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Boston Globe reports: President Obama acknowledges having lived with his uncle

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President Obama acknowledged on Thursday that he lived with his Kenyan uncle for a brief period in the 1980s while preparing to attend Harvard Law School, contradicting a statement more than a year ago that the White House had no record of the two ever meeting. [...] - Boston Globe.

Boston Globe reader Miker6 opines:

"On Thursday, a White House official said the press office had not fully researched the relationship between the president and his uncle before telling the Globe that they had no record of the two meeting"

Wow. So the Boston Globe has inside knowledge of Barack Obama's early history.

I wonder if the Globe knows whether he was born in Kenya or not. [.]






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Courtesy of WhiteHouse.gov:

Back in August 2013, Young Invincibles, in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services, launched the Healthy Young America Video Contest, an effort to mobilize young people to help educate and inform one another about the Affordable Care Act. Participants submitted their videos, the public weighed in, and a finalist was selected in each of three categories: "You Are Not Invincible," original song performance, and animation.

Erin McDonald was announced as the overall Grand Prize winner with her video "Forget about the Price Tag" in a Google+ Hangout featuring Kal Penn and White House Health Care policy expert Christen Linke Young on December 2.

The funny thing is that I did not even know about this until I saw it being mocked by the Daily Caller.

I listened to it and thought it was damn good, and that the young lady has a great voice.

Listen for yourself and see if you agree.



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Courtesy of Think Progress:

Michigan lawmakers are currently deciding whether to advance a bill that would require women in the state to purchase a separate insurance policy for abortion coverage, even in cases of rape or incest. If it’s approved, Michigan would join a long list of other states that have attacked abortion access by preventing women from using their own insurance to pay for it.

The debate over the legislation has heated up this week, particularly since the measure would deny abortion coverage even to women who have become pregnant as a result of rape. Although the overwhelming majority of Americans believe that rape victims should have access to legal abortion services, lawmakers continue to propose policies that would have callous implications for individuals who have been sexually assaulted.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) vetoed the proposed insurance ban last year for exactly this reason — pointing out that it would require rape victims to pay for the total cost of their abortion procedure out-of-pocket, unless they had thought ahead and purchased a separate insurance rider for abortion services. “I don’t believe it is appropriate to tell a woman who becomes pregnant due to a rape that she needed to select elective insurance coverage,” Snyder noted when he rejected the bill last December.

But Michigan’s anti-choice community disagrees. Earlier this year, when advocating for the proposed legislation, a prominent anti-choice leader in Michigan suggested that rape is like a car accident and it’s appropriate to require women to buy “extra insurance” to prepare for it. After Snyder’s veto, abortion opponents decided to simply circumvent the governor and collect enough signatures to provoke a “citizen-initiated” vote on the measure. That petition was successful, and the measure headed to the legislature on Tuesday.

Lawmakers now have 40 days — not including the upcoming holiday break — to act on the measure. If they don’t take any action, the issue will be placed on the 2014 ballot for a statewide vote. If the legislature approves it, on the other hand, the bill will immediately become law — even without Snyder’s signature.

"Rape is like a car accident?" I know I am supposed to write something snarky right about here, but once again I am rendered virtually speechless.

How is it even remotely reasonable to consider forcing women to purchase "rape insurance," so that they can regain control over their own bodies, once they have been violated?

Here I have an idea, how about instead of this attack on women, Michigan pass a law stating that the rapist's insurance has to pay for the abortion? Unless of course the woman decides to keep it, at which time the courts should insist that he work two jobs at a time in order to provide for the child, whom he will be denied access to, until the child is 21 years old?

To my mind that, since the child is the result of the rapist's actions alone, seems far more reasonable.

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Personally on number 4 I am not sure how "b" is any more wrong than "d." They are both saturated in ignorance.

By the way after much investigation I finally discovered the list of Scientists who became Creationists after studying the evidence. Click here to see.

Impressive wasn't it?




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Ahh, isn't that sweet?

Here is Tripp, with Bristol, and her boy toy Joey Junker, outside of the happiest place on earth.

Maybe taking Tripp on vacations will help him forget that he was ripped from the loving arms of his father and transported all the way across the country, to punish Levi for finding happiness with his new wife.

"Sorry Tripp your dad was bad and you can't see him anymore. But hey look there are rides and sugary foods here to take your mind off of it!"

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Trig gets trotted out for a Christmas photo op.

Courtesy of the Christmas Ho-ho-ho's Facebook page:

Is there any doubt it's imperative to protect the heart of Christmas? Take a look at this article about an elementary school in Texas banning Christmas trees and the colors red and green from a “winter” party. Just like I write about it “Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas,” every day we see stories like this one, and we need to stiffen our spines, say “enough is enough,” and hold on to REAL hope, America! The real hope that IS the message of Christmas. We can remember and capture that spirit of true hope during this holiday season and commit to live it out every single day. I promise you, it works!

Yes the best way to protect freedom in this country is to marginalize and ostracize those who do not celebrate the Christmas, nor share the same faith, as the REAL Americans.

Of course this story was reported by Palin's pet Fox News reporter, and fellow Christmas Commando, Todd Starnes, who overreacted as if children were having their toys literally ripped from their hands:

An elementary school in Frisco, Texas is believed to be the first in the state to violate “The Merry Christmas Law” after they banned Christmas trees and the colors red & green from an upcoming “winter” party. (The "Merry Christmas Law" is the bill signed into law by Rick Perry in June which, despite the 1st Amendment, allows Texas schools to say Merry Christmas, and display holiday decorations representing any religion. Can hardly wait until the Islamic community tries to get their local public school to decorate for Ramadan. THEN we'll see how inclusive this law really is.)

Boys and girls who attend the Nichols Elementary School “Winter Party” will not be able to make any reference to Christmas or any other religious holiday. Christmas trees are also banned – along with the colors red and green.

It should be noted that this party is being put on by the their local PTA and the guidelines are not coming from the school district. It should also be noted that each school and PTA are allowed to make their own rules for their parties.

Kind of sounds like that "freedom" thing Palin is always going on about, doesn't it?

Down toward the bottom of the page Starnes does manage to let the Principal of the school explain the thinking behind the guidelines:

“She [the principal] said they didn’t want to offend any families and since each family donates money they feel this is the best policy."

So the PTA, and the principal, are trying to be inclusive, and make everybody, despite their cultural or religious background, feel comfortable.

But hey, Fox News has a War on Christmas to pimp, and Sarah Palin has books to sell, so fuck them right?

Starnes style of "journalism" has made at least one school in Georgia feel terrorized by his harassment and histrionic misreporting of "facts" about their school:

A school district in Georgia blasted Fox News on Tuesday and said that they had been “terrorized” after one of the network’s radio hosts falsely reported that Christmas cards had been “confiscated.”

In a Tuesday report, Fox News radio host Todd Starnes turned his daily outrage to allegations that students at Brooklet Elementary School had returned from the Thanksgiving holiday to find that the school’s administration had decided to “confiscate the Christmas cards” that teachers had posted outside classrooms.

Starnes branded the schools’ actions as “Christmas card censorship.”

Brooklet Principal Marlin Baker told WSAV that the “censorship” charge was just not true and that Starnes didn’t bother checking the facts before publishing his report.

“The decision to move the poster had nothing, absolutely nothing, at all to do with any type of religious conversation that is going on in the county,” Martin explained.

The principal said that the Christmas card poster had been moved to a faculty work room in order to accommodate the privacy request of one teacher.

And now the school has been flooded with angry calls and emails because of the misreporting.

Gee no wonder Palin likes him so much.

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