Bullhornymous

  Here is a partial list of “solutions” proposed by GQP Senators and reps, Fox News pundits, and other rightwing, soulless axxholes yesterday, each followed by my comments in brackets. - Give children bullet-proof backpacks. 1 Senator even suggested parents should buy children those instead of toys.  (They don’t wear backpacks in school. How about full bulletproof clothing? Why not give them full body armour? Heck, after your abortion laws have passed, make baby body armour compulsory - straight from the womb to safety). - why can’t we have security like at airports - with full body and backpack screening? (Well, the US has around 5000 airports, and about 150000 schools. They can’t even find enough miserably paid TSA personnel for the airports - good luck for the schools. Of course, since red states are banning books, and firing teachers who dare to mention black or gay people, maybe that money saved can be used to finance those scanners and the people to man them) - From Dan ...

  So, irrespective of what one thinks about the moral dimension of abortion, let me say for the 127th time.  For the GQP, the Talibangelicals, and unfortunately for a large part of the so-called “pro-life” movement,   life begins at conception and ends at birth .  After all, these same pro-life people are all for the death penalty. And the same crowd has opposed any help to poor mothers and their children. Is it a wonder that the rich US has maternal mortality and child mortality rates 4 times as high as Western Europe, and in at least one of those 2, rates worse than countries like Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan or Iran. In fact, Texas has a maternal mortality rate double that of Iran. So much for hypocrites being pro-life. Most of the red states that have restricted abortion and are ready to ban it after the Qourt rules also spend the least amount of money on expectant mothers or their children after they are born (if they don’t die in the process). There is...