13 Apr 2012 5:11 pm
Can't you see that you are waging war against other women?If you want to do that, fine. But don't presume you are fighting for ALL women, while you are attacking women your own self.I'm attacking women? I thought I was attacking Republican policies.Please show me where I attacked any woman.You previously said that the only people mentioned in my story were two Republican women, and now it seems you're accusing me of attacking them. First....I didn't write the article, and second the article quoted Ann Romney as saying, 'We need to respect the choices that women make', and mentioned that Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona signed a bill banning abortions after 18 weeks.Are those the attacks to which you refer? Wrong. there is public demand for this law. If I had time I would dig you up the case. Lews had a thread about it I believe.The Indiana Supreme Court ruled against a homeowner who opened fire on masked men who kicked in his door with no warning and who refused to identify themselves as law officers, effectively violating the citizen's right to be secure in his home, etc.The men were police officers and it's against the law to shoot cops in Indiana, period.This law is a direct result of the public outcry against that decision.If the officers did not identify themselves, then I agree he had a right to open fire on them.There was no public demand for all these 'Stand Your Ground' laws that are being passed in many states.People have always had a right to defend themselves.The 2005 Florida law was the ALEC/NRA model for these laws.You can blame it on ALEC (whoever that is) and the NRA all you want.If you don't know what ALEC is, you should, since they are pushing their agenda on all of us.The public is finally getting wise to it.Everybody knows Liberals have to have a demon to hate on.....Talk about projection. LOLEver heard of ACORN or Planned Parenthood? George Soros? Sandra Fluke?Bottom line is, folks are proud to belong to groups like the NRA, and when you vilify them you're vilifying your fellow citizens. And you guys vilify every group that opposes you, from radio broadcasters to politicians, to grassroots organizations, to even your fellow women.And we all know that conservatives never villify anyone like young women who testify before Congress, or young unarmed men who get shot, right? The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) describes itself as the largest membership association of state legislators, but over 98% of its revenue comes from sources other than legislative dues, primarily from corporations and corporate foundations. After the 2010 congressional midterm elections, ALEC boasted that among those who won their elections, three of the four former state legislators newly-elected to the U.S. Senate are ALEC Alumni and 27 of the 42 former state legislators newly-elected to the U.S. House are ALEC Alumni. (A full list of the Congressional freshmen who are ALEC alums can be found here.) ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve model bills. They have their own corporate governing board which meets jointly with the legislative board. (ALEC says that corporations do not vote on the board.) They fund almost all of ALEC's operations. Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovationswithout disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year, with one in every five of them enacted into law. ALEC describes itself as a unique, unparalleled and unmatched organization. It might be right. It is as if a state legislature had been reconstituted, yet corporations had pushed the people out the door. Learn more at ALECexposed.org. ALECs agenda extends into almost all areas of law. Its bills undermine environmental regulations and deny climate change; support school privatization; undercut health care reform; defund unions and limit their political influence; restrain legislatures abilities to raise revenue through taxes; mandate strict election laws that disenfranchise voters; increase incarceration to benefit the private prison industry, among many other issues.http://www.sourcewat...xchange_CouncilALEC has been in the news lately as many corporations are now choosing to sever their ties with ALEC and their radical agenda.Mars, Inc. Makes EIGHT Corporations To Leave ALEC Edited by MistyBlue, 13 April 2012 - 05:27 PM.