Republicans rushed to distance themselves from Rep. Todd Akin after rape comments.

[LAM]

You took it out of context. You can't become pregnant if you are legitimately raped. If you become pregnant, then it clearly wasn't a legitimate rape. A woman's body has a way of shutting the process down if it is a true rape. You must be a liberal.

nothing was taken out of context...Akin is talking right out of his ass, making up shit to suite his ideology.

Rape-related pregnancy: estimates and descriptive characteristics from a national sample of women.
Rape-related pregnancy: estimates and de... [Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1996] - PubMed - NCBI

 

[hypo_glycemic]

nothing was taken out of context...Akin is talking right out of his ass, making up shit to suite his ideology.

Rape-related pregnancy: estimates and descriptive characteristics from a national sample of women.
Rape-related pregnancy: estimates and de... [Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1996] - PubMed - NCBI

I agree LAM . The crazy thing is, Akin actually believes his stance on rape/abortion---even though he apologized publicly (reading his "apology" from a prompter).. Just f'ing retarded .. Akin needs to kill himself.. Just sayn......

 

[bio-chem]

We are ranked number one in nothing except for maybe obesity. The United states as a people is far from exceptional. What the US is supposed to stand for could be consisered exceptional, but we fail miserably at that.

And gold medals in the Olympics! USA, USA, USA. Also hot female olympians.

 

[bio-chem]

Oh yeah. We are also 2-0 in World Wars. Undefeated baby! back to back champions

 

[GearsMcGilf]

We totally fail against Thailand when it comes to trannies

 

[Zaphod]

lol, listen to the speech without your liberal filter turned on, and you'll hear it for what he meant.

And you need to get your facts. Still.

 

[NVRBDR]

And you need to get your facts. Still.

I have. I built my business with zero help from the government. serious question, are you living a government subsidized life in any way? if you are, I'm not knocking you.

 

[hypo_glycemic]

I have. I built my business with zero help from the government. serious question, are you living a government subsidized life in any way? if you are, I'm not knocking you.

Just curious, how can you be in real-estate, oil gas, and leasing w/ out any dealings with Government? Serious question--- no coffee drinker!

 

[NVRBDR]

Just curious, how can you be in real-estate, oil gas, and leasing w/ out any dealings with Government? Serious question--- no coffee drinker!

lol, I "deal" with the government more than I care to. What I wrote was I built my business with "zero help" from the government

 

[Zaphod]

I have. I built my business with zero help from the government. serious question, are you living a government subsidized life in any way? if you are, I'm not knocking you.

I'm not subsidized at all.

 

[Zaphod]

I have. I built my business with zero help from the government. serious question, are you living a government subsidized life in any way? if you are, I'm not knocking you.

Did you use any of the infrastructure to help make your deals?

 

[hoyle21]

Did you use any of the infrastructure to help make your deals?

Or public education, maybe college loans?

 

[Little Wing]

"Legitimate Rape" Pharmaceutical Ad - YouTube

 

[GearsMcGilf]

When I was 19, my gf could pay for her BC from Planned Parenthood with the money she earned from her part time waitress job. It's dirt cheap and it was already govt subsidized since PPH receives govt subsidies. Plus, if a college girl goes to a frat party and flirts with a buncha drunk college boys, then passes out on the couch, what should she expect? That's not going to be a legitimate rape and she's likely to end up pregnant because her body's natural defenses aren't going to kick in and stop the process.

 

[Dale Mabry]

I love how people think they live their lives without government help. You'd be paying $10 for a loaf bread and $20 a gallon for gas if the government wasn't subsidizing those industries. In addition you wouldn't be able to drive anywhere because there would be no roads and you wouldn't be able to hire employees because they'd all be fucking retarded. Not to mention that if you have taken a loan out in the past 4 years that was made possible by the stimulus package all you free marketers say didn't work. Did you forget how credit froze once the economy tanked? It was only 5 years ago for Christ's sake.

 

[Zaphod]

I love how people think they live their lives without government help. You'd be paying $10 for a loaf bread and $20 a gallon for gas if the government wasn't subsidizing those industries. In addition you wouldn't be able to drive anywhere because there would be no roads and you wouldn't be able to hire employees because they'd all be fucking retarded. Not to mention that if you have taken a loan out in the past 4 years that was made possible by the stimulus package all you free marketers say didn't work. Did you forget how credit froze once the economy tanked? It was only 5 years ago for Christ's sake.

Facts just get in the way of political rhetoric, Dale.

 

[LAM]

Plus, if a college girl goes to a frat party and flirts with a buncha drunk college boys, then passes out on the couch, what should she expect?

those of us that are normally and treat everyone with respect would do exactly to her what we would want done to say our own sisters or mother.

 

[secdrl]

This guy ^^^

 

[Dale Mabry]

those of us that are normally and treat everyone with respect would do exactly to her what we would want done to say our own sisters or mother.

Put her hand in a warm bucket of water?

 

[GearsMcGilf]

those of us that are normally and treat everyone with respect would do exactly to her what we would want done to say our own sisters or mother.

This comparison doesn't work when you're in AL or MS.

 

[Kagigi]

No other country in the history has done more for the world. USA is not perfect, but exceptional very much so.

 

[Swiper]

I love how people think they live their lives without government help. You'd be paying $10 for a loaf bread and $20 a gallon for gas if the government wasn't subsidizing those industries. In addition you wouldn't be able to drive anywhere because there would be no roads and you wouldn't be able to hire employees because they'd all be fucking retarded. Not to mention that if you have taken a loan out in the past 4 years that was made possible by the stimulus package all you free marketers say didn't work. Did you forget how credit froze once the economy tanked? It was only 5 years ago for Christ's sake.

the whole point of the stimulus package was suppose to create jobs and bring down unemployment. Obama took office it was. 7.8 it's now 8.3% and rising. yeah it worked out great.

oh yeah I know, look how bad it could have been? right? lol. or "we didn't know how bad things actually were" yeah ok sure. no one buys that BS. it's was a failure from what they told us it was suppose to do.

congrats on our 16 trillion $ debt we'll reach tomorrow. something to be proud of right? thank Obama for adding over 5 trillion to that.

 

[LAM]

congrats on our 16 trillion $ debt we'll reach tomorrow. something to be proud of right? thank Obama for adding over 5 trillion to that.

that would be from the 1.2T deficit that existing before he even set foot in the White House, multiply that by 4 years and you get 5T. repeating a lie time and time again doesn't make it come true unless you are a sociopath. Spending under Obama is actually at it's lowest point since the 50's.


It's all right here in black and white put in nice pretty easy to understand text and graphs thanks to the San Francisco Fed. the consumption and employment levels post 2001 were unsustainable as they were built on DEBT and not real income growth and have dropped substantially as is stated in Figure 1 below. reduced consumption is obviously going to have a major impact on jobs in our consumption based service sector economy.

the entire housing bubble was built be legislation and deregulation and not from supply and demand or "free market principles". how do we know this? because if there was a true housing shortage then rents would have increased along with home prices which they did not. in 2008 US household debt reached 100% of US GDP. now the working class is in the process of deleveraging or paying down that debt which is about 9T with only about 500B in home equity. that number needs to get down to about 3.5T, needless to say this will take a long time to bet back to healthy LTV ratios.

FRBSF Economic Letter: Gauging the Impact of the Great Recession (2011-21, 7/11/2011)

this stuff is far from rocket science. the US economy of 2012 is the economy we SHOULD have had post 2001 if not for the financial deregulation and the FED lowering the federal funds rate to fuel the artificially created "temporary" economy based on housing and related markets.

 

[Swiper]

that would be from the 1.2T deficit that existing before he even set foot in the White House, multiply that by 4 years and you get 5T. repeating a lie time and time again doesn't make it come true unless you are a sociopath. Spending under Obama is actually at it's lowest point since the 50's.


It's all right here in black and white put in nice pretty easy to understand text and graphs thanks to the San Francisco Fed. the consumption and employment levels post 2001 were unsustainable as they were built on DEBT and not real income growth and have dropped substantially as is stated in Figure 1 below. reduced consumption is obviously going to have a major impact on jobs in our consumption based service sector economy.

the entire housing bubble was built be legislation and deregulation and not from supply and demand or "free market principles". how do we know this? because if there was a true housing shortage then rents would have increased along with home prices which they did not. in 2008 US household debt reached 100% of US GDP. now the working class is in the process of deleveraging or paying down that debt which is about 9T with only about 500B in home equity. that number needs to get down to about 3.5T, needless to say this will take a long time to bet back to healthy LTV ratios.

FRBSF Economic Letter: Gauging the Impact of the Great Recession (2011-21, 7/11/2011)

this stuff is far from rocket science. the US economy of 2012 is the economy we SHOULD have had post 2001 if not for the financial deregulation and the FED lowering the federal funds rate to fuel the artificially created "temporary" economy based on housing and related markets.

although i differ, for the sake of argument, 4 Trillion, 5 Trillion does it really make a difference? it's still unacceptable to me and most rational Americans.

the fact is Obama added more to the national debt in less than 4 years than bush did in 8 years. that's horrible.

it was the regulations that made banks loan to people who couldn't afford their loan. Dodd frank told banks to make those loans. look it up. banks didn't want to make loans without at least 20% down. govt forced them to do it through regulations. so intern the banks sold the mortgages because they knew they'd all default.

 

[Little Wing]

the fact is Obama added more to the national debt in less than 4 years than bush did in 8 years.

Has President Obama accepted more debt than all previous US presidents combined?



In debunking this it is important to clarify that there are two types of debt the claim could be referring to. There is public debt, which refers to all money borrowed by the US government through the issue of securities by the Treasury and other federal government agencies.
The other is gross federal debt which is the total of all public debt as well as any debt held by the government, such as social security or medicare.
It doesn't specify which type of debt in the claim, although in both cases the claim is false.
It is very easy to prove this claim false, by using the Debt to the Penny calculator on the TreasuryDirect website.
As of February 23, 2012:
Debt Held by the Public: $10.6 trillion
Intragovernmental Holdings: $4.8 trillion
Total Public Debt Outstanding: $15.4 trillion
President Obama was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009
So, using the penny debt calculator to look at the timeframe from the date of President Obama's inauguration to now, we can get the figures needed to validate the claim.

On the date of President Obama's inauguration, rounded debt figures for debt accumulated by all previous presidents are as follows:

Debt Held by the Public: $6.3 trillion
Intragovernmental Holdings: $4.3 trillion
Total Public Debt Outstanding: $10.6 trillion
So, if we subtract these (unrounded) figures from the (unrounded) current figures above, we are left with the accumulate debt that can be attributed to President Obama.
Debt Held by the Public: $10.6 trillion - $6.3 trillion = $4.37 trillion
Intragovernmental Holdings: $4.8 trillion - $4.3 trillion = $0.44 trillion
Total Public Debt Outstanding: $15.4 trillion - $10.6 trillion = $4.8 trillion
In all cases, the debt attributed to President Obama is less than the total debt accumulate by the past 43 presidents for both types of debt.

united states - Has President Obama accepted more debt than all previous US presidents combined? - Skeptics

 

[Little Wing]

President Obama Denounces Republican ‘Wild Debts’: I’m Not an Over-Spender - ABC News

 

[Little Wing]

44 - Republicans attack Obama for spending too much, cutting too close to home

Republicans attack Obama for spending too much, cutting too close to home


By Michael D. Shear
Republican lawmakers continue to bash President Obama's budget for failing to effectively control spending and adding to the nation's long-term debt.
But many of the same lawmakers are complaining about the spending cuts that affect their own communities, often aiming those comments at their constituents back home.

Sen. Christopher S. Bond (R-Mo.), for example, lashed out at Obama for "the same old big government budget that will spend too much, borrow too much, and tax too much." He said: "I'm feeling a lot like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day."
But at the same time, Bond issued a statement criticizing Obama's proposed cuts in the military's C-17 aircraft program -- cuts that happen to affect thousands of jobs in Missouri.

"Despite the need for the proven, on-time, and on-budget workhorse, the President once again wants to shut down our nation's only large airlift line in production," Bond said in a statement.
Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), called Obama's budget "another massive budget filled with even more spending than last year's record totals."
But in the Lexington Herald-Leader back home, a McConnell spokesman made it clear that the senator opposes Obama's proposal to slash coal subsidies by $2.3 billion over 10 years as part of his climate change legislation.

"Senator McConnell opposes both the president's proposed new national energy tax and the tax on coal included in his budget outline unveiled today,' spokesman Robert Steurer said in the paper. "Both would hurt Kentucky families who are dependent on coal for their livelihood."

McConnell spokesman Don Stewart said by e-mail that what Democrats consider an end to subsidies is the equivalent of tax increases on the coal industry.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) slams Obama, saying that "instead of reigning in this out-of-control spending, the President has proposed a budget that would increase deficit spending by 35 percent over the next five years."
But like other members of the Texas delegation, Cornyn takes exception to the spending cuts Obama has proposed to the NASA space program, which would affect jobs in Texas.

"I will work with my colleagues in Congress to ensure the budget funds Constellation, and I look forward to Congress' taking up NASA's reauthorization to ensure the agency, and the tens of thousands of men and women who compose our space program, finally receive a clear and bold vision for the future," Cornyn wrote in a statement.
The lawmakers in question defend their positions, saying that there is nothing wrong with being critical of the overall size of Obama's budget while criticizing individual proposals.
"There's no inconsistency in saying $3.8 trillion is too much spending overall, but that America's human space flight program is the wrong place to cut," Cornyn said in a statement released by his office. "Budgeting is about priorities: if we ended TARP and returned unspent stimulus funds, then the Constellation program wouldn't be on the
chopping block."
A McConnell aide said the senator does not apologize for his position relating to coal.
"As you know, there is currently a corporate tax rate for manufacturers (to encourage domestic manufacturing and JOBS)," the aide wrote. "The administration's budget proposes RAISING that rate for coal--but not for other manufacturers. Sen. McConnell opposes tax hikes; the administration does not."

By Michael D. Shear | February 4, 2010; 3:02 PM ET

everyone wants cuts just not ones that affect them.

 

[Swiper]

Has President Obama accepted more debt than all previous US presidents combined?



In debunking this it is important to clarify that there are two types of debt the claim could be referring to. There is public debt, which refers to all money borrowed by the US government through the issue of securities by the Treasury and other federal government agencies.
The other is gross federal debt which is the total of all public debt as well as any debt held by the government, such as social security or medicare.
It doesn't specify which type of debt in the claim, although in both cases the claim is false.
It is very easy to prove this claim false, by using the Debt to the Penny calculator on the TreasuryDirect website.
As of February 23, 2012:
Debt Held by the Public: $10.6 trillion
Intragovernmental Holdings: $4.8 trillion
Total Public Debt Outstanding: $15.4 trillion
President Obama was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009
So, using the penny debt calculator to look at the timeframe from the date of President Obama's inauguration to now, we can get the figures needed to validate the claim.

On the date of President Obama's inauguration, rounded debt figures for debt accumulated by all previous presidents are as follows:

Debt Held by the Public: $6.3 trillion
Intragovernmental Holdings: $4.3 trillion
Total Public Debt Outstanding: $10.6 trillion
So, if we subtract these (unrounded) figures from the (unrounded) current figures above, we are left with the accumulate debt that can be attributed to President Obama.
Debt Held by the Public: $10.6 trillion - $6.3 trillion = $4.37 trillion
Intragovernmental Holdings: $4.8 trillion - $4.3 trillion = $0.44 trillion
Total Public Debt Outstanding: $15.4 trillion - $10.6 trillion = $4.8 trillion
In all cases, the debt attributed to President Obama is less than the total debt accumulate by the past 43 presidents for both types of debt.

united states - Has President Obama accepted more debt than all previous US presidents combined? - Skeptics

LOL!! i have a unicorn for sale, want to buy it?

 

[Little Wing]

LOL!! i have a unicorn for sale, want to buy it?

you might want to wait till Romney mails it to you before you advertize it.

 

[maniclion]

Not that any of that substantial Debt was sunk into spreading democracy through 2 wars.

Democracy in yo face!