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rottingjohnny
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mammoth lakes ca
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Mar 14, 2012 - 08:21am PT
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DT.... Romney and his co-hort hacks are not political theater...? I should say political satire , eh ?
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apogee
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Mar 14, 2012 - 06:50pm PT
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From the link above:
"Turner's proposal would require a man seeking Viagra to first attain an affidavit from a sexual partner attesting to his impotency, see a state-approved sex therapist, complete a stress test to assure he is healthy enough for sexual activity, and return to the doctor every 90 days to check on his cardiac health. The patient would also have to attend three outpatient counseling sessions within six months of receiving his prescription to ensure that he fully understands the "dangerous side effects" of taking erectile dysfunction drugs."
That's frickin' beautiful.
And it's about frickin' time.
Edit:
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/jansing-and-co/46706450#46706450
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bluering
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Santa Clara, CA
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Mar 14, 2012 - 08:46pm PT
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I think you guys are right in labeling as an "extremist" based on your values and regards as to responsibilities of our gov't.
You expect that the gov't can mandate to private insurance companies that they HAVE to cover birth control, and especially the type of BC they choose.
Why? The little 'loose woman' can't afford to pay for her own sexual life? Her lover can't pay for condoms for the act? Condoms aren't good enough? She needs BC pills because it promotes "women's health", which is quite debatable of what "health" is.
My Italian grandmother and many of her generation, did not use BC and are pretty healthy in the "women's health" arena.
Maybe less sex would be better. Maybe viruses contracted by newer sexual conduct is responsible for upticks in female uterinal problems.
To couch the BC arguement in "women's health" crap is really a reach.
Keep in mind too that this was originally a blanket coverage, even to churches, mosques, and synygogues that objected on First Amendment grounds.
The reaction from the Marxist White House was to pass the burden onto the insurance co's. Unless you're a fool, you'd realize that this cost will be diverted to us, the taxpayer.
This is a false arguement. It is a diversion from the demise of our country, and the failures of the professor-in-chief.
You can call me paranoid, call me names. Just look at what he's doing. Energy, economy, military, and social division of those that disagree with him.
He's a Marxist. Maybe a Maoist, but communists always use different tools to enact totalitarianism.
Look to Venezuela for a recent example.
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monolith
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albany,ca
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Mar 14, 2012 - 09:01pm PT
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Arizona Bill could allow you to be fired for using the pill for pregnancy protection.
http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2012/03/14/proposed-az-law-would-let-women-be-fired-for-using-the-pill/
A proposed new law in Arizona would give employers the power to require women being prescribed birth control pills provide proof that they’re using it for non-sexual reasons. Imagine getting fired for using birth control pills.
According to the statepress.com:
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 6-2 Monday to endorse a controversial bill that would allow Arizona employers the right to deny health insurance coverage for contraceptives based on religious objections.
Arizona House Bill 2625, authored by Majority Whip Debbie Lesko, R-Glendale, would permit employers to ask their employees for proof of medical prescription if they seek contraceptives for non-reproductive purposes, such as hormone control or acne treatment.
… “My whole legislation is about our First Amendment rights and freedom of religion,” Lesko said. “All my bill does is that an employer can opt out of the mandate if they have any religious objections.
And because Arizona’s an at-will employment state, Jezebel.com points out, that means that bosses critical of their female employees’ sex lives could fire them as a result.
It’s all about freedom, (Lasko) said, echoing everyone who thinks there’s nothing ironic about claiming that a country that’s “free” allows people’s bosses to dictate what medical care is available to them through insurance. First amendment. The constitution. Rights of religious people to practice the treasured tenets of their faiths, the tenets that dictate that religious people get to tell everyone who is not of faith how they’re supposed to live, and the freedom to have that faith enforced by law. Freedom®.
The funniest part of this incredible story is that lawmaker Lesko says the bill is necessary because “we live in America; we don’t live in the Soviet Union.”
What is in the water out there in Arizona?
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corniss chopper
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breaking the speed of gravity
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Mar 14, 2012 - 09:27pm PT
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Some Liberals do have a sense of humor. Like Democrat Nina Turner Ohio State Senate
(And lets not speculate on her home life)
Turner's proposal would require a man seeking Viagra to first attain an affidavit from a sexual partner attesting to his impotency, see a state-approved sex therapist, complete a stress test to assure he is healthy enough for sexual activity, and return to the doctor every 90 days to check on his cardiac health. The patient would also have to attend three outpatient counseling sessions within six months of receiving his prescription to ensure that he fully understands the "dangerous side effects" of taking erectile dysfunction drugs.
http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2012/03/13/nina_turner_s_ohio_viagra_bill_s_b_307_would_regulate_men_s_access_to_viagra.html
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Mar 14, 2012 - 10:01pm PT
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It's bizarre to me that more attention isn't paid to national resources and excessive spending.
Instead it's still 'womens rights', repubs hate chix, dem love chix, etc....
And yeah, you should have to pay for Viagra.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Mar 14, 2012 - 10:11pm PT
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FACT: You should pay outta your own pocket for ALL medical. Not taxpayers, not business. And it should be affordable.
Expensive healthcare got that way from trying to make it free to the recipient.
& I must agree, Rush is doing a good job of motivating independent voters to go for the O-man.
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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Mar 14, 2012 - 10:32pm PT
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New Republican Government Seal
Official Announcement:
Newly elected President Santorum and his Vice President Newt Gingrich today announced that it is changing its emblem from an Eagle to a CONDOM because it more accurately reflects the government's political stance. A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, reduces women’s rights, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives you a sense of security while you're actually being screwed!
When President Santorum was asked does this mean you are now changing your position on woman’s rights and health care on publicly funded contraception? He said “No, this nothing to do with women’s rights.” Women should not have any rights.
When the press pressured Gingrich on rumors that some were found in the room next to his newly decorated office: He was quoted as saying; “This is another liberal high profile elite press to smear me’ I have not used them, do not have them and I am shocked that you liberal elite press would ask this question on the day before my loveable wife who has been out of the country for the last three weeks on a friendship tour in Israel and that tomorrow she will be home to celebrate for our thirteen anniversary".
When he was asked the same question by another member of the press ; He was quoted as saying “ I use green ones so you have your proof ask any of my aides they will agree.”
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Mar 14, 2012 - 10:42pm PT
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Mar 14, 2012 - 11:02pm PT
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Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening Arpaio
Updated: Wednesday, 14 Mar 2012, 1:02 PM MST
Published : Wednesday, 14 Mar 2012, 1:00 PM MST
PHOENIX - A man described as a President Barack Obama fanatic pleads guilty to threatening to kill Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Adam Eugene Cox appeared in a Tennessee courtroom on Wednesday.
He was arrested last year for a death threat that began on the Internet.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Mar 14, 2012 - 11:02pm PT
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Just discovered Geico Insurance sponsors Rush ...Guess i'll find a different insurer....RJ
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Mar 14, 2012 - 11:04pm PT
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Fox news eh...? The national enquirer of TV...Good source there TGT...Read any good comic books lately.....:]
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Mar 14, 2012 - 11:30pm PT
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What is in the water out there in Arizona?
Colorado's recycled Coors.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Mar 14, 2012 - 11:44pm PT
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Yep!
Most Rush advertisers are backing away per this report from (noted right-wing-site) Bloomberg:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-03-06/limbaugh-radio-show-faces-backlash-from-social-media-as-advertisers-flee
Rush Limbaugh faced rising pressure from critics who are using new media to keep advertisers away from his long-running radio show.
At least 10 companies, including online publisher AOL Inc. (AOL), have dropped the most-popular U.S. talk-radio show after Limbaugh called Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke a “prostitute” and a “slut.” Fluke appeared before Congress on Feb. 23 to speak in favor of President Barack Obama’s policy requiring insurers to provide birth control to women.
Much of the pressure on advertisers has come from online activists using Twitter and Facebook to mobilize against Limbaugh. They see undermining the program’s economic viability as the way to force distributor Clear Channel Communications Inc. (CCMO)’s Premiere Radio Networks (3069Q) to stop syndicating the show.
“The tactic of just asking advertisers has been a very successful one,” said Krystal Ball, a 30-year-old MSNBC commentator who started a website called boycottrush.org. “So as long as that is successful, we’ll continue.”
Ball, a Democrat, ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2010. The campaign targeting Limbaugh is led by groups like Media Matters for America and the Ohio Democratic Party.
“The social media world has really exploded,” said Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women. “I think Rush Limbaugh is going to go down over this.”
More big companies, including Sears Holdings Corp. (SHLD), owner of the namesake retailer and discounter Kmart, insurer Geico Corp. (156714Q) and tractor maker Deere & Co. (DE), are taking steps to ensure their advertisements stop appearing on Limbaugh’s show.
Deere Dealers
Ads were placed on the program by Deere dealers through a network and not by the manufacturer, said Kenneth Golden, director of global public relations for the Moline, Illinois- based company.
“Deere is reviewing the placement of these advertisements, as the company has not chosen to be a current advertiser,” Golden said.
Instructions to keep Sears and Kmart ads off of Limbaugh’s show weren’t followed, according to Chris Brathwaite, a spokesman for their Hoffman Estates, Illinois-based parent. The company doesn’t buy media based on political affiliations, Brathwaite said.
“Sears and Kmart did not intentionally advertise on the Rush Limbaugh show,” according to a company statement. “Sears Holdings has taken actions to ensure our ads do not run on this show.”
Geico has banned advertising on Limbaugh’s programs since 2004, according to a customer-service e-mail.
“On occasion, a local station may mistakenly run a GEICO ad in the wrong time slot,” the e-mail said. “We are directing our ad buyers to make sure that does not happen.”
‘Leftists Who Despise’
Clear Channel, based in San Antonio, didn’t respond to phone calls and e-mails seeking comment. The company was taken private in a buyout led by Bain Capital Partners LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP in July 2008.
A small number of shares of its parent, CC Media Holdings Inc., are traded publicly. CC Media lost 7.1 percent yesterday to $6.04 and has climbed 38 percent so far this year.
Limbaugh, 61, apologized to Fluke on his website on March 3 and on his radio program yesterday, saying he “acted too much like the leftists who despise me.”
He addressed the advertiser flight, telling listeners: “What we’re gonna do is replace those that leave, those that no longer want access to you, those advertisers who no longer want your business, fine. We’ll replace them. It’s simple, really.”
Short Memory
Besides AOL, companies that have suspended advertising on the show include retailer Stamps.com Inc. (STMP) and online service LegalZoom.com Inc. Hawaii’s KPUA radio station also dropped the program.
Limbaugh averaged 13.2 million listeners a week as of spring 2011, according to ratings supplied by Horizon Media Inc., an ad planning and placement company.
Robert Thompson, a professor of television, radio and media studies at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, said he expects the Limbaugh controversy to blow over as new scandals overshadow this one.
“It only becomes a problem if there aren’t other advertisers to take their place,” Thompson said. “American culture has an uncanny ability to dissolve this kind of stuff, especially with Limbaugh.”
The controversy flared from a debate over the Obama administration’s decision to require health insurers to provide birth control to women. Fluke, a past president of Law Students for Reproductive Justice, wasn’t allowed to testify at the Republican-controlled committee meeting. She addressed a panel put together by Democrat Nancy Pelosi.
As long as the controversy burns, advertisers may be reluctant to associate with Limbaugh’s program, said Steve Piluso, head of strategic planning at PHD Media, a unit of advertising agency Omnicom Group Inc. (OMC)
“Some clients will think twice about being in that environment,” Piluso said in a telephone interview. “If you’re a packaged goods company targeting women, using derogatory language, that makes brands uncomfortable.”
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Mar 14, 2012 - 11:49pm PT
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Geico has banned advertising on Limbaugh's show since 2004...? Too late in my book...Salamander slut...RJ
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2012 - 10:39am PT
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Marxist White House.
BWA HA HA HA hahahahaaaaaa!!!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Mar 15, 2012 - 10:55am PT
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Maybe less sex would be better.
Damn right. Where did them uppity women get the idea that they should have sex in the first place? Probably that Maoist in the White House is behind it. But whatever the cause, if women don't stop having sex, a communist takeover of America is inevitable. Inevitable!
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