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August 26, 2012
This is the exclusive online trailer premiere of the Romney-Ryan campaign's GOP convention reinvention of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan: "The Do-Over."
Romney advisers believe he's viewed as "stiff, aloof and distant" and that the GOP Convention will be "a chance for a fresh start". Their plan includes Mad Men "slick packaging" and a "theatrical," hollywood-style reinvention.
Opening this week in Tampa, Florida—Mitt Romney's convention reinvention: "Do-Over".
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Mitt Romney and the Boy Paul Ryan: The Do-Over - CONVENTION-REINVENTION
This is the exclusive online trailer premiere of the Romney-Ryan campaign's GOP convention reinvention of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan: "The Do-Over."
Romney advisers believe he's viewed as "stiff, aloof and distant" and that the GOP Convention will be "a chance for a fresh start". Their plan includes Mad Men "slick packaging" and a "theatrical," hollywood-style reinvention.
Opening this week in Tampa, Florida—Mitt Romney's convention reinvention: "Do-Over".
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August 26, 2012
"......for those who wish for intricate detail on this tax avoidance mechanism they can refer to this paper from Gregg Polsky of the University of North Carolina. But, the simple explanation of this from Professor Fleischer is:
There are many variations on the theme, but here’s how many deals worked: each year, before the annual management fee comes due, the fund manager waives the management fee in exchange for a priority allocation of future profits. There is minimal economic risk involved; as long as the fund, at some point, has a profitable quarter, the managers get paid. (If the managers don’t foresee any future profits, they won’t waive the fees, and they will take cash instead.) In exchange for a minimal amount of economic risk, the tax benefit is enormous: the compensation is transformed from ordinary income (taxed at 35%) into capital gain (taxed at 15%). Because the management fees for a large private equity fund can be ten or twenty million per year, the tax dodge can literally save millions in taxes every year.
The problem is that it is not legal.
http://victorfleischer.com/archives/306
He then began studying a single fund, to give a solid example. The fund he chose was the Bain Capital Fund VII LP, one of the funds set up under Romney’s tenure at Bain (and was in fact listed as the managing director of in the SEC filings in 2002), which the family still has a sizable holding of. In this one fund of multiple which Romney holds, the total management fee conversion came to about $7 million, in one year alone. And this was not the most outrageous example, with Bain Capital Fund X LP being able to skip out on paying $67 million in taxes in 2009 alone.
Now, as Romney retroactively retired to 1999, the case will be argued that he just benefits from the funds as any other investment. However, Romney filed an 83(b) election on his taxes, often times used for just this form of tax avoidance. It is putting him as a general partner, not a limited partner, with active access to the assets and some control over the investment. Even if however he did operate as a limited partner, his fund profited directly from just this arrangement, which means he profited. Since over 80% of his income came from these funds, that means 80% of his income was not taxed properly, in an illegal manner.
It looks as if Mr Romney may indeed be in hot water over his taxes after all.
cont'
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/08/25/romney-tax-secret/
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Mitt Romney’s DIRTY TAX SECRET
"......for those who wish for intricate detail on this tax avoidance mechanism they can refer to this paper from Gregg Polsky of the University of North Carolina. But, the simple explanation of this from Professor Fleischer is:
There are many variations on the theme, but here’s how many deals worked: each year, before the annual management fee comes due, the fund manager waives the management fee in exchange for a priority allocation of future profits. There is minimal economic risk involved; as long as the fund, at some point, has a profitable quarter, the managers get paid. (If the managers don’t foresee any future profits, they won’t waive the fees, and they will take cash instead.) In exchange for a minimal amount of economic risk, the tax benefit is enormous: the compensation is transformed from ordinary income (taxed at 35%) into capital gain (taxed at 15%). Because the management fees for a large private equity fund can be ten or twenty million per year, the tax dodge can literally save millions in taxes every year.
The problem is that it is not legal.
http://victorfleischer.com/archives/306
He then began studying a single fund, to give a solid example. The fund he chose was the Bain Capital Fund VII LP, one of the funds set up under Romney’s tenure at Bain (and was in fact listed as the managing director of in the SEC filings in 2002), which the family still has a sizable holding of. In this one fund of multiple which Romney holds, the total management fee conversion came to about $7 million, in one year alone. And this was not the most outrageous example, with Bain Capital Fund X LP being able to skip out on paying $67 million in taxes in 2009 alone.
Now, as Romney retroactively retired to 1999, the case will be argued that he just benefits from the funds as any other investment. However, Romney filed an 83(b) election on his taxes, often times used for just this form of tax avoidance. It is putting him as a general partner, not a limited partner, with active access to the assets and some control over the investment. Even if however he did operate as a limited partner, his fund profited directly from just this arrangement, which means he profited. Since over 80% of his income came from these funds, that means 80% of his income was not taxed properly, in an illegal manner.
It looks as if Mr Romney may indeed be in hot water over his taxes after all.
cont'
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/08/25/romney-tax-secret/
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August 26, 2012
This year’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, beginning September 3rd, will be the gayest ever. The sheer number of LGBT delegates is at its highest yet, according to Stonewall Democrats in the Washington Blade:
The upcoming Democratic National Convention is set to have a record number of openly LGBT delegates, although goals for some states aren’t being met, according to new data from the National Stonewall Democrats.
The organization as of Wednesday evening identified at least 470 openly LGBT delegates that are set to attend the convention, but more data is expected to become public at a later time. A total of 5,963 delegates are set to come to Charlotte, N.C.., for the event during the week of Sept. 3.
Having 470 delegates exceeds the goal of 418 delegates at the convention and is already higher than numbers from 2008, when 277 delegates participated.
For those comprehension-challenged readers who question any discussions of historic LGBT representation, please note no one is being outed here. These are “openly gay” Democrats.)
The DNC itself has not issued exact counts yet, although these are expected sometime before the convention is gaveled to order. In the meantime, we have the numbers crunched by Stonewall Democrats:
cont'
http://my.firedoglake.com/teddysanfran/2012/08/25/2012-dnc-gayest-ever/
2012 DNC: GAYEST EVER!
This year’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, beginning September 3rd, will be the gayest ever. The sheer number of LGBT delegates is at its highest yet, according to Stonewall Democrats in the Washington Blade:
The upcoming Democratic National Convention is set to have a record number of openly LGBT delegates, although goals for some states aren’t being met, according to new data from the National Stonewall Democrats.
The organization as of Wednesday evening identified at least 470 openly LGBT delegates that are set to attend the convention, but more data is expected to become public at a later time. A total of 5,963 delegates are set to come to Charlotte, N.C.., for the event during the week of Sept. 3.
Having 470 delegates exceeds the goal of 418 delegates at the convention and is already higher than numbers from 2008, when 277 delegates participated.
For those comprehension-challenged readers who question any discussions of historic LGBT representation, please note no one is being outed here. These are “openly gay” Democrats.)
The DNC itself has not issued exact counts yet, although these are expected sometime before the convention is gaveled to order. In the meantime, we have the numbers crunched by Stonewall Democrats:
Jerame Davis, executive director of the National Stonewall Democrats, said the numbers “for sure” mean Democrats are on track to have the highest number of openly LGBT delegates ever at the convention.
“We’re finally getting to the point where we get closer to appropriate measure of representation as compared to the population at large, although we’re not quite to that point,” Davis said.
“We’re finally getting to the point where we get closer to appropriate measure of representation as compared to the population at large, although we’re not quite to that point,” Davis said.
cont'
http://my.firedoglake.com/teddysanfran/2012/08/25/2012-dnc-gayest-ever/
August 25, 2012
Jennifer Granholm is joined by Democratic strategist Karl Frisch and Brown University professor Tricia Rose in 'The War Room' to talk about Mitt Romney's plunge into bitherism, the racism it stems from and why the Romney campaign is using this as a strategy.
BIRTHER Mitt Romney Has TAKEN THE PLUNGE
Jennifer Granholm is joined by Democratic strategist Karl Frisch and Brown University professor Tricia Rose in 'The War Room' to talk about Mitt Romney's plunge into bitherism, the racism it stems from and why the Romney campaign is using this as a strategy.
August 25, 2012
Via : https://twitter.com/bellobass/status/239105249225363456
John Aravosis ?@aravosis
‘If Romney wants to prove he was “only joking” he can release his tax returns’
Carmine Bello
?@bellobass 15h @aravosis
Best Obama response to this: Talk about paying fair taxes (not dodging them!) then say “NO ONE'S EVER ASKED TO SEE MY TAX RETURNS"
John Aravosis ?@aravosis
@bellobass
brilliant
http://thelastofthemillenniums.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/a-liberal-vision-for-america-best-obama-response-to-this-no-ones-ever-asked-to-see-my-tax-returns/
The Best Obama Response to Mitt's Birther ' JOKE '
Via : https://twitter.com/bellobass/status/239105249225363456
John Aravosis ?@aravosis
‘If Romney wants to prove he was “only joking” he can release his tax returns’
Carmine Bello
?@bellobass 15h @aravosis
Best Obama response to this: Talk about paying fair taxes (not dodging them!) then say “NO ONE'S EVER ASKED TO SEE MY TAX RETURNS"
John Aravosis ?@aravosis
@bellobass
brilliant
http://thelastofthemillenniums.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/a-liberal-vision-for-america-best-obama-response-to-this-no-ones-ever-asked-to-see-my-tax-returns/
August 25, 2012
Say what you will about the ultra-hardline reproductive politics of Todd Akin and Paul Ryan, but at least those two have always been true believers. Mitt Romney, not so much. As his former strategist Michael Murphy put it in 2005, "He's been a pro-life Mormon faking it as a pro-choice friendly." But Romney's public transformation from an "unwavering" supporter of Roe v. Wade into a strong backer of the GOP's all-out assault on women's reproductive rights isn't just rank opportunism. To accomplish that extremist makeover, Mitt Romney had to turn his back on a "dear, close family relative" who died 50 years ago of a then-illegal abortion.
As Salon's Justin Elliott documented last year in "The Abortion That Mitt Doesn't Talk About Anymore," it was his own family story which informed his pro-choice position during his 1994 Senate run against Ted Kennedy. When Kennedy labeled him "Multiple Choice Mitt," during their debate, Romney responded with a tale of personal loss:
To further establish his pro-choice bona fides, Mitt put his wife's money where his mouth was. During the '94 campaign, he and Ann attended a Planned Parenthood event, where she wrote a check for $150 to the organization. (Later seeking the GOP presidential nomination, Gov. Romney claimed he had "no recollection" of the gathering. As far as Ann's contribution was concerned, Mitt explained that "her positions are not terribly relevant for my campaign."
Ann Romney, who Mitt now boasts "reports to me regularly" on what American women care about, will be headlining next week's Republican National Convention in Tampa, during his 2002 race for governor of Massachusetts had a different role. Back then, Romney enlisted her to reassure the pro-choice Bay State voters that he was on their side:
cont'
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/23/1123430/-How-the-newly-pro-life-Romney-betrayed-a-dear-close-family-relative
How The Newly 'PRO-LIFE' Romney BETRAYED A 'Dear, Close Family Relative
Say what you will about the ultra-hardline reproductive politics of Todd Akin and Paul Ryan, but at least those two have always been true believers. Mitt Romney, not so much. As his former strategist Michael Murphy put it in 2005, "He's been a pro-life Mormon faking it as a pro-choice friendly." But Romney's public transformation from an "unwavering" supporter of Roe v. Wade into a strong backer of the GOP's all-out assault on women's reproductive rights isn't just rank opportunism. To accomplish that extremist makeover, Mitt Romney had to turn his back on a "dear, close family relative" who died 50 years ago of a then-illegal abortion.
As Salon's Justin Elliott documented last year in "The Abortion That Mitt Doesn't Talk About Anymore," it was his own family story which informed his pro-choice position during his 1994 Senate run against Ted Kennedy. When Kennedy labeled him "Multiple Choice Mitt," during their debate, Romney responded with a tale of personal loss:
"On the idea of 'multiple-choice,' I have to respond. I have my own beliefs, and those beliefs are very dear to me. One of them is that I do not impose my beliefs on other people. Many, many years ago, I had a dear, close family relative that was very close to me who passed away from an illegal abortion. It is since that time that my mother and my family have been committed to the belief that we can believe as we want, but we will not force our beliefs on others on that matter. And you will not see me wavering on that."
To further establish his pro-choice bona fides, Mitt put his wife's money where his mouth was. During the '94 campaign, he and Ann attended a Planned Parenthood event, where she wrote a check for $150 to the organization. (Later seeking the GOP presidential nomination, Gov. Romney claimed he had "no recollection" of the gathering. As far as Ann's contribution was concerned, Mitt explained that "her positions are not terribly relevant for my campaign."
Ann Romney, who Mitt now boasts "reports to me regularly" on what American women care about, will be headlining next week's Republican National Convention in Tampa, during his 2002 race for governor of Massachusetts had a different role. Back then, Romney enlisted her to reassure the pro-choice Bay State voters that he was on their side:
ANN ROMNEY: I think women also recognize that they want someone who is going to manage the state well. I think they may be more nervous about him on social issues. They shouldn't be, because he's going to be just fine. But the perception is that he won't be. That's an incorrect perception.
MITT ROMNEY: So when asked will I preserve and protect a woman's right to choose, I make an unequivocal answer: yes
MITT ROMNEY: So when asked will I preserve and protect a woman's right to choose, I make an unequivocal answer: yes
cont'
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/23/1123430/-How-the-newly-pro-life-Romney-betrayed-a-dear-close-family-relative
August 25, 2012
Are we to believe that a fundamentalist in a suit is less scary than a fundamentalist in a beard, even if both are spouting hatred against women?
Missouri Republican Congressman Todd Akin's recent comments about how women can't become pregnant from what he called "legitimate rape" was just the latest in a long line of pronouncements from American leaders with strong religious backgrounds who believe they are an authority on women's needs and health. Akin is no different than the numerous Iranian clerics who've said such ridiculous things as women who have extramarital sex "cause earthquakes," or the Egyptian cleric who first said that a husband and wife cannot be completely naked while having sex. (This was then modified by scholars, and it was agreed that the most important thing is that no one look at the vagina at the scene of the sex act.)
Or the fatwa after fatwa about men and women working together, schooling together and all the rest (sounds a lot like segregation, doesn't it America?).
The truth is, Akin and his fellow religious fundamentalist men the world over are very much the same when it comes to women: they know more about women than women do. In their minds, of course. Because none of them know what it's like to have a period or to give birth or to suffer the tragic and deeply disturbing decision to abort a baby. (Many women don't even know what it's like to suffer through a decision about an unwanted baby.) Further, no man knows what it's like to live in a world where women are second-class citizens - although that is a fact even in the most "civilized" and modern countries. None of them know what it's like to work just as hard as a man and not get the job, or not get the promotion, or, certainly, not get the same amount of pay.
Akin, a graduate of the Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri - he has a master of divinity - has gathered along the way, largely due to societal cues, that he is an authority on things that he is not, because he is a man. Like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who recently spoke on behalf of all the women in the Republican Party when he said that his female colleagues "don't see any evidence" of a war on women, it never struck Akin that he is not qualified to speak for women, particularly when he is attacking their rights. And he is not the first. It was just this year that Wisconsin state senator Glenn Grothman said that, "money is more important for men," as he argued against a Wisconsin state equal pay act. In his view of the matter, there is no pay discrimination because women simply don't want to be paid as much as men do, particularly when they are married and more focused on raising kids (as he duly noted). Grothman, a devout Christian, also made headlines this year when he said that "unwanted and mistimed pregnancies" are "a choice" that women make and are not actually accidents. Incidentally, Grothman has never been married and does not have kids.
Or what about Idaho state senator Chuck Winder, who just this year said that women may not actually know the difference between rape and the normal course of sexual relations in marriage (something Winder believes involves a woman being obligated to have sexual relations with her husband even when she does not want to): "I would hope that when a woman goes into a physician, with a rape issue, that that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage. Was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage, or was it truly caused by a rape?" He went on to imply that many women are using rape as an excuse for abortion. And then there is the totality of what many people are simply referring to as the war on women in America: the attitudes, statements, media bias and campaign platforms that together work to denigrate women and take away their rights simply because of the physical realities of their bodies. The war on women refers, primarily, to the Republican Party - a party largely consisting of devout men whose understanding of religion provides them the context and confidence to make statements and decisions about women's body parts, sexual relations and reproduction, in addition to women's role in society (and in the home), and their right to equality in employment and pay.
cont'
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11068-akin-for-the-truth-how-are-us-religious-fundamentalists-any-different-than-middle-eastern-ones
How Are US RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISTS Any Different Than MIDDLE EASTERN Ones?
Are we to believe that a fundamentalist in a suit is less scary than a fundamentalist in a beard, even if both are spouting hatred against women?
Missouri Republican Congressman Todd Akin's recent comments about how women can't become pregnant from what he called "legitimate rape" was just the latest in a long line of pronouncements from American leaders with strong religious backgrounds who believe they are an authority on women's needs and health. Akin is no different than the numerous Iranian clerics who've said such ridiculous things as women who have extramarital sex "cause earthquakes," or the Egyptian cleric who first said that a husband and wife cannot be completely naked while having sex. (This was then modified by scholars, and it was agreed that the most important thing is that no one look at the vagina at the scene of the sex act.)
Or the fatwa after fatwa about men and women working together, schooling together and all the rest (sounds a lot like segregation, doesn't it America?).
The truth is, Akin and his fellow religious fundamentalist men the world over are very much the same when it comes to women: they know more about women than women do. In their minds, of course. Because none of them know what it's like to have a period or to give birth or to suffer the tragic and deeply disturbing decision to abort a baby. (Many women don't even know what it's like to suffer through a decision about an unwanted baby.) Further, no man knows what it's like to live in a world where women are second-class citizens - although that is a fact even in the most "civilized" and modern countries. None of them know what it's like to work just as hard as a man and not get the job, or not get the promotion, or, certainly, not get the same amount of pay.
Akin, a graduate of the Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri - he has a master of divinity - has gathered along the way, largely due to societal cues, that he is an authority on things that he is not, because he is a man. Like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who recently spoke on behalf of all the women in the Republican Party when he said that his female colleagues "don't see any evidence" of a war on women, it never struck Akin that he is not qualified to speak for women, particularly when he is attacking their rights. And he is not the first. It was just this year that Wisconsin state senator Glenn Grothman said that, "money is more important for men," as he argued against a Wisconsin state equal pay act. In his view of the matter, there is no pay discrimination because women simply don't want to be paid as much as men do, particularly when they are married and more focused on raising kids (as he duly noted). Grothman, a devout Christian, also made headlines this year when he said that "unwanted and mistimed pregnancies" are "a choice" that women make and are not actually accidents. Incidentally, Grothman has never been married and does not have kids.
Or what about Idaho state senator Chuck Winder, who just this year said that women may not actually know the difference between rape and the normal course of sexual relations in marriage (something Winder believes involves a woman being obligated to have sexual relations with her husband even when she does not want to): "I would hope that when a woman goes into a physician, with a rape issue, that that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage. Was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage, or was it truly caused by a rape?" He went on to imply that many women are using rape as an excuse for abortion. And then there is the totality of what many people are simply referring to as the war on women in America: the attitudes, statements, media bias and campaign platforms that together work to denigrate women and take away their rights simply because of the physical realities of their bodies. The war on women refers, primarily, to the Republican Party - a party largely consisting of devout men whose understanding of religion provides them the context and confidence to make statements and decisions about women's body parts, sexual relations and reproduction, in addition to women's role in society (and in the home), and their right to equality in employment and pay.
cont'
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11068-akin-for-the-truth-how-are-us-religious-fundamentalists-any-different-than-middle-eastern-ones
August 25, 2012
Mitt Romney met John Willke, the doctor credited with popularising Todd Akin’s controversial views on rape and abortion, during the current election campaign and told him they agreed on “almost everything,” Dr Willke said.
Mr Romney and Paul Ryan, his running mate, have denounced Mr Akin's remarks. Dr Willke has been given no role in Mr Romney’s 2012 campaign and aides stress that the candidate disagrees with his theory on rape.
However, Dr Willke told The Daily Telegraph that he did meet Mr Romney during a presidential primary campaign stop in the doctor's home city of Cincinnati, Ohio, in October last year. Local news reports at the time noted that the candidate held “private meetings” during the visit.
Dr Willke wrote an open letter on Tuesday declaring that “the pro-life movement and I unequivocally stand with Rep. Akin” despite Mr Romney and several other party heavyweights saying that he must step aside.
“The guy is clean,” he told the Daily Telegraph. “He made one mistake by using the wrong word and the volcano erupted. The powers that be in the Republican party threw this guy overboard”.
cont'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/9493653/US-election-Mitt-Romney-met-Todd-Akin-doctor-John-Willke-during-2012-campaign.html
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Mitt Romney MET Todd Akin Doctor JOHN WILLKE During 2012 Campaign
Mitt Romney met John Willke, the doctor credited with popularising Todd Akin’s controversial views on rape and abortion, during the current election campaign and told him they agreed on “almost everything,” Dr Willke said.
Mr Romney and Paul Ryan, his running mate, have denounced Mr Akin's remarks. Dr Willke has been given no role in Mr Romney’s 2012 campaign and aides stress that the candidate disagrees with his theory on rape.
However, Dr Willke told The Daily Telegraph that he did meet Mr Romney during a presidential primary campaign stop in the doctor's home city of Cincinnati, Ohio, in October last year. Local news reports at the time noted that the candidate held “private meetings” during the visit.
“He told me ‘thank you for your support – we agree on almost everything, and if I am elected President I will make some major pro-life pronouncements’,” Dr Willke said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.
“I thanked him, and said I knew where he was – that he was 99 per cent of what we wanted,” he said of the roughly ten-minute meeting. “I told him I would help in any way I could”. A spokesman for Mr Romney declined to comment.
“I thanked him, and said I knew where he was – that he was 99 per cent of what we wanted,” he said of the roughly ten-minute meeting. “I told him I would help in any way I could”. A spokesman for Mr Romney declined to comment.
Dr Willke wrote an open letter on Tuesday declaring that “the pro-life movement and I unequivocally stand with Rep. Akin” despite Mr Romney and several other party heavyweights saying that he must step aside.
“The guy is clean,” he told the Daily Telegraph. “He made one mistake by using the wrong word and the volcano erupted. The powers that be in the Republican party threw this guy overboard”.
cont'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/9493653/US-election-Mitt-Romney-met-Todd-Akin-doctor-John-Willke-during-2012-campaign.html
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August 25, 2012
LIES GOP Tell About WOMEN'S Bodies
LIES GOP TELL ABOUT WOMEN'S BODIESBirth Control Causes Prostate Cancer
Earlier this year, a New Hampshire lawmaker came up with a new reason the government should not require health insurance companies to provide contraception.
"As a man, would it interest you to know that Dr. Brownstein just published an article that links the pill to prostate cancer?" state Rep. Jeanine Notter (R) asked a male representative at the hearing, the Merrimack Patch reports.
http://merrimack.patch.com/articles/merrimack-rep-claims-the-pill-has-been-linked-to-prostate-cancer
Abortion Causes Breast Cancer
The New Hampshire House in 2012 passed a bill that would require doctors to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure can cause breast cancer. Here is an excerpt from the bill, sponsored by Notter:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/14/abortion-breast-cancer-new-hampshire-_n_1345771.html
Birth Control Is A Sex Pill
Rush Limbaugh showed he has no understanding of how birth control pills work when he attacked Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student barred from testifying as a Democratic witness at a congressional hearing about the Obama administration's contraception policy. Limbaugh called Fluke a "slut" for needing lots of birth control to manage her sex life.
"She wants to be paid to have sex," Limbaugh said. "She's having so much sex she can't afford
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/rush-limbaugh-sandra-fluke-slut_n_1311640.html
Abortion Industry Is 'Selling Abortions'
A Republican state legislator in Arizona wrote in an email to a constituent earlier this year that she wanted to force women seeking abortions to watch the procedure first.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/abortion-bill-arizona-terri-proud-witness-email_n_1368386.html
"Personally I'd like to make a law that mandates a woman watch an abortion being performed prior to having a 'surgical procedure,'" state Rep. Terri Proud (R) wrote. The constituent responded by email that she was "speechless" and after a baffling exchange with Proud, released the emails to the media. Facing national outrage, Proud released the emails.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/23/abortion-bill-abortion-constituent-email-watching-
abortion_n_1376389.html?ref=politics
Women Can't Get Pregnant From Rape
Just before Idaho's Senate passed a mandatory ultrasound bill in March, a Republican bill sponsor made some startling comments about abortion and rape.
"Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this," said state Sen. Chuck Winder (R). "I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/chuck-winder-rape-abortions_n_1366994.html
Prenatal Testing Leads To Abortion
Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum made prenatal testing a campaign issue in February when he declared the tests are designed to "cull the ranks of the disabled in our society" by encouraging abortions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/22/rick-santorum-prenatal-testing_n_1293153.html#s584044&title=On_Contraception
"Amniocentesis does, in fact, result more often than not in this country in abortions," Santorum, who has a severely disabled daughter, said on "Face the Nation." "That is a fact."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/rick-santorum-prenatal-testing-encourages-abortions/2012/02/19/gIQAvmZeNR_blog.html
HPV Vaccine Causes Retardation
Back when Rick Perry was campaigning for president, his rivals attacked him for signing an executive order mandating the human papillomavirus vaccine for young girls, and misinformation quickly spread. Michele Bachmann insinuated that the vaccine causes mental retardation, while Santorum spoke out against "having little girls inoculated at the force and compulsion of the government."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/13/rick-perry-hpv-vaccine_n_961159.html
Plan B Causes Abortions
The debate over the Obama administration's contraception policy has yielded some puzzling claims about birth control and Plan B. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) addressed the House in February, urging his colleagues to reverse Obama's mandate for health insurance coverage of "abortion-inducing drugs:"
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/08/boehner-pledges-congress-will-overturn-new-obama-mandate/
Your Fetus Is Just Fine
The Arizona Senate passed a bill in March to protect doctors from "wrongful birth" lawsuits -- effectively allowing them to withhold information that may lead a patient to get an abortion. HuffPost's John Celock reports:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/09/wrongful-birth-bill-arizona-senate-abortion-bill_n_1335117.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/kansas-anti-abortion-bill_n_1258185.html
Earlier this year, a New Hampshire lawmaker came up with a new reason the government should not require health insurance companies to provide contraception.
"As a man, would it interest you to know that Dr. Brownstein just published an article that links the pill to prostate cancer?" state Rep. Jeanine Notter (R) asked a male representative at the hearing, the Merrimack Patch reports.
http://merrimack.patch.com/articles/merrimack-rep-claims-the-pill-has-been-linked-to-prostate-cancer
Abortion Causes Breast Cancer
The New Hampshire House in 2012 passed a bill that would require doctors to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure can cause breast cancer. Here is an excerpt from the bill, sponsored by Notter:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/14/abortion-breast-cancer-new-hampshire-_n_1345771.html
Birth Control Is A Sex Pill
Rush Limbaugh showed he has no understanding of how birth control pills work when he attacked Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student barred from testifying as a Democratic witness at a congressional hearing about the Obama administration's contraception policy. Limbaugh called Fluke a "slut" for needing lots of birth control to manage her sex life.
"She wants to be paid to have sex," Limbaugh said. "She's having so much sex she can't afford
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/rush-limbaugh-sandra-fluke-slut_n_1311640.html
Abortion Industry Is 'Selling Abortions'
A Republican state legislator in Arizona wrote in an email to a constituent earlier this year that she wanted to force women seeking abortions to watch the procedure first.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/abortion-bill-arizona-terri-proud-witness-email_n_1368386.html
"Personally I'd like to make a law that mandates a woman watch an abortion being performed prior to having a 'surgical procedure,'" state Rep. Terri Proud (R) wrote. The constituent responded by email that she was "speechless" and after a baffling exchange with Proud, released the emails to the media. Facing national outrage, Proud released the emails.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/23/abortion-bill-abortion-constituent-email-watching-
abortion_n_1376389.html?ref=politics
Women Can't Get Pregnant From Rape
Just before Idaho's Senate passed a mandatory ultrasound bill in March, a Republican bill sponsor made some startling comments about abortion and rape.
"Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this," said state Sen. Chuck Winder (R). "I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/chuck-winder-rape-abortions_n_1366994.html
Prenatal Testing Leads To Abortion
Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum made prenatal testing a campaign issue in February when he declared the tests are designed to "cull the ranks of the disabled in our society" by encouraging abortions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/22/rick-santorum-prenatal-testing_n_1293153.html#s584044&title=On_Contraception
"Amniocentesis does, in fact, result more often than not in this country in abortions," Santorum, who has a severely disabled daughter, said on "Face the Nation." "That is a fact."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/rick-santorum-prenatal-testing-encourages-abortions/2012/02/19/gIQAvmZeNR_blog.html
HPV Vaccine Causes Retardation
Back when Rick Perry was campaigning for president, his rivals attacked him for signing an executive order mandating the human papillomavirus vaccine for young girls, and misinformation quickly spread. Michele Bachmann insinuated that the vaccine causes mental retardation, while Santorum spoke out against "having little girls inoculated at the force and compulsion of the government."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/13/rick-perry-hpv-vaccine_n_961159.html
Plan B Causes Abortions
The debate over the Obama administration's contraception policy has yielded some puzzling claims about birth control and Plan B. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) addressed the House in February, urging his colleagues to reverse Obama's mandate for health insurance coverage of "abortion-inducing drugs:"
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/08/boehner-pledges-congress-will-overturn-new-obama-mandate/
Your Fetus Is Just Fine
The Arizona Senate passed a bill in March to protect doctors from "wrongful birth" lawsuits -- effectively allowing them to withhold information that may lead a patient to get an abortion. HuffPost's John Celock reports:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/09/wrongful-birth-bill-arizona-senate-abortion-bill_n_1335117.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/kansas-anti-abortion-bill_n_1258185.html
August 25, 2012
The leader of the U.S. Special Operations Command and architect of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden is seriously unhappy about a forthcoming book by a member of the SEAL raiding team. And he wants other elite U.S. commandos to know they could be in for a world of legal trouble if they write their own tell-alls.
No Easy Day is the first first-person description of the Osama bin Laden raid, penned by a former SEAL Team Six member named Matt Bissonnette. It’s set for publication, naturally, on Sept. 11. And it took the Pentagon and the White House by surprise. Admiral William McRaven, the leader of the U.S. Special Operations Command, wants to make sure it doesn’t lead to a pattern of similar memoirs.
McRaven, the former commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, reminded fellow members of the special-operations community reminding them that they signed binding documents designed to keep them from discussing their highly secretive work.
cont'
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/mcraven-criminal-prosecution/#more-89927
SPECIAL OP Chief Says BLABBERMOUTHS Face CRIMINAL PROSECUTION’
The leader of the U.S. Special Operations Command and architect of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden is seriously unhappy about a forthcoming book by a member of the SEAL raiding team. And he wants other elite U.S. commandos to know they could be in for a world of legal trouble if they write their own tell-alls.
No Easy Day is the first first-person description of the Osama bin Laden raid, penned by a former SEAL Team Six member named Matt Bissonnette. It’s set for publication, naturally, on Sept. 11. And it took the Pentagon and the White House by surprise. Admiral William McRaven, the leader of the U.S. Special Operations Command, wants to make sure it doesn’t lead to a pattern of similar memoirs.
McRaven, the former commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, reminded fellow members of the special-operations community reminding them that they signed binding documents designed to keep them from discussing their highly secretive work.
“Every member of the special-operations community with a security clearance signed a non-disclosure agreement that was binding during and after service in the military,” McRaven wrote in an open letter to current and former special-operations troops, as reported by the Associated Press and the Daily Beast. “If the U.S. Special Operations Command finds that an active-duty, retired or former service member violated that agreement and that exposure of information was detrimental to the safety of U.S. forces, then we will pursue every option available to hold members accountable, including criminal prosecution where appropriate.”
cont'
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/mcraven-criminal-prosecution/#more-89927
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