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This excerpt from About That DHS Report on Right-Wing Extremism signals the end of the world:

Some bloggers, prompted by World Net Daily, are reading this as an attempt to “smear half of the country or more as kooks for criticizing the government’s handling of the economy.”

That’s ludicrous. First, this DHS assessment was begun more than a year ago, before Barack Obama was even nominated. It has absolutely nothing to do with “tea parties,” and it was not done at the behest of the Obama administration.

It's part of a pattern of posts that I've seen popped up on memeorandum that have left not scandalized but bewildered and utterly confused. I don't know what to make of titles like Horowitz Unloads on Obama Derangement Syndrome, Bush Bowed Too, Romney: Don't Wish for Obama to Fail, To Everything There is a Season and a two-parter about Glenn Beck: About Glenn Beck's Extremist Rhetoric and About Glenn Beck's Extremist Rhetoric, Part 2.

Why am I so confused? The source is Little Green Footballs.
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Pain-Capable Unborn Children

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Sometimes, as my dad always says, "you don't know whether to shit or go blind." (It's an English idiom.)

When I see what the members of the Right have done to the language in an effort to try to change reality, I know exactly what my father is talking about.

This week, in one of those grandstanding fuckwadded-up pieces of bullshit that they specialize in, right-wing Republicans will introduce House Resolution 6099, The Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act. Because, according to the bill's sponsor, fetuses of 20-weeks gestation are capable of feeling pain. The answer? Is not to assume that it's a medical fact and require doctors to administer pain to these fetuses. No. The bill requires that doctors INFORM women about to undergo post-20 week abortions that their fetuses will feel pain.
See? That's the "awareness" part.
It's all part of the wicked baby-killer thou art woman bullshit.
According to Yahoo news,

The bill, by Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., defines a 20-week-old fetus as a "pain-capable unborn child" — a highly controversial threshold among scientists. It also directs the Health and Human Service Department to develop a brochure stating "that there is substantial evidence that the process of being killed in an abortion will cause the unborn child pain."
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