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Coathanger, props in abortion debate

The Texas Legislature got off to a dramatic start on Tuesday with one lawmaker brandishing a coathanger on the House floor as the chamber took up the abortion measure that has roiled the state and the country in the weeks since a 13-hour filibuster derailed its passage in the last session.

(LOL...Look at the puss's [faces] on these exterminators.  They look like Al Sharpton on a good day.  Coat hangers??  Under this Texas House  Bill#2, a woman has five months to make up her mind if she wants to have an abortion, why would she need a coat hanger??)

The Texas House of Representatives opened at 10 a.m. local time after the July Fourth recess to consider House Bill 2, which imposes a ban on abortions after 20 weeks and, critics charge, would shutter nearly every abortion-providing clinic in the state due to stringent clinic regulations. The measure failed to be fully passed at the end of the last session due to a filibuster late last month led by state [Screwball] Sen. Wendy Davis, who became a national liberal icon overnight.

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[Head Screwball] Democratic state Rep. Senfronia Thompson and other [Screwballs] who accompanied her on the floor brandished several props including wire coat hangers, knitting needles, feathers and turpentine. She charged that without rape and incest exceptions extended beyond the first five months of gestation, sexual assault victims would use those tools to obtain abortions.

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Ol' Pant Suits Gets Her Own Attack Watch-Style Website

Democratic Oppo Group Rushing to Hillary Clinton's Defense

Via National Journal:
http://news.yahoo.com/democratic-oppo-group-rushing-hillary-clintons-defense-060023257.html

With Hillary Clinton already facing attacks from the right, a Democratic super PAC specializing in opposition research is expanding its mission to playing defense.

American Bridge, which made a name for itself in the 2012 election by knocking down Republican candidates from Mitt Romney to Todd Akin, is launching a web site to defend potential Democratic presidential candidates in 2016. The web site, CorrecttheRecord2016.org, will aim to debunk attacks against Democrats while flogging gaffes and flip-flops by possible Republican contenders.

Fueled by the Supreme Court's ruling in the Citizens United case that opened the floodgates to super PACS, the oppo wars are evolving into an arms race. The American Bridge project comes less than three weeks after a new Republican super PAC, America Rising, started an anti-Clinton initiative called StopHillary2016.org. Another super PAC, American Crossroads, unleashed an online video in May criticizing Clinton's response to the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed four people.

These missives against Clinton were answered only by an unofficial collection of her supporters, since the former Secretary of State, U.S. senator and First Lady is not an elected official or a candidate. (She has not officially endorsed a super PAC, called Ready for Hillary, trying to build support for her presidential bid.) In the meantime, Democrats and Republicans are eager to use the pre-campaign period to try to define her on their own terms.

The mudslinging against Clinton – and other possible Democratic candidates like Vice President Joe Biden and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley — is expected to intensify with each passing day as the 2016 election approaches. Last month, the New York Times reported that Republicans were testing the message that Clinton was too old to be president, eager to contrast their younger crop of prospective candidates against her.

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Irony of Ironies:
You'll Never Guess Who Is Running
Against Eliot Spitzer For NYC Comptroller

(Hmmmm... I find myself in the odd position of rooting for the better-looking more honest prostitute in the photo)

Via Newsmax
http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/spitzer-prostitution-ringleader-comptroller/2013/07/08/id/513816?promo_code=12630-1&utm_source=12630Weasel_zippers&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1

Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who Sunday announced his candidacy for New York City comptroller, says he wants to help shape the city's budget and work on Wall Street accountability.

And in a bizarre twist, Spitzer, who resigned in 2008 after it became known he frequented prostitutes, will be running against libertarian Kristin Davis, the former Manhattan "Madam" who ran the high-class prostitution ring used by Spitzer and other high-powered clients, Breitbart reported.

Spitzer discussed his reasons for running during a round of television and radio interviews Monday. On CBS' "This Morning," he cited shareholder power, corporate governance, protecting pensions, and investing city money among his priorities.

"It's now five years later. I hope they [voters] look back at what I did as attorney general, as governor, as a prosecutor and say, 'Hey, this guy was ahead of the curve on Wall Street issues,'" he said.

"I want to do to that office what I did to the attorney general's office, re-envision it, re-imagine it."

Spitzer would have been aware he was running against Davis when he made his decision to join the race, Breitbart reported, as Davis announced her candidacy months ago.

"This is going to be the funnest campaign ever," said Davis, who went to prison for three months for her role in running the escort service, according to Breitbart.

"I've been waiting for my day to face him for five years," she reportedly told the New York Daily News. "I sat ... in Rikers Island, I came out penniless and nothing happened to him. The hypocrisy there is huge."

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Via LifeNews:
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/09/texas-legislator-counters-wendy-davis-during-hearing-holds-up-baby-shoes/

During the hearing in the state House yesterday on the 20-week abortion ban, Texas State Senator State Senator Bob Deuell, MD held up a pair of baby shoes to represent the unborn children who are aborted.

The shoes are a powerful visual symbol counteracting the running shoes that have been a pro-abortion symbol of the Wendy Davis filibuster against the late-term abortion ban.

(Love it)

Above is the picture of Duell holding up the shoes along with a collection of tweets with pictures and commentary on the hearing yesterday and the thousands of pro-life advocates who showed up in Austin to support the bill.

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Carney Angrily Dismises GOP:
We Are "Moving Forward" With Obumacare Train Wreck

(Suicide Mission... Jay, ol' boy... Suicide Mission)

Via The Hill:

White House press secretary Jay Carney on Tuesday angrily dismissed demands from GOP leaders for more information on the decision to delay ObamaCare's employer mandate, declaring that "implementation is moving forward" on the healthcare law.

Carney said Republicans who argue the Affordable Care Act is unwieldy and unworkable had no realistic alternative to propose, and that support for the president's legislation would be buoyed once Americans began benefitting from the law.

"The benefits that more and more Americans will gain from that implementation will make clear that the absence of an alternative put forward by House Republicans is not an alternative at all," Carney said. "The Republican alternative is, repeal, and replace with what?"

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Illinois Democrat Requests National Guard Come To Chicago To Help Stop War Zone Violence

(This is what happens to a city after being ruled by Democrats for decades.  Like I said before, bring the troops home, send them to Chicago and wipe out ALL black and hispanic gangs.  No jail time... treat them like jihadi terrorists... blow them to hell and beyond!)

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CHICAGO, Ill. (IRN) - Gun violence in Chicago is so severe that a state lawmaker wants state police and the National Guard to assist the local cops.

State Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) is making the request.

"I am requesting with this press conference that Gov. Patrick Quinn order the Illinois National Guard (and) the Illinois State Police (to) come to Chicago and work with our mayor Ron (sic) Emanuel to provide safety for the children, especially," she said at a news conference in Springfield.

Other state lawmakers accompanied Davis to recognize the severity of the problem, and the extent to which it carries beyond Chicago's troubled neighborhoods to the entire city and other parts of the state, but not necessarily to concur with her solution.

Over the 4th holiday weekend, 74 people were shot and 12 killed in Chicago, and Davis says the police don't have the manpower to make arrests.

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CBO Report: 11,000 Late-Term Abortions Every Year In America

(Slaughter)

( Innocence)

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 9, 2013  – Some 11,000 American children are aborted every year after the 20th week of pregnancy, according to figures contained in a new Congressional report on the cost of banning such procedures.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is required by law to perform a cost estimate for every bill pending in Washington, so legislators will know the economic impact an act will have on society and government.

The CBO estimates that H.R. 1797, the "Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act," will save perhaps 2,750 babies a year – a number it admits is "very uncertain."

The finding contradicts the testimony of many of the bill's pro-abortion opponents, who have insisted the number of children affected by late-term abortion is small.

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Congress Blocks Funding For Obama's Plan To Send Weapons To Syrian Rebels

(Some rare good news)

Via Defcon Hill:
http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/309995-intel-panels-blocked-obamas-syrian-aid-by-restricting-funds#ixzz2YcOUOxP4

House and Senate Intelligence panel members have voted to block President Obama from arming Syrian rebels, committee insiders told The Hill. They did so by placing severe restrictions on funding.

Lawmakers made their decision last month for fear that the administration plan would let weapons fall into the hands of terrorist groups, such as the many linked to al Qaeda.

The exact nature of the restrictions is unknown because the committees voted privately on the basis of classified information. What is known is that the restrictions are sufficient to prevent the administration from delivering arms as planned, according to a source familiar with the actions.

The committee "voted to allow them to make some movement on this, but it's restricted," said one Senate panel insider, who declined to elaborate on the total aid or the restrictions added by the Intelligence panels, which both met again on Tuesday. "It was a very restrictive amount."

Administration officials stopped shy of saying that the efforts had thwarted the effort to arm rebel groups, but said it certainly didn't make it easier.

"They're raising a lot of questions without having alternative answers," said one senior administration official.

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Piece-of Sh!t Obuma Orders Federal Employees To Spy On Each Other,
Will Punish Those Who Fail To Report Suspicious Behavior

(POS Obuma= Stasi-like, Ministerium für Staatsicherheit)

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/563751/Stasi

WASHINGTON — In an initiative aimed at rooting out future leakers and other security violators, President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based on behavioral profiling techniques that are not scientifically proven to work, according to experts and government documents.

The techniques are a key pillar of the Insider Threat Program, an unprecedented government-wide crackdown under which millions of federal bureaucrats and contractors must watch out for "high-risk persons or behaviors" among co-workers. Those who fail to report them could face penalties, including criminal charges.

Obama mandated the program in an October 2011 executive order after Army Pfc. Bradley Manning downloaded hundreds of thousands of documents from a classified computer network and gave them to WikiLeaks, the anti-government secrecy group. The order covers virtually every federal department and agency, including the Peace Corps, the Department of Education and others not directly involved in national security.

Under the program, which is being implemented with little public attention, security investigations can be launched when government employees showing "indicators of insider threat behavior" are reported by co-workers, according to previously undisclosed administration documents obtained by McClatchy. Investigations also can be triggered when "suspicious user behavior" is detected by computer network monitoring and reported to "insider threat personnel."

Federal employees and contractors are asked to pay particular attention to the lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors – like financial troubles, odd working hours or unexplained travel – of co-workers as a way to predict whether they might do "harm to the United States." Managers of special insider threat offices will have "regular, timely, and, if possible, electronic, access" to employees' personnel, payroll, disciplinary and "personal contact" files, as well as records of their use of classified and unclassified computer networks, polygraph results, travel reports and financial disclosure forms.

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Ft. Hood Jihadist Nidal Hasan Uses Court Appearance
To Declare His Support For The Taliban

(The fact that Hasan is still breathing air four years after slaughtering 13 Americans is a travesty of justice)

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood asked pointed questions about religion and used several opportunities Wednesday to declare his support for the Taliban and a fellow American-born Muslim who killed a U.S. soldier, as he was allowed to zero in on potential jurors during the second day of jury selection.

Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is serving as his own attorney in his military murder trial, participated as nine of the remaining 14 Army officers in the group of potential jurors were questioned individually.

Hasan told one colonel that Abdulhakim Muhammad, sentenced to life in prison for the June 2009 fatal shooting of a soldier outside a Little Rock, Arkansas, military recruiting station, was his "brother and friend." Muhammad, who converted to Islam in college, has told The Associated Press that the shootings were an act of war on the U.S.

In answering Hasan's questions based on jury questionnaires they filled out about a year ago, several potential jurors said they had negative views of Muslims, the Quran or Shariah, the Islamic legal and religious code. But they said they could put aside those views and only consider evidence in the case — including a colonel asked by Hasan if "the fact that I do believe the Quran justifies killing" would prevent him from being a fair juror.

Osborn has denied his "defense of others" strategy, which must show that killing was necessary to prevent the immediate harm or death of others. The judge has barred him from telling jurors that he shot U.S. troops because he believed they were an imminent threat to Taliban leaders in Afghanistan.