Anti-health care congressman Kelly compares health care act to Pearl Harbor and 9-11

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The Huffington Post:

Criticizing President Barack Obama’s health care reform law on Wednesday, Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) likened the requirement that private insurance plans provide contraception coverage to two of the most devastating attacks on American soil.

“I know in your mind, you can think of the times America was attacked,” he said at a press conference on Capitol Hill. “One is Dec. 7, that’s Pearl Harbor Day. The other is Sept. 11, and that’s the day the terrorists attacked. I want you to remember Aug. 1, 2012, the attack on our religious freedom. That is a day that will live in infamy, along with those other dates.”

Wednesday marked the first day private insurers must include birth control coverage in their plans without charging a co-pay, per requirements in the Affordable Care Act.

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Cuccinelli refuses to sign off on State Board of Health regs on abortion clinics

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Coo Coo Nellie refuses to certify State Health Dept directives on abortion clinics

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The office of Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli II (R) on Monday refused to sign off on state Board of Health regulations that had exempted current abortion clinics from new, hospital-style construction standards.

In a surprise move a month ago, the board voted to exempt existing facilities from the new rules, which would have required extensive renovations.

In a four-sentence letter to the health department, senior assistant Attorney General Allyson K. Tysinger said that the the office would not certify the regulations.

“The Board does not have the statutory authority to adopt these Regulations,” it says. “[T]he Board has exceeded its authority. Thus, this Office cannot certify these Regulations.”

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White will no longer be the majority?

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From the Washington Post:

For the first time in U.S. history, most of the nation’s babies are members of minority groups, according to new census figures that signal the dawn of an era in which whites no longer will be in the majority.

The latest estimates, which gauge changes since the last census, are a reflection of an immigration wave that began four decades ago. The transformation of the country’s racial and ethnic makeup has gathered steam as the white population grows collectively older, especially compared with Hispanics.

The census has forecast that non-Hispanic whites will be outnumbered in the United States by 2042, and social scientists consider that current status among infants a harbinger of the change.

“This is a watershed moment,” said Andrew Cherlin, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins University who specializes in family issues. “It shows us how multicultural we’ve become.”

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Starting the War on Women early with the Girl Scouts

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Good grief. Now I have heard it all.  The Girl Scouts are now a target of the Religious Right and in particular, the Catholic bishops inquiry. 

Apparently the GSA who are non-sectarian,  aren’t Christian enough for  some folks and the Catholic bishops.  For starters, girls are allowed to insert Allah or Buddha in as a substitute for God, in the Girl Scout promise which says: “On my honor, I will try to serve God and my country.”   If that is who they worship, why not?  Some troop took in a transgendered child.  That caused an uproar.  Good for the troop.  Why exclude people?

According to the Washington Post:

NEW YORK — Long a lightning rod for conservative criticism, the Girl Scouts of the USA are now facing their highest-level challenge yet: An official inquiry by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

At issue are concerns about program materials that some Catholics find offensive, as well as assertions that the Scouts associate with other groups espousing stances that conflict with church teaching. The Scouts, who have numerous parish-sponsored troops, deny many of the claims and defend their alliances. 

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Ann Coulter: Trash Trap Shock Jockette

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Ann Coulter got bleeped on Morning Joe Wednesday morning.  The problem is, the bleeper wasn’t working right  and the TV audience lost 13 seconds of what was coming out of her vile mouth.  Coulter was on a rant about consistency and went on one of her hate crusades, apparently calling John McCain a douche-bag.  Now Morning Joe tries to be a civil show.  Mark Halperin got suspended last June for calling President Obama a dick.  The suspension lasted a week or two. 

According to Politico:

After the sound returned, Coulter paused, realized that something had happened, and then could be heard asking others on the show, “What did I say? Oh, douche bag.”

“Just blur it all out,” host Joe Scarborough responded, apparently talking to the control room.

“Okay, well they got the general drift of that,” Coulter said. “Consistency is not a great thing, and especially someone like John McCain who consistently annoyed conservatives, bragged about annoying conservatives, and would claim he was courageous by attacking conservatives and getting good press in the New York Times.”

The conversation on the show moved on quickly after that with the hosts and guests showing little reaction at that point.

Coulter was unrepentant and later tweeted, “I didn’t call McCain a douchebag. I said consistency is overrated because, for example, McCain was consistently a dickweed.”

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Pornographers strike back….at Rick Santorum

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Rick Santorum really doesn’t pick his battles very well.  He now has gone on record stating that that President Obama has been weak on prosecuting pronography and if he is elected, he will be tough on vanquishing prono.

The empire has struck back with its own video protesting Santorum which can be found at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/09/porn-stars-against-santorum_n_1412456.html?ref=politics&ir=Politics .   According to Huffingtonpost.com:

Porn stars are calling for a national day of, uh, action against Rick Santorum and his anti-porn stance. Of course, the protest won’t involve taking to the streets so much as staying inside with the blinds pulled.

In a video for Jest.com, several of Vivid Entertainment’s brightest stars got together to publicly decry Santorum’s verbal crusade against porn, following up their argument by asking supporters to take part in #wankout2012, which is exactly what you think it is.

I don’t want to sound prim and stoggy but why does this have to enter into the presidential race?  There is only so much that can be done about legal pornography and no president in his right mind is going to tackle something legal.  Santorum really needs to pick and chose his battles more closely.   Isn’t it past time for Santorum to fold up his tent  and take his stuff on home?  I hear his mother calling him.

Post Script:  While I am sure the ladies are delightful, I have left a link for them.  Please go visit them at Huffington Post, rather than here.  Moonhowlings is a respectable establishment. 

 

 

 

 

Huckabee to host talk show during “Rush time”

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Huffingtonpost.com:

Rush Limbaugh, the longstanding undisputed king of conservative talk radio who’s been dogged by controversy recently, is about to face some more heat. Not from the left, but this time from the right.

On Monday, former Arkansas governor and one-time Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee will launch a three-hour radio program on almost 200 stations across the country, going voice-to-voice with Limbaugh in the noon-to-3 p.m. time slot, Monday through Friday.

Cumulus Media, which owns and operates the new program, is already pitching Huckabee to listeners and advertisers as the “safe alternative” to a man who has recently found himself under weeks of intense fire – not for the first time – and who some believe could be vulnerable to a challenge from someone offering a kinder, gentler conservative voice.

“Our tagline is, ‘More conversation, less confrontation’,” Huckabee told POLITICO. “I’m going to treat every guest with respect and civility. Nobody is going to come on and get into a shouting match with me. That’s just not my style.”

Making a direct comparison with Limbaugh, John Dickey, the co-COO of Cumulus Media, adds, “This is going to be safer from a commercial standpoint, and more respectful from a listener’s perspective. I think that environment has been sorely lacking in talk radio.”

Mike Huckabee is a nice man.  I despise his politics but I think he is a decent human being.  I have never heard him be intentionally rude to a guest on his show.
So what’s the problem?  Is the Rush audience going to go for Mike Huckabee?  I seriously doubt it.  Limbaugh appeals to a certain type of person who wants controversy and gets off on allowing a bully to be their mouth piece.  Seriously, what person says they are proud to be a ditto head?
I hope Mike Huckabee finds his audience.  It won’t be me but he does speak for many people.  I would like to think that there are more Mike fans than Rush fans out there in conservative-land.  Do you think he will be successful?

 

McDonnell back-pedals on the ultrasound bill

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Richmond Times Dispatch:

After days of unrelenting criticism, the House of Delegates today passed a weakened version of the ultrasound mandate after consultation with Gov. Bob McDonnell, amending it so that women could reject a procedure if it must be done vaginally

The bill would still require that all women having an abortion undergo an ultrasound to determine the gestational age, but women subject to a transvaginal procedure would be able to decline.

Oftentimes, the procedure must be performed that way, versus on the abdomen, early in a pregnancy.

Because the House made changes to a Senate measure — Senate Bill 484, sponsored by Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel, R-Fauquier — it must go back before the Senate with the changes.

But this afternoon, Vogel indicated she will try to strike her bill.

Apparently Del. Vogel felt the altered bill made things even worse.  This was abviously a bill that should have never been.  Make no mistake, it wasn’t about informed consent.  It was about guilting women not to have an abortion.  The hope was that if the woman seeking an aborton saw the ultrasound, she would change her mind.

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Santorum–a dodge and a miss

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Rick Santorum wanted to be anywhere but in that interview.  Mitt Romney looks like a smooth talker compared to this guy in the hot seat.  First he tried to throw his benefactor under the bus.  Then he tried to blame Obama, followed by taking a few shots at the media and saying they were playing ‘gotcha.’

His worse offense, however, was trying to turn the discussion to kids and to talk about the sex habits of young people.  The Foster Friess comments have nothing to do with young people.  That is an entirely different issue. 

What prompted the Friess remarks was the debate on health care covering contraception for grown working women.  Grown women do not have to justify their sexual behavior to anyone.  How dare Rick Santorum try to deflect a question about grown women by bringing up teenage girls?  Is he implying that grown women are really just older teenagers?

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The GOP: Suicide by Santorum

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Is the GOP intentionally committing political suicide or does it really not realize what is happening?  GOP, you have to run a real candidate.  Right now the field is narrowed down to a few  someones many people feel are either  morally reprehensible, OR someone no one likes or relates to OR someone so religiously conservative that his positions are repelling most of the people in the United States. 

The attack on women’s reproductive rights is going to bury the GOP.  The Virginia legislature has made the Old Dominion the laughing stock of the nation.  Every night we see another Marshallism ridiculed by Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, or Rachel Maddow.  Ed Schultz has probably gotten in the act also.  While people are mocking the Virginia legislature and acting like the rest of us are all a bunch of bo-hicks, the nation now turns to Rick Satorum.

Santorum has left a paper trail of remarks that belong in another era long enough to bury the GOP and alienate most women.  Remarks about contraception being harmful have turned off all but the most conservative of the pro-life community.  Comments about convenience and aspirin from GOP backers are just feeding the fires of women’s ire.  Not just the feminists are furious.  Plain old normal women who don’t usually have political interests are pretty stirred up. 

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Far right women blast JC Penney for hiring Ellen DeGeneres as a spokeswoman

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From Yahoo News:

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – One Million Moms — a project of the American Family Association — is very angry at JC Penney.

No, not because it sells sweater vests (heck, Rick Santorum is a fan of those), but because the Texas-based department store has hired Ellen DeGeneres as a spokeswoman.

And DeGeneres is — cue the scary music — gay, and open about it.

“Funny that JC Penney thinks hiring an open homosexual spokesperson will help their business when most of their customers are traditional families,” the million (or so) moms write on their website. “DeGeneres is not a true representation of the type of families that shop at their store. The majority of JC Penney shoppers will be offended and choose to no longer shop there.”

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Santorum’s Problem

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Rick Santorum has a serious problem that has no answer.  He must appeal to the conservative base.  He must strike a chord with the values people.  He needs to appeal to those who are known as the 3 G’s”  God, guns, and gay (anti).  That should not be difficult for Santorum.  His reputation in the U.S. Senate definitely fits the bill as he was very anti-gay rights, pro gun, wanted school vouchers, school prayer and those sorts of things.  He opposed anything having to do with reproductive rights.  He was anti abortion, even the hard cases.  He eschewed contraception and anything that smacked of Title X to include Planned Parenthood. 

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Extremism takes over some GOP Iowa caucus hopefuls

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Rick Perry has decided that he was been wrong about abortion.  After watching Mike Huckabee’s video on abortion, he has decided that the government does have a right to force a woman to bear a child that was conceived from rapeand/ or incest.  He was unclear about whether life of the mother should be discarded in favor of the fetus.

 My question is, when is it going to end?   If the new Perry position isn’t extreme enough, perhaps one of the big Ron Paul supporters is.  IN fact, the Ron Paul campaign is doing nothing to distance itself from this YoYo, reported  by outsidethebeltway.com :

Four years ago, the Ron Paul campaign generated controversy by not repudiating the endorsement of the neo-Nazi group Stormfront, but at least back then they didn’t actually promote the fact that they had received the endorsement. This time, though, they seem pretty proud about getting the support of a Nebraska Pastor who has made some pretty vile comments:

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The Evil, Dog-Themed White House Christmas Card

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The Foxie News Team and Sarah Palin are enjoying their mock indignation over the White  House Christmas card this year.  When will Sarah Palin’s opinion stop tickling our funny bone?  Sit back and share the hypocrisy….

Nothing says hypocrisy like the Foxies….

Fox News has been droning on for weeks about the secular war on Christmas.  It seems that they are part of the war.

From the Washingon Examiner:

And strangely enough, for a network known for reporting on the “War on Christmas,” all the Biblical references have been stripped out of the song “Joy to the World,” and instead replaced with Fox-friendly lyrics. Here’s a taste of the song: “Joy to the world for Fox News Channel, consistently number one, we are the network that viewers choose, fair and balanced news, see our ratings we don’t lose, beating the rest in TV news,” reads the first stanza. Later ones give kudos to Fox News personalities Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Shepard Smith, Megyn Kelly, Neil Cavuto, Bret Baier and the folks on “The Five.”

So, is  this a lot of reindeer crap or what?  How does Fox News get ahead with their mock war on Christmas.  Their card is funny.  I have no problem with it.  Good healthy competition is always fun.  But…why act like the President and his family are held to a higher standard regarding Christianity, of all things?
Shame of the Fox News Channel for this one.

 

Rick Perry goes Brokeback Mountain on us: Is there no end to affrontery?

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Ewwwwww, Rick.  Just Ewwwwwww.  He sounds like a commercial for Westboro Baptist Church.

WHAT is he talking about?   Gays in the military has what to do with Christmas?  What children aren’t allowed to celebrate Christmas?   Why is President Obama being blamed for any of this?  

Even Rick Perry’s staff was divided over this political ad.  So is it the bad taste ad of the political season?

How about Ron Paul’s ad?  Pretty clever.  I liked the shih tzu dog part. 

Someone needs to tell Rick Perry that victim mentality just isn’t very presidential.  This ‘war on Christmas’ BS is just that.  I have never felt that I can’t celebrate Christmas.