Brownback signs 'Celebrate Freedom Week' bill

"The religious references in the writings of the founding fathers shall not be censored when presented as part of such instruction."

I certainly hope this is done. Many of the founding fathers had interesting things to say about religion.

May 24, 2013 at 9:51 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Anti-abortion activists urge passage of fetal heartbeat bill in Kansas

I get where you're coming from. I shake my head whenever the gun nuts use that same argument with fully-automatic firearms.

March 26, 2013 at 6:35 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Democrats say tax cuts are tax shifts

"Interesting" would suggest that it's not a typical thing. It's standard behavior anymore.

March 24, 2013 at 3:01 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Bill targeting sex-selection abortion heard in House committee

"The time to end violent discrimination based on gender is long overdue," Jeanne Gawdun, senior lobbyist for Kansans for Life, told the House Federal and State Affairs Committee.

Violent discrimination based on gender? Really? We're gonna end that?!?!? YAY!!! So the next time she gets arrested from my house the judge will throw the book at her? YAY!!!

What's this? Not that? Not about that... this is about abortion. Wow, that's embarrassing....

So... ending gender-selective abortion is what we're talking about. Allegedly, it's been going on too long. Well, that's easy enough to research. We do that census thing every so often. If gender-selective abortion is a statistically relevant issue, we'd find more of one gender being born than the other.

Aaaannnddddd nope, not happening. The ratio of male to female is pretty darn close to 1. Gender-selection is a stupid thing to focus on for the pro-life people. Just like most of the crap they focus on.

Source: http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/br...

March 21, 2013 at 7:14 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

House approves ban on union pay deductions

For everyone proclaiming some victory for "individual rights," stop. Its just not an intellectually honest position to take on this issue.

This is just about finding a less overt way to quiet potential opposition from state employees.

March 20, 2013 at 9:19 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Capitol Report: Drones, guns and school finance

The bill regarding law enforcement use of aerial drones is very simple at this stage. I can't necessarily agree with it at this point. New technologies should be embraced. Rules regarding their use should be enforced. But prohibiting them in such simple terms seems sloppy.

I wonder if an individual or private organization would run into much trouble using them or surveillance purposes. Would a gun some guy wired to his quadcopter fall under the second amendment?

March 11, 2013 at 1:31 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Sweeping abortion bill approved by Kansas House committee

All my comments were removed. Not sure exactly why, I didn't get impolite, I don't believe I was wrong at any point. At the very least, I'd like to know when my comments are being removed, and why.

The other comment in the thread collapsed in a weird way that now makes no sense as a result.

Anyway....

consumer1, you're lying. That is to say, you're saying something that isn't true, and you know it's not true.

It's disturbing that you use such a tactic to try to derail the conversation. I know it happens all the time in political punditry, but it's disturbing, nonetheless.

Aside from the accuracy of your comment, it's horrifying that you place cupcakes and reproductive rights on the same level of importance. It's also disturbing that no one else bothered to call you out on that point.

March 9, 2013 at 11:09 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Rape survivor works to change law, abolish the statute of limitations in rape cases

When has the left ever been in charge in Kansas? Really? Was there ever a time in the history of kansas where democrats held enough seats in Kansas government to do ANYTHING with impunity?

March 4, 2013 at 9:52 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Animal rights advocates call for end of carbon monoxide in euthanizing animals

Given the potential methods of euthanasia, I'm not sure I'd describe CO poisoning as an 'inhumane' method. One might want to know the difference in cost between Carbon monoxide and the 'direct lethal injection' the Humane Society espouses.

The simple fact is that it's going to happen. Unless 100% of the animals get new owners, some of them will be killed.

I'm unsure on how the first three comments somehow connected methods of killing unwanted pets with willful ending of human pregnancy, though. Are they concerned about pregnant dogs carrying the fetuses to term?

It's comical, and sickening, all at once.

It would suggest that any topic, and I mean ANY topic, could be a direct segway to complaining about abortion.

So, I offer the following challenge:
How does regulations on soda pop connect to abortion?
How does copyright law connect to abortion?
How can a story about running out of gas on the highway connect to abortion?

February 4, 2013 at 6:50 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Gov. Brownback says he believes a resolution can be reached between KU Med and abortion opponents

He'd sound "more" disingenuous. Past the point where even the most fanatical of his supporters would be hard-pressed to find no fault with what's being said.

January 23, 2013 at 1:36 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )