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Mississ-Zygote
Author: Raine    Date: 11/07/2011 15:42:45

While many people on are rightfully concerned with the idea that we now have corporate personhood in the United States, there is a movement around the country to give personhood rights in a very strange place: Wombs.

Mississippi is one of a handful of states that appears to be taking a huge step backwards when it comes to Women and reproductive rights. There is a particular disturbing organization, Personhood USA, that is pushing personhood.
ThinkProgress has been reporting on the disturbing campaign by radical anti-abortion groups to pass “personhood” amendments to state constitutions that would define life as beginning the moment an egg is fertilized. These laws would not only criminalize abortion, but outlaw common forms of contraception as well.
In reading a little more about this, Think Progress has reported the following, via an interview on the Diane Rhem show that it's a lot more radical than that:
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94 comments (Latest Comment: 11/08/2011 22:11:29 by Raine)

Blogger Joe 2011
Author: wickedpam    Date: 11/07/2011 13:51:12

BLOGGER JOE ( aka Secret Santa)

It’s that time of year again, the time when Blogger Joe travels over the internet to spread the joy and cheer of the holiday season.
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11 comments (Latest Comment: 11/18/2011 21:48:41 by wickedpam)

Occupy my Mind
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 11/06/2011 15:57:43

I wanted to see what all the commotion was about, so I set out to join an Occupy movement. It's a bit more violent and racist than I ever imagined! Why are these people so angry? I asked a few of them while walking amongst the tents.

One woman said (and, I'm having to paraphrase here because she spoke so loudly and fast that it was hard to decipher exactly what she was saying), "they want to destroy our republic! They want fascism and slavery! We will not be slaves! We'll not take this sitting still - we need to arm ourselves and fight! This is what our Founding Fathers wanted!"
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2 comments (Latest Comment: 11/06/2011 17:16:18 by Raine)

Bank Transfer Day
Author: TriSec    Date: 11/05/2011 10:42:31

Good Morning!

An early Saturday, but not platelets are in the offing. Instead, I'm headed down to Camp Sayre in the beautiful Blue Hills Reservation for a day of training new Scouters. It's another ticket item for Woodbadge, but I digress.
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8 comments (Latest Comment: 11/05/2011 23:03:04 by trojanrabbit)

In Jobs We Trust
Author: BobR    Date: 11/04/2011 13:18:42

Ask enough people in the U.S. what the number one issue is facing our country, and the majority will answer "Jobs". The Bush-era economic policies resulted in those at the top being financially rewarded for shipping jobs overseas, and unregulated financial groups selling debt as assets until the whole ponzi scheme collapsed. The fallout has resulted in a stagnant job market as companies sit on money rather than investing in growth.

Despite it being Congress's job to create bills to alleviate this sort of thing, the Republican leadership in the House has criticized President Obama for not coming up with a jobs bill. So - he did. He created a comprehensive bill that covers a lot of territory and is well thought out. He presented it to Congress where it quickly stalled.

In the meantime, the House Republicans have been working on plenty of bills themselves - there was the bill redefining rape, bills about abortion, and - yesterday - the bill affirming "In God We Trust" as the official U.S. motto. What does this have to do with jobs, America wonders?...
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79 comments (Latest Comment: 11/05/2011 04:04:10 by BobR)

Hey Sugar, Park it here...
Author: Raine    Date: 11/03/2011 13:34:17

As the drama of the Cain campaign unfolds, I am reminded once again of how women seem to always be caught in the middle of having to defend themselves from unwanted advances. Cliches that were supposed to be long dead have reared their ugly heads again.

TPM has a wonderful article about this.
Herman Cain’s allies seem intent on tying his sexual harassment scandal to the most famous case of inappropriate workplace behavior in American history, the saga of Clarence Thomas.

And in one unexpected way, they’ve already succeeded: much of the right wing is now pulling the dust cloths off the same old criticisms of the very concept of sexual harassment that they’ve kept in storage since the ’90s. Namely, that the behavior is often harmless fun and women really need to lighten up already.

Advocates of women’s rights are noticing.

NOW Vice President for Action Erin Matson said what she’s heard coming from the right in the two days since the Cain story broke has been “disheartening.”

"(There’s a) strain of blaming and shaming women and calling them crazy," she said.
It's disheartening to say the very least, that some of the people defending whatever it is that Herman Cain did as something that is in the eye of the beholder, are female conservative commentators.

There is a real problem with this. The problem is that harassment, be it sexual or otherwise, is NOT a consensual act. It is a form of bullying and humiliation.
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55 comments (Latest Comment: 11/04/2011 01:11:14 by BobR)

The Smell Test
Author: BobR    Date: 11/02/2011 12:45:34

(UPDATE BELOW...)

Upon the release of a story Monday by Politico on "alleged" sexual harrassment by presidential hopeful Herman Cain, the news seems to be focusing on little else. They've been doggedly pushing Cain for details, and he has continued to be deliberately obtuse. His meme has been that he remembers little of the incident, and has tossed off one silly "example" of what "might" have been construed as sexual harrassment.

To this I call bullshit.
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91 comments (Latest Comment: 11/03/2011 03:07:25 by BobR)

Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec    Date: 11/01/2011 10:27:02

Good Morning.

Today is our 3,149th day in Iraq, and our 3,677th day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing wars, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4480
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4341
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3621
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 252
Since Operation New Dawn: 52

Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,830
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 960
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq : 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448

We find this morning's cost of war passing through:

$ 1, 271, 600, 900, 000 .00

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57 comments (Latest Comment: 11/02/2011 02:45:38 by clintster)

Monday Open topic: Cain it be true?
Author: Raine    Date: 10/31/2011 12:50:51

I'll let you at it for a while. But I am really believing that the Cain story has some legs to it.

-- and I don't believe it is from the 'Liberals' as the Cain camp is saying.

What do you think? Mother Jones was wondering about this as well after the strange tobacco ad was released. Read the internal memo. I now believe this may have been the 'weaknesses' that Cain had.
When he left, meanwhile, an R.J. Reynolds lobbyist, Rob Meyne, penned an internal memo on Cain's future prospects. Noting that Cain was considering a presidential run in 2000, he wrote: "Nice to have goals, huh?" Meyne outlined a number of perceived electoral strengths for Cain—African American, a compelling public speaker, good record as a businessman, etc.—but added that there were a few weaknesses which he would only share off-list:
(click the link to read the internal memo)
We'd really love to know what the too-hot-for-email weaknesses were.


(be back in a bit, feeling really crappy this morning, and woke up late. Sorry everyone! )

Raine
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58 comments (Latest Comment: 11/01/2011 01:38:55 by Will in Chicago)

BOO!
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 10/30/2011 01:51:35

Scary stuff out there these days. And I'm not talking about serial murderers or terrorists or prehistoric monsters reawakened by evil mad scientists or deranged meth-addicted gang members bent on killing your family for pocket change. I'm talking about current political candidates out there asking you to vote them into office!

I'm talking about people that want to see you, or perhaps your loved ones, dead or at the very least miserably unhappy. Like, for example, Randall Terry. Yes, he of the "Pro-Life" movement is running as a Democrat. Nope, that is not a typo. Democrat. I rather doubt he'll win the nomination since I'm fairly sure the Dems already have their candidate.

Here is just one scary factoid about Randall; he is adamant about saving the unborn because, "abortion is murder", and against Gods will. But he will happily plunge the needle into a man sentenced to death by other men. Why one is considered murder and the other isn't has still never been explained to me; and things I don't understand, scare me.
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10 comments (Latest Comment: 10/31/2011 01:20:15 by TriSec)

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