I wasn't familiar with that aspect of the bill so I found the text of it. I still don't see anything in it that explicitly or implicitly requires Hospitals to provide abortions.

I tried to find more info on this claim being made by the Catholics but all I came up with was a bunch of articles repeating the claim about the bill but do not explain exactly how this bill would make it mandatory for Hospitals to provide abortion services.

If anyone has more details on this I'd appreciate hearing about it.

" Most of those released so far have been captured again (or killed) trying to kill our soldiers"

Please link to your source on that claim.

You've got it all wrong Rein. Bush brought Freedom of Religion to the people of Basra Iraq. He's doing the Lord's work.

So that is the guy who got me ostracized and assaulted in school because I refused to say the under God bit.

Thanks Rev. Docherty. That is some great Christian behavior you inspired.

This report is seriously flawed. By their methodology a person like myself would not be considered a small donor because in total my donations would have added up to more than $200.

I don't remember the media ever saying that a large chunk of Obama's money wasn't coming from the traditional big donors who have a history of trying to buy influence. The point I remember them making was how Obama expanded the pool of donors to offset the influence of the big donors writing out checks for the max.

Here's video of another walmart where customers mob stack of Xbox's.

I don't know if anyone was injured.

Moon, as I said in #40, the store holds some responsibility because, unlike a random mad man, this was predictable. These "accidents" have been a far too common occurrence on Black Friday. The major retailers are well aware that this can happen and feed the mob mentality with their marketing terminology.

Here's video, looks like all types of people. The employee who opens the door quickly gets out of the way. The first guy through after him takes off running like an idiot and then the rush is on. There are a lot of people falling and then getting ran over.

You got that right Shawn. I've found Super Bowl Sunday is a great day to go shopping, go to parks, or just about any place else that normally draws crowds.

The crowds are greatly reduced plus I've found it's a great time to meet women. They are often thrilled to meet a man who's not obsessed with getting somewhere to watch the game.

"State Rep. Tom Riner of Louisville, who pushed for the religious requirement, told The Lexington Herald-Leader it was appropriate because government alone cannot protect the state."

You heard it Kentucky. Vote that SOB out. He does not believe your government is capable of protecting you. It's time to vote for someone who believes they can do better than that.

"Please explain what Walmart could do, as suggestions to their safety people, to avoid another mishap like this and actually avoid someone being stupid enough to injure someone else in process."

They could hire some extra security. The sight of a few off-duty police officers in uniform standing at the doors will generally remind people to maintain order.

For limited availability items they can give out tickets to people standing in line outside the store that they turn in to pick up their item in the store.

The could also begin these sales later in the day. Instead of starting the sale the minute the doors open how about waiting an hour before putting the stock out on the floor.

They could also issue a statement that anyone observed running or pushing into the store will not be sold anything at that time and will be asked to leave the store. If an incident where a large number of shoppers are involved then the registers will be shutdown, no sales will be completed.

I would be more inclined to understand the point of view of not placing a share of the blame on stores if this was an unheard of event. However it seems this type of story is an annual occurrence on Black Friday somewhere.

I'm pretty sure most people who are saying stores are not responsible for people getting injured when they open the doors for big sales would agree that there is nothing wrong with holding them accountable for the safety of their customers/employees when it comes to other known risks such as broken glass, wet spills, fire, etc.

In fact I'll go as far to say that stores encourage this behavior by labeling certain items as "extremely limited supply" and calling them "Must Have Items". They use aggressive terms such as "Door Busters" and "Crazy Sales". This seems to feed right into stirring up the mob mentality and highly competitve feelings that are at the root of the irrational behavior of these shoppers.

If I were a lawyer in a case against a retail outlet and wanted to dispel any doubt that retail outlets do not expect such events to occur I'd point to a commercial that was ran a few years by a retailer, I'm thinking it was Best Buy, that had some fun with the idea of people being injured when they open the doors. The workers stood around trying to determine who would open the doors. They all had casts and bandages on from opening the doors at previous sales. Then the new guy walked up and with fear in his eyes was sent to welcome the early morning shoppers.

"I'm just sayin'"

I believe you left the word nothing off the end of that sentence.

He's definitely doing that dog.

FF for "Wildlife violations"

Wanna bet she gets a Playboy offer. I think it was deliberate. The suit against McD's is just to get Heff's attention.

Maybe he did, maybe he did not, probably doesn't matter since a pardon is probably in the works.

Paul Rudd was right!

I guess that will keep Kristen Wiig working at SNL for a while.

No Member, that's probably not the case.

In order to bring back a sustainable population you would need the DNA from a considerable number of specimens in order to maintain genetic diversity.

With some species you also lose the important survival behaviors that are not genetic. The skills and behaviors that are normally passed from one generation to the next through teaching/socialization.

Daschle wrote a book, "Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis", that came out early this year on this topic.

In that book he demonstrates a very strong understanding of the problems with the health care industry. And maybe more than anyone else, Daschle understands why previous attempts to address the failures fell short or never saw the light of day. He has some interesting ideas on addressing the issues, many are free market based.

Daschle views the problem as more political than policy. There is a great deal agreement on both sides of the aisle on solution and Daschle may be just the man to bring them together with his knowledge of both policy and politics.

"It just seems to me that if you believe in nothing (as I am taking a non-belief to mean) then you are still believing in something or nothing... but it is still believing.... if that makes any sense whatsoever..."

You have what I find to be a common misunderstanding. Many people think that to be an atheist you must believe that there is no God. That is incorrect. An atheist is someone who does not believe in the existence of a supreme being(s). That does not necessarily mean that they hold the believe that there is no God.

I think many with religious faith find this distinction hard to grasp because they believe in an absolute truth. That being that there is a God. Therefore they may tend to think that disbelief in God means you must believe in an absolute truth that there is no God.

Sawdust, from what I remember there weren't many people demonizing Bush before he even took office, except for the the manner in which he took office.

The press and public for the most part was very supportive of Bush for his first 2 or 3 years in office, especially after 9-11. It wasn't until after Bush's corporate and government corruption and manipulation (Enron, Abramoff, Plame) were exposed that the media began giving him a more critical look.

What was Bush's approval rating at the end of his first year in office, about 90% or so?

Obama hasn't even been sworn in and stuff like that which is described in this article are happening. You've got members of Congress calling him a socialist and Palin, just a few days ago still trying to spread fear saying out of one side of her mouth how she would like to help Obama and the other side bringing up Bill Ayers and saying it is a conversation that needs to be had. Note to Sarah, been there done that. People are smarter than that, well unless they are names Hannity or O'reilly.

Feel free to keep bitching about the hypocrisy of the left and the media all you want, just don't cry too much when that mirror gets turned around.

"I am still waiting for the juicy sex scandal involving Sarah Palin."

Sorry it's not Palin but how about Cindy McCain? It's worth checking out for the laugh you get from grainy photo.

Larry, that's pretty much what El Al airlines has. They have two doors, reinforced steel, separating the cockpit from the cabin. They require security codes to open and one door cannot be opened unless the other is closed. It cannot be opened while the plane is in flight.

Those Israelis know a thing for two about security.