I see where our Congressman Mark Meadows is causing Boehner some trouble. Meadows doesn’t worry abut his seat. He’s pretty secure in this district.
George Will , in a column, says the deal only buys us some time with Iran. It’s really buying Iran more time. We’ve given them everything and got nothing.
“A temporary restraining order has been issued preventing an anti-abortion group from releasing any video of leaders of a California company that provides fetal tissue to researchers. The group is the same one that previously released three covertly shot videos of a Planned Parenthood leader discussing the sale of aborted fetuses for research.
The Los Angeles Superior Court order issued Tuesday prohibits the Center for Medical Progress from releasing any video of three high-ranking StemExpress officials taken at a restaurant in May. It appears to be the first legal action prohibiting the release of a video from the organization.
The Center for Medical Progress has released three surreptitiously recorded videos to date that have riled anti-abortion activists. The Senate is expected to vote before its August recess on a Republican effort to bar federal aid to Planned Parenthood in the aftermath of the videos’ release.
In a statement Wednesday, center leader David Daleiden said StemExpress was using “meritless litigation” to cover up an “illegal baby parts trade.””
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And it’s just in time, because 9 more videos are about to be released. I’m hoping they do like the Obama admin does, just ignore it and release them anyway.
“David Daleiden, founder of the Center For Medical Progress (CMP), told conservative talk radio host Sean Hannity Tuesday there are nine more sting-operation videos that reveal Planned Parenthood’s operations.”
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And not surprisingly, some of Satan’s other minions are coming to the aid of PP.
A devil-worshipping group calling itself the Satanic Temple has been working to raise funds to promote abortion-on-demand and to counter legal efforts such as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and 20-week abortion bans.
A highly publicized ceremonial unveiling of the satanic figure of Baphomet in Detroit Saturday, an event billed as the “largest public satanic ceremony in history,” sold $25 and $75 tickets, the proceeds of which will be used to support the reproductive rights legal action fund, according to a Temple spokeswoman.
The cult has also set up a donation website with Indiegogo “to challenge arbitrary, insulting abortion regulations,” which as of Wednesday, has raised more than $32,000 for its reproductive rights campaign.
The Satanic Temple is an active campaigner for rights to legal abortion on demand, and rails against all legislation restricting abortion, including ultrasounds, and abortion waiting periods. Its website states:
The Satanic Temple (TST) supports personal choice in the context of abortion and, as part of a multi-faceted Women’s Rights campaign, TST is offering religious exemptions from arbitrary, insulting, and outright harmful anti-abortion legislation that has been steadily encroaching across the nation.”
‘Cuz ya know them baby killing devil worshipers gotta stick together…….
By now, almost everyone has seen the list of presidential candidates who had excellent poll numbers the year before the race, but who eventually faded or collapsed. I won’t rehearse the full list, but think of Rudy Giuliani and Howard Dean.
I believe Donald Trump will join this list, primarily because until fairly recently he was a Democrat and more liberal than conservative. But even if I’m right, Trump might well scramble the GOP race, delivering major blows to “top tier” candidates and throwing lifelines to candidates not so highly rated. …
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“After three shocking videos caught Planned Parenthood doctors discussing and arranging the sale of body parts of aborted babies, a fourth video has been released today catching a Planned Parenthood vice president discussing how to break or get around the law to sell aborted babies.
New undercover footage shows Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains’ Vice President and Medical Director, Dr. Savita Ginde, negotiating a fetal body parts deal, agreeing multiple times to illicit pricing per body part harvested, and suggesting ways to avoid legal consequences.
In the video, actors posing as representatives from a human biologics company meet with Ginde at the abortion-clinic headquarters of PPRM in Denver to discuss a potential partnership to harvest fetal organs. When the actors request intact fetal specimens, Ginde reveals that in PPRM’s abortion practice, “Sometimes, if we get, if someone delivers before we get to see them for a procedure, then we are intact.”
“Ginde also suggests ways for Planned Parenthood to cover-up its criminal and public relations liability for the sale of aborted body parts. “Putting it under ‘research’ gives us a little bit of an overhang over the whole thing,” Ginde remarks. “If you have someone in a really anti state who’s going to be doing this for you, they’re probably going to get caught.”
Ginde implies that PPRM’s lawyer, Kevin Paul, is helping the affiliate skirt the fetal tissue law: “He’s got it figured out that he knows that even if, because we talked to him in the beginning, you know, we were like, ‘We don’t want to get called on,’ you know, ‘selling fetal parts across states.’” The buyers ask, “And you feel confident that they’re building those layers?” to which Ginde replies, “I’m confident that our Legal will make sure we’re not put in that situation.”
“The first alarming question is whether Planned Parenthood illegally sells aborted fetuses’ organs and tissue. This is what Planned Parenthood and its defenders have repeatedly focused on, insisting that they are compliant with all laws.
But it is what precedes that “fetal tissue donation” that needs attention. Specifically, does Planned Parenthood regularly flout the federal ban on partial-birth abortion using loopholes? How do they get away with this? Do their patients—the women who apparently choose to donate the “fetal tissue”—know what’s going on in explicit terms?
Federal law prohibits partial-birth abortion, a gruesome procedure in which an unborn baby is intentionally turned to the breech position to ensure that delivery of the body happens before delivery of the head. Once the baby’s head is stuck in the birth canal, the abortionist punctures the skull, evacuates the contents, and the baby is dead.”
“Maybe digoxin seems humane to some—at least when compared to the primitive method of tearing a live baby apart in the womb. But unfortunately, that’s not the case when the abortions lead to Planned Parenthood’s “fetal tissue donation.”
In the second video, we find out explicitly from Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Mary Gatter that abortions performed with feticides aren’t viable for fetal-tissue donation. If digoxin is used, it renders the fetal stem cells unusable. (See the footage and the transcript.) Knowing this, Nucatola’s graphic explanation of how to “crush” unborn babies to maximize organ retrieval requires a clarifier. These babies are being strategically maneuvered, crushed, and dismembered under ultrasound guidance—while still alive.
This poses an ethical question. Do the women consenting to fetal-tissue donation understand what’s happening during the procedure? Do they know that their babies are alive at the start of the butchering? A 2001 study showed that 91 percent of women in the study “preferred their fetuses were dead before the abortions.” How “informed” is their informed consent?
It also poses a legal question. Is Planned Parenthood breaking the law—whether in its procedures for “donating” fetal tissue or by altering abortion methods—in order to get better specimens? If so, stripping it of federal funding would be a half-measure.”
“Just two days after the release of video showing Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood employees picking apart a recently aborted child for parts, the Center for Medical Progress released another video featuring a conversation with Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains VP & Medical Director Savita Ginde. Here are 8 disturbing moments from the video.”
“2) Right after Ginde talks about women delivering their children before abortion procedures, she adds, “um, but that’s not what we go for. We try for that not to happen.”
Ricky — michele has my answer. Sanders managed to attract 5000 people in Louisiana in the same place Jindal only attracted 1000. He has a 50 state strategy which may challenge Clinton longer than expected. Although it should benefit the democrats in the long run.
Pro life groups and blacklivesmatter are both complaining the internet is more interested in a lion than their videos. I blame Disney.
Trump is an attention seeking child. When he fades and he will (false populism has a short shelf life), the republicans need to treat him cautiously lest he throw a fit and run as an independent.
HRW, whatever happens, Trump will run. And likely turn the presidency over to Clinton. The Democrats are tied to her.
For a change, you and I largely agree here. Only I don’t see how you blame Disney. The creator of Mickey and Goofy?
Almost. The Lion King made lions almost sacred for anyone under 25 whereas humans in Disney are only cute before puberty then they are thrown out and become a caricature of their former selves. See miley cyrus for one in a long list. Hence adult humans are bad animals are good. The dentist is a perfect bad guy in a Disney movie.
WASHINGTON—Good news for Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, and Carly Fiorina. Mixed news for Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz. Bad news for Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, and Ben Carson. And if anyone thought Donald Trump or Chris Christie were picking up support from evangelical leaders, pop that bubble.
Those are the findings from a survey of nearly 100 evangelical leaders and insiders. Numerous 2016 GOP candidates have identified evangelicals as a key part of their road to the White House, so WORLD, the leading evangelical news magazine, recently asked 103 evangelical leaders and insiders to see whom they prefer. Ninety-four responded. …
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… Instead of an incidental or occasional slipup, it’s now become a purposeful pattern—subscribed to by a whole gaggle of judges. As Little Sisters attorney Mark Rienzi put it: “It is a national embarrassment that the world’s most powerful government insists that, instead of providing contraceptives through its own existing exchanges and programs, it must crush the Little Sisters’ faith and force them to participate. Untold millions of people have managed to get contraceptives without involving nuns, and there is no reason the government cannot run its programs without hijacking the Little Sisters and their health plan.”
No reason at all unless Big Brother’s goal is, with bigger and bigger bites, to gobble up everything that used to belong to Little Sister.
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A friend who’s been in academia too long described cecil the lion as the fetishization of the singular resulting in the ignorance of collective exploitation. I prefer to blame disney for providing pablum.
HRW, Jindal’s supporters actually have to go to work to pay for the food, housing and healthcare of Sanders’ supporters plus the salaries of his poor underpaid interns.
Wandering Views 
Sorry, HRW. It turns out your favorite commie is a hypocrite.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/25/bernie-sanders-demands-15-per-hour-minimum-wage-pays-his-own-interns-12-per-hour/
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I see where our Congressman Mark Meadows is causing Boehner some trouble. Meadows doesn’t worry abut his seat. He’s pretty secure in this district.
George Will , in a column, says the deal only buys us some time with Iran. It’s really buying Iran more time. We’ve given them everything and got nothing.
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PP found a court, and where else but Calif, to bar the release of more videos revealing their disgusting business practices.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article29471548.html
“A temporary restraining order has been issued preventing an anti-abortion group from releasing any video of leaders of a California company that provides fetal tissue to researchers. The group is the same one that previously released three covertly shot videos of a Planned Parenthood leader discussing the sale of aborted fetuses for research.
The Los Angeles Superior Court order issued Tuesday prohibits the Center for Medical Progress from releasing any video of three high-ranking StemExpress officials taken at a restaurant in May. It appears to be the first legal action prohibiting the release of a video from the organization.
The Center for Medical Progress has released three surreptitiously recorded videos to date that have riled anti-abortion activists. The Senate is expected to vote before its August recess on a Republican effort to bar federal aid to Planned Parenthood in the aftermath of the videos’ release.
In a statement Wednesday, center leader David Daleiden said StemExpress was using “meritless litigation” to cover up an “illegal baby parts trade.””
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And it’s just in time, because 9 more videos are about to be released. I’m hoping they do like the Obama admin does, just ignore it and release them anyway.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/29/nine-more-undercover-videos-ready-to-drop-on-planned-parenthood/
“David Daleiden, founder of the Center For Medical Progress (CMP), told conservative talk radio host Sean Hannity Tuesday there are nine more sting-operation videos that reveal Planned Parenthood’s operations.”
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And not surprisingly, some of Satan’s other minions are coming to the aid of PP.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/29/satanic-cult-pledges-funds-to-support-abortion-rights/
A devil-worshipping group calling itself the Satanic Temple has been working to raise funds to promote abortion-on-demand and to counter legal efforts such as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and 20-week abortion bans.
A highly publicized ceremonial unveiling of the satanic figure of Baphomet in Detroit Saturday, an event billed as the “largest public satanic ceremony in history,” sold $25 and $75 tickets, the proceeds of which will be used to support the reproductive rights legal action fund, according to a Temple spokeswoman.
The cult has also set up a donation website with Indiegogo “to challenge arbitrary, insulting abortion regulations,” which as of Wednesday, has raised more than $32,000 for its reproductive rights campaign.
The Satanic Temple is an active campaigner for rights to legal abortion on demand, and rails against all legislation restricting abortion, including ultrasounds, and abortion waiting periods. Its website states:
The Satanic Temple (TST) supports personal choice in the context of abortion and, as part of a multi-faceted Women’s Rights campaign, TST is offering religious exemptions from arbitrary, insulting, and outright harmful anti-abortion legislation that has been steadily encroaching across the nation.”
‘Cuz ya know them baby killing devil worshipers gotta stick together…….
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At least he pays his interns.
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… with our money.
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More horse race stuff from Powerline:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/07/trump-could-scramble-gop-race-even-if-he-fades.php
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By now, almost everyone has seen the list of presidential candidates who had excellent poll numbers the year before the race, but who eventually faded or collapsed. I won’t rehearse the full list, but think of Rudy Giuliani and Howard Dean.
I believe Donald Trump will join this list, primarily because until fairly recently he was a Democrat and more liberal than conservative. But even if I’m right, Trump might well scramble the GOP race, delivering major blows to “top tier” candidates and throwing lifelines to candidates not so highly rated. …
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Well it looks like they took my advice. 🙂
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/07/30/4th-video-catches-planned-parenthood-vp-discussing-how-to-break-the-law-to-sell-aborted-babies/
“After three shocking videos caught Planned Parenthood doctors discussing and arranging the sale of body parts of aborted babies, a fourth video has been released today catching a Planned Parenthood vice president discussing how to break or get around the law to sell aborted babies.
New undercover footage shows Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains’ Vice President and Medical Director, Dr. Savita Ginde, negotiating a fetal body parts deal, agreeing multiple times to illicit pricing per body part harvested, and suggesting ways to avoid legal consequences.
In the video, actors posing as representatives from a human biologics company meet with Ginde at the abortion-clinic headquarters of PPRM in Denver to discuss a potential partnership to harvest fetal organs. When the actors request intact fetal specimens, Ginde reveals that in PPRM’s abortion practice, “Sometimes, if we get, if someone delivers before we get to see them for a procedure, then we are intact.”
“Ginde also suggests ways for Planned Parenthood to cover-up its criminal and public relations liability for the sale of aborted body parts. “Putting it under ‘research’ gives us a little bit of an overhang over the whole thing,” Ginde remarks. “If you have someone in a really anti state who’s going to be doing this for you, they’re probably going to get caught.”
Ginde implies that PPRM’s lawyer, Kevin Paul, is helping the affiliate skirt the fetal tissue law: “He’s got it figured out that he knows that even if, because we talked to him in the beginning, you know, we were like, ‘We don’t want to get called on,’ you know, ‘selling fetal parts across states.’” The buyers ask, “And you feel confident that they’re building those layers?” to which Ginde replies, “I’m confident that our Legal will make sure we’re not put in that situation.”
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And yes, it seems pretty obvious they’re breaking some laws.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/29/why-planned-parenthood-cant-donate-tissue-from-harvested-babies/
“The first alarming question is whether Planned Parenthood illegally sells aborted fetuses’ organs and tissue. This is what Planned Parenthood and its defenders have repeatedly focused on, insisting that they are compliant with all laws.
But it is what precedes that “fetal tissue donation” that needs attention. Specifically, does Planned Parenthood regularly flout the federal ban on partial-birth abortion using loopholes? How do they get away with this? Do their patients—the women who apparently choose to donate the “fetal tissue”—know what’s going on in explicit terms?
Federal law prohibits partial-birth abortion, a gruesome procedure in which an unborn baby is intentionally turned to the breech position to ensure that delivery of the body happens before delivery of the head. Once the baby’s head is stuck in the birth canal, the abortionist punctures the skull, evacuates the contents, and the baby is dead.”
“Maybe digoxin seems humane to some—at least when compared to the primitive method of tearing a live baby apart in the womb. But unfortunately, that’s not the case when the abortions lead to Planned Parenthood’s “fetal tissue donation.”
In the second video, we find out explicitly from Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Mary Gatter that abortions performed with feticides aren’t viable for fetal-tissue donation. If digoxin is used, it renders the fetal stem cells unusable. (See the footage and the transcript.) Knowing this, Nucatola’s graphic explanation of how to “crush” unborn babies to maximize organ retrieval requires a clarifier. These babies are being strategically maneuvered, crushed, and dismembered under ultrasound guidance—while still alive.
This poses an ethical question. Do the women consenting to fetal-tissue donation understand what’s happening during the procedure? Do they know that their babies are alive at the start of the butchering? A 2001 study showed that 91 percent of women in the study “preferred their fetuses were dead before the abortions.” How “informed” is their informed consent?
It also poses a legal question. Is Planned Parenthood breaking the law—whether in its procedures for “donating” fetal tissue or by altering abortion methods—in order to get better specimens? If so, stripping it of federal funding would be a half-measure.”
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Violating the ban on partial birth abortion? And these new videos shoot down the lies PP has been spreading in response to the first couple of videos.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/30/8-shocking-moments-from-4th-planned-parenthood-video/
“Just two days after the release of video showing Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood employees picking apart a recently aborted child for parts, the Center for Medical Progress released another video featuring a conversation with Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains VP & Medical Director Savita Ginde. Here are 8 disturbing moments from the video.”
“2) Right after Ginde talks about women delivering their children before abortion procedures, she adds, “um, but that’s not what we go for. We try for that not to happen.”
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Ricky — michele has my answer. Sanders managed to attract 5000 people in Louisiana in the same place Jindal only attracted 1000. He has a 50 state strategy which may challenge Clinton longer than expected. Although it should benefit the democrats in the long run.
Pro life groups and blacklivesmatter are both complaining the internet is more interested in a lion than their videos. I blame Disney.
Trump is an attention seeking child. When he fades and he will (false populism has a short shelf life), the republicans need to treat him cautiously lest he throw a fit and run as an independent.
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HRW, whatever happens, Trump will run. And likely turn the presidency over to Clinton. The Democrats are tied to her.
For a change, you and I largely agree here. Only I don’t see how you blame Disney. The creator of Mickey and Goofy?
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Disney = escapism, all animals are friendly fur balls that really love us (and they talk!) They’re just like us.
🙂 Does that sum it up?
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Almost. The Lion King made lions almost sacred for anyone under 25 whereas humans in Disney are only cute before puberty then they are thrown out and become a caricature of their former selves. See miley cyrus for one in a long list. Hence adult humans are bad animals are good. The dentist is a perfect bad guy in a Disney movie.
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Ummm…..The Lion King?
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Oh, well then a new film can be made about this (with a different ending, one would hope! 🙂 )
More horse race stuff from the Christian perspective & World Magazine:
http://www.worldmag.com/2015/07/who_do_evangelical_insiders_favor_in_2016
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WASHINGTON—Good news for Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, and Carly Fiorina. Mixed news for Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz. Bad news for Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, and Ben Carson. And if anyone thought Donald Trump or Chris Christie were picking up support from evangelical leaders, pop that bubble.
Those are the findings from a survey of nearly 100 evangelical leaders and insiders. Numerous 2016 GOP candidates have identified evangelicals as a key part of their road to the White House, so WORLD, the leading evangelical news magazine, recently asked 103 evangelical leaders and insiders to see whom they prefer. Ninety-four responded. …
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And World on the Little Sisters ruling earlier this month:
http://www.worldmag.com/2015/07/with_justice_for_all
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… Instead of an incidental or occasional slipup, it’s now become a purposeful pattern—subscribed to by a whole gaggle of judges. As Little Sisters attorney Mark Rienzi put it: “It is a national embarrassment that the world’s most powerful government insists that, instead of providing contraceptives through its own existing exchanges and programs, it must crush the Little Sisters’ faith and force them to participate. Untold millions of people have managed to get contraceptives without involving nuns, and there is no reason the government cannot run its programs without hijacking the Little Sisters and their health plan.”
No reason at all unless Big Brother’s goal is, with bigger and bigger bites, to gobble up everything that used to belong to Little Sister.
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A friend who’s been in academia too long described cecil the lion as the fetishization of the singular resulting in the ignorance of collective exploitation. I prefer to blame disney for providing pablum.
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HRW, Jindal’s supporters actually have to go to work to pay for the food, housing and healthcare of Sanders’ supporters plus the salaries of his poor underpaid interns.
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I better confess before it leaks out: I killed both Tony the Tiger and Magilla Gorilla with my Maxim gun on recent hunting trips.
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Ricky Sanders’ core support is white educated urban males. Most have good but under paying professional jobs.
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I don’t think that is the base of Sanders’ support in Louisiana. There aren’t 5,000 white male Democrats in that state.
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I won’t believe that ricky killed Tony and Magilla until I see it on MSNBC.
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