Mitt Romney sought and won the endorsement of the man who has since the mid-1980s promoted the scientifically baseless idea that rape doesn't lead to pregnancy, Dr. John C. Willke.

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I am at this NAked HArry picture thing...

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I know it's the National REview... but this is still one of the most completely sexist things I have ever seen by a so-called legitimate conservative publication I have ever seen.

They aren't even trying anymore. The GOP hates women.

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I know it's the National REview... but this is still one of the most completely sexist things I have ever seen by a so-called legitimate conservative publication I have ever seen.

They aren't even trying anymore. The GOP hates women.

Wow...so nasty I couldn't finish it.

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I know it's the National REview... but this is still one of the most completely sexist things I have ever seen by a so-called legitimate conservative publication I have ever seen.

They aren't even trying anymore. The GOP hates women.

Wow...so nasty I couldn't finish it.

Oh, btw...

George W. Bush: 2 daughters.
Nixon had two daughters as well.

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I know it's the National REview... but this is still one of the most completely sexist things I have ever seen by a so-called legitimate conservative publication I have ever seen.

They aren't even trying anymore. The GOP hates women.

Wow...so nasty I couldn't finish it.

ya, I couldn't make it off the 1st page, it was stomach churn in its - how manly is Mitt - crap

There are lots of children of rich and powerful men who do not turn out to be 0.01 percent as successful as Mitt Romney has. Meghan McCain’s father is a rich guy and a failed presidential candidate, just like Mitt’s. Anybody think Meghan McCain’s life is going to turn out like Mitt Romney’s?

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I know it's the National REview... but this is still one of the most completely sexist things I have ever seen by a so-called legitimate conservative publication I have ever seen.

They aren't even trying anymore. The GOP hates women.

Wow...so nasty I couldn't finish it.

ya, I couldn't make it off the 1st page, it was stomach churn in its - how manly is Mitt - crap

/well let me help you...

There are lots of children of rich and powerful men who do not turn out to be 0.01 percent as successful as Mitt Romney has. Meghan McCain’s father is a rich guy and a failed presidential candidate, just like Mitt’s. Anybody think Meghan McCain’s life is going to turn out like Mitt Romney’s?

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sshhesh - I'm not a fan of Meghan McCain but I've always thought she has held her own and in fact come out ahead of her father.

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have you tried any green tea?

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BTW, *non-sequitir*. Isn't what the GOP doing straight out of the Nazi playbook?

I read "Rise and Fall" during the Bush years, and the parallels are shocking. But instead of the Jews, we've got them targeting and demonizing Gays, Muslims, Women, basically anybody who is outside the extreme right-wing of the party.

This is not a viable electoral model. It is my fervent hope that they go the way of the Whigs after this cycle. There is a place for conservatives in American politics, but not under this banner anymore.

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"I'm taking an awful risk, Vader.....this had better work."

TriSec is cautiously sipping at a half-cup of black coffee. I suspect chemo-related lactose intolerance, instead of previously reported coffee intolerance. Black tea never gave me any trouble, so it's on to the hi-test.

No ill effects to report yet.

Raine, it looks like the source of Akins claim leads to a dark chapter in human history. From Raw Story:

Akin rape theory rooted in Nazi death camp experiments

By David Edwards
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 16:33 EDT

The theory behind Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) assertion earlier this week that women who are victims of “legitimate” rape would not get pregnant appears to be based on 1972 research that cites experiments done in Nazi concentration camps, a Missouri newspaper reported on Monday.

During an interview with KTVI over the weekend, Akin had claimed that women were not likely to get pregnant because “if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

This reasoning, based on 1972 article by a University of Minnesota Medical School assistant professor, has been used for decades by anti-abortion activists to argue that no exceptions to abortion bans are necessary, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Later medical studies rejected the study that Akins and his allies cite.

In its two decades of existence, the Whig Party had two of its candidates, William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor, elected president. Both died in office. John Tyler succeeded to the presidency after Harrison's death but was expelled from the party. Millard Fillmore, who became president after Taylor's death, was the last Whig to hold the nation's highest office.

The party was ultimately destroyed by the question of whether to allow the expansion of slavery to the territories. With deep fissures in the party on this question, the anti-slavery faction prevented the re-nomination of its own incumbent President Fillmore in the 1852 presidential election; instead, the party nominated General Winfield Scott. Most Whig party leaders thereupon quit politics (as Lincoln did temporarily) or changed parties. The northern voter base mostly joined the new Republican Party. By the 1856 presidential election, the party was virtually defunct. In the South, the party vanished, but as Thomas Alexander has shown, Whiggery as a policy orientation persisted for decades and played a major role in shaping the modernizing policies of the state governments during Reconstruction after 1865.

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Oh, and I just heard something on TRMS that made me sit up.

Ectopic Pregnancy.

The treatment for this is abortion. If the GOP gets their wish, women will die. Period.

Pregnant Teen Dies Because Doctors Prescribed Ultrasound Viewings Instead of Abortion and Chemotherapy


In the Dominican Republic, a nine-week pregnant girl was diagnosed with leukemia. The girl’s mother pleaded with doctors to “allow” her daughter to get an abortion so the girl she could begin chemotherapy immediately. “I know abortion is a sin, but my daughter’s health comes first,” she cried.

The doctors responded by forcing her and her daughter to view ultrasounds so the two women could see that the baby was healthy.

If you like ABL then why not help her keep the lights on? Even if you don't like her like her, and you've told her so many times that you just want to be friends and to please stop showing up at your house with an upraised boom-box blaring "In Your Eyes," you should do yourself a favor and hit the donate button. (Because you're really sick of hearing that Peter Gabriel song.)

Three weeks after the girl was diagnosed, the doctors finally began chemotherapy, but still would not end the pregnancy. Ultimately, the young woman miscarried the pregnancy, hemorrhaged, and died. She was 16 years old.

From RH Reality Check:

A pregnant 16-year-old in the Dominican Republic died from complications of leukemia, according to CNN. The young woman was forced to wait nearly three weeks to begin chemotherapy to treat her disease as hospital officials initially refused to treat her fearing it could terminate her pregnancy. In the end she lost her life and the pregnancy, and may have died because of the delay in her treatment.

Under an amendment to the Dominican Republic’s constitution which declares that “life begins at conception,” abortion is banned, effectively for any reason. The girl’s leukemia was diagnosed when she was just nine weeks pregnant.

Dominican women’s health advocates told RH Reality Check this afternoon that while the doctors and the state refused to allow the girl treatment for leukemia, they made her undergo “ultrasounds to show that the baby was healthy and for her to see it moving.”

Chemotherapy was begun after the end of the first trimester of pregnancy, at which time the girl began to bleed, yet still the doctors refused to interrupt the pregnancy. Advocates report that she subsequently miscarried the pregnancy and began to hemorrhage; the medical team was unable to contain the bleeding and she died.

The girl’s mother had pleaded with both doctors and authorities to give her daughter an abortion so she could begin chemotherapy immediately.

Lest you think “That would never happen in America,” IT IS ALREADY THE LAW IN KANSAS. I wrote about this back in May:

The Kansas Senate has approved anti-choice legislation that literally prioritizes a doctor’s personal beliefs over women — currently alive, breathing women — by permitting doctors and other healthcare providers to refuse medical care to a pregnant woman if such care might end her pregnancy. And here’s the kicker: the healthcare provider would not be under any obligation to refer the patient elsewhere.

*blank stare*

So, if a woman develops breast cancer while pregnant, or if a woman with breast cancer becomes pregnant, her doctor could refuse to provide chemotherapy treatment to her, and the doctor would not have to tell her why she was being refused to treatment and would not have to refer the patient to another doctor who would provide chemo.

We’re familiar with abortion laws that prioritize the lives of the unborn over the lives of women. This bill now prioritizes a doctor’s personal beliefs over the life of a human.

Make no mistake about it: This is what a Romney/Ryan administration holds for American women.

The law that caused this young woman’s death in the Dominican Republic is a law that Romney and Ryan both outwardly support:


Paul Ryan supports federal personhood legislation. (No matter what the fuckwits at Politifact tell you.)


Mitt Romney “absolutely” supports a personhood amendment to the Constitution.


Republicans in red states are furiously trying to pass personhood amendments:


Oklahoma succeeded, but the personhood measure was struck down by the Oklahoma Supreme Court.


Virginia’s personhood bill died in the Senate.


Mississippi voters said no way.


Ohio voters declined, too.


Florida is giving the personhood amendment another go in 2014.


Colorado Republicans are going for Personhood Round 3 and trying to put it on the ballot in 2012, even though they lost by double-digits both in 2008 and 2010. If they get the measure on he ballot in 2012 and lose, they will try to get it back on the ballot in 2014.


The Forced Birthers are working just as hard at the national level — Rand Paul tried to attach a personhood amendment to a Flood Insurance bill, for fuck’s sake.


I apologize for the shouty font (no I don’t), but this is not something that is going to go away. We need people to believe in a woman’s right to choose as much if not more than the other side believes in Jesus. I know that sounds flip, but I have people questioning why I am doing what I am doing and I find it irritating.

Why do I do what I do? Because I fucking believe in a woman’s right to choose the way that a religious zealot like Michele Bachmann would believe I’m going to hell for believing so. I believe in a woman’s right to access contraception the way that Pat Robertson believes that lesbians caused 9/11.

And I believe that President Obama is what stands between my personal freedom and the personal freedom of the majority of the population in this country, on the one hand, and being treated like an empty baby vessel, on the other.

That’s just the state of things.

Now go to Team Uterati and hit up the tip jar (Working for free is noble and all, but come on, son.) Buy a bitchfork. Get angry.

And then get offa my lawn.

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Does this mean will have the spectical of say, Mitch McConnell in a ditch, covered in petrol on fire?

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I, Mondo, am about to completely lose my composure. Customer can't figure out Firefox because it is so different than IE

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So, Raine, will the GOP -- assuming that they do not win -- just seek to block any agenda but their own. If so, I wonder what their rhetoric will inspire. Remember the Unitarian Universalist Church Shooting in Knoxville back in 2008?

I have not forgotten that will.

That was a direct hate crime against liberals. DIRECT. I have read that man's suicide letter -- it was a direct attack on people who were not conservative.

I fear such incidents. Heck, during the High Holidays, we have police cars outside the temple that I go to and the one that my Mom goes to for services. I fear that we may see more extremism inspired by heated rhetoric.

On the political level, a GOP that is out of power may seek to prevent any action on any policies but their own. This may backfire as they deliver nothing to voters.

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I, Mondo, am about to completely lose my composure. Customer can't figure out Firefox because it is so different than IE

ok, I'd give them a little slack. Took me about a week to get used to Chrome and there are still things I'm sure I don't know.

No, because he was insisting there wasn't an address bar to enter a URL.

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is it just me, or is this week dragging like a no legged zombie?

I am going to use that as much as I can, Mala!

"Mondo, how was that movie you wanted to see?"

"Well, it was okay. It dragged like a no legged zombie in the middle.'

It works for any sitch!

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The blog is getting to be too much of a downer. This will cheer us up

WASHINGTON — A group of retired special operations and CIA officers who claim President Obama revealed secret missions and turned the killing of Osama bin Laden into a campaign centerpiece are coming under criticism from some of their own.

Some special operations officers say the activist veterans are breaking a sacred military creed: respect for the commander in chief.

“This is an unprofessional, shameful action on the part of the operators that appear in the video, period,” Army Special Forces Maj. Fernando Lujan wrote on his Facebook page, to a chorus of approval from colleagues.

A Green Beret who returned last year from Afghanistan, Lujan says that attaching the title of special operator with any political campaign is “in violation of everything we’ve been taught, and the opposite of what we should be doing, which is being quiet professionals.”

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Democratic National Convention Committee announced additional speakers for the 2012 Democratic National Convention on Wednesday.
Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin
Former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Tammy Duckworth
Sandra Fluke, Georgetown University Student
Denise Juneau, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Montana
Nancy Keenan, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America
Caroline Kennedy
Lilly Ledbetter
Eva Longoria, Obama Campaign Co-Chair
U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, together with the women of the U.S. Senate
Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Action Fund

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Howdy hi all. Almost got in a fight with an NFL mascot at lunch. Jaxon D'Ville, some of the Roar and a sad looking dude from ticket sales were in the house. Jaxon was blading around the lunch room and put is tail in my buddy Chris' potatoes. Dude has food issues, I would had had his back if the tail hadn't been removed

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Can we compare and contrast for a moment?

Headlines and political slant.

Politco: Ledbetter, Baldwin, Longoria to address Dem convention

The Washington Times: Newly announced Democratic convention speakers include pro-choice advocates

Local headline from Charlotte: Caroline Kennedy, Eva Longoria among new DNC speakers

one thing missing? EVERYONE of the new speakers announced were women. From the last link:

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Democratic National Convention Committee announced additional speakers for the 2012 Democratic National Convention on Wednesday.
Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin
Former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Tammy Duckworth
Sandra Fluke, Georgetown University Student
Denise Juneau, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Montana
Nancy Keenan, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America
Caroline Kennedy
Lilly Ledbetter
Eva Longoria, Obama Campaign Co-Chair
U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, together with the women of the U.S. Senate
Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Action Fund

I am avery proud Democrat today.

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Say Tri, are you by chance going to be out near Woostah this weekend?

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Can we compare and contrast for a moment?

Headlines and political slant.

Politco: Ledbetter, Baldwin, Longoria to address Dem convention

The Washington Times: Newly announced Democratic convention speakers include pro-choice advocates

Local headline from Charlotte: Caroline Kennedy, Eva Longoria among new DNC speakers

one thing missing? EVERYONE of the new speakers announced were women. From the last link:

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Democratic National Convention Committee announced additional speakers for the 2012 Democratic National Convention on Wednesday.
Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin
Former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Tammy Duckworth
Sandra Fluke, Georgetown University Student
Denise Juneau, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Montana
Nancy Keenan, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America
Caroline Kennedy
Lilly Ledbetter
Eva Longoria, Obama Campaign Co-Chair
U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, together with the women of the U.S. Senate
Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Action Fund

I am avery proud Democrat today.

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I hope the box they get for Sen. Milkulski is sturdy, she is a little old lady. :ducks incoming brick:

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I hope the box they get for Sen. Milkulski is sturdy, she is a little old lady. :ducks incoming brick:

She's kinda tiny. Much shorter than I expected in person.

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Scott Brown is a prick. This from a Warren campaign email:

I spend a lot of time talking about Scott Brown's voting record -- and Scott Brown doesn't like it one bit.

Yesterday, a news reporter asked Scott Brown to respond to my statement that he supports the national Republican agenda. Scott Brown said -- and I quote:

"I don't need Professor Warren talking or speaking or commenting on my votes."

Sorry, Scott. I am not going to stop talking. If you don't want anyone to talk about your votes, you shouldn't have voted that way...

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Scott Brown is a prick. This from a Warren campaign email:

I spend a lot of time talking about Scott Brown's voting record -- and Scott Brown doesn't like it one bit.

Yesterday, a news reporter asked Scott Brown to respond to my statement that he supports the national Republican agenda. Scott Brown said -- and I quote:

"I don't need Professor Warren talking or speaking or commenting on my votes."

Sorry, Scott. I am not going to stop talking. If you don't want anyone to talk about your votes, you shouldn't have voted that way...

Too friggin bad, Sen. Centerfold.

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Scott Brown is a prick. This from a Warren campaign email:

I spend a lot of time talking about Scott Brown's voting record -- and Scott Brown doesn't like it one bit.

Yesterday, a news reporter asked Scott Brown to respond to my statement that he supports the national Republican agenda. Scott Brown said -- and I quote:

"I don't need Professor Warren talking or speaking or commenting on my votes."

Sorry, Scott. I am not going to stop talking. If you don't want anyone to talk about your votes, you shouldn't have voted that way...

This is part of the GOP platform., it seems. They don't want you to talk about their votes or their beliefs.

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Scott Brown is a prick. This from a Warren campaign email:

I spend a lot of time talking about Scott Brown's voting record -- and Scott Brown doesn't like it one bit.

Yesterday, a news reporter asked Scott Brown to respond to my statement that he supports the national Republican agenda. Scott Brown said -- and I quote:

"I don't need Professor Warren talking or speaking or commenting on my votes."

Sorry, Scott. I am not going to stop talking. If you don't want anyone to talk about your votes, you shouldn't have voted that way...

This is part of the GOP platform., it seems. They don't want you to talk about their votes or their beliefs.

Talking about a candidates record is what election campaigns are all about. If I may quote, "Can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

The GOP candidates are like a bunch of spoiled children. They can dish it out, but they can't take it.