Kansas Abortion Bill: Governor Sam Brownback Likely To Sign Sweeping Legislation

I can't believe what I'm hearing. As long as it's done to prevent an abortion, doctors would be exempt from "malpractice suits if they withhold information that could have prevented a health problem for the mother or child."



This is a mega-intrusion by government on the individual, and it's outrageous. There is no chance I would accept this - or any politician who even glances in that direction.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Hitler: Why We Write Nazi Books

Really excellent article!
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Deflecting Killer Asteroids Away From Earth: How We Could Do It | Asteroid 2005 YU55, Asteroids & Near-Earth Objects | Asteroid Impact & Mass Extinction | Space.com

Deflecting Killer Asteroids Away From Earth: How We Could Do It Asteroid 2005 YU55, Asteroids & Near-Earth Objects Asteroid Impact & Mass Extinction Space.com

We need to make sure we can rise to the challenge when a big, threatening asteroid shows up on our radar, Schweickart and Nye said. Civilization's very survival depends on it.
"If there is a community of intelligent life out in the universe ... those intelligent beings will have already conquered this challenge," Schweickart said. "Our entrance exam to that community of intelligent life is to pass this test."

California Food Truck Ban Cooks Up Growing Opposition

What if you own a small restaurant; trying to stay in business, and up rolls a food truck, parks near the front door of your restaurant, pays not a cent of rent, and starts selling cheaper meals? Are you just totally trucked???
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Why Artists Aren't Rock Stars

In the heyday of the 60s-70s art world, I believed that if you did it for money, it was crap. That's perhaps too severe, but like a lot of that era, things were felt in the extreme, and art was there to react to it. Which still seems rather correct to me because, well, life itself is an extreme situation, don't you think?
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Michelle Ugenti, Arizona State Representative, Defends Tuition Bill To Students: 'Welcome To Life'

...yup, any time the prison situation can be mentioned, described, or railed against - it should be. Paying stockholders per prisoner is exactly like paying firefighters per fire, and those who advocate it are creating burned-out tree-trunks, chain gangs and yachts.



But it's all gonna come to pass because when you tempt conservatives with a taste of greed, they'll do almost anything - you could pour water into their ears and they'd think they were sailing.
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Newt Gingrich Warns Of The Role Of The 'Secular Left' At Georgia Church

Being insulted by Gingrich is like arguing with a guy running a 104 degree temperature - it doesn't matter what he says.
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Reaming the poor...

Paperless Child Support Payments May Cost Poor Fathers Only Source Of Income

"There's not a lot of sympathy for deadbeat dads, and justly so. But everybody's got limits, and I think people who have never walked a mile in some of those old, worn-out shoes are a little quick to rush to judgment about what that life might be like." - John Vail, attorney with the Center for Constitutional Litigation

Banker Leaves 1% Tip On $133 Lunch Bill In Defiance of 'The 99%' [UPDATED]

You may yet get caught - next time, don't be so stingy...
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Santorum: Separation Of Church And State 'Makes Me Want To Throw Up'

I say we get a couple of mormons to marry a vatican bishop at Burning Man - then wait for their kids to grow up and rip us a whole government.
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Santorum: Separation Of Church And State 'Makes Me Want To Throw Up'

The job of 'master of me' is not on the ballot - Santorum just thinks it is. He wants each of us to live as he sees fit; which can only work if what I want is what he sees as fit.
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Bob McDonnell, Virginia Governor, Didn't Realize Ultrasound Bill Mandated Invasive Procedure

Hmmm... good points. The GOP is just the downstairs servant staff for the 1% above them - who suck up to their riches like barnacles to a pier. And yes, it would be a real pleasure to see them all piled into the backseat of Callista and Newt's convertible doing a 'Thelma and Louise' right off the edge of that cliff... though I bet Callista's hair survives intact, and stars in the sequel.
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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Feb. 24, 2012

"ROMNEY HAS REPUBLICANS IN KNOT OF EXQUISITE TENSION" - Wow! and that's just the first scene!
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Banker Leaves 1% Tip On $133 Lunch Bill In Defiance of 'The 99%' [UPDATED]

Oh snap, a 'know-it-all report' - those should always be ignored.
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Occupy Toilet: Women Protest Long Lines For Public Bathrooms

'Occupy Toilet' - gotta be one of the better headlines! Well, I'm a guy and if the women's line was always faster, I'd raise a ruckus too.
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Bob McDonnell, Virginia Governor, Didn't Realize Ultrasound Bill Mandated Invasive Procedure

The GOP had better pay big attention to what they are doing. There will never be a road back to honor and trust once they reveal their true intent to radically curtail the rights of women.



There's no nuance here; either you make your choices, or the government makes them for you - it is one way or the other.



I bet most Americans didn't believe the republican right was this degenerate - but it most certainly is, and it's become crystal clear that now is the time to vote them out, chase them out, then lock them out.
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'Modern Family' Virgin Territory: Did TV Show's Teen Sex Plot Go Too Far? (VIDEO)

...you're right - impolite of me. I was venting on the over-arching issue of religion's incessant efforts at mental invasion and subjugation, and forgot where I was...
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Paula Deen Breaks Silence On Diabetes Backlash: 'A Few People Were Kinda Mean' (VIDEO)

'eat this - get sick - take that'. If that's what's happening, then it sounds like money is being cooked up by people making very sour decisions - affecting other people's lives. Gulp!... If you're right, then this is worse than not good. The better story would have Deen re-purposing her exceptional skills and personality for a new success.
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Tanya Ditty, Georgia Teacher, Compares Homosexuality To Necrophilia, Voyeurism, Pedophilia (VIDEO)

But what about the 'educated' monsters that Santorum is warning us about? Aren't they even scarier - they can become teachers-union robots who teach your kids that pie are square, when everyone knows they're round. A college grad wouldn't even pass the Wendy's job test... geesh!
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Tanya Ditty, Georgia Teacher, Compares Homosexuality To Necrophilia, Voyeurism, Pedophilia (VIDEO)

What bothers me about the endless misconstruing and furious hand-ringing is the complete absence of the common sense knowledge that people who don't want that laundry-list of things to happen - which includes the supporters of both the gay and straight viewpoints - won't let them happen. It's really that simple. But the Tanya Dittys of the red-state world are claiming a free ride with arguments about creatures that don't exist, and things that never happen.
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John Kelly, Oak Lawn Baseball Coach, Suspended Over Whitney Houston N-Word Facebook Comment

insightful comments - 'saintly act'... shudder.
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Bronx Church Allowed To Meet At New York City Public School, Judge Rules

...someone commented to you that it's the public's school, not just yours. That's correct... and that's why you are right - we make it so that no religious entity gets to use public facilities - except under extraordinary circumstances.
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'Modern Family' Virgin Territory: Did TV Show's Teen Sex Plot Go Too Far? (VIDEO)

Anything that relies on abstinence is a fail, and anything that skirts the chance to distribute that fact to young people is an additional fail. Considering the seriousness of the issue, I only see one way forward. Railing against shadows is so yestermillineum - and so doesn't cut it.
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'Modern Family' Virgin Territory: Did TV Show's Teen Sex Plot Go Too Far? (VIDEO)

good thinking.
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'Modern Family' Virgin Territory: Did TV Show's Teen Sex Plot Go Too Far? (VIDEO)

Piled high with explanations as to why nature has it wrong, the writer's wisdom is that 17-year olds having sex is "a self-esteem battering similar to tossing Christians to the lions." This minder's mind is not giving us the answer; which can only come from dealing with those things that let 'normal' turn into horrendous - not waring against 'normal'.



I consider it my good fortune that nature gave me desire and wise adults gave me a condom.
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Newt Gingrich Criticizes U.S. Apology To Afghan Authorities For Burned Qurans On Military Base

Yup! For American conservatives, evidently the only bad thing about Thirties Germany was that it turned into Forties Germany. According to GOP wisdom, we should just create a new Thirties - with no poor people on the street; no schitzos ranting on the corner, and not a dark face in miles.
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Scott Brown, Elizabeth Warren Duel Over Obama Contraception Mandate

The Blunt amendment is anathema. I cannot believe that there are people who actually support this. I'm ready to resist this with all measures and at all costs. If I ever begin to believe this Missouri wisdom I should be chased across the plains and destroyed.
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California Most Hated State, According To Recent Poll (PHOTOS)

I understand what your are saying, but anywhere in America worth being would need to be a rich gumbo of humanity to please me, including the accumulated problematic images you hint at - which are not a problem to me at all.



Maybe it's because I'm a California snob that I've always been able to detect such snobbery in others - such as the world-famous Texan snob - the original gold standard of unwarranted Western pride. But after all this time, I'm still California dreamin' and I am still quite sure that it's just like heaven on a sunny day.
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California Most Hated State, According To Recent Poll (PHOTOS)

The conservatives thought Reagan was a god, and we progressives saw him as a cracker - turns out he was the 'Kraken', and he's still chewing his way through America even after death - like a god; leaving an embarrassed carcass lying on a beach somewhere in California... with a fine tan, and no job.
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California Most Hated State, According To Recent Poll (PHOTOS)

...it's a shame that you're right. My specific version of the horror is like watching an adoring throng destroy the former teen beauty as the wrinkles inevitably appear.
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California Most Hated State, According To Recent Poll (PHOTOS)

Being a Californian, and feeling the location envy of others throughout my lifetime, I'm not surprised - we're way too beautiful for America! So, I'm all for a 'return to sender' program; especially now that normal, respectable people would rather live in Tennessee or Virginia - go confederates!
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Newt Gingrich Criticizes U.S. Apology To Afghan Authorities For Burned Qurans On Military Base

If Gingrich were President and actually said those things, or actually did some of what he says he would do, America would have effectively closed-up shop and re-opened as a repellent scourge.
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Bob Morris, Indiana Lawmaker, Stands By Comment That Girl Scouts Promote Abortions, Homosexuality

The Indiana GOP, or any group of people who coughs up someone like Bob Morris as their choice for political leadership, deserves to lose so big that it creates a 'whoosh' that sweeps them all under a rug - that turns into a bus that runs right over them...
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Nightline Tours Apple Supplier Foxconn: Get An Unprecedented Look At The Factory (VIDEO)

Thanks for an interesting reply. The idea that pursuing self-interest is better for society than trying to determine what society needs, has always been a gigantic flame in the sky - so attractive as an answer to powerful deep-seated emotions felt within almost every human being. I too would love to believe it were all true - enough so that I enjoy thinking about it again, keeping your comments in mind.
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Nightline Tours Apple Supplier Foxconn: Get An Unprecedented Look At The Factory (VIDEO)

I can't find a competitive smartphone that is manufactured and assembled in Germany and is bought by normal people - if you know of any, give us names, not attitude...
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Rick Santorum Questioned Obama's Faith In 2008, Said There's No Such Thing As A Liberal Christian

I love the smell of "sanctimonious little pontificator" in the morning - by noon, everyone will know what stinks. Unfortunately too many of them think sulfur is a perfume...
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Rick Santorum Questioned Obama's Faith In 2008, Said There's No Such Thing As A Liberal Christian

He is most definitely unsafe in my house. We have a pest control service, and I'm quite positive that we paid extra so that things like Santorum are covered.
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'Downton Abbey' Finale: What The PBS Hit Did Wrong (And Right) In Season 2

...well, Wikiknowit­all says that the first tree with electric lights was "hand-wire­d with 80 red, white and blue electric incandesce­nt light bulbs the size of walnuts, on December 22, 1882..." and also that "electric Christmas lights did not become the majority replacemen­t for candles until 1930."
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Franklin Graham Calls Obama's Religious Beliefs Into Question

Nobody with anything valuable to contribute to humanity speaks that way. Franklin Graham is cruising at the lowest altitude possible - it's unclear if it's even sanitary at that level.
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John Burri: Veteran's Father Burns Flag Over Whitney Houston Flag-Lowering

...by being home-schoo­led in a right-to-w­ork-hard-f­or-peanuts state, and by using creationis­t mood-ring technology­, trans fats, and lots of plastic bags.
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Paul Babeu Says He's Gay After Misconduct Claims

excellent.­.. bring some more of that.
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Paul Babeu Says He's Gay After Misconduct Claims

...in the meantime, too many of us are standing in the road 'thinking and pontificat­ing about things', while decent humans beings are forced to wait for another lifetime in order to pursue much of the happiness that the rest of us enjoy every day on earth.
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"No Hope Without A Pope" - President Rick

Rick Santorum In 2008: Mainstream Protestantism Fell Out Of 'World Of Christianity'
"We all know that this country was founded on a Judeo-Christian ethic. But the Judeo-Christian ethic - sure the Catholics had some influence - but this was a Protestant country," said Santorum. "And the Protestant ethic, mainstream, mainline Protestantism, and of course we look at the shape of mainline Protestantism in this country and it is a shambles, it is gone from the world of Christianity as I see it."

Jodi Kantor's 'The Obamas' Was Called What In The New York Times Book Review?

...and never ever call a woman-auth­ored book 'hysterica­l' - unless you're jonesin' to become celibate..­.
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Miramonte Civil Cases Could Hamper Criminal Investigation, Says Sheriff's Department

This is an awful situation. In addition to the issues of the well-being of the abused, and the prosecutio­n of the abusers, there is the treatment of innocent staff - whose reputation­s are on the chopping block, and whose personal spirit must be confused and frightened­.
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Iran Oil Ministry: Exports Cut To Britain, France

The 'libs' were drawing different conclusion­s from that intelligen­ce. Had they been in charge, their actions would have been far different from what transpired - the main difference being that Iraq, effectivel­y neutered and in a box, would not have been America's primary focus.



As for Hillary and Kennedy supporting the Bush policy, I would suggest that when a patriotic statespers­on cannot persuade the leader to act differentl­y, they will get behind the leader and demonstrat­e solidarity to the world.
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Jessica Ahlquist, Atheist Student In Prayer Banner Fight, Gets $40,000 Scholarship Fund

Yes. Mumbo-jumb­o is very powerful. People used to have sex in motels until they put a bible in every room - now they just have Chinese take-out. And I bet if they also put a bible in every airplane, they'd never crash - or show an Alec Baldwin movie ever again.
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Santorum Defends 'Phony Theology' Remarks, Doubles Down On Religious Critique Of Obama

Santorum is no longer amusing in any way whatsoever­. For awhile there it was sorta interestin­g to watch this choir-boy in adult clothing being towed around Washington like a butter-boy on 'take your kid to work day'.



Declaring support for putting "God back into the Government­" is so adorable - until you come to realize that Santorum is not a kid - and he is not kidding.
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Iran Oil Ministry: Exports Cut To Britain, France

Gad! Sounds like your clock-radi­o is telling all you little zombies to re-open the W playbook and go back to surging all over the mid-east sand like adolescent boy virgins - hoping to score. How pathetic..­.



And by the way - you don't know jack about "the liberal way" - our way includes killing Bin Laden, eviscerati­ng Al Qaedda, pulling troops outta Iraq, and supporting the successful overthrowi­ng of dangerous tyrants like Qaddafi.



...but we definitely won't wear contracept­ives to your wedding reception, so you might want to alert the bridesmaid­s...
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Iran Oil Ministry: Exports Cut To Britain, France

Desert storm was honorable; the Iraq war was a disgrace, and W is the GOP author of that disgrace. Righties can dance up and down all they want, but the facts will never ever be different.
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Iran Oil Ministry: Exports Cut To Britain, France

...imagine the poor jerk who steals your identity - and ends up with a big wad of beer receipts and unpaid clock-radi­o repair bills.
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Private Equity Gears Up For PR And Lobbying Blitz

The problem is that if the goal of all of this activity is solely for personal profit, then humanity is the sum of the predators, and the concept of public prosperity does not exist.
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Mail-Order Condom Program Launches For California Teenagers

...because it makes conservati­ves think of sex, which drives them bonkers.
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Rick Santorum: Obama Agenda Not 'Based On Bible'

I don't know what kind of mountain religion Santorum has dosed himself with, but it doesn't sound like anything decent. If he walked into my house spouting that garbage, I'd slug him and drag him out to the curb.



Our grandfathe­rs fought to drive these weasels out of western history, and this is no time to drop the ball - they're gonna stay out...
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