Forced birthers to protest PP nationally on Apr 23

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Monday April 11, 2016 · 5:48 PM PDT

2016/04/11 · 17:48

The forced birthers are going to have a “first annual” national protest against Planned Parenthood on April 23, 2016 (yep, weekend after next). These forced birther folks are basing their protest on those debunked anti-PP videos that came out last year. In their own words:

We’ll call on Congress and the States to cut off all government funding to Planned Parenthood and bring charges against all those responsible for the horrific baby parts scandal. And we’ll demand that all charges against undercover journalist David Daleiden be dropped.

They’ve provided the locations, and for some events the times, in this handy schedule from their website.

There’s one planned for my city. I phoned the local PP office to find out how they feel about “friendlies” turning up with Pro-PP signage. In my city they are OK with it so long as it doesn’t lead to any disruption around the entries so their patients can get in and out without extra issues added by PP supporters. If any of you are spurred to action, I strongly urge you to contact the PP office you wish to support and find out if they are similarly as welcoming.

Just trying to spread the word ...

I'm a duck, you're a duck, everyone's a duck. Duck!

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Saturday October 03, 2015 · 8:13 PM PDT

2015/10/03 · 20:13

Some of us are lucky enough to get left-wing radio over the air, yes, even in 2015. While many of you have to buy subscriptions to hear lefty radio, where I am there are some real progressive stars that come out of the night sky and visit my radio.

Late last night I heard an astute comment from a caller to the Mike Malloy radio show who pointed out that "the NRA has turned the US into a shooting gallery". You could assume this comment is in response to the Umpqua shootings, but ... why stop there?

It's true. We are all cartoon-ducks-in-a-shooting-gallery now! Thanks, NRA!

Later, in the early morning hours, Alan Colmes visited my radio, interviewing Andy Parker, the father of murdered TV presenter Alison Parker. Mr. Parker blamed the DO NOTHING GOTP CONGRESS for their obvious cowardice and their pandering to the NRA in lieu of addressing our (yours and my and the folks at the community college) American life-and-death random-chance-of-being-shot-like-a-cartoon-duck-in-a-shooting-gallery reality. (He didn't say that exactly, but that's what I heard because 2am).

"Despite having only 5 percent of the world’s population, the United States is home to 31 percent of mass shootings" (this statistic from a report of a study by Adam Lankford, a criminal justice professor at the University of Alabama). Lankford identifies three factors at the heart of our mutual shooting-gallery problem: "ready availability of guns, a belief in American exceptionalism, and a craving for fame."

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