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Courtesy of Mediaite:

If Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wins reelection this fall and Republicans take back the Senate from Democrats, he will likely become Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The senator reminded potential voters of this fact over the weekend when he spoke at the National Right to Life Convention in Louisville, Kentucky.

“I’m proud of my record and defense of life. If I was majority leader, we’d already have had a vote on it in the Senate,” McConnell said, referring to legislation on abortion rights. “It’s long past time for us to join the ranks of most other civilized nations to protect children past 20 weeks in the womb.”

McConnell’s Democratic opponent Alison Lundergan Grimes has said she is “pro-choice down the line on abortion” and opposes a ban on abortion after 20 weeks. (This is not strictly accurate in that many of the country's with restrictions on abortion make allowances for a woman's health or the health of the fetus. And others have virtually no restrictions, so long as a doctor or two signs off on the procedure. Of the countries that DO have draconian restrictions in place the main reason behind them seems to be pressure from a large Catholic or Muslim population.)

Earlier this year, she said, “I would never pretend to tell one of my sisters what to do with their body and I don’t want the federal government doing that either… When it comes to choice, I believe, should a woman have to make that decision, it’s between herself, her doctor, and her God.”

As if women needed yet another reason to turn out en masse to kick this human turtle hybrid to the curb.

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Courtesy of HuffPo:

Hobby Lobby -- now free to drop emergency "morning after" pills and intrauterine devices from its workers' health insurance plans -- has given no indication that it plans to stop helping its male employees obtain erectile dysfunction treatments.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the craft store chain, owned by evangelical Christians, doesn't have to pay for health care coverage of contraceptives prohibited by its owners' religion.

But pills and pumps that help a man stiffen his penis in preparation for sex are perfectly acceptable.

Yes that's right ladies, Hobby Lobby is all about helping your man get a boner, but if that throbbing scepter of conception fertilizes one of those slutty eggs of yours they do not want anything to do with the fact that you may be saddled with an eighteen year commitment that will seriously hijack your life.

You know it dawned on me today that the ratio of men to women that come into a Hobby Lobby store must be about one or two for every hundred. I mean I looked through their online store and I quickly realized that this is the kind of store that most men would only enter if their wife was dragging them in by their hair.

And, though I have never been to one, I have to imagine that the number of women working in the store must outnumber the men by similar margins.

No, I'm sure there are SOME men working there. You know in a managerial capacity, because though the ladies look nice and are great at selling fabric they simply don't have the intellect for maintaining inventory or handling the money.

Right Mr. green?

And after considering all that I had only one question.


This is an organization that relies almost one hundred percent on female clientele and yet they went to the Supreme Court in order to be excluded from providing to their female employees the kind of health insurance that virtually every other company in the country MUST provide to them, and yet found nothing objectionable about providing males employees (All six of them) health insurance that helps to pay for a pump which allows them to get an erection anytime they want.

And if that were not enough hypocrisy for you do not forget that Hobby Lobby's retirement plan invests quite heavily in contraception manufacturers.

And yes that includes the emergency contraception medications that they seem so adamantly against providing to their employees.

Update: Just when you thought all of this could not be more galling, it also seems that before Hobby Lobby was against providing access to emergency contraception on their health care plans they were for it.



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Courtesy of TPM:

The chairman of the Mississippi Federation of College Republicans’ (MFCR) announced on Monday he was resigning and planned to become a Democrat following a brutal U.S. Senate primary.

"The Republican Party has shifted too far to the right in my opinion,” Evan Alvarez wrote in a resignation statement sent out by MFCR, according to The Clarion-Ledger newspaper. “When I ran for Chairman in the spring, I ran to be Chairman of the Mississippi Federation of College REPUBLICANS, not the Mississippi Federation of College 'Tea Partiers,'" Alvarez said.

The resignation came after the MFCR board decided to not impeach the organization’s executive director, Kolby Busby, for publicly endorsing state Sen. Chris McDaniel in the GOP primary against U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran. McDaniel eventually lost the race in a runoff.

“I refuse to simply let people break the rules and think they don’t have to answer for their actions, admit they were wrong, or even apologize,” Alvarez wrote in his resignation statement.

He then went on to criticize the Republican Party, saying the platform has allowed “groups of extremist to have too much of a voice.”

You know unless the Teabaggers follow through on their threats of starting their own political party, I think we will see a lot more of this kind of defection in the future.

I mean at some point if you are a Republican you have to take stock of your beliefs and ask yourself if they are in line with those spouted by the folks who claim to be the base of your party.

You know I could see myself feeling I could no longer in good conscience call myself a Democrat.

But there is no way, and I mean NO way, that I would ever defect to the Republican side of the aisle.

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Yes I realize that this aired the night BEFORE the decision, however it is still the best take on it that I have seen thus far.

Oh, and it's freaking hysterical too.

Update: The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have now weighed in on this decision as well. As you can imagine they are very displeased.

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Courtesy of NBC San Diego:

The deadly shooting of a Boy Scout at a summer camp in San Diego appeared at first to be self-inflicted but investigators now say they are interviewing witnesses and examining forensic evidence to determine the cause of death.

San Diego police were called to a suicide attempt at the Fiesta Island Youth Camp and Youth Aquatic Center in Mission Bay at 7:35 a.m., Lt. Mike Hastings said.

Inside a tent, officers found a 12-year-old gunshot victim with a handgun nearby.

Paramedics tried to revive the child, but he was pronounced dead at the campsite, according to a spokesperson for San Diego Fire Rescue.

In an afternoon update, investigators would not say where the scout was wounded or how many times he was shot, only that the boy may have been shot more than once in the "upper torso." Earlier, police said the boy had shot himself in the head.

This is a child whose parents had every reason to believe would return safely from a trip to a Boy Scout camp with his fellow Scouts.

But now thanks to America's "gun culture" the next time they see their child he will be laid out on a slab in a morgue instead of bouncing off the bus anxious to tell them of his adventures.

Just another example of the 2nd Amendment keeping our citizens safe.

(H/T to Raw Story.)

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Congressman Steve Stockman

Courtesy of Gawker:

During the last fiscal year, the U.S. Border Patrol documented 38,833 unaccompanied minors attempting to cross the border into the United States: a 59 percent increase over the previous year. Today, officials and advocacy groups estimate that the agency may apprehend as many as 74,000 of these young unattended migrants by year's end.

U.S. Congressmen Steve Stockman (R-Texas) and Steve King (R-Iowa) recently put forward an interesting theory as to why this crisis is happening now and how we can humanely resolve it. Rational adults can debate these things. As the two lawmakers told World Net Daily, a web-based news portal, they believe that President Barack Obama has consciously tailored his administration's immigration policies to engineer just such a humanitarian crisis, endangering tens of thousands of children for partisan gain.

"Obama follows all the far-left, Leninist, socialist-type stuff," Congressman Stockman explained to the news portal, adding that it's "an open secret Obama is trying to flood Texas with illegals to make it into a blue state."

"If we lose Texas, and it becomes like California, then the Republicans lose the chance of ever getting a Republican elected president."

Yes the President is inviting a flood of young children from other countries to cross the border illegally so that in ten years or so when they are old enough to vote they will be Democratic army that will keep the bad old Republicans out of the White House.

Do you know I think is keeping the Republicans out of the White House?

The Republicans.

You know here's the thing, if the Republicans were really concerned with new immigrants providing an unstoppable voting block for the Democratic party, then why don't they work with the President to solve the crisis?

It seems to me that by insulting these immigrants and blocking every attempt to help them achieve citizenship, they are essentially engaging in a self fulfilling prophecy.

They expect all of these new Americans to vote Democratic, so they make themselves into enemies of the immigrants, and lo and behold when they get the right to vote they do indeed vote for the Democrats who championed their cause, and not the Republicans who treated them as if they were less than human.

I don't like to give them too much credit but Jeb and George W. Bush know better than this, and it might be one of the few times that it would serve the Republicans well to listen to their advice.

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I don't usually like to wish ill on anybody but it would be awfully great if a couple of our least favorite justice's had some health concerns that forced them out of the Supreme Court either before the need of Obama's term, or during Hillary's eight years in office.

It does not have to be fatal or anything, just severe enough to force them into an early retirement.

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