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U.N. Declares Contraception a ‘Universal Human Right’ for ‘Women and Adolescents’

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Before the spring of 2012, birth control was not often considered a heated political topic. Turning on the television, one was far more likely to see an exchange over the Iraq war or the economy than impassioned protests for subsidized contraception.
That has since changed, however, and the “war on women” is now an acceptable talking point. Not only that, but the United Nations has just solidified its own stance on the matter and declared access to contraception a “universal human right” for “women and adolescents.”
It marks the first time the U.N. Population Fund’s annual report explicitly describes family planning as a right, arguing it could dramatically improve the lives of women and children in impoverished countries.
Apparently the legal, cultural and financial barriers to accessing contraception and other family planning measures are infringements upon women’s ability to live freely.
It should be noted, however, that Wednesday’s report isn’t binding and has no legal effect on national laws. However, many top figures in the current administration are supporters of the United Nations, and are much more likely to take guidance from such a body than many conservatives would like.
The global organization also says it plans to increase funding for family planning by a further $4.1 billion, which they think could save $11.3 billion annually in health bills in poor countries.
The United States is single largest contributor to the United Nations, paying roughly 22% of its $5.15 billion budget.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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spfoam1
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:58pmThe UN wants everyone to use contraception, knowing full well that muslims will not. The long term result of this should be obvious. This is jihad sponsored by the UN.
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shimauma42
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 3:12pmHow nice for the UN. Where do we got to tell them to go F*** themselves?
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searcher619
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 3:22pmshimauma42:
That’s a 3 step process.
Step 1: Regain control of congress
Step 2: De-fund the UN
Step 3: Re-purpose the UN building.
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JQuentinEvermann
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 3:33pmThe U.N. seems like a foreign power that is gaining control over our country…and has our highest “leader” in its pocket.
So, since we can’t even hint at taking action against our “leader”, perhaps it is time to declare the U.N. a hostile foreign force and treat it as an invading army. I think 100,000 people surrounding the U.N. building and burning it to the ground when in session should send a pretty powerful message to the rest of the world (and D.C.) to stay out of our lives.
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SocialistSlayer
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 4:08pmI got news for the UN – I don’t recognize you as a Legitimate authority ! Read the United States Constitution you bunch of useless morons !
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tzion
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 4:12pmWhy doesn’t the UN just declare itself irrelevant and be through with it?
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Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 4:35pmCan we just kick these guys out of the country? They are just making up rules as they go. This is a disgrace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODByu7zMYnM
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Southerner01
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 4:52pmThe UN does not understand what a right is. If people have a right to contraception, then who was violating their rights for all those centuries before contraception was invented? You cannot have the right to a manufactured good. You also cannot have the right to the fruit of someone else’s labor. That would be slavery.
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rickc34
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 5:17pmI can see that we all agree about the UN and what they can do to themselves.
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stifroc
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 6:44pmSo if a Govt does NOT supply free contraception… will it be guilty of “human rights violations”?
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BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:05pmOr worse- if I do not supply contraception to my teenage daughter am I in violation of human rights? This is sickening.
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black9897
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 9:40pmGive me a break.
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RobKraft
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 6:21amAs Bill Whittle points out, rights are not things that have a price attached to them, these are called commodities. Read fresh political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
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gobluebuckeye
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 11:23amThen the UN can supply them without our money, but since Obama is President, he will make sure they get a lot of our money, after it’s borrowed from China that is.
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ferggie
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:57pmThere are 190 countries in the UN. If the US pay anything then it should be an even share. 1/190 or to make it easier for the morons on the left to understand = 0.53% of the budget. If they dont like it then F them. Does the USA’s vote counts 22% of the total?
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Gonzo
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 3:28pmLet the U.N. pay for the world’s contraception.
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MN NICE
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 5:19pmFrom what I’ve heard, contraception will not be needed in the middle east… I’ve been told that “safe sex” in that region amounts to painting a red “X” on the backs of the sheep that kick
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Zipit
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 6:08pmUnfortunately GONZ, that would just mean that we would be paying for 25% of their increased stupidity!
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riverwomansdaughter
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:56pmPerhaps this video might help to educate people on the dangers of using “the pill”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1f3qTt1YDk
Very interesting that these facts are never mentioned …
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HKS
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 3:00pmWhat about food? What about shelter? I would think that might be a little more important than sex, is that a natural human right?
“Remember Benghazi”
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4kidsandacat
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:12pmI don’t use it and I think I’m freer than the few times in my life that I did. Strangely too, I don’t have a bajillion kids….and I’m what you might consider a “perfectly healthy” female in that respect…It would be amusing to see what the UN considers “freedom” and Rights’ If it weren’t so damn scary. It won’t be optional by the time they are done.
Odd that someone in another post mentions the Muslims. It’s true that they won’t use it and the UN will not do anything to force them. But you can bet your sweet rump that they will strong-arm the Catholics into it, at least the Magisterium and those Catholics who observe the practice like me.
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jackact
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:56pmYes, and a nice picture of Sandra Fluke’s face will be stenciled on every American vag****.
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KernelOfTruth
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:54pmHow about the right to not be killed by your family if you choose your own path in life?
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Lord_Frostwind
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 4:11pmAnd supposedly the job of the UN is to protect a human’s right not to be blasted into a puddle of goo by their resident dictators aircraft and artillery. 30 thousand + in Syria go to show just how good at their job the UN is.
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4kidsandacat
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:14pmYep. Also a right to eliminate anyone that inconveniences you, like old people and babies…
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American2012
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:52pmUN comes with all new rules, America’s policy to lead UN from behind……. Congrats to those Republicans who did not vote and gave Obama a second term.
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mikem1969
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:51pmI declare in the name of human rights that all government rules, regulations, taxes, fines and the like that infringe upon my rights, liberties, and freedoms be abolished.
I also declare in the name of human rights that everyone gets a new toyota every year, a new house every year, a years supply of food every year, a years supply of drinking water every year and so on. You see how stupid this crap gets?
Oh and in the name of basic human rights I declare that all liberals and progressives be sent to the middle east for the rest of their lives.
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HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:49pmUniversal right? I wonder if the women on Galaxar know this?? Lets start by pumping it into the water systems feeding the inner cities. Then lets crop dust the Ivory Coast, the Middle East, and lets see who else? Hmmmmmm. Universal rights come from God…….UN rights come from the UN.
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BlackCrow
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:47pmAnd that got past the Muslims? Something smells about this.
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:49pmQuid pro quo on the Mohamed blasphemy thing.
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VRW Conspirator
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 3:09pmMuslims use a must better form of birth control….
get pregnant outside of marriage and you are stoned in the public square for all to see…
the guy that did the deed though gets to live and continue to impregnate girls at will…..
see that works much better…lets let all the Muslim countries on the Human Rights Council…like Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia…how about China and its one child policy as well or we sterilize you permanently…
i am all for this if the UN truly wants to do it right….chemical castration for ALL inner city males that get a girl pregnant and leave her on welfare…forget that..no chemical…use the knife…implement that WORLD WIDE to all major metropolitan areas…you get her pregnant and you pay or you lose your nuts…..
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00100111
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:45pmNo one anywhere in this country is trying to take away your birth control, ladies. Just pay for it yourself. I’m not subsidizing your sex life.
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imsteph
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:51pmwhat can one say about this BS…
Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.
Not one more DIME to this Legion of Doom!
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Gourdy
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:54pmHow is this just a “ladies” issue? Where is the man’s responsibility in this?
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 3:12pm@Gourdy,
Ah, so you want to go there do you? OK then. So if a woman gets pregnant then I’m guessing you also support the man’s right to an abortion? Not in the physical sense, but in the financial/legal sense? If we are going to spread responsibility then don’t the rights come with that as well?
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AMickey1126
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 3:16pmPrecisely. I’m responsible enough to make sure I’m safe; much like I’m responsible in getting to work on time every day. I don’t expect others to pay for my scripts; much like I don’t expect them to chauffeur me to work every day.
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searcher619
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 3:25pmGourdy:
Ummm… It’s really up to the woman to take the pill. A man can’t, or should I say shouldn’t, force her to do something she doesn’t want to do.
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4kidsandacat
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:34pmGourdy there IS no man’s responsibility since the government stepped in and started to be the “babydaddy”…Half of these so called men don’t even pay their child support. And now they are going to step in and enable this crap even further by providing free and subsidized reproductive services for all. No thanks…I’m not subsidizing someone else’s stupidity and bad choices. Government types keep using exceptions to prove a rule that really shouldn’t exist (ie. rape victims exist and get pregnant through no choice of their own, therefore abortion should remain available to the majority of women who use it for purposes other than cases of rape).
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thibx
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:45pmif washington had any sence they would shut down the un. dollars are the only money that supports it.
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stealthyk9
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:45pmYawn. More bull feces from Useless Numb-nuts.
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joeslick
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 5:07pmAbsolutely. They are concerned about conreception when muslim women are killed for looking at someone. Where’s BO on this issue?????
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:43pmThe UN an all encompassing and intrusive system for other governments to interfere with the sovereign rights and territorial integrity of the United States, its Constitutional government and its people; its time for all of us to shove that cess pool into another communist nation and away from our land.
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ZAP
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:43pmMan in direct opposition to God.See who will win.The created or the creator….
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Pork_Anvil
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:43pmIt’s a lot less expensive to prevent an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy from happening in the first place (via birth control or abstinence, whichever you prefer) than to for society to deal with it later. Why is this so hard for conservatives to understand?
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:50pmWhy should I pay for either end of somebody’s choices? Why is that so hard for you collectivists to understand?
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00100111
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:53pmWhy is it so hard for you to understand that no one anywhere is trying to remove access for anyone? We want you to pay for your own sex life. Buy it yourself. I will not subsidize it.
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brother_ed
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:56pm@PORK_ANVIL
We understand that completely…
The question is who should be responsible? We believe the individual, you apparently, believe society is responsible.
The other problem we have is: What’s next? It’s cheaper to eat vegetables? It’s cheaper to not have handicapped? It’s cheaper to have perfect vision?
Your ‘collective mentality’ is evil and destroys the freedoms of people.
We are for making your own choices and living with the consequences. There are precious few things we as a society need to subsidize; sex is not one of them.
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HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 3:01pmBecause the very people that churn out the largest group of resource takers in the world are the ones who won’t even avail themselves of birth control ,free or not. By unwanted…..what do you mean? If I give it to you for free, then I can tell you what to take, how to use it and for how long. Is that okay? So I think the left just needs to say it and stop tap dancing around the truth. They want to cull the herd of unwanted society (those who are takers not producers). Is that what unwanted means?
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The-Monk
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 3:08pmFYI,
Pork_Anvil (who was) EtchASketchy; is a paid troll… he’ll clock out right before 5 pm.
Don’t bother replying to it because that’s what it wants.
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Pork_Anvil
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 3:38pm@00100111, you pay for it one way or another. Through jail or welfare. Why not pay less?
Conservatives are so stuck in the stone age. No wonder you got your clocks cleaned again. Wake up.
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Lord_Frostwind
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 4:18pmBecause Porky, removing consequence doesn’t fix anything. We subsidize people’s birth control, there is no longer a problem with the activity, more people have sex. Most of the time, the target audience are either too stupid or impatient to think about birth control, young people always think they are invincible. Then STD’s become a problem, and we have to subsidize people’s need for medical treatment, and who knows what happens after that. If there is no negative consequence for behavior, then the behavior will continue and likely get worse.
My plan, get a few baby mamas out there with no government support for their stupidity, and let every teenage girl watch how much they suffer, it will be a better solution to teenage pregnancy than all these moronic birth control programs.
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UBETHECHANGE
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:41pmThe UN is a cancer in the world! Obama is a puppet to them and Soros…NWO.
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honor007
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:50pmexactly. NWO is already upon us.
and they can kiss my AXX~
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Popp40
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:41pmSo what did women do before the Pill was created?
It is not a “Universal Human Right”….it is a choice and I for one am tired of paying for it. If you want the Pill then pay for it yourself, stop all this “Universal Human Right”.
But lets be honest this is really about controlling the population. They want to control your ability to have babies and what better way then to say the Pill and abortions are a “Universal Human Right”. The thing of it is that the women who jump in and agree with this are too d@mn stupid to know they are being played and used. So maybe it is a good thing because if they are too stupid to see through this then they obviously aren’t smart enough to raise a child.
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00100111
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:47pmProgressives have always believed that women only vote with their lady parts. We expect them to be up to speed on the economy and other important things. Yet, we’re the misogynists for expecting personal responsibility.
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:40pmI declare that I should not be forced to work for the benefit of other people. Wait, that’s crazy. What am I thinking. Clearly it’s more logical to declare it a right that someone work in a BC pill facility or that people pay for BC pills at gunpoint so little Suzy Rottenkrotch can roll around in the back of an El Camino on a Saturday night without fear of ramification.
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2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:57pmSuzy Rottenkrotch? lol
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Suzy_Rottenkrotch
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 3:30pmSeriously?
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IdahoBlaze
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:16pmBwaaaHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Now THAT’S comedy!
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4kidsandacat
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:40pmOMG that was SPECTACULAR!!! Best thing I’ve seen on the Blaze today!
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RockyMountainPATRIOT
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:53pmThis is *hands down* the funniest exchange I’ve ever witnessed in a comment section! I REALLY needed a GOOD laugh–(still laughing) thanks a million–oop’s that just went up to a billion–a trillion–a gazillion–damn inflation!
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Dismayed Veteran
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:49pmLast time I heard Suze’s name was in Army in 1970. But I thought her name was MaryJane. Thanks for the memories.
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Cavallo
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:39pmThere isn’t any money left to pay for it. It’ll be highly amusing when some of these drug companies that make the pharmaceuticals that act as a contraceptive go belly up or abandon the product lines.
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:48pmMy wife works in research for various healthcare R&D disciplines from device to drug to procedure. Since Obamacare passage she has seen a huge shift in studies from new devices, drugs, techniques to almost entirely adverse event management, outcomes research, safety and wellness and recovery time/treatment costs.
She says to me that it is possible that the healthcare we have today is the healthcare we have in 10 years. We may never innovate in that space in a meaningful way again.
Yay America!!!!!
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justangry
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:36pmGood for the U.N. I declare local governance a human right. They can piss off.
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2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:47pmI declare the U.N. can kiss my ass.
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brother_ed
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:58pm@JUST ANGRY
Hahaha! Good one! I needed that!!
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resme
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 3:32pmHi, Just. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/HouseSession5365
Go to 2hr 9mins into the video, Ron Paul’s farewell speech.
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justangry
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 4:42pm@Resme That’s some good stuff. If people don’t wake up and listen to him, we’re screwed. I feel they’ll continue be lambs marching to the slaughter. Even paying for the drones to kill them.
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resme
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 5:23pm@just, Freedom is hated by most people in America. Liberty loving Americans as ourselves are hated, scoffed at, despised, and booed at. Government today is the reflection of our the immoral Americans that roam around, as Paul said in his speech.
We have to deal with State loyalist today, and trust me “they” are all around. (theblaze has a ton)
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justangry
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 5:50pm@Brother_Ed, Glad you got a kick out of it, but I’m dead serious. Local governance is more responsive and accountable.
@Resme, Yeah it amazes me that people are so willing to be slaves. Speak of freedom (real freedom) here and you’re called every name in the book. I don’t understand it. Fascists saying their version of tyranny is better than Marxism. If you say they both suck you’re a kook.
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AvengerK
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:35pmJust as a side note…the market tanked as Obama was speaking.
Obama is still campaigning, all that came out of his mouth was “middle class”..”wealthy should pay their fair share”. And when it came to “immigrants” it was “young people in our military and our colleges who are here through no fault of their own”.
He mentioned the DREAM act by name…if the house changes sides in 2014 midterms..expect the DREAM act to be passed. Obama wants 12 million illegals to become citizens and thus lock in a democrat majority in already skewed electoral college counts. Obama seeks one party rule.
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Popp40
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:42pmHe is campaigning for 2016!
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honor007
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:48pmall i heard was fair share, fair share, it’s fair. top 2 percent, fair share. Come after me.
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4kidsandacat
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:46pmI think it’s pretty clear to most of us with eyes that this is all he knows how to do. The man can’t decide which pair of underpants to put on in the morning without consulting one of his czars. He probably readsthe teleprompter to tell him which leg goes in first too. Really, how many seconds does it take to decide whether or not to kill OBL? Yet they made an entire movie about “the decision”.
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toiletclogga
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:33pmEuthanasia (sic) is next! It’s all about population control.
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UBETHECHANGE
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:42pmBingo.
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honor007
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:46pmThey already passed the assisted suicide in Maine or Mass?
this world has gone to hell.
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truthsurfer
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:33pmWe need a super storm to take out New York period.Get rid of the trash that clogs up the streets in that city.
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thibx
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:48pmhow about chicago.
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Gourdy
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:31pmHello! It’s about time. I realize abortion is a touchy topic, but the surest way to reduce them is through education and contraceptives.
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:38pmYeah, it’s a “right”. Therefore, someone now has a “right” to the labor of another person. Yeah, that ends in a happy place doesn’t it?
Of course, keeping your pants on unless you want children is pure lunacy. God forbid right? Makes much more sense to declare that someone has the right to another’s labor. So if someone refuses to get up in the morning to make the BC pills are they now oppressing women? Should men with guns force people to make BC pills in order to preserve the “rights” of women?
The collective stupidity of mankind is unfathomable.
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Gourdy
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:50pmRothbardian_in_the_Cleve, the whole concept of “just say no” seldom works for women in developing and impoverished countries. Whether you realize it or not, the population explosion in those countries does affect us in the US. It’s politically destabilizing and is a strain on resources.
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00100111
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:52pmYou need to learn why rights are rights. You don’t have the right to the fruits of someone else’s labor. If you want BC, you have the right to go get it yourself, you don’t have the right to have it provided to you. If so, then someone else would be indentured into servitude to make it and provide it. That’s why we have the right to PURSUE happiness, not the right to happiness. Because then someone is required to give it to you. You don’t have the right to a comfortable living, but you do have the right to go get one for yourself. You don’t have the right to healthcare, but you have the right to go get it yourself. You don’t have the right to have someone else provide you with something, be it a service or product. That is slavery for the person providing it.
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endthemindlessspending
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:55pmReally? Why would we promote adolescents having premarital affairs? How is the UN going to get the funds for every country to have access to these? Have you heard of Agenda 21 and its goal of population control? If not, I would say you better start doing your homework. The UN is the most un-American and un-Constitutional thing the Progressive movement has brought to the world.
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:59pmGourdy,
I’m sure your eugenicist friends will find cool and innovative ways to reduce the global population. I hope I’m in a later wave because it will be interesting to see what they come up with.
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edcoil
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:31pmNone of the issues are by themselves important. Only who has to pay for them. Governments will force “free societies” to fund and funnel money to dictators, kingdoms and corruption and never solve the problem.
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