Sep 13 2008

What I’ve noticed

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From what I observed growing up in the South, I’d say this has a lot more to do with racism than class.

Sarah Palin charged rape victims for their own rape kits.  As Majikthise puts it

Do fraud victims have to pay for forensic audits? Do banks have to pay the police to watch the security video after they’ve been robbed? Of course not. There is absolutely no way in good conscience that a mayor could force victims to pay for the own rape examinations.

A great analogy to the creationist argument [via Pharyngula]

The theory of childhood, also known as child origin, is a damnable, loathsome and indefensible lie. How can any thinking person suppose all humans used to be babies once? Just consider these arguments:

There is no development path from babies to adults, no transitional forms between these two species. Show me even one baby with the head of a grown man on his body. Can you? No? Not even a bearded toddler? No adults with unfused skullbones, outside unfortunate disorders? Not even a tiny little newborn girl suddenly sprouting a respectable bosom? You can’t find them, because they don’t exist. There isn’t a single transitional form between children and adults, and you will never find one because the theory simply is an unscientific lie.

A fantastic new blog-find: LundBlog.

Warmongering

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Aug 10 2008

What I’ve noticed (back to normal edition)

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Abortionclinicdays proposes that a special notice to patients be displayed in places where caregivers are allowed to refuse reproductive care to women if it interferes with their religious rights.  It begins”I follow my own religious beliefs ahead of your medical needs.  Therefore, I will not support, offer, or approve any of the following checked off below.

Fears of skin cancer may be leading to vitamin D deficiencies.  My grandmother is definitely on to something with her strategy of “everything in moderation.”  Though this rule doesn’t seem to apply to chocolate.

Helen Boyd has a link to a leaked Bush administration memo that defines the pill as abortion.

The most damning political attack ad I’ve ever seen.  Via The Edge of the American West.

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Jul 06 2008

What I’ve noticed (2 week edition)

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In order to avoid doing something about pollutants, the White House simply refused to open the email from the EPA.  (via The Scientific Activist)

I really hope we don’t invade Iran. (via pebkac thoughts)

You know how US soldiers were tortured by the Chinese during the Korean War?  Well, we’re using the same techniques on Iraqis. (via Gadfly)

The “good old days” weren’t good.

good old days

Beautiful Darren Waterson paintings at Le territoire des sens.

darren waterson

Yasumasa Morimura dressed like famous female movie stars and photographed himself.  (via Manolo’s Shoe Blog)

Reminder from Angry Astronomer: prayer is bullshit.

Congress still pushes for abstinence only funding.  The ACLU’s Caroline Fredrickson says it best:

It’s hard to imagine a good reason why, in these tight economic times, Congress would intentionally flush taxpayer dollars down the drain by spending them on disproven, ineffective abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. We are floored that they continue to ignore study after study, and the consensus of the public health community, all concluding that these programs censor vital health care information, teach gender stereotypes, discriminate against lesbian and gay teens, and in some cases promote religion in the classroom in violation of the Constitution.” (via Feministing)

Pharyngula links us to abiogenesis in a nutshell.

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Mar 12 2008

dissent?

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The US has used torture for a long time. The very important difference now is it’s legal. You probably aren’t worried because they only use torture on terrorists, right? Actually, as long as the right person calls you an “enemy combatant,” you have no rights and torture is fair game. So if the president designates you an enemy combatant they can hold you where ever they want, for as long as they want, and do whatever they want. And then, after you’ve admitted to being the Queen of England and giving birth to a fuzzy hippopotamus and planning to blow up an elementary school with sour milk to get them to stop torturing you, they’ll give you a “fair trial.”

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Oct 16 2007

the heart of propaganda

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The current Iraqi government, which we put in charge, is brutally murdering people and stealing money.

Radhi recounted how one staff member “was gunned down with his seven-month-pregnant wife,” his security chief’s father was found dead on a meat hook and how the body of the father of another staff member was riddled with holes from a power drill. [link]

And then we have the audacity to wonder why the Arab world isn’t too fond us of.

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Aug 21 2007

Hand it to the Catholics

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While the price of birth control pills on college campuses in US has skyrocketed this year due to Bush’s Deficit Reduction Act, Brazil is looking to prevent unwanted pregnancy by subsidizing the pill. If our politicians really were interested in reducing abortions, they wouldn’t make it so difficult to prevent pregnancy.

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Jun 25 2007

articles worth reading

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Bill O’Reilly may proclaim at the beginning of his program that viewers are entering the “No Spin Zone,” but a new study by Indiana University media researchers found that the Fox News personality consistently paints certain people and groups as villains and others as victims to present the world, as he sees it, through political rhetoric.The IU researchers found that O’Reilly called a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average, or nearly nine times every minute during the editorials that open his program each night.

Tobias & Bush, Torturing Africa With Abstinence

Back in April 2004, Tobias sparked a controversy by declaring, at the Berlin Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS that “Statistics show that condoms really have not been very effective… It’s been the principal prevention device for the last 20 years, and I think one needs only to look at what’s happening with the infection rates in the world to recognize that has not been working.”

Regardless of whether he actually believes in such ideological positions or not is irrelevant; Randall Tobias has been one of the leaders spearheading a Bush Administration push to shift US international family planning policies towards a “faith based” approach and re-channel US foreign aid away from secular organizations and towards religious groups that, per one major survey, are predominantly Christian. Starting as head of US global AIDS policy and moving up to head USAID, some would go so far as to call Tobias a leader in an international war on woman’s reproductive rights.

Duck and Cover

while the United States demands that other countries end their nuclear programs, the Bush administration is busy planning a new generation of nuclear weapons. Nearly 20 years after the Berlin Wall crumbled, the United States is allocating more funding, on average, to nuclear weapons than during the Cold War. The Bush administration is pumping this money—more than $6 billion this year—into renovating the nuclear weapons complex and designing new nuclear weapons. Such hypocrisy is one of the main obstacles to nuclear arms reductions because it runs the risk of shattering the 1970 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in which the nuclear-armed states pledged to begin the process of disarmament if the non-nuclear states opted not to pursue the deadly technology.

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