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quaoar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 11:42 PM
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GOP lawmaker worries about breastfeeding moms at truck stops
You can't make this stuff up.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AL_XGR_BREASTFEEDING_ALOL-?SITE=ALMON&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

House passes bill to allow breast feeding in public

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The Alabama House approved a bill Wednesday that would allow mothers to breastfeed babies in restaurants and other public places.

The House voted 84-10 for the bill that would allow a woman to breast feed "in any location where she is authorized to be."

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Rep. DuWayne Bridges, R-Valley, expressed concern about women breastfeeding in open in the restaurant and truck stop he owns on Interstate 85 near the Alabama-Georgia line.

"I think it would be good for them to go to their automobile or to the restroom," Bridges said.
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Talismom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 11:52 PM
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1. Yeah, right asshat! How do you like the idea of eating your lunch in the
restroom? I think it would be a good idea for you to consider GROWING THE HELL UP!

Seriously though, the US is so effed up sexually that it is not funny! I once had a supermarket cashier tell me that at least with twins I didn't have to worry about deciding whether or not to breastfeed. I gave her a puzzled look and asked what she meant and when she hesitated I told her that I did breastfeed them. She then got a look of disgust on her face and said that she could never do it 'cause it was too sexual. All I could do was shake my head, and say "Geez, ya know, I hate to tell you but that's not their primary biological function." I just couldn't believe it! She must have been about 15 years younger than me and sounded like she grew up in the 1940s.
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:08 AM
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2. does she go to the bathroom? or is that too sexual too?
8^P
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quaoar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 01:50 PM
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15. ROTFLMAO
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Talismom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 11:42 AM
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17. LOL! Love it! n/t
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:25 AM
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3. He probably gets a chubby when he sees a woman breastfeeding.
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Zookeeper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 02:18 AM
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4. Yeah, we should go to our autos or...
into a dirty truck stop restroom. We sure wouldn't want to enlighten those good ole boys about the primary purpose of mammary glands...might interfere with their fantasy lives.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 02:31 AM
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5. And what sad little fantasy lives they must be.
Edited on Fri Mar-31-06 02:38 AM by BlueIris
In which women, probably represented in cartoon outline like they are in the massive anime collections of those misogynists, are nothing more than objects to masturbate with. Sigh. Tiny minds, destroying civilization to compensate for their tiny, tiny other things.
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xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 02:45 AM
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6. Hey bridges - yea, you dumbass
I breastfed both my babies whenever AND wherever they got hungry. I fed my daughter once, sitting in the middle of Honolulu International. Not a single person knew what I was doing except one older woman who stopped in front of me and said 'it is so nice to see someone breastfeeding a baby again.' She had done it w/ her kids so she knew.

Now that I am older, I occasionally see a woman w/ her shirt pulled up and her baby tucked in tight, being fed. I think back to that woman in Hawaii and think 'yea, it is nice'.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:18 AM
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7. And the brains of the Right shrink ever smaller
:eyes:

Perhaps Bridges would like to eat his meals in a truck-stop restroom? :puke:
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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 07:08 AM
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8. Hunnerd bucks says he has spy cameras in the restrooms.
:rofl:

What a pathetic assmonkey...what is so scary about TITS?

Hell, even *he* has 'em.

:eyes:
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 07:26 AM
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9. Well thank God someone has finally spoken up.
If truckstop breastfeeding isn't the defining issue of our epoch, I for one don't know what is.

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captain disgruntled Donating Member (153 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:29 PM
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11. Silly me
:rofl: And here I was thinking it was homosexual marriage.

Seriously, around here it's illegal to leave your PETS in the car when the ambient temperature is above 70*. Tip: not pleasant to sit in the middle of an asphalt parking lot in a car for 25 minutes with some radiant little body pressed against you.
Yeah, I'd be much more comfortable nursing my child perched on a toilet in a smelly restroom.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:40 PM
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13. Oh yeah! I almost forgot -- it IS homosexual marriage. No wait!
It's steroids in baseball!

My god the planet is in complete crisis!!
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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 11:27 AM
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10. they make breast feeding into something dirty

when it is marvelous

stupid DuWayne
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:32 PM
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12. Oh hell ... Mississippi was considering a bill
to OUTLAW it in public places!! Fortunately, that one died before it got to the floor.

Bake
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:43 PM
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14. I need to move to Texas, I guess,
if this issue is worthy of their legislature's time. Things must be pretty peachy-keen, there, huh?

:sarcasm:

As to going to a restroom--no effing way. Ihave taken insulin my entire life and I have always been told to go to a PUBLIC restroom to inject.

Guess what I thought of that suggestion? The same way I'm thinking of this one.
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 04:33 PM
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16. If he's worried, he shouldn't offer to do so.
(Sorry, bad joke based on the sloppy headline. WTF are they teaching in j-schools these days?)

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fortyfeetunder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 11:07 PM
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18. A possible reason for his angst...
Edited on Sat Apr-01-06 11:19 PM by fortyfeetunder
He's probably afraid the sight of breastfeeding women will classify his place as a topless bar, LOL...
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 11:19 PM
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19. Another immature and emotionally backward mouth-breather. nt
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