Destor on Ordering a Pizza Conservatively in Texas
Ramona: Hatred in a Lovely Church
Gallup: Obama 46, Romney 46
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If Neuticals changes the name to Newticals, Gingrich may have a new career. Cause politics just ain't working out.
Brazil's Dangerous Activism: It's becoming more and more dangerous to an activist in Brazil.
Gingrich Cruising: Newt Gingrich's staff walks out on him, which will be great news for John McCain somehow.
Pics Shmics: New Yorkers want to keep their Weiner.
Heat Beat: I truly enjoy watching him play, but it just can't be disputed - Lebron James is not giving the Heat what they need in the 4th quarters as Dallas takes 3-2 lead.
"Breaking: Fred Thompson praises Newt Gingrich for running such a vigorous campaign."
Hinterland Gazette: Black Home Ownership an impossible dream under Obama?
Pam's House Blend: Looking back on Loving vs. Virginia.
Unicorn Booty: Tracy Morgan takes his homophobia to a frightening new level.
Think Progress: Paul Ryan starting to think defaulting would be just fine.
Dave Weigel: Gingrich's former staff decides to blame his wife on the way out.
Politics USA: Fox News takes the fight to Wisconsin Democrats as only they can.
Mother Jones: GOP star says Founding Fathers disagreed with Darwin. Maybe he means Darwin's Grandma.
Beagles used for research get their first taste of freedom.
--WKW
The issue of sexual assaults on American Indian women has become one of the major sources of discord in the current debate between the White House and the House of Representatives over the latest reauthorization of the landmark Violence Against Women Act of 1994.
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“We should never have a woman come into the office saying, ‘I need to learn more about Plan B for when my daughter gets raped,’ ” said Charon Asetoyer, a women’s health advocate on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, referring to the morning-after pill. “That’s what’s so frightening — that it’s more expected than unexpected. It has become a norm for young women.”
The difficulties facing American Indian women who have been raped are myriad, and include a shortage of sexual assault kits at Indian Health Service hospitals, where there is also a lack of access to birth control and sexually transmitted disease testing. There are also too few nurses trained to perform rape examinations, which are generally necessary to bring cases to trial.
By Ismail Kahn, New York Times, May 23/24, 2012
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A Pakistani doctor who helped the Central Intelligence Agency pin down Osama bin Laden's location under cover of a vaccination drive was convicted on Wednesday of treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison, a senior official in Pakistan said.
A tribal court here in northwestern Pakistan found the doctor, Shakil Afridi, guilty of acting against the state, said Mutahir Zeb Khan, the administrator for the Khyber tribal region [....]
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times, May 23, 2012
MOSCOW — Stiff new penalties aimed at opposition protesters were given preliminary approval Tuesday by Russian lawmakers loyal to President Vladimir Putin, the target of mass rallies and demonstrations before his March election victory.
The bill, which opposition parliament members termed draconian and protested by threatening to file out of a legislative session, calls for fines of up to $50,000 and up to 200 hours of community service for organizers of rallies and demonstrations that grow violent or exceed the approved number of participants.
The sanctions were approved on first reading by parliament's lower house, which is controlled by Putin's United Russia party. They mark a return by the Kremlin to a tough stance against critics after concessions during the recent election campaign [...]
Also see:
Russians back Putin, strong leadership
Washington Post, May 22, 2012
A Pew survey of 1,000 Russians found that President Vladimir Putin is well-liked by more than 70 percent of citizens, especially older adults.
Associated Press, May 21, 2012
HAVANA — It was all sunshine, smiles and celebratory speeches as officials marked the arrival of an undersea fiber-optic cable they promised would end Cuba's Internet isolation and boost web capacity 3,000-fold. Even a retired Fidel Castro had hailed the dawn of a new cyber-age on the island.
More than a year after the February 2011 ceremony on Siboney Beach in eastern Cuba, and 10 months after the system was supposed to have gone online, the government never mentions the cable anymore, and Internet here remains the slowest in the hemisphere. People talk quietly about embezzlement torpedoing the project and the arrest of more than a half-dozen senior telecom officials.
Perhaps most maddening, nobody has explained what happened to the much-ballyhooed $70 million project....
By Tamasin Ford in Monrovia, Guardian.co.uk, May 22, 2012
Husbands, not strangers or men with guns, are now the biggest threat to women in post-conflict west Africa, according to a report by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) released on Tuesday.
The IRC report, Let Me Not Die Before My Time: Domestic Violence in West Africa, based on data collected over 10 years by the IRC in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast, said domestic violence is the "most urgent, pervasive and significant protection issue for women in west Africa" [.....]
Wolfrum. You trying to kill me with this shit? Fucking "Beagle Rescue," on its own, is enough for a person to take in for a WEEK.
Jeezuz.
And then, Tracy Morgan going off.
And that piece of shit Ryan, who should be fed to lab beagles.
Then more ball-less dogs.
What the frack do you want a person to say to this stuff? Don't tell me you start your day this way. It's soul-crushing.
The only thing here that made me happy (and no, I didn't watch or read them all - I'm not insane) was LeBron choking on LeBone.
Go Dirk.
Ya missed one. On your Hinterlandgazette page, there was a blurb saying that Ron Paul thinks he's well-equipped. You should believe him, or he might tweet you.
I think found Timmy Johnson.
He was being interviewed about Obama over at HuffPo when I ran into him.
Seems he's going by his middle name, "Elliott," now.
I mean, how many "Johnson's can there be out there?"
Gotta be him.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/11/obama-2012-voter-anxiety_n_8753...
Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press
GREENSBORO, N.C. — If President Barack Obama wants North Carolina in his win column again next year, he might have to count on Elliott Johnson's quiet, even grudging, acceptance rather than the riotous enthusiasm that propelled him to the White House in 2008.
Johnson, a 23-year-old college graduate with a new accounting degree in hand, is an intern at a commercial real estate firm. He would like something more permanent. But many of his college friends aren't finding work, either, and he's counting on a breakthrough in the economy.
"We have to do something different," he said, pausing at a downtown street corner on a sweltering afternoon.
Johnson supported libertarian-leaning Republican Ron Paul, a Texas congressman, for president in 2008, but he's now open to giving Obama a try.
"I feel like there's better out there, but, honestly, I'm not seeing the better right now," he said. "So he may be the best we have."
For the president, struggling against 9.1 percent unemployment and a sluggish economic recovery, that might be as good as it gets these days.
Nationally, his approval ratings hover around or just below 50 percent. But public opinion surveys find that a large majority disapproves of his handling of the economy and even more believe the economy is in a rut. That means the economy will be a dominant factor in determining how many people vote for president next year.