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Apparently you have no concept of how many trillions that is. Wait - does that defend Obama? I am still trying to figure out this new math. Tell me again how 44B fortheremainder of this fiscal year and 85B for a full fiscal year equals trillions. I mean, hell I am trying to do panty wad math, but you are gonna have to throw me a rope here.

I am still trying to figure out this new math. Tell me again how 44B fortheremainder of this fiscal year and 85B for a full fiscal year equals trillions. I mean, hell I am trying to do panty wad math, but you are gonna have to throw me a rope here. Beware what I do with the other end of the rope I throw you.

I saw your avatar. Speaking of handling the truth, wanna tell me some truth about how a 1.5% reduction in planned spending from sequestration is going to cripple the country like BO is telling everyone? Please, Fat Eddie will be insulted by being left out of the box o rocks discussion. he has spent his entire career making little rocks to fit in the box. CBO says it will mean 700,000 jobs. Also, less than 1.5% caused our economy to contract this past 4th quarter. No need to argue about this anymore. The cons are going to let us go over this cliff and then come up with a stop in military spending so that they'll have leverage again. This is a tiring game.

Oklahoma May Deny Women Affordable Birth Control Because It Poisons Their Bodies Oklahoma already prevents women from using their insurance plans to help cover abortion services, but Republicans arent stopping there. One state lawmaker wants to continue stripping insurance coverage for reproductive health services, advancing a measure that would allow employers to refuse to cover birth control for any reason based solely on the fact that one of his constituents believes it poisons womens bodies. Under State Sen. Clark Jolley s measure, no employer shall be required to provide or pay for any benefit or service related to abortion or contraception through the provision of health insurance to his or her employees. According to the Tulsa World, Jolleys inspiration for his bill came from one of his male constituents who is morally opposed to birth control, and wanted to find a small group insurance plan for himself and his family that didnt include coverage for those services: Jolley said the measure is the result of a request from a constituent, Dr. Dominic Pedulla, an Oklahoma City cardiologist who describes himself as a natural family planning medical consultant and womens health researcher. [...] Women are worse off with contraception because it suppresses and disables who they are, Pedulla said. Part of their identity is the potential to be a mother, Pedulla said. They are being asked to suppress and radically contradict part of their own identity, and if that wasnt bad enough, they are being asked to poison their bodies. The bill has already cleared a Senate Health committee and now makes it way to Oklahomas full Senate. It is unlikely that either Jolley and Pedulla themselves rely on insurance coverage for hormonal contraceptive services but if the measure becomes law, the two men could limit the health insurance options for the nearly two million women who live in Oklahoma. Of course, contraception does not actually poison women. The FDA approved the first oral birth control pill in 1960, and that type of contraception is so safe that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends making it available without a prescription, as it is in most other countries around the world. Furthermore, considering that over 99 percent of women of reproductive age have used some form of birth control, the Oklahoma women who rely on insurance coverage for their contraception would likely disagree with Pedullas assertion that it suppresses and radically contradicts part of their own identity. In reality, access to affordable birth control is a critical economic issue for women. When women have control over their reproductive choices, it allows them to achieve economic goals like completing their education, becoming financially independent, or keeping a job. But birth control can carry high out-of-pocket costs, and over half of young women say they havent used their contraceptive method as directed because of cost prohibitions. Nonetheless, Republican lawmakers have repeatedly pushed measures to allow employers to drop coverage for birth control. So Oklahoma is introducing this bill at the request of some nut who says that women are worse off with contraception because it suppresses and disables who they are, and that they are being asked to suppress and radically contradict that part of their identity, which is the potential to be a Mother. Oh, and women are apparently being asked to poison their bodies by using contraception. Following Dr. Dominic Pedulla's quackery logic, I guess the same would apply to the use of condoms. After all, they suppress and radically contradict that part of a man's identity, which is the potential to be a Father. We have officially gone through the looking glass. How exactly would forcing a woman to have one child after another that she may or may not be able to take care of benefit her? I'm a little disgusted that the good doctor says that women are being 'asked' to take birth control, as if they don't have the good sense to make that choice on their own, when in reality he is the one who seems to believe that women must be told what to do with their own bodies. The Republican agenda.....first do away with access to abortions, then do away with contraception. The next step will be to legislate sexual activity, for others of course, not for themselves. They will continue to tap their toes in airport restrooms, hike the Appalachian trail and pay a hooker to let them wear a diaper.

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http://www.theonion....tionplex,20476/Abortionplex.....ROFLHow long before Breitbart.com picks up this story?

Montana Bill Would Give Corporations The Right To Vote A bill introduced by Montana state Rep. Steve Lavin would give corporations the right to vote in municipal elections: Provision for vote by corporate property owner. (1) Subject to subsection (2), if a firm, partnership, company, or corporation owns real property within the municipality, the president, vice president, secretary, or other designee of the entity is eligible to vote in a municipal election as provided in [section 1]. (2) The individual who is designated to vote by the entity is subject to the provisions of [section 1] and shall also provide to the election administrator documentation of the entitys registration with the secretary of state under 35-1-217 and proof of the individuals designation to vote on behalf of the entity. The idea that corporations are people, my friend as Mitt Romney put it, is sadly common among conservative lawmakers. Most significantly of all, the five conservative justices voted in Citizens United v. FEC to permit corporations to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Actually giving corporations the right to vote, however, is quite a step beyond what even this Supreme Court has embraced. The bill does contain some limits on these new corporate voting rights. Most significantly, corporations would not be entitled to vote in school elections, and the bill only applies to municipal elections. So state and federal elections would remain beyond the reach of the new corporate voters. In fairness to Lavins fellow lawmakers, this bill was tabled shortly after it came before a legislative committee, so it is unlikely to become law. A phone call to Lavin was not returned as of this writing. According to the Center for Media and Democracy, Lavin was a member of the American Legislative Exchange Councils (ALEC) now defunct Public Safety and Elections Task Force. Last year, pressure from progressive groups forced ALEC to disband this task force, which, among other things, pushed voter suppression laws. Well, luckily the bill was tabled, but I have to ask, what was Montana state Rep. Steve Lavin thinking with this? These people would get to vote twice in municipal elections I guess. Once in the district where their company is located and once in the district where they live.

13 GOP Pennsylvania Senators Introduce New Plan To Rig The Electoral College For RepublicansEarlier this year, Republican National Committee Chair urged Republican lawmakers in states that have been consistently blue that are fully controlled red i.e. blue states with Republican legislatures and governors to enact a plan rigging the Electoral College so that it would be almost impossible for a Democrat to win the White House. Under these plans, a large chunk of blue state electoral votes would be allocated to the Republican candidate even if the Democratic presidential candidate won the state as a whole. Although some state lawmakers in key blue states such as Wisconsin or Michigan endorsed versions of this plan, the election rigging plans were widely derided as exactly what they are cheating and soon, even top Republicans like Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) or Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell wanted nothing to do with election rigging. The plans to rig the Electoral College appeared dead.Except, that is, for Pennsylvania.Gov. Tom Corbett (R-PA) was one of the earliest supporters of rigging the Electoral College, backing a plan to do so as early as 2011. Republican state Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi was one of the leading supporters of election-rigging then, and he has steadfastly refused to back down from the idea even as Republicans in other states appeared to walk away from rigging presidential elections. Late this week, Pileggi along with a dozen other co-sponsors introduced a new plan to rig the Electoral College votes in his blue state of Pennsylvania. Under this legislation, a large chunk of Pennsylvanias electoral votes would be awarded to the Republican candidate even though Pennsylvania is a solid blue state that has supported the Democratic candidate for president in every election since 1992.Of course, while the Republican election-rigging plan calls for blue states to give away electoral votes to Republicans, red states like Texas or South Carolina will continue to award 100 percent of their electors to the Republican:The 13 co-sponsors on Pileggis bill amount to exactly half of the 26 votes he needs to pass the bill through the state senate. According to state Rep. Mike Sturla (D-PA), now that Pileggi has introduced his election-rigging plan, Republicans could conceivably ram it through both houses of the state legislature and have it on Corbetts desk in just four days.If you can't win fair and square....rig the system.That's the Republican way.

Conservative Media Ignore Obama's Sequester PlanConservative media are attacking President Obama for supposedly criticizing scheduled across-the-board cuts, known as the sequester, while not proposing alternatives to avoid them. In reality, Obama has proposed a plan to replace the sequester that includes over $930 billion in spending cuts and $580 billion in new tax revenue.NYT's David Brooks: "[Obama] Hasn't Actually Come Up With A Proposal To Avert Sequestration."Fox and Friends' Steve Doocy: "The President Has Zero Plan."Fox Guest Marc Thiessen: The President Has Not "Proposed Any Alternative Cuts The Way The Republicans Did" To Avoid The Sequester."But Obama Has Proposed A Specific Plan To Replace The Sequester ...(Read more at the link in the title.)It's not just the Conservative Media that is promoting this lie.It's also people like House Speaker Boehner and House Majority Leader Cantor.I guess they don't know how to use the Google.A Balanced Plan to Avert the Sequester and Reduce the Deficit

House GOP Unveils Competing Violence Against Women ActHouse Republicans released their version of the Violence Against Women Act on Friday and are poised to fast-track it to a floor vote next Tuesday during a Rules Committee hearing.The House GOP’s legislation doesn’t go as far as the reauthorization that passed the Senate on an overwhelming bipartisan vote earlier this month. It reflects some movement in that direction but falls short of a breakthrough on the central disputes that scuttled reauthorization of VAWA last year, namely, coverage for gay, Native American and illegal immigrant women. Democrats quickly rejected the bill and advocates against domestic violence expressed concerns with it.“The House is expected to take up a strong Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization next week so we can protect all women from acts of violence and help law enforcement prosecute offenders to the fullest extent of the law,” said Megan Whittemore, a spokeswoman for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), who helped craft the bill.Unlike the Senate-passed version, the House GOP’s proposed legislation does not explicitly guarantee equal coverage for gay and lesbian victims of domestic violence, and it would create a hurdle for tribal courts to prosecute non-Native Americans charged with assaulting women on tribal lands. It also includes stricter criteria for abused illegal immigrants to gain legal status.(Read more at link in title.)Top Dems Reject House GOP’s Violence Against Women Act: ‘Simply Unacceptable’Top Senate Democrats excoriated the competing House Republican version of the Violence Against Women Act hours after it was unveiled Friday.Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the author of VAWA, derided the legislation as “partisan” and said it omits critical measures designed to protect vulnerable populations like Native Americans, immigrants and the gay and lesbian community.

Top Dems Reject House GOP’s Violence Against Women Act: ‘Simply Unacceptable’ Top Senate Democrats excoriated the competing House Republican version of the Violence Against Women Act hours after it was unveiled Friday. Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the author of VAWA, derided the legislation as “partisan” and said it omits critical measures designed to protect vulnerable populations like Native Americans, immigrants and the gay and lesbian community. ya see...if this was a dem bill and the gop rejected it....you'd be screaming they were misogynist and advocates of violence against women. this f**king country is warped.

ya see...if this was a dem bill and the gop rejected it....you'd be screaming they were misogynist and advocates of violence against women.this f**king country is warped.The GOP did reject it.The House version gutted the bill that passed overwhelmingly in the Senate (78-22), so that's why The Senate Dems are rejecting the House version.The GOP’s version of VAWA should be called the Defense of Violence Against Women Act, at least for Native American women and members of the LGBT Community.The VAWA has always been a non-partisan issue.It was first passed in 1994, then re-authorized in 2000 and 2005.Nothing is ever non-partisan anymore, thanks to the teabaggers.

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The GOP version of VAWA.Keep angry hands away from ladies now! Plus, if lady smell nice like flowers, no smash lady.ROFLMFAO

http://www.theonion....-punch-p,31381/ Usually, I don't COMPLETELY trust that source. But their journalism on this piece was first rate. I saw it happen.

Usually, I don't COMPLETELY trust that source. But their journalism on this piece was first rate.I saw it happen.That was funny.To shore up support among female voters, the GOP has introduced a bill banning "putting angry hands to lady necks" and "hurting pretty ladies with mean sex."

Fans Allegedly Dress Like KKK Members At High School Hockey Game In North DakotaThis week, a group of hockey fans in North Dakota raised eyebrows after they showed up at a game apparently dressed like members of the Ku Klux Klan, according to several media reports.The three fans, who were photographed in the stands at the state high school semi-final game between Grand Forks Red River High School and Fargo Davies on Friday, were seemingly dressed in typical Klansman regalia -- white robes and pointed hats covering their bodies and faces.According to North Dakota news website Inforum, the trio was sitting with a crowd of Red River students, who were also dressed in white.Shane Schuster, a student at the University of North Dakota, posted a photo of the three Red River supporters on Twitter early Saturday morning:The picture has since been slammed by many netizens, including Red River alumni.However, as Deadspin points out, school administrators have seemed rather nonchalant in light of the incriminating photograph."To be very honest, I think youre looking for something that is not there, Fargo Public Schools Athletic Director Todd Olson told the Grand Forks Herald, adding that "white-outs" (the tradition of fans donning all-white garb to hockey games) are an accepted practice.Fargo Davies Head Coach Brian Davidson, who said he did not see the hooded supporters, called the idea of fans dressing up as the KKK "pretty tacky."According to Inforum, Mark Rerick, the athletic director of Grand Forks Public Schools, and Bill Chase, head coach of Red River, have "declined to comment on the incident."Looking for something that is not there?I think it's there.

Gun Fools Worry Obama Will Turn His Secret Black Army On Them It takes a special kind of imagination to think of things like these three conservative gun nuts did on the air last week. First, there is Stan Solomon, conservative radio host and paranoiac, worrying over the private black army Barack Obama will raise to kill white folks with guns. Right Wing Watch: But Solomon wasnt finished: I believe they will put together a racial force to go against an opposite race resistance, basically a black force to go against a white resistance, and then they will claim anyone resisting the black force they are doing it because they are racist. They. Who is they, do you think? "They" is black people, armed to the teeth and commanded by President Obama. And from there, it just spirals into some kind of dystopian middle-school fantasy, guided by wingnut and Twitter denizen Greg W. Howard, who first claims that race relations were "healing" before Obama was elected. Yes, sure they were. This is how well they were healing. Greg W. Howard, in his own words: Howard agreed: You may be right because he has been sowing the seeds of racial hatred; we were healing quite well as a nation on racial issues until Obama came along and now we have a lot of racial discord. After arguing that Obama is not American and not a natural born citizen, Howard maintained that Obama may begin wiping out a few hundred people who own guns, pull a large scale Waco or a Ruby Ridge type incident and have it tinged it with racial overtones. But just in case Obama goes through with his plans to take down the Internet, people are setting up phone-trees all over the place to stop Obama in his tracks. Yes, that whole racial hatred thing was healing quite nicely until Howard and his ilk decided to attack the African-American president with accusations that he's not really a citizen, right? See, that's how their minds work. They're the ones sowing all the hatred, setting up phone trees to make sure the black dude doesn't kill their internet after he takes away all their guns, and yet it's all President Obama's fault. They weren't even close to done with the paranoid gnashing of teeth and wailing from the rafters: If Obama can take your guns away he can take your car, he can take your home, he can take your bank account, he can take your very life, Howard said. Unsurprisingly, Pratt agreed with their insane ramblings: I do agree that the Obama administration would definitely be capable of something as evil as you were suggesting. However, Pratt warned that a lot of people resolved, no more free Wacos, and that if Obama starts playing the massacre game the way you did at Waco, well, youre going to get surrounded, you wont be able to go home safely, your family wont be safe. Larry Pratt and his sidekick Howard make Wayne LaPierre seem almost sane. Almost. These are people who resent the president's Secret Service protection, and why not? I'm amazed they haven't likened that detail to the commanders of Obama's Secret Black Army. This is why race relations suck in this country. It has nothing to do with Obama, and everything to do with deranged lunatics who have weapons and don't take their meds regularly. People like Solomon and Howard are a dime a dozen. They're the reason mental health services need beefing up in this country. The sad part is that Pratt and LaPierre use them and their paranoia to whip up some profits for their gun manufacturer keepers. Being paranoid is bad enough. Being a paranoid puppet is just pathetic. We were healing quite well on racial issues until a black guy who didn't know his place, had the nerve to run for president. ROFL

Maine Governor Orders Mural Depicting Labor History Removed From Labor DepartmentIt's Diego Rivera Redux in Maine, as Governor Paul LePage is taking down a mural in the state Department of Labor building depicting the history of the labor movement and changing the names of conference rooms that he deems too pro-labor.The 11-panel installation depicted such figures as Rosie the Riveter and FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins as well as events like a 1937 shoe mill strike and 1986 paper mill workers' strike. Several rooms are named after historic labor figures including Perkins and Cesar Chavez. A spokesman for LePage told the Lewiston Sun Journal that business had complained about the piece and "The message from state agencies needs to be balanced." He added that the rooms could instead be named "after mountains, counties or something."Progressive and labor groups are upset about the change and the artist who painted it, Judy Taylor, told the paper that the mural's message was already fair. "There was never any intention to be pro-labor or anti-labor," she said. "It was a pure depiction of the facts."Maine blog Dirigo Blue posted a purported e-mail to staff from Department of Labor Commissioner Laura Boyett explaining the decision, as well as pictures of the offending mural. "We have received feedback that the administration building is not perceived as equally receptive to both businesses and workers - primarily because of the nature of the mural in the lobby and the names of our conference rooms," the e-mail reads. "Whether or not the perception is valid is not really at issue and therefore, not open to debate. If either of our two constituencies perceives that they are not welcome in our administration building and this translates to a belief that their needs will not be heard or met by this department, then it presents a barrier to achieving our mission."A mural depicting the history of the labor movement at the Department of Labor isn't balanced? Conference rooms at the Dep't of Labor named after historic labor figures are too pro labor? Not receptive to business? C'mon Governor LePage, do what you really want to do. Put up a mural depicting corporate logos, and name the conference rooms after people like the Koch Brothers and the Walton family.

Here you go Flying Monkeys. This is your chance to bail out a criminal who produces highly edited deceptive videos for a living. Give generously. Who cares if O'Keefe is a lying creep with a criminal history? He hates ACORN and NPR so what's not to like?One of the board's most shameless liars is going to complain about O'Keef's editing?As if most of the quotes aren't devastating and don't stand alone?If O'Keefe is the 'investigative journalist' that he purports to be, then why can't he find a paying job with a legitimate news organization?Because the Obama-fawning, State-run liberal MSM has for decades refused to investigate and report information that would damage liberals and liberal institutions.It's literal self-censorship.