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No Miles For You! — Another triumph for airline customer service. Go, Delta.
Kior ‘Biocrude’ Plant a Step toward Advanced Biofuels — A Kior plant in Mississippi will start shipping fuel made from wood chips as planned as it chases large-scale production. I’ve long wondered why this wasn’t a much higher engineering and business priority.
Chick-fil-A Biblical Family of the Day — Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy: “We support biblical families.” Today’s Chick-fil-A Biblical Family Rule of the Day: Selling your daughter into slavery (Exodus 21:7-11).
Ireland and Abortion: Cruelty disguised as piety, cowardice misrepresented as principle. — In which the forced pregnancy movement conclusively proves that dead babies are more important than live mothers. You people are disgusting. May you rot in your own hell.
Ryan Sees Urban Vote as Reason G.O.P. Lost — Shorter Paul Ryan: “Too many of the wrong color people voted.” Darn those voter ID laws not being effective enough.
Romney Co-Chair: Voter ID Would Have Won Us Wisconsin — Confidential to GOP in America: If voter suppression is the only way you know how to win an election, maybe you need to find some new ideas.
Bobby Jindal rejects Mitt Romney’s ‘gifts’ theory — Not something you’ll hear me say very often, but good for Governor Jindal. Hey, Money Boo Boo. It’s called government providing services to citizens. Unless you consider the carried interest deduction a gift as well, you’re just back to your 47% framing. Which betrays both a profound ignorance of the social contract, and a profound indifference to that social contract. Thus the wretched and miserable true character of Mitt Romney re-emerges.
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11/15/2012
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo)
Body movement: 0.5 hours (stationary bike)
Hours slept: 9.25 hours (8.75 hours solid plus napping)
Weight: 219.2
Number of FEMA troops on my block confiscating guns and enforcing gay marriage: 0
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Ah Ireland. Lovely people, lovely country, horrible policies for women to the point that I wonder why the EU doesn’t put the pressure onto them.
The case of this young woman – who BTW died for the principles of a religion that’s not even hers – is far from the only victim of Irish anti-abortion and anti-contraception policy. Because the pill and most other contraceptives are banned in the Republic of Ireland as well, though condoms are available to my surprise. Probably difficult to keep them banned in an age of AIDS.
And yes, the Irish government are hypocrites, because Irish women do have abortions. They just travel to the UK, which has a very liberal abortion policy, to have them. What is more, in UK airports that get a lot of traffic from Ireland, I have seen discreet posters advertising that you can get the morning after pill (which is available without a prescription in the UK) right there at the airport drugstore/pharmacy. Three guesses whom those posters were aimed at. And knowing how easily smuggled morning after pills from the UK are available on German university campuses (Germany requires a prescription for the morning after pill – you can’t get it over the counter, which makes it useless), I would be very surprised if there wasn’t a black market for morning after pills in Ireland. Though none of that would have helped this young woman whose pregnancy was wanted and who by the time complications arose would have been too sick to travel to the UK anyway.
I wonder if Bobby Jindal didn’t reject Romney’s theories in part because Jindal is being touted as a 2016 candidate.