Update: Alabama Seeks To Deny Woman Abortion By Stripping Her Parental Rights

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Friday July 31, 2015 · 12:50 PM PDT

2015/07/31 · 12:50

This kind of crap must not be allowed to continue:

Alabama officials are currently seeking to prevent a pregnant prison inmate from obtaining a legal abortion by stripping her of her parental rights, in a case where a lawyer has been appointed to represent the interests of her fetus.
An unnamed woman, who is referred to in court documents only as Jane Doe, is asking for permission to travel to Huntsville to end her pregnancy. She says she was unable to get an abortion before she was taken into custody and is now feeling desperate. “I am very distraught, and do not want to be forced to carry this pregnancy to term,” she wrote.

Jane Doe — who has to get permission from the court to be transported to the nearest clinic because prison officials consider abortion to be a non-emergency procedure — is being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, which argues that it would be “cruel and unusual punishment” for the state of Alabama to deny her constitutional right to abortion.

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Saturday July 25, 2015 · 3:47 PM PDT

2015/07/25 · 15:47

Governor Jindal responded to the latest mass murders in Lafayette with the standard script that republicans will pull out of their ass every time the murderers happen to be white and extremest members of their party. They will use words like "awful" and "tragedy" but will never be caught using the term "terrorist" unless the murderer happens to be Muslim, but that's for another diary.

Another word they like to throw around is "senseless" which by Webster's definition would mean: "done or happening for no reason".

It's been reported John Houser had a lengthy criminal record and mental health issues but yet was able to buy a gun at a pawn shop in Alabama. To me, the "sensible" thing to do in this case would have been preventing Mr. Houser from getting a gun in the first place.

Even though he was able to purchase a gun in Alabama, his criminal record and background prevented him from obtaining a concealed carry permit which is surprising since Alabama is rated the 15th best state to buy a gun if you are a criminal.

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Thursday July 23, 2015 · 8:22 PM PDT

2015/07/23 · 20:22

I love Dunkin Donuts....I really, really do. I like Krspy Kreme too but the coffee is just not as good and they don't have as many retail locations where I live as Dunkin Donuts so it is my "go-to" doughnut place.

Not any more. I ate my last donut today. I was clicking my many stock market sites today and clicked on CNN Money. The CEO of Dunkin Donuts is Nigel Travis. He pulls down about $10.2 million a year.....that's a hell of a lot of donuts. But that's not why I'm swearing off donuts.

Nigel Travis was responding to the possibility of a $15.00 minimum wage for NYC fast food workers. He thinks that is "outrageous". Really Nigel?

Dunkin' Brand (DNKN) CEO Nigel Travis says the plan will do more harm than good.
Travis said he supports governments making "reasonable increases" to the minimum wage, but a hike to $15 per hour represents a 71% increase over the current state minimum.

"It's going to affect small businesses and franchises," Travis said in an interview with CNN's Poppy Harlow. He said it would prevent his multi-billion dollar company from hiring new people.

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Thursday July 23, 2015 · 1:38 AM PDT

2015/07/23 · 01:38

Her name was India Clarke and she was only 25 years old. She was found in a park beaten to death the morning of July 21, 2015.

The Guardian

The death of the young woman, India Clarke, who was described by family as a “very loving person”, is the 10th transgender homicide in the US this year, according to the National Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), and is being seen as more evidence of what many are calling an “epidemic of violence”.

Officials are asking the public for leads in the case but they will not consider her transgender for reasons I cannot begin to understand:

Initial reports have stated that Clarke was a “man in a dress” and the Hillsborough county spokesman Larry McKinnon said officials will not be categorizing Clarke as transgender.
“We are not going to categorize him as a transgender. We can just tell you he had women’s clothing on at the time,” McKinnon told BuzzFeed News. “What his lifestyle was prior to that we don’t know – whether he was a cross-dresser, we don’t know.”

That last paragraph "we don't know" makes no sense to me. India Clarke had been using that name and dressing as a female for the past two years so how can he not know?.

If you read the rest of the article it states that "misgendering" could actually be harmful to the case and increases the chance of the case going cold. I really don't think that would bother McKinnon too much.

RIP India

Internment camps for Muslims...really?

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Tuesday July 21, 2015 · 1:37 PM PDT

2015/07/21 · 13:37

Browsing through the Bill O'Reilly proclaimed "hate site" aka Salon this morning, I came across an article relating to the latest rant from RW religious nut case Franklin Graham regarding the Chattanooga shootings. His comforting message to our nation was this:

“Four innocent Marines (United States Marine Corps) killed and three others wounded in ‪#‎Chattanooga yesterday including a policeman and another Marine — all by a radical Muslim whose family was allowed to immigrate to this country from Kuwait. We are under attack by Muslims at home and abroad. We should stop all immigration of Muslims to the U.S. until this threat with Islam has been settled. Every Muslim that comes into this country has the potential to be radicalized — and they do their killing to honor their religion and Muhammad. During World War 2, we didn’t allow Japanese to immigrate to America, nor did we allow Germans. Why are we allowing Muslims now? Do you agree? Let your Congressman know that we’ve got to put a stop to this and close the flood gates.”

I think anyone who is even slightly familiar with Franklin Graham already knows that he is a raging homophobe, xenophobe, and probably huge disappointment to his famous father. Really good article on the exploits of Mr. Graham.

I remember shaking my head and thinking....."wow, he'll probably call for internment camps next......"

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Monday May 04, 2015 · 9:51 AM PDT

2015/05/04 · 09:51

In Paraguay, a 10 year old girl was being raped by her step-father. Her mother reported the abuse to authorities but was ignored. The child's stomach began to swell and the mother, thinking something was wrong took the child to the hospital and discovered the child was pregnant. The mother requested an abortion but was arrested for apparently being a bad parent and now the little girl is in the custody of the state authorities alone and being forced to carry the pregnancy to term.

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Sunday November 09, 2014 · 6:40 AM PST

2014/11/09 · 06:40

no image description available — Bronwen saying goodbye

This is for all the people who really need a little something other than "we're all doomed".

Granted....I think it's looking pretty bleak but there are sometimes stories out there that just make you go.....wow and for just a minute - everything doesn't seem so bad.

This is a story of an elderly woman in England named Sheila Marsh who was terminally ill and had very little time left to her. Ms. Marsh loved animals and had cared for many including dogs and for 18 years a horse named Bronwen.

Her dogs had been brought to the hospital to say goodbye but Ms. Marsh had one final wish to say goodbye to her horse.

Incredibly, a trust organization associated with the NHS actually arranged to have Bronwen the horse brought to the hospital parking lot and they wheeled Ms. Marsh out who managed to ask Bronwen for a kiss. Ms. Marsh died a few hours later.

Bronwen saying goodbye

Admit it....for just a moment you forgot about the election and the scary next two years. Enjoy your week and give your dog, cat or whatever an extra hug.

Syd

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Tuesday September 02, 2014 · 4:47 PM PDT

2014/09/02 · 16:47

In 1983 two mentally disabled black children were coerced into confessing to the rape and murder of a little girl in North Carolina that they had nothing to do with.

North Carolina’s longest-serving death row inmate and his half-brother serving a life sentence have been exonerated and released from prison after spending more than 30 years behind bars for a rape and murder they did not commit.
Robeson County superior court acted with lightning speed to free the two men, Leon Brown and Henry McCollum, who were 15 and 19 at the time of their arrest in 1983. It was testimony to the overwhelming strength of the evidence that was presented to the court that judge Douglas Sasser cleared them of the murder of 11-year-old Sabrina Buie on the first day of a hearing to consider new DNA evidence in the case.

The evidence absolved McCollum and Brown, now 46 and 50, of any link to biological material collected at the crime scene. It also found a positive match with a known sex offender from the same small town who was living just feet away from the field in which Buie’s body was found.

I hope you have the time to read the entire Guardian Article as well as the New York Times article which provides more details. Read More

EPA Finds Compound Used in Fracking in Wyoming Aquifer

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Thursday November 10, 2011 · 1:11 PM PST

2011/11/10 · 13:11

As the country awaits results from a nationwide safety study on the natural gas drilling process of fracking, a separate government investigation into contamination in a place where residents have long complained that drilling fouled their water has turned up alarming levels of underground pollution.
A pair of environmental monitoring wells drilled deep into an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer-causing compounds and at least one chemical commonly used in hydraulic fracturing, according to new water test results released yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Monday August 08, 2011 · 11:39 AM PDT

2011/08/08 · 11:39

One more reason dogs rule:

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — Rosie, the first judicially approved courtroom dog in New York, was in the witness box here nuzzling a 15-year-old girl who was testifying that her father had raped and impregnated her. Rosie sat by the teenager’s feet. At particularly bad moments, she leaned in.
When the trial ended in June with the father’s conviction, the teenager “was most grateful to Rosie above all,” said David A. Crenshaw, a psychologist who works with the teenager. “She just kept hugging Rosie.”

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Saturday August 06, 2011 · 7:18 PM PDT

2011/08/06 · 19:18

I really wish I had a TV sometimes:

On the same night that Standard and Poor's downgraded the United States' top-level credit rating for the first time in history, Christina Romer, former chair of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, didn't mince words when asked of downgrade's potential consequences. (h/t NewsBusters)
The U.S. is "pretty darn f*#ked," Romer said during a segment on Real Time with Bill Maher called “How F*#ked Are We?”, after Maher asked what the new could mean for the U.S. economy.

"I’ve been hanging around [Treasury Secretary] Tim Geithner too long," Romer said, explaining her foul language. Geithner, she says, swears "like a seventh grade boy."

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Friday August 05, 2011 · 9:18 AM PDT

2011/08/05 · 09:18

Per Digby:

Basically, it boils down to this: "don't worry your pretty little heads about anything":

President Obama counseled supporters Wednesday evening "not to get too bogged down" in details when explaining his record to voters during the campaign.

The president, in a video conference with supporters Wednesday night from Chicago, encouraged his backers to focus on broad themes when it comes to his policies on taxes and war, instead of the specifics of individual policies. "I think the key is not to get too bogged down in detail," the president said last night.

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