Hobby Lobby’s War On Low-Income Women

Hobby Lobby’s War On Low-Income Women
Now that the Supreme Court has determined two for-profit companies can claim religious exemptions to Obamacare’s birth control coverage requirement, low-income women will pay the price.



If corporations could have abortions, abortion would be a tax deduction.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Iraqi parliament delays first session as ISIS continues deadly march
• Militant leader calls for Muslims to build state
• Putin's Pilots Set to Fly Over Iraq
• US sends more troops to Iraq
• Ukraine resumes military operations against insurgents

Taliban: "We will abandon our war in Afghanistan and instead reorganize as a US corporation, as the most effective way to oppress women."- Top Conservative Cat

Meanwhile, Back In Chile
 A Chilean court said U.S. military intelligence services played a key role that led to the 1973 killings of two Americans in Chile in a case that inspired the Oscar-winning film "Missing."

A court ruling released late Monday said former U.S. Navy Capt. Ray E. Davis gave information to Chilean officials about journalist Charles Horman and student Frank Teruggi that led to their arrest and execution just days after the 1973 coup that brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power...



Roberts Court has been pretty good on gay issues. Too bad the Chief Justice isn't also a closeted woman.- Gen JC Xtian patriot

Republican Shenanigans

• Congress Quietly Deletes a Key Disclosure of Free Trips Lawmakers Take
• Rick Santorum’s Hobby Lobby movie warns Christians that U.S. is becoming Nazi Germany
• KKK at Gettysburg: Those opposing white revolution will be ‘going in the ground’
• Ku Klux Klan flag erected in Northern Ireland city that has been plagued by racist attacks
• Do Not Question the GOP's Commitment to Its Squirrel Mascot
• Republican Calls on Climate Unlikely to Produce Results, Senators Say

If you think a fertilized egg not attaching to a uterine wall is abortion then God's the most prolific abortionist of all time.- John Fugelsang

Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery
The campaign arm of the Senate Republicans has sent a series of fund-raising emails that appear to have language lifted from messages sent by the campaign arm of the House Democrats.



You can get all the birth control you need cheap at CVS, said the guy who has apparently never discussed reproduction with a woman.- LOLGOP

Fox Reporter Bullies Women 
Fox News reporter Jesse Watters said on Monday that Albuquerque police had escorted him out of the 2014 National Organization for Women (NOW) conference after he made sexist comments and failed to obtain a press pass.



Given that Jesus was obsessed with corporations, birth control & same-sex marriage, the religious right has no choice but to focus on them.- LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

• Americans show modest interest in Iraq news, less interest in World Cup
• After decades of GOP support, Cubans shifting toward the Democratic Party

Hobby Lobby gives its employees birth control. It's just decided that an IUD, for instance, causes abortions based on an email forward.- LOLGOP

At Least Someone Is Addressing Immigration 
Conceding defeat on a top domestic priority, President Barack Obama blamed a Republican "year of obstruction" for the demise of sweeping immigration legislation on Monday and said he would take new steps without Congress to fix as much of the system as he can on his own.




If your party stands for deportations, taking away birth control coverage and squirrel costumes, rethink everything.- LOLGOP

Business/Tech News

• Oil gains as China manufacturing improves
• GM recalls another 8.5 million vehicles
• Lockheed Martin to move employees to new retirement plan
• Report: Health law sign-ups dogged by data flaws

BREAKING: In 5-4 decision Supreme Court rules that Koch Industries can run for president.- Top Conservative Cat

Unregulated Big Business Effects
 In Pennsylvania's gas drilling boom, newer and unconventional wells leak far more often than older and traditional ones, according to a study of state inspection reports for 41,000 wells.

The results suggest that leaks of methane could be a problem for drilling across the nation...




I used to want to be religious but then I realized it's mostly worrying about other people's uteri.- LOLGOP

Do you remember the smile on the little girl's face when Frosty the Snowman came back to life? Well, that's kind of how I felt today when the honorable Mayor Rob Ford returned to the city of Toronto.- Jimmy Kimmel


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Odd News

• Rob Ford: 'I had become my own worst enemy'
• Ramadan a dilemma for some World Cup players
• Native Americans Had a Precolonial Baby Boom
• Groom chases thief who grabbed wedding gifts
• Woman finds wedding ring missing for five years was in her dog

Time To Deflate Photo

The water spirals of Elakala Waterfalls, Blackwater Falls State Park, West Virginia, USA

Peace.