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Strong Bones

9.24.07 @ 12:01AM

RETRO SALLY
Re: Pia de Solenni's If Mothers Ruled the World:

With regard to the ridiculous rant from Ms. Field, I'm afraid she is WAY OFF BASE. Having worked in prisons for more than 17 years, I can attest that women fight far more often than men do -- and often over the most trivial matters.
-- B. Snell

I called Roche today to voice my reaction to Sally Field's encore psychotic break. The last being when she got an Oscar for Norma Rae -- "You like, you reeeely llike me."

The flak-catcher's response was, "Well, she has a right to her opinion..." The other explanation, regarding Sally's Boniva commercials, is "she is an advocate for osteoporosis." I said, "Yeah, and back when she was making Smokey and the Bandit movies with Burt Reynolds she was an advocate for free love and nickel beer -- and doesn't "advocate" mean she is in favor of osteoporosis?"

I suggested if they wanted a woman spouting obscenities and trashing the military effort in Iraq, they could probably buy incoherence cheaper by hiring Cindy Sheehan.

And I left them with this thought: What does it profit a woman to have strong bones if she has a lame brain?
-- Diane Smith
South San Francisco, California

Most regrettably, Sally Field got it right and Pia de Solenni got it wrong. If mothers ruled all Western democracies (a slight but real world refinement of Ms. Field's statement), there would indeed be no wars, because all Western democracies would be prostrate before all incarnations of evil, and would indeed, to resurrect a phrase from antiquity, rather be red (or Muslim) than dead.

White men have not voted in the majority for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964. They always get it right. The most regrettable and statistically inevitable converse is that women as a group almost always get it wrong. Hence Ms. Field, in a bizarre twist of reason, gets it
right. And if you need a little less polemics and a little more documentation of the implications of women's suffrage, get a copy of John Lott's Freedomnomics.

Don't get me wrong. There is no better sight or sound to a male conservative's senses than an Ann Coulter or Laura Ingraham or Michelle Malkin. But they are in a distinct minority, once again as per Ms. Field.
-- Frank Natoli
Newton, New Jersey

Although both Michele Malkin and Pia de Solenni were right on in regards to Sally Fields and her "Feminist Mothers," they both left out a very important factor which truly explains just how cowardly and predictable Sally and her ilk are. So, please allow me to ask the questions that no one seems to want to ask. Sally, Susan Sarandon, Cindy Sheehan, Hillary Clinton, etc., etc., if you truly care for the "children," where are your cries of outrage for the over 45 MILLION babies who have been slaughtered in the womb? Where is the MOTHERLY INSTINCT to protect the most innocent and defenseless, those babies in the womb? When will we hear you shrieking in disgust and horror because not only are these babies subjected to horrific pain before they die, they are then tossed in garbage bins or flushed down drains? Yup, that's right Sally, no proper or decent burials for these "innocent children"

When Sally, Hillary, and the Susans of the world get on the stage to cry foul for the unborn, well then maybe I'll believe they care for the "children." Until then Sally, well right now I really, really don't believe you. Really.
-- Joellen M. Arrabito
Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey

It does not matter the sex of our President as long as there is some backbone. This mom is tired of Iran pushing us around and killing our sons and daughters and I would try and put a stop to it.

I am also tried of the welfare moms that keep having kids just to get an increase in their government checks. After the first child there should not be any increases in money...want to bet this would put a stop to most of these unwanted children.

If the last choice is going to war then it should not be a PC war with all the foolish rules our soldiers have to put up with. It should be win and get out.
-- Elaine Kyle

Sally Field is a typical Hollywood dingbat who makes an ass out of herself whenever speaking on politics, religion, culture, or anything of substance. Heck, this so-called "professional" actress couldn't even get off her little hysterical rant without flubbing it.

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