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January 15, 2013
More (plus explanation for Colbert's suit) here:
http://underthemountainbunker.com/2013/01/15/stephen-colbert-on-guns-and-james-yeager-gifs/
MLK/Jesus on guns
More (plus explanation for Colbert's suit) here:
http://underthemountainbunker.com/2013/01/15/stephen-colbert-on-guns-and-james-yeager-gifs/
January 15, 2013
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/15/1450981/new-york-lawmaker-there-will-be-more-than-7-bullets-in-the-magazine-of-my-wifes-firearm/
New York Lawmaker: ‘There Will Be More Than 7 Bullets In My Wife’s Firearm!’
KATZ: After what happened to the young mother in Loganville, Georgia who defended her two young children against an intruder, this bill would turn me into a criminal because you can bet that before I leave to do the people’s work, there will be more than 7 bullets in the magazine of my wife’s firearm.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/15/1450981/new-york-lawmaker-there-will-be-more-than-7-bullets-in-the-magazine-of-my-wifes-firearm/
January 15, 2013
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/01/rage_bait.php?ref=fpblg
RAGE BAIT-The 'Scots-Irishization' of Lower-Income White Men With Guns-As A Prism Of The Gender Wars
JOSH MARSHALL JANUARY 15, 2013, 8:57 AM 8304
This email from TPM Reader JS over-simplifies a lot and doesn’t cover a lot of people. There are obviously plenty of female gun aficionados, though it’s obviously an overwhelmingly male scene. It’s a ‘complicated issue’ as we all say about pretty much every issue. But when I read it I could not help think, ‘Yeah, you’re definitely on to something.’
I view gun control from the prism of the gender wars. It’s a last-gasp attempt by lower-income men to hold onto some shred of self-respect: at least a capacity for autonomous violence, if they are left with nothing else. And they are being left with nothing else, since the job market is increasingly feminized on all but the highest levels, most remaining male-gendered work (except uniformed public service) is increasingly losing income and status, and patriarchy is no longer a particularly strong legal or cultural norm. This is responsible for many things: almost all bad. I call it the Scots-Irishization of lower-income white men.
The politics of this are miserable, at least in the short and medium terms. In a democracy rife with veto points, a passionate small group will preserve the status quo every time. About the only exception to this (and the only small ray of hope) was the civil rights movement of 1915-67. But that’s fifty years, folks. And that movement at least had the advantage of extreme sectionalism: there were no passionate segregationists outside the South.
I despair of rational gun control until some progress is made with this situation. And I only see it getting worse.
The politics of this are miserable, at least in the short and medium terms. In a democracy rife with veto points, a passionate small group will preserve the status quo every time. About the only exception to this (and the only small ray of hope) was the civil rights movement of 1915-67. But that’s fifty years, folks. And that movement at least had the advantage of extreme sectionalism: there were no passionate segregationists outside the South.
I despair of rational gun control until some progress is made with this situation. And I only see it getting worse.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/01/rage_bait.php?ref=fpblg
January 15, 2013
JAN 15 2013, 9:00 AM ET 2
The children's author drew more than 400 fantastical political cartoons in the early years of World War II.
MORE:
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/01/when-dr-seuss-took-on-adolf-hitler/267151/#slide1
Dr. Seuss: “This mess is so big & so deep & so tall-We cannot pick it up-There is no way at all!”
When Dr. Seuss Took on Adolf HitlerJAN 15 2013, 9:00 AM ET 2
The children's author drew more than 400 fantastical political cartoons in the early years of World War II.
MORE:
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/01/when-dr-seuss-took-on-adolf-hitler/267151/#slide1
January 15, 2013
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/15/this_man_helped_save_six_children_is_now_getting_harassed_for_it/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/15/1179111/-Sandy-Hook-Truthers-Harrassing-Man-Who-Protected-Children
Sandy Hook "Truthers" Harrassing Man Who Protected Children
...the extreme right cannot deal with reality so they invent a new one and start harrassing decent people.
TUESDAY, JAN 15, 2013 04:45 AM PST
This man helped save six children, is now getting harassed for it
Gene Rosen sheltered six kids during the Sandy Hook massacre. Now he's become a target of conspiracy theorists
“I don’t know what to do,” sighed Gene Rosen. “I’m getting hang up calls, I’m getting some calls, I’m getting emails with, not direct threats, but accusations that I’m lying, that I’m a crisis actor, ‘how much am I being paid’?” Someone posted a photo of his house online. There have been phony Google+ and YouTube accounts created in his name, messages on white supremacist message boards ridiculing the “emotional Jewish guy,” and dozens of blog posts and videos “exposing” him as a fraud. One email purporting to be a business inquiry taunted: “How are all those little students doing? You know, the ones that showed up at your house after the ‘shooting’. What is the going rate for getting involved in a gov’t sponsored hoax anyway?”
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What did Rosen do to deserve this? One month ago, he found six little children and a bus driver at the end of the driveway of his home in Newtown, Connecticut. “We can’t go back to school,” one little boy told Rosen. “Our teacher is dead.” He brought them inside and gave them food and juice and toys. He called their parents. He sat with them and listened to their shocked accounts of what had happened just down the street inside Sandy Hook Elementary, close enough that Rosen heard the gunshots.
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What did Rosen do to deserve this? One month ago, he found six little children and a bus driver at the end of the driveway of his home in Newtown, Connecticut. “We can’t go back to school,” one little boy told Rosen. “Our teacher is dead.” He brought them inside and gave them food and juice and toys. He called their parents. He sat with them and listened to their shocked accounts of what had happened just down the street inside Sandy Hook Elementary, close enough that Rosen heard the gunshots.
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/15/this_man_helped_save_six_children_is_now_getting_harassed_for_it/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/15/1179111/-Sandy-Hook-Truthers-Harrassing-Man-Who-Protected-Children
January 15, 2013
Ann Coulter is insisting that guns don’t kill people, NON-white people kill people.
Ann Coulter is insisting that guns don’t kill people, non-white people kill people.
The conservative columnist on Monday told Fox News host Sean Hannity that the country had a “demographic problem” because “white populations” in the U.S. and Belgium had the same low murder rate.
“As you know, I just got back from England,” Coulter explained. “On the gun crimes, we keep hearing how low they are in Europe and, ‘Oh, they’re so low and they have no guns.’ If you compare white populations, we have the same murder rate as Belgium.”
“So, perhaps, it’s not a gun problem, it is a demographic problem, which liberals are the one are pushing, pushing, pushing, ‘Let’s add more African-American mass murderer Colin Fergusons and more whoever the Muslim guy was who shot up Fort Hood.’ Why are they coming in to begin with?”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/15/coulter-not-a-gun-problem-u-s-has-demographic-problem-with-non-whites/
January 15, 2013
Study cites misinterpretation of Roe v Wade in array of cases where women were denied rights based on pregnancy status
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In the first study of its kind, to be published on Tuesday, researchers from the National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) identified 413 criminal and civil cases across 44 states involving the arrests, detentions and equivalent deprivations of pregnant women's liberty between 1973 and 2005. NAWP said that it is aware of a further 250 cases since 2005. Both figures are likely to be underestimates, it said.
The report, which will appear in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, found that women were denied a wide range of basic human rights, including the right to life, liberty, equal protection and due process of law "based solely on their pregnancy status".
It found a wide range of cases in which pregnant women were arrested and detained not only if they ended a pregnancy or expressed an intention to end a pregnancy, but also after suffering unintentional pregnancy loss.
The cases of detention and forced medical intervention varied widely and included one in which a judge in Ohio kept a woman imprisoned to prevent her having an abortion.
................
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/15/criminalisation-pregnancy-women-study
"First Of Its Kind"-Study finds widespread 'criminalisation of pregnancy' in US institutions
Study finds widespread 'criminalisation of pregnancy' in US institutionsStudy cites misinterpretation of Roe v Wade in array of cases where women were denied rights based on pregnancy status
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In the first study of its kind, to be published on Tuesday, researchers from the National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) identified 413 criminal and civil cases across 44 states involving the arrests, detentions and equivalent deprivations of pregnant women's liberty between 1973 and 2005. NAWP said that it is aware of a further 250 cases since 2005. Both figures are likely to be underestimates, it said.
The report, which will appear in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, found that women were denied a wide range of basic human rights, including the right to life, liberty, equal protection and due process of law "based solely on their pregnancy status".
It found a wide range of cases in which pregnant women were arrested and detained not only if they ended a pregnancy or expressed an intention to end a pregnancy, but also after suffering unintentional pregnancy loss.
The cases of detention and forced medical intervention varied widely and included one in which a judge in Ohio kept a woman imprisoned to prevent her having an abortion.
................
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/15/criminalisation-pregnancy-women-study
January 15, 2013
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Jamie Lynn Russell: One Pregnant Woman's Tragic Death Reveals the Human Cost of Devaluing Women
by Farah Diaz-Tello, National Advocates for Pregnant Women
January 14, 2013 - 9:34am
..........
Jamie Lynn Russell was 33 years old when she went to an emergency room in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma in such debilitating pain that she was unable to move. Because her excruciating pain prevented her from lying down for an examination, hospital staff labeled her "noncompliant," and called the police. The police discovered that she had two pain pills that weren't hers. Still in pain, she was released by the hospital as "fit to incarcerate," arrested for drug possession, and taken to jail, where she died two hours later from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy.
Two pain pills.
Much of the initial response to the case centered around the actions of the hospital, which likely amount to malpractice. But we must avoid making the mistake that the hospital did: looking at individual actions when they are merely symptoms of deeper, deadlier problems.
Jamie's needless death shows us where our priorities lie, misplaced: chasing down minor drug offenders in service of a failed war on drugs is more important that human life and dignity; women's health is not taken seriously and "noncompliance" is cause for punishment.
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/08/11/refusingcsection-child-abuse
The tragedy of her death once again disproves the myth that women never need abortions and that "modern technology and science" have eliminated maternal mortality.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/10/19/163239925/life-of-the-mother-never-a-reason-for-abortion-congressman-says
.................
the rest:
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/01/11/dehumanizing-pregnant-women-leads-to-real-loss-life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/15/criminalisation-pregnancy-women-study
Two pain pills.
Troubling number of women denied constitutional rights based on pregnancy
In the first study of its kind, to be published on Tuesday, researchers from the National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) identified 413 criminal and civil cases across 44 states involving the arrests, detentions and equivalent deprivations of pregnant women’s liberty between 1973 and 2005. NAWP said that it is aware of a further 250 cases since 2005. Both figures are likely to be underestimates, it said.
The report, which will appear in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, found that women were denied a wide range of basic human rights, including the right to life, liberty, equal protection and due process of law “based solely on their pregnancy status”.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/14/troubling-number-of-women-denied-constitutional-rights-due-to-pregnancy/
In the first study of its kind, to be published on Tuesday, researchers from the National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) identified 413 criminal and civil cases across 44 states involving the arrests, detentions and equivalent deprivations of pregnant women’s liberty between 1973 and 2005. NAWP said that it is aware of a further 250 cases since 2005. Both figures are likely to be underestimates, it said.
The report, which will appear in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, found that women were denied a wide range of basic human rights, including the right to life, liberty, equal protection and due process of law “based solely on their pregnancy status”.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/14/troubling-number-of-women-denied-constitutional-rights-due-to-pregnancy/
***********************
Jamie Lynn Russell: One Pregnant Woman's Tragic Death Reveals the Human Cost of Devaluing Women
by Farah Diaz-Tello, National Advocates for Pregnant Women
January 14, 2013 - 9:34am
..........
Jamie Lynn Russell was 33 years old when she went to an emergency room in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma in such debilitating pain that she was unable to move. Because her excruciating pain prevented her from lying down for an examination, hospital staff labeled her "noncompliant," and called the police. The police discovered that she had two pain pills that weren't hers. Still in pain, she was released by the hospital as "fit to incarcerate," arrested for drug possession, and taken to jail, where she died two hours later from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy.
Two pain pills.
Much of the initial response to the case centered around the actions of the hospital, which likely amount to malpractice. But we must avoid making the mistake that the hospital did: looking at individual actions when they are merely symptoms of deeper, deadlier problems.
Jamie's needless death shows us where our priorities lie, misplaced: chasing down minor drug offenders in service of a failed war on drugs is more important that human life and dignity; women's health is not taken seriously and "noncompliance" is cause for punishment.
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/08/11/refusingcsection-child-abuse
The tragedy of her death once again disproves the myth that women never need abortions and that "modern technology and science" have eliminated maternal mortality.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/10/19/163239925/life-of-the-mother-never-a-reason-for-abortion-congressman-says
.................
the rest:
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/01/11/dehumanizing-pregnant-women-leads-to-real-loss-life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/15/criminalisation-pregnancy-women-study
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