When you take to the airwaves to disavow that, I might consider that you are sincere.

Everyone knows that rapists are bad.  But you haven't walked away from your comments that rape-related pregnancy is rare because women have some magical power to prevent conception.  And I don't expect you to.  

I haven't looked into your record on other issues that affect women and children, but if you aren't the fierce advocate for health programs, mother and child nutrition programs, housing, education and jobs, that someone who says he cherishes life should be, then I have to conclude that you don't cherish life as much as you cherish control.  

Even this "apology" is fercockt.

The "mistake" was not in the "heart I hold".
He holds a heart.

Oh boy.

One of his supporters, referred to a pregnancy resulting from a rape as the victim being "blessed with life". I just wish that someone like Akin could be convicted of something, jailed, and after dropping the soap be "blessed with life". It's just not fair.

These people are nuts, ideologues, authoritarians and compassionless zealots.

Julian Assange

Part of it reads;

Since WikiLeaks' founding, it has revealed the "Collateral Murder" footage that shows the seemingly indiscriminate killing of Baghdad civilians by a United States Apache attack helicopter; further fine-grained detail about the true face of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars; United States collusion with Yemen's dictatorship to conceal our responsibility for bombing strikes there; the Obama administration's pressure on other nations not to prosecute Bush-era officials for torture; and much more.

It also points out that Assange has not been charged with a crime and has offered to make himself available for questioning by Swedish authorities in London. He has also said he would appear in Sweden if they or the British would pledge not to extradite him to the US. They have refused. So you have to know this is about politically motivated persecution on the part of the US - and has little or nothing to do with determining the facts of what Assange is being accused of in Sweden.

Straight to Hell

London Calling

TV star-turned-conservative activist Kirk Cameron came to the defense of embattled GOP Senate hopeful Todd Akin Tuesday, saying that the Missouri congressman.s controversial comments about "legitimate rape" came in the context of his opposition to abortion.

"He clearly is a pro-life advocate, and for that, I respect him," said the former "Growing Pains" star, speaking on CNN.s "Starting Point." "He said that he misspoke and that he misphrased something and that he apologized."

Democrats want him gone, Republicans want him gone, yet, he's still in the fight (for now).

A Minnesota state lawmaker who authorities say admitted having a liaison with a 17-year-old boy at a rest stop faced calls from party leaders Monday to give up his re-election bid.

Rep. Kerry Gauthier, 56, hasn't been charged in the July incident, and authorities said he wouldn't be because the boy was older than 16, the legal age of consent, and no money was exchanged. Police say the teenager responded to the lawmaker's Craigslist ad for "no strings attached" sex.

Gauthier admitted to the liaison, according to police reports made public late last week. The teen told police the two had oral sex, according to the reports.

The scandal has hurt Democrats' hopes of retaking at least one chamber of the Legislature. They need to pick up at least six seats in the House, and Gauthier's Duluth-area seat usually is reliably Democratic. But if he drops out, any Democrat seeking to replace him would have to run as a write-in candidate, making the race much more difficult to win.

Still, Democratic leaders called on Gauthier to withdraw from the race. House Minority Leader Paul Thissen, D-Minneapolis, said he was "deeply disappointed" in Gauthier's conduct and wants him to step aside.

Not to be outdone, NYPD plays the bigger jerk by trying to make a "hate crime" out of it.  Uncool thing to do, yes.  Not nice, yes.  Sinful waste of delicous bacon, oh hell yes.  But a hate crime?  You're outta your f*cking minds coppers.  

If you have the free speech right to smear feces on a likeness of Jesus, burn an American flag, burn a Koran, and I believe you most definitely do...then you have the free speech right to play with bacon.  

The Justice Department approved changes to Virginia's voter ID law Monday, suggesting there is a way forward for such laws -- even in states that must have election laws pre-cleared under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act -- so long as they're written in a way the federal government will sign off on.

Unlike voter ID laws passed in South Carolina and Texas (both of which have been opposed by the Justice Department under President Obama), Virginia's voter ID law allows voters do show a wide range of types of identification to cast a ballot. The law, labeled a "strict non-photo identification law" by the National Conference of State Legislatures, OKs types of identification more likely to be held by voters who lack a state-issued photo ID.

"Unlike other voter ID laws that the department has challenged in recent months, the Virginia law does not require a photo identification," Justice Department spokeswoman Nanda Chitre said in a statement.

"Instead, this law actually expands the types of identifications voters may use at the polls, and the state is required to mail to all registered voters a voter card prior to the general election, which voters can use to vote, removing the burden of travel on many residents to obtain the necessary documentation," she said.

Even as the Republican establishment continued to call for Representative Todd Akin of Missouri to drop out of his Senate race because of his comments on rape and abortion, Republicans approved platform language on Tuesday calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion with no explicit exceptions for cases of rape or incest.

This represents a golden opportunity for the Democrats and their titular leader, Mr. Obama, to clearly and definitively denounce the Republicans and to clearly and definitively differentiate their position on abortion rights from that of the Republicans.

Basically:  You can't figure it out if you can't get your head out of the Beltway.  

He's just not that into you, all of you -- Romney, et al. -- calling for him to quit.