Judge Declines To ‘Flippantly’ Rule From The Bench, So Iowa’s New Abortion Ban Now Takes Effect

An Iowa judge said Friday that it would be “insulting” for him to “flippantly” rule on blocking Iowa’s new six-week abortion ban from the bench, meaning that the ban will be live for at least a few days this weekend. 


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Amazing.

That’s all.

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No critters, but how about a nice beet and orange salad I had fairly recently?
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WOW, is this a Democratic judge? Or… more likely a Republican judge who would never rule (flippantly or not) against a Republican passed initiative; Democratic initiatives can be ruled against flippantly any time.

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Beets, nastiest vegetable ever grown. But the orange slices look okay.

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Seriously? Sweet beets roasted, yum…

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The right can flippantly talk about summary executions of Democrats. We’re way past worrying about what’s flippant anymore.

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That’s only if you boil the crap out of them like my Mom did. Not sure how they prepare them nowadays (not a cook), but they are much firmer and quite decent when cold.

PS My Mom made many great foods later in life. But when I was an early kid she had a difficult time with many things.

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And so it goes. Republicans are putting activist judges in place. They are either making blatantly bad decisions or in this case no decisions to forward their political agendas.

To say he couldn’t rule from the bench is saying he can’t do his fucking job. Just take the unemployment benefits and go then.

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My parents tried to force tripe on me, it is to gag for although it’s big in Puerto Rico. Seriously, I’m glad you enjoy them. It’s good to have a wide selection of veggies in your diet.

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I loath beets. So does Obama. When Michelle was planting the White House House garden she included some beets and he apparently cringed.
My mom said that when I was a toddler my diaper turned purple from beets which made her concerned that it was some sort of internal bleeding or infection. Thankfully it wasn’t.

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Wonderful story and shows what a sensible man BHO is.

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One day I was in a neighborhood supermarket. There was an older Italian couple in front of me at the checkout line who had packages of tripe and boxed lard. I looked at them and said they must be darn healthy.

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Forgive me if I flippantly tell this judge to go F*ck himself.

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In Iowa the state owns one’s uterus
In other news…
Far as I know trump has not been charged with anything…even a parking ticket …so far…

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My mom grew up in an Irish blue collar house. she learned to boil everything to the same mushy consistency and identical shade of gray.

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mmm, beets. It’s the closest thing to tasting live and healthy soil without getting grit in your teeth.

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I had a great uncle who fled Nazi Germany just after Kristallnacht. When he was making his way through Europe before he came here he ate a lot of turnips because that was what was available. For years after he wouldn’t go near them, even when they were well prepared, mashed with butter.

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I’ve never used lard (the fatty tissue of a pig, ugh) in cooking. EVOO is the only thing I use when oil is called for. But imagine, preparing disgusting tripe in nasty lard. Yuck.

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“It is one thing to indict a ham sandwich. To indict the mustard-stained napkin that it once sat on is quite another,” the lawyers wrote.

HIS OWN LAWYERS JUST CALLED HIM A MUSTARD-STAINED NAPKIN.

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I’ll never tell anyone not to eat them, I see them as an appetizer in my favorite Italian restaurant here in SF, but since when did a little grit in your teeth become a problem.

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