First, very few women choose to have an abortion just cuz they don't want to carry a baby to term. Are there some? Sure but to paint all women with a broad brush isn't any different than me or you saying "all republicans are dimwits" based on the remarks of a few. Is it?

Secondly, if I recall in the story of your co-worker you said 3 (three)
women accused him of sexual harrassment. Had it been 1 woman it becomes his word against her's....but three women? All accusing your friend of sexual harrassment? In order for all three to be lying that makes a conspiracy - I think there are factors that you are not privy too and it's just easier to use this incident of an example of women and men behaving badly.

Liberals are NOT the majority of this country. I have no clue where RixPix would get that idea. One can just look at the blue and red map of the states and see that such a statement is not valid.

The majority of Harry Reid's state voted against him and he would have lost... until they counted high concentration Reno and Las Vegas where special interest unionized casino workers voted for him as demanded by their union leadership. That's the only reason he won.

Reagan, on the other hand, won re-election by such a huge landslide that his opponent didn't even win his own home state. That was the Republican silent MAJORITY coming out to ensure the economic growth we were having at the time would continue and a Liberal candidate espousing "change" would not foul the nest in Washington for at least another 4 years. The silent majority has not changed and are still Conservative Republican.

Liberals depend on uniting minorities and creating enough votes to over ride the true majority. Liberals are thus NOT a majority. Put a herd of very different minority groups with their own agendas together and it's quite a number. Promise them all the world and they fall right in line and vote for the Liberal candidate. Let the silent majority feel confident about their candidate so that they don't rise up and vote and the Liberals convince undecided voters that they have a better plan and it's feasible for that coalition of minorities to outvote the majority. Liberals tend to be aggressive and Conservatives tend to be passive. So Conservatives seem less visible and less acknowledged - thus the moniker "silent majority."

Liberals are the loudest squeaky wheels in the machine known as our U.S. society so Liberal government officials oil them with money, pork spending, and pushing through Liberal legislation to get their votes.

Liberals hope to achieve "progress" through changing things and there are lots of minority people who think their situation needs to be somehow changed although their situations are very different.

Liberal ideas of progress is typically not seen as a good thing by Conservatives and many "progressive" ideas end up harming more than they help. As I said elsewhere on another thread: Those who are "seen" seem to benefit by Liberal actions while the "unseen" suffer and lose more than was gained by the "seen."

Years ago I overheard a group of Liberal senior citizens talking loudly to each other at a breakfast restaurant about how they wanted interest rates in the U.S. to double or triple so they'd have more income on their investments. It didn't matter to them in the slightest that 20% interest or higher (money was about 8% from the Fed at that time) would completely stall the economy, stop the housing market dead, and throw the country into financial disaster - their only concern was doubling or tripling their PERSONAL investment income. They didn't at all recognize that prices of everything would double during a financial disaster like that and they'd lose everything they gained and more. That's how Liberals think - short term with blinders on concerning what the long term consequences of their actions are.

The reality is that America has a silent majority, the conservatives who stay mostly quiet, take the abuse and insults of loud-mouthed liberals, and then vote for fiscal responsibility and reduced government invasion of their lives.

As a side note, I find it humorous that Daytona Beach could be considered a Conservative Republican stronghold in Florida when it has served for decades as Sodom & Gomorrah for up to 400,000 wild bikers, who knows how many hundreds of thousands of hormone-poisoned sexaholic drunken Spring Break college kids, Black Biker Week, millions dragging their kegs in RVs to NASCAR races, and all the other morally-bankrupt week-long activities that take place there.

If Daytona Beach is majority Conservative Republican they certainly do a fine job of masking it. Then again, maybe they're the "rich getting richer" business owners profiting enormously from morally-deficient Liberals. That would make sense.

Is Joe "Blablabla" Biden taking responsability on his remark warning blacks that Republicans will place us back in chains?

First and foremost let's agree that the Representative spoke his TRUE feelings on the issue. He is a religious man and as such has specific beliefs. It is his absolute right as a citizen of this country to speak his mind, just like Joe Biden and Joe the Plumber. The fact that his belief is so strong and that it is counter to what others believe is of no consequence other than the fact that he is an elected official. It is up to HIS constituents to either approve or disapprove with his position that has to due with his duties as their representative.

First, very few women choose to have an abortion just cuz they don't want to carry a baby to term. Are there some? Sure but to paint all women with a broad brush isn't any different than me or you saying "all republicans are dimwits" based on the remarks of a few. Is it?

Secondly, if I recall in the story of your co-worker you said 3 (three)
women accused him of sexual harrassment. Had it been 1 woman it becomes his word against her's....but three women? All accusing your friend of sexual harrassment? In order for all three to be lying that makes a conspiracy - I think there are factors that you are not privy too and it's just easier to use this incident of an example of women and men behaving badly.

The term "legitimate" was in reference to a victim's claim, not the act itself. No one would characterize any rape as "legitimate". He should have said "in true cases of rape..." or something to that effect. Any discussion about whether Rep. Akin believes rape could ever be legitimate is a deliberate attempt to twist his words for political gain. One would think this is obvious.

On the other hand, he then alluded to the affect acute stress can have on ovulation and possibly implantation. We can all agree that he was way out of line by implying that pregnancy as a result of alleged rape is a reason to question the veracity of the victim, or to rely on physiology alone to prevent pregnancy in rape. This was not a poor choice of words; it was a serious error in judgment, a misapplication of science in matters of law, and something he knows almost nothing about.

To argue that Rep. Akin implied that rape could ever be legitimate looks like an attempt to slander a candidate with the stakes as high as they are in this election cycle. Rather, I would question his ability to organize his thoughts and distinguish issues more than I would any position he takes.

By looking at this story objectively I know I give myself away polotically. I believe life begins at conception, as is taught in every medical school in the world, but also that in some cases hard choices have to be made where a life may have to be taken intentionally due to grave errors on the part of others (national defense, self-defense, crimes of passion, etc.)

I defend Rep. Akin on his intention to differentiate legitimate cases of rape from feigned accusations, but I cannot defend his misuse of science to infer what should be done in tragic cases of rape pregnancy. It's much too serious a topic to make weak stretches like that to defend his position, apology or not.

You can't push off one dumbass as the whole republican party..

Typical of libs and typical of their minions in the press... I guess all Dems like emailing tweeting dic pics out over the web ala Anthony Wiener... makes about as much sense..

You can't push off one dumbass as the whole republican party..

Typical of libs and typical of their minions in the press... I guess all Dems like emailing tweeting dic pics out over the web ala Anthony Wiener... makes about as much sense..

1. "very few women choose to have an abortion just cuz they don't want to carry a baby to term." WHAT? If it is not rape, incest, or potential death of the mother, what other singular reason is there to have an abortion? TO NOT CARRY THE BABY TO TERM! Thousands of babies are aborted every day because it would be "inconvenient to carry a baby to term" at this time in the mother's life, or there's nobody to act as father so she doesn't want "to carry his baby to term" or any number of lame convenience issue excuses why the mother DOES NOT WANT TO CARRY THE BABY TO TERM. You can't possibly think otherwise.

2. I'm not following the sexual harassment part of this, but I'll say it's totally possible that it's a conspiracy among 3 women. Have we forgotten high school girls who ruin a high school teacher with fake stories to "get him back" for bad grades? Have we forgotten child care centers put out of business and the owners jailed because children were coached into testifying to things that never happen? Have we forgotten Clarence Thomas who was publicly crucified for sexual harassment with no proof except one woman's word and a supposed pubic hair on a Coke can? Have we forgotten a sex crimes cop arresting 47 people in a small town and ruining their lives for sex crimes committed with minors who were all finally released because he had no evidence and coerced confessions out of them with cruel interrogation and coerced testimonies out of children with intimidation until his own step-daughter testified against him and he was fired?

Here's the rub. We are both men. We cannot possibly understand the experience of being female, and what its like to live every day with the real possibility of being subjected to rape, violence, and other kinds of physical and emotional abuse, that women live with on a daily basis. So for either of us to say we know what is in a woman's best interest is bullshit.

That said, bottom line here is you tend to see people in less than noble ways. You seem more willing to judge women (humans) and to point out our mutual human flaws and comment on our human potential to lie, cheat, steal, rob, kill, rape, torture, etc. All that is noted and has been so since Moses found the tablets. Of course men - in their often blind lust to possess and dominate the objects of their desire - are more prone to commit sex crimes then women.......and when caught claim: "it was her fault - she made me do it" or "she shouldn't have worn that dress - she was just asking for it."

I stand by what I said - I believe women take this decision quite seriously, and that far more than you or I can ever know - they understand mothering and mother hood and what it's demands are on their bodies, their lives, their spirits and given all that most women do not use abortion as birth control.

Secondly, since we are men and it does require a man to make a woman pregnant but only the woman is charged with the responsibilities of taking care of that child, only the woman has to endure rather massive and dramatic changes to her body, her energies, her moods & emotions, her occupation, her social life. Us men, we don't. We get a free ride on that score too. So when you or some other man says something like "she doesn't want "to carry his baby to term" or any number of lame convenience issue excuses," as you did that can only mean that either you are not thinking of what the woman's experience is like or you are a cold blooded reptile or politician and don't care to know as long as it does not inconvenience you.

In your discussion your sexism shows when you said "or there's nobody to act as the father" but still "so she doesn't want "to carry his baby to term" is not an inconvenience but rather a mere triffling. Only its not a triffling to her - dude. It's her life that is going to be radically and irrevocably changed. Yeah they screwed - they both like it - its fun.
Sex feels good - we all do it - only when it comes to the fruits of our passion - men can get a pass - women are on the train for ever.....and you speak of inconveniences.

So, anyway I hear scientists have discovered what could be a male birth control pill. Are you willing to take it? Would you require employers to pay the insurance for male contraceptives?

SteveR did not change the subject. You Democrats want to paint the entire Republican Party as having the same "reprehensible attitude ". Before the end of the day you will be referring to the Tea Party and the Conservatives in the same way. Biden makes really racist remarks, all the time; Clinton is impeached for his actions against women, lying to Congress, sighted for contempt for lying to a judge during his trial for attempted rape, accused by multiple women for groping them, Kennedy kills a woman, Hank Jonhson declares if we increase the number of personnel on Guam it could tip over, and on and on.

Todd Akin makes a really stupid comment and that is "about the reprehensible attitude of the Republican Party ". Akin has apologized many times and acknowledged his mistake. Which one of the above mentioned Democrats offered an apology for their stupid actions? I can't tell, between tschmath and greymule, who has the thickest skull. Maybe tschmath can use his math skills to compute how much denser the average Democrat skull is than a block of concrete.

The man doesn’t agree with abortion on demand, a CEO doesn’t agree with gay marriage, I don’t agree with taking advantage of an employee in the Oval Office or the President of the United States lying almost every time he opens his mouth. Again you Democrats want us to understand that any attitude that is different than yours indicates a lack of intelligence and membership in some sub-human species.

Here's a flash: a great many Americans don't approve of abortion on demand or gay marriage or banning Christian children from praying or talking about their God in school while other religions can spread their prayer rugs and have at it. A great number of us are fed up with being called racist if we disagree with the President while the Vice-President joyfully travels about the country making stupid racist comments with impunity. Everyone I know is fed up with the Democrat condescending attitude that they are so much smarter than everyone else. Keep crying “let them eat cake” and see where it goes.