Sunday, July 20, 2008
Bushies to Outlaw Popular Birth Control Methods by Administrative Rule
Result will be more paternity suits and unwanted children.
Clinton vows to fight "insulting" abortion plan
By Michelle Nichols Fri Jul 18, 7:59 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Bush administration plan to define several widely used contraception methods as abortion is a "gratuitous, unnecessary insult" to women and faces tough opposition, Sen. Hillary Clinton said on Friday.
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The former Democratic presidential candidate joined family planning groups to condemn the proposal that defines abortion to include contraception such as birth control pills and intrauterine devices.
It would cut off federal funds to hospitals and states where medical providers are obligated to offer legal abortion and contraception to women.
"We will not put up with this radical, ideological agenda to turn the clock back on women's rights," the New York senator told a joint news conference with New York Rep. Nita Lowey, also a Democrat, at Bellevue Hospital.
"Women would watch their contraceptive coverage disappear overnight," said Clinton.
The planned rule is aimed at countering recent state laws enacted to ensure that women can get contraception when they want or need it. It also would help protect the rights of medical providers to refuse to offer contraception.
Clinton said she has written a letter with Patty Murray, a Democrat senator from Washington, to Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt asking him to reconsider and reject the release of the proposed rules.
She also urged people to sign a petition on her website, www.hillpac.com, against the proposed changes.
"Our first effort is to get the Bush administration to rescind the regulation, not issue in its current form," Clinton said. "If that doesn't succeed, we're going to be looking for legislative steps that we can take to prevent this regulation from ever going into effect."
A copy of a memo that appears to be an Department of Health and Human Services draft provided to Reuters this week carries a broad definition of abortion as any procedures, including prescription drugs, "that result in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation."
Conception occurs when egg and sperm unite in the Fallopian tubes. It takes three to four days before the fertilized egg implants in the uterus. Several birth control methods interfere with this, including the birth control pill and IUDs.
"If enacted, these rules will make birth control out of reach for some women. That's a sure way to guarantee more unintended pregnancies and more abortions," said Anne Davis of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Katy teacher accused of sexual relationship with student
Ok here we go again!!!! And we all know if this were a mail teacher and female student he would have already been tar and featherd and lambasted by EVERYBODY!!!
A Katy school teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a student was ordered by a judge this morning to have no further contact with the teen.
State District Judge George Godwin ordered that Virginia Cammack, 35, not talk to or contact the 17-year-old boy while free on $20,000 bond. Cammack was charged Tuesday with having an improper relationship with a student, a second-degree felony.
After the brief hearing, prosecutor Denise Oncken said Cammack taught at Morton Ranch High School. She said Katy ISD authorities were led to Cammack by an anonymous e-mail and phone call from a parent.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Just In Case You Did Not Have Enough Info On McCain. How can we elect this shit?!?
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Unified Field Theory
inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.
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> Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in
England, and English expatriates built the US railroads.
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> Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines
were built by the same people who built the p re-railroad tramways, and
that's the gauge they used.
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> Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the
tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons,
which used that wheel spacing.
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> Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they
tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the
old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel
ruts.
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> So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long
distance roads in Europe (and England) for their legions. The roads have
been used ever since.
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> And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts,
which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels.
Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the
matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge
of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an
Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever.
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> So the next time you are handed a Specification/ Procedure/ Process and
wonder 'What horse's ass came up with it?' you may be exactly right.
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> Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the
rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' asses.) Now, the twist to the
story:
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> When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big
booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid
rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in
Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them
a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to
the launc h site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through
a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The
tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as
you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
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> So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's
most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years
ago by the width of a horse's ass.
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> And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important? Ancient horse's
asses control almost everything....and CURRENT Horses Asses are controlling
everything else!!
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Ball Girl Shows Up Left Fielder
Monday, June 23, 2008
Ya Gotta Love Today's Version Of Journalism. LMAO
The Not-So-Lost Tribe
by Mike KrumboltzJune 23, 2008 06:09:40 PM
Even in an age when cynical sleuths can hyper-analyze stories for truth and accuracy, the occasional hoax still slips through the cracks. Such was the case with a so-called "lost Amazon tribe."
A few months ago, mainstream news outlets (including, ahem, Yahoo!) reported that a photographer had found a lost tribe of warriors near the Brazilian-Peruvian border. Photos of the tribe backed up his claim.
As it turns out, the story is only half true. The men in the photo are members of a tribe, but it certainly ain't "lost." In fact, as the photographer, José Carlos Meirelles, recently explained, authorities have known about this particular tribe since 1910. The photographer and the agency that released the pictures wanted to make it seem like they were members of a lost tribe in order to call attention to the dangers the logging industry may have on the group.
The photographer recently came clean, and news outlets, perhaps embarrassed at having been taken for a ride, have been slow to pick up the story. Now, the word is starting to spread and articles in the Buzz are picking up steam. Expect a lot more brutal truth in the coming days.