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Water Cooler / GMOTW - M. Scott / France Makes Contraception and Abortion Not Only Legal, but Free!
« on: April 05, 2013, 08:10:37 AM »
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France Makes Contraception and Abortion Free
This will probably lower the total cost of health care. This should be easy to track in a country that has true socialized medicine, not just single payer.
That said, lowering health care costs is not the prime objective. It's just good medicine. It just makes sense. Contraception dramatically lowers the rate of unintended pregnancy and the need for abortion. Abortion is a regrettable necessity for when birth control fails or people get careless. The world does not need more unwanted human infants. I would argue the world does not need more human infants at all. But, that's a different issue. The immorality of forcing women to carry to term against their will is offensive and unconscionable, IMNSHO.
Anyway, I love this quote from the original article.
Access to free, legal and safe abortions does not, has not and will never increase pregnancy termination rates in the long-term. Unlike soda refils, abortion does not become more attractive when it's free. Abortion is not an attractive choice, it's a really difficult one. Abortions aren't like half price easter chocolates, women don't run out and get them because they're on sale (easter chocolate sale? WHERE? WHERE?). They get them because they need them, and that's why the government should be concerned with provinding affordable and safe access to them.
Note that in the original article, some of those words are links to supporting documentation. So, if you doubt any of the above, please click through to the original article and to the links provided before trying to dispute the facts as stated. |
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Water Cooler / GMOTW - M. Scott / Why Study Duck Genitalia
« on: April 03, 2013, 05:31:02 AM »
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I'll leave this on it's own for now.
Why I Study Duck Genitalia
As we begin our discussion of corkscrew duck dorks, let's also remember the fascination people have with this particular subject, as evidenced by the single most read post on this forum still being the old Horse Penis post.
Also, this does shed some new light on the character from the '80s movie Sixteen Candles named Long Duck Dong. |
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Water Cooler / GMOTW - M. Scott / I got mine. Screw you.
« on: April 01, 2013, 05:52:20 AM »
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... today's conservative mantra.
Ayn Rand And The Sociopathic Society or ‘How I Learned To Stop Loving My Neighbor And Despise Them Instead’
I would point out that conservatism did not always mean this. In fact, this is really not about conservatism at all. Today's self-proclaimed conservatives simply aren't. Conservative simply means opposed to change. Today's self-proclaimed conservatives want a whole hell of a lot of change. They want to overturn Roe v. Wade. They want to bankrupt the government. They want to install a religious theocracy in America. They want to rewrite history to make this country a Christian nation; it is neither. They want to subjugate women as second class citizens. They want to dismantle medicare and social security.
Perhaps you thought they meant fiscal conservative. So, let's look at that. True a fiscal conservative would want smaller government. Smaller government does not involve itself in people's bedrooms. Smaller government does not go to war. And, real fiscal conservatives realize that bills must be paid. Today's self-proclaimed conservatives have been borrowing for warfare at a rate that has almost bankrupt the government. Instead of financing the Iraq war through higher taxes and selling war bonds at home, they have sold bonds to China and lowered taxes. Where did the now 6 trillion dollars for the Iraq war come from? Nowhere. We haven't paid that debt.
Hell, a true conservative, being opposed to change, would want to protect the environment. A changing environment is change. A true conservative would fight climate change as all other changes. Instead, today's self-proclaimed conservatives want to "drill baby drill" and actively dismantle the EPA, which was created by a conservative named Nixon.
That's a whole lot of change and a whole lot of fiscal irresponsibility.
I could respect a true conservative, if I could ever find one. I could respect a true libertarian, though perhaps the last one was Robert A. Heinlein. I cannot respect the sociopaths who are dominating so much of politics today. Even when they are not in the majority in Congress, there are still enough of these psychopaths in the senate and the house to prevent almost anything positive from happening. |
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Water Cooler / GMOTW - M. Scott / Boy Scouts Send Out Despicable Survey
« on: March 13, 2013, 07:48:51 AM »
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There are several good posts to read on this subject. I heard it first from Addicting Info, which I've been liking a lot of late.
Boy Scouts Send Out Despicable Survey Questioning Parents And Troops About Gay Scenarios
Then I followed the link to the original article they cite that has the full text of the unbelievably discriminatory and despicable survey.
EXCLUSIVE: Boy Scouts of America surveys members, parents on gay ban
I also followed a link to a blog post from a lawyer and advocate for veterans who has a son in the scouts and wrote a scathing post about the survey after he received it.
Hey Boy Scouts, I Have Your Survey Right Here
Lastly, I'd like to point out that this despicable and discriminatory anti-human-rights organization has not even progressed as far as to ask the same questions about atheists. Atheists are not even worthy of the questions. Once again, I say that atheists must learn from and follow the excellent example set by the LBGT community for demanding their rights. As an ally, I am proud of the work done by the LBGT movement. I am only just beginning to see in the last couple of years a similar pride in the atheist movement for equality. We have a long way to go before organizations like these feel the shame that people must now feel for opposing the rights of blacks to marry whites.
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Water Cooler / GMOTW - M. Scott / Bible is Clear: A Fetus is NOT a Life
« on: March 03, 2013, 10:21:58 PM »
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This is bizarre. I wrote a post on my own blog claiming that if birth control is a sin, so is abstinence ... and celibacy.
In some of the discussion that followed, I ended up finding a quote from the Bible that actually states more clearly than anything else I've seen in the bible regarding a fetus that a fetus is not considered a life. This is so clear and so obvious from one particular passage of the bible that I wrote a whole new post just for that particular topic. I feel this is an incredibly important topic due to the large, powerful, and vocal minority in the U.S. who are theocratically minded and want to legislate their religious views on abortion to the rest of us. The thing is, their religious views are demonstrably flat dead wrong and in direct contradiction to their own Judeo-Christian Bible.
Bible is Clear: A Fetus is NOT a Life
The relevant quote is from Exodus 21:22-25. It says this:
22 And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow, he shall be surely fined, according as the woman’s husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
23 But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Got that? Loss of a fetus can be compensated with money. Beyond that, any harm is life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, etc. Loss of a fetus does not even count as harm! I'm not saying that I agree. I'm merely pointing out the biblical statement on the subject.
A fetus is not a life, according to the bible.
We who care about the rights of women need to get the word out regarding this. The religious are using the bible to subjugate women. But, even in the highly sexist biblical era, a woman's life was considered far more valuable than that of a fetus. A fetus was not even recognized as a life. Whenever you debate abortion with someone whose opinion on the issue stems from their religion, please remember Exodus 21:22-25 and spread the word.
Thanks.
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Water Cooler / GMOTW - M. Scott / Human Extinction in the Near Future Becoming More Mainstream
« on: February 25, 2013, 07:02:31 PM »
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I've been saying this for a while already. If we don't take action fast on climate change, human extinction is coming. You're probably sick of me saying it. You're probably thinking I'm pretty far out there in my radical view. Unfortunately, this view is becoming increasingly mainstream as the science becomes more and more solid.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/animal_forecast/2013/02/human_extinction_could_a_mass_extinction_kill_homo_sapiens.html
Slate is still not Faux Spews or even CNN. But, it's a lot more mainstream than full length science books like "Under a Green Sky" by Peter Ward. Who has time for that level of reading?
Unfortunately, the referenced Scientific American article still hedges bets at the end with this paragraph.
That is not to say that global warming was the cause of this Permian wipeout or that all mass extinctions are associated with warmer worlds—witness the disappearance of 60 percent of different groups of marine organisms during the cooling at the end of the Ordovician period roughly 430 million years ago. But these scientists argue that the evidence of a link between climate change and mass extinctions gives reason to be concerned for the future. "We need to know the mechanism behind the associations and we need to know if associations of this sort also occur in shorter-term climatic fluctuations," Mayhew says. "That will help us decide if this is really a worry for the next generation or if the threat is merely a distant future threat."
The problem with this is that sometimes waiting 'til the data are in means waiting too long. More than a decade ago, the melting permafrost was forecast as a major tipping point beyond which we would not be able to recover.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23205-major-methane-release-is-almost-inevitable.html
How much time can we wait? |
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