DEFINITION OF "I MISSPOKE"

The definition of I misspoke can't be found in any dictionary, at least not an accurate dictionary. Here is the correct definition of "I Misspoke".  

"I Misspoke", is when you say something that you know in a few hours you will have to recant by telling people that you didn't mean what you said, but in-actuality, what you said is exactly what you meant and how you feel on the topic at hand.

Missouri's Akin should drop out of race

 
 Rep. Todd Akin's

Monday August 20, 2012

His outrageous statement was actually intended to soften Akin's absolute opposition to abortion..

Let’s not mince words: Missouri Rep. Todd Akin should drop out of the U.S. Senate race. Congress is no place for a representative who calls some rapes “legitimate,” nor a man who ignorantly claims that female body has ways to prevent pregnancy from rape.
“Rape is rape,” President Obama rightly said in his denouncement of the Missouri congressman’s offensive remarks. This is a congressman who once compared student loans to Stage 3 cancer and fought to insert the word “forcible” into the rape exception law on federal funding for abortion.
“Forcible rape? As opposed to what? Consensual rape? Friendly rape?” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch asked today in an editorial.
The fallout from Akin’s egregious comments prompted him to apologize and claim that he misspoke. That’s pure political spin. His record shows that he’s long parsed words on rape and women’s health care in his advocacy of extreme anti-abortion views.
Editorial: Missouri's Akin should drop out of race | StarTribune.com

GOP Senate candidate says he ‘misspoke’ with ‘legitimate rape’ comment

 Sen. Claire McCaskill is probably having a pretty good Sunday. Her opponent in the Missouri Senate race, Republican Rep. Todd Akin, has spent most of the day backtracking after saying that victims of "legitimate rape" cannot biologically become pregnant and thus do not need access to legal abortions.

"First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy after rape] is really rare," Akin told KTVI-TV in defense of his stand that rape victims should not be allowed to access abortions. "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."

Akin said that even if a rape victim does somehow become pregnant, "I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child."

GOP Senate candidate says he ‘misspoke’ with ‘legitimate rape’ comment | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

The truth about voter fraud

 

Ostensible justification for a spate of Republican-sponsored voter ID laws - which would require voters to present government-issued photo ID at the polls - has been the threat of voter fraud, specifically, in-person voter impersonation.
It has seemed likely, given the absence of evidence of such crimes, that the threat was overstated. Now we know for sure: Such fraud virtually never takes place.
Listening to Republican advocates of voter ID laws, you'd think that impersonations at the polls are the biggest danger to democracy since the Chicago political machine allegedly registered thousands of dead people to vote for John F. Kennedy in 1960. The Republican National Lawyers Association - devoted to promoting "open, fair and honest elections" - frequently cites the figure of 375 cases of voter impersonation fraud.
But News21, a national investigative reporting project funded by the Carnegie-Knight Initiative, investigated each of those cases and found that not one showed evidence of impersonation fraud. News21 reporters also reached out to election personnel in all 50 states, requesting information on every single reported case of alleged fraud at the polls. The organization's analysis of 2,068 cases found only 10 related to impersonation. Using those figures, the frequency of poll impersonation is about one in 15 million.

The truth about voter fraud | StarTribune.com

Cases of voter-ID election fraud found 'virtually non-existent'

 
 A News21 analysis of 2,068 alleged election-fraud cases since 2000 shows that while fraud has occurred, the rate is infinitesimal, and in-person voter impersonation on Election Day, which prompted 37 state legislatures to enact or consider tough voter ID laws, is virtually non-existent.
In an exhaustive public records search, News21 reporters sent thousands of requests to elections officers in all 50 states, asking for every case of fraudulent activity, including registration fraud, absentee ballot fraud, vote buying, false election counts, campaign fraud, casting an ineligible vote, voting twice, voter impersonation fraud and intimidation.

Analysis of the resulting comprehensive News21 election fraud database turned up 10 cases of voter impersonation. With 146 million registered voters in the United States during that time, those 10 cases represent one out of about every 15 million prospective voters.
In Minnesota, there have been 10 total cases of reported fraud and no cases of voter impersonation reported since 2000.

Cases of voter-ID election fraud found 'virtually non-existent' | MinnPost

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BBQ Etiquette

Subject: BBQ Etiquette .

We are entering the BBQ season. Therefore it is important to refresh your memory on the etiquette of this sublime outdoor cooking activity. When a man volunteers to do the BBQ the following chain of events are put into motion: Routine... (1) The woman buys the food. (2) The woman makes the salad, prepares the vegetables and makes dessert. (3) The woman prepares the meat for cooking, places it on a tray along with the necessary cooking utensils and sauces, and takes it to the man who is lounging beside the grill - drink in hand. (4) The woman remains outside the compulsory three meter exclusion zone where the exuberance of testosterone and other manly bonding activities can take place without the interference of the woman.

Here comes the important part:

(5) THE MAN PLACES TH E MEAT ON THE GRILL.

More routine... (6) The woman goes inside to organize the plates and cutlery. (7) The woman comes out to tell the man that the meat is looking great. He thanks her and asks if she will bring another drink while he flips the meat.

Important again: (8) THE MAN TAKES THE MEAT OFF THE GRILL AND HANDS IT TO THE WOMAN.

More routine... (9) The woman prepares the plates, salad, bread, utensils, napkins, sauce and brings them to the table. (10) After eating, the woman clears the table and does the dishes.

And most important of all: (11) Everyone PRAISES the MAN andTHANKS HIM for his cooking efforts. (12) The man asks the woman how she enjoyed her 'night off,' and, upon seeing her annoyed reaction, concludes that there's just no pleasing some women.

Romney has zero tolerance for the unsuccessful

 
 If your success is entirely your own achievement, then your lack of success is entirely your own fault.


Why does a typical bus driver in the United States earn a monthly income (after taxes) of $1,594, while a typical bus driver in Peru earns $325?
Why does an American airline pilot bring home $4,206 a month, while a Lithuanian doing what we hope is pretty much the same job with the same training has an average salary of only $1,674?
Well, the explanation is obvious, isn't it? These foreigners just aren't as smart as we Americans are, and they don't work as hard. Because if they did - as Mitt Romney was just explaining in Israel - they would be as successful as we are. And that's pretty darned successful. And they aren't.
Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, worries that Americans are losing their appreciation of success, as evidenced by President Obama's desire to reduce the rewards of success by raising taxes on high incomes. Romney sees in this not just a bigger tax bill for successful people but an insult as well. An alternative perspective is that any successful person who feels personally insulted by a request from the president to share a bit of it is, in the immortal words of Liberace, "crying all the way to the bank" (or, to quote someone else, a "master of the fancied slight").
Romney has zero tolerance for the unsuccessful | StarTribune.com

Romney 'didn't pay tax for 10 years'

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said this week that Mitt Romney refuses to release additional tax returns because he didn't pay taxes for 10 years.

He suggested that Romney's decision to withhold tax information would bar him from ever earning Senate confirmation to a Cabinet post. Then, he described a phone call his office received about a month ago from "a person who had invested with Bain Capital," the Huffington Post said. Reid said the person told him: "Harry, he didn't pay any taxes for 10 years."

"Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain," Reid said. "But obviously he can't release those tax returns. How would it look?"

Romney's campaign has denied rumors that he hasn't paid taxes in a single year, and he said he couldn't recall if there were years when he paid less than the 13.9 percent tax rate that he paid in 2010.

Reid: Romney 'didn't pay tax for 10 years' | StarTribune.com

Cops: Pastor Caught Paying For Sex

ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) – A pastor from Red Wing, Minn., was cited for allegedly exchanging money for sex with an undercover police officer, St. Paul Police say.

According to police, Gary Elg, 60, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Red Wing was charged with a misdemeanor after allegedly engaging in prostitution on July 24 in St. Paul.

Cops: Pastor Caught Paying For Sex « CBS Minnesota