February 2012
55 posts
Religious Poppycock
Love those bird photos… WOW!!!
Sorry to be SO serious SO early this morning, folks, but this flap over birth control by the GOP & Catholic bishops is just one big giant RED HERRING! So… I laid out why in Moms Hugs & would love to read your comments! Hugs ~ Moms
Religious Poppycock — http://momshugs.blogspot.com
America is one hell of a country, according to...
by E.D. Kain
“The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n.”
~from Paradise Lost
“This is not a political war at all,” Rick Santorum told Catholic students at Ave Maria college. “This is not a cultural war. This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good,...
The Guardian Comes Through With Another Climate...
Attacks paid for by big business are ‘driving science into a dark era’
Researchers attending one of the world’s major academic conferences ‘are scared to death of the anti-science lobby’
Robin McKie, science editor
The Observer, Saturday 18 February 2012
Article history
The vast majority of scientists on both sides of...
From "The Maddow Blog"
Silent protest outside, Virginia House puts off ultrasound vote
By Laura Conaway
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Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:14 PM EST
What appears to be a crowd of several hundred people gathered today at the Virginia state capitol. Standing silently in the cold, they lined the walkway used by the legislators who have been voting on — and voting away — women’s rights in Virginia.
Read...
Long, but worthwhile; an unknown WWII story
Disaster at Sea: The Story of the USS Truxtun and USS Pollux
by Matt Sampson, weather.com
In the dark of the pre-dawn hours of February 18th, 1942, enormous waves, high winds, and blinding snow produced by a winter storm caused a pair of US Navy ships to stray off course. Carrying hundreds of American sailors and thousands of pounds of military supplies, the ships ran aground a few...
Secret climate denial documents suggest the... →
climateadaptation:
Coverage of “denialgate” is increasing. Reblog if you can…
“Heartland, which bills itself as anti-regulatory and libertarian, annually produces climate change “denier” conferences and pays expenses for elected officials to attend. For example, the budget shows that Heartland allocated $304,704 for scientists supporting its contrarian views in 2012.
One of these scientists is...
UPDATE: 19 Corporations linked to Heartland as... →
climateadaptation:
More excellent coverage of “denialgate.”
“In the wake of reports linking theHeartland Institute to an alleged anti-science campaign, several scientists, as well as the President of the Union of Concerned Scientists, are publicly asking Heartland to to desist from spreading misinformation and attacking scientists. This news comes as 19 public corporations have been...
It's great to read Bill Moyer again!
Contraception
Thursday, Feb 16, 2012 4:00 PM EST
Freedom of religion is freedom from religion
Obama’s contraception compromise is a rare practical solution to America’s perennial church-state tensions
By Bill Moyers
(Credit: © Jason Reed / Reuters)
Topics:Contraception, Barack Obama
The president did something agile and wise the other day. And something quite...
Great Article from Los Angeles Times...
Before current birth-control fight, Republicans backed mandates
Republicans are fighting a birth-control rule in President Obama’s healthcare law, but several states have enacted contraceptive mandates with the support of GOP lawmakers and governors.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. In 2005, he signed a state law...
“TYPICAL SANTORUM!
The left is always looking for a way to control you. They’re...”
– - Rick Santorum, Feb 9 in Oklahoma (via climateadaptation)
What a jerk!!!
Sexy Lies & Charitable Contributions
Mike Huckabee’s nose is right out there with the best of GOP Sex & Liars Club members. He claimed our POTUS is really a scrooge, giving only 1% to charity. NOT TRUE, says the WashPost’s Fact Checker… not even close! Pres. & Mrs. Obama have given in the range of 14% in 2010 up to 31% in 2009 when he asked the Nobel Committee to donate his $1.4 gift to 10 charities (so...
Grover Norquist Strikes Again
For those of you fortunate enough to NOT know who Grover Norquist is, he is the little man who somehow has made himself so powerful that he got all Republican congressmen,save a few, to sign a “no tax increase” pledge. Well, at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, he outdid himself in his speech. Here is part of an article, compliments of SALON, with pertinent...
Conscience of Catholic Bishops
Catholic Bishops’ collective conscience when it came to child abuse is a muddy affair! While bleating against “wasting human seed” using birth control to gain political concessions, Cardinal Egan of Connecticut retracted his apology for mihandling of the sex abuse, saying “… we did nothing wrong. We weren’t required to report it….”
And these boys...
Conscience of Republicans
While Republican leadership panders to Catholic Bishops, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted against extending the Violence Against Women Act with improvements supported by national prosecutor & law enforcement associations. Republicans want their own version….
“Senator Charles Grassley, the committee’s ranking Republican, offered a substitute bill that not only...
The Superb Nicholas Kristof
Op-Ed Columnist
Beyond Pelvic Politics
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
I MAY not be as theologically sophisticated as American bishops, but I had thought that Jesus talked more about helping the poor than about banning contraceptives.
Damon Winter/The New York Times
Nicholas D. Kristof
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The debates about pelvic politics over the last week sometimes had a patronizing tone, as if...
I know, another Daily Kos article, but you can't...
Sun Feb 12, 2012 at 10:00 AM PST
Rep. Steve King and the scary lightbulbs of scary doom
by HunterFollow for Daily Kos
Rep. Steve King, Jedi master of lightbulbs
Rep. Steve King hates energy-efficient lightbulbs. He hates them the way other people might hate cockroaches, or malaria. He hates them exactly as much as he hates communism. It’s a powerful kind of hate. A powerful,...
Is the world really flat? Really???
When Molly Ivans died, she left a huge void in the world of satire in political journalism. Juanita Jean’s The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Solon is surely a close second. Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinaire, is a blog written by Susan DuQuesnay Bankston, who lives in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay’s old district. Susan says, “It’s...
I know I haven't been posting, but you can't top...
At CPAC, Santorum Surges Despite Idiotic Claims; Romney Poses as ‘Severe’ Conservative; Gingrich Makes War on GOP
At the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, the three top candidates for the presidential nomination laid out their case before the nation’s largest annual gathering of right-wing activists.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who received a...
"We outnumber the stupid people"
“We outnumber the stupid people.”
Posted by jurassicpork | 10:28 AM
If there was a Purple Heart for journalists, my first nominee would be Charles Pierce for taking for the team not one not two but many, many slings and arrows of outrageous wingnuttery in his ongoing coverage of CPAC. It’s kind of the equivalent of sending a batter out there when the starting pitcher and...
Idiot Republican congressman gets angry about...
This just in: Louisiana Republican Rep. John C. Fleming, M.D. is tossing his hat in the ring for Dumbest Member of Congress.
Dino Grandoni at The Atlantic reports that “pro-life” Rep. Fleming M.D. posted a story from The Onion on his Facebook page, offering it as proof that Planned Parenthood offers “abortion by the wholesale.”
The satirical story from May 2011...