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“ Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign asked Florida Governor Rick Scott to tone down his statements heralding improvements in the state’s economy because they clash with the presumptive Republican nominee’s message that the nation is suffering under President Barack Obama, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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Michael Bender of Bloomberg News
The GOP: Party over country. Always
(via liberalsarecool)
This is crumbelievable, you guys.
This week’s Doonesbury. No punches were pulled.
These aren’t funny. In fact, they’re infuriating, and I think that is the point.
I don’t have anything to say that hasn’t been said before, but this is the internet, and most of the internet is people repeating themselves:
Requiring any kind of ultrasound before a woman can end her pregnancy (and it is hers to end) is insulting, but requiring an invasive, unwelcome ‘transvaginal’ ultrasound goes beyond insult — it is rape, as the fourth strip says, since the woman is being coerced into getting the ultrasound. Requiring a waiting period between the ultrasound and the abortion is deliberately inconveniencing a woman with the intention of keeping the woman from ending her pregnancy. Requiring a woman to pay for an unnecessary (and unwanted) procedure is a way to discourage her from ending her pregnancy if she lacks the means to pay for it.
And the people who want to require this don’t want to help these women when, nine months later, they have a baby they didn’t want or didn’t think they could afford to support.
Many newspapers refused to run these strips. They should have; if people think this is unpleasant in the newspaper, they should find it even more unpleasant in their states’ laws, in their doctors’ offices, and in their vaginas.
Seriously.
Surging Santorum’s CUM. (or something…)
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has a Cuban coffee at the Versailles restaurant in the Little Havana area of Miami on Friday. (PHOTO: Alan Diaz/AP)
Newt Gingrich sips from a small coffee cup (alternatively, Giant Newt Gingrich drinks from regular-sized coffee cup).
Trivia: Newt Gingrich is the first Ogre-American to run for president. The Ogre community applauds this leap forward in America’s forgotten civil rights movement.
“ Rarely have I seen a more unpatriotic public display.
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Paul Begala at The Daily Beast responds to the moment in last night’s GOP debate when audience members booed an openly gay U.S. soldier serving in Iraq. Watch the video here. (via theweekmagazine)
Support our troops! Unless they’re gay, then boo them.
Rick Frothymix, it isn’t a privilege; you can have gay sex in the military too.
“ These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don’t give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We’re making a big deal out of things we shouldn’t be making a deal out of.
They go on and on with all this bullshit about ‘sanctity’ — don’t give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.
They go on and on with all this bullshit about ‘sanctity’ — don’t give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.
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Clint Eastwood being a BAMF while discussing same-sex marriage in GQ’s October edition. He boils down the arguments for marriage equality to a beautiful simplicity - Why not?
He really means this:
Instead of voting on the issue, I think everyone should have to justify their position to Clint Eastwood. Can you imagine staring him in the face an rattling off some ‘bullshit about ‘sanctity”? Fried gold!
I actually feel pretty clever having made this. I haven’t commented much about the current situation as it makes me very angry, but I can tell you that the GOP is (and has been) decimating the middle class. I dislike this.
The only words I saw were “Boehner” and “ass”
A lot of the ‘logic’ against marriage equality I’m hearing out of New York (and other places) seems to center on the teachings of the Bible, and of “Christian” teachings in general.
Should we move to invalidate marriages made under the name of Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, or by a justice of the…
Bush will not be investigated for lying us into war, authorizing torture, and spying on American citizens; but Anthony Weiner will resign.
Cheney will not be investigated for lying us into war, authorizing torture, and spying on American citizens; but Anthony Weiner will resign.
Rumsfeld will not be investigated for lying us into war and authorizing torture; but Anthony Weiner will resign.
Rice will not be investigated for lying us into war; but Anthony Weiner will resign.
Clarence Thomas will not be investigated for rank corruption; but Anthony Weiner will resign.
AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!
It’s Happening…
Rep. Michele Bachmann on Thursday night indicated she’s likely to announce her candidacy for president next month in Waterloo, the Iowa city where she was born.
For more information… http://www.politico.com
There’s not a single person working for her who could have said why starting your campaign in a town called Waterloo is a bad omen? Really?
Like many others, the defense first learned of PFC Manning’s move to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas by reading that a government official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, leaked the information to the Associated Press. The defense was not officially notified of PFC Manning’s pending move until twenty minutes before the Pentagon’s press briefing. This is despite the fact that the Pentagon has “been thinking about this for a while.” Although the news of the move came as a surprise to the defense, the timing did not.
The defense recently received reliable reports of a private meeting held on 13 January 2011, involving high-level Quantico officials where it was ordered that PFC Manning would remain in maximum custody and under prevention of injury watch indefinitely. The order to keep PFC Manning under these unduly harsh conditions was issued by a senior Quantico official who stated he would not risk anything happening “on his watch.” When challenged by a Brig psychiatrist present at the meeting that there was no mental health justification for the decision, the senior Quantico official issuing the order responded, “We will do whatever we want to do.” Based upon these statements and others, the defense was in the process of filing a writ of habeas corpus seeking a court ruling that the Quantico Brig violated PFC Manning’s constitutional right to due process. See United States ex. rel. Accardi v. Shaughnessy, 74 S.Ct. 499 (1954) (violation of due process where result of board proceeding was predetermined); United States v. Anderson, 49 M.J. 575 (N.M. Ct. Crim. App. 1998) (illegal punishment where Marine Corps had an unwritten policy automatically placing certain detainees in MAX custody). The facts surrounding PFC Manning’s pretrial confinement at Quantico make it clear that his detention was not “in compliance with legal and regulatory standards in all respects” as maintained at the Pentagon press briefing.
While the defense hopes that the move to Fort Leavenworth will result in the improvement of PFC Manning’s conditions of confinement, it nonetheless intends to pursue redress at the appropriate time for the flagrant violations of his constitutional rights by the Quantico confinement facility.
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