Spintested: 08/31/11

Idaho Abortion Lawsuit: Jennie Linn McCormack Challenges State Fetal Pain Law

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

If the fetus was anesthesized (incapable of feeling anything), would that be all right with you?

Do you actively support government aid to families with dependent children? Do you actively support increasing the funds for public education? Do you actively support sex education in public schools and free birth control for anyone who wants it? How about increasing money for foster parenting?
About Abortion
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Idaho Abortion Lawsuit: Jennie Linn McCormack Challenges State Fetal Pain Law

Those here who are condemning this woman and are anti-choice - Are you foster parenting in your state?
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Idaho Abortion Lawsuit: Jennie Linn McCormack Challenges State Fetal Pain Law

It's not about the "likely success of a child"; it's about what happens to children who are not wanted or not adequately cared for in this country.
About Abortion
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Idaho Abortion Lawsuit: Jennie Linn McCormack Challenges State Fetal Pain Law

After reading some of the comments condemning this woman for, 1) having sex and getting pregnant, 2) having sex and getting pregnant while she already has three children, and 3) getting pregnant and not having an abortion earlier, I'm not surprised we're in this culture war in our nation.

Sex is a natural human function. Contraception isn't foolproof. Raising children on $200-$250/month is difficult (if not impossible) without having to spend money traveling out of her region of the country to find an abortion clinic and pay for those medical services (the base cost is $350 to $1,000).

Why would you care that a woman, a stranger, wholly unrelated to you, has an abortion? Only about 25,000 US-born children are placed for adoption annually. Women tend to keep their children, even if the pregnancy was not planned or wanted.

Just in California, close to 100,000 children are in foster care. Of those children, 31 percent were under the age of 5.

Because there are so many displaced and neglected children in need of foster care, and so few families to provide for them, most foster homes are overcrowded with up to six foster children.

An average foster baby will live in three different homes before his first birthday. On average, a child will remain in foster care for 26.6 months.

This revolving door of care puts children at risk for Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), which leads to a lifetime of disrupted relationships.

Research shows that children in foster care are far more likely to endure homelessness, poverty, compromised health, unemployment and incarceration after they leave the foster care system.

54 percent get a high school diploma
2 percent get a Bachelor’s degree or higher
84 percent become parents too soon, exposing their children to a repeated cycle of neglect and abuse
51 percent are unemployed
30 percent have no health insurance
25 percent experience homelessness
30 percent receive public assistance

These figures are five years old.

So tell me why do you care?
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Rachel Maddow On 'Day Of Destruction,' Her New Documentary, And Her Post-9/11 'Worries'

I'm disappointed in Maddow's focus. We're never going to get past this until we look at and reinvestigate 9/11 itself.
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Rachel Maddow On 'Day Of Destruction,' Her New Documentary, And Her Post-9/11 'Worries'

I think you miss the point.

There is virtually no privacy or rights left to the American citizen, much less citizens of other countries. The NSA and dozens, if not hundreds, of other agencies have access to all of our communications and records. And even with all of this extraordinary transparency (all one way -- We The People can't get information about our government's activities), it's good old fashioned investigatory skills, informants, that have led to the apprehension of Al Qaeda operatives and uncovering plans for violence.

What is the intelligence really being used to do? Political payback against critics and drug trafficking.
About September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Deceit of Shakespearean Proportions

When Obama took office, he made it a priority to find OBL.

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What makes you so sure about that?
About Dick Cheney
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Dick Cheney Book Tour: 11 Questions Reporters Should Be Asking

Just 6 months before 9/11, Sec. of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld changed the SOP of the US Military that
had been in place for almost 50 years by sending out a memo
stating that, effective immediately, only three people would have
the authority to order the shoot down of any aircraft over the US.

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Have you got a source for that?
About Dick Cheney
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Dick Cheney Book Tour: 11 Questions Reporters Should Be Asking

FWIW, Nixon wasn't impeached; he resigned from office before he could be impeached. Gerald Ford preemptively pardoned Nixon before full and public investigations could be carried out and charges against him filed.

I believe that the failure to let justice take its course set the stage for what Republicans have been able to do to this nation ever since.

And Democrats were fully complicit and onboard.
About Dick Cheney
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Dick Cheney Book: Reactions To The Vice President's Memoir 'In My Time' (PHOTOS)

This is the result of "looking forward, not back".

Why is Dick Cheney (and George W. Bush, too, for that matter) being allowed to crawl back into polite society to rehabilitate his image and spread revisionist history about 9/11, WMD in Iraq, the economic meltdown, and the nightmare he caused us and the world?

Why isn't he having to spend 24/7 with his lawyers, working on a way to stay out of prison?

Because Obama and the DLC-Democrats have blocked all investigations and prosecutions into Bush-Cheney and Republicans, and have allowed them to resurrect themselves and take back control over government.

And because of Obama's failure to restore the Constitution and return us to the rule of law by holding Bush, Cheney, et al, accountable, JEB Bush was all over the news on 2010 election night as the man behind Florida's new Tea Party Senator, Marco Rubio. So expect a Jeb Bush run at the presidency in the not-to-distant-future. Perhaps with Liz Cheney on the ticket with him.

This is Obama's fault -- The buck stops squarely at his feet.

When Obama came into power, the GOP wasn't on the ropes; it was down for the count because of the devastation that Bush-Cheney had caused the nation. And Obama issued Bush-Cheney and Republicans (essentially) a pardon. None of them express any remorse or contrition. As a matter of fact, they're rested and ready for another round of tax cuts for the rich and slicing-and-dicing Social Security, Medicare, and anything else they can get their hands on that would help the People.

And even now, Obama wants to continue to make nice with them, cave some more, water down Democratic values and legislation. Obama's not any kind of real Democrat, he's a DINO, and if you didn't like the Republican Party of the last 35 years, the party of Reagan (forget just the past 10), you're going to hate where Obama and the DLC are taking the 'new and improved' Democratic Party from which they hope "to govern for 100 years"; a world where George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are welcomed as experts, authorities, on saving the United States from "global extremism".
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Lawrence Wilkerson: Dick Cheney 'Fears Being Tried' For War Crimes (VIDEO)

The US government shouldn't prosecute Bush-Cheney, et al, because of revenge or punishment; the US government needs to do it because that's what happens when you break the law.

There is NOTHING more important in this democratic republic than to hold our leaders to account and to the laws of the land which we are all bound to follow. Particularly those who are entrusted with the instruments of power that is the US government.

And where do you get the idea that it's an "either/or" proposition? The US government is capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time. In these times of record joblessness, there is much to do everywhere, including work for prosecuting attorneys and their staffs.

"In order for evil to flourish, all that is required is for good men to do nothing." -Edward Burke

"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality." -Aleghieri Dante

"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." -Martin Niemoeller
“One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this.”
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Lawrence Wilkerson: Dick Cheney 'Fears Being Tried' For War Crimes (VIDEO)

It would not have been good for the country at the time when there were more important things to deal with. I suppose that you want Pres Obama to ignore our crashing economy and go after Cheney - I would say the trial would have lasted about 4 years -- plus it would have put this country in one hell of an uproar. not good---- Cheney will come to his own demise.

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The US government shouldn't prosecute Bush-Cheney, et al, because of revenge or punishment; the US government needs to do it because that's what happens when you break the law.

There is NOTHING more important in this democratic republic than to hold our leaders to account and to the laws of the land which we are all bound to follow. Particularly those who are entrusted with the instruments of power that is the US government.

And where do you get the idea that it's an "either/or" proposition? The US government is capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time. I think you have a simplistic notion of how much the United States government is capable of doing at one time. And given how Obama's 'accomplishments' to date have been pretty much a continuation of Bush-Cheney policies and failures (from a destroyed economy and widespread joblessness and foreclosures to expanded and neverending warfare), it's a pitiful excuse.

Who would you rather US attorneys go after? Medical pot providers or CIA torturers/Bybee/Yoo/JamesMitchell/BruceJensen/Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice/Wolfowitz/Feith/et al?

Obama has had the time and the resources to 'accomplish' his priorities: Patronage of his contributors' 'pet projects'.

In these times of record joblessness, there is much to do everywhere, including work for prosecuting attorneys and their staffs.

"In order for evil to flourish, all that is required is for good men to do nothing." -Edward Burke

"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality." -Aleghieri Dante

"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." -Martin Niemoeller

“One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this.”
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Lawrence Wilkerson: Dick Cheney 'Fears Being Tried' For War Crimes (VIDEO)

Cite the laws that Bush or Cheney violated.

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Conservatives (Jonathan Turley, John Dean, Vince Bugliosi, Bruce Fein) explain the crimes of Bush-Cheney:

Prosecuting George W. Bush

How To Prosecute George W. Bush

Jonathan Turley: "Condi Rice Confessed to Conspiracy to Commit War Crimes"

John Dean: "Condi Just Confessed to Conspiracy to Commit War Crimes"

Waterboarding Is T0rture & It's Settled Law

Jonathan Turley on the DoJ's ethics report about the Bush's administration's torture memos authorizing waterboarding

Conservative Reagan Appointee Bruce Fein: "Impeach & Prosecute Dick Cheney"

Conservative Reagan Appointee Bruce Fein's Testimony Before House Judiciary Committee on the High Crimes of Bush & Cheney

Reagan Administration Appointee, Conservative Bruce Fein To Obama: Prosecute T0rturers

Congressmen Tie Bush & Rice & CIA To Fabrication Of Evidence For Iraq War

Cheney Admits War Crimes While Media Yawns & Obama Turns Other Cheek

Chemical Weapons Use By US Military In Iraq Is A War Crime

The definition of a crime now is "If you're breaking the law, if you're a member of the 'Establishment Elite', you have nothing to worry about". We don't enforce laws for the rich, privileged and powerful. While it's always been true to a certain extent, there's just no pretense about it anymore. The People are learning that they're the only ones being required to abide by the rule of law.

That shouldn't sit well with anyone who thinks of himself as a Constitution-loving, upholder of the rule of law, equal-justice-under-the-law-patriot.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Lawrence Wilkerson: Dick Cheney 'Fears Being Tried' For War Crimes (VIDEO)

You have a simplistic notion of how much the United States government is capable of doing at one time. And given how Obama's 'accomplishments' to date have been pretty much a continuation of Bush-Cheney policies and failures (from a destroyed economy and widespread joblessness and foreclosures to expanded and neverending warfare), it's a lame excuse.

Who would you rather US attorneys go after? Medical pot providers or CIA torturers/Bybee/Yoo/JamesMitchell/BruceJensen/Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice/Wolfowitz/Feith/et al?

Obama has had the time and the resources to 'accomplish' what have been his priorities: Patronage to his contributors' 'pet projects'.
About Video
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Ron Paul: FEMA Signals Too Much 'Dependency' On The Federal Government In Disasters (VIDEO)

How about when it's actually born and issued a birth certificate? When a woman miscarries, there's no death certificate because you don't get a death certificate without a birth certificate.

How about when it's able to survive outside of a woman's body? When it's no longer a parasite. When a woman is no longer needed to provide her body as a life-support system?

I repeat: Requiring women to continue unwanted pregnancies makes them slaves to the state, life support systems, incubators for cells. Anti-choicers love only the unborn. If anti-choicers had any care or concern for children, for women, for families, there would be no children languishing in foster care, nor homeless families, or women struggling to raise children on their own.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Lawrence Wilkerson: Dick Cheney 'Fears Being Tried' For War Crimes (VIDEO)

Cite the laws that Bush or Cheney violated.

===============================

Conservatives (Jonathan Turley, John Dean, Vince Bugliosi, Bruce Fein) explain the crimes of Bush-Cheney:

Prosecuting George W. Bush

How To Prosecute George W. Bush

Jonathan Turley: "Condi Rice Confessed to Conspiracy to Commit War Crimes"

John Dean: "Condi Just Confessed to Conspiracy to Commit War Crimes"

Waterboarding Is T0rture & It's Settled Law

Jonathan Turley on the DoJ's ethics report about the Bush's administration's torture memos authorizing waterboarding

Conservative Reagan Appointee Bruce Fein: "Impeach & Prosecute Dick Cheney"

Conservative Reagan Appointee Bruce Fein's Testimony Before House Judiciary Committee on the High Crimes of Bush & Cheney

Reagan Administration Appointee, Conservative Bruce Fein To Obama: Prosecute T0rturers

Congressmen Tie Bush & Rice & CIA To Fabrication Of Evidence For Iraq War

Cheney Admits War Crimes While Media Yawns & Obama Turns Other Cheek

Chemical Weapons Use By US Military In Iraq Is A War Crime

The definition of a crime now is "If you're breaking the law, if you're a member of the 'Establishment Elite', you have nothing to worry about". We don't enforce laws for the rich, privileged and powerful. While it's always been true to a certain extent, there's just no pretense about it anymore. The People are learning that they're the only ones being required to abide by the rule of law.

That shouldn't sit well with anyone who thinks of himself as a Constitution-loving, upholder of the rule of law, equal-justice-under-the-law-patriot.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Lawrence Wilkerson: Dick Cheney 'Fears Being Tried' For War Crimes (VIDEO)

40+ Secret Meetings -- Papers Detail Oil Industry's Role in Cheney's Energy Task Force Report

US Energy Policy Devised In Cheney's Secret Meetings With Oil Industry Executives -- Environmentalists and Conservationists Left Out

Obama is implementing the Bush-Cheney energy policy.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cheney_Energy_Task_Force

The Cheney Energy Task Force Records

Secrets of Cheney’s Energy Task Force Come to Light
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Lawrence Wilkerson: Dick Cheney 'Fears Being Tried' For War Crimes (VIDEO)

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff to Colin Powell during his tenure as secretary of state, tells ABC News that former vice president Dick Cheney "fears being tried as a war criminal."

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If that were true, Cheney would have left well enough alone. He wouldn't have written a book that pokes his finger in the eyes of so many.

Cheney's book is sheer hubris.
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Lawrence Wilkerson: Dick Cheney 'Fears Being Tried' For War Crimes (VIDEO)

Bush happened because of the pardoning of Nixon. The Nixon pardon happened because of Cheney and Rumsfeld. These are not disconnected events. These people have been up to mischief for a long while. They never got over Watergate and their fall from grace. They never believed they did anything wrong. And due to the Patriot Act, Republicans (with the help of DLC-controlled Democrats) have managed to make Nixon's criminal acts against Daniel Ellsberg legal. Habeas corpus has been overturned, and posse comitatus is no more.

Running from these facts isn't going to make the Nixon-Reagan-Bush-Cheney-GOP-Conservatives behave, or go away. Waiting them out, until they d!e, isn't going to end it -- They've raised and trained an army of 'true believers' to carry on after they're gone.

Investigations and trials go a long way in dealing with that. It's not their minds you want to change, but the millions of Americans who never knew the facts. They broke the law, and we enforce the law so that people KNOW the laws and live by them. If People don't agree with the laws, if they don't like the laws, they can change the laws. But the People have to have a direct experience and understanding of the laws before they can change them. And that's how you get an informed, healthy and active democracy. With a knowledgeable electorate.
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Lawrence Wilkerson: Dick Cheney 'Fears Being Tried' For War Crimes (VIDEO)

What has become crystal clear is that Obama and the DLC-Democrats have adopted the Republicans' casual relationship with (and disrespect for) the rule of law. Preserving the rule of law underpins how the US has been the most successful, longest running democracy in world history.

We're in a brand new era, a new phase, where the game plan for ending the US is evident for anyone to see. And it begins and ends with the rule of law. By refusing to investigate and prosecute Bush, by "looking forward, not back", Obama has broken the covenant that the American people have with their government.

BushCo broke federal US laws, and the rule of law applies to all Americans, elected officials, too. Elected officials especially.

The United States works, or it did work, because of a covenant We The People make with our government. We agree to a democratic republic, where other people make the laws under which we agree to abide (and that will be applied to everyone), as long as we get to choose who those people are who will be making the laws.

It is under those conditions that we consent to be governed.

When we no longer trust in the process, when we no longer trust that the selection process by which our elected representatives is fair and accurate, or that the laws don't apply equally to all, then all bets are off.

And no government can stand once that happens.

For a president of the United States not to equally apply the law to all people, presidents, too, means that the grand experiment is over.

Not prosecuting BushCo is destroying the country. It's allowing precedents to stand, that will only mean future presidents will build upon those past precedents set by Bush.

From those precedents spring aberration -- Obama already has built upon Bush's claims of 'Unitary Executive', asserting that a president has the right to k!ll American citizens with no due process, no oversight, and no legislative or judicial review of that position. Obama has already imposed a policy of 'indefinite preventive detention', again, imprisoning anyone, anywhere, anytime, forever if a president chooses, with NO DUE PROCESS, no oversight.

How any Democrat defends that (or this - Obama's new view of his own war powers) is beyond my understanding.

KEEP READING
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Lawrence Wilkerson: Dick Cheney 'Fears Being Tried' For War Crimes (VIDEO)

This is the result of "looking forward, not back".

Why is Dick Cheney (and George W. Bush, too, for that matter) being allowed to crawl back into polite society to rehabilitate his image and spread revisionist history about 9/11, WMD in Iraq, the economic meltdown, and the nightmare he caused us and the world?

Why isn't he having to spend 24/7 with his lawyers, working on a way to stay out of prison?

Because Obama and the DLC-Democrats have blocked all investigations and prosecutions into Bush-Cheney and Republicans, and have allowed them to resurrect themselves and take back control over government.

And because of Obama's failure to restore the Constitution and return us to the rule of law by holding Bush, Cheney, et al, accountable, JEB Bush was all over the news on 2010 election night as the man behind Florida's new Tea Party Senator, Marco Rubio. So expect a Jeb Bush run at the presidency in the not-to-distant-future. Perhaps with Liz Cheney on the ticket with him.

This is Obama's fault -- The buck stops squarely at his feet.

When Obama came into power, the GOP wasn't on the ropes; it was down for the count because of the devastation that Bush-Cheney had caused the nation. And Obama issued Bush-Cheney and Republicans (essentially) a pardon. None of them express any remorse or contrition. As a matter of fact, they're rested and ready for another round of tax cuts for the rich and slicing-and-dicing Social Security, Medicare, and anything else they can get their hands on that would help the People.

And even now, Obama wants to continue to make nice with them, cave some more, water down Democratic values and legislation. Obama's not any kind of real Democrat, he's a DINO, and if you didn't like the Republican Party of the last 35 years, the party of Reagan (forget just the past 10), you're going to hate where Obama and the DLC are taking the 'new and improved' Democratic Party from which they hope "to govern for 100 years"; a world where George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are welcomed as experts, authorities, on saving the United States from "global extremism".
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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