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Congrats are in order to The Orange Man and the shrieking freaks in the Teapublican Party. Yet another opportunity to pass a bill to create jobs and help the economy was passed up in order to mandate control over those “lady parts”…
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-50…
Keep it up, you collection of condescending dumbasses….
Do you really think they need much more help?
http://www.all.org/article/ind…
A link to the American Life League? C’mon, even you can do better than that!
Why do you want the Federal Government to mandate how a person can spend their money?
Libby. Even for you…
chemical abortionist.
Everytime a woman is fertile and refuses to have sex, she’s guilty of murder because of the child she could have – and didn’t.
Oh, and the same for men – everytime they…. you know….spill their seed.
besides there’d be a lot less spillage if there were fewer “no”s.
preventing ovulation in the first place. No egg is released so there is no possibility of conception. Not chemical abortion. Yes, once in a while an egg might get through but rarely. With mandated science based sex ed everyone would know this. Probably why your side fights against it. Wouldn’t want our children being taught facts in stead of propaganda.
For the record, I’d be fine with science based sex ed that deals only with the biology of reproduction, disease transmission and birth control options without delving into social/moral issues one way or another. Leaving all that to parents guidance is fine by me. Just give kids the factual information exactly the same as in biology classes and we could clear up a lot of misconceptions and confusion without even attempting to influence anyone’s belief system or personal values in a public school context. Supporting or discouraging belief systems is not the public school system’s job. Science is.
For all you libs, the facts speak for themselves.
If the 500+ million unborn hadn’t been murdered, America would be a better, stronger place:
– There would be millions more people on unemployment
– millions more homeless
– millions more houses built, eating up the few open spces we have left
– and Colorado would have more congressional districts to fight over.
….got ANYTHING to back that up? ANYTHING?
is being ironic. Sort of like “Lamborn Has Godlike Qualities.”
Whichever pols geek is doing it has been in politics for way too long. Poor bastard is right on the money.
Hard to not react sometimes. Good for the political soul though.
The Supreme Court ruled last month that Tax credits are not government spending, so this balderdash about taxpayer funding is just a bunch of hooey.
In light of this established jurisprudence, whose statement sounds silly?
Nancy Pelosi:
or Tony Perkins:
You can’t have it both ways. If tax breaks for religious schools aren’t government spending (and therefore immune from constitutional challenge), then neither are those for insurance policies which cover the constitutionally protected medical procedure abortion.
will go on the list.
those who refuse to believe Osama Bin Laden is dead. I still don’t understand why they want to believe that. Incredible.
STFU:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroo…
I do not need to see the pictures. In this instance I am perfectly willing to take what the President says at face value.
If it turned out that Bin Laden was not truly dead, then that would absolutely sink the President’s chances at re-election in 2012 and sound the death knell for the Democratic party.
I just don’t think he is that stupid. Regardless of what I think of him otherwise.
Obama’s producing his birth certificates, both the legally required one in 2008 and the one that makes no difference just recently, did nothing to quell hardcore birthers there is no reason to believe producing images of bin Laden’s dead body would have any greater effect on birther/deathers (pretty sure the overlap in this country is close to 100%) in this case.
All we’d get would be loonies showing how it was photo shopped or how somebody who knew bin Laden didn’t recognize him. I’m sure he looks quite different in death and missing a good sized piece of face so finding people to claim it isn’t him in spite of DNA, scientific facial recognition and on the scene identification shouldn’t be too hard.
Suddenly the Muslims they love to bash would become witnesses whose word should be valued above that of our President, our military, intelligence agencies and state department, that is as long as it backed up their theory. Why cater to them?
Funny story…when the word was the photo was going to be released Fox pundits were expressing grave concerns. Then when it turned out the photo wasn’t going to be released, that option became the questionable one. Why play heads you win, tails I lose with these people anymore? The majority isn’t buying the nonsense so who cares?
Indeed, there’s already been a photoshopped fake picture of a dead Osama Bin Laden passed around, so you could almost not even blame them for thinking so… in this case, the president saying that they’ve conclusively identified the body is FAR stronger evidence than having a photograph.
Also, conservatives think all SEALs are complete and utter dumbfucks. They hate the Armed Services, we know that, it’s kind of nice to see them so open about it.
to see you back up that bullshit statement with real commentary from conservatives.
What droll wrote is really just a matter of what logically follows IF you demand to see the photos as proof of bin Laden’s demise.
See Ralphie’s quote of the GJ Sentinel editorial.
it has been a lot of fun to watch the Fox people run between common sense/troop thanking/torture praising and then backing off of it, not noticing that things work both ways.
From an editorial in yesterday’s paper (sorry, no link because the editorial is behind a paywall)
I just shook my head…
who will insist there is something suspicious about the photo not being produced just as birthers did about Obama’s supposedly not produced birth certificate. And if it is released they still won’t be anymore convinced than the diehard birthers were by the long form release.
There is plenty of room for reasonable people to disagree on whether releasing or not releasing is the better choice. But for those demanding release because they refuse to believe it really happened, the release wouldn’t convince them anyway. The people who won’t believe it’s not a huge conspiracy are the ones I think we are referring to as deathers.
Notorious New York Republican Congressman King of the panel to investigate Muslims in America has been extremely gracious about this. He believes the photo should be released but also says he understands why President Obama made his decision and that, though he disagrees, it’s a reasonable one. He is clearly stating that he won’t oppose the President on this and points out that the military brass asked the President not to release. He gives Obama credit for his handling of this mission and certainly believes bin Laden is dead without a photo, That’s a clear example of someone who thinks the photo should be released but who is no deather.
At this evening’s GOP Presidential candidates debate sponsored by FOX news and the South Carolina Republican Party, several of the GOP minor light hopefuls expressed their wish to see the Bin Laden death photos and criticized President Obama for the lack of transperancy.
The Punchline??
Emphasis mine.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42…
But it would help things if we didn’t get revisions to the story every 12 hours or so.
They rush out details to satisfy the press. Remember all the misinformation that came out the first 48 hours after the Columbine shootings?
I’d rather wait til they had all their shit together, personally, but most people want to know NOW! RIGHT NOW! OMG WHY AREN’T YOU GIVING ME THE NEWS??? The press reacts accordingly, and the government reacts in turn.
If the president walked on water, you’d say he couldn’t swim.
this happens every time. The first info that’s rushed out contains errors and gets revised over the following few days. Heck, Rep. Gabby Giffords was initially reported to be dead. We no longer have a choice between instant and accurate. In the post-internet, social media age it’s going to be instant to be cleaned up later. The overwhelming majority realize that. Only wackos use it as an excuse to fuel their wacko theories.
from Newsweek – reading between the lines they jumped in with pre-concieved ideas on what would improve education and threw money at implementing those ideas. That rarely works.
The one piece of good news I read in all of this is that Gates is finally concentrating on what should have been step 1 – figuring out what works.
a) that Bill Gates is not always the smartest guy in the world?
or
b) that the one size for all, 19th c. curriculum with some 20th c. modifications is not the best way to run universal education forever and ever?
or
c) that anyone knows what works everytime everywhere?
What we need to do is track and study and figure out what does work and what doesn’t.
Step 1 isn’t figuring out what works. It’s figuring out how to “track” any of it.
Step 1 is deciding what to track and when.
And if anything we should over-track (both what and how often) at first because we don’t know what will be the key indicators.
Dignified behavior by Obama and Bush.
Very cool of Barack Obama to extend an invitation to GWB — regardless of what Americans think of his presidency overall, many 9-11 survivors and bereaved families would like to see him given some credit for his role.
Also very cool of GWB to decline; he’s been surprisingly self-aware since leaving office.
Sad that two politicians from opposite sides of the aisle being gracious and classy during a major news event is surprising enough that I’m bothering to post it here. But it is what it is, and I’m hoping the House leadership is taking notes.
Bush showed no class in declining the invitation. The GOP doesn’t want no stinking unity if it means involving Obama or any other Democrat.
I give Bush credit for staying out of things and not leading the FauxNews charge. But this was not cool at all.
Whatever was on his calendar should have been rescheduled so he could stand there in a black suit and white shirt and red tie and say something respectful.
The President is definitely appealing, once again to our collective better angels.
There’s no speech, but a very solemn ceremony of remembrance.
A call for unity, one that as a nation we can heed to our credit or ignore at our peril.
And I do so much agree with you on Bush. Self aware seems the perfect term.
the agreement on uncle awol’s “newfound self awareness”.
Seems the orchestrator of the carrier landing, “mission accomplished”, the sock in the crotch of his flightsuit, 4 bucks a gallon gas, “bring it on” and torture as a “new American value” told the New York Daily News through his spokesman that he was “rubbed the wrong way” by not getting proper credit from the President of the United States for “his role” in the operation that killed Bin Laden.
Nope, he’s still the same snide, nasty, smirking spoiled brat and fuckup that fumbled, stumbled and tripped through the most disasterous presidency in our lifetime.
As his “contribution” to the operation, he screwed up the fight against Al Qaeda from the jump, abandoned the hunt for the world’s most wanted terrorist in order to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, disbanded the unit hunting UBL, made up preposterous bullshit stories about WMD, outed a covert operation called Brewster Jennings through the office of his draft dodging vice president, and quite honestly, the list goes on and on.
My mistake for thinking that “heh, heh, heh” uttering hack, quack, fraud and phony could or would ever be decent or anything but the loud mouthed, strutting frat boy he’s always been.
On the other side of the coin, you have the President of the United States being magnanimous enough to mention Bush positively in remarks at the New York City firehouse today.
The comparison of the quiet competency of President Obama and the bombastic, bragging ineptitude of the former Texas Air Guard no-show is stark
Stiffed for a seat on the Reapportionment Commission.
http://www.lawweekonline.com/2…
According to the evil Denver daily, she had applied.
http://blogs.denverpost.com/th…
shocked I tell you, that the partisan process that is Reapportionment Commission didn’t want her.
Chief Justice Bender did appoint an unaffiliated member.
Just not Kathleen.
like Curry to what must by law be an unaffiliated voter, there would have been complaints that he was trying to stack it with Democrats.
But it’s not like there’s any love lost between Curry and the Democrats.
The last day they can cevene by law is may 15th. The Redistricting website says they are indeed convening that day (which is a Sunday).
The only real problem is that that same day is the day of the Denver Marathon which goes past the Capitol mucking up traffic and parking for anyone wanting to go to the meeting of the RC.
It’s 12:45 and Peak Politics already has two articles out on redistricting, one on Obama’s hypocritical bashing of the Bush era tactics which lead to bin Laden, one on education, and another one on a crazy truther. And you’ve got nada. Are you ceding the argument?
They think they know it all already.
GOP raises white flag after wilting public criticism over Medicare:
http://www.denverpost.com/poli…
You’re so right, beej. A record-setting two total comments have been entered at Peak Politics in the last 24 hours — they are truly dominating the conversation here in Colorado.
The problem with us liberals is that we value things like our day jobs over producing masses of partisan angst as fast as some on the other side can.
Peak Politics slaps down another one.
http://www.coloradopeakpolitic…
Here on Pols? Not a peep about redistricting today. Given the high number of Democrats fleeing their own map for the relative safety of the GOP map, is Pols giving up? The GOP is #winning.
And, constantly pimping another blog crying all by its lonseome in the wilderness . . . congratulations kid, you’ve put yourself deep into Steve Harvey territory. (I always knew you secretly admired the guy . . .)
Spain is alive and well.
It seems like a good fit, since he’s such a twit and all.
I was never really clear on how someone who uses their real name can be outed anyway, but Twitter is highlarious.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroo…
Facts. I hope your exposure to them doesn’t land you in the hospital, since they’ll be a shock.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroo…
Sorry Beej, but this isn’t a rehash of the Deserter President and his command negligence that let OBL bribe a Pashtun mercenary unit and slip away at Tora Bora. Obama is bringing the heat down on the bad guys, and it’s getting results…
Has anybody heard Obama doing anything of the kind since getting bin Laden safely offed and and all that data collected? If you guys didn’t have straw men you’d have nothing at all.
PI’d in the Senate Local Government Committee today.
If you made a call or any contact opposing this rollback, you have my sincere thanks.
Just one more little matter of winning against the lawsuit that was filed by the industry, but after that Colorado’s borrowers can relax (until next January, at least.)
but luckily, the Taliban clan that’s holding him did not kill him in retaliation for the whacking of OBL…
http://www.military.com/news/a…
Now, this doesn’t look good for SPC Bergdahl…which means we can move his rescue mission up a notch and get him the hell out of enemy hands.
I think there’s a special ops unit with a win under their belt that has nothing to do at the moment – President Obama?
has been my worst fear since I was a child. I don’t know what movie I saw, or what I heard, but this is it. I can’t imagine the real terror he must feel all the time.
Hurray for not being dead. I hope he makes it back safe and soon.
for the crime of enforcing the law.
I’ve always maintained that the GOP hard right are really anarchists, and this is more proof of that.
H/T to SLOG