The Insane Rationalizations, Bigotry And Hypocrisy Of The Right

[Paul G.]

Well the right to an abortion as _not_ written in the bill of rights isn't incorporated against the states is it?

 

And if the right to privacy is the angle for how/why abortion SHOULD be a right, then there must be an application of that same right to privacy to one's property and tools for defending one's life.

 

Generally speaking, I can see an easy angle for a right of self determination argument involved with the abortion argument. That relates to one's right to one's life. That's where ALL of our rights originate and why an object doesn't haver rights but why people DO. RKBA relates to self defense of that life both individually AND collectively.

 

If you deny the right to defend that right but allow some smaller right to what goes on in one's uterus, but only in that context, it seems like a rather gap filled view of rights.

 

Both are about access to tools to exercise those rights.

The right to personal self defense and the right for a woman to chose to have an abortion prior to the fetus becoming a protected Person is the same. The sovereignty of the individual.

 

The 2nd Amendment goes well above and beyond the personal right of self defense, however, and was designed to provide for the Security of a free state.

 

For example. You have the right to defend yourself with an illegally possessed firearm. The legality of the weapon has no bearing on the legality of the act of using it. You can be found not guilty on grounds of self defense, but be charged with having an illegal gun.

[Jeff]

This entire abortion thing, look, there's a simple solution. It has now been deemed that a man, or a woman, can declare themselves to be of the opposite gender. This has become so pervasive that men, who have declared themselves to be female, regularly compete athletically as if they were a woman, and it is accepted as a biological fact. The solution is for women, who don't want to become pregnant, to declare themselves men. Then biologically speaking they'll be just as male as all the rest of the men in the world.

 

How can feminists tell men they have no say in the abortion issue but then claim that gender is a social construct that can be changed at will?

[Paul G.]

 

 

This entire abortion thing, look, there's a simple solution. It has now been deemed that a man, or a woman, can declare themselves to be of the opposite gender. This has become so pervasive that men, who have declared themselves to be female, regularly compete athletically as if they were a woman, and it is accepted as a biological fact. The solution is for women, who don't want to become pregnant, to declare themselves men. Then biologically speaking they'll be just as male as all the rest of the men in the world.

How can feminists tell men they have no say in the abortion issue but then claim that gender is a social construct that can be changed at will?

Regardless of what feminists say men have always had significant sway over the abortion issue.

 

And gender as a social construct is not a feminist cause.

[shep854]

https://www.liveaction.org/news/debunking-9-myths-alabama-abortion-law/?fbclid=IwAR0KT6NaljzZcZGTSnAsSJX4CSQOYuaHDng-39rzX9flFlZZTZmn0igLMPw

ANALYSIS Debunking 9 myths surrounding Alabamas abortion law

[Paul G.]

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/maeve-sheehan-horrific-rape-of-young-girl-lies-at-the-heart-of-x-case-28957795.html

 

a child, she was known as Miss X, raped by her parents' friend, pregnant, suicidal and trapped in a month-long nightmare as the State attempted to stop her from travelling abroad for an abortion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/27/world/europe/savita-halappanavar-ireland-abortion.html

 

Dr. Halappanavars death in 2012 at age 31 from septicemia an infection she contracted after she was denied an abortion during a miscarriage set off outrage across the country and gave momentum to a growing call for change.

Ireland had to learn the hard way.

[Murph]

 

Abortion should be a states issue, and the Federal government should butt out. 10th Amendment should rule here. Pro or Con, it should be up to the states, not some black robed idiot.

 

Under the "I miss Scalia's opinions" heading:

 

 

I miss him too, he brought logic and clarity to the Court.

[shep854]

One death is a tragedy; a million deaths are a statistic.

[Mr King]

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[Paul G.]

I'm not convinced this guy deserves the "coward' label. It is a narrative critical to those who go by "good guy with a gun" solution to gun violence.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/us/scot-peterson-parkland-shooting.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

 

Peterson gives a solid accounting of the confusion of that day, and claims fear was never a factor. I believe him. You have to understand the situation before you can shut shutdown from fear. The fact that we rely on 100% situational awareness for something that our mind tells us in unlikely to happen is completely unreasonable. Unless you are in the room where it is taking place, there is a fog of uncertainty over a situation like a school shooting. This guy is perhaps a scapegoat based on 20/20 hindsight, and mistaken assumptions.

[Panzermann]

Scapegoat after the fact is always easy. In the situation there is the infamous fog of war.

 

 

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in other news a few fanatic evangelicals want to make Netflix take down the TV series Good Omens ​

https://twitter.com/BloggingStaten/status/1141392463422205952

 

Neil Gaiman (author of the novel and the series) wants to keep the petition up:

https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1141392915077521408

 

 

 

 

 

fun fact:

 

Good Omens runs on Amazon Prime

 

 

 

[Paul G.]

Arm teachers.

 

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2019/07/74-year-old-substitute-teacher-convicted-in-discharge-of-gun-in-1st-grade-blount-county-classroom.html?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true

 

A 74-year-old former substitute teacher whose gun discharged in a first-grade classroom earlier this year has been convicted of several misdemeanor crimes.

 

Henry Rex Weaver was convicted Monday of possession of a firearm in a prohibited place, reckless endangerment, and third-degree assault.

 

The incident happened March 22 at Blountsville Elementary School. One student was struck by a fragment and checked out by the school nurse.

[Paul G.]

A fraternity at Ole Miss has suspended 3 members who posed with guns in front of a bullet-riddled Emmett Till memorial. Emmett, who was 14 when he was killed in 1955, would have turned 78 on Thursday. https://t.co/jOKvxUb6J5

[Stargrunt6]

A fraternity at Ole Miss has suspended 3 members who posed with guns in front of a bullet-riddled Emmett Till memorial. Emmett, who was 14 when he was killed in 1955, would have turned 78 on Thursday. https://t.co/jOKvxUb6J5

As they should be. Ole Miss has been making the right moves in regards to its ties with the Confederacy/lost cause monuments and such.

[JWB]

Tennessee Grindr trawling.

https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pith-in-the-wind/article/21079586/family-values-lawmaker-resigns-ahead-of-report-on-gay-hookups

[Ivanhoe]

 

If true, this is rather stomach-turning;

 

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-obtains-irs-documents-revealing-mccains-subcommittee-staff-director-urged-irs-to-engage-in-financially-ruinous-targeting/

 

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released newly obtained internal IRS documents, including material revealing that Sen. John McCain’s former staff director and chief counsel on the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee, Henry Kerner, urged top IRS officials, including then-director of exempt organizations Lois Lerner, to “audit so many that it becomes financially ruinous.” Kerner was appointed by President Trump as Special Counsel for the United States Office of Special Counsel.

 

The explosive exchange was contained in notes taken by IRS employees at an April 30, 2013, meeting between Kerner, Lerner, and other high-ranking IRS officials. Just ten days following the meeting, former IRS director of exempt organizations Lois Lerner admitted that the IRS had a policy of improperly and deliberately delaying applications for tax-exempt status from conservative non-profit groups.

 

Lerner and other IRS officials met with select top staffers from the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee in a “marathon” meeting to discuss concerns raised by both Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) that the IRS was not reining in political advocacy groups in response to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Senator McCain had been the chief sponsor of the McCain-Feingold Act and called the Citizens United decision, which overturned portions of the Act, one of the “worst decisions I have ever seen.”

 

 

[Jeff]

The hero McCain once again.

[EchoFiveMike]

He's not even so much as a cuckservative, the GOPussies who didn't resist him are cucks, he was a active traitor. Trump should give a posthumous medal to his tumor. S/F...Ken M

[JWB]

Defeated GOP governor pardoned violent criminals in a spree lawyers are calling an ‘atrocity of justice’

 

Matt Bevin is no longer the governor of Kentucky, but his decisions continued to send shock waves through the state’s legal system this week after he issued pardons for hundreds of people, some of whom committed violent offenses.

Bevin issued 428 pardons since his defeat to Democrat Andy Beshear in a close election in November, the Louisville Courier Journal reported. His list includes a man convicted of reckless homicide, a convicted child rapist, a man who murdered his parents at age 16 and a woman who threw her newborn in the trash after giving birth in a flea market outhouse.

He also pardoned Dayton Jones, who was convicted in the sexual assault of a 15-year-old boy at a party, Kentucky New Era reported.

It is not unusual for governors to issue pardons as they leave office, but Bevin’s actions boggled some of the state’s attorneys, who questioned his judgment. “What this governor did is an absolute atrocity of justice,” said Commonwealth Attorney Jackie Steele, a prosecutor for Knox and Laurel counties. “He’s put victims, he’s put others in our community in danger.”

“I’m a big believer in second chances,” Bevin said in a message left with The Washington Post on Thursday afternoon. “I think this is a nation that was founded on the concept of redemption and second chances and new pages in life.”

“If there has been a change and there’s no further value that comes for the individual, for society, for the victims, for anybody, if a person continues to stay in,” Bevin said, “then that’s when somebody should be considered for a commutation or a pardon.”

One lawyer said the victims of the pardoned criminals received no warning. Instead, Eddy Montgomery found out through news reports and rushed to inform families before they were blindsided.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/12/defeated-gop-governor-pardoned-violent-criminals-spree-lawyers-are-calling-an-atrocity-justice/

[MiloMorai]

Sounds like Bevin is a sore looser.

[Skywalkre]

Four Senators, 3 x R and 1 x D (hence why I threw it in this thread), sold off stocks after receiving a Senate briefing on the virus and before the market started to crash. Some are claiming said actions were outside their control. Regardless, it needs to be investigated.

 

 

Four senators sold stocks before coronavirus threat crashed market

 

Four senators sold stocks shortly after a January Senate briefing on the novel coronavirus outbreak, unloading shares that plummeted in value a month later as the stock market crashed in the face of a global pandemic.

 

According to financial disclosures, Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.) each sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in stocks within days of the Senate holding a classified briefing on Jan. 24 with administration officials on the threat of the coronavirus outbreak.

 

The sales raise questions about whether the senators violated the STOCK Act, a law that bans members of Congress from making financial trades based on nonpublic information.

 

Loeffler and her husband, who is the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, sold at least $355,000 in stocks between Jan. 24 and 31, according to Senate records, after the coronavirus briefing hosted by the Senate Health and Foreign Relations committees.

 

The senator and her husband also sold $890,000 in stocks from Feb. 5 to 14, days after the first confirmed coronavirus cases emerged in the U.S. but nearly two weeks before community spread of the disease was confirmed within the country.

 

The sales, worth at least $1.2 million together, saved Loeffler and her husband from steep losses they would have taken after the stock market’s crash began Feb. 24.

 

Loeffler said in a pair of early Friday tweets that she doesn’t control her and her husband’s financial assets and was informed of the sales on February 16.

 

This is a ridiculous and baseless attack. I do not make investment decisions for my portfolio. Investment decisions are made by multiple third-party advisors without my or my husband's knowledge or involvement.

— Senator Kelly Loeffler (@SenatorLoeffler) March 20, 2020

 

Loeffler was among several Republican senators who tamped down concerns about the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus outbreak while selling stocks that soon plunged within weeks of the disease spreading within the U.S.

 

Inhofe sold at least $180,000 in stocks on Jan. 27, days after the Senate’s coronavirus briefing, according to Senate records. Inhofe also sold at least $50,000 in stock in an asset management company on Feb. 20, days before the stock market crashed.

 

A spokeswoman for Inhofe did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 

Inhofe’s sale came roughly a week after Burr sold on Feb. 13 between $628,000 and $1.72 million in stock while receiving classified briefings on coronavirus as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

 

“Senator Burr filed a financial disclosure form for personal transactions made several weeks before the U.S. and financial markets showed signs of volatility due to the growing coronavirus outbreak,” a spokesperson for Burr told ProPublica regarding the stock sales.

 

Selling stocks before the market shows signs of falling would likely save an investor from losses.

 

“As the situation continues to evolve daily, he has been deeply concerned by the steep and sudden toll this pandemic is taking on our economy.”

 

Burr has come under further scrutiny after NPR reported Friday that the senator compared the coronavirus outbreak to the 1918 influenza pandemic during a Feb. 27 luncheon in Washington, D.C.

 

Trump and some Republicans lawmakers have faced intense criticism for playing down the threat of the novel coronavirus, which has infected more than 14,000 Americans and claimed at least 205 deaths as of Friday morning, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

 

At least one Democratic senator also unloaded stock before the scale of the crisis became clear to the general public.

 

Feinstein, one the longest-tenured Senate Democrats, sold at least $500,000 in shares of Allogene Therapeutics, a California biotechnology company, on Jan. 31 and at least $1 million in Allogene stock on Feb. 18, according to Senate records.

 

A spokesman for Feinstein told The New York Times that she had nothing to do with the decisions to sell her stocks.

 

“All of Senator Feinstein’s assets are in a blind trust,” a spokesman, Tom Mentzer, said in a statement. “She has no involvement in her husband’s financial decisions.”

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/488593-four-senators-sold-stocks-before-coronavirus-threat-crashed-market

[Murph]

Prison for them. They need to resign. But DiFi will not since crime is a Democrat entitlement.

[GregShaw]

Congress critters trading on insider information, stop the presses. For all the crap the Dems spew at the Trump family, congress is worse at the law doesn't apply to them.

[Jeff]

Congress is specifically exempt from insider trading laws from what I understand, go figure. If we keep seeing justice denied, people are going to give up on it and start storming the bastille.

[Skywalkre]

There was a law passed back in '12, the STOCK Act, which apparently addressed that loophole. Whether or not it applies in these instances I'm not sure about but that's why it needs to be investigated.

[GregShaw]

Congress is specifically exempt from insider trading laws from what I understand, go figure. If we keep seeing justice denied, people are going to give up on it and start storming the bastille.

Yeah, they made themselves exempt, pretty convenient. They're all crooks, throw them all out.