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The blue bloods here should get a kick out of this one. God bless
"First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy after rape] is really rare," Akin told KTVI-TV in defense of his stand that rape victims should not be allowed to access abortions. "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/g...005818070.html
lol, on second thought, perhaps republicans should stay away from science.
:lol Neocons
Probably going to cost him his race against Claire McCaskill. That was a seat Republicans were hoping to get.
How Todd Akin And Paul Ryan Partnered To Redefine Rape
Michelle Goldberg explains who Akin and Ryan would likely target:
Under H.R. 3, only victims of “forcible rape” would qualify for federally funded abortions. Victims of statutory rape—say, a 13-year-old girl impregnated by a 30-year-old man—would be on their own. So would victims of incest if they’re over 18. And while “forcible rape” isn’t defined in the criminal code, the addition of the adjective seems certain to exclude acts of rape that don’t involve overt violence—say, cases where a woman is drugged or has a limited mental capacity. “It’s basically putting more restrictions on what was defined historically as rape,” says Keenan.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...redefine-rape/
Introduced the phrase in Congress, and repeating the insanity, Aiken now takes it back, somewhat
Missouri Rep. Todd Akin says he 'misspoke' on rape and pregnancy
The conciliatory Facebook post by Rep. Todd Akin on Sunday afternoon wasn’t exactly an apology, nor did it clarify his position on the relationship between rape and pregnancy.
But he clearly needed to address the furor set off Sunday morning when the ardently antiabortion Republican, who is challenging Democrat Claire McCaskill for her U.S. Senate seat, told a St. Louis TV host that during “legitimate rape,” women’s bodies somehow prevent conception from taking place.
By afternoon, Akin had posted an explanation on his Facebook page:
"As a member of Congress, I believe that working to protect the most vulnerable in our society is one of my most important responsibilities, and that includes protecting both the unborn and victims of sexual assault. In reviewing my off-the-cuff remarks, it's clear that I misspoke in this interview and it does not reflect the deep empathy I hold for the thousands of women who are raped and abused every year. Those who perpetrate these crimes are the lowest of the low in our society and their victims will have no stronger advocate in the Senate to help ensure they have the justice they deserve.
"I recognize that abortion, and particularly in the case of rape, is a very emotionally charged issue. But I believe deeply in the protection of all life and I do not believe that harming another innocent victim is the right course of action. I also recognize that there are those who, like my opponent, support abortion and I understand I may not have their support in this election.”
After Akin apparently realized the post fell short, he later tweeted a clarification (though still not an apology): “To be clear, all of us understand that rape can result in pregnancy & I have great empathy for all victims. I regret misspeaking.”
This race is being closely watched because McCaskill is among the most vulnerable Senate Democrats this year. A Republican win in Missouri is part of the GOP strategy to recapture the Senate.
McCaskill, who trailed Akin in recent polls, immediately tweeted her dismay. A former prosecutor who handled hundreds of rape cases, she wrote that she was “stunned” by her opponent’s comments. An hour or so later, she issued an emailed statement of condemnation, with a compilation of Akin’s record of votes on rape-related legislation.
“Akin previously was the co-sponsor of a bill to redefine rape,” McCaskill said. “And it was recently reported that Akin opposed a state law against spousal rape because it might be used as a tool against husbands in a ‘messy divorce.’ ”
http://mobile.latimes.com/p.p?m=b&a=...%3D0%26DPL%3D3
Where do Repugs find these assholes? Or do these generate spontaneously, like mushrooms out the shit pile of Repug politicians in general?
"Legitimate rape never leads to illegitimate children." Biology 101 textbook at Liberty University.
Frankly alarming this guy is a nominee at all, tbhQuote:
Originally Posted by mercos
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Originally Posted by DMX7
If this guy wins the election, I say our next war should be in Missouri.
This is what we get for demanding "other than abstinence only sex ed" without being specific.
One of many.:depressedQuote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
I keep saying a limited civil war would be great for the economy. :) Casaulties reduce unemployment and if we're going to spend billions and billions to rebuild infrastructure let it be our own instead of some third world hellhole's.Quote:
Originally Posted by LnGrrrR
Oh please, Congress is chocked full of idiots that keep getting sent back by voters.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
And the solution is to keep on sending more?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yonivore
Plus there's a line between idiocy and flat out ignorance. This guy walked way past it. This is probably up there with "the internet is a series of tubes"...
No wonder the Dems were so pleased when Akin won the primary.
And, Guam is going to tip over or, wondering if the Mars rover got pictures of our flags planted by astronauts.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
Chocked.full.of.idiots.
"That is one thing you might've noticed I don't complain about: Politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck.
But where do the people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from american parents and american families, american homes, american schools, american churches, american businesses and american universities. and they're elected by american citizens. This is the best we can do, folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out! If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, if you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you are gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
The term limits ain't goinna do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So maybe, maybe, maybe it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here. Like... the public. Yeah. The public sucks! There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody. "The public sucks, fuck hope!". Fuck hope. Because if it's really just the fault of these politicians then where are all the other bright people of conscience? Where are all the bright, honest, inteligent americans ready to step in and save the Nation and lead the way? We don't have people like that in this country; everybody's at the mall, scratching his ass, picking his nose, taking his credit card out of his fanny pack and buying a pair of sneakers with lights in them! So I have solved this little political dilemma for myself in a very simple way: On election day... I stay home. I don't vote. Fuck'em, fuck'em! I don't vote. Two reasons, two reasons I don't vote: First of all, is meaningless. This country was bought and sold and paid for a long time ago. The shit they shuffle around every 4 years, *pfff* doesn't mean a fucking thing. And secondly I don't vote because I believe if you vote, you have no right to complain. People like to twist that around, I know. They say: "Well, if you don't vote, you have no right to complain"; but where's the logic in that? If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people and they get into office and screw everything up... well, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote, who did not vote, who in fact did not even leave the house on election day, am in no way responsible for what these people have done and have every right to complain as long as I want about the mess you created that I had nothing to do with. So I know that a little later on this year you're going to have another of those really swell presidential elections that you like so much, you enjoy yourselves it'll be alot of fun. I'm sure that as soon as the election is over your country will improve immediately. As for me, I'll be home that day doing essentially the same thing as you. The only difference is, when I get finished masturbating I'm gonna have a little something to show for it folks. Thank you very much. "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeMGq...e=results_main
I'm not disputing it is. Again, is the solution is to send more?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yonivore
That seems to be beyond our control...unless, we live in those Districts. All I can do is try and prevent an idiot being sent from my District.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
Everybody says Congress and all Congressmen suck, except their local Congressman.
My local congressman sucks.
Nobody is pinning the nomination on you. You can exhale now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yonivore
:lol legitmate rape
:lol missoura
Obama Attacks Paul Ryan’s ‘Forcible Rape’ Bill: ‘Rape Is Rape’
OBAMA: Well, let me first of all say the views expressed were offensive. Rape is rape. And the idea that we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we’re talking about doesn’t make sense to the American people, and certainly doesn’t make sense to me. So what I think these comments do underscore is why we shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women. And so although these particular comments have led Governor Romney and other Republicans to distance themselves, I think the underlying notion that we should be making decisions on behalf of women for their health care decisions or qualifying ‘forcible rape’ versus nonforcible rape — I think those are broader issues and that is a significant difference in approach between me and the other party.
his reference to so-called “forcible rape” is likely a clever attack on his opponent’s running mate. GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan is an original co-sponsor of the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” a bill which rolls back a longstanding exemption to the federal ban on abortion funding for rape survivors unless the woman seeking to terminate her pregnancy experienced a “forcible rape.”
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...-rape-is-rape/
The Bully Pulpit at work, attacking the multi-front Repug War on Women.
My representative sucks and my senators are 10x worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
I'll bet Akin is out of the race by 5:00 P.M. tomorrow.
Todd Akin's "Legitimate" Rape Statement Was Not a Gaffe
What Todd Akin said was no gaffe and does not need “clarification” from a media going out of its way to be “fair” and “objective” even when that objectivity comes at the expense of truth.
When Todd Akin spoke of “legitimate rape,” it was a theme he has sounded for the past two decades, first as a four-term member of the Missouri House of Representatives and then in six terms in Congress.
At one point in the mid-90s, Akin, as noted in Talking Points Memo, voted for a bill that would criminalize marital rape, but not before he made it clear that he was concerned that women were going to lie and say their husbands had raped them to gain advantage in divorce settlements.
Todd Akin has a problem with women.
And judging from the rest of the Jaco interview, that’s not all that concerns Akin. Though the rape comment, quite understandably, has attracted the most attention, Akin also made it clear that he would not mind dialing back the Civil Rights acts of the 1960s, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and returning all decisions on elections to the states.
http://www.alternet.org/hot-news-vie...tter696110&t=1
And yeah there are conniving bitches that would do exactly that.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
and there are no bastards who would rape their wives
It's not a binary solution set, boutons.
rumor is the dude is gonna resign from the race. This was just too fucked up to come back from.
How do you know? Have you ever been "legitimately" raped? :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by TeyshaBlue
I agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy
One summer at band camp.....:rollinQuote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
TB :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by TeyshaBlue
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Originally Posted by TeyshaBlue
Akin speaks for a lot conservatives, tea baggers, etc
Influential Conservatives Defending Akin
1. Erick Erickson. The RedState honcho and CNN contributor excused Akin’s scientifically illiterate remarks as simply “inarticulate” and then accused President Obama of being pro-infanticide, saying: “the people horrid by Todd Akin’s remarks are, I’m sure, thrilled to have a President who defended infanticide. I’ll take Todd Akin’s inarticulate remarks over an infanticide supporter any day of the week.” Somewhat ironically, Erickson is now claiming that Akin will withdraw from the race.
2. Tony Perkins. The head of the Family Research Council said “we support [Akin] fully and completely” and that “I think that Todd Akin is getting a really bad break here.”
3. Chris and Dana Loesch. The conservative commentary power couple both lept to Akin’s defense. Chris claimed that “what [Akin] said was medically correct” while Dana wrote that Akin’s comments were less bad than his opponent Claire McCaskill’s record by “any real standard of measurement.”
4. Bryan Fischer. The American Family Association’s “director of issue analysis” straight-up defended Akin’s position, tweeting “Todd Akin is right: physical trauma of forcible rape can interfere w/ hormonal production, conception.”
5. Marjorie Dannenfelser. The head of the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony list said that “We are proud to support Congressman Akin,” but later backtracked, amending her statement to “Congressman Akin has been an excellent partner in the fight for the unborn.”
6. Glenn Reynolds. The popular pundit and law professor simply wrote “BY THE TIME I NOTICED THIS STORY, IT WAS OVER, but Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” remarks pale in comparison with Whoopi Goldberg’s.”
thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/20/716001/influential-conservatives-defending-akin/
And he doesn't speak for alot of conservatives, tea baggers, etc.
Following a growing uproar over Mr. Akin’s provocative comments on rape and abortion in an interview broadcast Sunday, the National Republican Senatorial Committee threatened to withdraw its financial and party support for Mr. Akin a day after the Republican nominee said victims of “legitimate rape” rarely get pregnant.
Crossroads GPS, a Republican nonprofit group that had already spent more than $5 million to weaken Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, long considered the Senate’s most endangered incumbent, announced it was withdrawing from the state.
At the same time, Republican candidates including Mitt Romney and Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts either called for Mr. Akin to step aside or strongly indicated he should. Senator John Cornyn of Texas, chairman of the Senate campaign committee, personally told Mr. Akin to step aside, a senior Republican Senate campaign aide said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/us...pagewanted=all
lol thinkprogress
:lol
lol boutons, lol thinkprogress
he speaks for a lot of conservatives and tea baggers.
he and Ryan have been pushing the "legitimate rape" concept for months, plus banning all kinds of contraceptive drugs, with NO PUSHBACK for the Repugs.
And he doesnt speak for a lot of conservatives and tea baggers
I just showed you pushback. You won't find pushback on thinkprogress.
He damn sure doesn't speak for me. I honestly just wish Republicans would get the fuck over abortion and gay rights. No sense fighting over it or even talking about it. I can be a fiscal conservative and despise Obama without agreeing with their fucked up social agenda (which is totally pointless because they will NEVER get anything passed)
Are you a "legitimate" fiscal conservative or?Quote:
Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy
:lol just messing with ya
I think the vast majority of conservatives don't give a shit about contraception issues. But the far-right Santorum nutbars enable the far left nutbars to frame all conservatives as far right nutbars. The distinction is lost on those bereft of critical thinking...aka...the thinkprogress crowd.Quote:
Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy
you're a trouble maker today.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
Back to the native country for you, boy!:ihit
Of course I am. I'll try to drop a few crumbs occasionally but I think y'all probably need to learn to do with less...:lolQuote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
Make me :wakeupQuote:
Originally Posted by TeyshaBlue
Actually, I'm visiting the family for two weeks in about 15 days... please keep the bot in check while I'm away, kthx :lol
Sweet. You and CC are quite the elite vacationing 1%ers!:toast:downspin:Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
Motherfuckers didn't learn shit from Clayton Williams.
Urban Dictionary
crofl
See why you need to verify what you find on the internet... Almost anyone can make things up.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
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Originally Posted by ElNono
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Originally Posted by mercos
Coming soon, to a primary near you....Quote:
Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy
Unfortunately, you're supporting it every time you pull the lever.Quote:
Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy
What's made up about that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
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Does Kobe count as a legitimate rapist since he analed that bitch? Definition isn't quite clear tbh.
Here's another, a pastor, a Fox tool, spinning the positives of rape
Huckabee to Akin: 'Horrible' rapes created some extraordinary people
The man trying to provide Rep. Todd Akin the softest possible landing after the congressman’s foolish comments about pregnancy and rape was former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a strong supporter of Akin during his run to represent Missouri in the U.S. Senate.
In the furor over Akin’s remarks and increasing pressure for him to drop out of his race against Sen. Claire McCaskill, Huckabee used his syndicated radio program Monday to give the embattled candidate a safe venue to express remorse and his determination to remain in the race. Huckabee also took the opportunity to cast the best possible light on Akin’s awkward position. The former Arkansas governor and onetime GOP presidential contender suggested a couple of cases in which he suggested that rapes, though “horrible tragedies,” had produced admirable human beings.
http://mobile.latimes.com/p.p?m=b&a=...%3D0%26DPL%3D3
:lol
Always amazing how low these shameless, tone-deaf, sociopathic, misogynistic right-wing assholes will go
You mean that hotel whore who tried to get a payoff?Quote:
Originally Posted by baseline bum
The entry was created yesterday. Probably by the person bringing it to our view.Quote:
Originally Posted by DMX7
So easily done.
Akin stays in race despite conservative outlash, Romney says 'I can't defend him'
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...im/?hpt=hp_bn3
God bless
Yes, that's kind of the point of that website. It's a humorous definition. What's your point?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
:lmao Urban Dictionary exposed!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
:rollin:rollin:rollin:rollin:rollin:rollinQuote:
Originally Posted by Spurminator
Why? Did he make similar comments during the primary?Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
No, urban dictionary has a through process by which a committee of scholars of the utmost distinction carefully deliberate the merits of a proposed definition. Then, after a majority vote in favor of the the proposed definition, the proposed definition is published in the form of an exposure draft in which critics may comment or propose changes to the definition. Finally, after careful consideration of the critical comments and proposed changes, a final draft is generated and voted on. Only after that final draft has received a 2/3rds majority vote from the committee can it be published.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
LOL...Quote:
Originally Posted by DMX7
Really now. The they are a partisan bunch if libtards.
I have a hard time believing anyone who would say something like this on TV has proven intelligent enough in other aspects of his life to make his way up the political ladder without saying some pretty crazy shit to people who were helping him up that ladder.Quote:
Originally Posted by SnakeBoy
Indeed, thankfully this process was not compromised by the nearly catastrophic "Cleveland Steamer" Dispute of 2006.Quote:
Originally Posted by DMX7
Really? Hearing stuff like "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down" in 2012 is ignorance to the extreme.Quote:
Originally Posted by SnakeBoy
Full disclosure, Wild Cobra -- I am one of the scholars on the committee.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
Yes, that was one hell of a debate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spurminator
And I'd like to know who's the "doctor" he claims told him that.
WC, are you really that gullible? :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
Yeah it's dumb and he's finished because of it but your saying you're shocked he became the nominee and I'm just asking if he was making similar gaffes during the primary. I don't know anything about him other than this comment, I gather you don't either?Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
I just looked him up on wiki and it sounds like he's super christiany so probably he's been told that stress affects fertility (which is true) and then he used his powers of deduction to conclude that rape is stressful so a woman won't get pregnant unless she enjoys it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
I am also on the panel of peer reviewers on Urban Dictionary. My esteemed colleagues and I get paid a handsome sum of money to weed out the chaff.
In what way?Quote:
Originally Posted by LnGrrrR
Maybe there is a committee, if so, there shouldn't be blatant misinterpretation allowed.
Come on now. What committee would approve such a definition, unless libtards?Quote:
Rape between one man and one woman who are not married or even acquainted; the only rape sanctioned by the Republican Party.
Wow.
WC it's a humorous website. Anyone can submit a definition.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
Easy, the Illuminati.
Isn't that what I implied to begin with?Quote:
Originally Posted by LnGrrrR
I haven't read through this thread in great detail but I just can't stop laughing at the Jeebotard who just singlehandedly flipped his state -- which was somewhere between likely/safe Republican -- to the Democrats.
But that's the risk Republicans run in catering to the 80-IQ Jeebotard crowd.
I'm eager to hear more of his brilliant theories about the female body's magical shield against rape-sperm. So, if somebody claims she was raped but gets pregnant, is she lying? Did she enjoy her rape too much? Is she really a dirty whore? Should we stone her for shaming her family?
I think this Jeebotard may have launched a new sect of his faith -- let's call it Chrislam!
I have no clue what your original point was at this time...Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
Well, I personally disagree that was just a gaffe, or as he's trying to claim now, he 'misspoke'... I thought he was very candid and honest when he said what he said, it was nothing unintentional about it, as absolutely ignorant as it was.Quote:
Originally Posted by SnakeBoy
I don't think he's a bad guy, just completely disconnected from reality at least on that topic, which prompts you to wonder where else he has such disconnects. I don't even see this is a partisan issue. Alarms would go off just as loudly if he had a (D) next to his name.
That was as ignorant as it gets. Especially in this day and age, and when it's such a hot topic. I actually applaud the rest of the GOP from walking away from him. There really are no excuses.Quote:
Originally Posted by SnakeBoy
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Originally Posted by LnGrrrR
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Originally Posted by Wild CobraSee why you need to verify what you find on the internet... Almost anyone can make things up.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
What was there to verify? Of course the term "legitimate rape" was made up, because before Akin, no one was asinine enough to suggest that.
Probably the same guy who told Michelle Bachmann that the HPV vaccine causes mental retardation.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
That the definition is correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by LnGrrrR
WC, it's a made up word/phrase. There's no "correct" definition, because the phrase doesn't exist.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
:lmao
Wc doubling down on stupid. Lol
Was she in the case study?Quote:
Originally Posted by mrsmaalox
My God. I cant help it if you cant understand my thought process.
/WC
It isn't correct. According to websters...Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
Legitimate Rape: an excuse to get a tax payer funded abortion; also known as sex between and man and a woman by the lesbo feminazis
Lmao holy shit WC! Come on man, come on.
Anytime someone destroys their political career because of one word I would call it a gaffe. If he had said he heard that victims of "violent" rape were less likely to get pregnant he would be able to wiggle his way out of this. It's the use of "legitimate rape", as if some forms of rape don't count, that's killing him.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
They are only walking away because they don't want abortion to become a main issue in this election. Don't applaud them too much.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
WC, it's not too late man! quick, just claim that you were joking all along!!!
Sure, your previous history of posting really stupid shit might doom you in, but there's probably a couple spectators reading this thread that will buy it!