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U.S. House Amends Budget, Removes Funding for Planned Parenthood (Taxpayer Funded Abortions)
Post Date: 2011-02-19 03:42:43 by Murron
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U.S. House Amends Budget, Removes Funding for Planned Parenthood WASHINGTON — Anti-abortion lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives inserted a provision into the pending 2011 spending bill Friday that blocks all federal funding for Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest reproductive health organization. They argue that tax funds shouldn't go toward terminating pregnancies. The amendment, sponsored by 6th District Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., passed on a vote of 240-185, generally along party lines. All but seven Republicans voted for the cut; 10 Democrats also supported the measure. All local lawmakers supported the defunding measure. The provision is now part of ...
Sarah Palin Thinks The Obama Birther Question Is "Distracting" and "Annoying"
Post Date: 2011-02-18 22:25:56 by go65
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Hey Michelle Bachmann, did you hear what Sarah Palin just said? When asked if she questions Barack Obama's faith and citizenship, Palin says, decidedly, "I don't." She's more concerned about the economy and his policies. She added that the whole birth certificate thing is "distracting, it gets annoying. Other people can engage in that conversation." Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/sarah-palin-obama-birth-certificate-faith-distracting- annoying-2011-2#ixzz1EN6hB0ib
Military chaplain: Soldier’s rape ‘must have been God’s will’
Post Date: 2011-02-18 17:41:16 by Ferret Mike
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WASHINGTON – A lawsuit targeting the Pentagon contains an astonishing anecdote about a retired Sergeant's experience after being sexually assaulted by a colleague during a deployment to Afghanistan. The lawsuit, available here (PDF), was filed by 17 military women against Secretaries of Defense Robert Gates and Donald Rumsfeld in Virginia. It assails "the military's repeated failures to take action in rape cases created a culture where violence against women was tolerated, violating the plaintiffs' Constitutional rights." Sergeant Rebekah Havrilla alleges in the complaint that in 2006, after her military supervisor repeatedly sexually harassed her, she was raped ...
MSNBC: Wisconsin Teachers Out to Lunch
Post Date: 2011-02-18 17:24:16 by jwpegler
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This morning on the MSNBC show Jansing & Company, they showed an interesting graph on the real financial situation with the teachers in Wisconsin. According to MSNBC: - The average single private sector employee pays 18% of the cost of his/her healthcare insurance. - The average married private sector employee pays 29% of the cost of healthcare insurance for themselves and their family. - In Wisconsin, teachers only pay 6% of the cost of their healthcare insurance. Wisconsin has a budget deficit of $3.5 billion. They are constitutionally mandated to balance their budget. To help balance the budget, Governor Walker has proposed to increase the amount teachers contribute to their ...
Senator: Wis. Dems To Stay Away For Days, Weeks
Post Date: 2011-02-18 16:45:04 by Brian S
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CHICAGO Democrats who fled Wisconsin to block a vote on a sweeping anti-union bill could stay in hiding for days or even weeks. Democratic state Sen. Jon Erpenbach (erp-UN-bahk) spoke to The Associated Press at a Chicago hotel on Friday. He and fellow Democratic senators left Wisconsin on Thursday to delay the near-certain passage of a bill backed by Republicans and GOP Gov. Scott Walker. Thousands of protesters have also flocked to the Capitol in Madison, Wis., to demonstrate against the bill. Erpenbach says there's no fixed date for Democrats to return to Wisconsin. He say all 14 Senate Democrats will meet somewhere in Illinois on Friday. He would not say where or exactly when.
Ohio’s Turn To Revolt: Thousands Flood Statehouse Over Anti-Union Bill
Post Date: 2011-02-18 16:43:05 by Brian S
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The massive, government-crippling protests in Madison, Wisconsin have now spilled over into Ohio, where over 5,000 rallied Thursday in opposition to a bill that would eliminate collective bargaining rights for state workers. Ohio's Senate Bill 5 is essentially the same as what Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker proposed, and it seems to be recieving about the same response. Just last week, more than 800 people showed up to protest the bill while it was still in committee, packing out the statehouse in a show of numbers that Thursday's demonstration easily topped. The collective bargaining power of unionized workers is a key bullwark for American laborers, who've often been forced to ...
'Narnia' producer, queer teenage superhero novelist ODs & dies
Post Date: 2011-02-18 16:25:01 by Happy Quanzaa
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A Hollywood film producer and novelist was found dead of an apparent drug overdose yesterday in his Greenwich Village apartment, police sources said. Perry Moore, 39, was discovered at around 2 p.m. in his Houston Street pad, a doorman high-rise just off Sixth Avenue, the sources added. Moore was an executive producer of the blockbuster "Chronicles of Narnia" trilogy and had penned a well-received fiction work in 2007 about a gay teenage superhero. Sources said prescription meds were found in Moore's pad, but no criminality is suspected. The medical examiner will determine the cause of death. "I was talking to him last night. He was such a sweet guy," a doorman ...
Democrats flee Madison, Wisconsin (with police chasing them)
Post Date: 2011-02-18 15:27:17 by no gnu taxes
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Never in my life would I imagine Wisconsin would become the most fascinating state for politics, but that’s what it is right now as the newly elected Republican governor and legislature stand up to the public employee unions that are crippling that state financially. This is not the Cocktail Party establishment playing go-along-to-get-along games…this is what Republicans need to do in every state, coast to coast. Grow that spine. Stand up. Be heard. Sock it to the unions and the rest of the Democrat machine. Do not be afraid of bad media coverage or being called “big meanies” for doing what voters WANT you to do to get the country back on sound financial footing. ...
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker: Union Fighting Hero!
Post Date: 2011-02-18 15:24:27 by no gnu taxes
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New Jersey governor Chris Christie has some competition for the nation’s toughest fiscally conservative governor — Wisconsin’s Scott Walker, who is starting off his first term with a bang, taking on the state unions in a battle that has mobilized the nation. You know he’s on to something if you look at the unions and assorted liberals crying foul. The opposition’s videos are everywhere, but here’s a liberal-biased, Democracy Now! interview with John Nichols of The Nation magazine and Brad Lutes, a Wisconsin public school teacher. By the end of the interview they resort to comparing Walker to Egypt’s Hosni Mubarack and the union workers to those he ...
Conservatives Lose Effort For Deeper Spending Cuts
Post Date: 2011-02-18 15:22:08 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-run House has said "no" to the most conservative members who wanted to cut even more than the GOP's budget-cutting bill. The vote Friday was a rare setback for conservatives and their tea party supporters, who were so important to the GOP's election success last fall. By a 281-147 vote, the House refused to cut $22 billion more in domestic programs. The overall bill would cut $60 billion from federal programs in the remaining seven months of the government's current budget year. The defeated proposal would have trimmed 5.5 percent more from domestic programs and 11 percent more from Congress' own budget. Defense and other ...
Unions Still Suck!
Post Date: 2011-02-18 15:19:53 by no gnu taxes
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It’s about time America wakes up to the union bullshit that has been plaguing this country for far too long. I’ve posted on this before here and here. Government unions should be outlawed. They work for the people, are paid by the people, and any and all monetary issues should be decided by the people. The shit has finally hit the fan with this bullshit. I for one am ecstatic over the idea that teacher’s unions are finally going to get the crap kicked out of them by the American tax payer. Unions are about power. Anything else they say they are about is a lie. Plain and simple. Here’s a piece from Hot Air: If anyone thought that unions were paragons of democracy, ...
Why Democrats Suck
Post Date: 2011-02-18 15:16:35 by no gnu taxes
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I present you the proof. I find that people tend to get behind issues and have little if any knowledge of what they are backing. It is a shame what is happening on US college campuses. I have heard that ignorance is bliss but these guys are plain STUPID!
Governor Walker Courageously Works to Save Wisconsin From a Bankrupting 3.6 Billion Dollar Budget Shortfall Amidst the the Thuggery of the Unions
Post Date: 2011-02-18 14:04:13 by no gnu taxes
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has had an interesting week. Thousands have lay siege to the state capitol in Madison as public union members, often seen carrying violent, threatening signs calling the governor everything from cheap to being Hitler. They are protesting Scott Walker’s budget proposal which would make the state’s union employees pay a small percentage, half of the national average in the private sector, of their health insurance and pension contribution, as well as new limits on collective bargaining rights. Wisconsin teacher protests have led to the school system in several communities to be shut down. Yesterday, the Republican senate was to vote on passage, but a ...
Wisconsin Gov. Walker Ginned Up Budget Shortfall To Undercut Worker Rights
Post Date: 2011-02-18 13:37:21 by go65
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Wisconsin's new Republican governor has framed his assault on public worker's collective bargaining rights as a needed measure of fiscal austerity during tough times. The reality is radically different. Unlike true austerity measures -- service rollbacks, furloughs, and other temporary measures that cause pain but save money -- rolling back worker's bargaining rights by itself saves almost nothing on its own. But Walker's doing it anyhow, to knock down a barrier and allow him to cut state employee benefits immediately. Furthermore, this broadside comes less than a month after the state's fiscal bureau -- the Wisconsin equivalent of the Congressional Budget Office -- ...
The unions are killing this country.
Post Date: 2011-02-18 13:26:37 by no gnu taxes
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I don’t know how much time you spend in a day thinking about or reading up on Wisconsin, but this is an amazing development: the new Republican Governor, Scott Walker, and the Republican state legislature are aggressively combatting the public employee unions that are attempting to drag Wisconsin down into fiscal insolvency the way these same Democrat-loyal unions loot treasuries in all the blue states, like here in Illinois. The unions are killing this country. I don’t know any other way to say that. One of the most liberating moments of my life came in 2008, after I realized the Democrat Party was no longer something I belonged to, when I finally said out loud what I had ...
Wisconsin Union Bosses: Not About Wages or Benefits, It’s All About the Unions
Post Date: 2011-02-18 13:23:54 by no gnu taxes
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You’ve probably heard about Scott Walker’s “evil” cuts to public-sector workers, the fact that his budget is going to cost them more for their benefits and going to cause them to contribute more toward their retirement and, in essence, bring them into parity with the private sector. In fact, you may have even been led to believe that the tens of thousands of marchers and the teachers’ union members who called in sick so they could protest at the statehouse are doing so because they’re upset with having more money taken out of their check. If you’ve been led to believe the Madison mobs are engaging in their “popular uprising” over money, ...
Liberal Cowards and Communists In Wisconsin
Post Date: 2011-02-18 13:21:08 by no gnu taxes
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Have you seen the Marxists and Communists led by Barack Obama's "Organizing for America" arm on display in Wisconsin?? Thousands of public unions employees and students--some as young as grade school-- gathered in true community organizer fashion protesting the new Governor's plan to close a $3 Billion shortfall in that state--caused mainly by liberal policies, giveaways, entitlements, and pay backs to union thugs. As I have said many times, big government liberalism in bed with the labor movement is never going to end well and you are seeing on full display! This protest is being led by operatives from Obama's Organizing for America, so if anyone believes Obama is ...
DNC, Communists, Obama, OFA butting in to Wisconsin’s Affairs
Post Date: 2011-02-18 13:19:31 by no gnu taxes
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Didn’t I tell you the Democrat Party isn’t the Democrat Party anymore? Haven’t I told you they’re communists, or at the very least, fellow travelers? I believe I said the same thing about Obama and the activist group, Organizing for America. Oh no! I’m the crazy one, right? The Democrat National Committee’s Organizing for America arm — the remnant of the 2008 Obama campaign — is playing an active role in organizing protests against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s attempt to strip most public employees of collective bargaining rights…. ….Obama’s own clear stance against Walker…. Didn’t I also tell you these protests ...
Congresswoman Receives Threats Over Proposal To Stop Army Funding Of NASCAR
Post Date: 2011-02-18 13:04:43 by Brian S
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Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) has been campaigning for the removal of the U.S. Army’s sponsorship of a NASCAR entrant in the Sprint Cup Series, a project that costs the Pentagon about $7 million dollars per year. While McCollum has fielded irate calls from those who are angry about her proposal, the threat, delivered via fax, was the first of its kind. For years, the Army has sponsored a NASCAR team as a means of getting the message out about the armed forces, and the career prospects it has to offer. At first glance, it seems like a perfect fit – with NASCAR’s supporters leaning heavily Republican, and supportive of the kind of values that often draws people to the armed ...
Deciphering the code phrases used by global warming dumbasses
Post Date: 2011-02-18 13:03:58 by no gnu taxes
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A handy cut-out and keep guide to phrases frequently used in global warming news stories, and what they really mean: “since records began” - since 1850 if using observed data, or about 1980 if using satellite data “might, may, could, perhaps” - we can say anything is happening if we put enough modifiers in front of it “experts say” - (a) we’re an NGO in need of funding or (b) I’m a scientist in need of funding “science is settled” - stop asking questions, we know better than you skeptics/deniers/cranks/scary people “consensus of scientists” - the wisdom of crowds is all we have left, so SHUT UP “CO2 pollution” - ...
Social Security Agency: GOP Spending Cuts Could Force Furloughs Of Social Security Workers
Post Date: 2011-02-18 13:00:06 by Brian S
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Upping the ante in the budget faceoff, the Obama administration warned Friday that workers who distribute Social Security benefits might be furloughed if congressional Republicans force cuts in federal spending. In a letter the Social Security Administration sent to its employees' union, agency officials said that while no decision about a furlough had been made, one was possible "given the potential of reduced congressional appropriations." The letter was circulated by congressional Democrats, who said in a written statement that such cuts could mean shuttered Social Security offices and delayed benefit payments. The letter's distribution by Democrats underscored how ...
Tenn. panel votes to bust state teachers' unions
Post Date: 2011-02-18 12:59:19 by Happy Quanzaa
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We're seeing more and more of this: NASHVILLE — The Senate Education Committee voted along party lines Wednesday to abolish collective bargaining between teachers unions and school boards across the state.The vote was 6-3, with all Republicans on the panel voting for the bill and all Democrats against.Sponsor Sen. Jack Johnson said passage of the bill — SB113 — will remove "an albatross from around the neck of our school boards across the state" and remove a roadblock to education reform. Labor unions are part of the free market. But their historical rationale is to protect workers from exploitation by unscrupulous employers that don't follow the law or ...
Are The Wild Teacher Protests In Wisconsin A Prelude To The Economic Riots That Are Coming To America?
Post Date: 2011-02-18 12:13:46 by Capitalist Eric
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Have you seen video of the teacher protests that are going on in Wisconsin? We haven't seen anything like this in America in quite some time. If you haven't seen video of the protests yet, some very good raw footage is posted below. On the one hand it is good to see Americans coming together and standing up for what they believe in, but on the other hand what these teachers are freaking out about shows just how much America has changed. These teachers are not protesting for liberty, freedom or to change the government. Rather, they are protesting because they want things to remain the same. They simply don't want anyone to mess with their pay. Well, the truth is that none of us ...
Terror Expert Emerson Feels His Own Heat Over Finances
Post Date: 2011-02-18 11:57:45 by Brian S
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Washington — Steven Emerson has made his reputation by scrutinizing American Muslim organizations and individuals, trying to uncover their possible ties to terror groups. But lately he is being scrutinized himself, by a Nashville, Tenn., daily newspaper digging into the finances of his operation. LUKEFORD.NETEmerson: ‘All of this was approved by outside legal and accounting experts.’ Now, under pressure to introduce more transparency to his tax-exempt charitable organization, Emerson is attempting to explain how and why the Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation avoids revealing much of the information that charities are routinely required to disclose. Emerson, it ...
Public Worker Protests Spread From Wisconsin to Ohio
Post Date: 2011-02-18 11:27:02 by Brian S
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Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) -- In what union leaders say is becoming a national fight, protests against legislation to restrict public employees’ collective-bargaining rights spread from Wisconsin to Ohio. In Madison, Wisconsin, crowds that police estimated at 25,000 engulfed the Capitol and its lawns yesterday during a third-straight day of protests as Democratic senators fled the legislative session. In Columbus, Ohio, about 3,800 state workers, teachers and other public employees came to the statehouse for a committee hearing. President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohioan, argued over whether the bills are “an assault on unions.” Ohio firefighters Dave ...
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