One person's plea for sanity and the continuation of the human race in an insane world.
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Santorum invokes Obama’s race in abortion debate
Rick Santorum says President Obama should be against abortion because Obama is black.
The Republican ex-senator, who is exploring a possible 2012 presidential bid, made the comments interview with CNSNews.com's Terry Jeffrey."The question is -- and this is what Barack Obama didn't want to answer: Is that human life a person under the Constitution? And Barack Obama says no," Santorum says in the interview, which was first picked up by CBN's David Brody. "Well if that person, human life is not a person, then, I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say, 'We are going to decide who are people and who are not people.'"
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Incredible - comparing the inhuman degradation of slavery to the removal of a clump of cells from a woman's body.
What a f'k'd up. demented mind Santorum has....
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New Ala. gov: Just Christians are his familyBIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley told a church crowd just moments into his new administration that those who have not accepted Jesus as their savior are not his brothers and sisters, shocking some critics who questioned Tuesday whether he can be fair to non-Christians.
"Anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I'm telling you, you're not my brother and you're not my sister, and I want to be your brother," Bentley said Monday, his inauguration day, according to The Birmingham News.
The Anti-Defamation League on Tuesday called Bentley's remarks shocking.
"His comments are not only offensive, but also raise serious questions as to whether non-Christians can expect to receive equal treatment during his tenure as governor," said Bill Nigut, the ADL's regional director.
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The religious bigots are getting more and more blatant...and still getting elected!
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Sarah Palin released a video statement Wednesday calling the rush to pin blame on conservatives for the Tucson shooting a “blood libel.”
“Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own,” she said. “They begin and end with the criminals who commit them.”
In the eight-minute video, Palin says, “…especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.”
Palin has faced criticism this week for images that look like gun crosshairs she used to identify the districts of Democrats who were vulnerable in the 2010 elections, including that of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who was shot on Saturday.
But in her first extended response to the shooting - released hours before President Obama is to visit Tucson - Palin said that “responsibility lies not collectively with all the citizens of a state, not with those who listen to talk radio, not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle, not with law-abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their First Amendment rights at campaign rallies, not with those who proudly voted in the last election.”
Though some “claim political debate has somehow gotten more heated just recently,” Palin said it has always been “heated.”
“…when was it less heated? Back in those ‘calm days’ when political figures literally settled their differences with dueling pistols?” she asked.
“In an ideal world all discourse would be civil and all disagreements cordial. But our Founding Fathers knew they weren’t designing a system for perfect men and women. If men and women were angels, there would be no need for government. Our Founders’ genius was to design a system that helped settle the inevitable conflicts caused by our imperfect passions in civil ways. So, we must condemn violence if our Republic is to endure.”
Palin said that “America must be stronger than the evil we saw displayed last week.”
“We are better than the mindless finger-pointing we endured in the wake of the tragedy,” she added. “We will come out of this stronger and more united in our desire to peacefully engage in the great debates of our time, to respectfully embrace our differences in a positive manner, and to unite in the knowledge that, though our ideas may be different, we must all strive for a better future for our country.”
So, she has decided to pander to her base instead of trying to win sympathy from the moderate majority in this country. And in doing so, she has shown that she is insensitive, mindless and even more offensive.
Who would have thought that was even possible for her?
Of course, it is not lost on anyone that she chose to put out a video instead of doing an interview where she would be asked questions that she had no answers for.
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Former Republican House Majority Leader Rep. Tom Delay (TX) was “sentenced to three years in prison on conspiracy charges” yesterday. “I can’t be remorseful for something I don’t think I did,” DeLay said after the sentence was handed down.
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Hubble telescope zeroes in on green blob in spaceWASHINGTON – The Hubble Space Telescope got its first peek at a mysterious giant green blob in outer space and found that it's strangely alive.
The bizarre glowing blob is giving birth to new stars, some only a couple million years old, in remote areas of the universe where stars don't normally form.
The blob of gas was first discovered by a Dutch school teacher in 2007 and is named Hanny's Voorwerp (HAN'-nee's-FOR'-vehrp). Voorwerp is Dutch for object.
NASA released the new Hubble photo Monday at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle.
Parts of the green blob are collapsing and the resulting pressure from that is creating the stars. The stellar nurseries are outside of a normal galaxy, which is usually where stars live.
That makes these "very lonely newborn stars" that are "in the middle of nowhere," said Bill Keel, the University of Alabama astronomer who examined the blob.
The blob is the size of our own Milky Way galaxy and it is 650 million light years away. Each light year is about 6 trillion miles.
The blob is mostly hydrogen gas swirling from a close encounter of two galaxies and it glows because it is illuminated by a quasar in one of the galaxies. A quasar is a bright object full of energy powered by a black hole.
The blob was discovered by elementary school teacher Hanny van Arkel, who was 24 at the time, as part of a worldwide Galaxy Zoo project where everyday people can look at archived star photographs to catalog new objects.
Van Arkel said when she first saw the odd object in 2007 it appeared blue and smaller. The Hubble photo provides a clear picture and better explanation for what is happening around the blob.
"It actually looked like a blue smudge," van Arkel told The Associated Press. "Now it looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green." She says she can even see what passes for arms and eyes.
Since van Arkel's discovery, astronomers have looked for similar gas blobs and found 18 of them. But all of them are about half the size of Hanny's Voorwerp, Keel said.
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Sarah Palin Aide Rebecca Mansour: Our Crosshairs Map Had Nothing To Do With Violence Or Guns
---"We never ever, ever intended it to be gun sights," she said in an interview with talk radio host Tammy Bruce Saturday. "It was simply crosshairs like you'd see on maps." Bruce suggested that they could, in fact, be seen as "surveyor's symbols." Mansour added that "it never occurred to us that anybody would consider it violent" and called any attempts to politicize the Arizona tragedy "repulsive."
The suggestion that the symbols were related to guns seemed to come, however, from Palin herself. On March 23, Palin tweeted to her supporters a note about the aforementioned Facebook message, writing, "Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: 'Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!' Pls see my Facebook page." And as Politico's Jonathan Martin points out, in November Palin boasted about defeating 18 of the 20 members on her "bullseye" list.
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Considering that Palin's own words debunk this sad attempt, I think it's time for her to simply apologize for her extreme rhetoric and "poor choice of words" and say that she never intended anyone to actually resort to violence and apologize to the victims that some madman took her words too literally. She would get a lot more respect if she took some responsibility for her actions and I think it would end up serving her well in the long run.
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Gibbs Departure Offers Opportunity To Fix White House Press RelationsWASHINGTON -- The modern White House press secretary operates in a defensive crouch, fending off questions rather than answering them and revealing as little as possible.
But does it have to be this way? What if the next press secretary took a different approach -- and offered the media and the public a more expansive view into the goings-on inside the West Wing?
The imminent departure of spokesman Robert Gibbs gives President Barack Obama -- and his new chief of staff, William Daley -- a chance to reset the relationship between the White House and the press, and to live up to Obama's campaign promises about transparency and accountability.
(Huffington Post)
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Sure, all administrations play things close to the chest, but after 8 years of bush's outright lies, this is the meme regarding Gibbs' departure?
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And finally: Fans will get only one season of caribou hunting and snow machine riding from “real America’s” favorite former governor, as TLC has canceled “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.” The two-hour season finale of the reality TV show aired last night, and Palin-ites will have to satisfied with that until cable news becomes a de facto Palin reality TV show when she announces her inevitable run for the presidency later this year.
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Obamacare Goes Under the KnifeIn the nearly 10 months since the Democrats' health care bill became law, bureaucrats have been feverishly writing new regulations, and the first wave of reform has arrived. There are tax credits for small businesses to cover employees; kids can stay on their parents' policies until they are 26; co-pays for preventive care went away. But to most Americans, the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has felt less like the dawn of a new era and more like the start of a long partisan war over whether reform should proceed at all.
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More of what would happen to our people and our economy if the repugs repeal health care reform:
Boehner To CBO: La La La, I Can't Hear You
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Taking the House, GOP primes for fight with Obama
WASHINGTON – Ascending to speaker of the House, Rep. John Boehner is ready to take the gavel from Democrat Nancy Pelosi, vowing to "give government back to the people" and bring an end to congressional gridlock.
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An end to gridlock?! They're the ones who have been causing it!!
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