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With all due respect Mrs. Romney...can you please answer a few questions?
http://veracitystew.com/?p=34317With all due respect Mrs. Romney...can you please answer a few questions?... more
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There is some news in the ongoing war on women, some good, some bad. Let’s start with the good.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=34135There is some news in the ongoing war on women, some good, some bad. Let’s start... more
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By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 18:22 EDT
CNN contributor and blogger Dana Loesch said Monday at the Tea Party Tax Day rally in Chicago that women “get raped” for supporting liberals and progressives like the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.
“What did women receive for supporting the left?” she asked the crowd. “You’ve seen it here with your Occupy movement, haven’t you? They get raped.”
“This man on my shirt had a message that I think needs to be reiterated since it keeps happening,” Loesch said, wearing a shirt picturing the late Andrew Breitbart. “Stop raping people! Behave yourselves!”
At the Conservative Political Action Conference in February, Breitbart angrily confronted a group of “Occupy” protesters. He called them “freaks and animals,” and told them to “stop raping people.”
His tirade made reference to reports of crime and sexual assaults at some “Occupy” camps.
The various demonstrations across the country took place in public parks, and most of them offered free food and shelter. This attracted a number of people who were not strictly a part of the movement, including criminals and other troublemakers. In many cases, protesters were victims of sexual assault, not the assailants.
When asked about the “Occupy Wall Street” protests after her speech by independent YouTube reporter John Sheehan, Loesch said she was “fascinated” by the movement, but did not understand its purpose. After being questioned about crime at the “Occupy” protests, she said that all she knew was that the movement was about “vandalism and rape.”
“What are you about if not those things?” she said. “What are you here for? What are you involved in the Occupy movement for?”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/17/dana-loesch-women-get-raped-for-supporting-the-left/
Watch video, uploaded to YouTube on April 17 by John Sheehan...
"With CNN falling deeper into the Right Wing noise machine like Fox News, some how, I am not surprised!!!" =(By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 18:22 EDT
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Ann Romney has made the case that her choices as a woman should be respected. Yes, they should – you’ll get no argument from me. But by the same token, the very party she represents has made it their mission in life to disrespect – and downright outlaw – the choices of every other woman in the country, through restrictive legislation of reproductive rights that would demand women to remain barefoot and pregnant till the end of their days – either that, or take a vow of celibacy.
Not only that, it must be pointed out that the policies of her party have increased the hardships of working mothers across the country.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=33653Ann Romney has made the case that her choices as a woman should be respected. Yes,... more
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Read more here:
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/04/13/on-behalf-oklahoma-politicians-an-apology
Dear Americans,
On behalf of the great state of Oklahoma I want to take this opportunity to apologize. Wednesday evening, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart interviewed our Senator Ralph Shorty, the architect of the Oklahoma Personhood bill intended to declare a fertilized egg a person. Shorty explained that he couldn't add Senator Constance Johnson's "Every Sperm is Sacred" Amendment to his bill controlling women's bodies, because her amendment was an effort to control men's bodies. Senator Shorty will control women's bodies, but control of men's bodies Is. Not. Allowed. I promise you not all of our elected officials are this hypocritical, and most Oklahomans absolutely are not.
While I'm at it, I also want to apologize for all those oil companies. . .
Read more:
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"Goodness me! Could it be that the greater half of the population of the United States of America has been mistaken in thinking that the Republicans have been waging war on the collective uteri of the nation since they swept into office in 2010 under the false pretense that they were going to concentrate on the economy and get this country back to work?
Not so fast, Slick Willies."
http://veracitystew.com/?p=33506"Goodness me! Could it be that the greater half of the population of the United... more
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"Viewpoint" host and former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer decries the GOP's war on women and warns Mitt Romney that excusing the latest wave of GOP-led oppressive bills and blaming President Barack Obama for women losing jobs during the recession isn't the solution: "The Republicans need a different approach to women's rights — one that doesn't bring us back to an earlier century," Spitzer says."Viewpoint" host and former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer decries the... more
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Arizona lawmakers gave final passage to three anti-abortion bills Tuesday afternoon, including one that declares pregnancies in the state begin two weeks before conception.Arizona lawmakers gave final passage to three anti-abortion bills Tuesday afternoon,... more
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And why is it rarely reported?
Found on ProtectOurDefenders’ YouTube channel
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101721437
"I can only guess that once you are under their command, you are nobody and what happens to you doesn't matter any longer??? Reminds me of that state Ploy: What Happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!!!" =(And why is it rarely reported?
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Delhi has a reputation for being the "rape capital" of India, and a recent investigation shows that police are disturbingly apathetic to the problem, claiming that women who drink alcohol or dress provocatively are to blame.
Being a Woman in India, By Shreyasi Singh:
My favorite thing to do on holidays abroad is to take long walks in the evenings in the new city I find myself in – most recently, that was Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. However much you love India, and I find myself missing the buzz of Delhi within a week of being abroad, there’s one thing as an urban working woman that I wish I could import into India (yes, even more than some great infrastructure) – the liberating safety one feels even when walking alone.
Unfortunately, many Indian cities – and certainly Delhi – don’t allow us that freedom. Yes, you can drive, and be safe in your cars. But it’s exceedingly rare to see a young woman walking down the street beyond 8 or 9 pm here. In fact, that Delhi is the country’s “rape capital” is a shameful tag we all live with. Our newspapers often carry scary tales of crimes against women – like the recent rape of a young woman who worked in a pub in Gurgaon, or a student gang-raped in a moving car in Noida, both popular suburbs of Delhi.
Despite the hue and cry made in the media over such incidents, little has changed. Depressingly, even less can be expected to if the investigation carried out by news organizations NDTV and Tehelka are to be believed. A joint investigation carried out by these two media brands caught nearly 30 policemen on tape, and exposed the shocking views they held on rape victims. Without exception, the 30 senior cops “caught on camera” have various takes along the old lines of “she asked for it,” “she dressed too provocatively,” “it was about money and when that didn’t work out, she cried foul” or “women who drink alcohol and stay out late at night are just asking for it.”
Police apathy towards rape victims is one of the reasons why the conviction rate for rape crimes is so low in Delhi (According to the National Crime Records Bureau, the conviction rate in rape cases in the capital is a dismal 34.6 percent, according to NDTV). That this apathy comes from such deep-seated insensitivity and gender stereotyping is a reminder that it’s unlikely we’re going to be safe anytime soon.
http://the-diplomat.com/indian-decade/2012/04/08/being-a-woman-in-india/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+the-diplomat+%28The+Diplomat+RSS%29&utm_content=Google+ReaderDelhi has a reputation for being the "rape capital" of India, and a recent... more
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By David Edwards
Monday, April 9, 2012 12:15 EDT
One Fox News host on Monday asserted that Democrats had concocted the “phony” Republican war on women to divert attention from high gas prices and a slow economic recovery.
Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy noted that gas prices on Catalina Island in California were around $7 a gallon and President Barack Obama could not use the economy as campaign issue.
“You know, the stimulus didn’t work out so well and he’s got a lot of problems,” Doocy explained. “So in the last couple of months what they have done, the Democrats, is that they have invented this phony war on women. They said Republicans are against women.”
“There’s not really a war on women. There’s a war for women because they would like to have as many women vote for their candidate,” he added.
During a Sunday interview on CNN, host Candy Crowley asked Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) if it was unfair to call GOP policies a “war on women.”
“The policies that have come out of the Republican Party, saying that we should have a debate again over contraception and whether we should have access to it and it should be affordable, saying that — like Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin, you know, he tried to quietly repeal the Equal Pay Act,” Wasserman Schultz noted. “Women aren’t going to stand for that. Governor Walker just signed a bill that repeals the equal pay law they had in Wisconsin for years.”
She continued: “You have Republicans who have engaged themselves for the entire Congress trying to redefine rape as only being forcible rape, defunding Planned Parenthood and family planning programs. The Lilly Ledbetter Act — the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act put teeth behind the notion that women deserve equal pay for equal work. That was the first bill the President Obama signed into law. The overwhelming majority of Republicans serving in Congress voted against it.”
“So, the focus of the Republican Party on turning back the clock for women really is something that is unacceptable and shows how callous and insensitive they are towards women’s priorities.”
But Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) told Crowley that Democrats were wrong to accuse Republicans of waging a war on women.
“We’ve got to quit exaggerating our political differences,” Cleaver said, adding that it was also wrong for Republicans to accuse Democrats of a “war on religion.”
A USA Today/Gallup survey of 12 of the top battleground states recently found that likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney had lost 14 points among women in the months after he and many other Republicans objected to mandating that contraception be covered by the health insurance offered by religious institutions. Six in 10 voters favored Obama, while only 30 percent supported Romney.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/09/fox-news-host-dems-invented-war-on-women-because-stimulus-didnt-work/
Watch the video from Fox News’ Fox & Friends, broadcast on April 9, 2012.
"Only on Fox News can one Lie and for them sitting around it makes sense, I really feel Bad for the folks that back their political views on what these Clowns have to say!!!" =)By David Edwards
Monday, April 9, 2012 12:15 EDT
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By David Edwards
Sunday, April 8, 2012 11:27 EDT
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) on Sunday ripped the Republican Party for “turning back the clock for women.”
During an interview on CNN, host Candy Crowley asked asked the congresswoman from Florida if it was unfair to call GOP policies a “war on women.”
“The policies that have come out of the Republican Party, saying that we should have a debate again over contraception and whether we should have access to it and it should be affordable, saying that — like Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin, you know, he tried to quietly repeal the Equal Pay Act,” Wasserman Schultz noted. “Women aren’t going to stand for that. Governor Walker just signed a bill that repeals the equal pay law they had in Wisconsin for years.”
She continued: “You have Republicans who have engaged themselves for the entire Congress trying to redefine rape as only being forcible rape, defunding Planned Parenthood and family planning programs. The Lilly Ledbetter Act — the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act put teeth behind the notion that women deserve equal pay for equal work. That was the first bill the President Obama signed into law. The overwhelming majority of Republicans serving in Congress voted against it.”
“So, the focus of the Republican Party on turning back the clock for women really is something that is unacceptable and shows how callous and insensitive they are towards women’s priorities.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/08/dnc-chair-gop-callous-and-insensitive-towards-women/
Watch the video from CNN’s State of the Union, broadcast on April 8, 2012.
"Shame on Candy Crowley, 'The Democrats favorite subjects these days' maybe she is not a woman??? I think the first sentence from her mouth was very right wing biased, but that could just be me... Hmmm what do you folks think???"By David Edwards
Sunday, April 8, 2012 11:27 EDT
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By Kenneth Quinnell
In advance of his upcoming recall election and possible legal trouble, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has become even more extreme, ramping up the rhetoric and taking actions that are troubling, to say the least. Most importantly, he signed a repeal of the state's Equal Pay Enforcement Act:
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who is facing a recall election, quietly repealed a state law making it easier for pay discrimination victims to seek justice. Amanda Terkel reports in The Huffington Post that Walker signed into law a bill passed in party-line votes by Republicans in the state legislature that rolls back the 2009 Equal Pay Enforcement Act. The act had allowed workers to challenge pay discrimination in state rather than just federal courts.
The act was only one part of Walker's assault on women:
Among them were four highly controversial measures focused on women's health care and sexual education:
A repeal of the state's Equal Pay law, which allowed victim's of wage discrimination to collect damages of between $50,000 and $300,000, and a repeal of the Healthy Youth Act, which had provided requirements to schools that comprehensive and scientifically accurate information about everything from abstinence to contraception be taught at an age-appropriate level.
Walker also signed into law a ban on abortion coverage through policies as part of a health insurance exchange to be created under the federal health care reform law starting in 2014 (the only exceptions would be in cases of rape, incest or medical necessity); and a bill requiring women seeking abortions to undergo a physical exam and consult with a doctor alone, away from her friends and family, in order to make sure she isn't "being pressured into the decision." Doctors who break the law could be charged with a felony.
As usual, working families were a target for Walker as well:
I know that collective bargaining is not a right; it's an expensive entitlement. It's about time somebody stood up for the hardworking taxpayers of our state.
The problem is, of course, that collective bargaining is a right.
Walker has also been railing about how state workers can't be the "haves" while everyone else is a "have not." The state worker he used in an ad to that effect, it turns out is actually one of the have-nots, making only $25,227 a year, certainly not a massive salary by any standards.
In an interview with CBN, Walker made a series of more and more strange claims:
"Any human being, if we're honest about it, you don't want to be hated by anybody, you want everybody to love you," he said. "But I was asked last December, somebody asked me, a supporter, asked me a very interesting question at dinner. He said, 'Did you ever stop and think that maybe if you hadn't gone so far, that you wouldn't be facing a recall?' I said, 'Yeah, sure, but if I hadn't taken the steps I took, we wouldn't have fixed things.' And I said, 'For my kids and their generation I don't want them to inherit a Wisconsin that is not at least as great if not greater than the one I inherited. And you don't get that by not fixing things.' "
"And, to me, that's one of our problems. You can't be afraid to lose," Walker said. "You shouldn't plan on it, but you should make decisions that are ultimately about what's right and what's just and what's best - not just for yourself but for the next wave of young people who are going to inherit our states and our country and not be afraid to lose along the way."
"Why?" he asked. "Because their guys are back to work, they're working again. Unlike my predecessor, who made it very difficult for people building infrastructure, building roads and bridges and rail and things of that nature, we put money back in that had been raided there."
Walker told Brody that he had heard his opponents would spend $70 million to $80 million in the recall race.
Probably most frightening was a final quote:
"We realize that all this is just a temporary thing and God's got a plan for us that, who knows where it might be, beyond just serving as governor of this state, but if we stay true to that, there's always comfort," he said. "And God's grace is always abundant no matter what you do."
Walker for president in 2016?
http://crooksandliars.com/kenneth-quinnell/scott-walker-ramps-extremism
"Knowing that we have had a POTUS who was convicted of DUI and Cocaine abuse, I guess anything is Possible!!!" =(By Kenneth Quinnell
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By David Edwards
Thursday, April 5, 2012 13:39 EDT
The chairman of the Republican National Committee is denying that his party is waging a war on women, saying it’s as fictional as the “war on caterpillars.”
In a interview that will air on Saturday, Bloomberg TV’s Al Hunt asked RNC Chairman Reince Priebus how big of a problem it was for Republicans that recent polls showed President Barack Obama with a 2-1 lead among female voters in battleground states.
“If Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that the Republicans have a war on caterpillars then we would have problems with caterpillars,” Priebus explained. “The fact of the matter is that it’s a fiction.”
“This started as a war against the Vatican that this president pursued,” the RNC chairman said, referring to the Obama administration’s mandate that health care insurance provided by religious institutions cover contraception for women. “He still hasn’t answered Archbishop Dolan’s issues with Obama-world and Obamacare.”
“How do we combat it? We make the case to women and everyone in this country — no matter what you background — that, number one, this president hasn’t fulfilled his promises. Number two, we can do better in this country in regards to jobs and the economy.”
Probable Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney earlier this week declared that he would “take our message to the women of America” to make up lost ground.
“We have work, we have work to do, to make sure we take our message to the women of America, so they understand how we’re going to get good jobs and we’re going to have a bright economic future for them and for their kids,” the candidate told supporters in Middleton, Wisconsin. “And make sure that these distortions that the Democrats throw in are clarified and the truth is heard.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/05/rnc-chair-gop-war-on-women-fictional-like-war-on-caterpillars/
Watch the video from Bloomberg’s Political Capital with Al Hunt, broadcast on April 5, 2012.
"WTF??? They have a War on Caterpillars as well???? Holy Makerel!!!" =)By David Edwards
Thursday, April 5, 2012 13:39 EDT
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By David Edwards
Thursday, April 5, 2012 10:25 EDT
President George W. Bush’s former senior advisor on Tuesday said that President Barack Obama was “some kind of political thug” because he suggested that it would be “unprecedented” for the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the health care reform law.
During his show on Tuesday, Fox Business host Lou Dobbs asked Karl Rove how Obama was handling the possibility that the court might overturn all or part of the Affordable Care Act.
“Not too well,” Rove insisted. “This is a bad way to start off, looking like you are some kind of political thug at the White House threatening the Supreme Court and basically telegraphing to them, ‘You better uphold my law or there’s going to be political damage created and I’ll help do some of the creating.’”
“I thought it was very unpresidential and probably shows the mindset of what the president might do if it’s declared unconstitutional,” he added.
As Bush’s former top political adviser, Rove was also accused of strong-arm tactics like improperly firing U.S. Attorneys for their political beliefs and engineering laws against LGBT rights to turn out conservative voters.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/05/rove-obama-a-political-thug-for-supreme-court-remarks/
Watch the video from Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs Tonight, broadcast on April 4, 2012.
"This is very interesting, what do you folks Think???" =)By David Edwards
Thursday, April 5, 2012 10:25 EDT
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WATCH: Haley’s comment shows to what depth Republicans will go to tow the party line and ideology even in the face of overwhelming public backlash against the wave of conservative restrictions on women’s reproductive health and contraception this election year.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=33153WATCH: Haley’s comment shows to what depth Republicans will go to tow the party... more
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By Eric W. Dolan
Monday, April 2, 2012 16:52 EDT
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday quickly shot down a hostile question regarding his Mormon faith during a town hall event in Green Bay.
Bret Hatch, a 28-year old Ron Paul supporter, according to CNN, began reading a passage from the Book of Mormon that said the children of Canaan were despised for their blackness. But Romney cut him off, asking if he had an actual question.
“I guess my question is, do you believe it’s a sin for a white man to marry and procreate with a black?” Hatch asked.
“No. Next question,” Romney responded.
He later explained that he had been a bishop at his Boston church, where he counseled members of the congregation about unemployment, marital issues, and similar problems.
Many conservative Christians — a major base of the Republican Party — see Mormonism as a heretical offshoot of their religion, which has lead some to question whether Republican voters could support a Mormon president.
According to a Pew Research Center survey from 2011, 53 percent of white evangelical Protestants said Mormonism was not a Christian faith.
However, those same voters overwhelmingly support Romney in a hypothetical match up against President Barack Obama.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/02/romney-questioned-about-his-mormon-faith/
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"Hmmm, a Bag of Rocks, the Grand PooBah, No political Career, seeing jobs come and seeing them go (my guess is you helped send those jobs overseas)... Ok, I'm listening, carry on... Qualified in a 'Unique Way'..."
"Well how about that??? I really dig the Munster looking Fella in the Background!!!" =)By Eric W. Dolan
Monday, April 2, 2012 16:52 EDT
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Welcome to CITIZEN DISPATCH.
News and Commentary from Citizen Journalist around the globe.
This Edition; John Konopak
Albuquerque, New Mexico USAWelcome to CITIZEN DISPATCH.
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Women's reproductive health is on the same level as farm animals according to one Missouri Republican...
http://veracitystew.com/?p=32848Women's reproductive health is on the same level as farm animals according to one... more
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