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grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr dembotoz Dec 2012 #1
You and me too Taverner Dec 2012 #81
MORE INFO. This happened June 2012. Doesn't make it better but thought you might like to know AND uppityperson Dec 2012 #157
That poor child has already suffered too much. In_The_Wind Dec 2012 #2
Kansas, a nice place to say one is from as in gone! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2012 #3
I lived there once for a while liberal_at_heart Dec 2012 #106
Long story short, it's really gotten weird and now weirder in Kansas! RKP5637 Dec 2012 #118
kansASS malz Dec 2012 #156
Yep, that's a good description anymore. What a shame. n/t RKP5637 Dec 2012 #161
So, HOW fucked up is Kansas these days, anyway? MrMickeysMom Dec 2012 #4
The governor wants women running around barefoot and popping babies in the RKP5637 Dec 2012 #6
Jeebus.... MrMickeysMom Dec 2012 #10
Citizen's United was/is criminal IMO and too bad SCOTUS can't be held accountable!!! Too many RKP5637 Dec 2012 #14
The reason many people dont vote is because they dont think it makes any difference davidn3600 Dec 2012 #27
Yep, excellent point! When it comes to $$$$$ and interests thereof, there is sadly a tremendous RKP5637 Dec 2012 #34
Oh bullshit. FDR was very rich. The Kennedy's too. Many more very populist progressives too. xtraxritical Dec 2012 #49
Perhaps I'm an outlier Lefty Thinker Dec 2012 #52
Very true! Often it's forgotten that many extremely wealthy people are democrats, because RKP5637 Dec 2012 #121
the republican party does not represent your business interests newspeak Dec 2012 #167
Do you have to work to pay your monthly expenses or can you live off your dividend income? If the coalition_unwilling Dec 2012 #168
Because of this perception (right or wrong) people don't vote in off-year elections Freddie Dec 2012 #80
when thy cut their welfare check it will wake them up nt shintao Dec 2012 #91
But they refuse to vote for those they might identify with quakerboy Dec 2012 #96
Well said!!! Thanks!!! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2012 #122
Yep... MrMickeysMom Dec 2012 #146
It may not make a difference if you vote.........but.......... thelordofhell Dec 2012 #109
We better have someone good to run against Corbett! Freddie Dec 2012 #25
Don't forget about something else our governor said... PennsylvaniaMatt Dec 2012 #26
The real solution is to utterly destroy ALEC... Cooley Hurd Dec 2012 #40
By what means... other than to strike down Citizen's United? MrMickeysMom Dec 2012 #42
ALEC has already received body blows by going after its corporate sponsors... Cooley Hurd Dec 2012 #48
The same way RNC used right to work to crush unions. shintao Dec 2012 #92
For Freddie and PA Mat... MrMickeysMom Dec 2012 #41
They have changed my district to the place I will never have a Rep that reflects my views at appleannie1 Dec 2012 #131
Maybe we'll get lucky and KS will secede? lark Dec 2012 #56
Obviously, you have never been to Lafayette. Come visit some time. You'd be surprised. juajen Dec 2012 #165
Interesting, the southern strategy... MrMickeysMom Dec 2012 #174
Hm. No more treks through Kansas then. Panasonic Dec 2012 #99
Too many Glenn Beck'er types, too many Rush Limbaugh'ers and the herd IMO. n/t RKP5637 Dec 2012 #119
Hm. Well, I am deaf, and I refuse to let my son listen to hate radio. Panasonic Dec 2012 #143
Reproductive Rights and the Long Hand of Slave Breeding ProfessionalLeftist Dec 2012 #5
+4,249 Angry Dragon Dec 2012 #8
Which is why the 13th Amendment should have been the basis ohheckyeah Dec 2012 #76
I'm getting so sick of all the blatant insanity. Kablooie Dec 2012 #7
You ask what's happened to this country? I'm reading a book... truth2power Dec 2012 #32
. Peace_Sells Dec 2012 #82
I keep asking myself, almost daily if I'm hallucinating or living in some alternative universe :) DearHeart Dec 2012 #162
Reason? LOL! Arizona went crazy shintao Dec 2012 #93
This pisses me off too much to even render plethoro Dec 2012 #9
. BlancheSplanchnik Dec 2012 #11
Kansas, so fucked up it should... NYtoBush-Drop Dead Dec 2012 #12
It's not just Kansas though.... ProfessionalLeftist Dec 2012 #19
I often tell people to be alert, we are heading toward a RKP5637 Dec 2012 #20
I have been saying this for decades-- "the handmaid's tale" used to be a nightmare possibility, niyad Dec 2012 #45
Dang, Niyad lark Dec 2012 #63
it was first published in 1985-nearly three decades, so, yeah, that long. . . niyad Dec 2012 #158
Scary good book abelenkpe Dec 2012 #137
That book seems now as eerily prophetic as Orwell's "1984" - really creepy the coalition_unwilling Dec 2012 #170
+10,000 smirkymonkey Dec 2012 #148
I think they should secede and then we could declare war on them. smirkymonkey Dec 2012 #172
Kick. Heidi Dec 2012 #13
Only... they haven't 'become' that way, it's how they've always been. PeaceNikki Dec 2012 #15
Pagan cult worship of the egg and the forthcoming baby in cultures of the past, now accepted as DhhD Dec 2012 #31
Sick. They should rot in jail along with her uncle. SunSeeker Dec 2012 #16
Which raises the question...What about her uncle? He should be serving life in prison. Is he? ... truth2power Dec 2012 #33
Ironic that these nuts are attacking the doctor who saved her instead of the uncle who raped her. SunSeeker Dec 2012 #36
and the doctor has the right to abort if the female is in danger newspeak Dec 2012 #69
+1000 smirkymonkey Dec 2012 #173
I'm thinking Dorothy would not want to be in Kansas anymore. asjr Dec 2012 #17
perhaps not donquijoterocket Dec 2012 #59
I think the so-called sulphurdunn Dec 2012 #18
It's a large wagon they all climb on to gather money and to promote their RW causes, akin RKP5637 Dec 2012 #23
I swear, all that pesticide is rotting their brains. Odin2005 Dec 2012 #21
They've already taken her medical license away. This article is 4 months old. proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 #22
Rachel Maddow was probably told by TPTB in Comcast to stop coverage. I think RKP5637 Dec 2012 #30
+1 freshwest Dec 2012 #62
Sadly, that makes sense. proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 #163
Thank you for the additional information. LisaLynne Dec 2012 #58
I've been posting about them for a couple years now. proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 #68
Thank you. LisaLynne Dec 2012 #75
Such corruption! freshwest Dec 2012 #60
These people titanicdave Dec 2012 #24
I teach PE and health. WinstonSmith4740 Dec 2012 #28
10 year old? Pregnant? WhoIsNumberNone Dec 2012 #29
First, the child was raped HockeyMom Dec 2012 #35
I've known a couple 9 year olds who got pregnant. They were raped. proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 #37
It has been known to happen. Chorophyll Dec 2012 #38
not that it is particularly helpful in this case, but I have been reading for years about earlier niyad Dec 2012 #50
I was looking through an old HS yearbook (50's) recently.... truth2power Dec 2012 #55
Big Mac & order of Fries changed nt. shintao Dec 2012 #95
Nope. Some of the young girls are pretty hefty. But even the 100 pounders have a generous bust size. truth2power Dec 2012 #129
Thank you. that's the problem I was referring to WhoIsNumberNone Dec 2012 #74
i remember a "freak show" display at Coney Island musette_sf Dec 2012 #88
Females are going through puberty sooner due to pesticides siligut Dec 2012 #54
well moonlady0623 Dec 2012 #90
Youngest mother in history was only 5yo, and that was in 1939, in Peru Xithras Dec 2012 #112
Earlier puberty is a very important public health indicator. It is like the canary in the coal mine, lunasun Dec 2012 #130
Sicko! SoapBox Dec 2012 #39
This is one of the cases where energumen Dec 2012 #43
Because you are thinking logically... awoke_in_2003 Dec 2012 #66
I'm surprised there are any women who live in anti-choice states. caseymoz Dec 2012 #44
Yet there are hundreds of thousands of us. proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 #46
I mean, I have to admit ... LisaLynne Dec 2012 #57
I'm not about to let them win. proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 #73
They wouldn't win. caseymoz Dec 2012 #135
How would not bringing it up help at all? caseymoz Dec 2012 #134
I took a US Governmet class... awoke_in_2003 Dec 2012 #67
If I may hazard a guess . . . Brigid Dec 2012 #77
Oh, they had heard of it... awoke_in_2003 Dec 2012 #84
Opinions tend to be segregated that way. caseymoz Dec 2012 #136
The 10 year old girl does not have much choice where she lives. McCamy Taylor Dec 2012 #175
No kidding? I wasn't aware of that. caseymoz Jan 2013 #177
does anybody know what happened to that rapist uncle? the article did not say. niyad Dec 2012 #47
He is in prison. proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 #70
sorry none of this true Heather MC Dec 2012 #51
What is really scary is that you jest, yet Rex Dec 2012 #78
Sick sick sick. MadrasT Dec 2012 #53
That makeup comment FlaGranny Dec 2012 #145
How could something like this happen when there is no war on women? Auntie Bush Dec 2012 #61
Another instance of "Jesus" plus nothing, for everyone but SUBSIDY-Sam & his "Christian" fascists.nt patrice Dec 2012 #64
10 years old???? WTF???? Initech Dec 2012 #65
I think we have yet to learn the answer to that. Brigid Dec 2012 #71
Very cruel and heartless. That's how much. proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 #72
They are a truly vile bunch indeed. Initech Dec 2012 #100
Kansas: The "heartland" of America. Dawson Leery Dec 2012 #79
They are into punishment libodem Dec 2012 #83
well because "grace" and "mercy" is for them, and judgement for the special needs 10 year olds CreekDog Dec 2012 #123
I think I'm going to be ill. progressoid Dec 2012 #85
and unless I'm mistaken, the uncle can demand custody and/or visitation of the child from rape Dog Gone at Penigma Dec 2012 #86
An ugly microcosm how how fucked up much of the religious right, indepat Dec 2012 #87
This message was self-deleted by its author moonlady0623 Dec 2012 #89
2014's not that far away. Vote the assholes out of office that are destroying your state, people. judesedit Dec 2012 #94
Not in Kansas, I don't think ... In 2012 they voted far right and all indications are this RKP5637 Dec 2012 #127
Some people in this country are making the Taliban seem a bit tame. liberalmuse Dec 2012 #97
A bunch of sick bastards that send our children to kill for oil.Do you really expect anything differ judesedit Dec 2012 #98
shit. at 10, make up should not even be a consideration yet. a kid. just a kid. nt seabeyond Dec 2012 #101
SICK, SICK, SICK. northoftheborder Dec 2012 #102
I know there are some good people in Kansas, but, damn, it seems most are batshit crazy and valerief Dec 2012 #103
And TPTB in KS wonder why more people move away from KS than move into KS ... RKP5637 Dec 2012 #128
We should just refer to these bozos as White Talibanists flying-skeleton Dec 2012 #104
according to the christian taliban, a 10-year old being brutally raped is just gawd's will... Raster Dec 2012 #105
GOD I HATE THESE PEOPLE!!!!!! Lunabelle Dec 2012 #107
called the state tourism board to let them know that, so long as the crazies are running niyad Dec 2012 #108
I already stay away. McCamy Taylor Dec 2012 #114
Not too much tourism in Kansas unless Seedersandleechers Dec 2012 #132
Biggest tourist attraction in Kansas is an outlet mall next to a Nascar track pstokely Dec 2012 #160
I have stayed away for many years, but think it important to tell them we are staying away niyad Dec 2012 #152
Wouldn't that be Sharia Law that they want to use? LiberalFighter Dec 2012 #110
Pretty much - Sharia Law and Biblical Law aren't that different. Initech Dec 2012 #141
Sharia Tagish_Charlie Dec 2012 #153
k and r..nt Stuart G Dec 2012 #111
Where do I go to file a CPS case against the state of Kansas? McCamy Taylor Dec 2012 #113
omg...I am sitting here with my 11 year old granddaughters..and it is FRIGHTENING onecent Dec 2012 #115
If God is anything like the Fundies say . . . Jack Rabbit Dec 2012 #116
Mere words can not capture how appalled & outraged I am by this story. salin Dec 2012 #117
Also if she survived the pregnancy and birth... CraftyGal Dec 2012 #120
There are things you just can't unlearn mythology Dec 2012 #124
To all of the above leanforward Dec 2012 #125
Thank God for people like Dr. Neuhaus Smilo Dec 2012 #126
Im posting a link to the Associated Press story about this iamthebandfanman Dec 2012 #133
I read that article, and it was sickening. it was clearly a witch hunt, "whahhhhhh, she didn't niyad Dec 2012 #171
Diseased is right. blackspade Dec 2012 #138
Wow. heavily Catholic Latin American countries also believe in forced birth for girls! alp227 Dec 2012 #139
That is sick. nt Budgies Revenge Dec 2012 #140
TEN??!!! TEN??!! WHAT THE HELL IS MISSING IN THESE PEOPLE'S BRAINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lexw Dec 2012 #142
We need to start a crusade of our own! Fantastic Anarchist Dec 2012 #144
Many times, when feeling bad about being Texan - Up pops Kansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Misery ... panzerfaust Dec 2012 #147
I hope this poor woman get out of Kansas before someone kills her. Walk away Dec 2012 #149
I apologize in advance for this sarcastic remark davidpdx Dec 2012 #150
The doctor is a woman melody Dec 2012 #155
I stand corrected on the gender of the doctor davidpdx Dec 2012 #159
this is the same state that tried to outlaw the serving of alcohol on planes flying across the state DrDan Dec 2012 #151
As Randi always says the rethugs love. The fetus bigdarryl Dec 2012 #154
all I can say is... 6502 Dec 2012 #164
way to go, dr.ann! robertpat5519du Dec 2012 #166
I have family in Kansas mokawanis Dec 2012 #169
Sick sick sick DiverDave Jan 2013 #176
It is not a well place, and is getting worse and worse. n/t RKP5637 Jan 2013 #178
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