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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

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

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

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

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

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

Peace.

Monday, June 30, 2014

Christian or Sharia Law?

White House: Supreme Court jeopardizes the health of women with Hobby Lobby ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that some business owners are not required to provide birth control coverage to employees puts women’s health at risk, the White House said on Monday, and called on Congress to make contraception widely available.

REMINDER: Birth control prevents abortions, unlike conservatives.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

Think it's tough to explain to Americans how popular soccer is? Imagine telling foreigners there are Americans who'd vote for another Bush.- LOLGOP

Bush Mercenary Effect
Newly disclosed documents show that a senior Blackwater employee stymied an investigation into the security contractor’s operations in Iraq by threatening to kill a State Department investigator, The New York Times reported. The documents, which included a memo from Aug. 31, 2007, raised questions about whether increased governmental oversight could have prevented the deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians killed by Blackwater contractors on Sept. 16, 2007, in Nisour Square, Baghdad.

This means its okay for me to kick a Supreme Court Justice right in the shin because my religion considers punishing stupidity a sacrament.- Will Durst Tweet

Conservatives spread fear that immigration reform could lead to more soccer.- LOLGOP

Republican Shenanigans

Tea Party Recruitment Failure

The chairman of the Mississippi Federation of College Republicans (MFCR) said on Monday that he had resigned, and was in the process of switching his party affiliation to Democrat because of the extremism of Tea Party members.

There's no way the GOP could ever look back and regret killing immigration reform & siding with men who want to deny birth control coverage.- LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

Newt Gingrich can now object to your birth control coverage on moral grounds. Rush Limbaugh. Donald Trump.

On moral grounds. - LOLGOP

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Justice Ruth Bader Socks It To Chief Justice Roberts
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg said the ruling on the Hobby Lobby case was based on a misreading of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and would likely open the door to a host of unintended consequences.

“Little doubt that RFRA claims will proliferate, for the Court’s expansive notion of corporate personhood – combined with its other errors in construing RFRA – invites for-profit entities to seek religion-based exemptions from regulations they deem offensive to their faith,” she wrote.

Business/Tech News

Thanks to Justice Alito and George W. Bush, we'll soon find out all kinds of weird things our boss' think their religions believe.- LOLGOP

And The Supreme Court Next Act: Rules Against Unions
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dealt a setback to unions by ruling that in-home care workers in Illinois who are paid by the state are not similar enough to full-fledged government employees to be compelled to pay union dues.

A big movie opened. "Transformers: Age of Extinction." You know, the Transformers — they transform. They are robots in disguise. I don't know if it will do well. After all these World Cup games, Americans can't handle any more excitement.- Craig Ferguson

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Mt. Roraima, the triple border point of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana and one of the oldest geological formations on Earth.

Peace.

Friday, June 27, 2014

Massachusetts Abortion Clinics Boost Security After Supreme Court Ruling On Buffer Zones

Massachusetts Abortion Clinics Boost Security After Supreme Court Ruling On Buffer Zones
Massachusetts is beefing up security around abortion clinics and scrambling for a legal fix after the U.S. Supreme Court voided the state's buffer zone law that kept protesters 35 feet away, saying it violated freedom of speech.

Boston, Worcester and Springfield, the state's largest cities, have deployed extra police to clinics, and abortion-provider Planned Parenthood said it was training new "patient escorts" to help women through protests if needed.

REMINDER: Unlike screaming at women trying to get into clinics, Obamacare actually prevents abortions.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

"I guess now Dick Cheney knows what it feels like when someone you thought was a friend shoots you in the face." --Jon Stewart on Fox News' Megyn Kelly calling out Cheney for being wrong on Iraq

Rand Paul Versus Dick Cheney
On the Sunday morning television shows this past weekend—against the backdrop of an Iraq in flames—former Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) continued their ongoing feud and the battle for the (national security) soul of the Republican Party. In recent months, as Mother Jones has reported that Paul in 2009 accused Cheney of using 9/11 as an excuse to launch the Iraq invasion to benefit Halliburton (the corporation Cheney once led) and called on the GOP to disassociate itself with the former vice president, Cheney's allies have slammed the senator for expressing reckless positions.

SO HARD TO SPLIT MY TIME THESE DAYS BETWEEN MAKING SURE POOR PEOPLE DON'T GET MEDICAID AND YELLING AT PREGNANT WOMEN. - LOLGOP

Republican Shenanigans

Impeachment - n. the appropriate punishment for any Democratic president being elected twice. - LOLGOP

WTF?
A top official with New York’s Oath Keepers chapter sparred with a Fox News radio host over an individual’s right to disobey laws they believe to be unconstitutional.

The group, which is comprised mostly of retired and active-duty law enforcement personnel, claims they are not bound to enforce such laws due to their oaths to defend the constitution.

Mississippi Tea Party Lawyer Commits Suicide
One of the supporters of Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) who was allegedly involved in directing a political blogger to break into the nursing home of Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-MS) wife, has committed suicide, according to a reporter for The Clarion-Ledger of Mississippi.

Republicans killed immigration reform again, but at least they sacrificed Marco Rubio's political career to do it.- LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

One year ago today, the Senate passed a bipartisan immigration reform bill. Leaders in the House have failed to act. - President Barack Obama tweet

Tea Party Won't Accept Mississippi Loss
The Tea Party-backed candidate refusing to concede defeat to Republican U.S. Senator Thad Cochran in Mississippi's primary runoff said his campaign has found more than 1,000 instances of ballots cast by people who were ineligible to vote.

40% of US Want To Be The World Police
Most Americans want the United States to do less overseas, with the question of the country’s global role divisive across the political spectrum, a survey said Thursday.

Six in ten said the United States should focus more on home and less overseas, according to a wide-ranging study of US political views by the Pew Research Center.

Why do conservatives think the poor have it easy? There's lots on TV that tells them that & almost none that shows how hard it is to be poor. - LOLGOP

Chris McDaniel wants to spend the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer invalidating black votes. Tea Party loves helping Dems keep the Senate.- LOLGOP

Business/Tech News

75% of conservatives say the poor have it easy, which explains why their policy is to create more poors.- LOLGOP

Bernie Madoff Effect?
The stock market is fragmented into over 50 individual marketplaces owned and operated by the giants of finance, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Morgan Stanley and other large securities firms who do not allow customers not to their liking to trade there. These “dark pools” are “dark” because they are not transparent to the public, to ordinary traders or to the media.

The U.S. lost to Germany today, but because FIFA rules dictate that teams get one point for a tie, three points for a win, and zero points for a loss, and both the U.S. and Portugal had a score of four, and because the U.S. had a higher goal differential, the U.S. still advances. That's the rules — and that in a nutshell is why Americans don't follow soccer.- Conan O'Brien

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World's highest climbing wall, Netherlands.

Best Wishes for a peaceful weekend and may your futbol team win.