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FireUpChips10's JournalAbortion bill heads to Snyder's desk after House vote
Source: Detroit Free Press
An omnibus abortion bill, approved by the Senate on Wednesday, passed the House early this morning by a 72-35 vote, after a controversial requirement that an aborted fetus be buried, cremated or interred was removed earlier this week.
Democrats offered a handful of amendments, some referred to as “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander,” to require men to undergo physical exams before being prescribed Viagra or to get a vasectomy.
But all the amendments were shot down.
Gov. Rick Snyder is expected to sign the bill into law.
Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20121214/NEWS15/121214005/Michigan-abortion-bill-fetal-remains-passes-in-House-allows-incineration?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
It is almsot 3:00 in the morning and the Michigan Legislature has gone bananas.
They are still meeting at nearly 3:00 AM to pass everything from this crap to legislation making it almost impossible to recall lawmakers.
(Once banned for saying "vagina") Michigan State Rep. Lisa Brown Slams Anti-Choice Legislation
This isn't the first time she has said 'vagina' on the floor of the House - she said it earlier this year, and got banned from speaking:
Michigan House approves bill to help build Ilitch's downtown Detroit development
Source: WDIV
The Michigan House approved a bill Thursday which will allow Mike Ilitch, owner of the Detroit Tigers and Red Wings, to bring a new $650 million development project to downtown Detroit.
Ilitch's proposal includes retail, shopping, housing and a new events center which would serve as a new arena for the Red Wings. The bill gives the Ilitch Organization a leg up on the proposal.
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Christopher Ilitch, president and CEO of Ilitch Holdings, Inc, also released this statement on Thursday:
"The Ilitch organization would like to thank the Michigan State Legislature for passing HB 5463 today. In particular, we would like to thank the bill sponsor, Representative John Walsh (R-Livonia), Speaker of the House Jase Bolger (R-Marshall) and Majority Leader Randy Richardville (R-Monroe) for their efforts in passing this legislation that will have a significant impact on the creation of a catalytic economic development in downtown Detroit that all Michiganders can be proud. We look forward to continuing our work with the public sector to make this public private partnership a reality."
Read more: http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/Michigan-House-approves-bill-to-help-build-Ilitch-s-downtown-Detroit-development/-/1719418/17769028/-/bo58xk/-/index.html
After two years of cuts to education and revenue sharing, they are making taxpayers foot the bill for something that these rich people could easily afford.
This all comes in the same week that they passed Wrong-to-Work, an emergency manager law (to replace the one voters rejected), legislation to restrict abortion, and legislation to allow concealed weapons in schools, stadiums, and bars.
The 96th Legislature could be the worst in the history of the state.
House GOP Boosts Funds for DOMA Legal Defense
Source: Roll Call
House Republicans quietly have raised the value of a contract with a private law firm that is handling the chamber’s Supreme Court defense of a 1996 federal law that defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
House Administration Chairman Dan Lungren, R-Calif., signed off in September on a $500,000 increase in the maximum value of the contract with the firm, Washington-based Bancroft PLLC. Republicans have raised the cap of the contract twice: first on Sept. 29, 2011, from its original maximum of $500,000 to $1.5 million, and again on Sept. 28 to its new maximum of $2 million.
Although the latest lifting of the contract cap occurred nearly three months ago, House Democrats — and the public — were in the dark about the move until this week. House Republicans did not share the revised contract with Democrats until Thursday, according to Drew Hammill, a spokesman for Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Hammill provided a copy of the contract modification to CQ Roll Call.
Indeed, Democrats were so out of the loop that Pelosi’s office released figures on Oct. 16 showing that the taxpayer expenses for the defense of the law nearly had hit their cap of $1.5 million. But that was nearly three weeks after Lungren had raised the cap to $2 million.
Read more: http://www.rollcall.com/news/house_gop_boosts_funds_for_doma_legal_defense-219963-1.html
"Fiscal responsibility" my Ashcroft.
MI - Tea Party BUSTED: Witness explains how he saw Tea Party activists take down their own tents
UPDATE: See this blog post for context: www.eclectablog.com/2012/12/breaking-americans-for-prosperity-stages-phony-altercation-at-michigan-right-to-work-rally.html
War on Christmas? Sign this Minister Up!
While I am signing up to help in a War on Christmas, I'm not on, what by default gets called, the "non-Christian" side. I'm also not signing up for the side that news pundits falsely purport as the "Christian" side. If anything, I'd make the argument that the dominant face of Christianity, as it is seen on television and promoted through news programming, is itself far from what Christianity is supposed to be. It is a sort-of white-washed, sanitized version of Christianity that every year presents an increasingly cleaned up version of the Christmas story to the viewing public.
You see, the baby we remember this time of year was not part of the dominant culture the way the religion he started now is. The religious stories that were told in those days were told under the shadow of the dominant culture. They were stories of oppression and hardships, stories of overcoming unthinkable odds, stories of hope for a people living in times and cultural positions that, quite frankly felt hopeless.
But today, our stories are told from places and positions of power. Today, Christianity is the dominant culture. So, instead of story of a olive skinned middle-eastern, unwed, pregnant mother, who was seen as little more than property, giving birth to what the world would surely see as an illegitimate child who was wrapped in what rags they could find and placed in a smelly, flea-infested feeding trough in the midst of a dark musky smelling animal stall, we end up with a clean, white-skinned European woman giving birth to a glowing baby wrapped in impossibly white swaddling clothes and laid to rest in a manger that looks more like a crib than a trough in the midst of a barn that is more kept and clean than many of our houses.
So, "War on Christmas?" Sure, sign me up. I'm pretty sure I'd prefer the elimination of what our modern "celebration" has become to the increasingly white-washed version we hear every year.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-sandlin/war-on-christmas-sign-minister-up_b_2259843.html
West Wing Week: 12/07/12 or "I Have To Pinch Myself"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=XYW-zK3ELtQCAPTION: With Snyder, not everyone's in the holiday mood!
This was on his Twitter feed, by the way.
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