I did a little checking on the calumnist Henry Olsen and turned up the following affiliations:
Hillsdale College
National Review Online
Claremont McKenna College
American Enterprise Institute
Commonwealth Foundation
Ethics and Public Policy Center
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
James B. Olin Foundation
Manhattan Insitute
The Claremont Colleges seem to be a rich source of wrong wing ideologues. Steve Cambone and John Eastman are two examples. Henry's connection with Hillsdale College is based on his being its lobbyist in D.C.
There is no ethical consistency in the GOP. They defend the unborn and starve children. They complain about being censored when canceled for bad behavior, but sue and bully the media if they report truth. Nearly anything they accuse "liberals" (anyone not as far right or farther right than MAGA) is actually reflection and deflection.
Just intellectually, ethically, and morally curious but have the Republicans managed to squeeze out a rationale for their obsession with making sure the unborn get born while the already born get burned?
You mean besides the usual out-of-context Bible verses? I haven't seen it.
This is what happens when people are taught to take every word in a musty old book literally and somehow manage to extract the instructions for living life out of it.
How nice for the kiddies. Will they also be shown now baby is conceived? I ask, because so many of these "good" folks object to sex education in the schools. Will they say, "And then a miracle occurred?" Will they also show what happens with ectopic pregnancies? Will they show women hemorrhaging to death because of incomplete miscarriages? Will the introduce smell-o-vision so they know the odor of septic infection? Will they show the fistulas that can happen when a child is forced to give birth to another child?
"Many Republicans, including Sheboygan County District Attorney Joel Urmanski who had been so looking forward to throwing women in prison for having abortions, were disappointed in the ruling and argued that this is something that should be left to legislators and voters."
Have at it assholes.
* Most recent polls show a majority of Wisconsinites favor abortion by base supporters and soft supporters:
> "The online poll conducted by the D.C.-based Hart Research Associates between March 21 and March 28 got feedback from 605 registered voters in Wisconsin as a way of understanding perspectives on abortion in the state.
IOW, 78% want the state government to keep the fuck out of a woman's right of choice -- including 34% of those polled who personally oppose abortions but ***still*** think that the decision should be left to the person who is pregnant, their family, and their doctor and not to the WORMs (White Old RINO Men).
* Sure, try to enact legislation that has already been rejected by the voters and the courts. But be aware that a legislator's asshattery can (and should) prevent reelection. If the RINOs try and force through similar legislation then, IMO, they can expect to become the minority party. The RINOs hold the state Senate by only three seats (18/15), and nine seats in the Assembly (54/45)
> "In the 2024 elections, Republicans lost four seats but maintained their majority in the Wisconsin State Senate. The Republican majority went from 22-10 to 18-15.
...
In the 2024 elections, Republicans lost 10 seats but maintained their majority in the Wisconsin State Assembly. The Republican majority went from 64-34 to 54-45." https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_State_Legislature
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“This bill would simply make murdering anyone illegal for everyone, in recognition that preborn babies are image-bearers of God and are just as worthy of legal protection as people who have already been born.”
* Does this murder being illegal extend to overzealous cops? How many times have we read where cops break into the wrong house, while not identifying themselves as LEOs, and killing the resident for the crime of self-defense? How many of these LEOs were let off with a slap on the wrist because... protecting the thin blue line?
* "just as worthy of legal protection as people who have already been born.” Protecting the post-born is critical... unless the person is a woman, POC, immigrant, Muslim, Jewish, came from some shithole third world country, a Dem, a lib.... (If you belong in any of these demographics, then the MAGAdroids figure you can just fuck off and die. Americans, real Americans, demand their lebensraum.)
* Out of curiosity, what does Foundation to Abolish Abortion [finally, a non-ironic name for a right wingnut organization] President Bradley Pierce's G-d look like? Is he the blond haired, blue eyed Jesus adored by western and northern Europeans while rejecting the swarthy brown-skinned, dark eyed Jesus, which he would really have been given where he was born: Judea? It's probably the blond version since American Evangelicals and "Christian" nationalists have problems with POCs:
> "When you picture Jesus Christ in your head, what do you see? A white man, long blonde hair, and blue eyes? That's the image that has been handed down through popular culture—featured on TV programs like the History Channel series, "The Bible," and seen in portraits of the Son of God that date back to the Renaissance.
But just because everyone seems to insist that Jesus looked like a typical white male, that doesn't make it accurate. In fact, a forensic anthropologist named Richard Neave developed a image of the Christian figure that is pretty far removed from the face we're used to—but one that was informed by historical evidence and computerized tomography." https://archive.attn.com/stories/4692/what-jesus-looks-like [Click on link to see what Mr Neave's image of the Christ looks like.]
I keep trying to get through Jessica Valenti's book "Abortion: Our Bodies, Their LIes, and the Truths We Use to Win" but start grinding my teeth about halfway thru each chapter. The smug self-righteousness of ChristoFascists with respect to abortion, other people's sex practices ... just who do these people think they are to censure others by accusing them of murder and perversion?
We should have pushed back against the "slaughter of the innocents" rhetoric vigorously and continuously from the start. But we didn't, so now we're in the phase of negotiating how much of women's rights we're wiling to allow them to exercise, and that amount is closing in on "none."
It's a terrible situation - but I have to indulge in a bit of bitter laughter. the USCCB thought this whole conservative thing was wonderful when they joined together to force childbirth, and/or "Let the woman die."
Again, MAGAs are going to take it in the shorts - there are wide swaths of Iowa where you have to go out of your way to avoid the Sisters of Mary chain of hospitals.
In the 70's the nuns made us watch "abortion videos" that showed blood and gore and "baby parts". As young teenagers, we shrugged and went back to playing sports or whatever.
Doubt it changed anyone's mind about having an abortion.
Well, this was the era when they were still showing driver's ed films with actual injured drivers literally dying on camera, so it wasn't like y'all hadn't seen it before...
We got to watch anti-drug films. There was one where guys smoked a bunch of dope and broke the tops off bottles and drank from them. They were all laughing and having a good time while bleeding profusely from their mouths.
Then there was the one where a girl tripping on acid sees a lit gas stove burner and thinks it's a flower.
I was so disappointed during the eighth grade when the sex ed movie didn't have any sex. It did, however, feature a young Dick York (first Darrin on Bewitchedl), sweating nervously while on the phone asking a girl for a date.
Freshman year of high school we were shown an anti-drug film starring Sonny and Cher (during their hippie days). I think I bought my first lid for $5 soon after.
"Many Republicans, including Sheboygan County District Attorney Joel Urmanski who had been so looking forward to throwing women in prison for having abortions, were disappointed in the ruling and argued that this is something that should be left to legislators and voters."
Anytime they fail in one venue, they bleat that some other party should really decide.
Jeffries is done. Some whiny plump fuck from Missouri Rep Jason Smith is bleating out his feelies. He wants "order" so he can insult Jeffries and the Democrats. ("Mr. Speaker, the 8 hours of hogwash that we just heard . . .blah blah blah")
300-400 rural hospitals face closure due to the loss of medicaid funds that the lying republican'ts claim are not going to happen in their Big Billionaire Benefits Bill. A lot of people are going to die and a lot of them, but not all of them are going to be FAFOs.
In an interview, his sister, Virgina, was asked about sexual predators in Hollywood. She said that Harvey Weinstein and his ilk did not try it with her, because "A lot of people were really afraid of Michael, and this included "Harvey". Loved his acting but that made me like him even more.
I did a little checking on the calumnist Henry Olsen and turned up the following affiliations:
Hillsdale College
National Review Online
Claremont McKenna College
American Enterprise Institute
Commonwealth Foundation
Ethics and Public Policy Center
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
James B. Olin Foundation
Manhattan Insitute
The Claremont Colleges seem to be a rich source of wrong wing ideologues. Steve Cambone and John Eastman are two examples. Henry's connection with Hillsdale College is based on his being its lobbyist in D.C.
Here's an informative link:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/01/21/who-the-hell-is-henry-olsen/
There is no ethical consistency in the GOP. They defend the unborn and starve children. They complain about being censored when canceled for bad behavior, but sue and bully the media if they report truth. Nearly anything they accuse "liberals" (anyone not as far right or farther right than MAGA) is actually reflection and deflection.
Also good news: The Montana Supreme Court won't hear a case challenging the recently passed constitutional amendment on abortions.
https://dailymontanan.com/2025/07/02/montana-supreme-court-wont-hear-case-challenging-abortion-amendment/
parents in Iowa should sue under that new ruling that they should be allowed to "opt out" their children from seeing the video
Just intellectually, ethically, and morally curious but have the Republicans managed to squeeze out a rationale for their obsession with making sure the unborn get born while the already born get burned?
You mean besides the usual out-of-context Bible verses? I haven't seen it.
This is what happens when people are taught to take every word in a musty old book literally and somehow manage to extract the instructions for living life out of it.
I’m sticking with “The Iliad”. All humankind should stick with “The Iliad”.
How nice for the kiddies. Will they also be shown now baby is conceived? I ask, because so many of these "good" folks object to sex education in the schools. Will they say, "And then a miracle occurred?" Will they also show what happens with ectopic pregnancies? Will they show women hemorrhaging to death because of incomplete miscarriages? Will the introduce smell-o-vision so they know the odor of septic infection? Will they show the fistulas that can happen when a child is forced to give birth to another child?
How is Babby Formed, redux:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaUN3RUa2V4
"Many Republicans, including Sheboygan County District Attorney Joel Urmanski who had been so looking forward to throwing women in prison for having abortions, were disappointed in the ruling and argued that this is something that should be left to legislators and voters."
Have at it assholes.
* Most recent polls show a majority of Wisconsinites favor abortion by base supporters and soft supporters:
> "The online poll conducted by the D.C.-based Hart Research Associates between March 21 and March 28 got feedback from 605 registered voters in Wisconsin as a way of understanding perspectives on abortion in the state.
...
The poll found that 45% of voters are “base supporters” of abortion, meaning they personally support the right to abortion and believe it should be legal, while 34% were “soft supporters” meaning they are personally against abortion but oppose government restrictions." https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/10/survey-finds-majority-of-wisconsinites-support-planned-parenthood-and-abortion-access/
IOW, 78% want the state government to keep the fuck out of a woman's right of choice -- including 34% of those polled who personally oppose abortions but ***still*** think that the decision should be left to the person who is pregnant, their family, and their doctor and not to the WORMs (White Old RINO Men).
* Sure, try to enact legislation that has already been rejected by the voters and the courts. But be aware that a legislator's asshattery can (and should) prevent reelection. If the RINOs try and force through similar legislation then, IMO, they can expect to become the minority party. The RINOs hold the state Senate by only three seats (18/15), and nine seats in the Assembly (54/45)
> "In the 2024 elections, Republicans lost four seats but maintained their majority in the Wisconsin State Senate. The Republican majority went from 22-10 to 18-15.
...
In the 2024 elections, Republicans lost 10 seats but maintained their majority in the Wisconsin State Assembly. The Republican majority went from 64-34 to 54-45." https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_State_Legislature
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“This bill would simply make murdering anyone illegal for everyone, in recognition that preborn babies are image-bearers of God and are just as worthy of legal protection as people who have already been born.”
* Does this murder being illegal extend to overzealous cops? How many times have we read where cops break into the wrong house, while not identifying themselves as LEOs, and killing the resident for the crime of self-defense? How many of these LEOs were let off with a slap on the wrist because... protecting the thin blue line?
* "just as worthy of legal protection as people who have already been born.” Protecting the post-born is critical... unless the person is a woman, POC, immigrant, Muslim, Jewish, came from some shithole third world country, a Dem, a lib.... (If you belong in any of these demographics, then the MAGAdroids figure you can just fuck off and die. Americans, real Americans, demand their lebensraum.)
* Out of curiosity, what does Foundation to Abolish Abortion [finally, a non-ironic name for a right wingnut organization] President Bradley Pierce's G-d look like? Is he the blond haired, blue eyed Jesus adored by western and northern Europeans while rejecting the swarthy brown-skinned, dark eyed Jesus, which he would really have been given where he was born: Judea? It's probably the blond version since American Evangelicals and "Christian" nationalists have problems with POCs:
> "When you picture Jesus Christ in your head, what do you see? A white man, long blonde hair, and blue eyes? That's the image that has been handed down through popular culture—featured on TV programs like the History Channel series, "The Bible," and seen in portraits of the Son of God that date back to the Renaissance.
But just because everyone seems to insist that Jesus looked like a typical white male, that doesn't make it accurate. In fact, a forensic anthropologist named Richard Neave developed a image of the Christian figure that is pretty far removed from the face we're used to—but one that was informed by historical evidence and computerized tomography." https://archive.attn.com/stories/4692/what-jesus-looks-like [Click on link to see what Mr Neave's image of the Christ looks like.]
fnord
Thank you for keeping track of this stuff.
I keep trying to get through Jessica Valenti's book "Abortion: Our Bodies, Their LIes, and the Truths We Use to Win" but start grinding my teeth about halfway thru each chapter. The smug self-righteousness of ChristoFascists with respect to abortion, other people's sex practices ... just who do these people think they are to censure others by accusing them of murder and perversion?
[grinds teeth] ;^)
I cannot express in words how much I hate the Christianist propaganda snarl phrase "unborn child".
Same! "Preborn child" is also an expression used by people I'd never want to willingly speak with
Oh, the phrase "preborn child" is what got me fuming.
Is "preborn child" like "pre-owned car"?
Or "pre-meal ingredients"
Remember the current evangelical rage against abortion is younger than the Happy Meal, HT to Slacktivist.
It’s fuckn ridiculous!
We should have pushed back against the "slaughter of the innocents" rhetoric vigorously and continuously from the start. But we didn't, so now we're in the phase of negotiating how much of women's rights we're wiling to allow them to exercise, and that amount is closing in on "none."
The gag is, the evangelical psychos pushing this shit know the laws are bad! But they can't learn the right lessons, like Miss Piggy in Florida
See, also, trans-rights.
You are, sadly, most correct.
and slightly stabby about it too.
Non-sentient globule is my preferred descriptor.
cell-cluster with beginning specialization of some cells is a mouthful for sure.
Trump vs. the Church: The President's Five-Month Assault on Pope Leo’s Catholic America
https://lettersfromleo.substack.com/p/trump-vs-the-church-the-presidents?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
It's a terrible situation - but I have to indulge in a bit of bitter laughter. the USCCB thought this whole conservative thing was wonderful when they joined together to force childbirth, and/or "Let the woman die."
Let me guess- they were the "Vatican II was a mistake" Catholics who were hoping for another Benedict?
I cannot speak to that, but I suspect you are correct.
Again, MAGAs are going to take it in the shorts - there are wide swaths of Iowa where you have to go out of your way to avoid the Sisters of Mary chain of hospitals.
Is that a crossover of the Sisters of Mercy and Jesus and Mary Chain?
It is now.
My goth shoegaze band will be called Sisters of Mary Chain.
Perhaps Trump could be buried in Qatari Force One . . .
The Khashoggi treatment.
Did he croak?! 🫣😃
He's inflating his neck like a bullfrog
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ZJZOkVix1_oAGENDhHtAPA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTI0MDA7aD0xMzUwO2NmPXdlYnA-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/snopes_632/b207269f9f95702025f7a9e8d464010b
we wish
Cremated and flushed down a toilet in some stinking run-down bus station somewhere in flyover country. The identify of said bus station kept secret.
Show some compassion to the homeless people who are forced to use those washrooms.
Loooove love this for (sh)IT! 🤩
Bedminster National Golf Cemetery
Bury him right next to the beach at Merde-a-Lago and wait for the first hurricane to wash his body out to sea.
Loooools… leave his bloated carcass on a beach w a chain saw and a bicycle and RFK… he lurvs hisself some “roadkill reimagined” as “public art” pranks
The solution to his pollution is complete dissolution.
In the 70's the nuns made us watch "abortion videos" that showed blood and gore and "baby parts". As young teenagers, we shrugged and went back to playing sports or whatever.
Doubt it changed anyone's mind about having an abortion.
Well, this was the era when they were still showing driver's ed films with actual injured drivers literally dying on camera, so it wasn't like y'all hadn't seen it before...
We got to watch anti-drug films. There was one where guys smoked a bunch of dope and broke the tops off bottles and drank from them. They were all laughing and having a good time while bleeding profusely from their mouths.
Then there was the one where a girl tripping on acid sees a lit gas stove burner and thinks it's a flower.
That didn't work either.
I was so disappointed during the eighth grade when the sex ed movie didn't have any sex. It did, however, feature a young Dick York (first Darrin on Bewitchedl), sweating nervously while on the phone asking a girl for a date.
Freshman year of high school we were shown an anti-drug film starring Sonny and Cher (during their hippie days). I think I bought my first lid for $5 soon after.
"Many Republicans, including Sheboygan County District Attorney Joel Urmanski who had been so looking forward to throwing women in prison for having abortions, were disappointed in the ruling and argued that this is something that should be left to legislators and voters."
Anytime they fail in one venue, they bleat that some other party should really decide.
“Heads I win, tails you lose…again bc Jesus hates ya.”
It's kind of pathetic.
Delete them two middle words. Words cost money.
Last word sufficed.
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Jeffries is done. Some whiny plump fuck from Missouri Rep Jason Smith is bleating out his feelies. He wants "order" so he can insult Jeffries and the Democrats. ("Mr. Speaker, the 8 hours of hogwash that we just heard . . .blah blah blah")
I am surprised that there are never any fisticuffs . . .
Needs more tussling and dustups.
300-400 rural hospitals face closure due to the loss of medicaid funds that the lying republican'ts claim are not going to happen in their Big Billionaire Benefits Bill. A lot of people are going to die and a lot of them, but not all of them are going to be FAFOs.
GLOVES OFF: Jamie Raskin UNLOADS on Trump
Brian Tyler Cohen (11:48) : https://youtu.be/M7z6eCFEWnE
I wonder if Tools & Food is prepared to perform surgeries too . . .
Say whut?
A Parks and Recreations reference. But it is true that for a lot of people The Dollar Tree is the only available place they have to get food.
So, I wonder if the Dollar Tree is prepared to perform surgeries . . .
Okay got it. If I relied on The Dollar Tree for food, I'd probably become a suicide statistic PDQ.
Or opioid addict, those lucky duckies in the outback . . .
I had a big crush on Michael Madsen--RIP.
In an interview, his sister, Virgina, was asked about sexual predators in Hollywood. She said that Harvey Weinstein and his ilk did not try it with her, because "A lot of people were really afraid of Michael, and this included "Harvey". Loved his acting but that made me like him even more.
Amen--I never heard this and love it.