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A Louisiana state lawmaker has filed a measure to keep a state database of people who have had medication abortions, as well as restrict access to surgical abortion through Texas-style regulations aimed to shutter clinics and intimidate physicians. Democratic State Rep. Katrina Jackson's bill, in addition to keeping a state database of people who have had medication abortions, would require physicians who perform ...
A former member of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's posse was arrested by MCSO deputies on child-pornography charges. According to the Sheriff's Office, 73-year-old Roger Byg was a posse member in the old-folks community of Sun City and even had served on the posse's board before resigning early last year. MCSO's computer crimes division detectives served a search warrant Thursday at his Sun City home. ...
I don't envy teachers. Kids are the worst. Parents are the worst. On top of that teachers' unions seem to be under perpetual attack. No, being a K-12 teacher looks like a rough gig, and I'm glad there are people out there who are more cut out for it than I am. It's too bad, however, that we constantly treat them like the ...
Federal prosecutors in Texas have moved to drop all but one of the 12 fraud charges against Barrett Brown, a writer charged with crimes that involved data stolen by a member of Anonymous. In a motion to dismiss (.PDF), the government today offered no reason for the move. Brown still faces a single charge of possession of stolen credit card numbers with intent ...
New research has found that women are on average no more likely to have multiple sexual partners in a single month after they are provided no-cost access to birth control methods than they were before. And while women reported a slight uptick in their reported monthly sexual encounters a year after getting free contraceptives, the new study says the resulting frequency of sexual ...
Zach Heltzel at Liberal Bias writes about the American right's love affair with Putin. The CPAC straw poll has never been about choosing the next President of the United States; it's about choosing the next Conservative Savior. And who can blame them? We are talking about a conference of patriots who know that the Constitution is really Scripture and that God would really want ...
For discussion. I really disagree but I'd rather I'd rather hear from our community first. If interested anyway. My perspective might be changed by those who grew up with internet 2.0 and up. I once worked with Steven Spielberg on the development of Minority Report, derived from the short story by Philip K. Dick featuring a future society that uses surveillance to arrest criminals ...
... and everyone needs a camo bible to go with that gun. There's nothing new about gun raffles in Kentucky, even at a church. Last year, there were 50 events like this one in the state. The Kentucky Baptist Convention says it's a surefire way to get new people through church doors. Sunday school teacher David Keele says everyone who knows has a gun. ...
Now, researchers from the University of East Anglia have discovered evidence of four new gases that can destroy ozone and are getting into the atmosphere from as yet unidentified sources. The Halley Research Station in Antarctica, where the hole in the ozone layer was first discovered Three of the gases are CFCs and one is a hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC), which can also damage ozone. ...
To be launched on 10 March 2014, a new UN Women report, Hearts & Minds: Women of India Speak, sheds light on this important issue by sharing the stories of Bhuri Bibi and other women. India has a Gender Inequality Index ranking of 132 out of 148 countries in 2013, according to UNDP's Human Development Report. Its child sex ratio (the number of ...
In the United States, people can land in prison for life over minor offenses. They can be locked up forever for siphoning gasoline from a truck, shoplifting small items from a department store or attempting to cash a stolen check. Sentences across the United States in the last 30 years have doubled. Roy Lee Clay, for example, received in 2013 a sentence of ...
Now I've really got to see this movie! [wingnut]Wow it looks like Disney is so "Evil." This Cartoon looks so "Evil" and gay[/wingnut] Religious Right talk show host Kevin Swanson railed against the Disney film Frozen on Wednesday, accusing Disney of using the movie to turn children gay. [wingnut]This bad bad snowman is going to make our children gay[/wingnut] Read more At Rightwing Watch ...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) penned an editorial for Breitbart News on Monday, in which he implicitly critiqued Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for attempting to take on the mantle of former President and Republican idol Ronald Reagan. More: Rand Paul Hits Ted Cruz Over Foreign Policy, Ronald Reagan Comparison
The most obvious signal of conservative acceptance: GOProud, a group of gay and straight conservatives, was invited to the conference this year as guests after being turned down in the past. They've been welcomed. "Not a single person we met or spoke with has expressed disappointment we're here," said co-executive director Matt Bechstein. Recent developments as well as polls help explain the change. ...
I applaud Randa Jarrar. I applaud her for fighting to save the "purity of idea" of her culture. However, I find her admonishment of white belly dancers troubling, for several reasons. In a new Salon article, the Author claims: Whether they know it or not, white women who practice belly dance are engaging in appropriation The essence of her disapproval is : Arab ...
"The World's Only Reliable News," better than Russia Today and the Drudge Report combined! BOLSHAYA YELNIA - An all-female religious sect believe that Vladimir Putin is the reincarnation of St. Paul the Apostle. The religious sect of the Russian Orthodox church consists entirely of women, who meet in a small three story brick building in Bolshaya Yelnia, a small town near the Volga River. ...
The Con­fer­ence Board of Canada has is­sued a re­port ti­tled Re­form­ing Dairy Sup­ply Man­age­ment: The Case for Growth, which pretty much con­demns Canada's sys­tem of sup­ply man­age­ment of dairy prod­ucts. Au­thors, Michael Grant, Richard Barichello, Mark Liew, and Vi­jay Gill, say their re­port "makes the case for growth and sug­gests an eq­ui­table way to wind down sup­ply man­age­ment of dairy prod­ucts. ..." More: ...
The confirmation in December that former CIA Director Leon Panetta let classified information slip to "Zero Dark Thirty" screenwriter Mark Boal during a speech at the agency headquarters should result in a criminal espionage charge if there is any truth to Obama administration claims that it isn't enforcing the Espionage Act only against political opponents. I'm one of the people the Obama administration ...
More: The Vicious Babushka: It's Pie Day! Pecan Pie Equipment you will need: Food ProcessorStand mixerRolling pinPie boardPie panMeasuring cupsMeasuring spoons1-qt. saucepan For the crust: 1 1/4 c. all purpose flour1/2 c. (1 stick) butter or shortening, frozen1/2 tsp. salt6 Tbsp. ice water Preheat oven to 375°. Put the flour and salt into the bowl of the food processor and combine. Cut the butter/shortening ...
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Via TPM: When Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) made a thinly veiled reference comparing Eric Holder to George Wallace before a group of conservatives, it may not have occurred him that the attorney general's sister-in-law, Vivian Malone Jones, was one of the segregationist's actual victims during the Jim Crow era.
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Well, you know I've been here many times, and only certain hours of the day when I'm here am I asleep; the rest of the time I'm actually awake. -- I have a filler on a dat with zappa being interrogated by a couple of swedish fans/state officers(who knows)...in which they are arguing over the pornographic contents of his work. he tells them he has been spying on them, and claims that their porno industry is bigger than that of the US. it's pretty funny. btw-this is from thew '88 tour.
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