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Right-Wing Conmen Try to Frame Planned Parenthood
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by ishambat | February 2, 2011 at 03:03 am
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Between Jan. 11 and Jan. 15, five separate Planned Parenthood clinics received mysterious visits from men who claimed to be involved in underage sex-trafficking. This meant, obviously, that someone was trying to pull a James O'Keefe-style "sting," in which deceptively edited Internet videos would prove that some organization dedicated to providing services to the poor or otherwise non-privileged was in fact engaged in high crimes and conspiracy against freedom.
It didn't really work, because Planned Parenthood quickly caught on and alerted the FBI. (BigJournalism.com exclusive: Planned Parenthood alerts the authorities when confronted by self-proclaimed human traffickers!) Planned Parenthood suspected that the hoaxer had ties to Live Action, an antiabortion activist group run by Lila Rose, a sometime O'Keefe partner-in-undercover-stinging. And Live Action confirmed its involvement by posting the sad results of its exhaustive video investigation today. It caught one staffer possibly advising a make-believe pimp to send a make-believe underage prostitute somewhere where her abortion would not be reported. (It is obviously impossible to tell what actually happened without the unedited video.) (And also this Planned Parenthood alerted the authorities about the weird visit.)
These conservative undercover "hoaxes" are best understood as an attempt to make their fantasies real. In order to make animate the world that they feverishly imagine, they must themselves become the unsavory characters with bad motivations that they enjoy thinking populate these hotbeds of degenerate liberal activity.
http://www.salon.com/news/abortion/index.html
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at 07:50 on February 2nd, 2011
a big cyclone is going to hit Australia with full force. I dont know about you, but in a way, it sounds like fun... hurraah !!
at 20:14 on February 2nd, 2011
There were, as far as anyone knows, no fatalities from this cyclone, which is fairly amazing. I have my beliefs as to the reason for that, but I'm not sharing them here.
at 05:41 on February 3rd, 2011
lucky you.. I have to have better coordination with Poseidon.
at 11:33 on February 3rd, 2011
oh, boy I am so bored with this web page-now public. I realisticlly thought, it will be more fun.. well, hope dies last, we say. I have to find another interestong person for chat or a would be victim. I shall see.. but concerning your article- I am always curious, where do these words come from- like pimp, kike, slut, hooker, etc. etc. as a former enthusiastic reader of Clancy novels I know them, but semantically its still a mystery. american slang or street language is very rich..
at 23:36 on February 3rd, 2011
Something I wrote about English language:
English is an interesting language. It has all kinds of innocuous-sounding expressions that turn out to be sexual references, racial slurs, or mean something other than what one expects them to mean. When someone I know who immigrated to America with his family at age 13 was asked why he left, he said that "in Soviet Union, the Jewish people do not feel themselves at home." I matched him when, while giving speech to my classmates at about the same age, I said, "We must reach our peak."
Another feature that lends itself to misinterpretation is that the word "gay" used to mean "happy," and many people outside America think that it still means that. I know I did when I came to America, and that was a source of hilarity for many.
My father, who had been a mechanical engineer in the Soviet Union and designed drilling equipment, was composing a resume with the help of a Russian-English dictionary. He looked up the English equivalent of the Russian word for "drill" and found the word "bore." So he wrote on his resume, "Boring Engineer."
My mother was looking for a store and tried to ask for directions from a black boy by asking, "Excuse me, boy." On my own part, while participating in DC poetry slam scene, composed mostly of young black people, I told one participant that he looked like The Crow (from the movie), without realizing that "crow" was also a racial slur. To their credit, they investigated, and I am still friends with a number of people in that group.
The Russian language is interesting as well. The Russian word for corpse is "troop." The Russian word for God is "bog." The Russian word for creep is "god." And the Russian word for condom is "preservativ." The latter motivated a Russian immigrant who had been in America for a long time to tell a more recent immigrant, in Russian, that yogurt was made with "preservativs."
When one comes to another country, the first thing that the kids want to learn is the swear words in the other language. That leads frequently to interesting scenes, including one in which my father was driving into the neighborhood to hear American kids shouting Russian swear words at each other.
But sometimes even not knowing the words can motivate a child to do interesting things with them. More recently, my five-year-old stepson shouted, "Sprachen ze deutzsch." I know we did not teach him that. I wonder where he got the reference.