Anna Brown: 29-year-old Black Woman Dies in Jail After Being Dragged By Police Out of Hospital

Posted on March 30, 2012 by | 22 Comments

This makes me hate people.

Anna Brown had visited several hospitals complaining of pain in her legs. When she was ignored at St. Mary’s Hospital, she refused to leaved, screaming and yelling that she was in pain. The hospital had her arrested. The police dragged her out of the hospital and into a squad car. At the Richmond Heights Police Department, she cried that she couldn’t stand up or get out of the car, so the officers dragged her out of the car, into a jail cell, and left her there.

Fifteen minutes later she was dead from a pulmonary embolism:

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NH House Republicans Pass Bill Banning Abortion After 20 Weeks

Posted on March 30, 2012 by | 3 Comments

Here’s some news on the New Hampshire Forced Birth front.

 New Hampshire House Republicans just passed HB 1660, which makes it a felony for abortion providers to perform abortions after twenty weeks of pregnancy, based upon the entirely unproven and inconclusive assertion that fetuses feel pain:

CONCORD, N.H.—For the fifth time in two weeks, the House passed a bill intended to restrict abortions in New Hampshire, voting Thursday to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Abortion providers would face felony charges punishable by up to 15 years in prison for violating the proposed law, although the mother would not be prosecuted.

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Kansas House GOP Passes ‘Abortion Conscience’ Bill

Posted on March 30, 2012 by | 1 Comment

Kansas’s war on women marches on.

SB62 immunizes doctors and medical care facilities from liability for refusing to provide any care or prescribe any drug that might lead to abortion if those doctors or medical facilities have a moral objection to abortion or birth control:

TOPEKA, Kan. (WTW) — A bill designed to give Kansas health care providers greater legal protections if they refuse any involvement in abortion moved Wednesday toward passage in the state House, despite concerns that it could lessen access to birth control.

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Kansas already has laws that say no person or hospital can be forced to participate in abortions or sterilizations or be penalized for refusing. This year’s measure extends “conscience” protections to health care facilities other than hospitals and says providers couldn’t be required to refer patients for abortion care or to prescribe or dispense abortion-inducing drugs.

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Why I Have No Idea What You’re Talking About, Sir

Posted on March 30, 2012 by | 6 Comments

Diplomacy: the art of stating the obvious and getting immunity for it.

Observation:  The Bush administration leaked sensitive information to journalists to start wars.  The Obama administration leaks sensitive information to journalists to stop them.

Two reports today about Iran’s nuclear program and the possibility of an Israeli military strike have analysts in Israel accusing the Obama administration leaking information to pressure Israel not to bomb Iran and for Iran to reach a compromise in upcoming nuclear talks.

The first report in Foreign Policy quotes anonymous American officials saying that Israel has been given access to airbases by Iran’s northern neighbor Azerbaijan from which Israel could launch air strikes or at least drones and search and rescue aircraft.

The second report from Bloomberg, based on a leaked congressional report, said that Iran’s nuclear facilities are so dispersed that it is “unclear what the ultimate effect of a strike would be…” A strike could delay Iran as little as six months, a former official told the researchers.

“It seems like a big campaign to prevent Israel from attacking,” analyst Yoel Guzansky at the Institute for National Security Studies told ABC News. “I think the [Obama] administration is really worried Jerusalem will attack and attack soon. They’re trying hard to prevent it in so many ways.”

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Funny or Die: Sunday is Coming (Video)

Posted on March 29, 2012 by | 2 Comments

Check out this short starring my awesome IRL friend Danielle Cloutier aka @ReelSmartCookie on the Twitters:

You’re welcome.

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White Supremacists Hack Email of #TrayvonMartin and a New Video Fails to Substantiate Zimmerman’s Self-Defense Claims

Posted on March 29, 2012 by | 11 Comments

Two new developments in the sordid Trayvon Martin affair.

First, white supremacists hacked into Trayvon Martin’s email account and posted some of the information on 4chan.

From Gawker:

A slide titled “Trayvon Martin Used Marijuana Habitually,” features an exchange between Trayvon and a friend about getting high. Another slide, “Trayvon Martin was a Drug Dealer” features Facebook messages and photos that supposedly prove Martin dealt drugs, including a picture of Martin posing “aggressively with a large amount of cash in his hand.” It’s impossible to verify the hacked messages’ authenticity—like other anti-Trayvon Martin propaganda, they’re probably a mix of real and fake content— but they are now being passed around as gospel among the racist underbelly of the internet, including message boards like the neo-Nazi hive Stormfront, which Klanklannon apparently frequents.

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The saddest bit of Gawker’s story is that Trayvon’s email demonstrated that he was a focused young man trying to get into college:

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My President is a feminist II – President Obama addresses Planned Parenthood supporters.

Posted on March 29, 2012 by | 1 Comment

“Let’s be clear here: Women are not an interest group…. They’re half of this country.”

“If you truly values families, you shouldn’t play politics with a woman’s health.”

Word.

(Do you think the President saw my tweet?)

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#TrayvonMartin: The Zimmerman Apologist Train is Careening Wildly Off-Track

Posted on March 29, 2012 by | 24 Comments

I’m not a fan of Nancy Grace, but this is worth watching for further insight into the depths of the cover-up that is going on down in Florida:

Clearly, the video released by ABC News yesterday destroys Zimmerman’s claim that Trayvon attacked him.

Additionally, the funeral director has stated that there was no signs on Trayvon’s body that would indicate that he had been in a fight. So we have a video of Zimmerman where he’s unbloodied, unbruised, not wincing in pain, and wearing clean clothes, and we have Trayvon Martin with no cuts or bruises on his hands; but somehow we’re supposed to believe that Trayvon punched Zimmerman in the nose hard enough to break it, then slammed Zimmerman’s head into the ground, and began beating him?

No. That did not happen. It makes no damn sense.

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Remember When George H.W. Bush Supported Planned Parenthood and Family Planning?

Posted on March 29, 2012 by | 5 Comments

Rachel Maddow had a great segment last night on how batshit crazy the Republican party has become over the last thirty years when it comes to reproductive rights and family planning.

Example Numero Uno? When Papa Bush was UN Ambassador, he sent a letter to the director of Planned Parenthood at the time, Alan Guttmacher, congratulating Planned Parenthood on the issuance of an eight cent “family planning” stamp, and stating he was “deeply appreciative of the dedication it symbolizes.”


Forty years later, George H.W. Bush has thrown his support behind Mitt “We’re gonna get rid of Planned Parenthood” Romney.
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