Brownback to drop
Fox News and the Associated Press are reporting Republican presidential candidate Sen. Sam Brownback plans to drop from the race tomorrow.
Brownback is scheduled to speak at the Family Research Council Washington Briefing tomorrow morning, although the AP is reporting he will announce in KS.
Brownback is very strong on the pro-life issue, but his campaign never got traction. Third quarter filing reports showed he came in 7th of the 9 GOP candidates on fundraising and only had $94k on hand, according to the AP.
Future plans? “It’s widely anticipated Brownback will run for Kansas governor in 2010,” reported the AP, which would be great. I think he would be a much stronger candidate for that position and well suited to challenge the rabidly pro-abort current Democrat governor and protector of late term abortionist Tiller the Killer, Kathleen Sebelius.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
“I think he would be a much stronger candidate for that position and well suited to challenge the rabidly pro-abort current Democrat governor and protector of late term abortionist Tiller the Killer, Kathleen Sebelius.”
yes, good point Jill, I hope he runs….
…on the weekly poll, I’m wondering if we could add another candidate? maybe Mickey Mouse or Charlie Brown? you know, somebody better suited for the job.
Nah jasper, the right guy for the job is already there.
Obama ’08
My heart is broken.
I’m surprised that nobody here has complained about that one school in Maine that okay-ed handing out birth control pills to middle schoolers (ie 11-year-olds).
I was so looking forward to the ranting and raving that would ensue at something like that.
*sigh*
Rae, I already sent Jill my blog on that as a “News Tip”
lol
and sorry MK, but I’m a liberal of the worst order, one from Massachusetts, ot Taxachusetts as Colbert calls it ;). Id vote for him if I didn’t realize it would
a) actually have an impact on campaigns
or
b) hurt Obama
@Dan: How is your blog doing? Didn’t you make it for a scholarship competition of some sort? How did that pan out for you? And what exactly is Stephen Colbert running for in South Carolina? I don’t have cable so I haven’t watched the Colbert Report in MONTHS.
Hes running for president with his name only appearing on the SC ballot, lol
the blog is ok, not much activity on my end lately, but the reads are relatively low, as are comments, sadly. Lol. Scholarship’s still going. Running until December 15, then they tally everything up and decide upon the winner.
Rae,
Jill is out of town, but I sent her that story 3 days ago…I’ve been waiting to because I want to be one of the ones ranting and raving.
On the other post Dan is trying to show how parents keep you in virtual slavery until you are 18 and I was just about to bring that story up…along with the fact that a girl can get birth control in April, have sex in May, get an abortion in August all without her parents having a clue.
Doesn’t sound much like slavery to me.
I hope he defeats Sibelius. She is so deserving.
lol mk.
Im no longer trying to prove slavery, but the fact that parents have more control then they think they do.
“girl can get birth control in April, have sex in May, get an abortion in August all without her parents having a clue.”
well, if you live in a state without parental consent laws.
“Obama ’08”
you mean Barack “I don’t mind seeing babies born from abortion left to die” Obama?
oh, nice choice.
Dan,
well, if you live in a state without parental consent laws.
Yeah. Like Maine.
It’s the right decision for Brownback to drop out. I have been following his campaign, and he hasn’t been able to gain support. Though I might agree with him on more issues than I do any other candidate, he doesn’t have a chance of winning the primaries.
Why is it that these pro-abortion lunatics love Colbert so much? I’m really curious.
mk, they do have to give consent for the birth control. Dunno bout abortion laws there.
Personally, I dont think consent laws should be there. I fully believe in notification before the minor undergoes the procedure, but the parents should have no legal ability to stop them.
While on this topic, I may as well say I do think that the pill should be on a separate consent form that has to be signed, but thats just me.
Hey Dan, you’re a pro-abortion lunatic – could you tell me what’s so great about Colbert?
So I’ve officially been labeled a lunatic. About time.
In short, he’s a satire of everything the right wing says it is. Essentially, he makes fun of the Right, in often witty ways. He does focus on conservatives, but he makes fun of everyone and anyone who does something incredibly stupid, no matter what side of the political spectrum hey are on.
BC should be available to all girls after a certain age. and no, they shouldnt need parental consent because parents are naive. They think by stopping there daughter from getting the Pill she wont have sex…. resulting in her having unprotected sex…. and then an abortion.
*Tsk* A pro-abortion lunatic. Get it right.
As for Colbert: So… to people who are completely ignorant of conservatives and conservatism (like you), he’s very funny. It’s basically humor for dolts, then. Not particularly surprising.
Yes, Liam. I think we should take those kids away from their naive parents and put them in gubmint run re-edu-ma-cation camps, don’t you? After all, daddy gubmint always knows best!
See Liam, I fully understand that. but the Pill at that age, to me anyway, seems like it would/could cause abnormal development, as puberty is often just starting. I fully agree with condoms, but I dont think the pill should freely be given ou unless the parents know to look for certain signs that something may be wrong. Perhaps notification would be a better way to handle it, but hey, at this point its available if they can go to the health center, period. We’ll see what happens.
pro choice lunatic here is a compliment.
As for ignorant of conservatism, for me thats BS. I have a conservative father, who I actually used to agree with. I used to *gasp* be a Conservative Republican. And then I got older and started thinking more and more, and eventually came over to the liberal camp. I am not ignorant of conservatism by any stretch. My father is a conservative, and we do continuously have discussions about our stances, where they] come from, etc. Obviously we don’t agree, but we leave it at that in discussions. We agree to disagree.
Dan, bashing your head against the wall and smoking pot isn’t the same thing as “thinking”.
Oh, damn it….Dan, you beat me to it. I sent my article for the birth control to middle schoolers to Jill too….*sigh*
John, I do neither.
Sorry to burst your idealistic bubble where every liberal is a pot-smoking, tree hugging, tax raising, latte drinking freak.
*credit for most of those adjectives goes to the author of Thinking Right, whoever he or she may be
Thinking should be Talking in my last post
Wassa matter Dan, don’t you think my parody of all things liberal is funny? After all, Colbert’s ridiculous, way off the mark “impersonation” of Bill O’Reilly gives you the giggles.
John, his impersonations aren’t all that off the mark.
Bill O’Reilly plays on my tv a lot actually. My mom (a moderate with liberal leanings) watches fox news channel all the time, as does her current boyfriend (unsure of his political stances, but I think he’s a conservative).
John, i dont recall saying any of that. but i know my parents believe that “No BC means No sex” which is stupid. I knew my sister was having sex, and she needed someone to protect her, not some outdated “if i dont see it, its not happening” notion of parenting.
Also, i never said the Pill. i said Birth Control. Condoms, Education, and even homeopathic teas can all be used to reduce the risk of Pregnancy.
Wow, John Lewandowski, you’re not really “showing up” for the conservative side, either, by throwing around words like “lunatic” and making rude personal remarks. Your sarcasm is also kind of hypocritical if you’re going to belittle people who find Jon Stewart and Colbert funny…seeing as how their shows are satire and political cynicism. God forbid anyone criticize the idiocy of many politicians (LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, BOTH, are made fun of on those shows. Get over it. Conservatives just can’t take criticism). I also find it funny that we’re idiots if we find these shows amusing. If your position is so strong, why are you threatened by a couple of “heathen liberal young’uns” watching what are KNOWN AND CONSIDERED to be comedy shows? Is there really THAT big a threat that John Lewandowski feels that he has to keep us children from being misled by a COMEDY show? Wow.
Plus those remarkably childish remarks made to Dan about “smoking pot” are out of line. Is that what conservatives do? Because Dan’s remarks are showing a lot more intelligence and “thinking” than yours. A lot more respect, too. People who lack the ability to string together cogent arguments for feeling the way they do (you know, civil discourse…I wouldn’t expect you to know what that means) are the ones that dip to your level. Observe:
“Dan, bashing your head against the wall and smoking pot isn’t the same thing as “thinking”.”
“As for Colbert: So… to people who are completely ignorant of conservatives and conservatism (like you), he’s very funny. It’s basically humor for dolts, then. Not particularly surprising.”
“Hey Dan, you’re a pro-abortion lunatic – could you tell me what’s so great about Colbert?”
“…gubmint run re-edu-ma-cation camps, don’t you? After all, daddy gubmint always knows best!”
Smooth. Classy.
But wouldn’t you know it…I’m a political moderate. I share both classically “liberal” and “conservative” viewpoints. Just because I don’t adhere to your clean-cut version of what a “real” conservative should be, along strict party lines, doesn’t mean I’m a “liberal dolt” that laps up everything that strict liberals say about conservatives. Believe it or not, I disagree on many points with both parties. So get over your distaste for witty political satire. If you think it’s really that threatening to your conservative way of life, you’re drinking too much of the Kool-Aid.
Hi Lyssie!
My opinion all along has been that Brownback is a wingnut who has marginalized himself to the point where…. now he drops out.
Anyway, he looks a bit giddy in that picture.
Or maybe somebody is goosing him and he’s fighting the urge to grind his teeth.
Doug
Hey Bobby. How was your day? I have two papers to write tonight and a chapter in organic chem to read. Fun fun. *sigh*
:P
organic chem is the devil!
I only had to learn naming and structure, and I really didn’t know it that well at all. WAAAY too much going on there.
Thankfully, I don’t think I’ll be required to do it again either until the end of the year, or ever. Least not ’til college.
Dan…the naming and structure component is the easiest part by far. It’s all memorizing a few simple rules and functional groups/substituents. Fear the chirality like the devil. Fear it. Run.
“I have two papers to write tonight and a chapter in organic chem to read.”
Hmmm, now don’t you wish you were a math major?
lol Lyss, I know its easy, I just kept mixing them up. I could do the naming well from a compound formula, (usually anyway). It was the whole knowing the functional groups thing I wasn’t too good at.
Bobby… Sure, math has its fun aspects. I did enjoy integrals and derivatives, but my math stopped at Calc 2. All I need is a stats course. But I would never make a major out of it. Don’t love it enough. One of my best friends from home, however…decided he would major in it. More power to him.
Besides, I love biology. I’ve been interested in it since I was little, what with my microscope and gads of books on animals and science encyclopedias and all that other nonsense that my parents bought me. Although, to be fair, I like at least some aspects of all sciences…I had a telescope too, and some sort of mini-chemistry set. Plus I was in the advanced math group in second/third grade. Lots of fun. :D
Well that’s good. I wish I knew more biology, so, uh, learn extra for me, or something like that. God love you, Lyssie.
Lyssie said: “I also find it funny that we’re idiots if we find these shows amusing.”
Good, so you got my point!
Well, the above conversation is kind of interesting. But no worries, folks, I was kind of dunce back when I was a college student, too. It’s a phase, so hopefully the pro-aborts on here will grow out of it. Unless of course they’re already grown up, in which case they are probably brain damaged.
John L: Well, the above conversation is kind of interesting. But no worries, folks, I was kind of dunce back when I was a college student, too. It’s a phase, so hopefully the pro-aborts on here will grow out of it. Unless of course they’re already grown up, in which case they are probably brain damaged.
Translation: My argument consists of name-calling.
Dan, do you need more hits/reads on your blog? Can we help?
I click a mean mouse, I do.
Doug
Aww, John. Again, with the comments. I’m surprised you didn’t catch my sarcasm in my comment…you seem to be good at it. Out of curiosity, what do YOU find amusing to watch on television? Is there any political satire/comedy that YOU would recommend?
Or are you just going to stick to one-liners in your responses to me because you really HAVEN’T grown out of your “dunce” phase from college and can’t intelligently respond in a coherent manner? Care to actually address my post instead of trying to throw light off of your inherent stupidity by trying to look witty? Jon Stewart does witty so much better than you.
Lyssie: Fear the chirality like the devil. Fear it. Run.
There’s my vote for Word of the Week. “Chirality.” Way to go, Lyssie.
Mind you, I like my prolix verbosity, and often have a hankerin’ for a good shot of floribund circumlocution, but I’d forgotten about that one.
Doug
Hehehe, Doug, my dear roommate is an English major. She will giggle at your word brandishing. :)
Play…. the best song in the world….
Yeah, its always the link in my name, well near always. sometimes I screw up and put .com and .org.
anyway, feel free to read i if you want to. cant do anything but help, not to mention generate discussion if you decide to join and comment, lol.
P.S. be patient, the site usually takes frickin ridiculous time to load, at least the first time you visit the page anyway
YAY, JON STEWART IS ON AND HE’S SO DREAMY.
:P
lol Lyss, sorry, I’m watchin the Sox own the Indians. We better keep it up and win this game, as well as the next two.
I want another world series win! lol
Not a baseball fan…sorry, Dan. The only sports I watch are college football (GO PENN STATE!!!) and the Olympics. :)
You wrote: “Fear the chirality like the devil. ”
Read Dorothy Sayers’ THE DOCUMENTS IN THE CASE, where chirality puts a noose around someone’s neck.
Dan – grrrrr… – I live in Ohio and am thus long-suffering re the Indians.
I grew up with “The Churse” as far as Boston, and regret its’ passing. That was part of Baseball and I think that much more was lost than gained.
My sister and her family live in North Andover so I hear quite a bit of “Go, Boston!” stuff, but I sure do miss The Curse of the Bambino.
Doug
The Curse of the Billy Goat still lives on, though
I am really, really upset about this. My heart is broken.
Why is it that these pro-abortion lunatics love Colbert so much? I’m really curious.
I’m a rabid pro-lifer and I find Colbert to be a comedic genius.
Jacque,
For the Cubs, Indians, or Brownback?
Since I didn’t think my candidate had much of a chance for the presidency anyway, if he become the governor of Kansas and shut Tiller down by signing laws the people want to keep abortion clinics regulated, that would be a tremendous victory. It would turn my mourning into joy.
Then again, Tiller isn’t obeying existing laws and has the audacity to challenge the constitutionality of those laws instead of abiding by them. Nonetheless, Sammy would wield any power he had against Tiller- unlike Kathleen, who is absolutely OWNED by him.
This could be good.
JKeller,
Just Brownback. I would drown my sorrows in a spiced pumpkin latte if I weren’t fasting from caffeine for the 40 Days vigil.
“My sister and her family live in North Andover so I hear quite a bit of “Go, Boston!” stuff, ”
Doug, I’m from Mass too, Cleveland shoud’ve closed it out last night. Now, they have to travel to Boston. Saturday nights game should be a fun one, you guys have a good pitcher going (Carmona). (he gets a little wild though)
Jacqueline, the laws Tiller is alleged to have broken ARE probably unconstitutional, as they contain no health exception.
Even if with Roberts and Alito they are not unconstitutional NOW, Tiller can argue that when he broke them, they were unconstitutional at that time (earlier Supreme Court).
SoMG,
The battle is over the fact that he failed to get a second opinion about the supposed “health” needs. The exception is there! That’s how he operates his late-term business.
There is a health exception, but he was performing late-term abortions on demand for no verfiable health reasons. He failed to get the second opinion required and aborted healthy woman with healthy babies.
He broke the law. Period.
SoMG,
Find me any direct or indirect reference to abortion anywhere in the Constitution. Do that and then any claims that prohibiting fetal homicide is somehow unconstituational will hold some merit.
Jac: Sure, you can argue that Roe/Wade was wrongly decided, but it was still the law of the land when Tiller allegedly broke the law.
My prediction: Tiller will not be convicted of anything.
When Hillary signs the Freedom of Choice Act into law, we won’t have to have these arguments about the constitution any more.
Cleveland shoud’ve closed it out last night.
Jasper, you’re dang right about that. But – Cleveland teams will find a way to lose. I realize it’s not hopeless,and I’d say with only having to win one of two, CLE is still an odds-on favorite, but they’ve lost the last 7 or 8 games that would have closed out a playoff series. Sheesh.
Doug
John L-
Conservatives should appreciate Colbert too, because he makes fun of radical conservatives and pundits and stupid politicians above all else. And also a lot of Democrats. I know TONS of Republicans that love him (maybe not as much as me but that’s a given).
Why don’t you try watching his show, and let us know what you think? Now it is focused on campaigning a lot, but still pretty funny.
He’s on Comedy Central at 10:30 Central time. Really, nobody should bash him or label him until you have seen him. He really is loveable. Also, he’s a Catholic. Brownie points?
“Also, he’s a Catholic.”
Oh yeah!
Yup :)
Sure, you can argue that Roe/Wade was wrongly decided, but it was still the law of the land when Tiller allegedly broke the law.
And thus he should be punished accordingly.
My prediction: Tiller will not be convicted of anything.
You could very well be right. The world is a twisted place.
When Hillary signs the Freedom of Choice Act into law, we won’t have to have these arguments about the constitution any more.
You have a lot of faith that we’ll end up with Hillary.
Let’s hope we don’t.
By the way, the Freedom of Choice Act has the same likelihood of passing as the Human Life Amendment. Hence why it hasn’t been lobbied for with the same intensity as 6 in SD.
All the lifers and all the aborters sent their best folks to SD because 6 mattered. FOCA doesn’t matter, or it would get some mouth and money behind it.
Dreams of unfettered fetus shredding compliments of FOCA are just that: dreams.
PIP, did you see when O’Reilly had Colbert on his show? O’Reilly really seemed to like him and I did as well. I watched him a couple of times and I do think he’s funny but he’s on at the same time as “The Factor” so that wins. Maybe I should start to TIVO him.
O’Reilly on Colbert was friggin’ hilarious. I loved the 35% off sticker covering O’Reilly’s face on the book the were promoting.
Genius!
Heh. I thought O’Reilly looked VERY uncomfortable being on Colbert’s show…especially with all the comments he had made in the past about Stephen being “that French-guy” when O’Reilly was on his…immature (to say the least) anti-French kick.
I was less than impressed with those episodes.
I love Stephen’s new painting/portrait. “I’m covering up my Emmy.”
I like O’Reilly, though many social liberals don’t “on principle.” He has his biased and silly moments, but he’s not really all that bad.
Heck, it’s all good.
MK, I have a flight that is delayed. Can you give me back those 7 vodkas?
Doug
Jacqueline, you wrote: “the Freedom of Choice Act has the same likelihood of passing as the Human Life Amendment. ”
Go on thinking that. I like it that you think that.
(Hint: the Democrats are going to pick up several seats in the Senate in 2008. The majority will be pro-choice. Will there be enough pro-choice votes to overcome the filibuster? You need sixty votes in the senate to do that. I could see several right-to-life senators who would still vote for cloture, Senators like Casey (D-Pa.) He’d say, I’m voting against FOCA but also against the filibuster of FOCA. And then you have pro-choice republicans like Arlen Specter. The current freshman class of Senators–Jim Webb, Jon Tester, are all pro-choice.)
Will the president (whoever she is) sign it? We’ll see.
If Hillary wins, FOCA will be high-priority with her.
The whole O’Reilly thing was HILARIOUS. Loved the microwave thing too ;) He did steal that in real life.
I just finished reading his book. Seriously. Funniest book I’ve ever read. Part of the reason I found it hilarious is that because I have been a watcher since the first episode I can hear the tone of inflection in the print–it really is like I am listening to it. The diagrams though, they kill me.
Kristen, you really should TIVO him. He’s hilarious. I’ll send some links your way here in a minute so you guys can check him out.
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=123811&ml_collection=&ml_gateway=&ml_gateway_id=&ml_comedian=&ml_runtime=&ml_context=show&ml_origin_url=/shows/the_colbert_report/videos/most_recent/index.jhtml&ml_playlist=&lnk=&is_large=true
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=118597&ml_collection=&ml_gateway=&ml_gateway_id=&ml_comedian=&ml_runtime=&ml_context=show&ml_origin_url=/shows/the_colbert_report/videos/most_recent/index.jhtml&ml_playlist=&lnk=&is_large=true
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=118639&ml_collection=&ml_gateway=&ml_gateway_id=&ml_comedian=&ml_runtime=&ml_context=show&ml_origin_url=/shows/the_colbert_report/videos/most_recent/index.jhtml&ml_playlist=&lnk=&is_large=true
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=118631&ml_collection=&ml_gateway=&ml_gateway_id=&ml_comedian=&ml_runtime=&ml_context=show&ml_origin_url=/shows/the_colbert_report/videos/most_recent/index.jhtml%3Fstart%3D16&ml_playlist=&lnk=&is_large=true
Love this one. Here he makes fun of Hillary
Doug,
MK, I have a flight that is delayed. Can you give me back those 7 vodkas?
Only if you have an airsick bag!
*hic*
*cup*
SoMG,
About how many abortions are you involved with on a daily/weekly basis would you say?
Carder, I’m not answering that question but I will tell you that I participated (in a small way) in the emergence of non-surgical abortion techniques into mainstream medicine, so I take credit for a portion of every non-surgical abortion done in the USA, which is a lot.
SoMG,
Carder, I’m not answering that question but I will tell you that I participated (in a small way) in the emergence of non-surgical abortion techniques into mainstream medicine, so I take credit for a portion of every non-surgical abortion done in the USA, which is a lot.
You’re mother must be so proud.
Thought this little bit of trail following was interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_abortion
1920s to 1960s
* 1920 – Lenin legalized all abortions in the Soviet Union.
* 1935 – Nazi Germany amended its eugenics law, Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, to promote abortion for women who have congenital and genetic disorders, or whose unborn fetuses have such hereditary disorders.[55]
* 1935 – Iceland became the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion under limited circumstances.
* 1936 – Joseph Stalin reversed Lenin’s legalization of abortion in the Soviet Union to increase population growth.
* 1936 – Heinrich Himmler, Chief of the SS, creates the “Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion”. Himmler hoped to reverse a decline in the “Aryan” birthrate which he attributed to homosexuality among men and abortion among German women.[56]
* 1938 – In Britain, Dr. Aleck Bourne aborted the pregnancy of a young girl who had been raped by soldiers. Bourne was acquitted after turning himself into authorities. The legal precedent of allowing abortion in order to avoid mental or physical damage was picked up by the Commonwealth of Nations.
* 1938 – Abortion legalized on a limited basis in Sweden.
* 1948 – The Eugenic Protection Act in Japan expanded the circumstances in which abortion is allowed.[57]
Heh. I thought O’Reilly looked VERY uncomfortable being on Colbert’s show…especially with all the comments he had made in the past about Stephen being “that French-guy” when O’Reilly was on his…immature (to say the least) anti-French kick.
Posted by: Rae at October 19, 2007 7:59 PM
Rae, that’s nonsense. O’Reilly was making fun of the fact that Stephen was known as Col-bert, until he decided that Co-bear was a better pronunciation. All in fun! His interview was meant to be funny, not a political discussion. Come on.
@Kristin: I was referring to what he used to say when Colbert’s show just started. I actually didn’t pay that much attention to the Colbert/O’Reilly episodes because I tried watching and I got bored.
*shrugs*
MK, my mother is a feminist and abortion-rights activist, who had four abortions (three were illegal).
You bet she’s proud.
Somg, proud of what?
MK, my mother is a feminist and abortion-rights activist, who had four abortions (three were illegal).
The family that promotes abortion together, stays together?
“‘But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ said Alice. ‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the cat. ‘We’re all mad here.’”
Lewis Carroll
Spreading that maternal love, aren’t you SoMG?