Satanic prayer in Florida

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Wednesday May 14, 2014 · 10:24 PM PDT

2014/05/14 · 22:24

Right wing Christians will not be happy about this but I guess there's nothing they can do about it. Freedom of religion and all right?

Just three days after the Supreme Court ruled that sectarian legislative prayer was constitutional in Greece v. Galloway, a man in Deerfield Beach, Florida, requested to open a session of the town council or the Florida State Senate with a Satanic prayer, reports 12 News.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

This made me laugh my ass off and I just had to share it. Hopefully it will brighten up someone else's day too.

Good news about women's preventative services

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Monday May 12, 2014 · 3:49 PM PDT

2014/05/12 · 15:49

I had expressed some concern before that abortions and women's healthcare coverage were going to be limited under the ACA. However I found some information that makes me feel a lot better.

I did not know about this and am writing this because I am certain many other people didn't either.

On August 1st 2012 these provisions went into effect, women do not have to pay co pays for the following:

1. Well woman visits

2. Gestational Diabetes screening

3. contraceptive methods, education and counseling

4. breastfeeding support

5. HPV testing for women over 30

6. counseling for STDs

7. counseling and screening for HIV

8. Domestic violence screening and counseling

(from http://www.obamacarefacts.com/...)

I recommend going to that site. It's very helpful to disprove myths and get the truth out about the ACA.

Women's health coverage bothersome

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Monday May 12, 2014 · 11:50 AM PDT

2014/05/12 · 11:50

Some of the things I'm finding out in regards to women's healthcare under the ACA are kind of unsatisfactory.

Before I posted a diary about healthcare coverage Illinois thinking that it would be better because of Illinois Healthy Women:http://www.illinoishealthywomen.com/.

Unfortunately as user tardis10 pointed out that program ends in December 2014.

Because Illinois Healthy Women coverage is limited to family planning and related services, it is not considered minimum essential coverage. Therefore, it does not meet the federal requirement for health coverage. Illinois Healthy Women will continue only through December 2014 to give time for those currently enrolled to get health coverage that meets the federal requirements. The types of health coverage that meet federal requirements are Medicaid, job-based insurance that covers certain benefits, some military coverage or private health insurance through the Marketplace.

Also abortion coverage is bad:

The issue of private insurance coverage for abortion care became highly politicized during deliberations over the ACA. As a result, the ACA explicitly allows states to enact—or repeal—laws restricting coverage of abortion within marketplace plans. Currently, 26 states and the District of Columbia permit such coverage, while 24 states have banned marketplace plans’ coverage of abortion, usually with only very limited exceptions. Even living in a state that does not ban abortion coverage, however, is no guarantee that coverage is available or that if it is, consumers can easily find out about it before enrolling in a plan.

http://www.guttmacher.org/...

The insurance that I got under ACA kind of bothers me because I can only find a few women gynecologists under my plan which is Blue Choice silver and I have a co pay of $500 dollars if I have to go to the emergency room.

I am still a fan of the ACA and as I said I am glad we passed it. I just wish there were more victories for women in it as it seems it is limiting victories for women.

Thoughts on Hillary Clinton?

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Saturday May 03, 2014 · 1:01 PM PDT

2014/05/03 · 13:01

I really like the woman, because she has the potential to make men quiver in their boots. If you don't believe me watch when the Republicans grilled her on Benghazi. She is a tough lady and a good role model for women.

After reading that a lot of people on the left don't like her I decided to do research on her stance on the issues:
http://www.ontheissues.org/...

Some of the things I agree with and others I don't.

She is really quite a bit of a hawk. Probably more so than Obama. :( Her vote for the Iraq war truly bothered me, but I guess I could say the same about a lot of other Democrats.

She is pro death penalty, which I don't like.

Some of the stuff she's done on education really isn't bad at all, but then some of the other stuff isn't.

She is actually in support of making the war on drugs less harsh.

Lastly her stance on woman's issues. Any candidate I vote for has to support that.

This is not everything but just a quick rundown. I welcome a discussion on her stance on the issues as I am not as knowledgable about certain things, like free trade and immigration for instance. I am on daily kos to educate myself because I understand the politics of a lot of things which is why I'm a pragmatist. (My uncle works for Nancy Pelosi). But I don't understand the issues as much and my emotions can sometimes get in the way of me understanding them.

Glenn Greenwald is biased

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Tuesday April 22, 2014 · 11:28 AM PDT

2014/04/22 · 11:28

I am writing to address this article: http://www.salon.com/...

Written by Glenn Greenwald, that claims Obama was merely trying to move the inmates to another prison for indefinite detention.

In February, 2009, the Obama DOJ told an appellate court it was embracing the Bush DOJ’s theory that Bagram detainees have no legal rights whatsoever, an announcement that shocked the judges on the panel hearing the case. In May, 2009, President Obama delivered a speech at the National Archives — in front of the U.S. Constitution — and, as his plan for closing Guantanamo, proposed a system of preventative “prolonged detention” without trial inside the U.S.; The New York Times – in an article headlined “President’s Detention Plan Tests American Legal Tradition” – said Obama’s plan “would be a departure from the way this country sees itself, as a place where people in the grip of the government either face criminal charges or walk free.” In January, 2010, the Obama administration announced it would continue to imprison several dozen Guantanamo detainees without any charges or trials of any kind, including even a military commission, on the ground that they were “too difficult to prosecute but too dangerous to release.” That was all Obama’s doing, completely independent of anything Congress did.

Prolonged detention is not indefinite detention, and if the administration has no intention of trying the detainees then why was there all of this debate about military tribunals vs. trials?

Obama took that issue head-on Thursday when he called on Congress to remove restrictions on transferring prisoners to the U.S., announced the Defense Department will establish a domestic site for holding military commissions, defended the idea of trying alleged terrorists on U.S. soil, and lifted the ban on transferring Guantánamo prisoners to Yemen, which could greatly reduce the prisoner population in Guantánamo.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/...

In spite of lawmakers' concerns, the Obama administration plans to send a top al-Qaida suspect held at Guantanamo Bay to New York to stand trial for the deadly 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa, an administration official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The suspect, Ahmed Ghailani, would be the first Guantanamo detainee brought to the U.S. and the first to face trial in a civilian criminal court.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

And why did the administration actually follow through with it?

White House officials said Thursday that the acquittal of Ahmed Ghailani on all but one of more than 280 criminal charges in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa would not undermine their effort to try former Guantanamo detainees in civilian court, even as the mixed verdict reignited debate over that policy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Furthermore I firmly believe that Sanders and Feingold and other progressives had a problem with Obama's plan and that is why they voted against it,

The reason these Democratic Senators voted to deny funds for closing Guantanamo is not because they lacked the courage to close Guantanamo. It’s because they did not want to fund a plan to close the camp without knowing exactly what Obama planned to do with the detainees there — because people like Feingold and Sanders did not want to fund the importation of a system of indefinite detention onto U.S. soil.

However couldn't they have added amendments or provided an alternative? Instead of simply voting it down.

I imagine I am going to get a lot of attacks for criticizing Greenwald but there are plenty of holes in his story and I am rather sick of watching him get by without being challenged. Thanks for reading this. Don't know how often I'll be online to check comments but I am not engaging in any pie fights.

1:31pm : Updated for misspelling of Feingolds name. Sorry about that.

6:33 pm: Edited title at Simian's suggestion.

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Sunday April 20, 2014 · 11:25 AM PDT

2014/04/20 · 11:25

This is my first diary. So please be kind. It is probably messy. lol

I am writing in response to this diary about Rand Paul and the comments in it about how we need a populist candidate.

I do not think democrats will lose the next election to Rand Paul. However I do believe that Cory Booker is a populist candidate that could equal Rand Paul. I am a millenial, I am 32 and I am concerned that too many people my age admire people like Rand Paul and Gary Johnston and I think Cory Booker would appeal to them.

Cory Booker and Rand Paul are both against the drug war which is a huge issue with my generation since we grew up with the war on drugs being forced on us and anti-drug propaganda.

I have found that many libertarians also respect Cory Booker because of things like this: http://gawker.com/...

I would vote for Hillary and whoever ran as Democrat for president in 2016 but I believe Cory Booker is a great answer to Rand Paul if he were to run. I am simply responding to the discussion of populism and this problem of democrats not always having populist candidates. Thank you for reading this. :)

EDIT: I would like to emphasize that this diary is mostly me thinking in terms of a democratic candidate that would appeal to young voters in the way that Rand Paul has. I'm not arguing that he is the perfect liberal candidate, or that he has no wall street ties.

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