I think there probably needs to be a place for general remarks about the middle east.
It seems that uprisings at American Embassies are escalating all over north Africa and the Middle East.
The general thought by the protesters is that President Obama should apologize to all of them (whoever “them” is) and burn the tape in front of them. Common thought is that the US government somehow created the video.
That’s pretty difficult to fight….it’s sort of like responding to “when did you stop beating your wife?”
I am unsure how the women in Virginia will now have access to legal and safe abortion. The reversal of a previous ruling by the Virginia Board of Health, due to the bullying tactics our Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, puts all LEGAL abortion clinics in an untenable position to operate. Naral Virginia explains the consequences of the Boards actions.
On Friday, September 14, the Virginia Board of Health defied the recommendations of legal and medical experts in voting 13-2 to subject existing women’s health centers to burdensome buildings regulations. After months of pressure tactics by Attorney General Cuccinelli, the Board reversed its earlier decision to grandfather in existing clinics and exempt them from the medically unnecessary regulations. If signed into law, these regulations will force up to twenty women’s health centers in Virginia to shut down.
“We are stunned by today’s vote, and extremely disappointed in the thirteen Board of Health members who decided to put political ideology before evidence-based scientific fact,” said Tarina Keene, Executive Director of NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia. “Hundreds of voices were silenced today.”
Sadly we mourn the loss of Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods who were killed attempting to defend the consulate in Libya. RIP, Americans.
The White House has stated that the attack on the embassy was terrorism.
This is a regular open thread, just dedicated to the Americans.
The FBI will be sent to Libya to investigate the deaths of the assassinated Americans. The State Department is viewing the events in Libya very differently from those at the other embassies in the region. The Libyan incident appeared to be well orchestrated and not spontaneous. It appeared to be a planned attack. There is a strong possibility that Al Qada was involved in Libya.
It is thought that the spontaneous protests at other sites is a general protest to the idiot film. Even a KFC was targeted by protesters. Their reasons for being there simply don’t make sense. Nothing anyone says matters.
Was the idiot movie a decoy? Were we distracted while Al Qada did its work? How hard would it be to get the average street thug wiling to throw a few rocks for their prophet?
These are NOT the same video.
[There are] … transcripts of a guy named Jerry Boykin, retired general and a guy named Frank Gaffney explaining their cockamamy conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton had secretly rigged the Egyptian elections to favor the Muslim brotherhood. people in Egypt read that. They did not know the people who were talking were wing nut right wing conspiracy theorists.
Those same right wing nut jobs have also said that Anthony Weiner’s wife, was an instrument of the Muslim Brotherhood. They also asserted that if the US passed any immigration reform, “we’d all be wearing ragheads.” What do you expect from a group that says Roe vs. Wade is Sharia law?
You don’t have to go to the Middle East to hear crazy talk.
Meanwhile, after the series of blunders by Mitt Romney as he desperately tried to comment on foreign policy, the Republicans plop their appointed 2nd in command down in the middle of all this?
What were they thinking? There aren’t that many stupid Americans and there isn’t enough tin foil.
