No exception for rape or incest in the new SD abortion ban law.

Is that the vaunted conservative compassion we hear so much about? Forcing a minor raped by her family member to have the child? And please don't say that isn't likely, it's happned before, it'll happen again.

If these compassionate asshats were talking serious adoption reform to go along with their assault on abortion, I could at least discuss it. But minus that, this is nothing more than another sick, cynical self righteous morality play like the Terri Schiavo cluster fuck.

Also keep in mind that the rapist, family member or not, will have a valid claim on fucking parental rights. Or is it once the baby is born who cares what father figure they have in their life?

What about poor women? You force them to have unplanned children and then cut them off their assistance and make it that much more likely the kid will grow up in poverty.

But once it's born, not your problem, right? Is that it? I don't like abortion, I think it's sad and ugly. But it's a fact that needs to be dealt with, not swept under the rug and ignored by passing knee jerk feel good legislation for no other reason than because you can pass it. This does nothing to address the larger issues of single parent families, poverty and generational welfare. In fact, it perpetuates them.

Comments on the port operations sale

What's hillarious is the 'show' opposition from the Republican party, especialy Frist and Hastert. Tyring to have it both ways leading into midterm elections, they can't suck Bush off like they used to, but no way will they force a veto with their own president leading into elections.

The port sale, for good or ill, is a done deal. It was a done deal before it was even announced. No way will the GOP force a showdown over anything with Bush leading into elections. This is all posturing. And the cries of racism from people like Snow from Treasurey is disgusting considering the source. Snow, some may know and most not, was the head of some big old rail company that sold it's port operations off to the same Dubai company now for over $1 Billion before being annointed by Bush to Treasurey.