Right-wing groups
By on Nov 14th, 2005 at 3:49 pm
Right-wing groups
trying to “downplay and shrug off” new documents showing Alito’s personal belief that “the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.”
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I knew Alito was a ReichWingNutWackJobChristian wet dream! This proves it.
November 14th, 2005 at 4:07 pmGood! The left got just what they deserve! I hope they try to filibuster this one.
November 14th, 2005 at 4:08 pm# 2 my closet is filled with wire hangers. YOURS?
November 14th, 2005 at 4:12 pmlooky there, we got neddy clones now.
This isn’t gonna turn into some scifi thingy where right wing fanatics (facists) try to take over the world, is it? What?!? They are already doing that?
oh my.
November 14th, 2005 at 4:16 pmLooks like homicide numbers by home-schooled christians just suffered a sharp spike.
November 14th, 2005 at 4:34 pmThe Repubs want more kids around so they can cut their food stamps, medical care and foster parent payments, thus forcing them into a life of crime so we can still boast of the highest incarceration rate in the world. The prison system is like any other business, grow or die.
November 14th, 2005 at 5:09 pmHow many married women who are already burdened with too many children going to take desperate measures when their drunken or otherwise abusive husband impregnates them again?
November 14th, 2005 at 5:28 pmHow many young teens are going to try home-style abortions in the bathroom when that prergnancy test comes back positive?
It must be nice to live in a perfect conservative world, and to think such a world can be legislated; but the fact is that the world is messy and complicated and resorting back to draconian measures with severe restrictions on personal privacy is not going to make life less complicated.
You guys have read the constitution, eh? Because it doesn’t protect anybody’s right to a particular medical procedure.
“How many married women who are already burdened with too many children going to take desperate measures when their drunken or otherwise abusive husband impregnates them again?”
How about these “burdened” cows take some personal responsibility for the life of bad choices that culminated them being contractually bound to some drunken prick? Maybe they can make one of the hundreds of birth control options available to them?
People can kill all of their offspring as far as I am concerned. Until the focus is targeted on responsibility and not some percieved “right” of a woman to vacuum babies out of the womb this argument is going noplace.
November 14th, 2005 at 6:23 pmW paid for his girlfriends abortion when he was in his younger days so I suppose “drunkin’ prick” would apply, and I am sure she was a cow. Not too narrowminded, eh?
November 14th, 2005 at 6:43 pmAlito’s 1985 statements refer to his contributions to anti-abortion, and anti-civil rights cases argued before the Supreme Court, not best described as PERSONAL views.
November 14th, 2005 at 6:47 pm#9, Thanks, you got to it before I did — what an ignoranus in #8. Bet his woman jumps when he speaks too. When W’s girlfriend had her abortion in 1971, that pregnancy was her fault — he had nothing to do with it. She was probably ugly and grateful according to #8. What a prick.
November 14th, 2005 at 7:01 pm#8: …it doesn’t protect anybody’s right to a particular medical procedure.
The constitution also doesn’t protect your right to vote. Or get a liver transplant. Or eat an apple.
Maybe you’ve read the constitution but you clearly do not understand it. It is the principles the Constitution embodies, not the explicit actions it allows (or disallows) that makes it the foundation of our government. The Constitution isn’t about what people can do; it’s about what the government can (and can’t) do.
The 9th Amendment says “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” Put simply, the government cannot tell people what to do unless the Constitution specifically authorizes it. Since it doesn’t, the right to have whatever medical procedure you want is protected.
People can kill all of their offspring as far as I am concerned. Until the focus is targeted on responsibility and not some percieved “right†of a woman to vacuum babies out of the womb this argument is going noplace.
November 14th, 2005 at 8:17 pmSo then, you favor the right to murder a baby but not to abort a fetus? Interesting. As for ‘this argument going noplace(sic)’ it doesn’t need to because its already arrived (32 years ago) at the 9th Amendment.
#12, Jim,
You said it better than I ever have. I sorta feel sorry for the wingnuts that need a government to tell them what they can or cannot do. They oughta get weaned and grow a backbone sometime. As they say in New Hampshire: Live Free or Die.
November 14th, 2005 at 8:27 pmAlito ruled that stripsearching a 10 year old girl without a warrant or any kind of imminent threat was legal. He is not qualified to be a judge on any court.
November 14th, 2005 at 9:04 pm** Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches **
** Visit the Dahr Jamail Iraq website http://dahrjamailiraq.com **
** Website by http://jeffpflueger.com **
‘I treated people who had their skin melted’
The Independent
By Dahr Jamail
Published: 15 November 2005
Abu Sabah knew he had witnessed something unusual. Sitting in November
last year in a refugee camp in the grounds of Baghdad University, set up
for the families who fled or were driven from Fallujah, this resident of
the city’s Jolan district told me how he had witnessed some of the
battle’s heaviest fighting.
“They used these weird bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud,”
November 15th, 2005 at 9:28 amhe said. He had seen “pieces of these bombs explode into large fires
that continued to burn on the skin even after people dumped water on the
burns”.
#13.
November 15th, 2005 at 9:42 amDon ,Live Free or Die?????What kind of Choice is that!!
thats the most oxymoron statement i,ve ever heard!
That Freedom BUBBLE you built around You is exactly what WILL kill You!
thats is actually a THREAT! ARE YOU TELLING PEOPLE THAT YOU EITHER LIVE FREE OR WE ARE GONNA KILL YOU?
STUPID KID!
YOUR FREEDOM BUBBLE IS ABOUT TO BURST, AND KILL YOU, YOU MORONS! anyone that believes he or she is FREE of law is a complete IDIOT!
November 15th, 2005 at 9:44 amI TOTALLY AGREE WITH LOWDOWN!
November 15th, 2005 at 10:47 amBlabla,
You sound kinda free to me. What government restrictions kept you from doing something yesterday that you otherwise might’ve done? What government controls would you like to have on your gonads?
November 15th, 2005 at 11:03 amok, now Alito’s saying he just wrote that to get a job with Reagan… do we want a Supreme Court Justice who lies on job applications? how do we know he’s not lying to us now?
November 15th, 2005 at 12:32 pm“How about these “burdened†cows take some personal responsibility for the life of bad choices that culminated them being contractually bound to some drunken prick?”
Comment by lowdown — November 14, 2005 @ 6:23 pm
Main Entry: mi·sog·y·ny
Pronunciation: m&-’sä-j&-nE
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek misogynia, from misein to hate + gynE woman — more at QUEEN
: a hatred of women
Main Entry: chau·vin·ism
Pronunciation: ’shO-v&-”ni-z&m
Function: noun
Etymology: French chauvinisme, from Nicolas Chauvin
3 : an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex; also : behavior expressive of such an attitude
Main Entry: bore
November 16th, 2005 at 1:11 amFunction: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
: one that causes boredom: as a : a tiresome person b : something that is devoid of interest
“You guys have read the constitution, eh? Because it doesn’t protect anybody’s right to a particular medical procedure. (…) People can kill all of their offspring as far as I am concerned. Until the focus is targeted on responsibility and not some percieved “right†of a woman to vacuum babies out of the womb this argument is going noplace”
Comment by lowdown — November 14, 2005 @ 6:23 pm
Main Entry: as·i·nine
Pronunciation: ‘a-s&n-”In
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin asininus, from asinus ass
1 : marked by inexcusable failure to exercise intelligence or sound judgment
2 : of, relating to, or resembling an ass
Main Entry: bump·kin
November 16th, 2005 at 1:15 amPronunciation: ‘b&m(p)-k&n
Function: noun
Etymology: perhaps from Flemish bommekijn small cask, from Middle Dutch, from bomme cask
: an awkward and unsophisticated rustic