{"id":13868,"date":"2022-06-29T11:39:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T10:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=13868"},"modified":"2022-06-29T11:39:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T10:39:39","slug":"all-about-amy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2022\/06\/29\/all-about-amy\/","title":{"rendered":"All About Amy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>\u201cThere are more tears shed over answered prayers than unanswered prayers.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>Saint Teresa of Avila<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Can\u2019t blame U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Barrett for being born Amy Coney. Nor would I fault my fellow New Orleans native for having Irish Catholic parents who, like mine, sent her to <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stmarysdominican.org\/\">St. Mary\u2019s Dominican High School<\/a><\/span>. Back then it was cool. We were both in the same boat. And far as I know, we still are, that is if you\u2019re in the habit of comparing educated middle class white females wielding our kinda funny Louisiana convent French accent. Women\u2019s tuition is typically tubular. What I mean is, it\u2019s wampum well spent.<\/p>\n<p>Sod it, hatched on the same patch of swamp, Amy n\u2019 me should be two peas in a pod. However, I\u2019m not ashamed to say gun control and reproductive rights are where we part ways. These were fundamental freedoms guaranteed in the Seventies and Eighties, for girls, rich or poor, growing up in <i>The Big Easy<\/i>. Matters of\u2026 deep breath\u2026 life and death.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;A child is a sponge, able to absorb the plethora of Playboy and Cosmopolitan&#39;s iconic chronicles accumulating on the coffee table.&quot; <br \/>&#39;Old School&#39; is Ilsa Monique&#39;s hilarious account of growing up in New Orleans..<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BTUzLHVxbn\">https:\/\/t.co\/BTUzLHVxbn<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlsaCarter1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IlsaCarter1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenPantrey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BenPantrey<\/a> @Des_The_Dog<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CassandraVoices (@VoicesCassandra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VoicesCassandra\/status\/1542086191088033792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But in order to begin a coherent conversation on either issue, one must comprehend this. Paired like a couple of chromosomes, the right to bear arms or avail of an abortion are inexorably intertwined.<\/p>\n<p>The Honorable Amy once penned a unanimous opinion affirming the summary judgement against a claimant in the case <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/appellate-courts\/ca7\/18-2948\/18-2948-2019-08-21.html\"><i>Smith vs. The Illinois Department of Transportation<\/i><\/a><\/span>, finding while egregious, it was not racial discrimination when a supervisor dismissed an employee for what was later stipulated \u201cpoor performance\u201d as, and I quote, being a \u201cstupid ass nigger.\u201d Because they were both black. Thus, perhaps she\u2019ll pardon my French when, with Malthusian enthusiasm, I need point out that, unlike me, Barrett is a breeder.<\/p>\n<p>The greedy GOP plucked this pro-lifer directly out of her indoctrination by a secretive charismatic Christian cult called <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/06\/people-of-praise-accused-child-abuse-amy-coney-barrett\">People of Praise<\/a><\/span> and would have you, me and Barrett herself believe the proceedings around <i>Roe vs. Wade<\/i> were about her unqualified opinion. One based on a bizarre Czar-like wish to not squish the least little fish. A sweeping generalization to keep inconsequential caviar in its crevice, no matter how marred things get. So, you see, as women we are now all set. In a bind. Because profoundly blinded by nothing more than good faith, the Sturgeon General\u2019s brand of justice finds it sound.<\/p>\n<p>This is not my first rodeo. I\u2019ve a habit of being in the right place at the wrong time. Managing marketing and advising on regulations in several sovereign nations for a British boss at a bank based in Hong Kong during a currency crisis <em>and<\/em> the Handover of our S.A.R. to the P. R. C.. Watching an IPO window slam shut on a tech boom not sparing the white knuckles of a thousand plus entrepreneurs, including Connecticut fat cats, four Finns in Malaysia and more than a couple of Kiwis that like a Trojan camel we tried to pass through the eye of a needle. Not tired, I got hired to launch Tokyo ops for one of the U.S. firms which then perished in their entirety when the Twin Towers fell. Sometimes you might as well call it a day.<\/p>\n<p>Only to sit spitting nails, like an old spy in from the cold, wearing a crusty trusty power suit at a hedge fund desk high up in the Empire State Building. Swearing my federal tax dollars were squandered by an incompetent Army Corps of Engineers, while Hurricane Katrina\u2019s aftermath sinks New Orleans\u2019 natural defenses into the drink. Five years on, an unfettered BP blast on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig heaved 200 million gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Left every last bivalve bereft.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you were from Orleans Parish like me, at this stage you\u2019d break into a funk tune by The Mighty Meters, \u2018HEY POCKY WAY.\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uJXr8bNZuj\">https:\/\/t.co\/uJXr8bNZuj<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlsaCarter1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IlsaCarter1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danieleidiniph1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@danieleidiniph1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenPantrey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BenPantrey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CassandraVoices (@VoicesCassandra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VoicesCassandra\/status\/1542087637535784960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Thing is, for all the money in a world I can\u2019t unsee as my oyster, I wouldn\u2019t trade this front row seat watching Ireland\u2019s Celtic Tiger tumble, jigging in The George the very night same sex marriage legalized. Seeing medical cannabis and safe abortion made less murky than a transubstantiation of the Magdalene Laundries into this tip top corporate tax haven. And learning how to ask for the<em> Ban Jax.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Where me and homegirl differ, is before we had graduation under our Prince of Wales plaid chastity belts, God didn\u2019t see fit to show Amy how it felt to be raped at gunpoint and escape.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, the power of Christ has yet to compel the now anointed Coney concerning exceptionally unsexy circumstances. Those surrounding the sort of nonconsensual contortions likely to lead to a swelling belly aborted.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I don\u2019t have a womb with a wide-angle view at high tide, but my bet is Barrett\u2019s not tangled in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2022\/02\/14\/amy-coney-barretts-long-game\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201clong game\u201d as Margaret Talbot\u2019s <i>New Yorker<\/i> article<\/span><\/a> subtly suggests. At best she\u2019s a half-baked Trump tumor <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2022\/02\/14\/amy-coney-barretts-long-game\">deposited on the Supreme Court<\/a><\/span>, but what if she\u2019s been groomed Brothers Grimm style? <i>The Manchurian Candidate <\/i>meets <i>Invasion of the Body Snatchers<\/i>? She\u2019s one of seven who, come hell or Haitian high water is spawning seven more into a scenario not of her own making. Ingenue actress? Goodbye RBG and Hello <i>All About Eve<\/i>? Or anchor baby for the alt-right?<\/p>\n<p>What I ask political strategists who bask in what few filthy cards they\u2019ve slipped up their starched sleeve is a burning question. At what point did conservative Christians earn what they\u2019d always yearned for? Carte blanche to pull up to the Republican bumper, and dive in like Flynn to the D.C. dumpster. When did The Religious Right become your Rumpelstiltskin?<\/p>\n<p>Knowing the ropes on the lesser navigated, one could almost say, fallopian-like, canals of Venice, I\u2019ll venture vetting Casanova\u2019s confessions is yet an even better trip. I for one am not impervious to stumbling on stuff our nuns neglected having Amy, blessed vessel that she is, translate directly from the French. Simply for shits n\u2019 giggles mightn\u2019t they have wiggled something cunning like Sade in to Sophomore English Lit? Not the sublime Nigerian-born British chanteuse\u2026but the felonious philosopher of freedom. An equally smooth operator. I\u2019ll explain.<\/p>\n<p>Couple hundred years before we were in high school, if memory serves, the year 1787 saw yes, a libertine, one of Fibonacci proportions, imprisoned in the Bastille. During his two-week incarceration, minus a lick of obscenity, the Marquis de Sade managed to nail a novella he named <em>Justine or the Misfortunes of Virtue<\/em>. Seems his fictitious femme fatale was willing to bend over. Take one for the team. Don\u2019t know about Amy. Wouldn\u2019t blame her for being game, but, as for me, I\u2019m not. Not anymore. Are you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>There\u2019s a special place in hell for women who don\u2019t help other women.<br \/>\n<\/em>Secretary of State Madeleine Albright<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><strong>We are an independent media platform dependent on readers\u2019 support. You can contribute on an ongoing basis via <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/cassandravoices\">Patreon<\/a><\/span> or through a one-off contribution via <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buymeacoffee.com\/cassandravoices\">Buy Me a Coffee<\/a><\/span>. 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