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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 01:46 PM
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O'Reilly blames Soros & Lewis in advance for defeat of CA Prop 73
"In advance" because he said this yesterday before the results were in.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,175031,00.html

As you may know, the far left in America is increasingly well funded by billionaires like George Soros and Peter Lewis. Their money has bought them power on the Internet and in political races. The elite media is often simpatico with the far left agenda, giving it even more traction.

One hallmark of the radical left is to weaken the traditional family unit by diminishing parental authority. The radical Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California ruled just last week that schools have a right to impose sex education on your child, that parents are not the sole authority in that area. And today in California, Prop 73 if defeated would allow girls of any age to have an abortion without telling parents. 20 years ago, undermining parental authority in something as serious as abortion was unheard of in this country, but today the vote will be close. So what has happened?

Well, despite built-in legal protection for girls who fear their parents, the abortion issue is sacred for the radical left. Any restraint is considered a disaster. Also, the left-wing media has been able to convince millions of Americans that the government knows what's best for families, not the parents. The government should be the primary guardian of a child's welfare, not the parents. That kind of thinking undermines the traditional American family. The radical left wants a wedge between children and their parents to erode traditional values, which are often opposed to secular progressive values.

Now all this is complicated and subtle. And many of us are not even aware of the raging culture war. If California votes down Prop 73, parental rights will be dealt a huge blow and the trend will spread. So this vote's very important. We'll have more on it coming up. And that's "The Memo."
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Caoimhe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 01:49 PM
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1. WRONG
the voters of California said NO to dumpster babies and increased teenage suicide.

It's amazing how wrong these neocons can be.
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catmother Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 01:53 PM
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2. i agree. n/t
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 01:56 PM
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3. Soros is O'Lielly's favorite bogeyman
"Soros, man, he's everywhere, he backs every little Democratic Party idea, he's legion!!!!"
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 01:59 PM
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4. Hey Bill, What agenda does Rupert Murdoch and RevMoon's billions buy?
.
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Athletic Grrl Donating Member (551 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 04:28 PM
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25. don't forget
Mellonhead-Scaife
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catmother Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 02:00 PM
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5. o'reilly is always complaining about the left and george soros
last year he was complaining about AARP and couldn't understand why they had a picture of richard gere on the front cover of their magazine. is richard gere not allowed to represent those over 50 because he's a celebrity and a buddhist?

actually we don't really watch his show, but every now and then i say to my husband "well let's see what old man o'reilly is complaining about tonight".
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 02:19 PM
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10. Bill has a problem with Buddhism as well
Not just Gere being an actor and a pacifist.
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catmother Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 02:30 PM
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12. yes. i agree. why are so many people afraid when they hear
the term buddhism. from what i know it's a wonderful peaceful religion. in fact, later today i have an appointment with my rolfer who has studied buddhism all his life and a few years ago he became a buddhist priest. he and his wife raised their 3 daughters as buddhists and when his daughter got married he performed the ceremony.
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 02:32 PM
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13. Personally
It's the only one that makes sense to me. You have to know yourself before knowing anything else. Be peaceful and mellow.

What's wrong with that? Nothing!
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catmother Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 02:35 PM
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14. and compassion for all living things. n/t
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 02:45 PM
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15. he`s got more grey hair than i do!
and yes i am better looking.....i wish.
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 02:01 PM
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6. He's playing to the fundies and the knuckle draggers.
Consider the following phrases. If strung together with any issue they will get the backs of the right up. Them's fighten words!
Any of us here could write this using the buzz words. It keeps his listeners in fear, hate and anger thus he keeps his listeners. It is all calculated to play on their inner insecurities.

far left, billionaires like George Soros and Peter Lewis, weaken the traditional family, elite media, far left agenda, diminishing parental authority, radical Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California, impose sex education on your child, 20 years ago ...unheard of, abortion issue is sacred ... radical left, left-wing media, government knows what's best for families, undermines the traditional American family, erode traditional values which are opposed to secular progressive values, the raging culture war, parental rights will be dealt a huge blow, the trend will spread
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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 02:05 PM
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7. You mean, he did not blame the falafel?
He obviously had no understanding of the California electorate.

Yes, except for the pockets of San Francisco and Los Angeles the rest of the state is red. However, most Republicans do consider themselves moderate, which is why Arnold won while the other, party-selected candidates keep losing their races.

The conservative newspapers of SoCal (at least) were full with letters explaining what would happen to teens who cannot or would not confide in their parents. One heartbreaking story, a personal one, was a pre-Roe about going down to Tijuana to have an abortion - no pain medication, only a biting on a piece of wood - and surviving.
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catmother Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 02:13 PM
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8. that abortion story is exactly the way it used to be.
if you could find one. i'm 64 and i know what happened before roe v. wade. back in 1960 my then-mother-in-law told me the story of my sister in law having an abortion on her kitchen table. and after the doctor(?) left and my sister in law was in bed she was screaming in pain and she expelled another fetus. it was twins and the doctor didn't know it.

i myself took all kinds of folk law medicines and hot mustard baths at times when i thought i was pregnant.

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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 02:17 PM
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9. How sad. We need to keep these stories in the forefront
as too many today take this for granted that, even if Roe is overturned, one way or the other they would take care of unplanned pregnancies.

Just as too many young women today disparage feminism, while taking for granted their ability to own property borrow capital under their own names.
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catmother Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 02:26 PM
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11. yes. i 'm afraid you're right, but there are far too many abortions .
perfomed. there is so much birth control available that it should be a rare case that a woman gets pregnant. that's why we need sex education in the schools so young girls know about these options. i think many are afraid to tell their parents if they're sexually active.
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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 02:50 PM
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16. Yes, and this is how Kerry should have campaigned
instead of saying that he, personally was opposed to abortion because of his faith - and thus letting the other side dominating the debate - he should have talked about how a Kerry administration would invest in education and assistance to prevent unplanned pregnancies. Also in helping adopting the children that, say, the Roberts, would not want - of color and suffering from congenital disease.

This was my complaint throughout the campaign. He did not turn the debate into preventing pregnancies, into promoting birth control method, in promising to punishing pharmacists who refuse to fill birth control pills. Instead he was trying to defend a position that his heart, clearly, was not in it - and it showed.
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demigoddess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 03:00 PM
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18. I am old enough to remember something else. about 25 years ago
I was in texas, not too long after roe v wade and there was a 13 year old girl going around giving interviews about how she was born as a result of a "botched abortion" and was "handicapped" as a result. I saw her on tv and could not see the handicap. Well, just recently here in a totally different state, I hear about a 13 year old girl going around giving interviews about how she was born as a result of a botched abortion and how she is damaged as a result. I keep wondering if it was the same girl they keep in cold storage until they want to run a new propaganda campaign. either way, I think there was a lot of fraud going on and the press just wasn't smart enough or old enough to spot it.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 02:58 PM
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17. Why is the law needed?
Let's face it, why would such a parental notification law be needed, Mr. O'Reilly? First off, all good little girls, properly raised and schooled on "The O'Reilly Factor for Kids" would never, ever engage in premarital funny business. And we know that all American kids are just that: All-American. None of them should ever need the services of an abortion provider, so why should we need such a law?

Okay, maybe there are one or two kids who are bad or confused. But surely every American child has such a good relationship with their parents that a law requiring them to notify their parents before going off to the clinic is superfluous, right? Every good American girl, even one that's in trouble, would know instinctively that this is a situation where parental involvement is absolutely crucial. How strange to pass a law that's going to enforce what every good girl already knows to do, right? I mean, it would be like passing a law telling you to breathe! Totally unnecessary, wouldn't you agree, Mr. O'Reilly?

Unless . . .

We're talking about one of those rarest of the rare, the truly bad girl. You know who I mean. The kind that use abortion as a form of birth control, who go out and have unprotected and unrestricted sex, sex, sex, all the time. Uh, would you mind turning your head the other way, Mr. O'Reilly? Your heavy breath smells like butt for some reason.

But would a truly bad girl even care about such a law? Enacting and encouraging laws that are just going to be broken anyway diminishes the majesty and respect that we all have for the law. When jaywalkers aren't being ticketed, pretty soon you have wanton murders and wholesale misbehavior, right? So, passing a law just so it can be broken hurts the system.

That leaves us with only one kind of girl to whom this law is directed: The otherwise good girl who for various reasons, may fear to involve her parents in this decision. The girl is in trouble, scared, isolated, and has nowhere to turn for help, and on top of all that, you want to put her at risk of imprisonment for making a tough choice in her most desperate hour.

But that would mean you're a heartless monster, incapable of empathy and thirsting to punish the most vulnerable members of society simply because they are vulnerable. Uh, Mr. O'Reilly? Could you close your mouth, please? The blood dripping from your mouth is most disconcerting.

Now, where was I?
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 03:12 PM
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19. ok saw no ads for or against 73, the only coverage i got was on local news
O'Reilly as usual is full of shit.
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xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 03:25 PM
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21. yes he is
the burden of informing the parents rested on the DOCTOR not the girl AND it was a CA state constitutional amendment. Those 2 points more than any other changed people's attitude to 73. It's what worked for me anyway.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 03:29 PM
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24. i guess Blow doesn't realize we all get voters guides here
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 03:15 PM
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20. Does O'Lielly have a programed alt key for the word "radical?"
He sure does use it A LOT.

Of course, I find him radical. How radical of me.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 03:27 PM
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22. Oh I'm sure
it had nothing to do with people voting. :eyes: What a loser. My God. Hey didn't they say something to us that was: "you lost, deal with it?"
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 03:28 PM
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23. Right . . . Soros has his own cable empire
oh, wait a minute. Isn't that RUPERT MURDOCH????
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 05:14 PM
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26. pimping prop 73 in christian churches seems to have failed - >
as the LA Times articles made it seem that every christian church in CA was plastered with yes on 73 posters and notices.

and maybe the churches were plastered, but did not work.

we are gonna complain to the IRS about several churches and ask that their tax exempt status be revoked:

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm
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