Is Bush Opening the Gateway to the Death of Birth Control?

I am going to call this act what it is: a last minute attempt for brownie points from the only people that will give Bush the time of day now: religious conservatives.

This act, which essentially claims that it will protect health care workers from dispensing prescriptions or providing services that they find morally reprehensible. My first question was this: who are these geniuses getting jobs at abortion clinics and becoming pharmacists when they have moral objections about the profession? I am against organized crime, so I won't work for the mafia. I dislike cancer, so I do not work for nuclear plants. I dislike pain, so I chose not to become a boxer. If the job description violates your moral code, common sense says, "DON'T WORK THERE."

I consider myself to be pretty faithful to my religion, but I consider myself to be logical, too. This proposal can be the gateway to allowing many professionals to get away with not doing their job and getting paid for it, too, therefore it should be scrapped. How would you feel if your child could not get a blood transfusion because the doctor was a Jehovah's Witness (their faith is against the passing of one person's blood to another)?

I have always had problems with the types of people that would support proposals like this because their tactics are so brutally flawed. Picketing abortion clinics will not stop it from happening. Forcing legislation to prevent someone from doing something to themselves will not stop it. There are other more rational ways to approach it. Personally, I am convinced that these people are not addicted to their cause, they are addicted to their sense of self-righteousness...and personally, I resent how these people who fight so hard to save unborn children are the same ones that resent the government aid their caregivers receive to take care of them after they are born.

Link to Conscience Clause Proposal

Florida Law Strikes Again...

I have monitored many criminal cases in Florida because their legal system simply boggles the mind. They are notorious for convicting people with the flimisiest evidence and giving them harsh sentences, but when it comes to "slam dunk" cases, they seem to fall by the wayside.

Case in point: Aaron Mohanlal (pictured above) was recently convicted and sentenced to 43 years for repeatedly raping a child while he was a teacher at a Broward County Middle school. He was also in the process of grooming other children to take the place of the victim and passed out dozens of fliers to other students with the victim's photo, name and phone number stating that the victim had sex with animals after charges were filed. However, it has been two years and he has yet to serve a day in prison. Why? Just ask his savior, elected Broward Circuit Judge Marc Gold who allowed Mohanlal to be out on bond until his appeal process has been exhausted. Mohanlal not only is not only allowed to be free, but the judge did not think it was pertinent to make a clause forbidding Mohanlal to have contact with other children. The authorities are "confident" that the child rapist is not a flight risk.

Mohanlal bought a house 15 miles from the victim.

I Didn't Know S.C. Was Gay!

This is funny as hell.

I thought this may have been a mistake when I spotted it, but no, this was an actual ad posted in London among many other ads swearing that their sponsor is the gayest state in the union. Along with Civil War plantations, this South Carolina ad promises that the lovely state also has "gay beaches" and variously nightlife to accommodate potential tourists.

What makes this ad so incredibly hilarious is that now the citizens of S.C. are aware that their tax dollars went to encouraging homosexual people to come to their state. Given that the state is still adjusting to blacks and Mexicans, the citizens of S.C. (surprise!) are in an uproar. The ad was pulled, but I am going to contact the S.C. Department of Tourism to see if I can get that ad on a T-Shirt.

More Obama Drama

The New Yorker, a bastion of satire for years, decided to push the envelope by doing a cover depicting all of the rumors associated with Senator Barack Obama. While I personally get that it was to make fun of the rumors, for every one person that thinks like me, a few hundred thousand are going to used that as gospel proof that the rumors about Sen. Obama are indeed fact.

Silly, silly New Yorker...you should know better by now.

My Comments on the Clark Comment

There is a brutal double standard when it comes to Election Season: attacking the records and qualifications of Democrats is perfectly acceptable. Attacking the records and qualifications of Republicans? BLASPHEMY!

General Clark made a comment a bit ago along the thread that Sen. McCain's experience as a POW did not necessarily make him presidential material. Clark was blacklisted for saying that, yet no one seemed to have a problem when it was done to John Kerry in 2004. McCain--who said himself that it takes no talent to be shot down--made it clear that he was staying in Iraq until the bitter end and who was against reforms to enhance the G.I. Bill (which is a pain to cash in on when you get out of the service and doesn't last more than two years...even though colleges tend to take four years to complete) is untouchable.

Are the voters of this country REALLY that gullible? Clark was telling the truth! It doesn't make anyone qualified to be a President, and I don't care what any of you gun-totin' pick-up truck drivers have to say about it, the ONLY thing that can be used to gage McCain's qualifications is his record in politics. I am a veteran...if I become Republican, does that mean I have what it takes to be President? No!

That being said, my initial beef with Obama was his utter lack of experience in politics, and I still bristle at the geniuses that insisted that little discrepancy was irrelevant. The only reason I support him now is because he is the lesser of two evils. I just hope he isn't too arrogant to realize which person he needs to choose for the VP spot.

Diet Diaries Help Weight Loss

They will also drive you insane, which will lead to taking happy pills that make you gain more weight. I do not normally condone the burning of books, but if it is a diet book or journal not only do I recommend it, I think you should make a party of it and invite friends over to do the same. There is something soothing about watching a diet book burn while drinking margaritas.

Conservatives to Battle McCain

McCain's "radical" ideas--such as the belief in global warming and the support of stem cell research--are ruffling the feathers of die-hard conservatives and they are vowing to take action. So...since they are against McCain wouldn't that suggest that they are probably not going to vote since they have no other option...which would help a Democrat get into office?

Happy Independence Day!