I’m sure Bill’s response would be that the adolescents weren’t forced at gunpoint so it doesn’t count as “rape-rape,” and besides, look how many non-priest rapists are out there.

#WAR

Not just any black man, but a well-known convicted criminal terrorist who successfully undermined the government of one of this country’s closest allies.

Forget Bill Maher. When is Obama going to give Bristol a call to console her for having to deal with a somewhat popular demonic conservative ridicule machine?

A parasitic infection that sucks nutrients from the host’s body, causing such complications as nausea, weight gain, abdominal swelling, mood swings, and eventual massive vaginal discharge, is not considered a medical condition?

My response, left on the Atlantic’s web site:

“So it’s okay for the government to mandate medically unnecessary non-consensual trans-vaginal ultrasounds because, hey, abortion feels worse. McMegan the libertarian thinks it is perfectly acceptable for a government to stick large uncomfortable objects up people’s bodily orifices in order to discourage them from doing things McMegan frowns on.”

Actually, no. The state regulations (or at least the majority of them) cover insurance plans but don’t cover organizations who self-insure, which many religious organizations do to opt out of those requirements. The HHS rule seems to cover self-insurance as well. This was pointed out by some dickwad on the comments thread at http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_02/catholics_the_contraception_ma035251.php and appears to be accurate.

WHY WON”T PEOPLE LISTEN TO ME? I MEAN I’VE GOT A NEW YORK TIMES COLUMN PENIS FOR GOSHDARNS SAKE! DOESN’T THAT MEAN ANYTHING ANYMORE?

She’s pro-choice in the sense of letting the almighty free market choose who gets to have an abortion.

Bobo endorses reeducation camps? But I’m sure he still considers places like public schools and mixed-income housing to be fascist.

Also, I wonder if Murray is ranking the tribes based on household income. If so it would hardly be surprising that kids born out of wedlock, and thus very likely to be in single-parent single-income households, would be poorer than married, often dual-income households.

I didn’t interpret his reaction as being disappointed at losing the chance to impregnate; it sounds more like his libido evaporated upon the realization that he was dealing with a woman who not only wanted sex but was prepared for it and unashamed to admit it. The way he describes her—chunky, drunkenly masticating, breasts spilling out, a target of disgust—is devoid of empathy: she’s an object, an animal, a dog trying to hump his leg. He wants sex to be pure and sublime and sacred. Of course he’s against the prospect of his church having to subsidize the bestial rutting of those who enjoy sex for its own sake, since it’s a pleasure he can’t feel himself.

I wonder if it’s just a coincidence that his “ella” hyperlink points to the Witherspoon Institute.

But Buffett isn’t counting the 35-brazilian-percent corporate income tax that his investments all have to pay. No double taxation without double representation!

Ooh, do I get to be Boromander this time?

I don’t disagree with you personally; I was just arguing that it would be justifiable according to a true anti-abortion point of view.

I have to give the frothy mixture some credit: at least he’s taking a morally consistent issue on the abortion question, by consistently favoring the fetus over the woman. If abortion really is murder, as forced-birthers contend, why would being raped excuse it? In fact, given the way that child-killers are likely to be treated in prison and the number of people that are okay with that, wanting to abort the fetus just looks like proof that the woman deserved to get raped in the first place.

What did you think the 50-foot crane was for in the first place?

That’s just more of your biased liberal slander. Real Americans know it was done with a sharia-compliant falafel.

You know who else was elected president several years after his single term in the House of Representatives? Hitler Lincoln, that’s who.

From http://www.ricksantorum.com/issues:

Along with John Boehner and Jim Nussle, Rick was a member of the “Gang of Seven” who targeted the waste and fraud of the House Post Office and Bank. This did not make Rick Santorum a popular man in an old boy’s club like the House of Representatives, but Rick knew that the only way to make a positive difference in the lives of his constituents was to challenge the corrupt norms that had seeped into the People’s Body.

If my nostrils were dry, I would peel the paint chips off the old plaster wall that the crib stood against and eat them.

This explains so much…