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To: koan who wrote (24617)	8/23/2012 1:23:45 PM
From: gamesmistress	1 Recommendation Respond to of 85487

It's a Planned Parenthood poll. Not exactly non-partisan. And when you have statements phrased like this, no wonder: Among the most damaging aspects of Romney’s record is his support for overturning Roe v. Wade, his pledge to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood’s preventive health services, and his taking away affordable health care for women in favor or bigger tax breaks for millionaires. When told that Romney opposes Roe v. Wade and is on the record saying, “the right next step is for the Supreme Court to overturn” the decision, nearly three in five (59%) battleground women say this gives them very major doubts about Romney, including 66% of women who are undecided in the initial trial heat (making this the leading concern about Romney among undecided women). Further, Romney’s repeated pledge to eliminate all funding for Planned Parenthood also is a source of criticism, with 57% of all battleground women and 61% of undecided voters saying this gives them very major doubts about Romney. On an array of other issues—from taking away affordable health care for women to his support for the provisions of the Blunt Amendment that would allow employers to deny women coverage for specific medical services to his veto (as Massachusetts governor) of funding for cervical and breast cancer screenings—more than half of all battleground women say Romney’s record gives them major doubts. My favorite part of the article was this: Planned Parenthood Action Fund President Cecile Richards said, “It comes as no surprise that the more women learn about Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s record and positions on women’s health, the more appalled they are. Politics has no place in a woman’s personal medical decisions. Women voters believe that, and in November their votes will reflect it.” BWAHAHA! When the government pays the bills, government tells you what to do.

To: koan who wrote (24617)	8/23/2012 1:29:47 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

from your link "A private poll commissioned by Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the political arm of PP," lololol a poll paid for buy plan parent hood,lolololol you have got to be kidding me. lolol and you posted it . lolol made up numbers. hey if the poll went the other way would plan parenthood have revealed it ?

To: koan who wrote (24617)	8/23/2012 1:40:53 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Democrat National Convention Shaping Up as Unprecedented Celebration of Infanticide(it's like Germany in 1932 all over again) With an eye on Rep. Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" comments and the GOP's mad dash away from the sinking Missouri Senate candidate, the Democrats are turning their upcoming presidential convention into a pro-choice assault on the Republicans with the help of major abortion supporters. Just as the Akin crisis was reaching a crescendo, the Democrats on Wednesday announced that three starlets of the pro-choice movement will be featured at the convention, an event that will now drive the liberal charge that the Republicans are anti-women. Democrats said that they will feature Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parent Action Fund, Nancy Keenan, president of the NARAL Pro-Choice America and Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University student whose plea for federal birth control funding drew the ire--and a subsequent apology--from Rush Limbaugh. What's more, the Democrats are expanding their list of women ready to assail the GOP on women's issue, adding Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski and actress Eva Longoria to the list that already includes Sen. John Kerry and Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren. Democrats led by party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz believe that the Akin controversy--and his refusal to leave the Missouri Senate race--has revived their chances of winning a majority of women in the presidential race, key to re-electing President Obama. On Wednesday, for example, the party turned their homepage over to the affair with the headline: "The GOP is dangerously wrong for women." And with a devilish move, they included pictures of Mitt Romney, running mate Paul Ryan and Akin. "Romney, Ryan, Akin and the GOP want to take women back to the dark ages," the Democrats add. Wow! That's apocalyptic. Let's capitalize that: "THE DARK AGES!" The infant-killers ought to get major distraction mileage out of that. Whoo! Bring it on, I say. Let's get the Democrat abortion extremism out in to the open.

To: koan who wrote (24617)	8/24/2012 2:07:12 AM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Tasty - reproductive health - WTF is that - an abortion or free birth control - are women so stupid they can be bought off by a lazy democrat president attempting to buy their vote? I don't think so - American women are smarter than that.

To: koan who wrote (24617)	8/24/2012 2:49:55 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 85487

"A symptom of the tribal mentality’s self-arrested, perceptual level of development may be observed in the tribalists’ position on language. Language is a conceptual tool—a code of visual-auditory symbols that denote concepts. To a person who understands the function of language, it makes no difference what sounds are chosen to name things, provided these sounds refer to clearly defined aspects of reality. But to a tribalist, language is a mystic heritage, a string of sounds handed down from his ancestors and memorized, not understood. To him, the importance lies in the perceptual concrete, the soundof a word, not its meaning. He would kill and die for the privilege of printing on every postage stamp the word “postage” for the English-speaking and the word“postes” for the French-speaking citizens of his bilingual Canada. Since most of the ethnic languages are not full languages, but merely dialects or local corruptions of a country’s language, the distinctions which the tribalists fight for are not even as big as that. But, of course, it is not for their language that the tribalists are fighting: they are fighting to protect their level of awareness, their mental passivity, their obedience to the tribe, and their desire to ignore the existence of outsiders." Ayn Rand

To: koan who wrote (24617)	8/24/2012 2:50:26 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 85487

"What are the nature and the causes of modern tribalism? Philosophically, tribalism is the product of irrationalism and collectivism. It is a logical consequence of modern philosophy. If men accept the notion that reason is not valid, what is to guide them and how are they to live? Obviously, they will seek to join some group—any group—which claims the ability to lead them and to provide some sort of knowledge acquired by some sort of unspecified means. If men accept the notion that the individual is helpless, intellectually and morally, that he has no mind and no rights, that he is nothing, but the group is all, and his only moral significance lies in selfless service to the group—they will be pulled obediently to join a group. But which group? Well, if you believe that you have no mind and no moral value, you cannot have the confidence to make choices—so the only thing for you to do is to join an unchosen group, the group into which you were born, the group to which you were predestined to belong by the sovereign, omnipotent, omniscient power of your body chemistry. This, of course, is racism. But if your group is small enough, it will not be called “racism”: it will be called “ethnicity.”" Ayn Rand

To: koan who wrote (24617)	8/24/2012 2:51:11 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 85487

"Tribalism (which is the best name to give to all the group manifestations of the anti-conceptual mentality) is a dominant element in Europe, as a reciprocally reinforcing cause and result of Europe’s long history of caste systems, of national and local (provincial) chauvinism, of rule by brute force and endless, bloody wars. As an example, observe the Balkan nations, which are perennially bent upon exterminating one another over minuscule differences of tradition or language. Tribalism had no place in the United States—until recent decades. It could not take root here, its imported seedlings were withering away and turning to slag in the melting pot whose fire was fed by two inexhaustible sources of energy: individual rights and objective law; these two were the only protection man needed." Ayn Rand