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Saturday, December 31, 2011
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Ron Paul: Women Who Are Sexually Harassed At Work Should Quit Their Jobs
Ron Paul says he didn't write the bigoted Ron Paul newsletter. So did he write his books? Someone went out and bought one of his books and, surprise, it was full of racism, homophobia and sexism:In his 1987 [re-issued in 2007] manifesto "Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution after 200-Plus Years," Paul wrote that AIDS patients were victims of their own lifestyle, questioned the rights of minorities and argued that people who are sexually harassed at work should quit their jobs...
In a passage first flagged by the Houston Chronicle in 2007, Paul then claimed that sexual harassment should not be a violation of one's employment rights.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Another Senior Denied Voter ID In GOP Controlled Tennessee
This makes at least four elderly Tennesseans (aka, likely Democratic voters) who have recently been denied voter IDs -- that we know about! Undoubtedly there are more.Unless this barbaric GOP voter ID law is quickly ruled unconstitutional, hundreds of thousands -- of likely Democratic voters -- may be turned away at the polls in 2012. But that's exactly the GOP's point:
A 93-year-old Tennessee woman who cleaned the state Capitol for 30 years, including the governor’s office, says she won’t be able to vote for the first time in decades after being told this week that her old state ID failed to meet new voter ID regulations.
Thelma Mitchell was even accused of being an undocumented immigrant because she couldn’t produce a birth certificate: Mitchell, who was delivered by a midwife in Alabama in 1918, has never had a birth certificate. But when she told that to a drivers’ license clerk, he suggested she might be an illegal immigrant.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
Draft Hillary 2012 Robocalls Running in Battleground States (Audio)
According to Shaun Dakin, an anti-robocall advocate, Run Hillary 2012 has now made calls in New York, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Colorado.It appears to be the first formal 2012 campaign function undertaken by an ostensibly pro-Hillary group -- not counting the occasional fundraising email from a Clinton ally asking for money to help her retire her 2008 campaign debt.
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Racist & Homophobic Excerpts From The Ron Paul Newsletter, Ewww
The New Republic offers a few grossly BIGOTED tidbits from Ron Paul's extremely racist and homophobic past. Paul says, oh, but that was a long time ago. Not long enough. These are direct quotes from the Ron Paul Newsletter:“A Special Issue on Racial Terrorism” analyzes the Los Angeles riots of 1992: “Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ... What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.”
The November 1990 issue of the Political Report had kind words for David Duke.
This December 1990 newsletter describes Martin Luther King Jr. as “a world-class adulterer” who “seduced underage girls and boys” and “replaced the evil of forced segregation with the evil of forced integration.”
A February 1991 newsletter attacks “The X-Rated Martin Luther King.”
An October 1990 edition of the Political Report ridicules black activists, led by Al Sharpton, for demonstrating at the Statue of Liberty in favor of renaming New York City after Martin Luther King. The newsletter suggests that “Welfaria,” “Zooville,” “Rapetown,” “Dirtburg,”and “Lazyopolis ” would be better alternatives—and says, “Next time, hold that demonstration at a food stamp bureau or a crack house.”
A May 1990 issue of the Ron Paul Political Report cites Jared Taylor, who six months later would go onto found the eugenicist and white supremacist periodical American Renaissance.
The January 1993 issue of the Survival Report worries about America’s “disappearing white majority.”
The December 1989 Ron Paul Political Report contains entries on a “new form of racial terrorism,” cites former Congressman Bill Dannemeyer’s claim that “the average homosexual has 1,000 or more partners in a lifetime,” and quotes Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, in the third person.
There's lots more . . .
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Millions Leave GOP & Democratic Parties
It's not voter apathy, it's voter disgust:More than 2.5 million voters have left the Democratic and Republican parties since the 2008 elections, while the number of independent voters continues to grow.
A USA TODAY analysis of state voter registration statistics shows registered Democrats declined in 25 of the 28 states that register voters by party. Republicans dipped in 21 states, while independents increased in 18 states. The trend is acute in states that are key to next year's presidential race. In the eight swing states that register voters by party, Democrats' registration is down by 800,000 and Republicans' by 350,000. Independents have gained 325,000.
Registered Democrats still dominate the political playing field with more than 42 million voters, compared to 30 million Republicans and 24 million independents. But Democrats have lost the most — 1.7 million, or 3.9%, from 2008.
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Matt Damon: 'A One-Term President With Some Balls Would Have Been Much Better'
Quote of the Day"[A] one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of this country, much better. . . People are literally without any focus or leadership, just wandering out into the streets to yell right now because they are so pissed off. Imagine if they had a leader."
Matt Damon rips President Obama in Elle magazine: A president with ‘some balls’ would have been better: Actor also weighed in on Occupy Wall Street protests, arguing Obama’s lack of leadership has contributed to Americans’ overall discontent.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Poll: Dissatisfaction With All Presidential Candidates Rampant
More than ever, we need "None of the Above" on the ballot:Gallup: Is there any candidate running who you think would make a good president, or not?
Yes - 48%
No - 46%
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Chris Christie: 'Cry Me a River!' Obama 'Frittered Away' 2 Years with Democratic Congress (Video)
On MSNBC's Morning Joe: He has no idea how to use executive power. To stand up and udder (sic) his name in the same breath as Teddy Roosevelt? Are you kidding? And for him to sit there and say some of the things … that he said, it’s time for us to step up... Step up our game… it’s time to meet the moment? Well you know what Mr. President… We have been waiting for you to meet the moment for 3 years! So meet the moment!. . .
[T]he President had a democratic congress for the first two years and he frittered it away. He frittered it away… And then all the sudden now he is complaining his Presidency is not a success because he has had a year, a year, of Republicans? ..I mean cry me a river already… lead …and do your job!
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Egyptian Women Revolt (Video)
Outraged Egyptian women pour onto the streets to demand a little decency:
"The reason for the protest is the picture and the video that was published by news services around the world, and it showed us to what extent the military council has no qualms about trampling on the women of Egypt and the girls of Egypt, and has no qualms about beating them up and stripping them naked," Islama Thabet told the Reuters news agency.
Meanwhile in a speech in Washington, D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced Egypt’s “systematic degradation of women” and said “women are being beaten and humiliated in the same streets where they risked their lives for the revolution only a few short months ago.”
Clinton said women had been mostly shut out of decision-making by Egypt's ruling military and by big political parties. . . . "Women protesters have been rounded up and subjected to horrific abuse. Journalists have been sexually assaulted. And now, women are being attacked, stripped, and beaten in the streets," she added. "This systematic degradation of Egyptian women dishonours the revolution, disgraces the state and its uniform and is not worthy of a great people."
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"The reason for the protest is the picture and the video that was published by news services around the world, and it showed us to what extent the military council has no qualms about trampling on the women of Egypt and the girls of Egypt, and has no qualms about beating them up and stripping them naked," Islama Thabet told the Reuters news agency.Meanwhile in a speech in Washington, D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced Egypt’s “systematic degradation of women” and said “women are being beaten and humiliated in the same streets where they risked their lives for the revolution only a few short months ago.”
Clinton said women had been mostly shut out of decision-making by Egypt's ruling military and by big political parties. . . . "Women protesters have been rounded up and subjected to horrific abuse. Journalists have been sexually assaulted. And now, women are being attacked, stripped, and beaten in the streets," she added. "This systematic degradation of Egyptian women dishonours the revolution, disgraces the state and its uniform and is not worthy of a great people."
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
'Poor Baby' Billionaires Feel Like Persecuted Minority (Video)
The 'persecuted' billionaire bankers are now defending themselves and attempting to 'reclaim' the pejorative 'fat cat' as merely a term that means productive. The fat cats are feeling persecuted and looking for a little sympathy. Calling their critics "imbeciles" might not be the best way to go about it.
Naturally Jon Stewart steps up to defend the poor persecuted billionaire bankers:
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Naturally Jon Stewart steps up to defend the poor persecuted billionaire bankers:
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Ron Paul Rises In Poll. GOP Establishment Weeps.
Anti-war and pro-marijuana legalization Ron Paul has moved to the head of the deranged class of GOP candidates. For the many of us who are sick to death of America's dysfunctional elections, this one is at least entertaining, in a twisted, repulsively sick way.Ron Paul has now taken the lead in Iowa. He's at 23% to 20% for Mitt Romney, 14% for Gingrich, 10% each for Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry, 4% for Jon Huntsman, and 2% for Gary Johnson.
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Women on MSNBC Discuss Newt's Sexism (Video)
Meghan McCain, Alex Witt, Goldie Taylor and Erin McPike on MSNBC discuss Newt Gingrich's disturbing sexist attitude toward women, including Michele Bachmann.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
Big Strong Cop Caught Tasing 14 Year Old Girl (Video)
As if cops tasing children was not bad enough, he tases her after she puts her hands up.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Sexist Ad of the Day: 'Red Hot Fares and Crew'
The campaign against the sexist ad ‘Red Hot Fares and Crew’ (the ad has appeared in a number of national newspapers) is over at Change.org. Check out the petition: Ryanair: stop selling your staff.The campaign, which was started by a flight attendant called Ghada, complains the adverts running with the slogan ‘Red Hot Fares and Crew,’ are demeaning to the role of cabin crew.
On social website change.org, she says: 'I'm a member of an airline cabin crew and what's more I love my job. My work colleagues, many of whom are male, work hard with me to ensure the safety of our passengers. Safety is our number one priority, not the brand of our underwear.
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Plan B Backlash: Dem Senators Ask Sebelius to Provide the Science
The backlash is not going away:
Fourteen members of the Senate Democratic caucus led by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on Tuesday penned a letter to Sebelius asking for the scientific basis for her move last week to overrule Food and Drug Administrator Margaret A. Hamburg’s decision to make Plan B One-Step available to people of all ages without a prescription.
“We feel strongly that FDA regulations should be based on science. ... We ask that you share with us your specific rationale and the scientific data you relied on for the decision to overrule the FDA recommendation. On behalf of the millions of women we represent, we want to be assured that this and future decisions affecting women’s health will be based on medical and scientific evidence,” the senators wrote to Sebelius.
UPDATE: The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) is refiling a lawsuit against the FDA for "imposing unnecessary age restrictions on emergency contraceptives, and seek immediate relief to allow broader access to available drugs."
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Right-Wing Circus: Michael Savage Offers Newt Gingrich $1 Million to Drop Out
And the circus continues. Crazed Michael Savage has a point. Newt Gingrich can't win! So Savage offers a million dollar bribe if Newt will please just quit this farce of a presidential race and go home! Given the size of Newt's ego, I'm betting that one million is not enough.Liberal Politics News GOP Insanity
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Round-Up: Obama Betrays Women & Science Over Plan B Birth Control
-- Who died and made Barack Obama daddy in charge of teenage girls? -- Katha Pollitt: HHS: Let's Treat ALL Women Like Children-- Good news. It looks like we've finally gotten the long awaited post-partisan achievement: the Democrats have joined the war on science. And women! It's a twofer. -- Digby: Postpartisan depression: The Democrats join the War On Women
-- The president shamefully uses his daughters to justify limiting the healthcare options of America's young women -- Rebecca Traister: Obama’s woman problem
-- So, since it's "common knowledge" that girls under 17 are too stupid and/or immature to undertand how to read a label, it's safer for them if they have to first get to a doctor who will write them a prescription they can take to the pharmacy — all within 72 hours. Which should be easy for a kid to do, right? -- Kaili Joy Gray via Daily Kos: Health and Human Services says teen girls too dumb to use morning after pill without prescription
NOW President Terry O'Neill: Emergency Contraception Betrayal: Does President Obama Really Oppose Family Planning? -- In a stunning betrayal of women, the Obama administration has sided with radical right politics in rejecting the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) decision to remove an age restriction on emergency contraception...During the Bush years, women's reproductive health was under constant attack. We don't need more of the same from the Obama administration.
ABC News: Women’s Groups Incensed Over Obama Morning-After Pill Decision --“My computer was burning up with people saying, ‘I am done,’” said Judy Waxman, vice-president of health and reproductive rights for the National Women’s Law Center. “The fury is really unmatched in anything I have seen.”
Lorraine Berry via RH Reality Check: Denying Access to Plan B: An Act of Political Cowardice -- I'm an idiot. I keep hoping against hope that you're not going to throw women under the bus. That you can stand up to the ladies who swoon at the Concerned Women for America. You think they're going to vote for you because you said no to Plan B?
Jodi Jacobson via RH Reality Check: In Astounding Move, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Overrules FDA Recommendation to Make Plan B Over-the-Counter -- Because apparently the health and rights of women do not matter, but placating the far right does.
New York Times Editorial: Politics and the Morning-After Pill -- And it is hard not to see this as anything but an effort to blunt Republican criticism in the presidential campaign or shield the FDA budget from retaliation. Unfortunately, the losers will be young girls who need easy access to the pill.
CRR Responds to President Obama’s Comments on Recent Rejection of Plan B One-Step for Over-the-Counter Sale without Age Restriction -- "The president and HHS secretary's recent comments would suggest that no drugs that the FDA has approved as safe and effective—including Tylenol, Sudafed, and many others-should be on drug store shelves."
NY Times: Obama Endorses Decision to Limit Morning-After Pill -- President Obama, who took office pledging to put science ahead of politics, averted a skirmish with conservatives in the nation’s culture wars on Thursday by endorsing his health secretary’s decision to block over-the-counter sales of an after-sex contraceptive pill to girls under age 17.
Jezebel: Five Common Drugs More Dangerous Than Plan B -- Tylenol: Possible side effects: allergic reaction, Overdose effects: possible liver failure and death. Over-the-counter? Yes
E. J. Graff: Occupy Our Ovaries -- I don't know exactly how, but Democratic women are going to break up with this administration. Pickets? Fence-chaining? "Occupy Our Ovaries" protests? Something's gonna boil over. Remember that you read it here first.
Lindsay Beyerstein: Obama Overrules FDA on Plan B -- The president is ritually pissing off his base for no good reason. It must be an election year.
Michelle Goldberg: Obama's Restrictions on Morning-After Pill Are Politically Driven -- Already under fire from Catholics, the Obama administration clearly caved to conservative pressure when it overruled an FDA decision to expand the accessibility of a morning-after pill.
Washington Post Editorial Board: Obama administration’s bad call on Plan B -- [T]he administration’s decision will decrease access for all women, because the medication will continue to be kept behind the pharmacy counter so that the age of the buyer can be verified. As a result, access will be limited to hours when the pharmacy is open. That does not constitute common sense.
Fox News: Obama Defends Decision on Morning-After Pill -- "As the father of two daughters," he said, "I think it is important for us to make sure that we apply some common sense to various rules when it comes to over-the-counter medicine."
Tory Hoen: Et Tu, Obama? Morning-After Pill Decision Is Reminiscent of Bush-Era Blindness -- “I’m flabbergasted. If I close my eyes for a minute, I might think I was in the Bush era.”
The Hill: Left 'Speechless' As Seblius Overrules FDA On Access To Morning-After Pill -- In a decision steeped in 2012 politics, President Obama's top health official on Wednesday overruled government scientists to block wider access to the so-called "morning-after pill."
NY Times: Plan To Widen Availability Of Morning – After Pill Is Rejected --The decision avoided what could have been a bruising political battle over parental control and contraception during a presidential election season.
NPR: Women's Groups Outraged By Ruling On Morning-After Pill
Mother Jones: Morning After Pill Remains a Political Football -- This is the first time an HHS secretary has ever overruled the FDA, and it's a blow to those of us who believe that Democratic administrations are more willing to be guided by scientific evidence than Republican ones.
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Friday, December 09, 2011
Rebecca Traister: Obama As Paternalistic 'Father Knows Best' On Birth Control
Rebecca Traister writes about Obama's embarrassingly paternalistic attitude toward women: When will Barack Obama learn how to talk thoughtfully about women, women’s health and women’s rights? Apparently, not today. . . Read the whole thing . . .
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Elizabeth Warren Takes 7 Point Lead & Blasts Rove for Dishonest Attack Ad (Video)
Wall Street's worst nightmare Elizabeth Warren has a 7 point lead over Scott Brown. You know Karl Rove and his friends are desperate when they accuse Elizabeth Warren of being cozy with Wall Street:
A feisty Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren shot back at Republican strategist Karl Rove yesterday — calling his second negative ad “factually wrong and morally wrong” after a University of Massachusetts at Lowell/Boston Herald poll found an earlier spot hurt her among voters..
“Karl Rove was part of the inner circle when President Bush pushed for TARP bailouts,” she said. “Now he’s using Wall Street money to attack me for being too cozy with Wall Street? I was calling out Wall Street over the TARP bill from the beginning.”
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A feisty Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren shot back at Republican strategist Karl Rove yesterday — calling his second negative ad “factually wrong and morally wrong” after a University of Massachusetts at Lowell/Boston Herald poll found an earlier spot hurt her among voters..
“Karl Rove was part of the inner circle when President Bush pushed for TARP bailouts,” she said. “Now he’s using Wall Street money to attack me for being too cozy with Wall Street? I was calling out Wall Street over the TARP bill from the beginning.”
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Thursday, December 08, 2011
Tennessee Teen, Bullied for Being Gay, Ends Life
After years of bullying for being gay at Cheatham County Central High School, Jacob Rogers took his life.Please sign this petition imploring the Cheatham County School Board to protect children by implementing a rigorous anti-bullying policy and to "fully investigate the school's response to the bullying of Jacob Rogers."
via Tennessee Equality Project
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Obama, Fierce Advocate for Women's Rights, Kills Hope of Easing Restrictions on Plan B
Ever the champion of women's reproductive rights, Obama killed the FDA's move to eliminate the age restriction on the purchase of the morning-after pill, aka Plan B. Currently, the morning after pill is available without a prescription for girls and women who are 17 years or older:
The surprising decision is a stunning blow to some doctors, health advocates, family-planning activists, members of Congress and others to help women prevent unwanted pregnancies.
“We are outraged that this administration has let politics trump science,” said Kirsten Moore of the Reproductive Health Technologies Project, a Washington-based advocacy group. “There is no rationale for this move. This is unprecedented as evidenced by the commissioner’s own letter. Unbelievable.”
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Morning Joe's Sexist Icky Frat-Boy Promo (Video)
The new Morning Joe promo sums up “the increasingly hard to watch dynamic of Morning Joe, in which Joe and company behave like bad little boys and sexy Mika scolds them.”There's lots of talk about the new MSNBC Morning Joe promo and the talk seems to be having an effect, i.e., the cable news channel has stopped running promo clips featuring Mika donned in her "itty bitty running clothes." The clips now feature the show's fully clothed bad boys.
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Behold Morning Joe's new promo. In it good girl Mika Brzezinski pops out of bed, makes breakfast for the kids, feeds the dog (how does she do it!), dons itty, bitty running clothes and runs to 30 Rock.
Morning Joe's 'icky' promo
Video: “Morning Joe” Spot Drags Out Sexist Career-Woman Stereotype For Mika Brzezinski
OH MY: The New 'Morning Joe' Promo Weirdly Features Smoking, Gambling And Hookers
Morning Joe Doesn't Get Why Its New Promotion Is Sexist
Morning Joe's 'obnoxious,' 'sexist' promo
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011
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