I know there's an "ARIZONA" thread, but this deserves its own topic

[Freeky]

Why is Arizona trying to out-crazy the rest of the states?
Arizona...we love you think you have the potential to be alright. Stop being such an attention whore.

Dude, its a desert.  The sun wil fry your brain faster than an egg on the sidewalk if you don't wear a hat, and most people don't wear hats here.

[Cain]

Corey Robin, he of The Reactionary Mind, says this is pretty normal fare for conservatives - beyond the usual suspect attitudes towards women, it also involves farming out the actual mechanism of restricting women's reproductive rights by acting not through the state (where the constitution may be used to mount a challenge) but instead giving the private sector the power to do it.

He uses how McCarthyism was much more prevalent among employers during the 1950s than it ever was in government as evidence for this.  Apparently, your employers really wanted to know how you felt about NATO, normalising relations with the USSR and your thoughts on the Korean War, back in the day.  And roughly 40% of American workers were being kept under surveillance for possible Communist sympathies.

Basically, republicans are going to let your employer look for tiny communists in your vagina.

[Junkenstein]

Basically, republicans are going to let your employer look for tiny communists in your vagina

They're everywhere!

[navkat]

Dude, I've been bitching about this shit for awhile. Lately, it does seem like what ever the dumbest, most extreme caller on the Rush Limbaugh show says (even if the rest of the neocons say "well I think that's going a little too far") seems to end up as an actual legislation proposal in AZ or SD.

Basically, they were arguing about the "Constitutionally protected rights" (LOL) of Catholic and religious small businesses to not be compelled to purchase a product they disagree with. Someone spoke up and said something to the effect of: "Well, liberals are saying this sets a bad precedent for companies to selectively eschew what they don't want to pay for (it does) and for insurance companies to deny reproductive coverage to all insured women (it does) but I don't see how that's so because x, y and z..."

Inevitably, a batshit caller called in to say "Well, why would that be wrong? I don't see why unwed mothers (black people) should be having sex in the first place unless they're ready to deal with the consequences!"

Bingo, bango! Legislation popped out, a few months later! Someone slap it on the bottom and put a diaper on it cause I think this one's gonna shit all over the house before the election is over.

[Telarus]

Corey Robin, he of The Reactionary Mind, says this is pretty normal fare for conservatives - beyond the usual suspect attitudes towards women, it also involves farming out the actual mechanism of restricting women's reproductive rights by acting not through the state (where the constitution may be used to mount a challenge) but instead giving the private sector the power to do it.

He uses how McCarthyism was much more prevalent among employers during the 1950s than it ever was in government as evidence for this.  Apparently, your employers really wanted to know how you felt about NATO, normalising relations with the USSR and your thoughts on the Korean War, back in the day.  And roughly 40% of American workers were being kept under surveillance for possible Communist sympathies.

Basically, republicans are going to let your employer look for tiny communists in your vagina.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Corey Robin, he of The Reactionary Mind, says this is pretty normal fare for conservatives - beyond the usual suspect attitudes towards women, it also involves farming out the actual mechanism of restricting women's reproductive rights by acting not through the state (where the constitution may be used to mount a challenge) but instead giving the private sector the power to do it.

He uses how McCarthyism was much more prevalent among employers during the 1950s than it ever was in government as evidence for this.  Apparently, your employers really wanted to know how you felt about NATO, normalising relations with the USSR and your thoughts on the Korean War, back in the day.  And roughly 40% of American workers were being kept under surveillance for possible Communist sympathies.

Basically, republicans are going to let your employer look for tiny communists in your vagina.

They're already collecting pee and hairs to see if any employees happened to attend a party over the weekend. And poring over facebook looking for seditious comments like "my job sucks". Looking for tiny communists is the next logical step.

[navkat]

Corey Robin, he of The Reactionary Mind, says this is pretty normal fare for conservatives - beyond the usual suspect attitudes towards women, it also involves farming out the actual mechanism of restricting women's reproductive rights by acting not through the state (where the constitution may be used to mount a challenge) but instead giving the private sector the power to do it.

He uses how McCarthyism was much more prevalent among employers during the 1950s than it ever was in government as evidence for this.  Apparently, your employers really wanted to know how you felt about NATO, normalising relations with the USSR and your thoughts on the Korean War, back in the day.  And roughly 40% of American workers were being kept under surveillance for possible Communist sympathies.

Basically, republicans are going to let your employer look for tiny communists in your vagina.

They're already collecting pee and hairs to see if any employees happened to attend a party over the weekend. And poring over facebook looking for seditious comments like "my job sucks". Looking for tiny communists is the next logical step.

RIGHT?!?

Fuck.

[Luna]

So...  I haven't tracked down a copy of this bill, yet, mostly because I don't want to projectile vomit...

Sounds to me like it needs a rider to add that men who buy condoms will also be fired.

Roger, you keep letting shit like this fly down there and I won't be able to make my pilgrimmage down there, they'll pitch me in jail for a mass murderer.

[Cain]

Stuff like this is actually becoming such a big issue it looks like Republicans might lose the election because of it.

[Luna]

Stuff like this is actually becoming such a big issue it looks like Republicans might lose the election because of it.

If this is the way they're gonna go, they deserve to lose.

[Oysters Rockefeller]

So...  I haven't tracked down a copy of this bill, yet, mostly because I don't want to projectile vomit...

Sounds to me like it needs a rider to add that men who buy condoms will also be fired.

You know, I was going to make some crack about conservatives and gender equality...and then I found out a woman (Debbie Lesko) penned this bill. So. Yeah. I don't know. That's just sort of upsetting.

[East Coast Hustle]

She should have her vagina revoked.

[Cain]

State employees wont have to worry about that sort of thing, so, naturally, she is all for it.

Just like how several public officer holders who cite "religious reasons" why contraception access should be restricted do not, contrary to all expected outcomes, have families of 10+ children.

Although it could just be the case that the likes of Sam Brownback really has only ever had sex three times in his life.  He has that "blue balls" air about him.

[navkat]

State employees wont have to worry about that sort of thing, so, naturally, she is all for it.

Just like how several public officer holders who cite "religious reasons" why contraception access should be restricted do not, contrary to all expected outcomes, have families of 10+ children.

Although it could just be the case that the likes of Sam Brownback really has only ever had sex three times in his life.  He has that "blue balls" air about him.

It's like Jesus comes down and stops the babies from coming out for married Christians after two or three so they can get on with doing the Lord's work. Maybe he sticks his finger in the hole.

[Roly Poly Oly-Garch]

Stuff like this is actually becoming such a big issue it looks like Republicans might lose the election because of it.

The timing and progression really does make me suspicious that this issue was manufactured by the Obama camp.

Having thoroughly pissed off the progressive base, done nothing to impress the independents and given even the truest of true-blue dems reason to feel really fucking dumb right now, about his only hedge was to pray for some combination of Palin/Santorum/Bachman to emerge out of the primaries...When the slim hope for Santorum to pull off the nomination, turned to nil, all of a sudden this "religious contraception thing" popped up.

A pseudo-legitimate stink is raised. Obama "compromises" by sticking to his original position only wording it differently. Smells like victory but tastes like bullshit. Perfect recipe for convincing an entire party that they can win political points by pissing off every rational human being within ear-shot.

If this doesn't do the trick, I expect to see a proposed Constitutional Amendment banning the use of the word "Darwin" within 500 feet of schools, churches or military recruiting stations.