Jeff Danziger for August 20, 2012

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    Dtroutma  over 11 years ago

    The statement on “the female body” being able to shut things down was the creepiest ignorance I’ve EVER heard from a member of Congress. Pat Robertson? Maybe, but an elected representative???

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    Nebulous Premium Member over 11 years ago

    And what does that have to do with rape?

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    joe vignone  over 11 years ago

    Let’s let Governor Ultrasound decide that!

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    pam Miner  over 11 years ago

    What doe that even mean? a woman’s body has a way of shutting WHAT down?? a baby? Those little buggers don’t just curl up and die if they are from rape or incest! What shuts down? You mean a woman can keep herself from getting pregnant? If that worked we would have a LOT Fewer people. .A womans “lady parts” shutdown?? What does that mean??

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    OmqR-IV.0  over 11 years ago

    said: “”Now waiting for the fat pig to say that women who were raped and give birth are sluts…"Why wait? It’s been said before.

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    Justice22  over 11 years ago

    This man is a member of the House Science Committee. Does that explain anything?

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    lonecat  over 11 years ago

    If there is such as thing as “legitimate rape”, then what is “illegitimate rape”? I think there’s a suggestion that women make this up all the time, so it isn’t really rape, or maybe that they bring it on themselves. Does anyone have a better interpretation?

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    corzak  over 11 years ago

    " . . . Ornithology+Botany."Then please explain the symbiotic relationship between Passeriformes and Fragaria × ananassa.

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    majormarj  over 11 years ago

    Michele Bachman is on the Intelligence Committee, so Akin can obviously be on the Science Committee. When I was raped at nine I didn’t even know what my vagina was for. This man has a wife and 2 daughters who love him? HOW?

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    Dtroutma  over 11 years ago

    Roughly half of all embryo (fertilized eggs) do NOT attach to the uterus and pass through the body. It doesn’t matter whether from rape, or consensual sex. Is this God committing a felony under the “personhood” amendment sought by Akins, AND RYAN??

    Coyotes, among other species, will reabsorb the fetus of their young in “tough times”. Akins has demonstrated a little “canid intellect” on this issue, and Ryan is going to also be a dog of a candidate, so maybe Mitt should just start carting him around on top of the campaign bus??

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    mdblanche  over 11 years ago

    Thank you for explaining the fancy science word for Todd Akin. Unfortunately now he thinks we must be talking about witches.

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    Simon_Jester  over 11 years ago

    Are you surprised? Look we ALL know the Tea-Party repubs want to turn America into a feudal society, and this fits in with that perfectly

    You see, during the middle ages, conventional wisdom said that the more a woman enjoyed the act of sex, the more likely she was to conceive.

    Therefore, if you got pregnant, you MUST have enjoyed it, and it WASN’T rape.

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    Simon_Jester  over 11 years ago

    Wat was the title of that documentary and where did you see it?

    ( I don’t think you did, I think you only HEARD ABOUT it )

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    Kingoswald Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Have you any idea how Todd Akin – and his voters – look to us here in he UK?

    There’s a fear that the country that was once the standard bearer for the Western world is retreating into a dark age of superstition and violence.

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    walruscarver2000  over 11 years ago

    “Missed that quote. It must be the liberals talking point for the day.” But you come on here expressing your informed views on the “stupid Dem-libs”.

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    emptc12  over 11 years ago

    What are so many of you squawking about? /

    Gosh, look it up in Wikipedia, under “Repubochirotida.” Akin was simply re-stating a scientific fact that females of his species can repell attackers through expellation of contubrial monomers thereby rendering themselves temporarily infertile and safe from harm. /

    It is a process similar to that used by sea cucumbers and bestowed upon select human females by divine intervention. No embryo is harmed in the action, it is family friendly, and even the Vatican, Rick Santorum, and Michele Bachmann approve. /

    Through right thinking and hard work, you may yet achieve this miracle, one of many that will soon be revealed in the party platform at the upcoming convention.

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    babka Premium Member over 11 years ago

    oh and lest we forget – this is not just the nutso pro-life Protestants – hello Ryan, hello orthodoxy – read it and weep:http://catholicexchange.com/head-of-pontifical-academy-for-life-reconfirms-morning-after-pill-cannot-be-used-even-in-cases-of-rape/

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    babka Premium Member over 11 years ago

    The pubs are just saying that if the Creator really had his act together he would have created women with the capacity to summon infertile juices when rape happened. Hey – that would truly be Intelligent Design. So a life destroyed by violent sexual predation would not have the added burden of motherhood.

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    crlinder  over 11 years ago

    [To readers other than charlie555: this is a side topic from the point of the toon. Feel free to skip it unless you’re interested.]

    I believe that material man-made climate change is a theory that is impossible to prove, therefore is by definition, unscientific, which makes it a matter of faith.There are several problems with your ideas in that sentence. First, in science a theory is a strongly supported aspect of the world, e.g., gravitation. I know what you think you mean in the sentence, but what you’ve said is pretty much the opposite of what you intended.Second, science doesn’t ever prove anything in the mathematical sense of a proof. It can disprove something and what remains are the things that have support. Some scientific ideas have more support than others. So if we accept what you said, nothing we know about the world could ever be scientific.Third, there is much that could be said about why anthropogenic climate change can be studied scientifically, but that veers even further from the point of the toon, so I’ll leave those corrections for another place and time. I’m sure you’ll oblige me by bringing this up again at that time.

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    braindead Premium Member over 11 years ago

    “The American Right denies evolution, denies climate change, and now denies women can get pregnant through rape.”.And you have the nerve to chastise posters for exaggeration====The topic is rape, not evolution and climate change. And yes, as do the majority of Americans, I believe God created the heavens and the earth with purpose and not by chance. And I believe that material man-made climate change is a theory that is impossible to prove, therefore is by definition, unscientific, which makes it a matter of faith.

    =====Which part was the exaggeration?

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    crlinder  over 11 years ago

    I believe that material man-made climate change is a theory that is impossible to prove, therefore is by definition, unscientific, which makes it a matter of faith I don’t deny anthropogenic climate change can be studied scientificallyHow do you square this circle?

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    jkshaw  over 11 years ago

    Thank you for this interpretation of Akin’s newly blossomed expertise in gynecology. That’s a thirteen-year-old girl with, no doubt, a !@#$%^&* lecher of a father, uncle, big brother, mother’s boyfriend, next door neighbor. Every time I look at this (I was molested when a child) I feel like I would like to commit murder.

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    corzak  over 11 years ago

    “That seems to be too simple a challenge, am I missing the deeper question?”lol! No I’m just kidding with you . . . I guess I’ll have to go digging for a tougher ornithology/botany question!Although you did rip the question up . . . I didn’t think of the fact that the commercial strawberry hybrid is really only ‘symbiotic’ with humans . . .

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    walruscarver2000  over 11 years ago

    A new defense in rape cases: This wasn’t a legitimate rape so the defendant should be freed.

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