This abortion stuff just never goes away. I am with you Alice a women should have the right to do with here body as she wishes but up to a certain amount of weeks. I would have thought the morning after pill would have solved a lot of this.

Canada doesnt really have any laws against abortion. Some provinces fund it and some don't. There is about 100,000 abortions here a year Out of a population of 33 million. Which seems high to me. I guess birth control costs about $10.00 a month and with the morning after pill I don't see how there can be that many. But then again what do I know. all I know is no one should judge.

Aliceinwonderland: Way to go! And that jerk couldn't even spell "opposed" correctly. He is obviously a grade school flunky!

You know Thom, I can't speak for everyone but I've said all I have to say on the NSA, the TPP, the ACA, Too-Big-To-Fail, Chained CPI and austerity ad nauseam. I wish more attention could be given this mean-spirited war against women, waged so relentlessly by our so-called "representatives". This revolting misogynist freak show is just another piece of a larger picture showing what tyranny and fascism look like. Misogyny has always been a common characteristic of fascist regimes. Now we get to see the American version of this age-old theme: keeping women down! You know this as well as I, and you've acknowledged it repeatedly on your talk show, yet it is rarely mentioned here. So I hope you'll pardon me for getting off topic for a spell.

The GOP's latest assault on my gender is the "No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act", or HR 7, said to have "dramatic implications" for the tax code and the private insurance market. This piece of legislation includes a provision so sick and twisted, it takes my breath away. It's a provision requiring the IRS to conduct audits of rape victims. That's right! This "law" eliminates medical-expense deductions for abortion care, for everyone except rape victims, thus sticking survivors of rape with the added burden of having to show the tax man they "deserve" a deduction for the cost of an abortion.

Where does the abuse stop?!! Is this the United States of America or Saudi Fucking Arabia?!!! Bad as it's been, Thom, I never could have imagined anything like the loony tunes "laws" passing thru Congress these days. So I have spent the better part of today on the blog accompanying this article (by Tara Culp-Ressler, on ThinkProgress). What follows are samples of (ahem) choice exchanges I had with one or two of the more piggish and disgusting male bloggers. Starting with this gem from John Stroka:

Victims? You mean like defenseless babies, yeah, how can you libs be so mean... I guess you were born and you don't want to afford that right to others... NICE! - John Stroka

John, why don't you just pop open a can of beer and catch a football game, and mind your own goddamn business? Let us women worry about what to do with our "lady parts", and decide whether or not we want to bring new life into the world. It's not your decision to make; sorry "charlie". This is not a complicated issue, except for those who might be, uh, "mentally challenged" to put it politely. - AIW

Next, take a load of this doofus's version of "Morality 101":

Abortion for any reason is still murder which is a capital offense. The fact that people want to justify the murder of an innocent because of a crime committed by the father is sickening. Furthermore, using money taken from people apposed to such a crime to mutilate children? Really now? Sick fucks. - Johnathan Bonnette

We're not your field to plow. Stick it in your ear, arrogant know-nothing prick! - AIW

Posted the next day:

LOW-LIFE arrogant know-nothing prick! You clowns take SO much for granted. Your sense of male entitlement is simply breathtaking. You know, there's a device on the market one can insert up her snatch and it's a wienie shredder. So ya better watch out, pal. Violate the wrong gal and it won't be pretty, you'll wish you were never born. - AIW

I'm somewhat befuddled by your responses. Are you familiar with the English language? Because you seem to feel as though I am doing something wrong be defending the lives of the unborn, and are being very offensive. - Johnathan Bonnette

O tal vez el español es su idioma y que debe comunicarse a usarlo. Usted es cómplice de asesinato y una perra amargada. vete a la mierda. ¿Qué mierda te pasa? Ni siquiera puedes llamarme con cualquier tipo de argurment por lo que me atacas? - J.B.

Mr. Bonnette, oh befuddled one, have YOU ever been raped? Has anyone you care about ever been raped? You defend the unborn while showing no regard for the subjects of this discussion: women who have been impregnated by force, against their will. By showing utter disregard for those who have been so outrageously and cruelly violated, you reveal yourself to be a SANCTIMONIOUS, LOW-LIFE, ARROGANT, KNOW-NOTHING PRICK!

I've got a news flash for you, pal: what we do with our "lady parts" is none of your goddam business. Got that? So please, spare me all your crocodile tears over those unborn babies you love so much. Behind this pretense of compassion you jerks claim to have for the unborn, all I see is envy and jealousy because WE can create new life, an ability you lack. Penis envy?!! Hah-hah. WOMB ENVY is more like it. Brings to mind a favorite old quote: "If men could get pregnant, ABORTION would be a SACRAMENT". Hey if you love babies so much, why don't you take some estrogen pills, grow some titties and try your hand as a "wet nurse"!

Hah-hah! I love stirring up shit. It's what I do… Aliceinwonderland

Well, Sandlewould, thank you for passing it along! ;-}
SHillary, SHillary, SHillary....no they couldn't! No they didn't!

Can't take vredit for SHillary...got it from the chat room :)

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/16/sen-bernie-sanders-lambastes-democ...

If the founders of the United States had had no privacy, we'd all still be doing the minuet.

And that's the bottom line. That's the point. That's the lesson.

Is there a relationship bt NSA "illegal" problem activities specifically, and keeping us safe? I feel like americans are also in danger from domestic enemies that ave made america fascist; namely big money (that controls republicans and democrats).

There is nothing a modern American politician, especially a POTUS, is more terrified of than to have another 9/11 happen on their watch. Until that changes they aren't likely to change their attitude on the matter. Their behavior will have to be forced by acts of Congress, courts or enough public pressure.

There may also be pressure from private, big business entities to keep a massive spy network active to keep a leash on dissent against big business' behaviors (Occupy Wall Street, ELF, Raiinforest Action Network, etc.) as the Strattford emails have shown.

In any case, any president or politician will continue spying as long as they can reasonably assume that they'll catch more flack for not doing it than for doing it.

Same for drone strikes, as long as a majority of the American public favors them and until the people of the United States make clear, in no uncertain terms, that they want drone strikes to stop, even if that means Al Queida will have a safe haven in Pakistan, they will continue.

The target of our persuasive undertakings must always be less the president and political leaders than the American public as a whole.

Palin- I can't count the number of times I've said the exact same thing about that boiling frog metaphor; how perfectly it fits our predicament in 21st Century America.

Thank you for your honesty, Aliceinwonderland. And my pardons to Sandlewould...I must have read it when reading Sandlewould's posts. My old synapses, axons, and dendrites aren't what they used to be. I'm afraid my telomeres just keep getting shorter and shorter...pretty soon... apoptosis of the whole organism. Back into the primordial soup!