War..Huh! What is it good for??? Poll

Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:44 AM EST

I would really like to hear people's opinions on what it really is good for? In my opinion it is absolutely nothing.

Continue reading this entry ...

politics, war

Homeless on Veterans Day

Seeded on Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:04 AM EST (The New York Times)

About one-third of all adult homeless men are veterans, and an average night finds an estimated 131,000 of them from five decades bedding down on streets and in charity sanctuaries. About 3 in 100 of them are back from Iraq and Afghanistan.

politics, veterans, homeless, war, poor, jobs, military

Autism Explodes As Childhood Vaccines Increase

Seeded on Thu Oct 8, 2009 12:18 PM EDT (Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com)

Cases of autism amongst children have doubled since 2003 according to a government survey out today, highlighting once again the direct link between vaccines containing mercury and the brain disorder, as millions more parents give the green light for their kids to be injected wit …

politics, autism, cdc, liars, vaccines, h1n1

Beck, Limbaugh run wild with estimates on size of 9/12 protests

Seeded on Wed Sep 16, 2009 7:39 AM EDT (Media Matters for America)

Conservative media have repeatedly provided conflicting crowd estimates for the 9/12 March on Washington, citing tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and in some cases, millions of participants, while one unofficial D.C.

politics, beck, limbaugh, lies, estimates, protests

Calif. Rep Says He Won't "Waste Urine" on Man's Leg

Seeded on Wed Sep 16, 2009 7:30 AM EDT (CBS News)

The indecorous town hall exchanges over health care did not end in August, it seems: Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) was prompted to tell a senior citizen at a recent Fremont, Calif. meeting, "I wouldn't dignify you by peeing on your leg."

politics, urine, leg, town-hall, pee, cailfornia

Planned Parenthood sues over new abortion restrictions

Seeded on Mon Sep 14, 2009 2:16 PM EDT (bizjournals.com)

Planned Parenthood Arizona Inc. filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court Monday claiming a new abortion laws approved by Gov. Jan Brewer in July violates privacy and due process clauses of the state and U.S.

politics, pro-life, pro-choice, abortions, planned-parenthood, sue

516

Woman Who gives up son for adoption searches for him and rapes him: Video

Seeded on Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:01 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

Police have accused Aimee Louise Sword of searching out the son she gave up for adoption a decade ago and raping him. She has been arraigned on three charges of criminal sexual misconduct. It's unclear whether the boy, a minor, knew she was his biological mother.

politics, woman, adoption, rape, baby, child, horror

The Blackening of the president

Seeded on Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:35 AM EDT (Salon.com)

Of course Obama never had the support of whites like Joe Wilson, a solid son of the South who served as an aide to segregationist Strom Thurmond and who publicly doubted and derided Thurmond's biracial daughter, Essie Mae, when she went public about her dad's identity.

politics, obama, president, united-states, racism, blacks, whites, southerners

Kanye West Told to Leave VMAs After Upsetting Taylor Swift

Seeded on Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:19 AM EDT (FOXNews.com)

Taylor Swift seemed pretty surprised herself to have won the VMA for Best Female Music Video on Sunday evening, but the real shock came when Kanye West suddenly burst onto the stage and rudely stole the microphone from the country crooner during her acceptance speech. "Yo Taylor …

politics, kanye-west, taylor-swift, vmas, bully, jerk

151

New Program To Teach Students About 9-11 Attacks

Seeded on Wed Sep 9, 2009 12:35 PM EDT (ozarksfirst.com)

A new school curriculum has been unveiled that will teach children in Illinois and around the country about the September 11th attacks. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani had a hand in putting the program together.

politics, 9-11, twin-towers, schools, republicans, teaching, new-york

New DNC Ads Attack Individual House GOPers For Wanting To End Medicare

Seeded on Tue Sep 8, 2009 2:39 PM EDT (Talking Points Memo)

The Democratic National Committee is now rolling out a localized version of its "Republicans Want To End Medicare" ad, targeting individual House GOP members over a proposal from back in April to privatize Medicare for future generations of retirees (everyone currently 54 years a …

politics, dnc, gop, medicare, congress, house-of-representatives, bachmann, healthcare

Will you vaccinate your kid for swine flu?

Seeded on Tue Sep 8, 2009 1:21 PM EDT (onmilwaukee.com)

As of Aug. 23, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported more than 210,000 cases of swine flu and at least 2,185 deaths worldwide. Cases of the swine flu are expected to increase this fall and winter, and many countries are preparing to offer mass vaccinations.

health, swine-flu, autism, vaccinations, thimerisol, mercury, who

Honesty Poll: If your son or daughter was dating outside of their own race, how would you feel?

Tue Sep 8, 2009 8:41 AM EDT

We have seen it in the movies and we see it in our towns. You go to the store and you see a white woman with her two obviously bi-racial children. You see a white woman and a black man having dinner together.

Continue reading this entry ...

politics, racism, blacks, whites, interracial-dating

105

720

Father wants son's beating treated as a hate crime

Seeded on Tue Sep 8, 2009 8:14 AM EDT (CNN)

Armed with a chunk of concrete, several assailants beat Brian Milligan Jr. on the back of the head on August 18, leaving a 3-inch gash.

politics, interracial-relationships, white, black, beaten, hate-crime

232

Adolf Hitler sex video condemned by Aids charities

Seeded on Fri Sep 4, 2009 9:12 PM EDT (Telegraph)

The provocative commercial, which ends with the tag-line "AIDS is a mass murder", aims to scare young people into using condoms by associating the deadly disease with the German dictator.

politics, hitler, sex-video, aids, charities, commercial

Another wingnut meme goes down the drain Video

Seeded on Thu Sep 3, 2009 8:07 PM EDT (dailykostv.com)

Fox and Friends claim that this is the First time a President will be talking to studens. Video shows Bush 41 talking politics to children back in his days as POTUS.

politics, fox-and-friends, lies, propaganda, bush, obama, school-children

Pro-Life Women's Group Announces Top 12 Pro-Abortion 2010 Election Targets

Seeded on Wed Sep 2, 2009 7:19 PM EDT (lifenews.com)

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- On the same day a pro-abortion group announced its top five candidates to support in next year's elections, a pro-life women's group announced its Top 12 list. The Susan B.

politics, abortion, prolife, prochoice, women, right-to-life, 2010-election

Paramedic joked 'lesbian single-mother Muslim day' would replace Christmas

Seeded on Wed Sep 2, 2009 4:13 PM EDT (Telegraph)

Karl Touhey, 40, repeatedly made "derogatory comments" about Muslims, obese people, homosexuals and women he found unattractive, while working for South Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust, former colleague Edward Wiltshire said.

politics, lesbians, gays, single-mother, christmas, racism

Broward schools remove `negro' from racial background form

Seeded on Wed Sep 2, 2009 4:08 PM EDT (MiamiHerald.com)

Faced with complaints from parents and students about racial insensitivity, state and local education officials have dropped the word negro from a racial background form that went out to every Broward public school student the first day of school. The form, on page 9 of the code …

politics, negro, racism, white, black, african-american, florida, schools, forms

Sanford: Now I know what Palin felt like

Seeded on Wed Sep 2, 2009 11:31 AM EDT (CNN)

CNN) – South Carolina Gov.

politics, mark-sanford, cheating-husbands, hypocrites, sarah-palin, god

Found: Cure for the liberal virus

Seeded on Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:57 PM EDT (WorldNetDaily News )

I then asked the obvious question. "Do we know how cancer starts, where the black filthy cells come from?" And, as I remember it, he said the medical research world feels there's some virus that infects otherwise healthy cells, and chemically distorts or corrupts their DNA.

politics, pat-boone, black, virus, cancer, liberalism

Video: Glenn Beck's newest unfounded claim that the 2008 election was all part of a coup

Seeded on Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:58 PM EDT (Examiner)

Eventually Glenn Beck has to run out of extremist statements but right now he seems to be able to generate absurd quotes at will. The newest claim by Beck is that the 2008 election was all part of a grand coup by Barack Obama.

politics, glenn-beck, mormons, morons, 2008-election, president, fraud, obama, coup, fox-news

Why Seniors Oppose Government-Run Health Care (Except for Their Own)

Seeded on Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:14 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

In late July, President Obama recounted a letter from a woman who told him, "I don't want government-run health care, I don't want socialized medicine, and don't touch my Medicare." The president chuckled. "That's what Medicare is," he protested at an AARP town hall.

politics, healthcare, seniors, obama, socialized-medicine, dementia, old-people

210

Ann Coulter, conservative pundits, throw Lou Dobbs under the bus over 'birthers' fallout

Seeded on Mon Aug 3, 2009 8:04 PM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)

Even Ann Coulter knows this story is whack!

politics, birthers-lou-dobbs, cnn, fox-news, obamma, birth-certificate

Clinton says U.S. trying "everything we can to locate" captured soldier

Seeded on Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:45 PM EDT (OregonLive.com)

ABC News consultant Maj. Gen. William Nash, retired, told "Good Morning America" it's obvious from watching the Taliban video that Bergdahl is under extraordinary pressure, psychologically and possibly physically.

politics, clinton, captured-us-soldier, war, propaganda, afghanistan

– Show More

Latest Comments

– Show More

Recent Votes

Hannity Apologizes for "Mistake" - Admits Jon Stewart/Daily Show Was Right
Source: Media Matters for America
Saying that he and those involved in the production of his show "screwed up," Sean Hannity claims the "mistake" was inadvertent. Smugly, he also thanked Jon and his writers for watching.
72
196
War..Huh! What is it good for??? Poll
I would really like to hear people's opinions on what it really is good for? In my opinion it is absolutely nothing.
11
18
Homeless on Veterans Day
Source: The New York Times
About one-third of all adult homeless men are veterans, and an average night finds an estimated 131,000 of them from five decades bedding down on streets and in charity sanctuaries. About 3 in 100 of them are back from Iraq and Afghanistan.
14
32
Hi, I'm Marty, and I'm a recovering Republican
Source: Salon.com
I was a feminazi-hating, liberal-bashing loudmouth who tried to befriend Bill O'Reilly. Man, I was such a douche
22
24
Hannity Tries to Pass off 9-12 Footage As Bachmann Rally Footage To Inflate Attendance; Jon Stewart Nails Him To The Wall
Source: Media Matters for America
Link goes to the video at Media Matters.
122
236

– Show More

Comments & Feedback

God bless you and your family, may the angels watch over your Autistic daughter!

— Michael-527495

Hey Aimee! thanks for the invite. Keep the faith little sister! If you ever need to talk I'm here! As are alot of these good people! God Bless!

— Troy O'neill

I guess the seed on gender health issues went away.

— Vis Major

Aimee,

I have been reading the article and comments about gays causing bla bla bla.......anyway, I just wanted to say I respect you too. I think it is very very gracious of you to be so open and, well, nice.

Thank you for giving respect---you certainly have mine. Have a great day!

Chloe

— Chloe-947414

Aimee, I have a brother that is Autistic. He is 50 years old and he has given our family quite the scare on many occasion. I have a great respect for someone like yourself that is able to handle it in such a noble manner.

— Jarhead In WI

I like your honesty and passion, Aimee. It's really nice to have you here on Newsvine.

— Mike Rupert

Aimee,
You are a brave woman, God has given you a beautiful precious gift of a daughter for a reason.
Only He knows why, but you are a fighter! I pray that He will heal you of your cancer and/or find a donor for your kidney. I have been living Multiple Sclerosis since 1992 and I never let it get me down as I have 2 boys,15 and 10 years old.
I admire you and please never give up hope or faith. You will always have my prayers!
Sonia in New Jersey

— USA4Him