No federal dollars that go to Planned Parenthood go toward abortion. That is already not allowed.3% of the medical services provided by Planned Parenthood go toward abortions.
97% of the medical services go toward health care related activities, including, but not limited to: STD testing, cancer screenings, birth control (again, not federal dollars), vaccinations, inoculations
Sorry to have to point that out.
There should probably be a sensor to detect the body of the car, and in particular, the battery stack being pierced; tied to a safety shutdown mechanism.
There is little to be done when you pierce a Lithium battery. It pretty much going to burn, if not explode.
I'm not entirely against this rule, but I think it should be a local law not a national one. Someone in the middle of the city burning things is a pretty big asshole; someone living in a cabin in the woods isn't causing local problems and could possibly have circumstances that make the usage more understandable -- e.g., using wood that otherwise would go to waste, or using it as a back-up fuel source in case something goes wrong in the middle of winter.
An indoor stove that burns wood or coal really is dangerous, and it's most dangerous for the people inside the house. It makes you more likely to get serious, incurable lung and heart diseases.
My sealed wood stove pulls outside air for combustion and exhausts to the outside. the only time it is open to the inside is when I load it. once every 4-5 hours. I can honestly say i breath more fine particulate matter on my commute to and from work.
It also looks like this has become a minor right-wing cause. Jack-booted thugs coming to take away your wood-burning stoves, and all that.
The right wing tends to be against regulation that erodes personal freedoms. This particular rule may or may not be a good idea, but the healthy thing for society is to look at all new regulation with a healthy dose of skepticism and suspicion.
You have got to be joking. The same right-wing that is calling for anti-abortion law across all the state where they have uncontested power? The same right-wing that is taking away the right to vote in the same states?
That right wing?
Frank Herbert's 'The White Plague'
I would say to my former manager/HR droid/security droid " Not allowing me to get my personal possessions is theft. I will be back with a lawyer to collect my belonging in an hour, please be available at that time. "
fine, you may sacrifice your privacy. just leave mine out of your decisions.
how about this: if you float and live, you are a witch and we will burn you at the stake, but, if you sink and drown and die you are not a witch.
is a can't win.....
um. you are saying the "bluest of the blue" (which I read as "liberal") would be more likely to agree that PRISM (or whatever surveillance program is de' jour) is acceptable? Really?
Why? Because that 'liberal' Obama (PRISM, ) is for it? Or maybe that 'liberal' Bush (TIA, Patriot Act, TSA)? which one?
This is not a conservative vs. liberal problem. This is a all government becomes corrupt problem.
I am repeating myself here, but
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Q.E.D.
Fuck You.
better, bill each and every advertiser in the phonebook for the cost of disposal, as a community. (need to make the dollar signs add up to something big.)
Rape, Dangerous Pregnancy.
Sometimes the woman doesn't have a choice or has her life in mortal danger. So I throw it back at you; who's life do you choose to protect? who's innocence gets to be protected?
It is simply not fair to tell a women that she MUST continue to be pregnant, or for that matter must have an abortion.
As a loose analogy, would be okay for someone to tell you that you MUST provide blood or organs to prevent another from dying? That by refusing to do so you condemn that person to death, because there is no other person that can provide the required material, and then are made criminally responsible for it?
Yes, as a father and husband, I am part of the trio involved. But in the end my opinions about abortion mean NOTHING. I am not the pregnant party. I would like to think that I will be listened to and my arguments for or against an abortion carefully considered, but finally it is not my choice.
I do feel that after a certain point an abortion should be highly restricted (notice that I did NOT say disallowed), but I don't know that I CAN know when that would be, so any law about it will be flawed.
In the end women are not property. They are sentient, thinking beings with the right to make decisions about their actions, person, and possessions.
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
