By The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — About a third of abortion providers in Texas were expected to stop offering the procedure Friday after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Texas may begin enforcing some of the strictest regulations in the country. Here’s a look at the law[...]
Posts Tagged ‘tea party’
November 13th, 2013 - 3:06 am § in Science
Philippino Man Curses Climate Denialists
Climate denial is today’s blasphemy … once states banned blasphemy out of fear of God’s wrath … the wrath of science is MUCH worse.[...]
November 8th, 2013 - 4:48 pm § in Misc.
How can ANYBODY with a conscience live in a state governed by the tea party?
Watching this reminds me of the Germans who provided Hitler with enough votes, never more than a third, to take over the Bundestag.[...]
November 7th, 2013 - 10:15 am § in Hypocrisy, The Ave Scene
Aftermath of 522
The Independent has an excellent summary of the state of the art on gene splicing … the REAL issues behind 522 …. Washington State’s failed initiative to label any food containing genomes that have been modified using the tool set of molecular genetics. I votes against this becau[...]
November 6th, 2013 - 9:40 am § in Science, The Ave Scene
Science Denial Aids County Budget
King County snowplows to be scarce this winter The county will plow only 10 percent of its road miles this winter, a casualty of a decline in the county roads budget.[...]
November 5th, 2013 - 7:33 pm § in America
SCARY NEWS FROM VA: State seems to want to elect government that rapes women!
The strange thing about these data is that McAuliffe was supposed to be LEADING the ticket BUT Democrat Ralph Northam defeated Republican E.W. Jackson for Virginia lieutenant governor and Mark Obenshain, a Cuccinelli clone is leading Mark Herring by over 3%!!! Maybe Virginians like having the[...]
Over A Quarter Of Americans Believe That The Jews Killed Their Deity!
An Anti-Defamation League survey determined that 26% of Americans still believe that “Jews were responsible for the death of Christ.” Sadly, there is no reason to imagine that Jews would have if the Romans had not gotten their first. If one accepts the gospels, then Jesus was a blasph[...]
Eid Mubrarak: The Caliphate: a golden age
The feared caliphate: Is this what the West fears? This is the historic extent of the last caliphate .. before the Turkish conquest. Moreover … note the final version .. th Abassid. This regime existed in what the West calls its Dark Ages … but in truth it was a golden age of learni[...]
October 17th, 2013 - 9:52 am § in Politics
What will Washington’s DEMOCRATS Do About Cruz?
The far right of the Republican party, what I call the Repricans, refer to moderate Republicans as Rhinos. After Crus, it seems to me the Dems need to make that label stick! Two Washington Republican Congressmen (the Repricans still have not figured out the gender issue) live and run in districts[...]
Nov 7 Norm Rice Elected Mayor of Seattle
Rice wins election as Seattle’s first African American mayor on November 7, 1989. | We voted for Norm . The thing that is so hard to remember now is that the issues surrounding him were not race but conservatism. In that era, conservatives might be republicans and some wonder[...]