Rush to Obama: Hands Off My Private Parts »
Posted By Progressive 3 months ago in Political News
Rush Limbaugh says President Obama is out to get his foreskin. Seriously. It all started when the the Centers for Disease Control reported that it's thinking of issuing an advisory touting the health beneifits of male circumcision in infancy, writes Gabe Winant on Salon. Conservative blogger Ed Morrissey leaped from there to the idea that the government would “create pressure on doctors to perform" circumcisions. And Limbaugh took it the next step: "It's President Obama who wants to mandate circumcision."
It's the same leap the right is making from end-of-life discussions between docs and dying patients to "death panels" that will mandate speeding a patient to the end, Winant writes, pointing out that the advisory suggests no such incentive to act. It’s “an inability to distinguish between advice and force.” Or unwillingness.
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canadianrancher573 months ago
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Out here on the farm(ranch) we always have some bull calves that make alot of noise and huff and puff and are general trouble makers, they really can't accomplish anything but they are still a pain in the butt, we have a solution for these calves and it doesn't have to do with their foreskin but it seems to change their attitude. I wonder at times if it would work on other critters that seem to huff and puff and are a general pain in the butt.
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earthlingerer3 months ago
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Admittedly, the CDC recommending circumcision seems out of line with every other country with decent (or better than the US) healthcare. In the UK, it's not even a covered medical procedure, and in the rest of europe, circumcision is just looked at as WEIRD.
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