bend are literally running red with the blood of Notre Dame’s children.” LITERALLY”
Maybe I don’t know much about lab practices, but I have been to the doctor. Wouldn’t this shit be considered bio-hazard and not, you know, poured into the storm sewers? Because I don’t that’s healthy. The end.
sevenrepeat: It’s ok when God does it. God, unlike humans, has motivations that we cannot possibly understand or hope to judge.
As the Wizard of Oz told the Scarecrow: “I can’t give you brains — but I can give you a dead baby!”
Literally running red with babies’ blood - yet he’s only going to “figuratively” open the manhole covers?
I’m confused. Plus, is that second part kinda gay, or is that just me.
FamilyLost: I can see the fetus banner being an excellent tow target for the Sidewinder missiles launched from the escorting F-16s.
Oooh, excellent name for a rock group: Fetus Banner.
Ya know, a professional pilot is actually kind of expensive. These wingnut people just have money to burn, I tell ya. Wonder what Gregg Virgin Cunningham pays himself to dream up these awesome stunts.
whiskey tango foxtrot: Forget the pictures. We need to find him on the street and douse him with the stuff.
“Every time they look at that diploma, framed on their wall, we want them to see a dead baby.”
Lord Bless and have a nice day!
FamilyLost: Nor does the Air Force. Top cover will come down so quick, heads will spin, eardrums will bust, and pants will be peed. Saw such happen re Smirky Monkey a few years back when an escorting motorcycle cop crashed. An F-15 came down and looked like it was headed right for my at-that-moment-too-tall building. But it was okay, I got my pants washed before they stained (out, damn piss).
irishdem: in part because she was forced into the decision by lack of options…
What, are Catholic girls not allowed to drive, either?
Gregg,
You may not “pry open my manhole cover,” ever.
StephanieInCA
Back in my Catholic school days in the late 1990s they showed us those dead fetus pictures and the “scary equipment” that was used (although I’ve seen more terrifying things at the dentist). At the same time I knew girls who threw themselves down the stairs to cause a miscarriage. You know what? I ended up pro-choice and completely immune to the “gross out” factor of dead fetuses. I don’t even notice them anymore.
That’s really WAY too much stupid for me to take in at one sitting. I like the brilliance of blowing up a picture of a fetus then flying it high enough that it looks like a drunken manatee.
“Every time they look at that diploma, framed on their wall, we want them to see a dead baby.”
Wait ’til Alumni Development hears about that.
jagorev: She was a freshman, fall semester. We didn’t know many upperclassmen, weren’t allowed to bring a car to campus. It was not an environment where’d you’d ask an RA to take you. She felt like there were so many barriers to having a procedure she was already unsure about, combine that with a baby daddy who was insistent that she keep it, and she ended up resigning herself to being a mom. I’d call that forced. She loves her kid now and thankfully got the support from her parents to finish college and get a great job, but if there had been better pro-choice services on and off campus, she may have been able to truly weigh all her options.
I’m not quite sure Armless Yellow Jesus would approve of this guy’s methods
I literally think we should kill anyone who confuses ‘literally’ and ‘figuratively’.
Reportage on results of phone call flood to Berserker Cunningham requested, plz.
And ask this loonster whom the f— he’s blessing… this “Lord Bless” “God Bless” closer is lame and lazy — and you the heck are you to be dispensing blessings, anyway.
Oh, this gets my crankypants all revved.
A man dictating what women should do with their bodies. DECIDED THIRTY YEARS AGO, GLENN. One fervently hopes that you, Glenn, are incapable of procreating, so you can’t pass your dim DNA on, or INTO a poor female.
Did I mention: GRRR! ?
Custerwolf: maybe they can make a macy’s-parade-esque inflated aborted fetus float???
Every time they look at that diploma, framed on their wall, we want them to see a dead baby.
Meanwhile, everytime I look at my CUNY diploma, I see all the money I poured into that piece of paper with little to show for it… which I guess is about the same thing.
If I wanted to see what a dead fetus looked like I’d have just glanced over at the one I have in the corner. Shortly after his departure from the hangar I had that little feller taxidermied to make it look like he was playing a guitar.
The guy is obviously a raving lunatic, and a nasty, unpleasant one to boot, but can we take his cell phone number off? I don’t care if we leave his office phone, but putting a personal number out there kinda smacks of the revenge wingnuts are known for.
irishdem: My roommate freshman year had her baby, in part because she was forced into the decision by lack of options…
What a shame! That baby could be dead now, if only she didn’t have to go to the ghettos of South Bend to do it. Ugh, the humanity.
So hard to type with my fingers all greasy from fetus-mozzarella poppers, but I will try…
The best thing about all this is that Notre Dame is a private university, and since my BF’s entire family went there, I know that they are, ah, proprietary about their campus and their ceremonies. I would not be surprised if they enlist a group of hard-core headcrackers to control the pro-coathanger crowd at graduation. Don’t forget, Irish Catholics love teh fetuses, but they love bludgeoning protesters with nightsticks even more.
echoman2000: I totally went to what I am sure is that bar on a date with my junior year girlfriend. Insert your own scene of glacial, awkward, young conservative social realization here.
But I finally graduated and now many years later I am much better. This whole Obama thing makes me admire the institution much more than I have in a long while- I am glad they are sticking to their guns on this.
In closing, thank God for teh gays, and may He have mercy on the class of ‘09 and their handsome, sensible, moral commencement speaker.
Makes me want to go to Hell myself, just to see the look on Gregg Virgin’s face when he finds himself there - course, I’m already on the list, for all those bootleg Orange Jesus license plates I photoshopped last night -
Has anyone called yet? I want to hear reports! Chop chop, people!
I have examined the photo closely. At ten weeks there is not discernible difference between a baby human and a baby ferret, so I believe that The Center For Bio-Ethical Reform made an honest mistake. PETA shall be duly notified.
Once again, a Catholic fanatic wins dozens of converts — for the other side.
problemwithcaring: Yep, what a shame that an 18 year old girl who grew up in a bumfuck, middle of nowhere town with abstinence-only education wasn’t given the proper tools to make an informed decision about her sexuality.
Bronkers to self: Typos committed out of excessive emotion or failing eyesight at the end of the work day.
…WHO the heck are you to be dispensing blessings…?
Serolf Divad: That ain’t blood that’s Hawaiian punch with everclear (hopey went to school in HI ya know) that was ingested at some frat bachanalia and then barfed up into various gutters near touchdown Jesus.
I’ll be calling Gregg on his cell now.
whiskey tango foxtrot: The sewers of South Bend are literally running red with the blood of Notre Dame’s menstruating.
mrpuma2u: No frats at ND. Most likely puked up bloody marys from tailgating.
Where were these bioethical morans during the last EIGHT YEARS of
Unborn Slaughterfest, Episode IV: The Ressurection?
Anyone who ever voted for a candidate because they were “pro-life”
wasted their vote.
Truck Nutz, Buttsecks, Also.
is abortion any more legal today than it was from jan. 20, 2001 - jan. 20, 2009? does this mean george w. bush is also a serial kill–uh, nevermind.
at least he made a frowny face when he talked about loose women and their abortions.*
*abortions performed in Houston from 1973-1986 on women who had fucked members of a patrician clan from connecticut DO NOT count.
In my head, that letter was read aloud by Dwight Schrute.
Custerwolf: I pegged you as the sentimental type…
I said “pegged.”
I tried valiantly to get through that crap, to no avail. I swear, Wonkette, you continually try to force me to read wingnut invective, and I JUST CAN’T. Please continue to summarize for me, as you apparently have a much higher level of tolerance for this.
Wait - I just got here. Fetuses became infants, when??
Every time I look at my diploma, I see piles of cocaine.
Just one more reason why USC is better than Notre Dame.
Fight on, fetuses!
Spleens! Spleens are gross!
slappypaddy: Gabriel Michael Santorum.
magic titty: After about 9 months.
Boogers! Boogers can be really gross!
slappypaddy: obviously you don’t party with Santorums (or is it Santorumes)? Santorumii? Ahh, fuck. That hack former Senator from PA who’s fucking nuts and 17, nay 16, children.
Reagan was always seen as a champion of the right-to-life movement but he signed an abortion bill as governor and never attended a DC rally in person, always addressing the crowd from the White House via a telephone hookup. And the racists really want women of color to have abortions to slow down us whiteys being a minority.
Cabbage can be very gross, especially if it sits around too long and/or my mother-in-law gets into it.
Paging Oliver Cromwell!
Sneer, sneer at old Notre Dame
Shake down your friends and rent you a plane
Search “abortion quality: high”
Make up a flag and hit the sky
What though the pilot guide be long
No need to read it, God makes you strong
While her loyal sons are watching
You crash and burn and choke and die. LITERALLY.
(I’m still working on that last line)
Oh to be the Secret Service guy who carries the Stinger missile launcher at that ceremony…
We need to call up Gregg and ask him very specific ?s
“So you DO plan on flying your plane into
the airspace above Notre Dame during the President’s speech?”
“Yes.”
“Okay. Uhm, what time were you planning to do that?”
“I’ll be there around noon.”
“Could you be a bit more specific?”
“12:15.”
“Okay, and from what airport will you be departing?”…
Make sure to speak realllllllly slow so the illegal wiretaps will pick up
the keys words.
I heard Greg wants to change Notre Dame’s sports teams nicknames to the Fightin’ Aborted Fetuses
I have a copy of the graduation program. It includes the following insert:
WANT TO KNOW WHAT’S REALLY GROSS
During an hours swim at a public pool you will ingest 1/12 liters of urine.
In an average day your hands will have come into indirect contact with 15 penises (touching door handles etc.)
An average person’s yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
In a year you will have swallowed 14 insects - while you slept!
Annually you will shake hands with 11 women who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.
Annually you will shake hands with 6 men who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.
In a lifetime 22 workmen will have examined the contents of your dirty linen basket.
At an average wedding reception you have a 1/100 chance of getting a cold sore from one of the guests.
Daily you will breath in 1 liter of other peoples’ anal gases.
We are going to figuratively pry open the manhole covers and force the
Someone clearly needs his manhole cover pried.
Hmmm…. I know a Secret Service Agent… and his brother even better, will tell the bro about this one, as if the Dept. of Treasury and FBI aren’t already all over this like link on a cheap suit….
Bronkers to self, yet again, you blind old bat: LINT ON A CHEAP SUIT.
Man, getting old means ratty vision.
picture of a “10-week abortion”? how the fuck did that happen aren’t those things 90-120 minutes tops?
Marcel Parcells: you have given me two great ideas for crashing the next pro-coathanger rally:
(1) picture from a colon cleanse commercial, caption: “10 weeks of eating KFC, fatty protester”
(2) picture of Octo-mom surrounded by 14 kids.
Gee, it may be just the slightest bit counterproductive to go off on an insane, semi-literate screed after taking the trouble to give your organization a name as hilariously disingenuous as “the Center for Bioethical Reform.” And if they’re really opposed to orgies of baby-murder, why the fuck aren’t they lobbying to change the name to something significantly less French? There’s a pretty obvious causal link there.
TEABAG THE FETUSES!
Wha? Oh.
pat robertsons personal trainer: picture of a “10-week abortion”? how the fuck did that happen aren’t those things 90-120 minutes tops?
That gal should have eaten more fiber.
A Better American Than YOU:
Sharing means caring.
Notre Dame abortion protest, via Blingee
http://blingee.com/blingee/view/89738083-Glitter-Graphics
If I cannot get some quality trucknutz, maybe I’ll just hang a fetus or two from my tow hitch?
StephanieInCA: [groan....] you’ve just given them their next pet project.
What IS that image, anyway? It looks like Ellsworth Kelly was forced to collaborate with Michelle Bachmann on design for a new dollar bill.
This “person”, Gregg Cunningham, clearly has too much time on his hands.
Notre Dame aborted my inner child.
snideinplainsight: Picking your nose is WRONG and HORRIBLE and I will take PICTURES and PUT THEM ALL UP ALL OVER ORANGE COUNTY, also.
So what if a drunken irish student,while trying to fill a co-ed with future red colored sewer runoff,becomes disturbed what with all that airplane clatter and uses a constitutionally protected rocket launcher to blow the shit out of said plane is that constitutioally protected speech(like a campaign contribution)hate speech,hate crime or just causing discomfort to the pilot?
Good thing my diploma was printed on a dead baby.
Btwn this and Arizona, Barack Obama is sooo not accepting invites to commencement speeches any more. You had your chance, graduating persons of the US, and then wingdoodles and administrators f’d it up for everyone.
IF YOU READ IT IN ALL CAPS IT MAKES A LOT MORE SENSE!!!
My diploma is printed on the an aborted human baby. But it is a BFA, and all the art schools were doing stuff like that in the eighties.
I don’t have a problem with dead babies. They are much, much quieter in restaurants and on airplanes.
Actually, the Notre Dame students would greatly prefer that the sewers were running red with the blood of that fucker Charlie Weis. Except he’d probably clog them.
Hmm. I see dead babies when I look at pretty much anything. But the doctor says the meds will start working in a few days.
Then it would be fair game to parade pictures of dismembered Iraqis and Abu Ghraib prisoners in front of these folks, since they were so fixated on voting for a “pro-life” president for most of a decade that they chose to “sweep under the rug” the evidence of the wars they implicitly supported. After all, they’re just heathens, how can their torture, mutilation and death be “disturbing” or “disgusting?”
These guys used to show up at the University of Florida once a year or so. And then the counter protest. Almost as much fun as the Gators for Israel/Nakba ‘48 scream-offs.
One memorable year they had the genocide wagon, which compared aborted blastocycsts to persecuted ethnic groups. They had the same smug attitude as the writer of this letter, as if they had shocked us out of our complacency about abortion. Trouble was, I, and many others like me, weren’t complacent about abortion, we were satisfied at its legality. They mistook our sneering contempt for looks of appalled disgust and horror.
I get super grossed out every time I see Tom Cruise, which means his existence is MORALLY WRONG. He should have been aborted, obvs.
was http://www.NOabortion.org already taken?
Scarab: Here, here!
A Better American Than YOU: Hey — are they trying to say that more women (11) masturbate than men (6), or that women are worse about washing their hands?
Either way, I don’t believe it.
iantenna: duh. yes. redirect to priests for life. just seemed a little less powerful to have the no at the end. maybe fuckabortion.org?
Lemming Caution: For me it was, ironically, video footage of a live birth that made me almost lose my lunch (neatly ruling out a career in medicine in the process). Abortions look pretty gross, but at least they don’t come blasting out of a vagina, which blows apart in the process, to horrified screams of the mother, the baby, the doctor and my entire eleventh grade biology class. Miracle my ass, that shit is disgusting.
V572625694: Bravo. I salute the author of the neologism “twunt.”
I just sent Mr. Cunntingham (ya i know .. way too easy) 365 pictures of people dead smashed and bloody in car accidents and reminded him of the support all his suv drivin’ Christians have given to the heavy car industry over the past 8 years.
Not to mention all the alcoholics his favorite administration created.
irishdem: No taxis come to South Bend? Come on!
A Better American Than YOU: Does wiping your hands off on your pants count as washing them? If it does, I’m in the clear.
1) I see a logic failure here.
2) Dear Baby Lovers: Please stop using semicolons in that strange manner in which you’re using them, immediately. Love, Semicolons
3) “[S]ickening pictures gaging them.” I’ve tried my best, but I really don’t think I know what that means.
Love, Tea Bea
whiskey tango foxtrot: Fuck pictures. Shove some menses in his face.
Can the abortioney plane tow that fat fuck K-Lo behind them on a wire or would that not meet FAA regs?
Gallowglass: I am printing this on business cards and handing them out to every person who asks me when I am going to have a baby.
populucious: Now, now… that was Arizona STATE. Let’s keep this straight, for those of us with Wildcat loyalties.
Col. Cunningham gloriously assisted in delivering late term abortions (mostly 4-234th trimester D&C by Mk 82 General Purpose (GP) Bomb, on average) while keeping the world safe from the dread VietComs:
Gregg Cunningham is a retired U.S. Air Force Reserve Colonel with six years of active duty service and twenty-five years in the ready reserve. He is a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War.
jagorev: You mean defenestrate, right?
The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform
http://www.abortionno.org
Abortionno (‘abor-tio-onno’) is Italian for, “Avoid uncle. Dear, sweet Jesus, help.”
Really.
Does he … really think he’ll be allowed to fly a plane overhead while the president is on campus?
That’s cute.
jagorev: Papists? Cunningham never went to ND, our he would known that the sewers of South Bend run 80 proof.
Oh, banner ads. The search engines that place them still haven’t figured out the “context” part. In case it’s gone, there’s an American flag (natch), the Gerber baby, and a website that helps you vote “for over 1,500 pro life items”.
S.Luggo: “or”
Lake Forest has neither.
It is a sad bedroom community stuffed between Asian Irvine and the Rich White Folk Lagunas This & That.
The best prices in the OC on medical marijuana, though.
Did I mention it has neither a lake nor a forest?
Good prices. Fresh product.
Bronkers: You are not a member of ‘Opus Dei’, it appears.
Cartman: Ya shouldn’t a’done that. He’s just a boy. Poor little feller…
Respectfully ruining a ceremony? WTfuckingF?
Wearing douchebags as ear-rings is legal, too - but people aren’t bone-stupid enough to do it on a regular basis - oh, that’s right, we’re talking about folks who think dead women are preferable to dead fetuses … my bad.
The Abortoplane really made me reconsider my stance on abortion - right after I got done laughing my ass off. Epic Socialization Fail with bells on: these wackjobs spend so much time admiring their Fetus-Porn that they just can’t see how totally fucking psychotic they look waving it around like styrofoam hands at a football game.
Lord bless!
jagorev: stop being a dick, dude. ladies need better access to comprehensive reproductive health services. it’s as cut and dry as that.
CivicHoliday: “ladies need better access to comprehensive reproductive health services.”
What?
What??
Snarkfest: “365 pictures of people dead smashed and bloody in car accidents.”
Wow. Where can I get one of these death-a-day desktop calanders?
J: That would not meet the Dept. of Agriculture’s standards.
I’ve got 10 bucks that says he was named after Gregg Marmalard. http://www.filmdope.com/Gallery/ActorsD/4212-13443.gif The double-g is proof enough for me.
PerhapsSo: I lol’d
A Better American Than YOU: I pray daily to St. Redacted.
I hear they’re having roasted placenta after Barry’s big speech. Should be enough for everyone seeing as how it’s fresh from the sewer and whatnot. Nice hot blood sausage to go with it too. Watch out for the tiny bones!
NoWireHangers: Nah, they’re the soft kind, they just exit out the other end intact and sitting pretty on a stool.
By “sewers running with blood” does he mean blood blood or transfigurated blood of Jesus wine, cuz if it’s the later that’s gotta be one hell of a party town.
A Better American Than YOU: I’m now completely distracted from the retardation of the whole abortion plane business, and want to know more about your list of horrors. My first and most important question is: who the fuck collected that data?? My second question is: doesn’t eating out generally run the risk of ingesting pubic hairs?
Accordion-o-rama: I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. I didn’t know the eggs I eject every month were polka-dotted. Very educational.
NoWireHangers: He’s actually referring to menstrual blood. You see, if you stay pregnant you won’t be riding the cotton pony on a monthly basis. It’s complicated, I know.
They should see “Tucker.” The red steak scene.
Ha-ha stupid wingnuts. Your dumb fetus signs just made me get five abortions. FIVE!!!!! I’m gonna go get knocked up just so’s I can get another one sucked out tomorrow. Moohahahahahah!!!!!!
Cicada: They’ll be leaving a light on for you.
(thanks to Tom Bodett and sheer stupidity)
“Every time they look at that diploma, framed on their wall, we want them to see Father So-and-so’s perky lil’ wanger poking out from under the vestments.”
This is what happens when “college education” means the process of submitting girls to a blizzard of bizarre sexual experimentation, where they are encouraged to “pull trains,” “fuck the hockey team,” surrender themselves to drunken lesbianism and wanton flashing of their private anatomical parts; where lectures on things like “Latino Theology and Christian Tradition,” “Politics and Democratization in Middle Eastern & North Africa Monarchies”, and “Bifurcation of Meaning: Derrida and Levi-Strauss” are punctuated by huge slurping sounds throughout the auditorium.
I’ll be back in a few minutes.
I’m ok with pooping but that doesn’t mean I want a flying billboard of fecal matter over my head, also
chascates: Well said. Since when does the Catholic Church have the right to condemn anyone for serial murder? How many babies has the Catholic Church murdered during the Inquisition and the Crusades. Christ, they make today’s Islamic terrorists look like high school pranksters by comparison. And, as you said, never mind the thousands of children who were victims of pederasty at the hands of their sainted priests.
Maybe he’d have a leg to stand on about “if the pictures are gross and disturbing, maybe the act is too” if those were what abortions actually looked like… instead of obviously fake crap those weird fetus-fetishists make with fake blood and baby dolls in their basement
You know, they might have a leg to stand on about that “if the pictures are appalling maybe the act is TOO!” argument if those were what abortions actually looked like in this day & age…
Ironically, a lot of those pics are taken from the days before abortion was legalized. They’re exactly what abortions would look like if the wingnuts had their way!
Sorry, did not mean to post twice about that lol.
Did people panic and evacuate buildings like they did in New York City for the Air Force One flyby?
The Notre Dame protesters need to get a life.
Or, we should say, choose a life.
Ah, hahahahahahah.
Sorry, a little Notre Dame psycho humor.
It’s so hard to find the right wine to pair well with 10-week abortion. That’s why I always go with 12-week, myself.
I sent him a letter from a VERY sad little lady who was HORRIFIED at ND’s choice because of BABY SLAUGHTER and SO SAD because of the failing to get pregnant for SO LONG, so here’s a used tampon CAN YOU BLESS THIS, PLZ? NEED BABYS NAO!
Funny, usually the only upside to being on the rag is that my BitchOmeter goes to eleven…
” force the entire university community to smell the stench of death.”
So they invited Cheny?
Um, how sucktacular must it be if you happen to be a pro-life ND grad, even a remotely rational one. To have your entire graduation ceremony ruined by a flyby by Air Abortion and that whole diploma-as-dead-baby bit on your wall for the rest of your life.
And Greggie-boy thinks it’s ok to treat his own supporters like this, as collateral damage.
Fail.
jagorev: Look, there is more to the story than I feel appropriate to detail on the Internet. It is after all, her story, not mine. That said, I was merely trying to convey that Notre Dame and the surrounding South Bend area cultivates an atmosphere that makes it more difficult for a woman to get information and access to all her options.
Regarding the speech, salon.com has some interesting stats up: http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/05/01/notre_dame/index.html
Cranky Little Camperette: That comment was full of WIN.
Marcel Parcells: You’re supposed to sweep shit under the carpet. Literally. And then figuratively lift the manhole cover to see them float by, all red and festive like. Then you see dead babies. And with a dead baby hanging on the wall, you can vote for a serial killer for president.
It’s funny Obama didn’t make more of his qualifications as a serial killer; I would have voted for him twice. Figurally.
irishdem: “…but if there had been better pro-choice services on and off campus, she may have been able to truly weigh all her options.”
Here’s an option she might have considered:
Keep your legs crossed.
Sorry, it’s just I hate pussies. I really do. Fuck, if I had to fashion my own goddamned hanger for the job, I would. Listen, god gave women just two holes - one for pissing and one for moaning. Had there been a third hole it would have no doubt been for whining - but there’s not.
So…..lighten up.
There are stars in the sky
Lighten up
There’s a good reason why
But you don’t know the answer
And neither do I
So meanwhile let’s just all
Lighten up.
Custerwolf: Did I say only “two” holes? Jesus christ. No wonder I talk so much shit.
Custerwolf: “lighten up” is probably good advise, but your point of view gets lost in your untoward language. do you believe you are adding emphasis or being cute? i assure you, you are accomplishing neither. like many i occasionally slip into profanity, but is it a good idea to publish this type of comment on the web? even comedians are coming to realize that it is simply not a good way to make a point. perhaps no one cares about this anymore and i should just “lighten up”, but i think words do matter and more civilized language would help in creating a more civilized world.
ewwww! I read all that bloody fetus worshiping stuff and almost tossed my salad. G-d I hope I never have to witness an abortion plane. Do Catholic’s consider a woman having a period as birth control? Isn’t an ovum one half of a fetus?
I have an idea. If the Roman Catholics really wanted to save all the snow flake babies they could have a program to implant them in Freshman students upon their arriving at Notre Dame…
irishdem: Most girls at ND don’t even have access to abortion. The nearest clinic is in the scary part of the ghetto
Have you ever even seen a ghetto or the Planned Parenthood in the area? Because I (an ND grad student, for the record) live directly across the street from Planned Parenthood and it is most definitely not the ghetto - I wouldn’t have chosen to live there if it even remotely resembled a ghetto. Grape Road, home of every corporate retail and dining chain known to man, is hardly what one would call a ghetto, unless of course you grew up on 5th Avenue or the Champs Elysee or something. And even then, there are far, far worse parts of South Bend - take a driving tour of the entire city and then let us know whether your view of what the “scary parts of the ghetto” areas of South Bend are has changed. I see from googling that there is a clinic around half a mile from campus, too - that’s not a ghetto either, there are supermarkets, fast food places, Starbucks, stores, etc. everywhere, and even a CVS and a Walgreen’s who will fill your birth control prescription. I don’t disagree with your assertion that the school doesn’t provide good reproductive health services to women, but you need to get some perspective.
Why aren’t we ever talking about the other services we deserve? When I got pregnant at 19, I didn’t have a way to stay in school with a baby. There was no childcare at school, no family housing. Why do we women always have to feel pressured into an abortion? We should not have to choose between our education and a baby…our jobs and a baby…our futures and a baby. I DID ask Planned Parenthood what they could do to help me if I decided to keep the baby, but they said there were “other organizations ” for that. No names, no help, nada…but Planned Parenthood would give me $50 to help pay for my abortion (they didn’t have their abortion clinic open yet so they did outside referrals for abortions.) Come on. I know I was not the only girl who was pressured by her boyfriend and circumstances to do something I didn’t want to do. Maybe we should stop all the bickering and work together. Planned Parenthood gets hundreds of million in gov’t funding. Let’s demand facilities to also help women who choose to parent their baby. Let’s even things out so women are not pushed into a choice that was not really one they wanted.
Wow - I would think that something that claims around 42 million human lives worldwide each year would be taken seriously and those at a Catholic university (or any other type) would work to end it and support the efforts of ALL those trying to end it, even fringe groups such as the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform. I guess in this day and age that’s too much to expect, though…
This group is kind of like the Greenpeace or PETA of the pro-life movement. I can’t remember the last time I saw Greenpeace or PETA vilified like this, though. I’ve seen those pictures of the bloody baby seals after they’d been clubbed and there seemed to be nearly universal support for this campaign. http://blog.peta.org/archives/2009/04/seal_slaughter.php
http://blog.peta.org/archives/seals/
Feminists for Life is a pro-life group working to promote greater availability of child care and other necessities for college students who become pregnant. On the off chance that this post isn’t deleted, you might check them out.