JABbering Stooge

Well, well, well. It looks like reality still has a liberal bias:

A new two-year study by the American Psychological Association (APA) finds that women “who choose to abort an unwanted pregnancy may experience feelings of grief and loss, but there is no evidence that a single abortion causes significant mental health problems.” From the APA’s press release:

• “The best scientific evidence published indicates that among adult women who have an unplanned pregnancy, the relative risk of mental health problems is no greater if they have a single elective first-trimester abortion or deliver that pregnancy,” said Brenda Major, PhD, chair of the task force. “The evidence regarding the relative mental health risks associated with multiple abortions is more uncertain.”

Naturally, the fetus fetishists are up in arms over the decision. Lifesitenews.com, one of the sites that was enthusiastically pimping the Massive Poll™®© conducted by astroturf company KLR Vu, even goes so far as to make the laughable claim that the APA violated its own ethics standard. But then, what do you expect from a group that had previously written off the APA as a tool of the Homosexual Agenda™©® when the APA rescinded its previous ruling that homosexuality is a mental disorder?

Ah, the things confirmation bias will do to you.

* I think you know the one…

I’m referring, of course, to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who once again refuses to do his fucking job:

In a speech today before the American Bar Association (ABA), Mukasey was more explicit in his rejection of any sort of review or prosecution, saying that the “negative publicity” they faced was enough:

• That does not mean, as some people have suggested, that those officials who were found by the joint reports to have committed misconduct have suffered no consequences. Far from it. The officials most directly implicated in the misconduct left the Department to the accompaniment of substantial negative publicity. … To put it in concrete terms, I doubt that anyone in this room would want to trade places with any of those people.

Worse, he tries to weasel out of one of the basic requirements of his job by saying that violations of civil service laws are not crimes:

I am well aware that some people have called on me and on the Department to take even more drastic steps than those I have described. For example, some commentators have suggested that we should criminally prosecute the people found in the reports to have committed misconduct. Where there is evidence of criminal wrongdoing, we vigorously investigate it. And where there is enough evidence to charge someone with a crime, we vigorously prosecute. But not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime. In this instance, the two joint reports found only violations of the civil service laws.

Excuse me, Mr. Mukasey, but aren’t you the Attorney General? The nation’s chief law-enforcement officer? Shouldn’t you be prosecuting all crimes? Aren’t all violations of the law — even “minor” civil service laws — by definition crimes? Oh, wait. I forgot. Under the new rules, only laws violated by someone with a “D” after his/her name are crimes.

I’m not a lawyer, but doesn’t this make Mukasey guilty of conspiracy to cover up a crime?

NY Times: “Lieberman: Obama Has Not Always Put Country First”

“In my opinion, the choice could not be more clear: between one candidate, John McCain, who’s had experience, been tested in war and tried in peace, another candidate who has not,’’ Mr. Lieberman said. “Between one candidate, John McCain, who has always put the country first, worked across party lines to get things done, and one candidate who has not. Between one candidate who’s a talker, and the other candidate who’s the leader America needs as our next president.”

• Sen. Obama, are you now or have you ever been a member of The Al Qaeda Party?

Slummy Joe, you have no shame.

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