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2012-08-20, 12:23 | Link #23002 | |
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2012-08-20, 13:33 | Link #23003 | |
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2012-08-20, 13:40 | Link #23004 | |
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Misogyny, female biology, cultural values, how rape works, statistics.... ah well, I guess I came close
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2012-08-20, 15:57 | Link #23005 | |
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2012-08-20, 16:45 | Link #23006 | |
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2012-08-20, 17:34 | Link #23007 |
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Top Republicans Tell Akin He Should Withdraw
The most significant item in this story is Karl Rove's suggestion that he will no longer run anti-McCaskill advertising in Missouri if Akin stays in. The Missouri Senate seat has been considered among the most vulnerable to a Republican gain, and the right-wing PACs have been buying large quantities of advertising time to attack McCaskill. (You may notice a certain homogeneity among the people who speak in the second of those ads.) If Akin continues to stay in, as he claims he will do, and the big PACs pull out, it will be a major victory for Democrats seeking to retain control of the Senate. The only good thing about this debacle for the Republicans is that it is happening now rather than in October when less-informed voters will start to pay attention to the election. Republican Senate candidate George Allen, who is also mentioned in the Times article as encouraging Akin to withdraw, knows whereof he speaks. His calling a staffer for now-Senator James Webb a "macaca" contributed to his losing the Virginia Senate race in 2006. The fact that Akin and intended Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan have collaborated on other anti-abortion measures with similarly absurd concepts like "forcible rape" has only started to creep into public consciousness. (Yesterday New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd likened the notion of "nonforcible rape" to "nonlethal murder.") Last night the Romney/Ryan campaign said only that the candidates believed rape was an acceptable grounds for abortion, but Ryan's own espoused positions on the subject are much less tolerant. He has been a major force behind so-called "personhood" laws which would define life as beginning at conception. This would define almost any abortion for whatever reason as murder, along with morning-after pills like RU486. Today Romney himself took a much harder stance against Akin's claims calling them “insulting, inexcusable and, frankly, wrong.” I've written more about the Akin case here, here and here.
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Apple's market value exceeds Microsoft's during 1999 bubble
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...87J0KM20120820
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2012-08-20, 19:12 | Link #23011 | |
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2012-08-21, 06:46 | Link #23017 | |
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Shell plans at least $1 billion a year China shale gas investment China would soon be the centre of the world - the centre of pollution. [/sarcasm]
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2012-08-21, 07:06 | Link #23019 | |
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This is often a problem some politicians have when they try to go up the political ladder. Their views that are acceptable at a low local level start to become unacceptable on the state level. I think what tells you how much Akin has bungled this, is that even the troglodyte denizens of Free Republic aren't defending him. One thing to consider is that Akin isn't TOTALLY off the ball. Violent sexual assault resulting in pregnancy is actually pretty rare. But that's due to a wide range of factors, emotional stress resulting in a miscarriage being only one of them. I honestly think a greater statistical factor would be the failure on the rapists part to successively deposit semen in the woman's vagina. ...but really. I can't ethically give Akin a pass on this. If you are even going to SUGGEST regulating peoples personal freedom to do something, then you better damn well know the terminology of what you're talking about. I didn't give Carolyn McCarthy a pass for "Shoulder thing that goes up", so it'd be hypocritical to give one to Akin. And the screw up that Akin did is a much more offensive muckup.
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2012-08-21, 07:09 | Link #23020 | |
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