Disturbing Quote

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“Just like a pro-abortion group to turn a cancer orgs decision into a political bomb to throw. Cry me a freaking river.”

Komen vice president- Karen Handel retweets the words of teenager

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"What this has shown is that any little segment of industry can hire a lobbyist, get an economic study done and
hold up just about any regulation," said Peter Jenkins, an attorney for the National Environmental Coalition
on Invasive Species, comprised of environmental and science groups. "If we can't push this over the finish line,
what the hell can we regulate?"

http://www.evergladesfoundation.org/...s-bogged-down/

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"The whole building is about to collapse anytime now," Tourre wrote. "Only potential survivor, the fabulous Fab ...
standing in the middle of all these complex, highly leveraged, exotic trades he created without necessarily
understanding all of the implications of those monstrosities!!!"

Fabrice "Fab" Tourre ( Tourre de Toxic )

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"Tell old God that the last man you saw on earth was Quantrill."

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"It's culture that has gone up in smoke," filmmaker Nikos Kavoukidis lamented as he shot footage of the crowd
gathered at the ruins of the Attikon cinema. "What do we have left? Television and football?"

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“I consider the Failure of the Potato Crop to be of the greatest possible Value in one respect – in enabling us to carry out the Emigration System.”

Francis Spaight

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"So where did the false meme come from? Anonymous U.S. government sources. And unless
there’s classified information suggesting otherwise, those sources were clearly mistaken."

Justin Elliott

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"He could'nt stay President, he was'nt a role model, anymore."

"Do we really need someone, in that office?

- German citizen's comments to TV camera

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"The Congressional Tree House."

Seth Adam Meyers

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"What we're simply trying to do- is say that before a woman in this commonwealth is
vaginally penetrated against her consent, she has to consent to that," he said.

Delegate David L. Englin, D-Alexandria
The Virginia House of Delegates

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"....in the face of unrelenting, unwarranted personal attacks unseen in the history of the
US Presidency, Obama has never once stooped down to the level of his haters."

Alex Skolnick

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"Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt."

Oscar Wilde.

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"The Act reaches oral statements as well as written ones, and private statements as well as public ones.
It reaches statements that do not cause harm as well as those that do. It reaches statements made with
intent to deceive, but it also reaches satire and parody. . . . It reaches the satirist, the actor, the comic,
the investigator, the eccentric, and the common braggart. It reaches them whether their claims are made
in a newspaper ad, a public speech, a dinner table conversation, a love letter,
a blog post, or a tweet. And it
reaches them even if their claim was not intended to deceive, no one relied on it, no one was harmed by it,
and no one other than the government paid it any attention."

United States v. Alvarez - ACLU Amicus Brief

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"Five men are testifying on women's health."

"What I want to know is, where are the women?"

"When I look at this panel, I don't see one, single woman representing the tens of millions of women
across the country who want and need coverage for basic preventive health care services."

-Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.)

"What is it that men don't understand about women's health and how central the issue of family planning is to that?"
" Not just if you're having families but if you need those kinds of prescription drugs for your general health, "

"which was the testimony they would have heard this morning if they had allowed a woman on the panel."

-Nancy Pelosi

{gsgs comment- One man decides the fate of birth control for all the women in the United States? Darrell Issa, R-California?}

All of the witnesses on the panel are men, the second panel will feature four more men-

The morning panel at the hearing consisted exclusively of men from conservative religious organizations.

Combined total of the nine witnesses will include no women.

No experts on contraception, no experts on health care, and no experts who might say something Republicans disagree with.

"When the claim of 'conscience' by large religions collides with that of an individual woman, her right to make her own moral decision must be saved."

-Rev. Barry W. Lynn

"the kind (of hearing) you expect in an autocratic regime."

"pretzel turning of the rules so as to deny us a witness"

- Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.)

Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.)

"This committee commits a massive injustice by trying to pretend that the views of millions
of women across this country are meaningless, or worthless, or irrelevant to this debate.”
-Democrat Elijah Cummings (D-M.D.

"The pill has had a profound impact on their (women's) well being, far more than any man in this room could know."
-Democrat Elijah Cummings (D-M.D.

"I think everyone understands what is going on here today. The Chairman is promoting a conspiracy theory that
the federal government is conducting a “war” against religion. He has stacked the hearing with witnesses who
agree with his position. He has not invited the Catholic Health Association, Catholic Charities, Catholics United,
or a host of other Catholic groups that praised the White House for making the accommodation they made
last week. He has also refused to allow a minority witness to testify about the interests of women who want
safe and affordable coverage for basic preventive health care, including contraception. In my opinion,
this Committee commits a massive injustice by trying to pretend that the views of millions of women
across this country are meaningless, or worthless, or irrelevant to this debate."

"Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State"

Chairman Issa Hearing Preview Statement-

Americans of all faiths have a right to practice their religion free from the fear of persecution or harassment from their government. Our nation's founders believed this and enshrined religious freedom into the First Amendment to the Constitution.

While some Americans may not feel that government mandates forcing them to pay for contraception are an infringement on their religious beliefs, others consider it to be an assault against their freedom of conscience. A government policy that encroaches on the conscientious objections of religious groups concerns all Americans who value the protections of the First Amendment. Today, the committee will hear testimony from leaders of different faiths. They are concerned that government, under this Administration, is encroaching on their First Amendment rights.

The Administration's actions have forced us to confront a more fundamental question about the proper role of government in our lives.

This hearing is about basic question of religious freedom, and whether or not protection will be afforded to religious institutions who wish to follow their conscience in refusing to pay for products they find morally objectionable. I look forward to hearing from today's witnesses.

(gsgs comment- I am guessing we will have to declare Religion a person, too after this? Religious money, needs protection from other people, too. Female people. }

{gsgs comment- "You reach out a hand, expecting the polite clasp of friendship, and look to find your wrist is missing a hand,
and there is a razor-sharp knife in both of your opponent's fists. Lied to, deceived, and robbed of a fair chance.
Welcome to Republican dirty tricks.}

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"I am requesting that the General Assembly amend this bill to explicitly state that-

no woman in Virginia will have to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound involuntarily."

"I am asking the General Assembly to state in this legislation that only a transabdominal, or external, ultrasound will be required to satisfy
the requirements to determine gestational age. Should a doctor determine that another form of ultrasound may be necessary to provide
the necessary images and information that will be an issue for the doctor and the patient.

"The government will have no role in that medical decision."

-Statement of Governor Bob McDonnell on SB 484

I called and emailed McDonnell’s press secretary Jeff Caldwell asking if the forced vaginal ultrasound bill
would in-fact overturn the rape statute. Caldwell did not return my call or email by the time of publication.

-Andy Kopsa

§ 18.2-61. Rape.

A. If any person has sexual intercourse with a complaining witness, whether or not his or her spouse, or causes
a complaining witness, whether or not his or her spouse, to engage in sexual intercourse with any other person
and such act is accomplished (i) against the complaining witness's will, by force, threat or intimidation of
or against the complaining witness or another person; or (ii) through the use of the complaining witness's
mental incapacity or physical helplessness; or (iii) with a child under age 13 as the victim, he or she shall be
guilty of rape.

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"The bill ... mandates ultrasounds before women can access their constitutionally protected right to obtain an abortion....
legislators are still practicing medicine without a license by prescribing unnecessary medical procedures
instead of leaving that decision to a woman and her doctor."

-Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.

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"Whoever defines the debate topic usually wins it. Right now, all indicators—from the essays you just read to the daily news reports,
seem to be telling us that we are on a path likely to end in a very bad place for women if we don’t take charge of our own agenda
without delay."

Gloria Feldt

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"Gingrich set out to be nasty. Boy, he was good at it. He secured his place in history as the visionary leader who helped his party
seize control of the House in 1994, ending 40 years in the minority. But his congressional legacy also included three ruined
speakerships, a government shutdown, a disastrous presidential impeachment, the public disgrace of respected leaders
from both parties, and a deep poisoning of the atmosphere in Congress.

John Aloysius Farrell
NationalJournal
February 25, 2012

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"Texas Republicans never miss an opportunity to throw the most vulnerable Texans under the bus so that they can pick a fight with the federal government."

- Rebecca Acuña, a spokeswoman for the Texas Democratic Party

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"I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen
that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.'

Just who do they think they are?

And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every
religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote
on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today:
I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their
moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.' "

- Barry Goldwater
(1909-1998) US Senator (R-Arizona)
Congressional Record, September 16, 1981

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"In 1988, fighting Dukakis, I said that I 'would strip the bark off the little bastard' and 'make Willie Horton his running mate.'
I am sorry for both statements: the first for its naked cruelty, the second because it makes me sound racist, which I am not."

-Lee Atwater

''I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose --
you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.''

-William J. Bennett

''You start out in 1954 by saying, 'Nigger, nigger, nigger.' By 1968 you can't say 'nigger' -- that hurts you. Backfires.
So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that]
you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things
and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites."

''And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract,
and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me -- because
obviously sitting around saying, 'We want to cut this,' is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and
a hell of a lot more abstract than 'Nigger, nigger.'''

-Lee Atwater
New york Times
Opinion section
"Impossible, Ridiculous, Repugnant"
October 6, 2005

''I believe in states' rights.''

-Ronald Reagan
( begins his general election campaign in 1980, in Philadelphia, Miss., where three young civil rights workers
were murdered in the summer of 1964.)

“This is the best food stamp president in history. So more Americans now get food stamps therefore and we now give it away as cash.
You don’t get food stamps. You get a credit card and the credit card can be used for anything.
We’ve had people take their food stamp money and use it to go to Hawaii.”

“And you know, they give food stamps now to millionaires. Because after all, don’t you want to be compassionate?
“You know the Obama model, isn’t there somebody you’d like to give money to this week?”

- Newt Gingrich

(under President George W. Bush, the number of recipients rose by nearly 14.7 million. Under Obama, the increase so far has been 14.2 million. )

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“What is it with all of these young, single, white women, overeducated — doesn’t mean intelligent.”

-Rush Limbaugh

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"Candidates of either party who strap their campaigns to the weakness of the national economy run the risk
of looking as if they are rooting for high unemployment and economic hardship."

-New York Times columnist, James Stewart

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"Lord's Resistance Army objectives. I have them here."

"To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people."

"The Lord's Resistance Army are Christians."

"They (the LRA) are fighting the Muslims."

"Now, again. Lord's Resistance Army is who Obama sent (USA) troops to help nations wipe out."

- Rush Limbaugh

(maybe, Rush should have asked the 30,000 abducted and enslaved children?)

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"The law would no longer cover rapes that are the result of a woman being drugged, drunk, mentally disabled or date rape?"

- Jonathan Capehart