Reply With Quote
i only see you using that here
time for some introspection tbh
n!gg@s (aka racism) is the fundamental concept in Repug politicking, just so you (try to, but fail to) understand my usage.
i only see you using that here
time for some introspection tbh
I'm speaking the language the Repugs and rightwingnuts understand.
House GOP’s ‘witch hunt’ takes an alarming turn
Members of a House committee investigating Planned Parenthood clashed Wednesday during their first hearing on subpoenas issued to abortion clinics and medical researchers over the use of fetal tissue. […]
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said the committee could be “complicit” in murders of those researchers if their names became public and they are then killed. Democrats pointed to the shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado to illustrate the danger.
When Nadler asked Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), the panel’s chair, why the committee needs the names of individual medical researchers, the Tennessee Republican reportedly responded, “No, sir, I am not going to answer that.”
The Associated Press report added that the committee has no rules in place to protect the names of those subpoenaed – raising the possibility of Congress effectively painting targets on the backs of scientists and researchers for no particular reason other than the Republicans’ desire for a culture war.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), the top Democrat on the panel, described the investigation as a “partisan and dangerous witch hunt, and added, in reference to Blackburn, “The chair’s abuse of her position as chair to compel this information is reminiscent of Senator Joe McCarthy’s abusive tactics.”
Democrats pushed a measure to quash the unnecessary subpoenas. Republicans defeated it on a party-line vote.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow
Police are pushing to keep their names secret, but Repugs are standing up abortion providers like turkeys on a shooting range.
FEATUREDChristian group conducts study, finds out that Christians have the most abortions
SHARE
In the wake of the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs, the findings of a survey released by LifeWay, a Christian research group, reveal some interesting facts about a seemingly hidden culture within the Christian community.
The survey explores the true relationship of religion and abortion and was co-sponsored by the pregnancy support organization Care Net. These are some of their findings.
- 70 percent of the women they surveyed considered themselves Christians.
- Over 50 percent of the surveyed women who attend church regularly have kept their abortions secret from their church community.
- 40 percent of women surveyed feel that churches are not equipped to help them make decisions about unwanted pregnancies.
While these findings may be surprising, even more surprising is one of the main reasons these women seek abortions. Anti-abortion culture often lays the blame on the women who terminate pregnancies, citing their callousness, promiscuity, and sinful nature. However, it turns out the opposite is true. Roughly a third of women, regardless of their religious beliefs, cite the father of the unborn baby as the most influential person in their decision to terminate their pregnancy.
Many of the results of this survey are particularly damning of church culture, which shames women during these difficult times, rather than offering any guidance.
Roughly two thirds of the women surveyed agree that their pastors’ teachings on forgiveness do not apply to women who have terminated pregnancies. Over half of women believe that their Church is out-of-touch when it comes to helping them make decisions about pregnancy options.
It is interesting to note that this survey was conducted by a Christian organization. Given results like these, many conservatives would say that the study is skewed to make the Christian hard-right look bad, but considering the direction the abortion debate has taken of late, they don’t really need any help in that area.
Regardless of the choices the women in these communities make, they face judgment on all sides, and have to choose between secrecy and being ostracized, in which no ‘right’ decision can be made. This is why over half of women who regularly attend church keep their terminated pregnancy secret and only 7 percent of women say they’ve discussed their options with fellow churchgoers.
http://deadstate.org/christian-group...ost-abortions/
House Seeks Names of Fetal Tissue Researchers, Prompting Claims of Intimidation
WASHINGTON — A special House committee empaneled to investigate fetal tissue research is preparing to issue 17 subpoenas to medical supply companies and laboratories, seeking the names of researchers, graduate students, laboratory technicians and administrative personnel.
The House investigation into how some of the nation’s most prestigious universities acquire fetal tissue has prompted charges of intimidation and coercion, escalating a battle that some researchers fear could shut down studies seeking cures for Parkinson’s disease, the Zika virus and a host of other conditions.
Representative Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, who opposes most fetal tissue research because of its association with abortion, intends to issue the subpoenas on behalf of the Republicans on the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives.
The panel was created to investigate fetal tissue research after the release of surrep iously recorded videos purporting to show Planned Parenthood officials trying to profit illegally from the sale of such tissue.
Several state investigations have exonerated Planned Parenthood, and the videographers were indicted in Texas. But the House investigation spurred by the videos continues.
“We are going to review the business practices of these procurement organizations and do some investigating of how they have constructed a for-profit business model from selling baby body parts,” Ms. Blackburn said in an interview.
Federal law forbids profiting from the sale of human organs or tissue.
For universities, the House investigation has become deeply unsettling. University officials fear that the release of the names sought by lawmakers could endanger lives if anti-abortion activists decide to target those involved in fetal tissue research.
On Nov. 27, Robert L. Dear Jr. killed three people and wounded nine at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, and said “no more baby parts” after his arrest.
Many of the schools and organizations blacked out names and other identifying information before submitting hundreds of pages of research do ents in response to the committee’s requests for information. “U.C.S.D. has redacted individually identifying information from the enclosed do ents,” the University of California, San Diego, stated in its cover letter, citing security concerns.
But those redactions frustrated committee investigators and prompted the subpoenas.
“It’s one step further than McCarthyism, because McCarthy just threatened people’s jobs,” said Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York. “They’re threatening people’s lives.”
House Republicans have tried and failed to cut off all federal funding for Planned Parenthood, but their investigation is having an impact. Some medical studies have been delayed or canceled because researchers can no longer acquire fetal tissue samples from their usual suppliers, who have grown concerned about the investigation, researchers said.
Larry Goldstein, scientific director of the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine in San Diego, told the committee at its first hearing on March 2 that a project to cure multiple sclerosis had been halted because it had “basically seen supply of fetal material dry up completely.”
Colorado State University suspended its acquisition of fetal tissue from “vendors implicated in the Planned Parenthood investigation pending the outcome of the congressional inquiry,” the university said in a letter to Congress in July.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School, no longer accepts applications from researchers seeking fetal tissue from abortions performed there. Hospital officials took a week to explain the halt, which they eventually said was unrelated to the House investigation. But, citing the fatal shooting last year of a cardiovascular surgeon at the hospital, Brigham and Women’s officials insisted on knowing when The New York Times would publish this article so they could put additional security in place.
Democrats charge that the Planned Parenthood investigation is part of a broader pattern.
Late last year, climate scientists accused Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, of “bullying tactics” after he issued a subpoena for internal deliberations on climate change at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Ms. Blackburn said intimidation was not intended.SHE LIES
“We all are concerned for individual safety,”
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/25...tion.html?_r=0
Repug MISgovernance is nothing but culture wars, deflecting from the horrendously damaging wealthy Class War.
ing red and slave states.
So I guess the Repug witch hunters will publish the names of the "witches" so they can be targets for witch killers.
Repugs and Bible humpers live in a fabricated, dishonest universe, a bubble of fantasy, and echo chamber of lies.
EVERYTHING they say and do is dishonest, built on bull "beliefs".
Last edited by boutons_deux; 03-24-2016 at 08:41 AM.
Man Behind Planned Parenthood Sting Videos Says California DOJ Raided Home, Took Videos
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An anti-abortion activist who made undercover videos at Planned Parenthood clinics said in a social media posting that California Department of Justice agents raided his home Tuesday.
Agents seized all video footage from his apartment, along with his personal information, David Daleiden said in a Facebook post. Daleiden, the founder of a group called the Center for Medical Progress, said agents left behind do ents that he contends implicate Planned Parenthood in illegal behavior related to the handling of fetal tissue.
Center for Medical Progress spokesman Peter Robbio confirmed the social media posting is authentic, but he declined further comment. He said Daleiden lives in Orange County.
Rachele Huennekens, a spokeswoman for state Attorney General Kamala Harris, said in an email that she can't comment on any ongoing investigation.
Harris said in July that she planned to review the undercover videos to see if center violated any state charity registration or reporting requirements. She said that could include whether Daleiden and a colleague impersonated representatives of a fake biomedical company or filmed the videos without Planned Parenthood's consent.
Harris, a Democrat, is running for the U.S. Senate. Daleiden suggested in the social media posting that the raid was politically motivated because Harris has accepted campaign contributions from Planned Parenthood.
Daleiden faces related charges in Texas. One of his Texas attorneys, Terry Yates, did not return telephone and email messages Tuesday.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/da...+%28TPMNews%29
You know how sometimes old websites that haven't been updated in a while get hacked and have all sorts of useless spam posted to them?
That's what these threads remind me of when the last few posts are from boutons.
Ghost thread.
The PP witch hunt, based on the CMP bull , perhaps criminal videos, is STILL active in Repug Congress. Try to keep up.
The Great Boutons is always on top of the hottest news, here's some ONGOING Repug War on Vaginas:
Missouri Republicans Are Threatening A Planned Parenthood Employee With Jail Time
The senators are trying to hold the Planned Parenthood employee in contempt of court — because the clinic has refused turn over a broad swath of private medical do ents, which the organization says would have violated federal privacy laws.
The contempt charge is related to a November subpoena issued to Mary Kogut, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, by the interim Missouri State Senate Committee on the Sanc y of Life. The committee was convened to investigate allegations that the women’s health organization illegally sells fetal remains, made by the Center for Medical Progress’ widely-debunked sting videos.
Among the requested do ents are all consent forms signed by patients as part of receiving abortion care or prior to being administered anesthesia since 2010. As the clinic is the only remaining abortion provider in the state, this would effectively give lawmakers the names of the bulk of the women in Missouri who’ve received abortions in recent years, other than a small number of procedures performed at hospitals. Crucially, the committee’s do ent request makes no specifications about what would happen with the information after it is turned over, so there is no guarantee that the information could not be turned over to the public.
Planned Parenthood’s lawyers contend that the committee lacks the authority to subpoena the do ents — many of which contain information protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) — and that turning them would be a breach of doctor-patient confidentiality and federal privacy laws.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016...ned-with-jail/
And Repugs call Obama "lawless"?
so what's your solution? to jail non-aborted babies?
The Great Boutons is always on top of the hottest news, here's some ONGOING Repug War on Vaginas:
Missouri Republicans Are Threatening A Planned Parenthood Employee With Jail Time
The senators are trying to hold the Planned Parenthood employee in contempt of court — because the clinic has refused turn over a broad swath of private medical do ents, which the organization says would have violated federal privacy laws.
The contempt charge is related to a November subpoena issued to Mary Kogut, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, by the interim Missouri State Senate Committee on the Sanc y of Life. The committee was convened to investigate allegations that the women’s health organization illegally sells fetal remains, made by the Center for Medical Progress’ widely-debunked sting videos.
Among the requested do ents are all consent forms signed by patients as part of receiving abortion care or prior to being administered anesthesia since 2010. As the clinic is the only remaining abortion provider in the state, this would effectively give lawmakers the names of the bulk of the women in Missouri who’ve received abortions in recent years, other than a small number of procedures performed at hospitals. Crucially, the committee’s do ent request makes no specifications about what would happen with the information after it is turned over, so there is no guarantee that the information could not be turned over to the public.
Planned Parenthood’s lawyers contend that the committee lacks the authority to subpoena the do ents — many of which contain information protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) — and that turning them would be a breach of doctor-patient confidentiality and federal privacy laws.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016...ned-with-jail/
And Repugs call Obama "lawless"?
thinkprogress, talkingpointsmemo... now we just need some duplicate articles from DailyKOS, Salon, and a link to OccupyDemocrats facebook page and we'll be on our way
Spurraiders, always read to rebut so eloquently.
How about the Kansas City Star? Are they conservative enough for you?
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local...e69503017.html
i dont require conservative reading, i just commented on booboo's patterns
Fair enough. Care to comment on the story or are you just here for low hanging fruit?
with booboo there's always low hanging fruit
the planned parenthood story was a joke from the get-go, not really worth commenting on at this point
Well yeah it was clearly a joke. But this is a real scenario that could lead to imprisonment for someone who is refusing to break HIPAA regulations/doctor-patient privilege in regards to LEGAL, medical activities. All based on obviously fraudulent, illegally obtained video.
joke. Really funny sitting in jail.
After Texas Booted Planned Parenthood from HIV Program, County Replacement Hasn’t Performed a Single Test
Texas took a nearly 30-year-old HIV prevention contract away from Planned Parenthood in December, promising there’d be no gap in services.
When Texas abruptly ended its $600,000 HIV prevention contract with Planned Parenthood’s Houston affiliate in late December, state health officials promised that there would be no interruption in services.
But the Observer has learned that as of early June, Harris County’s health department has yet to perform a single HIV test with the money.
So far, the department has received about $250,000 in state funding but is still in the planning stages for its program.
In the five months since losing its contract, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC) estimates that it would have provided 2,900 HIV tests and distributed around 165,000 condoms.
Roc e Tafolla, PPGC’s spokesperson, said most of its testing was conducted in Harris County, the most populous in Texas and home to nearly 23,000 Texans living with HIV.
From 1988 to 2015, Planned Parenthood tested more than 138,000 people in Harris, Fort Bend, Galveston, Brazoria and Montgomery counties, and identified almost 1,200 individuals with HIV. The organization conducted testing and prevention at bars, colleges and jails. Tafolla also told the Observer that the organization provided about 575 HIV tests every month and distributed about 33,000 condoms.
“Think of all the cases of HIV that would’ve been prevented had the people who did this, and do it well, still been testing,”
“was a pure political move and something you don’t do to people’s health, especially when you have state leaders who are charged with overseeing the public health of Texas.”
According to the state health department’s HIV Surveillance Report, nearly 1,300 Harris County residents were diagnosed with HIV in 2014, the highest number of new cases that year across all 254 Texas counties.
Testing individuals at risk for HIV as quickly as possible is “key” for reducing new infection rates,
https://www.texasobserver.org/hiv-pl...harris-county/
Repugs up everything they touch, except that they are Masters of the Universe when ing over poor, black, browns
I could understand if they didnt replace it at all and left the public health to the individual. Obviously going to lead to a lot the AIDS, but hey some people might say dont without protection, one, and two pay for it yourself.
But spending money to effectively replace the program unsuccessfully? Makes not a lick of sense.
More VD/STI, more unwanted pregnancies, more untreated disease, less testing, more abortions.
They're your poor white trash buddies, blacks, browns, so their misery not worth commenting on.
I despise all the shill news sources whether left or right. People that go to those regularly aren't looking for information. They're looking for affirmation. It's boring as , choosing a "news" source where you just read a bunch of you agree with, just nodding your head the whole way through. You learn nothing new
false equivalence. lefty news doesn't cherry pick, it INDUSTRIALLY HARVESTS all the from the Repugs, because it's ALL .
whether left or right
Missing the point. When somebody like yourself reads a salon article about how awful trump is, you learn nothing new. It's not news. You aren't gaining knowledge. It's just affirmation. When a right winger watches an hour of hannity to hear about how awful Clinton is or how biased the media is, he's learning nothing new either. It's a lot of words and time wasted that ultimately has no net effect on the viewer who just becomes more stubborn. It's a pointless endeavor.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
