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Thursday, January 17, 2013

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Posted by Unpaid Intern on Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:15 AM

Posted by news intern Chelsea Kellogg

The NRA's Tactics Continue to Confound Me: Somehow that disgusting abhorrent no good very very bad ad from the NRA got four Pinocchios on the truth-o-meter. The NRA president said this morning on the Today show that the ad "wasn't about the president's daughters."

Saharan Hostage Situation Nearing Its End: According to the BBC, the Algerian army has taken back the gas facility which was invaded by an al-Qaeda fringe group. Many westerners were taken hostage and some may have been killed in the initial struggle. The Algerian army reportedly turned down offers of help from Britain and other nations.

Bothell Pot Grower Rakes in Dough: After a warrantless search of Eric Scott Levine's house, he's been awarded $40,000 in the settlement.

Free Speech Crackdown: Vietnam is cracking down on bloggers and some rights activists claiming that some of them are dissidents. A recent trial in which 14 rights activists were convicted of "activities aimed at overthrowing the communist government" was the largest crackdown in recent years.

Comforting: Levees all over the country are in unacceptable condition.

Skrillex Lights Hair on Fire: He was blowing out his birthday candles.

Woman Addicted to Smurfs: A Scottish woman has spent countless years, around $32,000, and donated a room in her house to a smurf collection.

Idaho Politician Conflates Prostitution and Abortion: Why? Because it's a woman's choice.

When School Cops Do Good: A security guard or "resource officer" as they call him spotted a "gang recruiter" in Garfield high school, discovered he had outstanding warrants, and arrested him. The officer injured his knee running after the guy.

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@5: If they support them, then say "Yes, we support this." Yes, prostitution is illegal. Whether one is legal and the other isn't is completely irrelevant and misses the purpose behind Rep. Mendive's question, which was to try to discredit the bodily autonomy argument; if "bodily autonomy" can be used to support prostitution and drug use, then it must be flawed, because those are obviously bad things that should never ever be legal, right? By whining about the question instead of challenging the idea behind it, the ACLU conceded the point to him.

Posted by digitalwitch on January 17, 2013 at 2:32 PM

@7,
Long answer:
Because married hausfraus who dislike sex with their husbands are afraid if prostitution is legalized, their husbands will go fuck the prostitutes more often than they already do.

Short answer:
Because Jesus.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on January 17, 2013 at 2:22 PM

Why is prostitution illegal? I've never understood that.

Posted by very bad homo on January 17, 2013 at 12:09 PM

Both abortion and prostitution should be legal

Posted by Urgutha Forka on January 17, 2013 at 11:36 AM

Baffled by @4: are you trolling? A quick search shows them backing most of those positions. Seems like coherent thought and actions.

However, opposition isn't: conflating pursuing a generally legal activity (abortion) with a generally illegal one (prostitution) is simply trying to poison the well.

Posted by zachd

on January 17, 2013 at 10:17 AM

The Republican has a point, and trying to hide behind the illegality of prostitution is silly. The ACLU and others fought to make abortion legal under the slogan "my body my choice." If they really believe that, then they should support legalizing consensual prostitution, death with dignity, recreational drug use, and a host of other bodily autonomy issues.

Posted by digitalwitch on January 17, 2013 at 10:02 AM

NRA tactics are easy to understand, and are smart. gin up feat and resentment to build up your minority of intense supporters, membership, donations, and clout. wed those yahoo tools, to corporate interests, this time, bushmaster manufacturers. same play boook that is always used by the right. how many centuries will it take for the left to understand, no, they aren't playing a "rational" game, they are using emotions to gain toolish adherents, to gain power to fuel their pockets books out of pure greed?

oh maybe you thought like obama we could have responsible bipartisan debate or something, or the car just drove into the ditch, by some kind of accident.

Posted by NRA thinking is obvious on January 17, 2013 at 9:55 AM

Ok. Anti-abortion republican douch may have said it, but I would agree that a woman's choice to have sex for free or pay, and her choice to be pregnant or not, are similar. Her body, her choice. Human rights in my book.

Posted by NotSean on January 17, 2013 at 9:37 AM

Kudos to School Resource Officer Radford.

Still, how the hell does it require a tip and outstanding warrants to question random 25-year-olds, wandering around in our schools?

Posted by ...and YOU are? on January 17, 2013 at 9:32 AM