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Political Stuff That Just Ain't Thread Worthy - Part VI
Actually, I do see a lot of Obama in that Satan actor. Has the same shaped face.
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Sestito still on the make a wish tour. - rholt168
I'm not surprised. MSNBC's lineup from about noon until 11 PM is nothing but opinion shows like Hardball, Al Sharpton (!), that Ed guy (whoever he's supposed to be), Maddow, and others. They have a small window between Joe Scarborough's farce and the opinion shows in the morning where it's more like a general 24 hour news broadcast, but even then they pepper it with opinion segments.
It's sad, too, because from the network's inception until '07 or so it was pretty good. Sure, there was Olberman and Abrams, but it was mostly just a 24 hour NBC news channel.
Who ever is in charge now is determined to out FOX FOX on the opposite side of the aisle, which is just dumb. It leaves us with CNN, which is incredibly tone deaf.
Gallup conducted a current affairs poll to see how favorably/unfavorably Americans viewed other countries.
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PRINCETON, NJ -- Nearly nine in 10 Americans have an unfavorable view of Iran, making it the worst rated country out of 22 asked about. Seven other countries -- Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Pakistan, and North Korea -- also receive unfavorable ratings of 70% or more. Eighty percent or more of Americans have favorable images of Canada, Great Britain, Germany, and Japan.
The Westboro Baptist Church is about to get a big surprise in the form of a new neighbor who plans to give the notoriously anti-gay group a taste of its own medicine.
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Aaron Jackson, one of the founders of Planting Peace, a multi-pronged charity that has in the past concentrated on rainforest conservation, opening orphanages and deworming programs, bought a house that sits directly across from the church's compound six months ago. On Tuesday, March 19, he and a team of volunteers are painting it to match the gay pride flag.
I guess if you consider lies facts as long as you call it news this would mean something.
You see opinions can be true. The fact they have opinion shows discussing facts isn't really the issue IMO. The facts are that Fox News viewers believe more crap that ain't true because they hear it as fact on Fox and that is a bigger problem than a news network that has a lot of opinion shows.
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I guess if you consider lies facts as long as you call it news this would mean something.
You see opinions can be true. The fact they have opinion shows discussing facts isn't really the issue IMO. The facts are that Fox News viewers believe more crap that ain't true because they hear it as fact on Fox and that is a bigger problem than a news network that has a lot of opinion shows.
Baseless rhetorical statements like the one you posted are not facts.
This paper analyses the behaviour of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data on a panel of more than 16,000 European consumers, we estimate the effects of illegal downloading and legal streaming on the legal purchases of digital music. Our results suggest that Internet users do not view illegal downloading as a substitute for legal digital music.
North Dakota lawmakers voted on Friday afternoon to pass a “personhood” abortion ban, which would endow fertilized eggs with all the rights of U.S. citizens and effectively outlaw abortion. The measure, which passed the Senate last month, passed the House by a 57-35 vote and now heads to a ballot vote, likely in the next November election.
A personhood ban could have far-reaching consequences even beyond abortion care, since it will charge doctors who damage embryos with criminal negligence. Doctors in the state say it will also prevent them from performing in vitro fertilization, and some medical professionals have vowed to leave the state if it is signed into law.
Personhood measures are so extreme that some pro-life Republicans in the state have come out against them, planning to join a pro-choice rally in the state capital on Monday to oppose the far-right abortion restriction. “We have stepped over the line,” Republican state Rep. Kathy Hawken (R-Fargo) said of the recent push to pass personhood. “North Dakota hasn’t even passed a primary seatbelt law, but we have the most invasive attack on women’s health anywhere.”
Personhood advocates have pushed their agenda in states throughout the country over the past several years, but their measures have so far been unable to advance. Anti-choice lawmakers in North Dakota, who have already pushed through a stringent six-week abortion ban, were actually considering two different types of personhood legislation — one to immediately amend the state’s constitution to redefine life as beginning at conception, and one to put a personhood amendment on the ballot. The House voted down the first and passed the second.
Uhh, good luck with that. What a waste of taxpayer money.
So the taxpayers would have to fund police investigations into miscarriages to make sure they weren't homicides? Because that's the only logical conclusion of personhood.
Won't there be random tax implications because of this as well? Claiming more dependents on tax returns and such. As well as effecting census info. This is dumb on many levels.
