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Open thread August 23, 2013

Dan Crawford | August 23, 2013 9:33 am

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  • rjs says:
    August 23, 2013 at 10:41 am

    some news you all likely missed:
    Gun lobbyist Larry Pratt: Obamacare will force gun owners to have electroshock therapy : Gun Owners of America Executive Director Larry Pratt recently predicted that President Barack Obama’s health care reform law would force gun owners to undergo electroshock therapy. . “There’s saying, hey, it’s quicker than some drugs and all that type of thing,” . “But so is a bullet.”

    Conservative radio host: Obama wants ‘an abortion in every household’ : Conservative radio host Mark Levin recently blasted President Barack Obama for what he said was a policy of “an abortion in every household” with his health care reform law.
     
    Christian radio hosts: Gay Boy Scouts will get merit badges for sodomy, incest and cannibalism
      

  • Jack says:
    August 24, 2013 at 10:10 am

    If you haven’t done it, then do it:

    https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/restore-united-states%E2%80%99-human-rights-record-and-grant-clemency-pvt-bradley-manning/L7zHZv4r

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