Profits are up, DOW breaks 13,000, Obama wants to cut corp taxes. How will Fox report it?

thedailywhat:

Tit-For-Baptism of the Day: Causing a stir online today is a new website that invites users to posthumously convert Mormons to homosexuality.

The single-serving site is a rather candid knock at the common Mormon practice known as “vicarious baptism” or “proxy baptism,” which involves the baptizing of a living person on behalf of someone who has passed on.

LDS Church members have received significant criticism in the past for attempting to baptize deceased individuals who belonged to a different faith in life. Of particular contention are conversion ceremonies conducted on behalf of Holocaust victims.

Earlier this month the church was forced to apologize to the family of noted Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal, whose parents, it was revealed, had been baptized by proxy in January. Yesterday, a similar story involving iconic Holocaust victim Anne Frank appeared in the media.

The Church released a statement yesterday vowing to discipline “individual abusers” of the the controversial practice.

[fark.]

wonklife:

“As you can see, Romney is the clear anomaly by a long shot, raising nearly 90 percent of his total haul from larger contributions. By contrast, only around 40% of Obama’s donations are from individuals who have given more than $200 total and his smaller contributors alone raised more money in total than Romney’s entire fundraising operation. For the rest of the Republican field, the ratio is somewhere closer to 50-50 — take a look at the total small donor cash for Gingrich and Paul, for example, and you see that their huge disadvantage versus Romney is almost entirely due to the frontrunner’s bigger contributors.” (via Two Charts That Should Make Romney Gulp | TPM2012)

When asked if he believed Obama is a “sincere liberal Christian,” the former Pennsylvania senator said he didn’t believe that sort of ideology exists, and that Obama’s church, United Church of Christ in Chicago, had “abandoned Christendom” and used a non-literal interpretation of the Bible.

“I don’t think there is such a thing,” he said of Obama as a liberal Christian. “To take what is plainly written and say that ‘I don’t agree with that, therefore I don’t have to pay attention to it,’ means you’re not what you say you are. You’re a liberal something, but you’re not a Christian.”

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wonklife:

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If you look at the polling on contraception, it`s devastating. If you look at the New York Times/CBS poll questions about the president`s current plan for contraception coverage and health insurance, making private health plans cover the cost of birth control, not only do 66 percent of Americans support the policy, but 68 percent of moderates do, 64 percent of independents do, even 50 percent of Republicans do. But when you listen to Republicans try to explain why they are all suddenly opposed to contraception, it truly is a level of ignorance this country has not seen in a very long time.

Now Republicans are running full tilt against contraception. Somehow the party of small government and personal freedom has decided that contraception is a great election year issue for to run with!? Offended by policies they themselves supported demanding that those policies be rolled back and that we not only carve away access to contraception for people who work at religiously-affiliated institutions, but that we let all employers deny access to contraception.

Environment America, “In the Path of the Storm,” finds that “federally declared weather-related disasters in the United States have affected counties housing 242 million people – or roughly four out of five Americans.” Global warming pollution has already made extreme weather like intense precipitation, heat waves, and floods more likely, with much greater changes projected in the decades to come. The analysis also reveals that Oklahoma, home of climate denier Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), is ground zero for climate disasters in the United States.

funnyordie:

Bayer Aspirin: Pain Reliever/Contraceptive

Rick Santorum supporter Foster Friess addressed the (apparently) controversial issue of contraception this week, saying “Back in my day, they used Bayer Aspirin as contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly.” We all had a good laugh, but upon further inspection, he wasn’t necessarily lying. 

think-progress:

Virginia is poised to pass legislation that would require women to endure this invasive ultrasound, for no medical reason, before receiving an abortion.