GOP conservatives unite against Obama birth control coverage rewrite – USATODAY.com http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-02-11/obama-birth-control-cpac/53046728/1 Under the revision, women will still get guaranteed access to birth control without co-pays or premiums no matter where they work, a provision of Obama’s health care law that he insisted must remain. But religious universities and hospitals that see contraception as an [...]
I used to think I was pretty good at these games, then I realized conscious thought may be something of an inhibitor
Ayumu the chimp can remember the location and order of a set of numbers in less time than it takes the average human to blink. The prodigous can solve the puzzle in 60 milliseconds, at Kyoto University, Japan. Ayumu is the son of Ai, a chimpanzee whose intelligence has been studied for over 30 years [...]
Republicans gather to share delusions of oppression and apocalypse (neighborhood dogs freaking out about all the whistles)
AFP: US conservatives pummel Obama at conference http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iDQF-2ZZTuRZ5W_dgv_P3legMoQA?docId=CNG.02dc6e8d8209dc7a3920d3c887810f44.261 Rubio in his speech sought to tamp down concern that conservatives had yet to coalesce behind one man. “We have four really good candidates,” he said. “At the end we’re all going to come together, and we know that right?” wow, there is so much Derp going [...]
Teen pregnancy, abortion rates at record low (Hence the constant outrage, you see…)
CHICAGO — Birth and abortion rates among U.S. teens fell to record lows in 2008 as increased use of contraceptives sent the overall teen pregnancy rate to its lowest level since at least 1972, a study showed on Wednesday. via Teen pregnancy, abortion rates at record low – Health – Women’s health – msnbc.com. Let’s make [...]
Republican Outraged about…oh take your pick…they are now literally saying its not the thing that caused the outrage
The Associated Press: Boehner: Congress to overturn birth control policy http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gSQvV9Z7SifqEE6Qs3PDeZZoBYcw?docId=3e6eebd4085a4fa5a6d77abfe142f705 Said Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.: “This has nothing to do with contraception. …. This is about whether the government of the United States should have the power to go in and tell a faith-based organization that they have to pay for something that they [...]
Fed Critics Wrong and Politically (and conspirationally motivated)
Bernanke-Led Economy Shows Critics Wrong About Fed- Bloomberg http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-08/bernanke-led-economy-proving-critics-clueless-about-federal-reserve-policy.html More than a year after Republicans from House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio to presidential candidate Ron Paul of Texas warned that the Fed’s second round of asset purchases risked a sharp acceleration in prices, the surge has failed to materialize. The personal-consumption-expenditures price index rose [...]
Romney: No Komen money for Planned Parenthood (even after they reversed)
WASHINGTON—Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he doesn’t think a prominent breast cancer charity should continue giving grants to Planned Parenthood because it provides abortion services. The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity had announced it would cut funds to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening, then dropped those plans after a [...]
Conservatives outraged private company touts their success after government helped them not die
‘Halftime in America’ ad creates political debate – chicagotribune.com http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-us-detroit-halftimei,0,4905104.story Conservatives, including GOP strategist Karl Rove, criticized the ad as a not-so-thinly veiled endorsement of the federal government’s auto industry bailouts. Others questioned basing a story of economic resurgence in a city that remains in fiscal disarray, with a $200 million budget deficit and cash [...]
What is it called when you apply different standards to the same job to different people?
Press Release – Committee Leaders Praise Senate Task Force for Including Popular Small Business Health Plans in Report to Help Uninsured Working Families http://archives.republicans.edlabor.house.gov/archive/press/press108/second/05may/ahp051104.htm Last Friday, the Labor Department reported that 1.1 million new jobs had been created over the last eight months, including 625,000 in the last two months alone. Eight consecutive months of [...]
Komen admits Planned Parenthood funding cut was politically motivated, half backtracks on future funding
Komen revises funding policy – The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/komen-revises-funding-policy/2012/02/03/gIQAVRa3mQ_story.html “Our original desire was to fulfill our fiduciary duty to our donors by not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation,” a Friday statement said. “ We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and [...]
Economy continues to improve, Republicans vow to do even more to try and stop that from happening
Strong jobs report pushes Nasdaq to 11-year high http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE80T0J120120203?irpc=932 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks rose on Friday, propelling the Nasdaq index to an 11-year high, after January’s U.S. employment report sailed past expectations, boosting hopes the world’s largest economy has turned a corner. The broad-based gains also sent the Dow Jones industrial average to its [...]
When legal news dominates the tech pages, something has gone horribly wrong
Samsung Scores Win in German Patent Battle With Apple Over Its Tablets | PCWorld http://www.pcworld.com/article/249200/samsung_scores_win_in_german_patent_battle_with_apple_over_its_tablets.html Samsung Electronics is allowed to continue to sell the Galaxy Tab 10.1N, after a regional court in Munich rejected an Apple motion to block sales of the product due to a patent violation, a spokesman at the court said. The [...]
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