Queer Talk: No Surprise, Gallup Poll Shows LGBTs
Skew Democratic

post from Taylor Marsh on 19 October 2012 11:00:53 AM. © Taylor Marsh

The release of a Gallup poll which showed that 3.4% of U.S. adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT), with the highest incidence among those who are non-white, younger, and less educated, also included findings that LGBT Americans[...]

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News Desk: Bombing in Beirut Leaves 78 Injured, 8
Dead [Video]

post from Taylor Marsh on 19 October 2012 11:00:53 AM. © Taylor Marsh

WHAT IS being reported as a car bombing has left Beirut in a panic.CNN:The bomb was placed in a car in front of a library and 200 meters away from the office of the anti-Syrian Lebanese Phalange political movement, a Maronite Christian group.[...] The[...]

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Joe Walsh: Against Abortion, 'Without Exception',
Including the Life of the Mother

post from Crooks and Liars on 19 October 2012 11:00:42 AM. © Crooks and Liars

Joe Walsh: Against Abortion, 'Without Exception', Including the Life of the Mother

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Republican Joe Walsh's answer on the abortion issue tonight in his debate on WTTW?s Chicago Tonight with Tammy Duckworth caught reporters offguard, so they asked him again what his stance was, figuring they'd misheard him. They hadn't.

via WGRN:

The two candidates also clashed on abortion rights.
Walsh said he was against abortion ?without exception,? including rape, incest and in cases in which the life or health of the mother was in jeopardy.
Asked by reporters after the debate if he was saying that it?s never medically necessary to conduct an abortion to save the life of a mother, Walsh responded, ?Absolutely.?
?With modern technology and science, you can't find one instance,? he said. ?... There is no such exception as life of the mother, and as far as health of the mother, same thing.?

So, according to medical expert Joe Walsh, there are never any instances where a woman's life is in such grave danger that she'd need an emergency procedure to end her pregnancy. Tammy Duckworth also called out Walsh for cosponsoring legislation that would have redefined rape as "forcible rape," a bill which would prohibit federal funding of abortions except in instances of "an act of forcible rape or, if a minor, an act of incest."

Here's Tammy Duckworth's ad which came out a few days ago.

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Doubts About Romney's Nuclear Trigger Finger

post from Connecting.the.Dots on 19 October 2012 11:00:09 AM. © Connecting.the.Dots

At Harvard today scholars commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, 13 days when the world held its breath in the shadow of a nuclear war that John F. Kennedy said could have led to ?ultimate destruction of the human race.?

In interviews afterward, the President told me, ?Too many people want to blow up the world...In Cuba, a lot of people thought we should take more drastic action. I think we did the right thing. More drastic action would have increased the possibility of nuclear exchange. The real question now is to meet conflicts year after year without having to escalate."

Half a century later, it still is and, even in the academic colloquy over the Missile Crisis, doubts arise about the fitness of Mitt Romney to follow in JFK?s footsteps.
?Of the two candidates this year,? one Harvard scholar asks, ?does Obama or Romney have the better command of history, coolness under pressure, and good sense to make the right choice for all of us when the next crisis occurs?
?Obama has demonstrated some of these qualities in his adept isolation of Iran, his largely skillful handling of the Arab uprisings, and his bridge-building to allies and partners that has rebuilt U.S. credibility in Europe, especially.
?Romney?s big foreign policy speech...illuminated the challenge he has had in making an impact in foreign policy. His back-to-the-future evocation of American leadership seems right for the Cold War but not nearly sophisticated enough for our very different 21st-century world.?
As Mitt Romney blusters about confrontations with China, Iran and other adversaries, his sound-bite posturing may be effective in debates, campaign ads and comic relief, but how safe would we be if he moved into the Oval Office?
Two years ago, in putting Tehran "on notice," President Obama invoked the carrot-and-stick formula JFK used and, just as Kennedy ignored military advice to "bomb Cuba back into the Stone Age," rejected the notion of "victory" in today's crisis.
"This isn't a football game," he said. "So I'm not interested in victory, I'm interested in solving the problem."
Those words suggest he understands the lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis. When it was over, Robert Kennedy wrote in his memoir, his brother "permitted no crowing" and ordered that "no interview should be given, no statement made, which would claim any kind of victory."
In today?s world, any American president would do well to recall RFK's prediction that "we could have other missile crises in the future--different kinds, no doubt, and under different circumstances. But if we are going to be successful then, if we are going to preserve our own national security, we will need friends, we will need supporters, we will need countries that believe and respect us and will follow our leadership."
Does Mitt Romney have the temperament to provide that?

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CNN's Erick Erickson Undermines Early Voting --
After Voting Early

post from Media Matters for America - Latest Items on 19 October 2012 10:59:27 AM. © Media Matters for America - Latest Items

CNN contributor Erick Erickson criticized early voting, claiming that the practice could make Americans less likely to vote. But just hours before, Erickson had boasted of voting early for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

On CNN's Erin Burnett OutFront, host Erin Burnett kicked off the discussion on early voting by saying we should get rid of it and suggested moving Election Day from a Tuesday to another day when Americans could all vote on one day.

Erickson replied by noting that Tuesday as Election Day dates back to the country's founding but added that as a former election lawyer, "I've always had a concern with when you make it too general and too broad and too vote-anytime-you-want, then suddenly it becomes less of a civic national commitment."

Yet a few hours earlier, Erickson had exercised his civic duty by voting early for Romney:

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Paul Ryan woos women by mocking his war on them

post from Daily Kos on 19 October 2012 10:52:40 AM. © Daily Kos

Paul Ryan What? Women don't like being mocked?Yes, this is definitely how you win the lady vote:

?Now it?s a war on women; tomorrow it?s going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that,? Ryan told donors at a Naples fundraiser, according to Shushanna Walshe of ABC News.

Nothing like telling the biggest voting bloc in America that their silly little concerns are nothing but a bad punchline, huh? After all, it has worked so well for Republicans. They've spent the better part of the year denying their war, blaming Democrats for their war, insisting women don't care if Republicans try to take their rights away. Paul Ryan has been one of the worst, in fact.

He's Todd Akin's legislative soul mate, voting arm-in-arm to strip women of their most basic rights. He was a co-sponsor of the HR 3, the bill that would have, among other things, redefined rape and defunded women's health care. In fact, Ryan is damn near the poster boy for the Republicans' War on Women. But there's no such thing, he says. Silly ladies. Now stop whining, fall in line, and vote for Romney/Ryan!

Yeah. That should work.

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Hate Groups Endorsements Have .69 Percent Voting
Record On LGBT Equality

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The political action committee for the Family Research Council, a group designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBT hate group, has released its endorsements for the 2012 elections. Predictably, they endorsed a slate of candidates with a record of opposing LGBT equality. Of the 118 U.S. Representatives the group endorsed for re-election [...]

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Anti-LGBT Hate Group Endorses Anti-LGBT
Congressional Candidates With Anti-LGBT Voting Records

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Wisconsin GOP Senate Candidate Doesnt Understand
Radical Anti-Tax Pledge He Signed

Anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform and author of a radical anti-tax pledge that hundreds of Republican lawmakers have signed, was again the subject of a heated exchange at a Senate debate Thursday night, when Wisconsin GOP Senate candidate Tommy Thompson denied that his support for the Norquist pledge means [...]

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Congressional Nominee Acknowledges Those Under 55
Will Probably Feel A Little More Pain Under GOP Budget

HENDERSON, Nevada — In an uncommon moment of candor, a Republican congressional nominee in Las Vegas conceded that people age 54 and below “will probably feel a little more pain” if his party’s budget were passed. During a candidate’s forum outside Las Vegas on Monday, moderator Jon Ralston asked Chris Edwards, the GOP nominee in [...]

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