Soaps.com - MESSAGE BOARDS

mediamatters.org/columns/200905150039


President Obama is scheduled to speak at Notre Dame's graduation ceremony this weekend, after more than a month of complaints from a small number of anti-abortion rights activists who have received media attention far disproportionate to their numbers.

Since the announcement on March 20 that Obama would speak, The Washington Post alone has addressed the controversy in 11 articles and columns. The New York Times has dealt with it in eight columns and articles. And as for television news segments, there have been too many to count.

Seeing the media behave as though it is completely natural that the anti-abortion rights activists want to exclude Obama from the Notre Dame commencement because of his views on abortion is more than a little bizarre.

Not only because Obama won a majority of votes cast by Americans, Catholics, Indiana residents, and probably Notre Dame students and faculty (Obama won 58 percent of the vote in St. Joseph County, in which Notre Dame is located). And not only because most of the country favors abortion rights* and stem cell research, as do a plurality of Catholics.

www.aolhealth.com/health/child-health/news/article/

"MINNEAPOLIS (May 15) - A Minnesota judge has ruled that a 13-year-old boy with a highly treatable form of cancer must seek conventional medical treatment over his parents' objections.
In a 58-page ruling Friday, Brown County District Judge John Rodenberg found that Daniel Hauser has been "medically neglected" and is in need of child protection services.
Rodenberg said Daniel will stay in the custody of his parents, but Colleen and Anthony Hauser have until May 19 to get an updated chest X-ray for their son and select an oncologist
The judge wrote that Daniel has only a "rudimentary understanding at best of the risks and benefits of chemotherapy. ... he does not believe he is ill currently. The fact is that he is very ill currently."
Daniel's court-appointed attorney, Philip Elbert, called the decision unfortunate.
"I feel it's a blow to families," he said. "It marginalizes the decisions that parents face every day in regard to their children's medical care. It really affirms the role that big government is better at making our decisions for us."


The court-appointed attorney's comments blow my mind!! Typical Republican response!! Sure they're all for medically neglecting a child, but the goverment should not allow woman to have an abortion or gays and lesbians to marry!!!!

how could ANY parent find fault with that ruling after reading all the facts, they have to do that with jehova witnesses all the time , that doesn't make the papers, anything to make it political, how desperate

i agree, sarah, adults are free to make decisions, it is a whole different thing when it is a child

crooks and liars.....Michael Steele's mind inhabits an alternate reality. This is his new talking point against gay marriage.

Republicans can reach a broader base by recasting gay marriage as an issue that could dent pocketbooks as small businesses spend more on health care and other benefits, GOP Chairman Michael Steele said Saturday.

Steele said that was just an example of how the party can retool its message to appeal to young voters and minorities without sacrificing core conservative principles. Steele said he used the argument weeks ago while chatting on a flight with a college student who described herself as fiscally conservative but socially liberal on issues like gay marriage.

''Now all of a sudden I've got someone who wasn't a spouse before, that I had no responsibility for, who is now getting claimed as a spouse that I now have financial responsibility for,'' Steele told Republicans at the state convention in traditionally conservative Georgia. ''So how do I pay for that? Who pays for that? You just cost me money.''

As Steele talked about ways the party could position itself, he also poked fun at his previous pledge to give the GOP a ''hip-hop makeover.''''You don't have to wear your pants cut down here or the big bling,'' he said.

So his argument is that gay marriage is fiscally irresponsible? Every time he opens his mouth, more garbage comes out of it. I'm sure the less than .050% of gay married couples will produce a huge dent in corporate earnings. First gays were just demented people who weren't allowed to make love because they would be thrown in jail for it. Now, in Steele's world, gays are just too costly. I mean, WTF?



this is my post........
maybe the rep party would like to eliminate all marriages to bring the cost of health care down
we have a number of friends that happen to be gay, they all have good jobs, pay taxes, go about daily living, since they are putting money into the system, i see no reason they should not get insurance and everything available to all of us
i michael steele is the voice of the republician party, i see the democrats being in charge for a very long time

i find it odd that the republicians were complaining about government interference, yet this is a life of a 13 yr old child, makes you wonder, do they just spend their time looking for things to attack, if john mccain would have won, how many dems would have said anything about this, zero

Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) tried to push back against the Pelosi attacks on ABC’s “This Week,” telling host George Stephanopoulos that the dust-up was not a big deal.

“I think this will resolve itself,” he said. “I don’t think it’s that big a deal.”

Webb went on to accuse Republicans of pushing the story in order to avoid the “issues of accountability in terms of the last administration.”

Pelosi has called on the CIA to release documents showing what she was told by the agency, even suggesting that she would be open to an examination of her own claim as part of a so-called truth commission investigation.

But Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he does not want the conflict to go that far.
While McConnell said that there’s unquestionably a “dispute” between Pelosi and the CIA, he said he’d prefer to see the disagreement settled by the House and Senate intelligence committees and not through a broader truth commission investigation — one that would focus on the action of Bush administration officials as well.

when i was watching meet the press all michael steele did was accuse nancy pelosi of lying, now she wants a FULL investigation to prove she wasn't, the republicians want no part of that, they want their part in torturing,forgotten

The Obama Administration takes the biggest step in America's history to cut green house gases, and all you get in the republican thread is misinformation! (Anyone surprised?) The $1300 increase will be over THE NEXT SEVEN YEARS!! A little over $185 per year, I don't think that is an enormous amount to pay for the return we will be getting! Here's the real truth!

www.democracynow.org/2009/5/19/headlines#2


President Obama is scheduled today to issue new national emissions and mileage requirements for cars and light trucks. The rules aim to cut emissions by 30 percent and require passenger cars to average thirty-nine miles per gallon and light trucks thirty mpg by 2016. The White House estimates the regulations would save 1.8 billion barrels of oil and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 900 million metric tons over the lifetime of the more efficient vehicles, equivalent to taking 177 million cars off the road or shutting down 194 coal-fired power plants. Daniel Becker of the Safe Climate Campaign praised Obama’s plan. He said, “This is the single biggest step the American government has ever taken to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.” The cost of new vehicles is expected to rise by at least $1,300 by 2016.