FOX News: More Of The Same Same Lies
Posted by Michelle Moquin on October 13th, 2011
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Good morning!
Bill O’Reilly welcomed radio host Tavis Smiley and Prof. Cornel West onto his Tuesday show. The resulting dust-up was nothing short of a cable news classic.
Smiley and West have become a bona fide double act, regularly making the cable news rounds. O’Reilly brought them on to discuss the Occupy Wall Street movement and poverty in America. He set up the conversation by saying that the two were overlooking key statistics in their battle against poverty that showed the problem to be as much one of “personal responsibility” as economic injustice. Then, he turned to West.
“Where am I going wrong?” he asked. West said that his “lens” was wrong, and that he was overlooking the widening economic inequality in America. “The oligarchs and plutocrats that you tend to want to promote rather intensely [are] not only doing well but been too greedy!” he said. “I don’t think I’m promoting anybody who’s doing untoward things,” O’Reilly said. “We’re talking about chronic excess!” West responded, causing O’Reilly to try to shut him up. “No filibustering here,” O’Reilly snapped.
He said that what Smiley and West seemed to want was for the government to “forcibly seize” money from the rich and give it to the poor. “That’s socialism and that’s not going to work here,” he concluded.
“It wasn’t socialism when we bailed out the banks in the first place?” Smiley said. He started to say that O’Reilly had been “right” in a recent attack on Stanley O’Neal, the former head of Merril Lynch. O’Reilly misheard him.
“Lied about it?!” he thundered. “What do you mean i lied about it?!”
“I said you were right!” Smiley said. “R-i-g-h-t!” O’Reilly apologized, and assured his guests he was “calm.” Things got a lot less calm right afterwards, though. Smiley asked why O’Reilly was focusing on O’Neal, one of the few black CEOs of a major firm, causing O’Reilly to shout, “we treat everybody the same here!” Smiley disagreed, and wondered why, when Occupy Wall Street protesters were being arrested, no “bankster” had gone to jail “to pay for his crimes.”
“They didn’t violate any laws!” O’Reilly said, prompting Smiley and West to essentially lose it. “OOOOOHHHHHHHH!” they both said together. “How do you know?!” West yelled. “There’s been no investigations! Why would you say something like that?!”
“All right, knock it off!” O’Reilly fired back. “…You don’t have any evidence!” West countered that, with no investigation, no criminality could be proven. “You take your law school at Princeton, you develop an illegality and I will put it on the air,” O’Reilly said.
This is a must see:
Readers: O’Reilly says, “We treat everybody the same here”. Yeah “same same” - That is just so not true. What world is O’Reilly living in? Or really, the question should be, “What world is he trying to make us believe that we are living in?” I mean we have to look at this. People like O’Reilly skew their stats so they can justify their point and blatantly lie to the public. When those who know say that Fox lies and that they deliberately use the ignorance of their audience to mislead them and generally lie to the public, this video shows vividly what they are talking about.
Here O’Reilly opens up with the profound statement that 16% of the country is in need of jobs or help from the liberals. He add that the US stats say that 9% of america is so drug impaired that they could never work. Then he subtracts that 9% from the 16% and proclaims that that means 16 – 9 = 7% that only 7% of the unemployed would be able to get a job since the other 9% is too impaired according to the US stats to work anyway.
Then the lying sack of shit looks directly into the camera and proclaims that the liberals are proposing that the rest of america subsidize that 9% with free money.
Now this is how that math should work. If 9% of the whole US population is drugged impaired, then that means 9% of any part of the whole is drugged. That means you multiply that part by 9% to get the percentage of that part that would be drugged impaired. Hence the figure would be 9% if the unemployed whole of 16% or 1.44% if that group would be so impaired as to not be able to work.
16% -1.44% = 14.56% of the whole US population unemployed that could work if given an opportunity not the 7% O’Reily got using his deliberately skewered math. So how does that play out in real numbers?
14.56% X 350 million Americans = 50,960,000 unemployed people eager and able to work as opposed to O’Reilly’s 7% X 350 = 24,500,000 Americans.
Got to run – Blog me.
Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.
Gratefully your blog host,
michelle
Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)
If you love my blog and my writes, please make a donation via PayPal, credit card, or e-check, please click the “Donate” button below. (Please only donations from those readers within the United States. – International readers please see my “Donate” page)
Or if you would like to send a check via snail mail, please make checks payable to “Michelle Moquin”, and send to:
Michelle Moquin PO Box 29235 San Francisco, Ca. 94129
Thank you for your loyal support!
All content on this site are property of Michelle Moquin © copyright 2008-2011
" Politics, god, Life, News, Music, Family, Personal, Travel, Random, Photography, Religion, Aliens, Art, Entertainment, Food, Books, Thoughts, Media, Culture, Love, Sex, Poetry, Prose, Friends, Technology, Humor, Health, Writing, Events, Movies, Sports, Video, Christianity, Atheist, Blogging, History, Work, Education, Business, Fashion, Barack Obama, People, Internet, Relationships, Faith, Photos, Videos, Hillary Clinton, School, Reviews, God, TV, Philosophy, Fun, Science, Environment, Design, The Page, Rants, Pictures, Church, Blog, Nature, Marketing, Television, Democrats, Parenting, Miscellaneous, Current Events, Film, Spirituality, Obama, Musings, Home, Human Rights, Society, Comedy, Me, Random Thoughts, Research, Government, Election 2008, Baseball, Opinion, Recipes, Children, Iraq, Funny, Women, Economics, America, Misc, Commentary, John McCain, Reflections, All, Celebrities, Inspiration, Lifestyle, Theology, Linux, Kids, Games, World, India, Literature, China, Ramblings, Fitness, Money, Review, War, Articles, Economy, Journal, Quotes, NBA, Crime, Anime, Islam, 2008, Stories, Prayer, Diary, Jesus, Buddha, Muslim, Israel, Europe, Links, Marriage, Fiction, American Idol, Software, Leadership, Pop culture, Rants, Video Games, Republicans, Updates, Political, Football, Healing, Blogs, Shopping, USA, Class, Matrix, Course, Work, Web 2.0, My Life, Psychology, Gay, Happiness, Advertising, Field Hockey, Hip-hop, sex, fucking, ass, Soccer, sox"
October 13th, 2011 at 10:25 am
Love the way you took him apart with you math Michelle. The lies just keep coming with that kind. It is so nice to have you guys to call them on their “lying sack of shit” ways.
Brenda
October 13th, 2011 at 10:27 am
Zen Lill
I know that you are his lady, but I don’t think you understand what he means to us here in Africa. Many would be dead if not for this Saint of Africa. He is in South Kordofan defending those who can not help themselves.
Hullanta
October 13th, 2011 at 10:36 am
Guam is now leading the way for the rest of the USA. We have passed a law that makes it illegal for anyone to smoke in a car when a minor is present. So guys when you return to your island leave your smokes at home.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
It is Now Illegal to Smoke in a Vehicle on Guam When a Minor is Present
Last Updated on Thursday, 13 October 2011 09:43
Written by Kevin Kerrigan
Thursday, 13 October 2011 09:10
Guam News – Guam News
Guam -Senator Dennis Rodriguez has announced that it is now illegal to smoke inside your vehicle when a minor is present.
The Health Committee Chair’s Bill # 188 is now Public Law 31-102.
It was among the 47 Bills signed into law last week by the Governor or the Acting Governor. The Governor’s office has made no announcement of any of the bills that were signed, leaving it up to individual Senators to announce the signing of their own bills.
The law took immediate effect and the fine for violating the law could be as high as $500 dollars. All fines collected will go to the Guam Cancer Trust Fund.
A release quotes the Senator as saying “there is no safe level of exposures to secondhand smoke … Exposing passengers, both children and adults, to secondhand smoke in the confined space of a car is extremely hazardous … everyone should be encouraged not to smoke in vehicles.
Senator Rodriguez says he will be arranging a meeting with the heads of the Guam Police Department, the Guam International Airport Authority Police, Port Police, and other law enforcement individuals to brief them and to seek additional guidance from them on what they may need to fully enforce this new law.
READ Senator Rodriguez’s release in FULL below:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – October 12, 2011
Smoking inside the vehicle when a minor is present is now against the law.
Tamuning, Guam. Senator Dennis G. Rodriguez, Jr.’s, Bill No. 188-31 is now Public Law 31-102; “An Act To Add A New §90114 To Chapter 90, Title 10, GCA , Relative to Prohibiting Smoking In A Motor Vehicle When A Child Is Present” has recently been signed into law by Governor Calvo.
Effective immediately, smoking inside a motor vehicle when a minor is present is now a crime, and anybody caught violating this law may have to pay a corresponding fine of as much as $500, and could possibly be liable for child abuse or neglect.
All fines collected will go into the Guam Cancer Trust Fund. Senator Dennis G. Rodriguez, Jr. introduced the legislative measure to prevent smoking in cars to protect young people from secondhand smoke.
Guam now joins other US States and international communities that promote healthier living by limiting exposure to tobacco smoke, especially to children.
“There is no safe level of exposures to secondhand smoke. Exposing passengers, both children and adults, to secondhand smoke in the confined space of a car is extremely hazardous.
Everyone should be encouraged not to smoke in vehicles,” the health committee oversight chair stated. According to Senator Rodriguez , minors often have no say as to the circumstances by which they are being exposed to secondhand smoke.
This PL 102-31 will serve as a pre-emptive measure to keep Guam’s young people healthy, and reduce the overall healthcare costs to our community in the long term.
“We ought to prevent the spread of non-communicable diseases at the very early stage of life. By limiting the exposure of toxic cigarette smoke to our children, we ensure a less likely chance of that child developing illnesses such as cancer and upper respiratory problems”. Rodriguez said.
“When someone smokes in the small enclosed space of a car, people are exposed to toxic air that is many times higher than what the US EPA considers hazardous air quality, even when a window is down.
Additionally, the gaseous and particulate components of tobacco smoke absorb into the upholstery and other surfaces inside a car, and then off-gas back into the air over the course of many days, exposing passengers to toxins long after anyone actually smoked in the car,” Senator Rodriguez further explained.
Regardless of whether the vehicle is moving or stationary, smoking is now prohibited in a motor vehicle if a child who is seventeen (17) years of age or younger is present. Senator Rodriguez will be arranging a meeting with the heads of the Guam Police Department, The Guam International Airport Authority Police, Port Police, and other law enforcement individuals to brief them and to seek additional guidance from them on what they may need to fully enforce this new law.
This legislation was endorsed by Guam’s medical community, including officials from the Department of Public Health & Social Services Bureau of Community Health Services.
October 13th, 2011 at 11:05 am
Michelle:
Bravo! on calling out that pompous ass O’Reilly. His phony math condemned 31 million wiling and able workers to the ranks of drugged out zombies.
That’s the kind of misleading reporting Fox is so often called out on. What can you expect from a station whose owner picks his staff from the likes of Palin because she is “hot.”
John
October 13th, 2011 at 11:24 am
The pharmaceutical industry has funded a study that comes out to tell everybody that taking multiple vitamins is dangerous and could kill you. They even point out that the “study” shows that those who take multiple vitamins die 2% faster than those who do not.
Yeah!
So that means you should not take multiple vitamins and just be ready to fork out huge sums of money for their drugs that don’t cure you they just make tons of money for your druggester because you have to take them for life.
Rest assured the pharmaceutical industry will make sure this phony study will get wide publicity. They need the victims it will bring.
Robert
October 13th, 2011 at 11:26 am
We told you last week about Republican efforts to suppress the vote nationwide that could prevent 5 MILLION Americans from voting. According to the New York Times, the voter fraud Republicans say they’re preventing simply isn’t an issue. “The only reason Republicans are passing these laws is to give themselves a political edge by suppressing Democratic votes.”
The scary thing is, it just might work. Enough votes could be lost to states like Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Nevada and Virginia to hand the Senate – and the White House – to the GOP.
October 13th, 2011 at 12:15 pm
YOU HAVE H. PYLORI — NOW WHAT?
You’ve been bothered by chronic indigestion, perhaps leading your doctor to order an endoscopy so he/she could look down your esophagus and into your stomach with a camera, and, give you some tests. The finding? For many, it’s that their digestive system is harboring the intestinal bacteria H. pylori… now what?
In 1982, when H. pylori was discovered to be at the root of stomach ulcers, the medical community celebrated, immediately deciding that the news meant ulcers could be cured by an intense course of antibiotics to kill off all those nasty bacteria.
But now we know that a wise treatment path for people with H. pylori is not so straightforward. Yes, the bacteria are linked to a host of gastrointestinal (GI) problems, including ulcers and even gastric cancer.
But many of us carry H. pylori around in our systems without ill effects, and doctors have found that eliminating it entirely is associated with other problems, including esophageal cancer.
FRIEND OR FOE?
Should we kill H. pylori every time we detect it? Probably not, says Eric Yarnell, ND, a clinical supervisor at Bastyr University’s Center for Natural Health in Seattle.
When he sees patients with H. pylori-related complaints, including inflammation, pain and other symptoms, his goal is to restore comfort by replenishing the stomach’s natural defenses against the bacteria overgrowth that has thrown the system out of balance…
but he aims for full elimination of the particular bacterium itself only in cases of recurrent illness or associated cancers.
SHOULD YOU FOLLOW DOCTORS’ ORDERS?
Conventional medical treatment of H. pylori infection uses a 14-day course of an antibiotic (usually clarithromycin or amoxicillin) to remove H. pylori from the stomach… as well as the antimicrobial metronidazole (Flagyl)…
and either a bismuth-salt preparation to blunt inflammation and soothe the tissue or (more likely) an antacid proton pump inhibitor (PPI), such as esomeprazole (Nexium), omeprazole (Prilosec) or lansoprazole (Prevacid).
If this triple therapy fails to make your symptoms go away, your doctor will next try instead “quadruple therapy” — tetracycline, metronidazole, a PPI and the bismuth compound for an additional 14 days. Many doctors also will prescribe the PPIs even longer, up to an additional three weeks.
Daily Health News contributing editor Andrew L. Rubman, ND, disagrees with this approach. He warns that these regimens bring significant side effects.
If you take a PPI for longer than two weeks, you reduce your stomach’s ability to produce adequate amounts of acid to digest food and also reduce its innate ability to protect you from dangerous pathogens.
Antibiotics indiscriminately suppress many beneficial bacteria as well as the ones making you sick and as a result can lead to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains of H. pylori, paradoxically placing you at greater risk for digestive disorders.
A BETTER WAY: NATURAL THERAPIES
Rather than attempting to eradicate H. pylori, some doctors may seek to get it back in “balance” by first calming irritation and inflammation and then restoring proper stomach function, including adequate acid production to stabilize H. pylori and prevent its overgrowth.
Dr. Rubman says that this safe and natural approach may include…
Bismuth-based therapy.
Bismuth salts, originally believed to simply coat ulcers and physically block erosive stomach acid, now are known to directly attack and impair H. pylori.
Digestive enzymes. Once irritation is resolved, hydrochloric acid (usually the supplement betaine hydrochloride) helps reestablish efficient acid production, which may have been interrupted by the infection but is necessary for normal digestion.
Manuka honey. Evidence supporting the use of this New Zealand honey is largely anecdotal, but you may find that taking some before meals and before bed, helps combat H. pylori.
Discuss with your doctor how much to take if you want to try this therapy.
Mastic gum. This natural resin from the sap of the mastic tree (Pistacia lentiscus), which grows mainly on the Greek island of Chios, inhibits H. pylori growth, according to a study in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Capsules can be found at iHerb.com and in health-food stores.
Broccoli sprouts. A small Japanese trial suggests that broccoli sprouts activate protective enzymes.
Unlike mature heads, the sprouts contain high levels of sulforaphane, a potent natural weapon against H. pylori colonization.
These can be eaten in salads or on sandwiches as a way to help keep H. pylori in check. (See Daily Health News, September 3, 2009, for more on broccoli sprouts.)
Bovine lactoferrin. Studies show that this protein from cows (consumed as a powder added to shakes and smoothies) improves the effectiveness of other therapies against H. pylori.
It can be purchased at iHerb.com and in some health-food stores.
Rather than eradicating H. pylori entirely, a better approach is to tame the bacteria so it can play a healthful, not harmful, role in your digestive system, Dr. Rubman said.
Seek immediate medical attention if you experience these symptoms: Vomit blood or what looks like coffee grounds… having bloody or tarry black stools… or experiencing sudden, severe and persistent abdominal pain.
While you may not be able to eliminate exposure to H. pylori, Dr. Rubman points out that people who maintain a healthy lifestyle — a diet of nutrient-rich whole foods, no smoking, regular exercise, alcohol in moderation only, etc. — are more likely to have robust immune systems and less likely to develop active infections or discomfort even if H. pylori is in their systems.
Source(s):
Andrew L. Rubman, ND, founder and director, Southbury Clinic for Traditional Medicines, Southbury, Connecticut. http://www.SouthburyClinic.com.
Eric Yarnell, ND, clinical supervisor, Bastyr Center for Natural Health, core faculty member, Bastyr University, Seattle. Dr. Yarnell is currently president of the Botanical Medicine Academy in Seattle, chief financial officer of Healing Mountain Publishing and vice president of Heron Botanicals, Inc. He has published and coauthored numerous books and articles.
October 13th, 2011 at 12:33 pm
I am from the Blue Nile valley. If it were not for Anonz’s help our village would have been destroyed. He and his men help hold the killers who work for Omar at bay until the UN sent in help.
The chinese are here to survey and buy up our oil and mineral rights. Many of us are forced to buy weapons to defend against bandits.
I would share my last bits of water and food with Anonz and anyone of his men. He comes quietly and stays until the bad men are driven out.
He demands nothing from us. We give him no things he gives us some of his food and water supplies. We pray for his safe return. You who would make his sacrifice one of greed are either misinformed or evil.
Sama
October 13th, 2011 at 12:35 pm
The big polluters and their dirty air allies in Congress are at it again – this time in the Senate.
Freshman Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has introduced a resolution that would not only block an important life-saving clean air rule, it could prevent EPA from ever issuing a similar rule again.
A vote on this deadly bill could come anytime.
More Information
The EPA’s Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) is designed to help downwind states protect their communities from smog and soot pollution from power plants in upwind states.
CSAPR will save up to 34,000 lives, prevent 400,000 asthma attacks, and avoid 1.8 million lost work and school days due to respiratory illnesses every year.
Senator Paul’s bill, S.J. Res 27, would throw out CSAPR and would prevent the EPA from ever issuing a similar rule without explicit new Congressional authorization.
Senator Paul is corralling support in the Senate right now. And he is planning to bring his bill up under a sneaky, hardly used legislative procedure that can shut down debate and fast track action in the Senate.
That’s why your Senators need to hear from you today –The whole point of the Cross State Air Pollution Rule is to get big polluting states to take responsibility for the pollution they release instead of dumping the consequences off to their neighbors. But that is precisely what Rand Paul’s bill will undo.
This is a truly dreadful bill that will harm the health of people in upwind and downwind states alike and it must be stopped.
Thanks for your activism and support, Sam Parry Director, Online Membership and Activism
October 13th, 2011 at 1:54 pm
From page Six; or better page Sick.
A deem would have to be sick to switch from Obama to any of the republican choices. What does it matter the foreign policy if the country is shot to hell by a bunch of BAPF politicians who are only interested in filling their pockets at the expense of the middle class.
Billionaire or not jewish supporter or not. If the country becomes bankrupt because of the republican policies, what will be left of the country to support the effort to defend Israel or America itself from outside aggression?
Like Michelle says staying home and not voting is a vote for the republicans and that is stupid. So what would you call giving support to a republican over a dem if you were a democrat for Obama in the up coming election? Inane? Moronic? or just plain Brain Dead?
No, the person who wrote this article was trying to pull a sack of shit lie like the one O’Reilly was called on today by Michelle. No one is believing this bull shit.
Janet
October 13th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Howie:
So i guess that page six was lying. That jew switches because he is a jew first and an american second. I wouldn’t vote for the nigger because he is a nigger. But the jew bastard, lies. If this blog is so big then why hasn’t someone confirmed that I was roughed up by two jews in uniform in Bat Yam?
That’s because you jews stick together regardless of nationality. That’s why you are so hated.
Proud American
Raymond
October 13th, 2011 at 2:04 pm
At 7 a.m. tomorrow, Mayor Bloomberg is evicting the Occupy Wall Street protesters from their occupation of Zuccotti Park, unless you can help.1
Zuccotti Park is the birthplace of the Occupy protests sweeping the nation and capturing the public’s attention. It’s where a community of committed Americans are standing up against Wall Street and the corporate capture of our democracy for the 99% of us trying to take back the American Dream.
But tomorrow at 7 a.m., under Mayor Bloomberg’s orders, the NYPD is coming to Zuccotti Park to kick the 99% protesters out. It’s being done under the guise of “cleaning” the park, but new rules will mean the end of the occupation.2
We have very little time to act. We need to gather a huge national petition as soon as possible, so we can deliver it to City Hall tonight and have it for the protesters in Zuccotti Park.
So act now. Sign the petition and tell Mayor Bloomberg: “Respect the protesters’ First Amendment rights. Don’t try to evict Occupy Wall Street.”
October 13th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
We are in 1887
Career of a Dentist Turned Gambling Gunslinger
One of Doc Holliday’s earliest killings was in Griffin, Texas, where he stabbed Edward Bailey over a card game. He was locked in the jail-less town’s hotel , and escaped when his girlfriend, prostitute “Big Nose Kate” set fire to a nearby building as a distraction and helped him get away.
He became friendly with Wyatt Earp, and was always available when the “Fighting Pimp” needed a murderous gunman for Doc was an evil-tempered killer. From 1876 to 1879 he was associated with Earp. Bat Masterson and Luke Short in safeguarding their gambling and prostitution interests in Dodge City, Kansas.
In 1879 the gang was run out of town, and Holliday ran a saloon in Las Vegas, New Mexico, for a time, killing an ex-Army scout who tried to elope with one of the prostitutes he ran.
When the Earps took control of Tombstone in Arizona, Holliday because house-gambler at their Oriental Saloon. He also perpetrated stage-coach robberies.
Big Nose Kate informed against him when he beat her up once too often in 1881. The Earps cooled her off in a cell, and she withdrew the charge.
But the scandal led to the notorious “Gun-Fight at the OK Corral” after which Doc married kate so that she could never testify against him in court.
In 1883 Holliday surfaced again in Dodge City as a member of the infamous “Peace Commission” – in reality, a reorganization of the old Earp-Masterson mob which terrorized the citizenry into reinstating Luke Short’s prostitution rackets.
After that triumph of evil over decency, Holliday drifted around the West, gambling and grumbling as his health declined, until in spring this year he entered a sanatorium and died from the TB that had ravaged him
for so long.
AH
October 13th, 2011 at 3:23 pm
Raymond, you are a disgrace to America. Get a life and a soul.
October 13th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
[...] EXCERPTED FROM Faith Healing source http://blog.michellemoquin.com/2011/10/13/fox-more-of-the-same-same-lies/ [...]
October 13th, 2011 at 3:36 pm
An eleven year old girl who had been escorting a neighbor’s younger child to the neighborhood school. The girl submitted her bill for services rendered as follows:
$1.50 per one month
$1.50 per 3/4 month
——
$3.00
.50 cents for Nancy’s bad behaveyer
.50 cents more for Nancy’s bad behaveyer again.
—–
$4.00
I think this is fair, don’t you? If not, I’ll put it down lower.
Sincerely yours,
Cathy
October 13th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Theo: Ditto
October 13th, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Raymond:
What are you trying to say? It makes no sense to me.
Who cares enough about you to “confirm” that you got beat up in Bat Yam? You probably get roughed up often because of the garbage that comes out of your mouth.
Theo is right. “Get a life and a soul”.
HOWIE
October 13th, 2011 at 5:44 pm
This bares repeating (from the Chron today):
Harriett Hills Stinson, 85, a prominent member of the wealthy San Francisco family that founded Hills Bros. Coffee, says it took a push by GOP conservatives to cut funding for family planning and abortion services to move her to reveal a long-held personal secret: She once had an illegal abortion.
“I’ve never regretted it,” Stinson told The Chronicle this week. As a mother in her 20s with three young children, Stinson said, she came to the decision that “for the sake of my family, it was not right for me to have a fourth child.” Now, she said, “I’m hoping women who have had abortions will come forward.”
On Wednesday, Stinson was honored as national, state and Bay Area supporters of abortion and reproductive rights gathered on the Peninsula for their annual Power of Choice lunch sponsored by NARAL Pro-Choice America, the nation’s largest abortion and reproductive rights advocacy group.
The gathering in Palo Alto of 600 supporters was held to assess the political landscape on a key social issue and discuss the impact of what women’s leaders are increasingly defining as a conservatives’ “war on women” as the 2012 presidential race heats up.
Stinson’s decision to tell the story of her abortion at Wednesday’s event comes as pro-choice supporters warn of an increasingly militant conservative lobby that they say hopes for sharp restrictions on family planning funding and legal abortions – an issue they predict could influence the women’s vote in next year’s election.
A key House vote is scheduled today on HR358, a bill by Rep. Joseph Pitts, R-Pa., that would restrict abortion funding and availability.
Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, said the bill, which she called “extremist,” would allow a hospital to refuse a woman life-saving abortion care “even if she were to die without it.”
While antiabortion groups, such as Americans United for Life, dispute those claims, the Protect Life Act would prohibit federal funds from being spent to cover any part of the cost of a health plan that provides elective abortions.
“This is the seventh vote on the issue of abortion,” Keenan said in an interview. Repeated attempts by conservative lawmakers to restrict funding for Planned Parenthood, which provides services to millions of women, makes it clear that proponents of the measure “want to outlaw birth control and abortion in this country,” she added.
Organizers of Wednesday’s event said it drew not only liberals but also several Republicans and former Republicans, including Stinson, the founder of Republicans for Choice, and former presidential candidate and Rep. Pete McCloskey and Bay Area attorney Mark Herrick, president of the California Republican League.
Herrick said the GOP presidential field, in which all candidates have declared themselves to be strongly antiabortion, didn’t provide any comfort to pro-choice Republicans. He said the party, especially in California, has continued a rightward march on social issues, “which is one of the reasons why we’re in such a minority” and in danger of alienating female voters in 2012.
But he said two developments in California – legislative redistricting and the new primary system in which the top two candidates move on to the general election regardless of political party – may change the landscape by opening the door to more moderate candidates.
While some political observers have suggested that abortion and reproductive rights will not be a key issue in the nation’s current economic climate, Keenan said access to birth control, family planning and cancer screenings are viewed by many women voters as values that relate directly to the issue of personal freedom.
Stinson urged the estimated 1 in 4 American women who have had abortions to “be bold and brave and do something drastic,” to tell their stories to their friends, family and legislators, an effort she said will bring the matter out of the shadows and dramatize the need for safe, legal services.
“Our opposition believes they can control us by shame,” said Stinson, who founded Planned Parenthood in San Mateo. Social conservatives’ opposition to birth control and other prevention measures, she added, “is really what has funneled millions of women into abortions. We’ve got to end our silence.”
——
Nancy Pelosi spoke on the floor about HR 358 today:
It’s very interesting that we are taking this bill up now when the number one priority is the creation of jobs, and once again, we come to the floor of the House with a major distraction that ain’t going nowhere in order to cater to an extreme agenda of the Republican Majority.
“The American people want us to take up jobs. They want us to take up the American Jobs Act, which [two-thirds] of the American people say they want us to consider. It would create nearly 2 million jobs. Or we could vote on the China currency legislation, which would [create] 1 million jobs and has the support of the majority of the Members in this body including 61 cosponsors from the Republican side of the aisle.
“But again, we’re instead pursuing the Republicans’ ideological agenda, forcing us to re-litigate a very divisive issue. Every woman in America should be very concerned about this assault on women’s health. Let us begin the debate with a very clear understanding of the facts. The federal funding of abortion is already, and has been for a long time, prohibited under the Hyde Amendment, except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.
“Furthermore, the Affordable Care Act prohibits the use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund abortions. That is why the Catholic Health Association said, ‘We are confident that [the health care reform] does not allow federal funding of abortion and that it keeps in place important conscience protections for caregivers and institutions alike.’
====
First, I’m sorry I missed the NARAL Pro-Choice America eevent in Palo Alto yesterday. I wish I would have been there to recognize and support her. There is a War on Women being waged. If an 85 year old woman willing to stand up, we all can.
Sadly, H.R. 358 was passed today in a 251-172 vote that saw more than a dozen Democrats join nearly all voting Republicans in support of the measure.
“House leaders just can’t keep their eye on the ball and focus on jobs and the economy,” said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. “In fact, this bill will increase the economic burden on already struggling American families by eliminating health insurance provisions that could save them from bankruptcy.”
Fortunately, The White House said on Wednesday that it would veto the bill if it were to pass Congress. It is assumed the Senate is not expected to consider it; we shall see.
/SB
October 13th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country: emotionally I know that she is better than every other country.
Sinclair Lewis, Speech
October 13th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
OMG, I promise to stay off the blog for a few days after that really long post. Sorry Michelle (and everyone), I didn’t quite realize how much was there.
/SB
October 13th, 2011 at 6:03 pm
We are pursuing the Republicans’ ideological agenda, forcing us to re-litigate a very divisive issue. Every woman in America should be very concerned about this assault on women’s health. Let us begin the debate with a very clear understanding of the facts. The federal funding of abortion is already, and has been for a long time, prohibited under the Hyde Amendment, except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.
Because most white women follow in lock step behind their idiotic men’s tiny penis reaction to accepting women as equals.
They put this hypocritical party back in control of our lives.
That’s why we can’t get a vote on a job’s bill of any kind.
Carla
October 13th, 2011 at 6:07 pm
SB, thank you for that post. Please continue to be the contributing part of this blog that you are.
I am appalled that that bill passed. When are we women going to realize that unless we take our destinies into our own hands men will continue to control our bodies at their whelm?
Anita
October 13th, 2011 at 6:09 pm
Blue dog democrats should settle for being called just dogs. The problem with that is it would give dogs a bad name.
October 13th, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Glad to see you are back AH. Cowboys my favorite. Keep the stories coming. How about shining some truth on who the Earps and Holliday really was?
Daniel
October 13th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Scott Brown has been caught plagiarizing Elizabeth Dole. They can steal from women but not grant them equal respect.
He disrespects the other Elizabeth he is running against while stealing another’s life story and using it as his own.
But republicans don’t care. As long as a republican gets elected they could care less what his morals, or values really are.
Like that loser McCain when he picked Palin.
Harriet
October 13th, 2011 at 6:45 pm
Hullanta, I do understand, that’s the extraordinary thing about Anonz and that’s why I wrote what I wrote…his type is rare. I was making an observation about greedy elites and US/China, there’s Anonz who is called a hero yet again, and there’s China, marrying in and working side by side…would they be doing that if they had no interest in resources like oil? No, but they like to sound very helpful, whereas Anonz is though he also is reaping other benefits, that’s just how it is…
Cliff, no Seal Beach is almost 20 miles away, though I’ve spent time there, it’s sleepy and I guess with a tiny coastal edge to it, the story is not complete yet…thanks for asking.
SB, the length isn’t what matters, it’s the content.
- ZL
October 13th, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Hi Linda: Thanks for the welcome back. What? Me Worry?
Hi Inga: Always wanted to be in a gang. Same initiation, right?
Zen Lill: You got a rabbit hole. Let me have the Twilight Zone. How’s that sound…….? Deal?
Bye-Bye for now girls,
Al
October 13th, 2011 at 8:17 pm
I feel like the family is all together again now that you are back Al.
Don’t stay away so long next time.
Ellen
October 13th, 2011 at 8:26 pm
That’s a dealio, Al…the rabbit hole is scary enough. I’ll give you twilight zone and take a ‘that 70′s show’ station break : ) – ZL
October 13th, 2011 at 8:28 pm
286
No. 286 of 365
Destroy a liberal’s argument by exposing the underlying rhetorical cheat.
NO. 4.
“Closing Down the Argument.” In a debate based on fact, a conservative will always win. A sure-fire sign that a liberal is losing is when he tries to “close down the argument” by casting aspersions on your morality.
For example, if you are debating immigration, he will accuse you of being a “racist”; if you’re worried about radical Islam, you’re “Islamophobic”; if you want your kids to be taught properly at school, you’re an “elitist”;
if you think marriage requires one man and one woman, you’re “homophobic”; if you think there are rather obvious differences between men and women, you’re a “sexist”; and so on.
This technique says: “My opponent is so satanically evil that what little truth he has to utter is irredeemably tainted by his depravity. Whereas, I’m good and nice and caring, so I win.” All you have to do to counter this technique is to point out to the liberal exactly what he’s doing.
October 13th, 2011 at 8:43 pm
Got Insomnia? Go to Bed Later
Daniel Buysse, MD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
New study: Researchers gave 79 women with insomnia (average age 72) printed material on good sleep habits or four weeks of behavioral therapy that included in-person counseling. Result: Those who received therapy significantly improved sleep by going to bed later, waking up at the same time each morning and limiting time in bed.
Theory: Turning in later increases one’s natural sleep drive. If you have insomnia: Go to bed later, when sleepy, and get up at your usual time each day. Your total time in bed should equal your average amount of actual sleep plus no more than 30 minutes.
Daniel Buysse, MD, professor of psychiatry, Sleep Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
October 13th, 2011 at 8:50 pm
I saw Anonz when he came into our village to help us clear a well. He did not kill anyone. He and his men worked for 4 days 12 to 18 hours a day to save us from the deaths caused by cholera and dysentery.
When he left we thanked God for his help. He left as he came without anything from us. Unlike the UN we were not forced to barter sex for help. He left us with parts of their supplies because we were in so much need.
Chioma
October 13th, 2011 at 9:34 pm
ZL: No deal, nope not that lame show. Not even if I could play Kelso. Rod Serling now that’s a different story. And now a word from our sponsor. I have been given a key. A key that unlocks the door the to imagination. Now, don’t be late for that very important date. Hello and goodbye.
Al
October 14th, 2011 at 12:29 am
Raymond:
Many people like you come to Israel with your attitudes of superiority and get insulted when your inferences are not accepted to your satisfaction.
Howie is one of ours. It shouldn’t surprise you if we find your condescending attitude towards him annoying.
October 14th, 2011 at 12:29 am
Me thinks that Michelle Obama must be lacing the organic vegetables at the White House with some illegal narcotic. Either that or Obama’s smoking addiction goes way beyond cigarettes.
How else to explain his attempt to persuade us that he and our first President are like brothers? He’s just a habitual liar, you say? Well, I guess there’s that.
During his televised address in the Rose Garden yesterday, Obama actually justified his blowout government spending palooza by quoting none other than George Washington.
Said the Messiah, “It’s always more popular to promise the moon and leave the bill for after the next election or the election after that. That’s been true since our founding. George Washington grappled with this problem. He said, ‘Towards the payment of debts, there must be revenue, that to have revenue there must be taxes, [and] no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.’ He understood that dealing with the debt is — these are his words — ‘always a choice of difficulties.’”
For Obama to pull the “Hey, George Washington loved taxes too” card is almost comical. Almost. Here’s why it’s not. Read on…
— Jason Mattera
October 14th, 2011 at 7:43 am
I am convinced that most people watch Fox news because they are forced to. When I am at a service facility, or when I am traveling the television is always fixed on the Fox channel.
Given the added belief that one can say it if it isn’t true, people like O’Reilly get to lie in the way you exposed without having to be held accountable.
It is sick that they deliberately lie to their audience for ratings and money. I am shocked that I was fooled by the statistical lie he used. I will never listen to Fox with the same faith again.
My father says “So what?” He is willing to give O’Reilly a pass. I am not. You have opened my eyes and they will stay open. What other lies have we been fed?
This is my first exposure to your blog. My cousin sent me the link. She says while you are a preaching liberal, you do allow others to have their say without censorship.
That’s fair. I have a lot to say.
Patricia
October 14th, 2011 at 7:45 am
Paul Krugman, Nobel prize winning economist, best selling author, and opinion writer for the NY Times goes down the rabbit hole…http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/opinion/rabbit-hole-economics.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
But, the hole goes much deeper, and gets much darker, which makes his facts and statements that much more scary.
October 14th, 2011 at 7:49 am
Those of you who have not joined Tyna to your grid continue to uncloak. Bringing rain to hide the mishap is unacceptable, especially when there is no communication between the parties bringing the weather change.
Each little tweak adds to the amount of rain. What one feels is enough to keep their jets grounded when compounded by another doing the same thing brings monsoon like water and wind to the island.
This is unacceptable.
Work it out or have the TAO escort you off the Guam Grid.
Urte
October 14th, 2011 at 8:01 am
Doug,
The way I see it is that the republican party can say anything without regard to the truth because they know that the group of voters they appealing to are the white voters and a few asians and wannabe white OTWs.
That group will accept any excuse to remove the black man from office. That group will accept any excuse to put someone in office that who will advance their vision of religion and homophobic hatred.
Hence, the veiled reference to Barney Frank as the culprit in america’s financial crisis. He’s gay so he is inherently evil.
Or Obama is black so any tale that says he is out to destroy america as we know it is not only plausible but believable because he is BLACK.
If the republicans get in and destroy this piece of shit white america has turned my country into, this white american is heading back to Ireland.
Perry
October 14th, 2011 at 8:07 am
Hafa adai TAO
Un Dangkulo na Si Yu’os Ma’ase.
Anna
October 14th, 2011 at 8:55 am
Patricia, simply don’t watch FOX. There is only right winged propaganda spewing from that organization.
Perry, Barney Frank is being attacked and used as a fall guy as revenge for the Frank-Dodd Act for Wall Street reform and Consumer protection. The fact that he is gay gives that much more pleasure in the attacks from the right.
Once Obama begins to side with the people of Occupy Wall Street, he will win the election. The momentum is reaching a point to which other countries, most recent Poland and Lech Walesa, have come forward on the side of the protesters. Obama is waiting to ride the wave of the world for America just as he did in the previous election. The tipping point for the protests are coming near for him to jump in and become the spokesperson. Once this happens, he is in.
October 14th, 2011 at 9:08 am
Doug how sad for America that you find the need to support that rabble destroying our country. It was the likes of Obama and liberals like you willing to force banks to lend to people who couldn’t afford the loans that caused this crises in the first place.
If you really listened to Fox you would have learned this a long time ago. But you would rather excoriate Fox for telling it like it is.
Then you push that N on white America like he is the wonder from heaven. His heaven is islam. We are a christian nation.
Clark
November 7th, 2011 at 8:45 am
bovia…
[...]Michelle Moquin's "A day in the life of…" » Blog Archive » FOX News: More Of The Same Same Lies[...]…
November 14th, 2011 at 12:05 am
Invest Property…
[...]Michelle Moquin's "A day in the life of…" » Blog Archive » FOX News: More Of The Same Same Lies[...]…
November 16th, 2011 at 7:07 am
jablka recepty…
[...]Michelle Moquin's "A day in the life of…" » Blog Archive » FOX News: More Of The Same Same Lies[...]…
November 16th, 2011 at 11:55 am
Foam Mattress Queen Size…
[...]Michelle Moquin's "A day in the life of…" » Blog Archive » FOX News: More Of The Same Same Lies[...]…
November 16th, 2011 at 2:13 pm
evacuated solar tubes…
[...]Michelle Moquin's "A day in the life of…" » Blog Archive » FOX News: More Of The Same Same Lies[...]…
November 18th, 2011 at 12:42 am
escorts london~london escorts~escorts in london…
[...]Michelle Moquin's "A day in the life of…" » Blog Archive » FOX News: More Of The Same Same Lies[...]…
December 4th, 2011 at 5:48 pm
quan tri web…
[...]Michelle Moquin's "A day in the life of…" » Blog Archive » FOX News: More Of The Same Same Lies[...]…
December 6th, 2011 at 5:17 pm
My Service Engineer…
[...]Michelle Moquin's "A day in the life of…" » Blog Archive » FOX News: More Of The Same Same Lies[...]…