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fdlaction.firedoglake.com - 30 days ago
Van Jones: A Moment of Truth For Liberal Institutions in the Veal Pen
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The veal crate is a wooden restraining device that is the veal calf’s permanent home. It is so small (22" x 54") that the calves cannot turn around or even lie down and stretch and is the ultimate in high-profit, confinement animal agriculture.(1) Designed to prevent movement (exercise), the ...
highclearing.com - 10/30/2009
Professorial Veal
— highclearing.com — By Thoreau The rumors here are dark. The problem is that they aren't dark enough. What they're... proposing as a fix for the university budget simply doesn't include enough cuts to bridge the gap. Now, while I don't expect university administrators ... (more) Professorial Veal
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Stupak Threatens to Block Health Care over Abortion; Planned Parenthood, NARAL Take a Nap
Firedoglake — ... What are they doing, planning their outfits for the next Common Purpose meeting? Maybe they’ll bring it up. Sure would be interesting to know if they do. ...

And the Catholic Bishops Endorse! A Special Thank-You To Planned Parenthood and NARAL
Commondreams.org Views — ... to another hospital if they want to get Plan B contraception. Could they whip the pro-choice women to block the rule if they want to?  Of course they could.  Yank their endorsements and they could cause havoc in the Democratic party.  But they won't, because Nancy Keenan and Cecile Richards value their own personal position in the veal pen pecking order WAY too much for that. One of the things that made a fight for a public option possible was because there were no "veal pen" validators occupying the health care space.  Nobody knows who HCAN is.  The White House tried to ...

Jane Hamsher: NARAL and Planned Parenthood: Ineffectiveness Anti-Choice Democrats Can Rely On!
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... One of the things that made a fight for a public option possible was because there were no “veal pen” validators occupying the health care space.  Nobody knows who HCAN is.  The White House tried to press the unions and other veal pen groups ...

Will Planned Parenthood and NARAL Score the House Health Care Bill?
Firedoglake — ... They may be able to sell that in the weekly Common Purpose veal-pen roundup, but I’m not sure it’s going to go over so well with women who just lost control of their uteruses to Bart Stupak. ...

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