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Women still can’t speak on women’s health
ecthompsonmd February 23, 2012

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Shhh. Women please be quiet. Yes, we know that you would like to talk about your health but here’s the point that the Republicans would like to make. They don’t care what you have to say. Republican simply don’t care about your fancy “experts.” They don’t care about experts that you have in healthcare or scholarly ethicists or even theologians. All that mumbo-jumbo just gets in the way of their authoritarian theology. They don’t want to hear that. From MaddowBlog: Last week, the House Oversight Committee, led by Chairman

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Republicans don’t seem to understand that we live in a Democracy (Update)
ecthompsonmd April 7, 2011

Our form of government is about give and take. If you want a different form of government don’t pretend to love a Democracy. The Republicans are pushing for their ideas. They don’t want to compromise. That’s either a dictatorship or a monarchy. From the Daily Kos: Indiana Republican Mike Pence says that if Democrats don’t accept every single Republican demand for spending cuts, then he supports shutting down the federal government—and believes the Democrats will be blamed. Yesterday afternoon, Pence appeared at a tea party rally and joined in the crowd’s chants  to “shut it down.” And last night, he made quite the

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25 years go Philly bombed its own city
ecthompsonmd May 15, 2010

I barely remembered this. All I remember was shock that the city of Philadelphia would bomb it own citizens. Very weird and tragic. From the Philadelphia Inquirer: MOVE members and their supporters gathered at City Hall yesterday afternoon to mark today’s 25-year anniversary of the Osage Avenue disaster. “We never ever want anyone to forget the vicious murder of our family,” said MOVE member Pam Africa. “These people dropped a bomb and did that to stop us from exposing what’s wrong in the system.” Carrying posters bearing the name of MOVE founder John Africa and signs with the face of convicted

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