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MAGIC FROM THE WOMB



From what Akin "understands," women's bodies have a magical way of distinguishing consensual sperm from rape sperm, and they can just "shut that whole thing down." That whole being-impregnated-by-a-rapist thing. That thing that happens to tens of thousands of women every year. Raped, impregnated, and, if Rep. Akin gets his way, forced to carry their rapists' babies to term because "there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child." Because that's what a rape is all about—the rapist and his baby. The woman? Eh. She's got her magic ladyparts to protect her.

And Romney and Ryan, why, they don't agree with that statement. How do they disagree? No idea. But they don't, by golly. So there. See? Leadership.

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EJ Dionne:

In making Ryan his running mate, Mitt Romney guaranteed that this election will be about big principles, but he also underscored a little-noted transformation in American politics: Liberals and conservatives have switched sides on the matter of which camp constitutes the party of theory and which is the party of practice. Americans usually reject the party of theory, which is what conservatism has now become.

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Must Be Some Screwed
Up Laws in Jefferson


Frustrated by what she felt was a lenient plea bargain for two teens who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting her and circulating pictures of the incident, a Louisville 17-year-old lashed out on Twitter.

“There you go, lock me up,” Savannah Dietrich tweeted, as she named the boys who she said sexually assaulted her. “I’m not protecting anyone that made my life a living Hell.”

Now, Dietrich is facing a potential jail sentence, as the attorneys for the boys have asked a Jefferson District Court judge to hold her in contempt because they say that in naming her attackers, she violated the confidentiality of a juvenile hearing and the court’s order not to speak of it.

A contempt charge carries a potential sentence of up to 180 days in jail and a $500 fine.

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Responding to the Supreme Courts Ruling on the Affordable Health Care Act,
Obama Spokesperson Had this to say Yesterday after Romney's Speech

Mitt Romney had an opportunity to rise to the occasion today and tell the American people specifically how he would move the nation forward on health care and ensure people get the care they need. Yet, once again, he squandered that opportunity. Instead of explaining how he would ensure costs don’t go up and health benefits are protected, Romney promised to repeal the President’s health reform law and take America back to the same old political battles of the past. He is completely unmoved by what that would do to millions of middle-class families, women, seniors and young Americans who are today benefiting from the law. Romney’s promise to repeal the law would give insurance companies free rein to exploit Americans through the worst industry abuses, strip 86 million Americans of often life-saving preventive care, cost 3.1 million young Americans of their coverage by kicking them off their parents’ plans, allow insurance companies to discriminate against kids with preexisting conditions, and increase prescription drug costs for seniors on Medicare.

Just six years ago, before Mitt Romney decided to run for president, he passed a law in Massachusetts that achieved universal coverage for the citizens of that state through an individual mandate and tax penalty. That law became the model for the President’s health reform law. Now, as he is running for president, Romney has run away from his accomplishment in Massachusetts, callously promising to repeal national reform and “kill it dead.” He owes the American people a clear, non-parsed explanation of why he believes his decisions in Massachusetts are wrong for the country, and exactly what he would do to help the American people get the health care they need.

He Created it in Massachusetts and Now says it's
bad for All Americans.  Flipper!

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BILL MAHAR ATTACKS ALLEN WEST (R-fl) AND HIS "CHURCH OF LUNACY"


The idea that the blame for our government’s dysfunction is equally shared by the parties just is a giant, steaming mound of horseshit and anyone who has paid attention to politics over the last 20 years knows it. Or as I like to call it, “The Rise of the Party of the Apes.”

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Jeb Bush
speaking to the AP

"My father and President Reagan were successful because they were willing to put policy solutions above political wins. They recognized the president has a significant influence and ability to drive the agenda and used that to find common ground,

"Washington today is hyper-partisan with people speaking off political talking points rather than working together to find common ground to address the issues our country faces," Bush said.

FINDING THAT JOB IS A CHALLENGE

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"WHEN I JOINED THE MILITARY IT WAS ILLEGAL TO BE HOMOSEXUAL, THEN IT BECAME OPTIONAL,AND NOW IT'S LEGAL.   I'M GETTING OUT BEFORE OBAMA MAKES IT MANDATORY."

GySgt Harry Berres,    USMC

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Speaking in Wisconsin for the Walker Recall

BILL CLINTON

"Here's what I want to tell you," Clinton said. "I think I know a little bit about what would bring America back, what would bring economic recovery, what would enable us to have widely spread prosperity. And I'll tell you, if you go anywhere in America today, there are a lot of places that are already back. They are dramatically different but hey all have one thing in common. They are involved in creative cooperation, not constant conflict."

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On Mormonism

"Mitt Romney is a 'temple Mormon,' meaning he has gone through the secretive temple rituals, including taking a blood oath to his 'church' above everything else, and wears the temple garments (magical underwear) with satanic markings that he believes protects him. Listen, if people want to vote for a man who believes he will die and become the god of his own planet, have an endless supply of women to have sex with and create spirit babies, that is fine. All I have ever asked Romney or anyone in his cult like Glenn Beck to do is be honest about what they really believe and to quit lying to people!"

Bill Keller

Founder of LivePrayer.com

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ON JOE RICKETTS RACIST AD


“Today, Mitt Romney had the opportunity to distance himself from his previous attempts to inject the divisive politics of character assassination into the presidential race,” said Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt in an email to reporters late Thursday. “It was a moment that required moral leadership, and once again he didn’t rise to the occasion.”

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Two items the reader should consider with the quote below.  1) The non-thinking faction of the Republican Party who wants President Obama tried for treason also believe he was born in Kenya; 2) if he was born in Kenya then he can’t be tried for treason.  It goes to show you how stupid these people really are and sad that they have the right to vote.  Below is Obama campaign spokeswoman who responded to these outrageous charges.

"Today we saw Mitt Romney’s version of leadership: standing by silently as his chief surrogate attacked the President’s family at the event and another supporter alleged that the President should be tried for treason. Time after time in this campaign, Mitt Romney has had the opportunity to show that he has the fortitude to stand up to hateful and over-the-line rhetoric and time after time, he has failed to do so. If this is the ‘leadership’ he has shown on the campaign trail, what can the American people expect of him as commander-in-chief"?

Lis Smith

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"The Bible. We’ll just talk about the Bible for a second. People often point out that they can’t help it — they can’t help with the anti-gay bullying, because it says right there in Leviticus, it says right there in Timothy, it says right there in Romans, that being gay is wrong.

We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people. The same way, the same way we have learned to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation. We ignore bullshit in the Bible about all sorts of things".

Dan Savage

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Howard Kurtz: "I started pondering this when we all got swept up in the spectacle of Hilary Rosen denigrating Ann Romney for not working... That, in turn, followed our collective enthrallment over Romney aide Eric Fehrnstrom describing their Etch a Sketch operation, which in turn followed the uproar over Rush Limbaugh calling a law student a slut, which followed...well, it's hard to remember at this point."

"Each of these episodes, considered separately, contains elements of substance that were soon overwhelmed by the rhetoric emanating from the media echo chamber. Collectively, they suggest that what should be a serious campaign in hard economic times has turned into a spectacle in which we are amusing ourselves to death."

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"There are nearly 150 million poor and near poor people in America who are not responsible for the damage done by the Great Recession. Yet they pay the price. The poor did not create the deindustrialization of America, unmatched corporate profiteering and greed, more than a decade of foreign wars, and unregulated tax benefits for the wealthy. When the largest economic institutions in the world were brought to their collective knees, they went crawling to the government’s doorstep in search of salvation. The government obliged, allowing Wall Street to socialize its failure on the backs of Main Street Americans. The housing and jobs crisis they created fostered a poverty unseen in generations—not just in inner-city ghettos and barrios, but also in suburbs and rural areas crossing racial, age, and gender lines. Nearly one-third of the American middle class—mostly families with children—have fallen into poverty.”

Tavis Smiley

MR FLIP FLOPPER MITT ROMNEY

January, 2012


Even if you have a child 2 years of age, you need to go to work [...] And people said, "Well that's heartless." And I said, "No, no, I'm willing to spend more giving day care to allow those parents to go back to work. It'll cost the state more providing that day care, but I want the individuals to have the dignity of work."

BEST QUOTE THIS WEEK-- THE RED SCARE

On Representative West (R) Florida saying there are 80 members of Congress who are Communist.

"Not even Joe McCarthy would have said anything so stupid and dissociated from reality," Frank said in a call with The Huffington Post. "It's an indication of the significant deterioration of the Republican Party as a responsible entity that an ignorant, mean guy like Allen West is considered one of their stars."

Barney Franks

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From a proposed Arizona law that could mean a virgin is pregnant:


That’s bad in and of itself, but taking a step back and looking at the big picture makes this law look even more sinister. Medically speaking, pregnancy starts when a fertilized egg implants in the uterine lining. Anti-choicers have attempted to define it earlier with their failed attempts to pass “personhood” law that would define not just pregnancy, but “personhood” as beginning at conception. Now in Arizona, they’re trying to argue that you’re pregnant a couple of weeks before you even had the sex that resulted in your pregnancy. --Amanda Marcotte

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"The worst thing you can do is give it to an insurance company. I want to make my point. All insurance companies are controlled in their particular state. If you have a hurricane come up the east coast, the first one that’s going to leave you when they gotta pay too many claims is an insurance company. Insurance companies are the absolute worst people to handle this kind of business. I trust the government more than insurance companies. If the government wants to put forth a policy where they will pay for everything and you won’t have to go through an insurance policy, that’d be a whole lot better".

Buddy Caldwell (R)
Louisiana AG

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From Guy Cecil

In 2010, Republicans sold voters a bill of goods. Their message was simple: "Send us to Washington and we will focus on creating jobs." But as soon as the election ended, they have set out to end Medicare as we know it while preserving tax loopholes for oil companies and the richest American. Even worse, they want seniors, college students, and middle class families to pay for their extreme agenda. That is not a jobs plan--that is a recipe for disaster.