Sorry for getting out of my box – but this one couldn’t wait for a week.
OK folks – you knew this was coming – I ordered some extra air scrubbers for this one, and pressed every commenter into service hooking them up.
Ms. A took one look at the profusion of new ducts coming out of the iso chamber, muttered something about how this was going to affect her insurance premiums, and hastily departed.
First, let’s take the wayback machine to a kinder and gentler time, when teabaggers were king, and women made sammiches:
Tea Party-backed Rep. Akin wins Missouri GOP Senate primary to take on McCaskill
FoxNews ^ | Aug. 8, 2012Posted on Wednesday, August 08, 2012 6:31:48 AM by Milagros
CBS News Tea Party-backed Rep. Akin wins Missouri GOP Senate primary to take on McCaskill
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Rep. Todd Akin, who played up his tea party credentials and conservative appeal, broke out from a three-way Missouri Republican primary on Tuesday to earn the right to take on Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, setting up one of …
To: Politically CorrectIf Akin lives up to the ad that Claire was running against him, I’ll be a very happy Missourian.
4 posted on Wednesday, August 08, 2012 7:01:52 AM by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)To: tsowellfanPolling has shown that Claire loses to Akin, as well as Steeleman and Brunner. Now we’ll find out. Akin, I thought was so far behind that he’d be in third place at the end of the night. I thought he was ‘too conservative’ so said Clair’es ad. Hope he’s as good as Claire says he is!
8 posted on Wednesday, August 08, 2012 7:08:30 AM by Big Giant HeadTo: maryzAkin will do just fine. He has been around awhile and does not have a lot of dirt or garbage that can be thrown at him. I liked him the best of the three candidates. He is a good choice to take on Claire. I would have been happy to vote for either of the other two as well. It was refreshing to have some decent choices for once.
To: listenhillaryHe has never shied away from being a Godly conservative.
Unintentional irony alert!
He would make a great senator.
Heard McCaskill bashing him this morning as she heads out to Kansas City to campaign.29 posted on Wednesday, August 08, 2012 9:22:34 AM by katiedidit1To: katiedidit1They are all good candidates imo.Once upon a time, before the Marxists captured the jackass party and drove nearly all the RINO inclined politicians over to the GOP, elections were about who could do the best job among a slate of decent candidates. They weren’t about the lesser of two evils.
Congratulations to the Missouri GOP for getting back to where the entire country should be.
50 posted on Wednesday, August 08, 2012 3:40:26 PM by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Politically CorrectI understand why all the rinos are sissies now.The single white women base hates the tea party. It makes it difficult to win when they can’t even get a portion of their vote.
Oh my: Missouri GOP Senate nominee says victims of ‘legitimate rape’ don’t get pregnant
Twitchy team ^Posted on Sunday, August 19, 2012 2:59:08 PM by Perdogg
“Legitimate rape” became a Twitter trending topic in the U.S. this afternoon after liberal blog Talking Points Memo posted a video of Rep. Todd Akin claiming that victims of “legitimate rape” are unlikely to become pregnant.
To: PerdoggMcDonnell smear job take two. Did not work in VA, will not work in MO any better
To: AnotherUnixGeekthere is a video of it.
To: TwelveOfTwentywhy say anything about it?
Rape seldom (more seldom than one in 400,000 incidents) results in pregnancy.
False. It happens in 5% of rape cases.
Fun Fact: “[T]he rate of pregnancy on any given day is about 3.1%, a little lower than the Holmes et al estimate. What Wilcox et al also does well is demonstrate first how the vulnerability to get pregnant varies across the cycle, but also how it is most certainly not zero at the times many of us assume we are not fertile.
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So, rape and consensual sex have the same pregnancy rate. This means that of those 64,080 US rapes in 2004-2005, minus the 15% of rapes that are of children under the age of 12 which gets us to 54,468 rapes of almost all reproductively-aged women, somewhere between 1,689 (3.1%) to 2,723 (5%) pregnancies from rape could have occurred in that year alone. “
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/context-and-variation/2012/08/20/here-is-some-legitimate-science-on-pregnancy-and-rape/
Well played, Tommy– I LOVED this Special EDition of the FReeperati.
–mf
Heh – caught Kibitzer napping.
Tommy
With Jon Stewart on vacation, thank goodness you are here to take up the slack. Yesterday I was reading Lucianne.com (a grimmer version of FR) and hoping for a special midweek Obsession With the Freeperati, so thanks.
Always welcome an extra installment.
BTW – news is reporting that as of 5 PM today (the deadline for Akin to withdraw without getting a court order and paying for the reprinting of ballots), no papers have been filed with the Secretary of State.
He has till late September (? I’m wanting to say the 21st) to withdraw with the above restrictions.
In either case, I hope that folks look at the extreme right and see what their architects are building.
Akin is a total caveman. There is a cause to remove him spreading across the Web –http://www.youstand.com/cause/82112/remove-todd-akin-from-the-house-science-committee
Thanks for the double-time Tommy T! LOL no time off before the election, dude! (Kidding.) Thanks again.