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brooklynmutt:

“Good pic of my son Jimmy’s bulldog, Apollo - I’m sorry Mr. President, he’s not on the menu!” - @SenJohnMcCain

Hey, remember when you lost the presidential election.

Scott Walker Signed 51 New Bills Into Law Late Friday Afternoon →

whineandbeer:

how-to-kiss-distinctly-american:

wisconsinforward:

Late Friday afternoon, Gov. Walker signed 51 bills into law.  Here are some examples of what just a handful of the new laws will do:

• Eliminate voter registration from high schools and some tribal schools
• Prohibit insurance providers from providing coverage for abortion service and require a 24-hour waiting period before a doctor can perform an abortion (to make sure the patient’s choice is “informed”)
• Require schools that teach sex ed to promote abstinence and inform students of the “benefits of marriage”
• Repeal the state’s equal pay law and prevent people subjected to workforce discrimination from seeking compensatory or punitive damages

There are not enough dick factories in all the world producing enough dicks for Gov Walker to go eat.

Walker is a menace and not a public servant. We seem to have forgotten in America that our politicians are supposed to be public servants at all.

think-progress:

Groups handed out misleading, anti-contraception literature at a conservative conference in Wisconsin this weekend, with great advice like “Be good to yourself. Don’t use the morning-after pill.”

More at Think Progress. 

This advice is even more outdated than that shitty design.

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I don’t care what the liberals say, I don’t care what the naysayers say, this nation was founded as a Christian nation. …There’s only one God, and his name is Jesus. I’m tired of people telling me that I can’t say those words. I’m tired of people telling us as Christians that we can’t voice our beliefs or we can no longer pray in public. Listen to me. If you don’t love America, if you don’t like the way we do things I have one thing to say — get out!

…We don’t worship Buddha! I said we don’t worship Buddha, we don’t worship Muhammad, we don’t worship Allah, we worship God, we worship God’s son Jesus Christ.

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The Reverend DENNIS TERRY, in remarks delivered at a rally for Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum at the Greenwell Springs Baptist Church in Louisiana yesterday.

Rick Santorum stood up and applauded these remarks, along with those from the Reverend denouncing homosexuality and abortion.

Because if you aren’t like Rick Santorum, then he doesn’t give a fuck about you.

(via the New York Times)

Bigot says what? ARGH. The First Amendment, guys. The very FIRST. You can’t miss it! And then the fourteenth, to seal the deal. If you’re not educated in the very basic governing laws of our country, then you are not fit to run for office. And if you’re willfully ignoring them because you don’t like them, then maybe you should be the one who gets out.

(Source: inothernews)

turnabout:

zoearcher:

Hooray!

Perfectly logical.

(Source: tomorrow-a-penthouse)

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sourdoughislife:

sparkamovement:

Several newspapers pull Doonsebury strip about Texas vaginal ultrasound law:

In a move that is not exactly the most surprising of moves, several newspapers have pulled the syndicated comicDoonesbury from its funny pages for the next week because its creator, Gary Trudeau, will be tackling the issue of yet another state law (this time in Texas) requiring women to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound before getting an abortion. While some papers will run old Doonesbury strips during the duration of the story, one paper has agreed to run the new strip online while running reprints in the actual newspaper. They cited “different audience expectations” for print vs. online. Uh huh.

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According to Bleeding Cool, the strip will lampoon the Texas anti-choice law every day next week and will follow a woman who is trying to procure an abortion, receiving guidance from a Republican lawmaker. At some point, the woman is asked to sit in the “shaming room” and, as can be seen in the panel above, welcomed on behalf of Texas Governor (and former presidential candidate) Rick Perry. Hey, they got themselves involved, and now they might as well be in the shaming room with us.

Apparently only 20-30 papers (of the 1400 or so who run Doonesbury) will be replacing this series, but that’s still 20-30 papers who need to get over themselves asap.

As someone pointed out on Twitter today, this means that in some people’s minds:

• Forcing women to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound before having an abortion = OKAY!
• Making a comic about forcing women to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound before having an abortion = NOT OKAY!

Nice, America.

"It’s good to be in the hometown of Rush Limbaugh, which some people see as a trip to Mecca."

Rick Santorum, yesterday (via think-progress)

Oh, okay.

"My sister lost her baby... and my state requires her to see the ultrasound before she aborts it." →

stfuconservatives:

leeleeleelee submitted: “This is the reality of Texas’ ultrasound for abortion bill.  A 30 year old Texas woman’s fetus’ heart stopped beating after 12 weeks.  The options given were to wait until miscarriage, give birth to it, or to abort it (the preferred, safest option).  She has to look at an ultrasound of her already dead fetus and if she looks away, she will have to listen to the Doctor describe it.”

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I don’t have anything snarky to say about this. This is heartbreaking. These ultrasound laws are cruel, invasive, and do nothing to lower abortion rates.

-Jess

(via bookh8r)

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Federal agents are investigating Florida House Rep. Richard Steinberg for sending a series of suggestive and harassing text messages to a married Miami female prosecutor, court records show.

The dozens of messages, sent over the course of more than three months last fall, were sent from a phone that used software to disguise the number. The victim, Assistant U.S. Attorney Marlene Fernandez-Karavetsos, repeatedly begged the anonymous sender to leave her alone.

The investigation started in August, when Fernandez-Karavetsos reported the text messages to authorities. Sent from the screen name “itsjustme24680,” the messages struck a creepy tone.

“Sexxxy mama?” the first one read.

“How do I know you?” replied Fernandez-Karavetsos.

The sender declined to identify himself.

“Leave me alone,” she texted back.

“Is that anyway to treat a friend? LOL,” the sender replied.

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“LOL,” the sender replied.

GO TEAM STEINBERG!

thedailywhat:

Dress Code Violation of the Day: Brigham Young University student Brittany Molina thought she was getting a love note when a fellow student handed her a folded piece of paper while she was standing around the school’s Provo campus on Valentine’s Day.

But when she opened it up, she discovered not an admission of attraction, but instead a strongly worded criticism of her attire.

“You may want to consider that what you’re wearing has a negative effect on men (and women) around you,” read the letter. “Many people come to this university because they feel safe, morally as well as physically, here. They expect others to abide by the Honor Code that we all agreed on. Please consider your commitment to the Honor Code (which you agreed to) when dressing each day. Thank you.”

Molina posted the piece of paper on Twitter along with a photo of what she was wearing when she received it. ”Gosh dang it,” she tweeted, “I’ll remember to dress in jeans, a sweatshirt and tennis shoes tomorrow. That way I don’t make people feel uncomfortable.”

According to Molina, the young man who handed her the note “was gone within 5 seconds.” BYU has not commented on this incident.

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You may want to consider that your shitty attempt at slut-shaming is laughable. Transfer to an all-male school if the sight of a confident, respectably dressed young woman makes you uncomfortable. Or better yet, just dig yourself a hole and sit in it. Forever.