I have revised my position on Todd Akin. The guy is not a jerk or a vile freakazoid. He is simply in the grip of a severe mental illness:
Who wants to be at the very bottom of the food chain of the medical profession? And what sort of places do these bottom-of-the-food-chain doctors work in? Places that are really a pit. You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things, misuse of anesthetics so that people die or almost die.
This is obviously delusional and my heart goes out to a guy whose relatives are friends are too cheap or indifferent to offer him much needed professional help. I’m not being sarcastic here. A very sick person is not getting help he needs, and that is tragic.
I, however, do not revise my position as to the arrant idiocy of stupid losers in Missouri who think this unhealthy man is qualified to run for office. If you identify with insanity to the point of wanting to place a deranged individual in a political office, then you deserve whatever is coming to you. This sucks because I’ve been considering relocating across the river to Missouri.
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My husband was saved by one of those guys as the bottom of the food chain. He and his fellow marines were out on liberty and trying to taunt the cops to chase them. They ran a red light and crashed. Mike was thrown out of the car and skidded along the road gathering gravel and cuts. Luckily, there was a medical facility close by that took him in for emergency treatment, saving his life.
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I’m also extremely grateful to the doctors at a free public clinic who helped me when I had absolutely no money and nowhere to get it from.
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My Free Clinics Are Awesome story is a lot less dramatic than yours, but I still have one. I’m uninsured, long-term unemployed, no income and living in my parents’ house, and was able to get all three doses of Gardasil for free when I was 25 or 26 at a free immunization clinic in my county.
Long live free clinics!
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Do you really want to move to St. Louis? Here’s some poll results from the St. Louis Examiner today.
“The poll of 675 likely Missouri voters from Wenzel Strategies, conducted September 30-October 1, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.75 percent, indicating that Akin has a solid lead. It also showed that Mitt Romney is beating President Obama 50 percent to 40 percent.”
Good Old Todd just fits right in with the rest of the folks. Must be the residual effects of those chemical warfare experiments.
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No, not St. Louis. The scary ghost city which is always completely empty unnerves me. We really like St. Charles, though.
As for politics, we are just as fucked up here in Southern Illinois. It isn’t like I get the choice to live in Chicago.
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Wenzel is a conservative Republican tool. Of course his polls are going to promote Akin. See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terry-krepel/worldnetdailys-ethically_b_658787.html
It is very difficult to find reliable pollsters – there are relatively few that are transparent about methodology and questions. Some of the really big concerns are somewhat accurate, but boutique firms such as Wenzel’s (he also does work for World Net Daily, which should tell you something) often produce polls cooked to support a particular party or position and not actually produced to reflect actual public opinions.
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As for the St. Louis Examiner, it is a web site that features non-edited local “citizen journalists” covering topics as diverse as paranormal St. Louis (really), Presbyterian St. Louis, homeschooling St. Louis, etc – this is not a site with curation or Wiki-style expert community interaction, but more a group of miscellaneous amateurs without basic journalism training or mindset. In other words, this is a giant group blog. In contrast, the St. Louis Beacon is a website run by various “downsized” journalists formerly employed by the Post-Dispatch and other news entities.
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Akin’s position on “fake abortions”, “magic uteri protecting victims of “real rape” from conception”, and many other reproductive/sexual issues are WIDELY HELD among the conservative religious activists. I am somewhat surprised that he hasn’t come out with another meme popular with the more extreme and crude activists, that of the evil Jewish abortion doctor.
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If there are a few dozen other people with the same disease, this doesn’t mean Akin is healthy. Every mental clinic has a few Napoleons and a couple Jesuses. Delusions don’t have to be unique
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Everyone knows that the most reliable place to find the bottom of the medical profession’s food chain is those institutions called “industrial clinics.” You probably visited one if you’ve applied successfully or almost successfully for a job that requires an “employee physical.” All sorts of professional scandals and falls from grace lurking in those joints… The report they make out deals with subjects like how many fingers/toes you have. Like the sign says, industrial…
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I never even heard of jobs that require employee physicals.
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“giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant”
How is this even possible?!
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I think he means pretending to give abortions to women who aren’t actually pregnant in order to scam them out of their money. It’s the only construction that almost makes sense. It says a lot about a) his opinion of women and b) about his stupidity because it’s actually (if it were actually a problem in the world outside his head) an argument for non-profit healthcare.
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Exactly. 🙂 The immediate answer to this “issue” is covering the cost of all abortions through federal healthcare insurance. The idiot is so stupid that he can’t even see the only logical response to his claims.
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