One more reason to never go to the Daoktas...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/15/944939/-South-Dakota-moves-to-legalize-killing-abortion-providers

Am I reading the Twitter right? Did Esperanza Spalding kill Justin Bieber in an arcade fire? So sad.

Betty F*ckin' White

Encouraging

At CPAC, white supremacist Jamie Kelso tried to spread his brand of scientific racism. These fine young conservatives weren't having any of it. They weren't making any the arguments I would have made, but it's still encouraging to see people on the right who are cool with making more me's.

This kid once gave me a CD, told me he was the next Justin Bieber, I took the CD and frisbee'd the fuck out of it.

-Mos Def

bring it, pelosi!

from this article in the post:

Pelosi -- who promised a huge fight against House Republicans over the issue in the days ahead -- didn't hold back one bit, claiming the new legislative push by Republicans "disrespects the judgment of American women."

"I don't know if they ever give that a thought," she added.

Pelosi described the GOP push as the "most radical assault" on women's reproductive rights "in our lifetimes." And she was equally blunt in her assessment of right-wing assaults on family planning.

"They are at a different philosophical place," she said, characterizing their view as: "all engagement has to result in a child." Pelosi noted that contraception and family planning is "not consistent with their belief that it's all about procreation."

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Pelosi acknowledged that Dems could not stop Republicans from passing their anti-abortion agenda through the House. But she said it was crucial that pro-choice forces and Dems kick up enough noise to ensure that it dies in the Senate: "We have to make this issue too hot to handle."

Pelosi added that the unreconcilable philosophical differences between Republicans and Dems on abortion left Dems no choice but to adopt a scorched-earth approach to the war ahead. "We don't have a set of shared values," she said. "We have to fight this out in the public domain, so when we move to the Senate it has no popular support."

(side note: i'm pretty sure its irreconcilable...but i'm also pretty sure that neither the post nor tbd proof read any of their articles)

Are you Dr. Robotnik?

(via Wonkette)

denim chicken?

and this, friends, is why there is no room for compromise....

...because we aren't even having the same fucking conversation.
two separate quotes from the same article:

"We're not going to stand by and watch while reproductive rights are threatened and women's health is jeopardized again in this country," said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. "We are not going back in history."

"This legislation is really about whether the role of America's government is to continue to fund a practice that takes the lives of over one million little Americans every year," said Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., chairman of the Judicicary subcommittee overseeing the bill to make the Hyde amendment permanent at a hearing today.

and if you haven't been paying attention, here's some context:
Not only would the bill that seeks to make permanent the Hyde amendment forbid public funding of abortion, she said, "it tells women they can't use their private money to purchase insurance that covers a full range of health care. It punishes women and businesses with a tax hike — a tax hike — if they wish to keep or buy insurance that covers the full range of reproductive health care."

all hands on the bad one.

Swanson Pyramid of Greatness

yo brazil is crazy awesome

yo brazil is awesome