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45770. robertjayb - 6/18/2014 9:27:16 PM "The U.S. Patent Office ruled Wednesday that the Washington team's nickname is "disparaging of Native Americans" and that federal trademarks for the name must be canceled."
I'm aware that taking offense seems to be a national pastime and I don't disagree with the eventual outcome of this dispute but I would prefer it come about through the weight of public opinion, not the proverbial "heavy hand" of government. Thought Police will be emboldened.
45771. judithathome - 6/18/2014 9:43:23 PM Rather than being decided by government, it will instead be decided by the greed of the organization. They had their chance to change it on their own...now, money and profits will do FOR them what they would not do for themselves. 45772. robertjayb - 6/18/2014 11:44:01 PM http://turcopolier.typepad.com/files/drinking-the-kool-aid.htm
Drinking the Koolaid
This 2004 article by Col. Pat Lang is regretably
timely given the profusion of Bush era conspirators showing up on TV to roundly deny any connection of their actions to today's unpleasantness in Iraq.
I think it follows nicely with Judith's link above on Tony Blair. 45773. iiibbb - 6/19/2014 12:22:31 AM Absolutely nothing 45774. arkymalarky - 6/19/2014 1:53:03 AM Wow. Stan really liked that. 45775. robertjayb - 6/27/2014 12:20:34 AM A good man gone:
"Howard Baker, who became widely known for questioning President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal, died Thursday at age 88."
News Quiz: What was the Tennessee Senator's best question? 45776. judithathome - 6/27/2014 12:22:26 AM "What did he know and when did he know it?" 45777. arkymalarky - 6/28/2014 8:45:37 PM Amy Holmes is a drip. 45778. judithathome - 7/2/2014 6:56:53 PM Supreme Court Upholds Little Caesars Right To Feed Christian Employees To Lions 45779. arkymalarky - 7/3/2014 4:11:02 AM I guarantee you that if you ask any one of those individuals carrying signs and being so hateful toward those families on the buses whether or not they supported abortion rights they would to a person say no they did not. What a bunch of despicable hypocrites. 45780. arkymalarky - 7/3/2014 6:16:27 PM wonkette.com/553398/california-gets-in-on-hot-fun-screaming-at-brown-babies-action 45781. iiibbb - 7/5/2014 4:38:18 PM This guy again
I’ve watched for three days now, waiting.
Unmentioned in the majority opinion, missing from Justice Ginsberg’s scathing dissent, lost among the Left’s towering outrage and the Right’s smug self-righteousness, it seems to have gone by unnoticed, that small ominous implication.
But, like the man said, that’s how it always begins, very small.
The very crux of the abortion issue is when and where human life begins. At conception? At implantation? At viability? At birth? Every single possible benchmark has legal, medical, social, religious, ethical, and moral implications, significant ones. All directly impact individual liberty as we Americans generally define it. The answer isn’t something that can be easily and obviously quantified, rather it’s a philosophical one and thus something we as a people will likely never agree on.
And that brings us back to the word: abortifacients.
In the court’s 5-4 majority opinion, Justice Samuel Alito wrote,
“The owners of the businesses have religious objections to abortion, and according to their religious beliefs the four contraceptive methods at issue are abortifacients. If the owners comply with the [Obama administration’s contraception] mandate, they believe they will be facilitating abortions…”
And that, that right there, that quiet innocuous almost unnoticed legal assumption, that’s the real issue here.
By essentially agreeing with the Green family that Plan-B, Ella, and IUDs are in point of fact abortifacients, despite the fact that they are not medically classified as such, the Supreme Court of the United States has done far more than rule on women’s health care, they’ve ruled to settle the philosophical question of when life begins.
Or rather, they’ve allowed corporations to decide.
Not people. Not the court. Not even the government. Corporations. 45782. judithathome - 7/5/2014 5:42:31 PM Well, they might as well say life begins at the THOUGHT of pregnancy, then, because an IUD doesn't cause ANYTHING...it prevents it from happening.
So logically then, the rhythm method is an abortifacient...so is having a headache and refusing sex.
So is deciding not to have a baby...what next? Special police coming to our bedrooms and overseeing the sex act to make sure "new life" has an unfettered chance? 45783. iiibbb - 7/7/2014 1:37:51 AM Pitchforks 45784. judithathome - 7/7/2014 11:11:50 PM Sorry, I just ate. 45785. arkymalarky - 7/15/2014 11:22:23 PM gotta love the guy who tried to take a bag full of viagra to the Dominican Republic to see what girls he could hook up with talking about the diseases that these children from Honduras and Guatemala might be carrying. Such irony. Such disgusting irony. 45786. judithathome - 7/16/2014 6:05:12 PM
All these rumors about those "dangerous" criminals disguised as children coming across the border are getting out of hand.
Last night I saw an interview with a Congressman from Georgia...no need to even designate his party...and he was saying the border patrol was warning that these kids might be bringing ebola into the country.
Ebola. That's right...a virus found only in AFRICA.
The reporter asked him several times and each time he swore that the border patrol has told his "staff" that. Several times. Ebola.
45787. arkymalarky - 7/16/2014 7:59:37 PM what's pathetic is that he's a retired obgyn. Ugh. that's scarier to me than that stupid right wing ad with Uncle Sam playing doctor. 45788. judithathome - 7/31/2014 10:12:50 PM Newsflash: The House Republicans withdrew the vote this afternoon on their OWN immigration bill due to lack of support...is there no level too low to which these assholes won't stoop?
This is like a lawyer telling a client, hey, we have a weak defense so we're just gonna plead guilty and go home. Tough luck, buddy. 45789. wabbit - 8/2/2014 3:53:47 PM Hard to believe this whackjob keeps getting elected.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) believes that the United States government wants to use thousands of undocumented immigrants for medical experiments, she said on the radio show "WallBuilders Live" on Wednesday.
“And now President Obama is trying to bring all those foreign nationals, the illegal aliens to the country, and he has said that he will put them in the foster care system," Bachmann said in the interview. "Well, I will tell you from personal experience, we don’t have enough foster parents now in the country for the kids in America. We certainly don’t have enough foster parents for all of the illegal aliens that the president is trying to bring in right now." The progressive group People For the American Way posted the audio on its Right Wing Watch blog Wednesday afternoon.
Bachmann said that hospitals could "get millions of dollars in government grants if they can conduct medical research on somebody," suggesting that the hospitals could do that research on undocumented children. "A little kid can’t say no if they’re a ward of the state," said Bachmann. "So here you could have this institution getting millions of dollars from our government to do medical experimentation and a kid can’t even say no. It’s sick.”
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