Two things the Left knows about abortion, If women see what they are “choosing” 95% will run out of the abortion clinic. And, if the American people were to see what abortion is, it would be illegal very quickly. Senators Lee and Cruz want the truth to be seen
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Via SF Gate:
San Francisco may have banned the exposure of genitalia, but that’s not stopping the Department of Public Health from bringing back its giant Healthy Penis. Yes, the beloved six-foot-tall mascot for safe sex is literally coming out of the closet and will be back at parades and other city events – and this time he comes with free penis-shaped stress toys!
Because hey, it ain’t a parade with giant penises and penis shaped stress toys!
The health department sparked some controversy when it debuted the three characters, all penises but in different hues, back in 2002. But the penis costumes – worn by health department staff and aimed at encouraging gay and bisexual men to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases – became popular and have been copied in San Jose and Cleveland.
The penises went into retirement in 2006, debuted again in 2009, and now are back for a third time to encourage men to get tested for STDs every six months. Those who do get tested will receive a Healthy Penis stress toy and a coupon that looks like a dollar bill – but, of course, with a Healthy Penis in place of George Washington. The coupons can be used for discounts, free coffee and other goodies at 25 local businesses.
Warner Todd Huston has the story from, where else, Marxifornia
The State of California has one of the worst proposals of any legislature in the country this year with a new bill that would force every restaurant and food service business in the state to commission an expensive “risk assessment” test for every menu item
Such a test could cost thousands of dollars for every food item sold. This outrageous and cost prohibitive testing would certainly cause all but the biggest chain restaurants to go out of business almost instantly.
In another exercise in nanny-statism, California’s State Senate Democrats want this “risk assessment” conducted to determine whether food being sold “contributes significantly to a significant public health epidemic.”
The bill, Senate Bill 747, is an addition to the current health and safety codes and is currently set for a hearing on April 17. It was written and introduced by Sen. Mark DeSauliner (D, Concord).
The introduction of the bill clearly says that the law would require the food service companies to pay the state for the testing in order to fill state coffers. It notes that without the assessment, the state would have the right to shut an offending restaurant down.
This bill, known as the Public Health Epidemic Protection Act of 2013, would require the department, for every product intended for consumer consumption for which it has credible evidence that the product significantly contributes to a significant public epidemic, to conduct a risk assessment evaluation to determine whether the product contributes significantly to a significant public health epidemic, as defined, and whether the adverse public health risk would have a fiscal impact on the state of $50,000,000 or more. The bill would authorize the department to charge the manufacturer of the product for the reasonable costs of producing the risk assessment and would create the Public Health Fund, to be used by the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to fund the program. If the department determines that the criteria are met, the bill would require the manufacturer to create, for approval of the department, a public health impact report (PHIR) containing specified information, including a list of adverse public health impacts and a mitigation plan for those impacts. The bill would authorize the department to enforce the PHIR and would authorize the department to restrict or suspend sales of the product in the state if the PHIR is insufficient or if the manufacturer is not complying with the terms of the PHIR.
The Nanny State rolls on, destroying jobs, dreams, and liberty wherever it is implemented
Troubled country music star Mindy McCready was found dead today of an apparent suicide … this according to various reports. She was 37.
A source close to McGready tells TMZ … McCready shot herself and her dog. Neighbors reported hearing the two gunshots.
We’re told McGready had been a mess since the father of her youngest child, record producer David Wilson, was found dead in his home on January 13 of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
McCready’s two children were removed from her home by a judge on February 6 and she was committed to a to a treatment facility for a mental-health and alcohol-abuse evaluation. She was released two days later.
Hate to hear this news. A life wasted
One of history’s great thinkers saw our current problem’s coming
Foreign policy scholar Michael Ledeen warned that even small regulations on tobacco and guns slowly and quietly erode the freedoms granted American citizens in the nation’s founding documents.
“It’s exactly what Tocqueville forecast, exactly the way he forecast it,” Ledeen said. “Millions of tiny little regulations, and we’re not going to notice them when they come in one-by-one. We’re even going to welcome them, and then one day we’re going to wake and find that we’re all tied down, we can’t move at all.”
Wisdom, as this man and our Founders had is what is needed so desperately right now.
Just got some bad news about a former friend, one who at time was my closest friend. But, that was 20 years ago, still though, still I miss what we had, and wonder where the person I was once so close to went. News like this makes you think, well, news like this makes me ponder life anyway. Nope, no details, this is personal, and even though this friend and I are no longer speaking, the news still upset me, and made me wish things had gone differently. Maybe I still love this person, maybe I am just wondering how relationships go from close and caring to non-existent. Maybe I am wondering how some people long for friendship while others cast away true friends that love them. So, time for reflection for me. And one of the best ways for me to reflect is to write on this blog. So, I guess I should write, see where it takes me
Sorry, but there is no “free” anything when Liberal politicians invent “rights” to get suckers like you to vote for them. Just ask women in Canada, where health care is “free”!
‘It’s a crisis for Quebec women’
Surgery wait times for deadly ovarian, cervical and breast cancers in Quebec are three times longer than government benchmarks, leading some desperate patients to shop around for an operating room.
But that’s a waste of time, doctors say, since the problem is spread across Quebec hospitals. And doctors are refusing to accept new patients quickly because they can’t treat them, health advocates say.
A leading Montreal gynecologist said that these days, she cannot look her patients in the eye because the wait times are so shocking. Lack of resources, including nursing staff and budget compressions, are driving a backlog of surgeries while operating rooms stand empty. The latest figures from the provincial government show that over a span of nearly 11 months, 7,780 patients in the Montreal area waited six months or longer for day surgeries, while another 2,957 waited for six months or longer for operations that required hospitalization.
The worst cases are gynecological cancers, experts say, because usually such a cancer has already spread by the time it is detected. Instead of four weeks from diagnosis to surgery, patients are waiting as long as three months to have cancerous growths removed.
“It’s a crisis for Quebec women,” …
Via Milton Wolf, who notes the tragic irony
The sad irony: Canadian medical refugees flock to America for care as American Democrat policy makers flock to Canada for bad ideas.
Gee, I’m real sorry you died of ovarian cancer … but here’s your free birth control.
Ah the costs that go with the “free” things the ”gimme, gimme, gimme” mind-set clamors for. As I have said before, the promises of Communism are sweet to the ears, but their reality is bitter.
RS McCain is offering to help Democrat sluts with math problems, and the tuition? Stacy is not charging, but At $15,ooo it would still be less than the cost of that birth control you ladies want the government to pay for
The image above is one of the “e-Cards” available at BarackObama.comthat offers a phony statistical argument for ObamaCare:
Dear Mom,
Mitt Romney says he would repeal the Affordable Care Act.
So here’s a quick question:
Can I borrow $18,000 to help pay for my birth control?
Thanks!Whoa! $18,000 for birth control? If that number sounds strangely large to you, join the club. Conservative college student Christine Rousselle does the math, based on the simple fact that there are 14,600 days between the ages of 12 and 52:
Because our letter-writer has been reduced to asking her mom for money, we’re going to assume that she’s not very well off and she’s a bargain hunter. On Amazon.com, one can purchase a fishbowl filled with a variety pack of 144 Durex brand condoms for $25.89. Assuming she’d use one condom per day every single day between the ages of 12 and 52, that only equals $2,624.96 for 14,600 Durex condoms. For those of you who aren’t great at math, $2,624.96 is far less than $18,000. She’d have to be using around four or five condoms a day for 40 years for that number to even approach $18,000.
Suppose our cash-strapped friend prefers to use the birth control pill instead of condoms. In 41 states, she can get the pill for $9 a month at a Target or Walmart. That totals $108 per year, and $108 multiplied by 40 is $4,320, which still winds up less than $18,000. In the nine other states, the cost per month is around $30, which reaches around $14,400 over 40 years. These figures assume that our letter-writer plans on using birth control pills over the full length of time that she is able to get pregnant.Using birth control every single day for 40 years, a slut’s total cost is still not $18,000 in a lifetime. So even if she’s putting out like a Pez dispenser — and, after all, she’s a Democrat, IYKWIMAITYD — she’ll have plenty of cash left over for vodka and Newports.
Man , that McCain guy is a giving man!
Those who follow this blog know that I have been diagnosing the maladies that haunt Liberals. Offendeditis, Selective Outrage Syndrome, Selective Sensitivity Syndrome, Truth Deficit Disorder, GODitis, Perpetual Bitternes Syndrome, and Bitter Face Disorder, are just a few I have discovered over the last 16 years (I first started diagnosing these when I wrote op-ed columns for several on-line publications). But just today, after reading that once more we have an “unexpected” rise in jobless numbers, it hit me. These poor Liberals are not just naive, nor are they just trying to prop up President Pathetic. No, they are afflicted with a new Liberal Malady, Unexpecteditis. This disorder causes the sufferer, usually a media employee, to delude themselves into not expecting Obama’s awful economics policies to cause greater and greater damage too job growth.
Is that some Conservatives, whom I agree with on issue after issue, have a lack of understanding about the War Between the States, the causes of it, and the history of it. frankly, I expect historical ignorance from Liberals, but from Conservatives? No, I do not expect that, not at all. Here is a video you should watch that will challenge many of the pre-conceived notions you may have about the War Between the States. After you watch it, check out the new blog that Stogie has started Confederate Gray
As I said, it breaks my heart that so many, including some Conservatives look at the war as nothing more than a fight against, or for slavery. It breaks my heart that so many view the common Confederate soldier as nothing more than the enemy of freedom somehow. It breaks my heart that the history has been taught in such an atrocious manner in many cases. It breaks my heart that my ancestors, who fought for their homes and freedom are often demonized. And yes, it breaks my heart that Lincoln is lionized as a hero who “saved” America, and that his violations of the Constitution are heralded as wonderful and necessary by the same folks who are today, struggling beside me to preserve our beloved Constitution.
Smitty has a story I mean to get to yesterday but didn’t. A young man whose father refused to give up on, even when four doctors told him all hope was gone
Via Daily Pundit and All American Blogger comes a creepy tale from Old Blighted of some ‘doctors’ who, for whatever reason, didn’t seem interested in doing their job:
The Mail reports that Stephen Thorpe, then 17, was placed in a medically-induced coma following a multi-car pileup that had already taken the life of his friend Matthew, who was driving the vehicle.
Although a team of four physicians insisted that his son was “brain-dead” following the wreck, Thorpe’s father enlisted the help of a general practitioner and a neurologist, who demonstrated that his son still had brain wave activity. The doctors agreed to bring him out of the coma, and five weeks later Thorpe left the hospital, having almost completely recovered.
I guess this story ought to remind us not to give up, and it does. Smitty, however, has a thought that I had. What if Obamacare were the law of the land, and in place?
This will be our ObamaCare future, when those without the resources to find legitimate care will become pray for lazy doctors. Brave, brave new ObamaCare world.
That is a great point, and a scary one as well. What if the father had not had any recourse? He would not have his son any more would he? And the hardest hit by Obamacare will be the elderly, the very, very young, and those with catastrophic injuries.
Identity theft apparently. Zilla has been the target this time. The DaleyGator supports Zilla in her war with these miscreants
Please be aware that leftists have taken to committing identity theft to impersonate me in comments sections of blogs and are using a fraudulent email that looks similar to my public email address to make it look as if I am saying horrible offensive things in an attempt to destroy my reputation, apparently because I did well in a recent contest for political bloggers, they have been doing this to the winner of the contest, The Lonely Conservative, as well. If you see something that appears to have come from me but is totally out of character for me to say, know that it is in all likelihood, NOT ME, but a leftist troll who thinks a campaign of personal destruction against a person who is fighting serious and potentially fatal illness is a good and proper thing to do.
I am still seriously ill with advanced late stage Lyme Disease and Ehrlichioisis. As some of you know, I have only been able to begin seeking treatment from a specialist because fellow bloggers and readers have helped me, but I have a very long road ahead of me and I still need help as we were living on the razor’s edge financially already, and without help I will have to abandon my fight to get well because it is more important to keep food in the house for my kids and the lights on. The specialist is 60 miles away, so even just getting there from here is a huge expense thanks to the high gas prices, and then there is the additional expense of medication and supplements to worry about as well. (And no, trolls, Obamacare would not help because it will in fact make it impossible for people who need care that is outside of cookie cutter one size fits all standards established by bureaucratic decree to get it, and not everybody can afford to buy a new “fuel efficient” car,either, thank you very much.)
Please go help id you are able. And support The Lonely Conservative as well in her fight against the bastards of the “tolerant Left”
The uncivil progressives aren’t satisfied with simply leaving negative comments on this site. Now they’ve taken my email address and signed me up for all sorts of interesting reading. Most children aren’t this petty and immature.
Adult-toys
Sex Toys Buzz
Atheism Rising
Atheists United
Richard Dawkins
Atheist Revolution
MoveOn
I received emails from all of the above this morning asking me to confirm my subscription. The MoveOn email thanked me for signing some petition. Maybe I’ll just do like Zilla does and ban them. What do you think?
Update: The spam emails were flowing in all day. Some were supposedly sent to me from myself, others from Zilla, even though I know it wasn’t her. I was signed up for the feed from another blogger in a certain contest, and all sorts of other garbage. This is how these people operate. Short of making this a site you’d have to login to, there isn’t much to stop these people.
Update: (Thursday April 5) I continue to receive emails thanking me for signing petitions for things I do not support. The spam emails have slowed down, but they’re still coming in. I have no idea if I’m still being impersonated in comment sections of other blogs, unless someone spots one and tells me about it I have no way of tracking that down. Several people have commented on this blog in the last few days with things like “Burn in hell, “c**t.” Of course, these evil cowards used a service to hide their IP addresses.Zilla has been experiencing the same ugliness, to the detriment of her health. Pete DaTechGuy, Donald Douglas and An ExCon’s View have also linked and weighed in on the “tolerant” left.
This is what we are up against. Thugs that seek to destroy what they cannot defeat intellectually. If the minds of these bottom feeders were truly open, they would accept the truth. They and their ideology are wrong. Of course, since liberalism is largely an ideology for the immature, and the over emotional, these tactics are of no surprise. Instead of thinking, these cretins emote.
Remember my friends, before you click the link, you cannot UNREAD once you have read something
Carrie is a 53-year-old cancer victim who according to her friend has ‘done some strange stuff over the years’. But this may be the strangest of all.
The middle-aged brunette from Colorado Springs has taken to drinking………………
Again, remember, before you go on you cannot unsee what has been seen
……………….urine, a four-year-old, five-glass-a-day habit that she calls ‘comforting’.
On TLC’s finale of the shocking series, My Strange Addiction, Carrie explains that drinking the warm pee for the first time didn’t make her throw up so she decided: ‘You know what, I can do this.’
Diagnosed with stage three malignant melanoma eight years ago, the mother of four daughters began drinking her urine in the hope that it may help with her recovery.
But it seems that the alternative medicine fan has taken quite a shining to the beverage. Of the taste, Carrie enthused about the variety of flavours that change depending on her diet.
J.E. Dyer at the Hot Air Greenroom posts a very interesting piece about food and sex and the government
The left’s governmental approach to sex today involves, among other things, the following:
1. Advertising it to children through the public schools and encouraging them to explore and participate in it.
2. Basing policy on the assumption that no solution to any problem lies in individuals restraining or channeling their sexual urges, and therefore even the intractable facts of nature should not be left, with their powerful incentives, to encourage that posture. It is important, instead, to create an environment conducive to sex unfettered by its natural consequences.
4. Providing, at public expense, the means to support children who are born nevertheless.
5. To adjust the balance between 3 and 4, encouraging and advocating the use of contraception and the resort to abortion.
The suite of policies advocated by the left is designed to encourage sex but limit procreation and STDs. The social “good,” therefore, is deemed to be unfettered sex, while the social “ills” are the birth of children and the suffering (and infectiousness) incident to STDs.
Let’s compare this moral view and its program construct to the left’s policy attitude toward eating. In this latter realm, the social “ills” are thought to be obesity and the medical problems that come with it. But what is the social “good”? Is there one? It’s hard to say, because eating – which can be a most enjoyable activity, and far less avoidable than sex – is not, in the left’s moral view, considered a “good” to be promoted on whatever terms the individual prefers.
The left’s governmental treatment of eating is very different from its treatment of sex. It runs on these lines:
1. Advertising to children (as well as adults) the evils of certain kinds of food.
2. Basing policy on the assumption that the people must be nudged or even coerced to eat according to whatever principle is suggested by the most recent studies. It is important to create an environment in which eaters have to go well out of their way to avoid the choices made for them by government authorities. The ideal, in fact, is an environment in which eaters can’t avoid the dictates of the government.
3. Ensuring that the expenses of obesity are, increasingly, born by the public, while fanning political resentment of those expenses, and of the condition of the obese.
4. Proclaiming that the solution in every case is controlling what people eat, rather than providing for the obese the same publicly-funded relief offered to the sexually promiscuous.
Quite amazing when you think about it. There is no consistency in these approaches is there? Or is there? Maybe some of y’all can come up with an explanation here. Frankly, right now, I am battling a sinus infection and my head feels like a balloon, so deep thought is beyond my abilities
Via Moonbattery, one of our Blogs of the Month for March
soon the hysterical Food Nazis won’t even let them drink juice:
Many young children — particularly those in low-income households — drink too much juice, according to a new survey.
More than a third of parents surveyed, and about half of parents with a yearly household income of less than $30,000, reported their 1- to 5-year-olds drink two or more cups of juice on a typical day.
That’s twice the amount recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which advises kids under age 6 drink just one serving of juice per day.
Too much juice puts kids at risk for health conditions such as childhood obesity and early tooth decay, the researchers said.
Good Grief, so now even 100% juice is bad for kids? If this is true then the fruit that juice comes from must be bad too right? Quick parents,take that apple or orange away from your child now! Throw out those grapes, peaches, mangoes, and pineapple too!
Today, it is the story of a school encroaching upon parental rights, via Hot Air
Remember last year when a Chicago school flatly forbade kids from bringing in homepacked lunches? A school in North Carolina has a different approach: You can bring the lunch mom packed for you, but if it doesn’t meet the USDA guidelines, you’ll be marched to the cafeteria to eat a “healthy” lunch instead — and mom will be billed for the extra expense.
The punchline? Mom’s lunch actually did meet the guidelines in this case.
The girl’s mother — who said she wishes to remain anonymous to protect her daughter from retaliation — said she received a note from the school stating that students who did not bring a “healthy lunch” would be offered the missing portions, which could result in a fee from the cafeteria, in her case $1.25…
“What got me so mad is, number one, don’t tell my kid I’m not packing her lunch box properly,” the girl’s mother told CJ. “I pack her lunchbox according to what she eats. It always consists of a fruit. It never consists of a vegetable. She eats vegetables at home because I have to watch her because she doesn’t really care for vegetables.”
When the girl came home with her lunch untouched, her mother wanted to know what she ate instead. Three chicken nuggets, the girl answered. Everything else on her cafeteria tray went to waste.
“She came home with her whole sandwich I had packed, because she chose to eat the nuggets on the lunch tray, because they put it in front of her,” her mother said. “You’re telling a 4-year-old. ‘oh. you’re lunch isn’t right,’ and she’s thinking there’s something wrong with her food.”
It turns out that the lunch did, in fact, meet the standards. But that is not the meat, pardon the pin of the story. The parents ought to decide what the kids take to lunch, not the morons in our school systems. And please, spare me the “but some parents might not pack a healthy lunch” BS. First of all, define “healthy”. Go to a bookstore sometime and look at the diet section. So many different books, written by so many different “experts” with so many different definitions of “healthy”. And you actually think we can trust bureaucrats to decide what is healthy? Good luck with that!
Besides, the government has more important things to do. Like warning us of the inherent dangers of sand castles
A new EPA study says that building sandcastles is hazardous to your health.
The White House Dossier reported, via FOX Nation:A new study performed by the EPA has determined that playing in the sand at the beach can make you sick.
In an article titled “Digging in Beach Sand Linked to Increased Risk of Gastrointestinal Illness,” the EPA cites a intensive study performed by EPA researchers and other scientists which found that your risk of getting sick might increase after playing in the sand.
How did any one of us ever survive to adulthood without these Nanny Staters to protect us?
Duane Lester finds the latest example of S.O.S
Business Insider is soooo happy with themselves over finding what they think is a embarrassing bit of hypocrisy on the part of the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
The Foundation recently decided they would stop donating money to Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortions in the country.
In 2010, Planned Parenthood performed 329,445 and dispensed 1,461,816 morning after pills.
Komen is taking a lot of flak for ending the donations to Planned Parenthood, and Business Insider apparently felt the need to look at the financials of the foundation. They discovered something they consider scandalous:
What could it be you ask? Why it seems Susan G Komen
So the Komen Foundation doesn’t want to be associated with the nation’s largest abortion-provider. But they don’t mind partnering up with a handgun maker.This gun is a beauty.
And a portion of the sale of each P-22 Hope Edition will be donated to the Seattle Branch of the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
Isn’t this perfect? The things that outrage Liberals amaze those of us who have common sense. Abortion kills innocent babies, and that, it seems is no big deal for the folks at Business Insider. In fact the Komen Foundation is ostracized for NOT giving money to Planned Parenthood for mammograms that they do not even do. Yet! Any partnership with a gun maker, on Komen’s part, is considered evil? Yep, that is Leftist logic for you. Of course the saddest thing here is that the Komen Foundation has surrendered to the political correctors, and will continue to fund the butchers at Planned Parenthood. So, I suppose that now Business Insider will praise the Susan G Komen Foundation once again? Or maybe the Foundation will cave further? Maybe they will stop any association with the evil gun makers? Time will tell on that.
Back to the Leftist hypocrisy here though. Duane Lester did some research, and finds that those evil gun makers make guns, that save MANY lives!
That’s right. Guns save lives:
According to the National Self Defense Survey conducted by Florida State University criminologists in 1994, the rate of Defensive Gun Uses can be projected nationwide to approximately 2.5 million per year — one Defensive Gun Use every 13 seconds.
Among 15.7% of gun defenders interviewed nationwide during The National Self Defense Survey, the defender believed that someone “almost certainly” would have died had the gun not been used for protection — a life saved by a privately held gun about once every 1.3 minutes. (In another 14.2% cases, the defender believed someone “probably” would have died if the gun hadn’t been used in defense.)In 83.5% of these successful gun defenses, the attacker either threatened or used force first — disproving the myth that having a gun available for defense wouldn’t make any difference.
In 91.7% of these incidents the defensive use of a gun did not wound or kill the criminal attacker (and the gun defense wouldn’t be called “newsworthy” by newspaper or TV news editors). In 64.2% of these gun-defense cases, the police learned of the defense, which means that the media could also find out and report on them if they chose to.
In 73.4% of these gun-defense incidents, the attacker was a stranger to the intended victim. (Defenses against a family member or intimate were rare — well under 10%.) This disproves the myth that a gun kept for defense will most likely be used against a family member or someone you love.
In over half of these gun defense incidents, the defender was facing two or more attackers — and three or more attackers in over a quarter of these cases. (No means of defense other than a firearm — martial arts, pepper spray, or stun guns — gives a potential victim a decent chance of getting away uninjured when facing multiple attackers.)
In 79.7% of these gun defenses, the defender used a concealable handgun. A quarter of the gun defenses occurred in places away from the defender’s home.
Of course those facts will never dent the head of a Liberal. Liberalism is an ideology of convenience. And it is convenient to ignore evidence and embrace raw emotionalism. It is easier to overlook, or in fact not even consider the number of defensive gun uses, and simply go with the “guns are bad” lie.
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