and I am so fed up with them. Calculating the political risks vs personal risks in not supporting the FDA's decision is just more of the same we've seen from this president and admin. An argument based on the fact that Obama has two daughters has nothing to do with young girls for instance who are sold into sex slavery, are raped by family members, have sex unwillingly in exchange for affection etc. This pill has been shown safely used for any young girl who is ovulating.
I believe Planned Parenthoods will still provide Plan B.
In the last two weeks we've seen powerful men perpetrating immoral and criminal acts against their victim's wills. Powerful men, knowing they could get away with their actions and a pass because of their status are held to different and unequal standards. It seems to sum up the last few decades in this country, although a lesson throughout history. It's one of the things we occupiers see as unfair and unjust, in a country that seemed founded on justice for all.
Cain will fall and the charges will hold. His lawyer's threats will not curtail the truth and courage of Cain's victims, as it hasn't finally with Sandusky and the football machine at Penn. Sandusky will go to jail or kill himself. Hopefully these are futher lessons that this country's attitude needs to shift and quickly.
The lessons of the occupiers and election this week should be the focus of our future.
Really? Shades of Hill/Thomas again. Another powerful man taking advantage of his position to force women to service him to get ahead. No pun intended. I worry that our current kowtowing media will give this a guy a pass since the bar has been so lowered for candidates running for the highest office in the land.
This GOP line up is a joke. Why don't we call it what it is...corporate owned and run, Koch up their noses and other body parts, lying, immoral, and corrupt. Not running for the good of the country and us, but for their rich backers.
This country is in real trouble and the sooner these jokers are called out and their backgrounds vetted, we will benefit.
God bless the brave women who have publically come forward. Like Anita Hill, they will be slandered, but hopefully years later, we're smarter about what sexual harrassment is and what laws constitute crimes.
Can we get some justice in this country Mr. Holder?
Protest with your money. Don't buy the crap...the overprocessed, additives, addictive, empty calories, Faux News, clueless and uniformed corporate media. Know what's in it, what you put into your body and mind. Be aware. Protest what isn't true, what isn't right and what is injust. You decide.
I'm there in spirit. How will this action and movement translate into real reform?
Corporations need to pay taxes from profits made offshore and pay their fair share Corporations need to be prosecuted for crimes Corporations aren't people Corporations need to be regulated Banks need to go back to banking and lending, not speculating
Those who commit crimes should be prosecuted, including those in Bush Inc. who laid this country to waste in large part
Obama Inc. should eliminate the tax cuts for the rich and prosecute those who commmitted fraud and crimes.
Oh, and can we get our asses out of the wars we caused please Mr. President, finally?
Says volumes about the state of the Democratic machine. They still don't have a great messaging system, few strong voices outside the ones we can count on one hand and despite election fraud and systematic the continued chipping away of the ability to vote in this country.
I really can't believe hired Dems in that district couldn't get a Dem re-elected. Everyone should be fired. Shameful to say the least and in this day and age, dangerous.
Now, howabout some real investigations and truth telling about 9/11. Hard to believe ten years later, we still don't have it.
I was never a Obama fan, but have lost all faith that he is even a Democrat, although I have little faith in that party as well. The only hope Obama has is that we still all think for ourselves and know that it's still the SC, stupid.
Who are these people? What do they want? Up until M.B. won the straw poll in Iowa, I swatted their stories away like I do with gnats, but really? Who are these wackadoodles who apparently don't pay attention to history or facts and like their candidates as dumb as they are.
We can't afford stupidity anymore in this country. We had enough with Dubya and frankly most of the Republicans elected in this country in the last thirty years or so.
Can we get some intelligence back please, both in our elected officials and media, recognizing they corporate owned?
Have been looking forward to posting that all day in the subject line.
The reality is that the Congress and Presidency are owned by people, corporations and groups who have a lot of money. To take that out of the equation is to pass a law that really works.
Now and in the future, recalls may be more commonplace since we know our election systems can be hacked, votes padded and eliminated.
I love that the good people in Wisconsin have worked with what they have. I wish them the very best at the end of this night; that these recalls on the Republicans worked and that Scott Walker's recall is not far behind.
This is true democracy, winning over the megabucks of the Kochs and their ilk.
Continue to boycott these corporations who don't stand with you.
Please protect the innocent conjugal sex fruit By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Don't have sex. Gays are evil. Repress your urges. Close your legs. Quit asking questions. Jesus loves Coors Light and large-caliber handguns. Iraq is packed like a Bieber concert with squealing nuclear warheads aimed straight at the Utah public school system. The homosexual agenda is alive and very, very real, and it wants to indoctrinate your children, steal your semen and organize your underwear drawer far, far too perfectly. Also, God is judging you. Right. This. Second.
Ahh, simpler times. Yes? You know? Back when? Not so many years ago, when we were laughing about a whole kookball buffet of socio-pathetic phenomena like abstinence education, fundamentalist zealots waving Bibles like wiffle bats, Hummers as mutant status symbols, failed trillion-dollar wars, promise rings and purity balls, Prop 8 Mormons and gay meth-snorting megachurch pastors and maybe, just maybe, getting a nice batch of anthrax in the mail?
It all seems so innocent now, so clear and silly and simple and perky and polarizing and infuriating and loud, and it all made a weird sort of sense, in the bloodthirsty, shameful context of the times: the world's worst president, the U.S. as petulant child, the political moral compass gone haywire.
Oh for God's sake. By now we all realize that our elected politicians aren't all angels, saints, particularly smart, educated, truthful, just or even there for all the right reasons. We've done this over and over again with a countless list of both Republicans and Democrats. Some lies are more criminal, some just embarrassing. I like the way Anthony W speaks out for a progressive point of view and uses just plain smart language to get to the root of real stupidity, usually worn by Republicans. If his voters don't object to his stupidity and he isn't breaking laws, he should stay in office. His cohorts aren't exactly in a place to throw stones. Frankly if every male pol who showed his dick in private or public to someone who didn't want to see it, they'd all be out of office. And please, the media frenzy just makes me watch more decorating shows. Fewer dicks there.
I would have voted for Jack K had he chosen to run. Dying with dignity and in control of how and when you die I think is the right of any living being. I applaud his life's work.
I always thought John E was a used car salesman...never quite rose above his roots. I applauded some of his policy issues.
I'd rather see the courts address the crimes of Bush Inc. but Edward's alleged fraud is fair game too.
What's really left of the original intent and purposes of the founders of these united states? Liars, cheaters, frauds, reality show-offs, fear mongers, those with nothing to really win, and everything to lose own the airwaves. Those selected electeds go with the flow afraid to lose their livings and potential earnings and expense accounts. The real heroes are just trying to make it all work, with some aplomb, humor and style, on a shoestring budget, and a small hope that things will get better, although hoping that everything bad will end sooner than later. We hope for a cleansing. Nothing that will harm the true believers in democracy. but something that will end the stupidity, ignorance, fairy tale beliefs and endless minutes filled with blather. We want a change. We want to take it all back, and this time better than what was intended.
I couldn't resist the obvious line to M. Antoinette's "Let them eat cake." Dubya's admitting he was eating a souffle when he found out Bin Laden was dead was pure SNL.
The souffle is so emblematic of the Bush era...a lot of hot air rising so much unsubstantial filling and then falling flat when served.
So appropriate for some in the rich class in this country who earn their money the old fashioned way...lying, cheating, hiding profits and hired for speaking tours when speaking isn't their first language or necessarily the truth.
GW Bush should be in the Hague or Gitmo awaiting trial. Intelligence was what finally got Bin Laden, along with some soldiering at the end. Bush instead, spent trillions of dollars and wasted thousands of lives unnecessarily in his two endless bombing and troops on the ground wars.
Bin Laden's dead...way overdue and not such a big factor in this country's current dire straights. Now let's finally investigate why those two towers came down so quickly to dust...that's the real reason thousands died.
