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Sun Jun 26, 2011 at 04:05:41 AM MST
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So I took a bit of a break this past month, and I figured by the time I came back y'all would have things sorted out: people would be surely by flying around with jet packs by now, God would have sent fires and floods to smite the unrighteous, and, if I really got lucky, Barack Obama would have "grown a pair".
And now that I'm back, debt negotiations are about to commence between that same Barack Obama and the Republican Congressional Leadership, things like Social Security and Medicare cuts are apparently on the table in order to protect tax cuts for the rich, and certain quarters of the Republican Party aren't even trying anymore to hide their racism.
All of which suggests that I shouldn't be looking for a jet pack anytime soon.
But there is some good news: God is apparently working hard, and states like Oklahoma and Arizona and Florida and Georgia and Texas have been alternately aflame or aflood, apparently as a result of their unrepentant behavior...and on the economic front, New York City's Stonewall Inn is going to make a ton of money this summer hosting weddings.
That gives us a lot to talk about...so let's get right to it.
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Thu Apr 14, 2011 at 02:57:04 AM MST
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So Arizona Senator Jon Kyl went and did a stupid thing the other day by claiming on the floor of the Senate that 90% of what Planned Parenthood does is related to abortions, and that, by God, we need to cut that Federal funding for abortions, and we need to cut all Federal funding for Planned Parenthood-and we need to do it today.
Of course, that 90% claim was total hooey; it turns out that only 3% of Planned Parenthood's work relates to abortions. (The Federal funding for abortions part is, too; the Hyde Amendment made such funding illegal decades ago.)
When confronted, Kyl's office released a statement claiming the Senator's comments were "not intended to be a factual statement".
Sir Rev. Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA, decided to have a bit of fun with Kyl, and he challenged his audience to Tweet their own "Not Intended To Be A Factual Statement" about Kyl.
I decided to compose a Tweet of my own...and then another...and before I knew it I had an entire story's worth; that's why, today, we'll be taking a taking a short break from the daily grind to have a bit of fun with a man who truly deserves it: Jon Kyl.
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Fri Apr 08, 2011 at 09:08:32 AM MST
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There is something about a woman's ability to control her reproduction that the Republicans and Teahadists just hate. There is nothing reasonable about it, there is no way to give it respect or credence as a deeply held view. That they claim a moral justification based on their religion does not make it any less a violation of the rights of an adult human to decide when and if they will reproduce.
Which does not stop these people who claim to love the freedom of the United States from trying to inject the law into every uterus in the nation, by putting tighter and tighter restrictions on abortions. This time it is the Idaho State Legislature.
They have passed a bill that would make the performance of an abortion on a woman who is twenty weeks pregnant a felony in Idaho. To make matters worse, they have not included any exceptions for rape, incest, fetal deformation or the mental or psychological health of the woman. Only if the pregnancy is going to kill the woman is there any exemption.
You might think that I am Christian bashing when I say this about religion but let me give you the quotes from a couple of legislators that supported this heinous piece of woman hating legislation. From the Think Progress article:
"Is not the child of that rape or incest also a victim?" asked Rep. Shannon McMillan, R-Silverton. "It didn't ask to be here. It was here under violent circumstances perhaps, but that was through no fault of its own."[...]
The Idaho bill's House sponsor, state Rep. Brent Crane, R-Nampa, told legislators that the "hand of the Almighty" was at work. "His ways are higher than our ways," Crane said. "He has the ability to take difficult, tragic, horrific circumstances and then turn them into wonderful examples."
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Tue Feb 15, 2011 at 06:58:45 AM MST
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One of the ways that the anti-choice activists ply their trade it to intimidate doctors who provide abortions. They put out wanted posters, they show up at their houses, they even make up rhymes like "Tiller the baby killer" and repeat them again and again and again. Then some of their wacked out number actually attack and in cases like Dr. Tiller kill them.
The defense from these people is often that they are trying to prevent the "killing of unborn children". This has been rejected by all courts who have had it presented to them but if South Dakota has its way, that will no longer be true in that state. The Republican backed bill House Bill 1171 would make it legal to offer an affirmative defense killing someone if they are attempting to harm the unborn child of any person.
The whole amendment reads :
Homicide is justifiable if committed by any person in the lawful defense of such person, or of his or her husband, wife, parent, child, master, mistress, or servant, or the unborn child of any such enumerated person, if there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony, or to do some great personal injury, and imminent danger of such design being accomplished.
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Wed Feb 09, 2011 at 07:35:45 AM MST
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It has been a fun thing to shout "Speaker Boehner where are the jobs?" on the blogs and in real life, but the question is starting to become more than rhetorical. The Republicans spent most of 2010 talking smack and outright lies about jobs. You all know the story, they claimed, loudly and constantly, that the stimulus program did not create a single job (a flat lie) while at the same time going to ribbon cutting ceremonies for projects that were going to be built with stimulus money.
They've called everything "Job Killing" from the ACA to the trying to assure the safety of deep water drilling rigs before we had even started to clean up the Gulf of Mexico. It was all about how regulation of any kind was killing jobs. It was all about how if we did not make sure that millionaires and billionaires keep their undeserved Bush era tax cuts that there could not be "certainty" in the market and jobs could not be created.
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Thu May 27, 2010 at 17:43:11 PM MST
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( - promoted by Fong)
Can I just say it? Catholic hospitals are scary and policies based on Catholic directives threaten women's lives.
From the NYT: A woman with a life threatening pregnancy walks into a Catholic hospital in Phoenix. A committee agrees to save the woman's life by terminating the pregnancy. A nun on the committee gets excommunicated and has "resigned at the bishop's request."
Why?
Because "The mother's life cannot be preferred over the child's," the bishop's communication office elaborated in a statement.
Why does this matter to Coloradans? After all, it took place in a hospital in Phoenix.
1) Catholic hospitals are merging with secular hospitals. (What is the status of the Colorado Sisters of Mercy merger? I lost track of it.) Archbishop Chaput, Bless his Heart, seems to be on team Phoenix.
2) People try to claim that abortion bans, like Amendment 62 -- Eggmendment Redux-- don't need exceptions for the life of the mother. Yeah, they do. We can't assume that every hospital, lawyer, or doctor will assume that "of course" you save the woman's life -- when good nuns are sent to hell for voting with a committee to save a woman's life.
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Thu May 13, 2010 at 10:49:36 AM MST
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(Oh, Scotty boy, the tubes, the tubes are crawling
with evidence, you've no integrity... - promoted by Fong)
 In another edition of Things that Make me Sick, Scott McInnis is flip-flopping on the most sacred of things in life: freedom of choice (get it?).
The Denver Post shows us that it was just last year Scott McInnis was chairman of Republicans for Choice. This year, by coming out in support of the latest rendition of the horribly slaughtered personhood amendment of 2008, he denies having any knowledge of his chairmanship that whatsoever.
Scott, we aren't going to let this go. Not only do you support unconstitutional profiling, you're now playing career politician with women's lives. Set the record straight. You can't just shave us off like some unwanted scumstache.
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Thu Mar 18, 2010 at 13:44:32 PM MST
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UPDATE: Personhood CO confirms
I just received word that Personhood Colorado, the proponents of the "eggmendment" measure to give due process and property rights to fertilized eggs has acquired 46,671 signatures to get back on the ballot. After petitions were thrown out by the Secretary of State for having unacceptable notarizations, the organization was allowed a few more weeks to collect 15,000 more signatures to cure the discrepancies resulting from the tossed petitions.
The previous measure, Amendment 48, was defeated in 2008 76-24% and was touted by opponents as "simply goes too far."
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