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Nov 20 · The purpose of “Half the Sky – Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide”, by Pulitzer Prize Winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, is pretty much self-evident from the subtitle. The authors say in the introduction to that their primary areas of emphasis are: sex trafficking and the forced prostitution that accompanies it; gender-based violence against women; and maternal mortality (mortality associated with pregnancy or childbirth).
The United Nations’ Interna
Nov 20 · Guess who is not satisfied with the Senate Health care bill. The Catholic Bishops group is calling it not just a bad bill but one of the worst they have seen.
Guess they will be stepping in to make it better, just like did when they aided in getting the Stupak amendment passed at the last minute.
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A pro-life spokesman for the nation's Catholic bishops doesn't mince words today an interview about the new Harry Reid health care bill in the Senate that co
Nov 20 · Our illustrious (cough, cough) White House press corps showed it could get to the bottom of a story with impressively journalistic and probative skills this week. The story that so obviously required multiple questions to President Obama on his trip to Asia? Whether he's eating enough, and whether he's losing weight. Oh, and his gray hair.
Seriously, you can't make this stuff up. Somebody, obviously bored on the excruciatingly long plane ride, decided they'd float the rumor that Obama was
Nov 20 · I had to read a lot of books about the current war and occupation in Iraq before I found one that's laugh out-loud hilarious. It's a book about a U.S. military hospital in Iraq, a journal kept for a 10-month tour of duty by an operating room medic. The story never leaves the hospital, and it focuses in large part on the relationships among the characters working there, including pranks and hijinks aplenty. One almost inevitably thinks of MASH and its fictional Army hospital in Korea, but ther
Nov 20 · "...but having the dog helps. Not just in what he will do for me, but in the companionship that touches me in the heart."
:sp: :sp: -Quote from a U.S. Army veteran who was caught in an IED explosion during his second tour of duty in Iraq, losing his left arm and left leg.
America's VetDogs helps veterans who have served our country honorably to live with dignity and independence whether they are visually impaired or have other special needs, by providing them with guide dogs, service d
Nov 20 · I'm deeply concerned that the 'public option' is too weak in the House bill and even more tainted in the Senate with their 'opt-out provision. I posted some analysis here which highlighted my objections () and the non-response to my thread was typical of a community which (in the majority) isn't in any mood to lose on this one.
Given the nature of the opposition in Congress (which is basically nothing but industry whores looking to derail the legislation by hook or crook), there really isn't
Nov 19 · This is an email forward that I could not let go uncontested. So, here it is broken up, and my response underneath.
The Letter Everyone Is Talking About
This has to be the email forward of the year! Please take a few minutes to read and absorb just what this woman had to say, and then hopefully everyone will pass it to their entire mailing list, and theirs to theirs until it circles the nation! Time is short and arrogance, stupidity and ignorance abound..............
The followin
Nov 19 · Maybe it is a good thing this happened, this idiotic religion-based amendment that was pushed by the Catholic Bishops and allowed by our Democratic majority.
I remember pre-Roe times all too clearly. There was not only a deep shame to getting pregnant pre-marriage....there was no legal way to do anything about it. Oh, and there were not the effective means of birth control, either.
So pardon me if I wonder why women are so compliant as our party is willing to take away their rights.
Nov 19 · via AlterNet's PEEK:
Economy Is Going to Get Much Worse
Posted by Steven D., Booman Tribune at 2:02 PM on November 19, 2009.
The so-called recovery is mostly smoke and mirrors.
I think the economy is pretty darn awful, but with record profits on Wall Street and all the happy talk about a recovery from the recession (albeit a jobless recovery) it's confusing for many people as to what our economic future really holds. Well, here's relevant statistic that sums it up nicely, o
Nov 19 · We really are on the slippery slope by not recognizing anything besides death of the mother as a viable reason for a late-term abortion.
It is like we went back to the dark ages the last few years. We have let religion set the course that will determine a woman's choice....not science, not medicine...religion. And insurance companies.
From MS Magazine:
This story could probably be told many times over.
“Our medical experts have determined that your life was not in danger and
Nov 19 · Let the articles do the talking (and crow will be at the end for those who want it)
These data suggest a role for toxicology in the etiology of obesity. This role has received additional support from a recent review (Baillei-Hamilton, 2002) that presents a provocative hypothesis to explain the global obesity epidemic: chemical toxins. This article presents data showing that the current epidemic in obesity cannot be explained solely by alterations in food intake and/or decrease in exercise. Th
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Not So Funny After All
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Columnist
Thursday 19 November 2009
I've been writing roughly once a week for months now about the insane circus that is today's Republican Party, mostly to make fun of them. It's difficult to do otherwise; how does one write seriously about people like Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and GOP Chairman Michael S
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