I don't usually cross post from my blog, but I was listening to the BBC World Service this morning and they had a report about the anti-choicers next target, the birth control pill. The five minute story started by interviewing a GP in Wisconsin who refuses to write prescriptions for birth control pills. Why? Something to the effect that is 99% successful, but there is still a chance, no matter how small of fertilization. The second interviewee was a pharmacist in Texas that refuses to fill birth control pill prescriptions, for moral reasons. The BBC ended with a statement that obviously implied that the anti-choicers can't really restrict abortion anymore than they have so the next step is to attack birth control.
I guess what they want is no abortion, no birth control, no education...
Addition: Trope wrote three comments to this post. I will post all three as one below.
Fellow Kossacks and bloggers. Thanks for the great reads this past week! I was asked by a friend if the blogsphere could help out in finding some quotes. Here is his request:
request for quotes
One of my infamous associates is constructing an article for a "national women's magazine" and needs some quotes from Bush and Kerry about women - the women in their lives, their stances on women's issues, etc. In addition to the quote she needs source.
Please reply if you got `em.
If you have any other suggestions, I am sure it would be much appreciated.
While all the talk has been about Michael Moore's F911, which I think it did its job - it wasn't that great of a flim... however, on Saturday night I saw a great documentary, The Corporation. This documentary didn't dicuss many things that I was not aware of, but it did combine many issues of corporate power and how it effects us. It covers advertising/visual culture, environment issues, labor issues, history of corporate power and governments, and the how corporations are treated as individuals (among other things). As a documentary, it is the best of the year - and I am glad that some good ones have come out in 2004. Obviously I loved Super Size Me also. So, if The Corporation comes to a city near you - see it. If not, I bet the book it is based on is a very good read.
Yesterday morning was pretty good. I listened to Studio360, which was pretty good and this morning I caught On the Media. But Friday night I saw the new Michael Moore film, Fahrenheit 9/11. I expected a Michael Moore experience, and that is what I got.
A couple of us have joined the legion of kossacks who have started a blog. If you have a minute jump over there and check it out - leave comments or suggestions if you like. It is found at: http://sixofone.blogspot.com . It isn't not just politics, but also other stuff.
Thanks to every poster that has made dkos what it is.
I don't know if this article has been posted in the diaries, so I apologize if it is a repeat.
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A Bush Covert Operative Takes Over Al Sharpton's Campaign
Sleeping With the GOP
by Wayne Barrett with special reporting by Adam Hutton and Christine Lagorio
February 5th, 2004 8:20 AM
Roger Stone, the longtime Republican dirty-tricks operative who led the mob that shut down the Miami-Dade County recount and helped make George W. Bush president in 2000, is financing, staffing, and orchestrating the presidential campaign of Reverend Al Sharpton.
Though Stone and Sharpton have tried to reduce their alliance to a curiosity, suggesting that all they do is talk occasionally, a Voice investigation has documented an extraordinary array of connections. Stone played a pivotal role in putting together Sharpton's pending application for federal matching funds, getting dollars in critical states from family members and political allies at odds with everything Sharpton represents. He's also helped stack the campaign with a half-dozen incongruous top aides who've worked for him in prior campaigns. He's even boasted about engineering six-figure loans to Sharpton's National Action Network (NAN) and allowing Sharpton to use his credit card to cover thousands in NAN costs--neither of which he could legally do for the campaign. In a wide-ranging Voice interview Sunday, Stone confirmed his matching-fund and staffing roles, but refused to comment on the NAN subsidies.
Sorry to keep posting articles, but its a busy time of year for me. This was an article that I found interesting. As a New Yorker I am aware of Spitzer's role, but I hope that posters keep us up to date with their state and local issues. Dean, the Senate, and the election are great to read, but much of what affects us daily are local issues. So I was happy to read this, but hope to read more about local issues in the diaries.
The article below predicts that 2004 will see the largest rate of growth in the last twenty years. This morning on WNYC's Brian Lerher show Robert Rubin was the guest. When asked about the growth the said that the tax cuts were probably 15% of the reason, but the bigger reason was spending on homeland security and other inputs (http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/archive.html). He discussed many other things.
That got me thinking of a few things. My questions are these: Can the Dems win if this recovery actually includes a recovery in the jobs? Second, if the recovery continues for wall street but not the workforce, what kind of divide, if any, could we see politically? And third, if this article is correct, will the deficit be looked at differently? Just wanted to throw that out there.
Below is an article that was sent to me with the message attached that I wasn't going to believe this. It does come from, what one may say "a crazy-rightie site (which I am not familiar with)," but it includes endnotes and is worth the read. Just thought I would pass it along. I would give it a read if you think it is crazy or not.
This was an article that I recieved from a webmail service. This was the first that I have heard of it.
At Least 17 U.S. Troops Have Committed Suicide in Iraq; Army Seeks Answers
By Randall Richard
The Associated Press
Rebecca Suell wants answers, and not the ones the U.S. Army is giving her.
Why does the Army keep calling the last letter her husband sent to her, the one he mailed from Iraq on June 15, a suicide note? Can taking a bottle of Tylenol really kill you? And how did he get his hands on a bottle of Tylenol in the middle of the desert anyway?
The questions may differ, but experts say the desperate search for answers - and the denial - are usually the same.
Just listening to Lisa Murkowski. They all keep saying the 9th circuit court is the most overturned by the Supreme Court. Maybe I missed it, but why doesn't some Dem say that its because the Supreme Court has 7 GOP nominees to 2 by Dem Presidents. If the mainstream that she is talking about is The SCOTUS, that hardly seem representative of the overall US.
I don't have time to post much, but this Washington Post article about George Soros (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A24179-2003Nov10?language=printer) appeared today, on the same day that my Atlantic Monthly arrived. This months cover article is on John Kerry. There is also some good stuff in the November/December 2003 Foreign Affairs.
Still figuring out this board. But read that Graham is not running for reelection. Hopefully it is because he will be running for the Veep. Either way, FL is going to be tough to keep. Robert Klyman from Judicial Watch I believe is running, but I imagine Graham's departure opens the door for people that would have never challenged him to jump into the race.
