Wednesday, July 2, 2014

CNN calls out Hobby Lobby for investing in birth control










CNN calls out Hobby Lobby for investing in birth control
CNN host Ashleigh Banfield on Wednesday highlighted the “hypocrisy” of Hobby Lobby for investing in companies that made the same birth control products that it refused to provide to female employees.



If you think we don't have enough guns but too much birth control, have I got a craft store for you.- LOLGOP








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The Iran War On Drugs Works?
There are stories some people might not expect to read about Iran – and its progressive drugs policy is one. As a number of countries begin to slowly reconsider their approach towards illicit drugs, following the avant-gardiste move of José Mujica’s Uruguay, the issue of drugs and treatment of drug abuse might be one where Iran could provide some meaningful contribution to the rest of the world.



New Rule - and this one goes out especially to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who is a big fan, by the way - never misses the show, loves New Rules... This one's for you, Al: When you don't give people a seat at the table, they tend to want to blow up the table.- Bill Maher









The War On Refugee Children
Protesters shouting anti-immigration slogans blocked the arrival of three buses carrying undocumented Central American families to a U.S. Border Patrol station on Tuesday after they were flown to San Diego from Texas.



The last time Americans paid this much for gas during July was in 2008 when average prices reached a record-breaking $4.11 a gallon.- Sen. Bernie Sanders







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Maybe we should stop calling it "birth control" and calling it "child support prevention". If it's for *men*, well, then it's untouchable.- Amanada Marcotte tweet








A Fighter Fighting The War On Women
Lisa Sendrow, the survivor of sexual assault who George Will recently claimed was using her rape to get a “coveted status,” said on Wednesday that his “grotesque” Washington Post column could trigger traumatic reactions in other survivors.

In a piece early last month, Will used Sendrow’s rape to make his point about “the supposed campus epidemic of rape, a.k.a. ‘sexual assault.’”



  "John Boehner is going to sue Obama. That's Plan A. If that doesn't work, Plan B, he's going to get the Uruguayan soccer player to bite him" - Bill Maher




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The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing 97% of the world's scientists that their data about the earth and oceans is correct.- LOLGOP






"We have a profit-based healthcare system. If people are questioning why this is a bad thing, here's a good example of why. Because pharmaceutical companies, they're not interested in making you better. They're interested in making money." - Bill Maher




Rush To The Rescue!
Radio host Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday suggested that women who needed birth control but couldn’t get it because it was banned by their religious employers could solve their problems if they stopped having sex.




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Weird how uncontroversial health care was till we made sure that even people with vaginas should have basic access to it.- LOLGOP



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Next on the list of things your employer gets to randomly decide causes abortions -- weekends!- LOLGOP






Goldman Sachs Gets A Hand Slap
Goldman Sachs will pay an $800,000 fine and has returned $1.67 million to investors in order to settle charges that it failed to protect clients from harmful trading in its dark pool, Sigma-X, announced the Financial Regulatory Authority.



Republicans have to stop saying that all those Central American kids we're detaining prove we have to secure the border. The border is secure. How do you think we caught all those damn kids?- Bill Maher






Forgive them, father, for they hath not incorporated. - LOLGOP


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Gangkhar Puensum, is the highest mountain in Bhutan and a strong candidate for the highest unclimbed mountain in the world with an elevation of 7,570 meters and a prominence of 2,995 meters. Its name means "3 mountain siblings".

Peace.

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







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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




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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







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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







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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







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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



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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



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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.








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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.