Mike Huckabee Pledges to Criminalize Abortion Even if It Leads to "Riots in the Streets"

Mike Huckabee Pledges to Criminalize Abortion Even if It Leads to “Riots in the Streets”

Won’t someone please pay attention to Huckabee?

PoliticsSeptember 2015 • Views: 57,152

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is watching his poll numbers drop as Donald Trump’s continue to rise, so now he’s going all-out to be the most extreme Republican on the subject of abortion, hoping to capture the evangelical audience that thinks this is a winning issue. In a recent video conference with a group of far right loons, Huckabee staked out his position by vowing to criminalize abortion by executive order even if it leads to “riots in the streets.”

He sounds almost gleeful at the prospect.

Huckabee vowed that he will criminalize abortion, no matter the consequences: “I think that the bolder and more important and more urgent position is to invoke the constitutional rights of the unborn, recognizing them as persons, expecting lawsuits, expecting extraordinary pushback, and goodness, perhaps riots in the streets.”

“I think that we have tinkered around the edges so long that we failed to go back to the original purpose of the Bill of Rights and we have simply not applied it,” Huckabee said. “Frankly, I don’t know of any of us who are pro-lifers who would argue, ‘well that is really not a person,’ so the question is: Do we believe that the unborn child is a person? If we do, then we ought to act like that is a person and give them the protections that they are due under the Constitution.”

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125 comments

Chan Kobun Sep 2, 2015 • 3:37:52pm

You have to wonder if the GOP’s meatstick base will ever cotton on to the scam their pols have pulled on them for decades - promise an end to everything they hate, then don’t do it and decalre that “we’ll surely get them THIS time!”

KGxvi Sep 2, 2015 • 3:38:05pm

I’d been saying for a while that I suspected Huckabee would win the GOP nomination this year under the “next in line” rules of the party. But, I’ve been wrong on that - normally that’d be a good thing, but the alternatives are what they are.

Kragar Sep 2, 2015 • 3:38:41pm

Mike Huckabee is entering the “spastic flailing for relevance” portion of his presidential campaign.

The Mountain That Blogs Sep 2, 2015 • 3:38:50pm

even if it leads to “riots in the streets.”

Or dead women

Amory Blaine Sep 2, 2015 • 3:41:46pm

The Gits - Here’s to Your Fuck

This, obviously.

Eclectic Cyborg Sep 2, 2015 • 3:42:02pm

re: #1 Chan Kobun

You have to wonder if the GOP’s meatstick base will ever cotton on to the scam their pols have pulled on them for decades - promise an end to everything they hate, then don’t do it and decalre that “we’ll surely get them THIS time!”

That’s the standard supervillain game plan isn’t it?

EPR-radar Sep 2, 2015 • 3:42:12pm

Give the GOP primary field time. As they try to deal with Trumpaggedon by getting increasingly extreme about GOP dogma, we’ll probably see worse than this. Particularly on the topic of abortion, the mask seems to be coming off, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see ‘abortion is murder’ in the official 2016 GOP platform.

Eclectic Cyborg Sep 2, 2015 • 3:43:31pm

Man the debates between Hillary/Biden and the GOP nominee are going to be epic.

EPR-radar Sep 2, 2015 • 3:45:09pm

re: #4 The Mountain That Blogs

Or dead women

An abortion ban that leads to dead women is highly desirable from a theocrat point of view.

These are sick, sick people, and their views are rapidly gaining ground in the GOP.

ObserverArt Sep 2, 2015 • 3:45:09pm

Charles…I see the ad at the top of the page is coming in fine now on my system. And, so far I am running way better and have not restarted the computer or Chrome since I posted about it all earlier. Strange. Spooky. Could it have been related?

Of course…all subject to change. But right now better than it has been since yesterday afternoon when it started.

allegro Sep 2, 2015 • 3:45:43pm

Since he’s denying the right to bodily autonomy with his decree then as persons we all may demand the blood and organs of other.persons as needed to maintain our lives. Right?

EPR-radar Sep 2, 2015 • 3:47:04pm

re: #1 Chan Kobun

You have to wonder if the GOP’s meatstick base will ever cotton on to the scam their pols have pulled on them for decades - promise an end to everything they hate, then don’t do it and decalre that “we’ll surely get them THIS time!”

The GOP base has in fact cottoned onto this scam of the GOP establishment. That’s why there’s a decent chance the GOP nominee will be some kind of non-establishment nut bar in 2016.

EPR-radar Sep 2, 2015 • 3:48:23pm

re: #11 allegro

Since he’s denying the right to bodily autonomy with his decree then as persons we all may demand the blood and organs of other.persons as needed to maintain our lives. Right?

My religion tells me that I need to feed Mike Huckabee’s brains to my cat. Surely he could spare some.

allegro Sep 2, 2015 • 3:49:01pm

re: #12 EPR-radar

The GOP base has in fact cottoned onto this scam of the GOP establishment. That’s why there’s a decent chance the GOP nominee will be some kind of non-establishment nut bar in 2016.

Considering those who are running for the GOP nomination it isn’t a decent chance, it’s a guarantee.

#CampaignZero Sep 2, 2015 • 3:49:01pm

I’m away all day and miss sooo much news.

Just had to pop in with my :(

jaunte Sep 2, 2015 • 3:52:36pm

It’s a scandal that someone trained by the American military would end up so dumb as to think this would work. https://t.co/F7rXSVfOAx

— David Waldman (@KagroX) September 2, 2015

“Assault rifle with Bible verse designed to repel Muslim terrorists has been unveiled in Apopka”

Blind Frog Belly White Sep 2, 2015 • 3:53:17pm

So, let me get this straight - the same guy who bitches about Obama ruling like a king because he issues executive orders says he would, by executive order, overrule the Supreme Court?

Blind Frog Belly White Sep 2, 2015 • 3:55:29pm

re: #16 jaunte

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“Assault rifle with Bible verse designed to repel Muslim terrorists has been unveiled in Apopka”

Yeah, but don’t Muslims consider Psalms to be part of THEIR holy books, so couldn’t Muslim Terrorists use the same verse?

Great White Snark Sep 2, 2015 • 3:55:43pm

How does Huckabee think he can even do that? Executive order? Stamp his feet and hold his breath? Whine like a bitch? What?

nines09 Sep 2, 2015 • 3:56:04pm

“I’ll take “Obvious Grifters Of The Early 2000’s” for 500 dollars, Alex.”

Kragar Sep 2, 2015 • 3:56:14pm

re: #17 Blind Frog Belly White

So, let me get this straight - the same guy who bitches about Obama ruling like a king because he issues executive orders says he would, by executive order, overrule the Supreme Court?

Remember that time when Huckabee said every American should be forced at gun point to listen to David Barton?

Good times.

jaunte Sep 2, 2015 • 3:56:20pm

re: #18 Blind Frog Belly White

One more example of Christians treating their own like rubes.

Charles Johnson Sep 2, 2015 • 3:57:11pm

re: #10 ObserverArt

Charles…I see the ad at the top of the page is coming in fine now on my system. And, so far I am running way better and have not restarted the computer or Chrome since I posted about it all earlier. Strange. Spooky. Could it have been related?

Of course…all subject to change. But right now better than it has been since yesterday afternoon when it started.

A possibility is some kind of issue in your Internet connection - a flaky router somewhere along the way or something like that.

jaunte Sep 2, 2015 • 3:57:20pm

“This magical rifle is made with pieces of the True Cross which no infidel can lay hand upon.”

Backwoods_Sleuth Sep 2, 2015 • 3:58:41pm

MY LATEST AT BANTER: Florida Governor Scrubs Memorandum Clearing Planned Parenthood of Wrongdoing http://t.co/bUe7Ha1MJ9

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) September 2, 2015

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott’s office scrubbed a press release written by his own regulators that found there was no “mishandling of fetal remains” at clinics run by Planned Parenthood and, at the same time, said it would refer doctors who worked at those clinics to the state Board of Medicine for possible disciplinary action. […]

The state released its findings of the Planned Parenthood investigations on Aug. 5. Emails between the governor’s office and AHCA, obtained by POLITICO Florida through a public records request, show the agency prepared a press release that same day noting that “there is no evidence of the mishandling of fetal remains at any of the 16 clinics we investigated across the state.”

Scott’s office revised the release to exclude that sentence, an email sent by Scott’s communications director, Jackie Schutz, shows. Additionally, the revised release noted the AHCA would refer physicians who worked at the clinics to the Board of Medicine for possible disciplinary action.

Blind Frog Belly White Sep 2, 2015 • 3:59:07pm

re: #22 jaunte

One more example of Christians treating their own like rubes.

It makes even less sense than greasing bullets with lard. Does ANYONE’s god make the individual’s salvation dependent on what a different individual does?

KGxvi Sep 2, 2015 • 3:59:25pm

“I think that we have tinkered around the edges so long that we failed to go back to the original purpose of the Bill of Rights and we have simply not applied it,”

considering at the time of the Framers, abortion was legal until “quickening” (movement of the fetus) per legal precedents under English common law… Huckabee doesn’t seem to have a damned clue what he’s talking about.

my sincerely held religious belief is that I should be able to hit him repeatedly with a clue stick until he figures it out.

b.d. Sep 2, 2015 • 3:59:44pm

Let me guess, Mike won’t actually be the one rioting?

Jenner7 Sep 2, 2015 • 3:59:45pm

re: #10 ObserverArt

It’s much better in the last 30 minutes. But damn, all day I’ve had trouble.

Blind Frog Belly White Sep 2, 2015 • 4:01:09pm

BTW, the last thread completely bogs down for me. Typing in the comment box is so laggy that I ended up typing entire sentences blind, plus clicking on any button resulted in a >5 sec wait for a response. This thread, OTOH, is working normally.

Chrome/Windows 7

allegro Sep 2, 2015 • 4:02:45pm

Any thread of late that approaches 400 or so comments goes bonkers for me. I go away until there’s a new thread.

Jenner7 Sep 2, 2015 • 4:03:04pm

Apologies if this has been posted, with my internet being shitty all day, it’s hard to catch up.

BREAKING: All six officers charged in #FreddieGray case will be tried separately.

— NicolÃ¡s Medina Mora (@MedinaMora) September 2, 2015

Blind Frog Belly White Sep 2, 2015 • 4:03:26pm

It was that way for me when it was in the 100s.

Great White Snark Sep 2, 2015 • 4:05:31pm

@HuffPostPol We need experts to confirm that?! Next up Sky Is Blue!
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) September 2, 2015

BeachDem Sep 2, 2015 • 4:05:47pm

re: #13 EPR-radar

My religion tells me that I need to feed Mike Huckabee’s brains to my cat. Surely he could spare some.

Uh—I think we have excellent evidence that Huckabee has no brains to spare.

Targetpractice Sep 2, 2015 • 4:06:31pm

re: #32 Jenner7

Apologies if this has been posted, with my internet being shitty all day, it’s hard to catch up.

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I’ll go ahead and predict now that the cops with the worst charges will end up walking, while those with the least will get slaps on the wrist. And that will be “justice.”

Charles Johnson Sep 2, 2015 • 4:06:47pm

re: #31 allegro

Any thread of late that approaches 400 or so comments goes bonkers for me. I go away until there’s a new thread.

The only real solution is implementing some kind of paging system. The more content there is on a page, the slower most browsers get. That’s just how it is.

ObserverArt Sep 2, 2015 • 4:07:16pm

re: #29 Jenner7

It’s much better in the last 30 minutes. But damn, all day I’ve had trouble.

Interesting. I mentioned your issues this morning to Charles. And now it is clear for you. You an ATT Uvers customer by any chance?

I wonder if some ad service loading was getting hosed by routers that we somehow shared through a connection out there on the ‘net. Stuff is coming from multiple servers from strange routing directions all over the world all in microseconds and one little glitch and stuff slows down.

I sometimes am in wonderment it works as well as it all does.

Charles Johnson Sep 2, 2015 • 4:07:42pm

In case you’re having a bad day, here’s a raccoon in a tuxedo. pic.twitter.com/udEDA97oeg

— Compelling Pictures (@CompellingPics) August 26, 2015

allegro Sep 2, 2015 • 4:08:38pm

re: #35 BeachDem

Uh—I think we have excellent evidence that Huckabee has no brains to spare.

Shouldn’t matter. He and his buds want to deny abortions to save the lives of women for whom continuing the pregancy is lethal.

Jenner7 Sep 2, 2015 • 4:09:12pm

re: #38 ObserverArt

No, I have shitty Comcast.

My plug in kept crashing, so that’s probably why. Not sure, I don’t know a lot about that kind of stuff.

ObserverArt Sep 2, 2015 • 4:10:47pm

re: #37 Charles Johnson

The only real solution is implementing some kind of paging system. The more content there is on a page, the slower most browsers get. That’s just how it is.

Modern problems.

EPR-radar Sep 2, 2015 • 4:10:59pm

re: #35 BeachDem

Uh—I think we have excellent evidence that Huckabee has no brains to spare.

Since Huckabee deliberately doesn’t use whatever brains he may have, I think he has plenty to spare.

GlutenFreeJesus Sep 2, 2015 • 4:14:20pm

Ban guns: NEVER!!!!! Banning things doesn’t work!

Ban abortion: GOD WILLING!

Shiplord Kirel Sep 2, 2015 • 4:15:07pm

re: #16 jaunte

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“Assault rifle with Bible verse designed to repel Muslim terrorists has been unveiled in Apopka”

From the linked story:

The safety selector that controls the Crusader’s trigger has three settings: Peace, War and God Wills It. The weapon is the latest of more than dozen models sold at gun shops, ranging in cost from $960 to about $3,000.

The company would never produce an AR-15 assault rifle with verses from the Koran for Muslim marksmen, Thomas said. But it makes other special models including an AR-15 for women called “Pure Estrogen.”

I want one inscribed with Jon Stewart quotes, to hold crazed wingnuts at bay.

Great White Snark Sep 2, 2015 • 4:15:36pm

You new guys. You got it so easy around here. Why back in the day….
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re: #37 Charles Johnson

Do I recall a gentle reminder from you Charles about logging out and conserving some resources? Maybe ‘07? Maybe that was elsewhere. But I recall some huge hyper fast moving threads that would get north of 1000 comments and my browser would just lock up.

Now I got my cell phone lurking while I walk, logged in at work on one tab with ten work based tabs like markets etc up too.

GlutenFreeJesus Sep 2, 2015 • 4:16:57pm

re: #37 Charles Johnson

Been thinking of this. Any way to magically have a topic load only the most recent 50/75/100 posts (user definable of course) with a button to “load full topic or next 50/75/100 etc?

wrenchwench Sep 2, 2015 • 4:20:20pm

re: #37 Charles Johnson

The only real solution is implementing some kind of paging system. The more content there is on a page, the slower most browsers get. That’s just how it is.

I hear a squeak when I’m going upthread in the small ~~chainring~~ mousewheel and I stand up. Am I going to break something?

Higgs Boson's Mate Sep 2, 2015 • 4:21:27pm

re: #48 wrenchwench

I broke my leg in three places…

klys (maker of Silmarils) Sep 2, 2015 • 4:22:55pm

re: #48 wrenchwench

I hear a squeak when I’m going upthread in the small ~~chainring~~ mousewheel and I stand up. Am I going to break something?

//

Hopefully not you.

Great White Snark Sep 2, 2015 • 4:23:32pm

re: #45 Shiplord Kirel

I want one inscribed with Jon Stewart quotes, to hold crazed wingnuts at bay.

“Open carry is for losers” on my smallest CCW pistol…

wrenchwench Sep 2, 2015 • 4:23:35pm

re: #49 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I broke my leg in three places…

Time for the handcycle…

Shiplord Kirel Sep 2, 2015 • 4:23:52pm

Man Died In Custody of Levelland Police Tuesday

Levelland officers noticed Mendoza had his hands clenched. When they asked questions, he started running. Police caught him and put him in custody. But then they noticed something in his mouth and he began to have convulsions.

Officers called EMS and Mendoza was rushed to Covenant Hospital in Levelland where he was pronounced dead.

Officers discovered that he swallowed unknown amounts of methamphetamine and synthetic marijuana.

Higgs Boson's Mate Sep 2, 2015 • 4:25:33pm

re: #53 Shiplord Kirel

I wonder how long it took him to realize that he was dead.

ninja cat Sep 2, 2015 • 4:27:18pm

re: #46 Great White SnarkDo I recall a gentle reminder from you Charles about logging out and conserving some resources? .

I rarely, if ever, log out. Should I be doing so?

darthstar Sep 2, 2015 • 4:28:04pm

Ran into a former colleague at lunch today. He said the new VP of engineering who joined a few days after I left lasted all of six weeks…He left as soon as he realized that the owner of the company had two engineers who had to approve his decisions because they’d been there since the company started. God I’m glad I’m not there anymore.

Great White Snark Sep 2, 2015 • 4:30:29pm

re: #55 ninja cat

I don’t think it matters since multi device login feature went on at least.

Blind Frog Belly White Sep 2, 2015 • 4:30:44pm

re: #56 darthstar

One runs into situations like that sometimes, where the people in certain key positions are there not so much because they do the job, as because they’ve always been there. It’s often a revelation when they go, just how much better their department could have been working.

Charles Johnson Sep 2, 2015 • 4:32:27pm

re: #46 Great White Snark

No, there’s no benefit to logging out; it doesn’t save any resources. The problem with long comment threads is simply that they’re long comment threads. Back in the Pleistocene Era when LGF comments didn’t have dynamic content, embedded videos and images, etc., they could actually be longer before they started bogging down. But it’s really just a simple equation — put more load on the browser with more content, and things slow down.

Blind Frog Belly White Sep 2, 2015 • 4:32:32pm

re: #45 Shiplord Kirel

I want one inscribed with Jon Stewart quotes, to hold crazed wingnuts at bay.

I want one inscribed with all the verses where Jesus talks about killing your enemies.

Blind Frog Belly White Sep 2, 2015 • 4:33:13pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

No, there’s no benefit to logging out; it doesn’t save any resources. The problem with long comment threads is simply that they’re long comment threads. Back in the Pleistocene Era when LGF comments didn’t have dynamic content, embedded videos and images, etc., they could actually be longer before they started bogging down. But it’s really just a simple equation — put more load on the browser with more content, and things slow down.

So, more content leads to greater discontent?

wrenchwench Sep 2, 2015 • 4:33:14pm

Lizard Island up for sale! @lirrf @mike_rasheed #GBR pic.twitter.com/hWxPrQ1dMW

— Dr Peter Macreadie (@PeterMacreadie) September 2, 2015

wrenchwench Sep 2, 2015 • 4:34:09pm

re: #61 Blind Frog Belly White

So, more content leads to greater discontent?

You sound like a malcontent.

darthstar Sep 2, 2015 • 4:35:52pm

meeting time…brb…or bbl…or bbwhenever

Backwoods_Sleuth Sep 2, 2015 • 4:36:36pm

Need to have a scorecard for keeping track of Kim Davis’s marriage debacle:
She gave birth to twins five months after her divorce from husband #1, then marries husband #2.
The twins were fathered by husband #3, but adopted by husband #2.
She divorces husband #3 and remarries husband #2 (also known as Stars and Bars Southern Pride 2nd Amendment godly husband #4).

That “godly mother-in-law” didn’t make such an impression on her during marriage #2, apparently.

good grief.

Feline Fearless Leader Sep 2, 2015 • 4:37:46pm

Got an autoplay ad for Greenies Pill Pockets at the center spot at the top of the comments that keeps pulling focus to itself. Highly annoying.

Feline Fearless Leader Sep 2, 2015 • 4:38:32pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

Need to have a scorecard for keeping track of Kim Davis’s marriage debacle:
She gave birth to twins five months after her divorce from husband #1, then marries husband #2.
The twins were fathered by husband #3, but adopted by husband #2.
She divorces husband #3 and remarries husband #2 (also known as Stars and Bars Southern Pride 2nd Amendment godly husband #4).

That “godly mother-in-law” didn’t make such an impression on her during marriage #2, apparently.

good grief.

Wasn’t the “godly MIL” her predecessor as county clerK?

Backwoods_Sleuth Sep 2, 2015 • 4:39:06pm

re: #67 Feline Fearless Leader

Wasn’t the “godly MIL” her predecessor as county clerK?

No, that was her actual mother.

worldknot Sep 2, 2015 • 4:40:42pm

If Kim Davis were beautiful, well-dressed, on her first marriage, and fastidiously avoided shellfish, she would still be wrong, and she would still be in contempt of court. Let’s not get distracted.

Backwoods_Sleuth Sep 2, 2015 • 4:42:12pm

DEVELOPING: UH60 Blackhawk has crashed south of Denver, injuries unknown - photos via @DenverChannel, @Dougherty7NEWS pic.twitter.com/KzSI4vyUe4

— WPTV (@WPTV) September 2, 2015

Backwoods_Sleuth Sep 2, 2015 • 4:43:13pm

re: #69 worldknot

If Kim Davis were beautiful, well-dressed, on her first marriage, and fastidiously avoided shellfish, she would still be wrong, and she would still be in contempt of court. Let’s not get distracted.

I live here and am sick and tired of her holier than thou antics that make the rest of us look stupid.

Backwoods_Sleuth Sep 2, 2015 • 4:44:11pm

Military helicopter downed in Douglas County confirmed to be a Fort Carson UH-60 Blackhawk http://t.co/m0BiViXCx8 pic.twitter.com/qf1GjdV2uQ

— KDVR FOX31 Denver (@KDVR) September 2, 2015

ObserverArt Sep 2, 2015 • 4:47:14pm

re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth

I live here and and and sick and tired of her holier than thou antics that make the rest of us look stupid.

Kentucky already takes a pretty good beating by many in America. She really does a disservice to the good people of the state by coming off like she does. She feeds into some pretty well worn stereotypes about the state.

(And I hope not to be offensive with that comment. Heck, we in Ohio get bashed enough, and many in Ohio bash Kentucky…so…it’s a state thing and well…)

Great White Snark Sep 2, 2015 • 4:47:41pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

So not a bad time to mention how much better the whole thing runs for subscribers. Seems some ad server is always slow somewhere. Makes me flinch when I go anywhere else online. Now even the pro metals market site kitco.com has cheesy ads just like Photographyisnotacrime and other far less sophiticated blogs. Ugh.

It appears to me that while google ad revenue is of course a necessary evil it’s very hard to elevate ad content above “Doctors hate this trick”. Maybe impossible.

BeachDem Sep 2, 2015 • 4:49:23pm

I thought CNN had hit rock bottom with the Amanda Carpenter hire, but now they’re adding Dylan Byers of Tiger Beat on the Potomac (Trademark, Charles P. Pierce) to the stable.

CNN describes him as: He’s fast, provocative — and makes news that people want to talk about.”

esquire.com

CNN—you’re doing it wrong.

Backwoods_Sleuth Sep 2, 2015 • 4:49:51pm

Of course they are:

Fox News plans to air hour-long special in support of the smear campaign against Planned Parenthood: http://t.co/jSP9LEp3aw

— Media Matters (@mmfa) September 2, 2015

wrenchwench Sep 2, 2015 • 4:52:19pm

re: #74 Great White Snark

So not a bad time to mention how much better the whole thing runs for subscribers. Seems some ad server is always slow somewhere. Makes me flinch when I go anywhere else online. Now even the pro metals market site kitco.com has cheesy ads just like Photographyisnotacrime and other far less sophiticated blogs. Ugh.

It appears to me that while google ad revenue is of course a necessary evil it’s very hard to elevate ad content above “Doctors hate this trick”. Maybe impossible.

At least Jan Brewer seems to have gotten herself removed from the ‘REVENGE MAKEOVER’ ads.

Bubblehead II Sep 2, 2015 • 4:52:34pm

Night Lizards. See ya in the A.M.

Mattand Sep 2, 2015 • 4:53:01pm

re: #76 Backwoods_Sleuth

Of course they are:

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Thanksgiving is really going to suck this year. I finally got into it with the MIL last year about Fox News being shit.

She’s apparently been telling the better half about Clinton is going to jail over Email-ghazi. Now this PP horseshit.

What really blows is that I can’t take the dog for a walk to get away from her anymore.

Blind Frog Belly White Sep 2, 2015 • 4:53:41pm

re: #76 Backwoods_Sleuth

Golly, I can hardly wait to see the heavily and misleadingly edited versions of the heavily and misleadingly edited videos! And probably set to MUSIC! Carmina Burana, at least!!!

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Blind Frog Belly White Sep 2, 2015 • 4:55:12pm

re: #77 wrenchwench

At least Jan Brewer seems to have gotten herself removed from the ‘REVENGE MAKEOVER’ ads.

Really? About time. I never liked her, but fer cripes sake, she’s an actual person who lived long enough to get some wrinkles. She’s not some nightmarish hag!

#CampaignZero Sep 2, 2015 • 4:55:33pm

re: #36 Targetpractice

I’ll go ahead and predict now that the cops with the worst charges will end up walking, while those with the least will get slaps on the wrist. And that will be “justice.”

And Freddie Gray was murdered.

We will see, but again, justice in America y’all.

ObserverArt Sep 2, 2015 • 4:57:06pm

re: #74 Great White Snark

So not a bad time to mention how much better the whole thing runs for subscribers. Seems some ad server is always slow somewhere. Makes me flinch when I go anywhere else online. Now even the pro metals market site kitco.com has cheesy ads just like Photographyisnotacrime and other far less sophiticated blogs. Ugh.

It appears to me that while google ad revenue is of course a necessary evil it’s very hard to elevate ad content above “Doctors hate this trick”. Maybe impossible.

You know what is really sick about advertising? If you see crazy ads and wonder who the hell is buying this crap it is an honest reaction. Thing I learned is if you see the same ads over and over, for months or even years…no matter how outlandish they work!

No one spends money for a long time on ads that bring no return.

I remember all the crazy stuff you’d see in all those little classified type ads in a magazine like Popular Mechanics for some pretty strange products, plans, systems, whatever. Or better yet, all the weird stuff in some old comic book and sci-fi, tall tale magazine ads.

It all worked. It still does. Better them, than me.

Blind Frog Belly White Sep 2, 2015 • 4:57:34pm

re: #79 Mattand

Thanksgiving is really going to suck this year. I finally got into it with the MIL last year about Fox News being shit.

She’s apparently been telling the better half about Clinton is going to jail over Email-ghazi. Now this PP horseshit.

What really blows is that I can’t take the dog for a walk to get away from her anymore.

The Older Boy’s Girl Friend STILL has not introduced the Older Boy to her parents. It’s now a year and a half into their relationship. She fears something like a matter/antimatter explosion between her Conservative Christian parents and my Liberal atheist son.

Higgs Boson's Mate Sep 2, 2015 • 4:58:07pm

re: #76 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wait ‘til you see the Fox Network mini series. It will be “based on fact.”

BeachDem Sep 2, 2015 • 4:59:04pm

re: #76 Backwoods_Sleuth

Of course they are:

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When this is the wording of the House Judiciary Committee, it’s just a hop, skip and jump to Fox as their mouthpiece.

#CampaignZero Sep 2, 2015 • 4:59:26pm

re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth

No, that was her actual mother.

Where is she? (not really, just adds to the drama)

jaunte Sep 2, 2015 • 5:00:39pm

re: #76 Backwoods_Sleuth

Of course they are:

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Wonder if they’ll have a real Lamborghini on the show.

ObserverArt Sep 2, 2015 • 5:00:46pm

re: #75 BeachDem

I thought CNN had hit rock bottom with the Amanda Carpenter hire, but now they’re adding Dylan Byers of Tiger Beat on the Potomac (Trademark, Charles P. Pierce) to the stable.

CNN describes him as: He’s fast, provocative — and makes news that people want to talk about.”

esquire.com

CNN—you’re doing it wrong.

Well, it is at least an honest admittance to the fact they and all the rest of the mainstream TV news is nothing more than entertainment.

Send in the clowns.

wrenchwench Sep 2, 2015 • 5:01:45pm

Airborne orca catapults dolphin during hunt. Get the story behind this pic #BigBlueLive @ 8p PT/ET ðŸ“· @MBayWhaleWatch pic.twitter.com/koMAAObh7X

— PBS (@PBS) September 2, 2015

#CampaignZero Sep 2, 2015 • 5:02:06pm

re: #74 Great White Snark

So not a bad time to mention how much better the whole thing runs for subscribers. Seems some ad server is always slow somewhere. Makes me flinch when I go anywhere else online. Now even the pro metals market site kitco.com has cheesy ads just like Photographyisnotacrime and other far less sophiticated blogs. Ugh.

It appears to me that while google ad revenue is of course a necessary evil it’s very hard to elevate ad content above “Doctors hate this trick”. Maybe impossible.

I love when I’m logging into a new device & am clicking log in log in log in before the ads screw it all up.

Seriously, first world problems, but Charles you know we treasure this site and when it’s not perfecto, we suffer!!!

ObserverArt Sep 2, 2015 • 5:04:27pm

re: #91 #CampaignZero

I love when I’m logging into a new device & am clicking log in log in log in before the ads screw it all up.

Seriously, first world problems, but Charles you know we treasure this site and when it’s not perfecto, we suffer!!!

Brings a tear to my eye.

(sniff)

austin_blue Sep 2, 2015 • 5:05:54pm

re: #90 wrenchwench

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Alas, poor Flipper, we barely knew ye…

wrenchwench Sep 2, 2015 • 5:06:30pm

In historic vote, Sheila North Wilson announced MKO Grand Chief - https://t.co/jfCMmOtR5w pic.twitter.com/0YyIaCmXUT

— Winnipeg Free Press (@WinnipegNews) September 2, 2015

Northern chiefs and councilors elected their first woman Grand Chief Wednesday in an historic vote on the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation.

Broadcast journalist Sheila North Wilson was announced the winner in a four-way race that took two separate ballots to settle the leadership.

[…]

Blind Frog Belly White Sep 2, 2015 • 5:10:29pm

re: #93 austin_blue

Alas, poor Flipper, we barely knew ye…

Yeah. Orcas are bastards! Humans would never…..

Nevermind.

aagcobb Sep 2, 2015 • 5:11:37pm

re: #13 EPR-radar

My religion tells me that I need to feed Mike Huckabee’s brains to my cat. Surely he could spare some.

I doubt he has any ~~to spare~~.

aagcobb Sep 2, 2015 • 5:14:20pm

re: #19 Great White Snark

How does Huckabee think he can even do that? Executive order? Stamp his feet and hold his breath? Whine like a bitch? What?

Use federal troops to protect the constitutional rights of the unborn, just like Ike did to protect the rights of African-Americans. Perhaps by sending them in to close all the abortion clinics.

Lidane Sep 2, 2015 • 5:14:40pm

*facepalm*

Bristol Palin to Obama: Stop Renaming Our Mountains and Worry About Jihad Instead http://t.co/qzBzHeiCzI pic.twitter.com/BHt8E3FEHY

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) September 2, 2015

Lidane Sep 2, 2015 • 5:17:17pm

re: #3 Kragar

Mike Huckabee is entering the “spastic flailing for relevance” portion of his presidential campaign.

PAY ATTENTION TO MY FAILING CAMPAIGN!!!!!

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Jenner7 Sep 2, 2015 • 5:17:25pm

re: #69 worldknot

And it doesn’t matter that she’s a Democrat. She needs to do her job or resign.

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#CampaignZero Sep 2, 2015 • 5:17:53pm

re: #84 Blind Frog Belly White

The Older Boy’s Girl Friend STILL has not introduced the Older Boy to her parents. It’s now a year and a half into their relationship. She fears something like a matter/antimatter explosion between her Conservative Christian parents and my Liberal atheist son.

What are her parents thinking? That she doesn’t have a BF? /nosy

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austin_blue Sep 2, 2015 • 5:19:33pm

re: #98 Lidane

*facepalm*

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Yeah! And change the name of the park it’s in back to Mt. McKinley National Park and Preserve like it used to be!

Oh, wait…

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EPR-radar Sep 2, 2015 • 5:22:45pm

re: #69 worldknot

If Kim Davis were beautiful, well-dressed, on her first marriage, and fastidiously avoided shellfish, she would still be wrong, and she would still be in contempt of court. Let’s not get distracted.

Another version of this thought is that if Rush Limbaugh looked like a young Brad Pitt, that wouldn’t change anything about the worthlessness of his hate radio show.

However, Kim Davis’ family/marriage tesseract does make it very clear that for her it’s all about avoiding the gay cooties as opposed to any real principles relating to marriage.

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bratwurst Sep 2, 2015 • 5:28:57pm

Deep thoughts from #tcot

Iraq is quickly becoming Obamas Nam… and Iran will be his Cambodia….. Liberal History repeating itself… #tcot

— CDM (@RWSurferGirl) September 2, 2015

This makes just as much sense:

Mott The Hoople Death May Be Your Santa Claus

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Odie Hugh Manatee Sep 2, 2015 • 5:30:38pm

re: #12 EPR-radar

The GOP base has in fact cottoned onto this scam of the GOP establishment. That’s why there’s a decent chance the GOP nominee will be some kind of non-establishment nut bar in 2016.

The Republican party forgot about the story where the villagers got sick of the boy falsely crying wolf and the villagers not responding when there was a real one. In this reality, the villagers are pissed because there are no wolves like they were told there were so they are bringing in someone who will give them their wolves!

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jaunte Sep 2, 2015 • 5:33:02pm

re: #104 bratwurst

I don’t recall the Vietnam war or the Cambodian incursion being “liberal” projects.

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Higgs Boson's Mate Sep 2, 2015 • 5:33:03pm

re: #104 bratwurst

Deep thoughts from #tcot

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This makes just as much sense:

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What a dummy she is. Everyone knows that Iraq is Obama’s mukluks and Iran will be his Sgian Dubh.

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teleskiguy Sep 2, 2015 • 5:34:41pm

~~Raving talk radio loon~~ Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is a clueless asshole.

.@DanPatrick, the Lt. Governor of Texas, has released this statement re: appreciating police. 2015. (h/t @stjbs) pic.twitter.com/x8oDDeIto8

— deray mckesson (@deray) September 2, 2015

Dear @DanPatrick, Police officer’s jobs in the U.S. actually aren’t very dangerous. Stop lying. Thanks, OLAASM pic.twitter.com/kP0lvxLclU

— OLAASM (@OLAASM) September 2, 2015

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Backwoods_Sleuth Sep 2, 2015 • 5:34:55pm

“(US Atty) Harveyâ€™s statement might imply fed enforcement action, something Conway probably would welcome.” No shit. http://t.co/oL40L8Drul

— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) September 3, 2015

But even as Kentucky’s top two state lawmakers were telling reporters they would seek a legislative remedy for Davis and other county clerks who object to issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, said it’s time for Davis “to follow the law.”

“The federal district court has ordered that Rowan County issue licenses to all couples, whether of the same sex or opposite sexes, who are entitled under Kentucky law and the U.S. Constitution to get married,” Harvey said in the written statement.

“We have grave concerns about the reported failure to comply with the court’s order,” Harvey said. “Government officials are free to disagree with the law, but not disobey it. The county clerk has presented her position through the federal court system, all of the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. It is time for the clerk and the county to follow the law.”

snip

Neither Stumbo nor Stivers expects Beshear at this point to call a special session. Stivers also believes Beshear could solve the problem through an executive order.

Beshear disagrees.

“The legislature has placed the authority to issue marriage licenses squarely on county clerks by statute, and I have no legal authority to relieve (Davis) of her statutory duty by executive order or to remove her from office,” Beshear said Tuesday.

On Wednesday, both Stumbo and Stivers said there are issues larger than who signs the license. Entire sections of Kentucky law no longer conform to the law after the Supreme Court ruling.

Those sections, the two said, govern such things as property distribution after death, lines of descent, domestic violence and adoption.

fixed bad copy/paste

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aagcobb Sep 2, 2015 • 5:35:02pm

re: #12 EPR-radar

The GOP base has in fact cottoned onto this scam of the GOP establishment. That’s why there’s a decent chance the GOP nominee will be some kind of non-establishment nut bar in 2016.

In the latest Iowa poll, the top three are all outsiders, Trump, Carson and Fiorina. Not a single politician, probably because the GOP politicians have just kept writing checks to the GOP Base they couldn’t cash.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸ Sep 2, 2015 • 5:37:26pm

re: #104 bratwurst

Iraq is quickly becoming Obamas Nam… and Iran will be his Cambodia….. Liberal History repeating itself

im old enough to remember when the gulf oil spill was obama’s katrina

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Backwoods_Sleuth Sep 2, 2015 • 5:37:32pm

re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth

please to refresh…I had to fix a bad copy/paste.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸ Sep 2, 2015 • 5:39:29pm

i’ve been reading the art of the ~~smell~~ deal

apparently anything is possible if you get other people to put up the money and hire good managers

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teleskiguy Sep 2, 2015 • 5:39:44pm

I see National Review is glomming onto James O’Queef’s Hillary nothingburger, and issuing clickbait-y tweets to boot!

You won’t believe the scam the Clinton campaign is pulling. As reported by @JamesOKeefeIII: http://t.co/t1mahZymTa pic.twitter.com/HYCB1eBkvG

— National Review (@NRO) September 3, 2015

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Backwoods_Sleuth Sep 2, 2015 • 5:41:05pm

Bobby Jindal: Kentucky clerk Kim Davis shouldn’t be forced to issue same-sex marriage licenses http://t.co/Ph98t8mkl4 pic.twitter.com/K1rxOGPQMq

— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) September 3, 2015

eejit

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jaunte Sep 2, 2015 • 5:43:31pm

re: #113 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

i’ve been reading the art of the ~~smell~~ deal

apparently anything is possible if you get other people to put up the money and hire good managers

Did you see this report that Trump would be much richer if he hadn’t tried to be a businessman?

Turns out, though, there was an easier way for Trump to add to his wealth than all the deal-making and TV shows — and far more effective. It’s the same strategy many wealth advisers are telling middle-class families to follow: Stick your money in an index fund tracking the stock market and forget about it.

If Trump had done that in 1988, he would be worth $13 billion today, more than triple the Forbes estimate.

nytimes.com

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#CampaignZero Sep 2, 2015 • 5:48:16pm

re: #116 jaunte

Did you see this report that Trump would be much richer if he hadn’t tried to be a businessman?

nytimes.com

He’s an egomaniac though. It’s always been about him being famous. Trump Trump Trump Trump

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Blind Frog Belly White Sep 2, 2015 • 5:48:59pm

re: #101 #CampaignZero

What are her parents thinking? That she doesn’t have a BF? /nosy

Oh, they know. She posts stuff on FB, and her Mom is one of her friends. OB has met both her sisters, and Mrs. FBW has met her Mom, and in fact those two have even done some Zoo things together GF’s Mom is a photographer who volunteers at the Zoo). And I even met GF’s Dad, once, kind of by accident.

She’s just kept the OB and her parents separate.

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palomino Sep 2, 2015 • 6:08:43pm

How the hell could a president criminalize abortion? Not through executive order. Not even by signing legislation (that Congress probably wouldn’t pass in the first place). Roe v. Wade trumps everything he could do. He might as well say he wants to criminalize interracial marriage or cigarette smoking. He simply can’t do it by himself. The suggestion that he could neuters all his supposedly deep concern that Obama is acting like a monarch.

So basically he’s setting himself up as a martyr on the abortion issue. How Christian of him.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Sep 2, 2015 • 6:10:39pm

re: #119 palomino

How the hell could a president criminalize abortion? Not through executive order. Not even by signing legislation (that Congress probably wouldn’t pass in the first place). Roe v. Wade trumps everything he could do. He might as well say he wants to criminalize interracial marriage or cigarette smoking. He simply can’t do it by himself. The suggestion that he could neuters all his supposedly deep concern that Obama is acting like a monarch.

So basically he’s setting himself up as a martyr on the abortion issue. How Christian of him.

Roe v Wade is a SCOTUS decision. SCOTUS doesn’t count, according to Huckabee:

No man - and certainly no unelected lawyer - has the right to redefine the laws of nature or of nature’s God.

— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) September 2, 2015

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victor27 Sep 2, 2015 • 6:11:58pm

I want Huckabee, and every other “pro-life” candidate to answer this question:

If human life begins when sperm fertilizes egg, what does it mean that less than half of all fertilized eggs lead to successful births?

In current years, that means about 4 million fertilized eggs did not result in live births - and that number does not count abortions.

Why is God doing that to 4 million “preborn” babies every year?

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸ Sep 2, 2015 • 6:14:55pm

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

No man - and certainly no unelected lawyer - has the right to redefine the laws of nature or of nature’s God

that’s why you will burn in hell forever for eating all that pork, heretic

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retired cynic Sep 2, 2015 • 9:46:19pm

re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth

Does anyone else thing Jindal’s hair seems to be morphing Trump-wise?

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CriticalDragon1177 Sep 3, 2015 • 9:32:56am

Charles Johnson,

Luckily I don’t think they’ll be riots in the streets, because there’s no way as president, he could just declare abortion illegal. He wouldn’t be able to openly defy the supreme court and get away with it. Riots wouldn’t be necessary.

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CriticalDragon1177 Sep 3, 2015 • 9:40:15am

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

No man - and certainly no unelected lawyer - has the right to redefine the laws of nature or of nature’s God.

— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) September 2, 2015

@Kragar_LGF @GovMikeHuckabee is talking about Christianists who want control over people outside their sects, not sane Christians.

— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 2, 2015

@GovMikeHuckabee But off course you think the president can rule by fiat! 2/2 http://t.co/GGvnSiqdIs

— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) September 3, 2015

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