Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[SD]

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20120203_Komen_foundation_needs_cure_for_backlash_over_Planned_Parenthood_cutoff.html?cmpid=131298129

In a tense interview Thursday, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell - a Komen booster who revealed her own breast cancer diagnosis in September - asked Brinker why Komen recently hired Karen Handel as its senior vice president of public policy. Handel is an outspoken critic of abortion rights and Planned Parenthood. Brinker denied that Handel was behind the foundation's defunding decision.

What's really funny is the Replublican talking heads are saying Komen is being criticized for chosing to donate where they chose completely ignoring the fact that their donors are where they get their money from.

[PhillyGirl]

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/02/komen-foundation-gave-75-million-grant-penn-state

[PhillyGirl]

http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/03/news/economy/jobs_report_unemployment/index.htm?hpt=hp_t1

American employers substantially stepped up their hiring in January, bringing the unemployment rate down for the fifth month in a row.

Employers added 243,000 jobs in January, the Labor Department reported Friday, marking a pick-up in hiring from December, when the economy added 203,000 jobs.

Meanwhile, the unemployment rate fell to 8.3%. That is the lowest since February 2009.

Job growth was much stronger than expected. Economists surveyed by CNNMoney had forecast 130,000 jobs added in the month, and that the unemployment rate likely ticked up to 8.6%.

[ice grillin you]

best household survey since 93....


[zealots]how fortunate is barry to have inherited this recovery[zealots]

[Sgt PSN]

So no one wants to talk about Roseanne throwing her hat in the ring? 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls1YVhcLD2c

[Munson]

I'm more concerned about all that job crushing regulation that Obama has passed keeping these new employment numbers so damn low

[ice grillin you]

haha...komen backed off and apologized....woo hooo...power to the people

[Rome]

They're still a bullshtein organization for knuckling under to fascist anti-abortion freaks in the first place.

Either you have principles or you don't.

[ice grillin you]

settle down scrooge...the important thing is that the sick and the poor were defended for once

[Rome]

Not by the organization whose soul purpose is supposed to be women's health. 

I'm happy they decided to reverse their shameful policy toward Planned Parenthood.  Women who are most vulnerable will continue to get the screenings they need and that's fantastic news.  But just because they decided to do what's right doesn't mean I can't be disgusted by their knee-jerk cowardice.

[ice grillin you]

can i give you a hug?

[General_Failure]

Only if you make it feel like a mammogram.

[General_Failure]

In other news, things are happening in Syria today. The government has been shelling Homs, with 200 reported deaths so far.

http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/01/whats-happening-syria-2

[Munson]

[Rome]

The Syrian government is absolutely slaughtering its citizens.  Hundreds dead and over 1,300 injured so far.

Assad should be hauled in front of the Hague for this latest atrocity, but he won't.  That's why tyrants like him need to be blasted into oblivion.