You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.

Simon ,'Jaynestown'


Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


brenda m - Jan 03, 2006 7:48:39 am PST #6964 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Wait, is it a girl dolphin? I wonder whether the lesbolicious or the beastiality would make Santorum's head explode faster.


§ ita § - Jan 03, 2006 7:50:10 am PST #6965 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's either a girl dolphin, or a boy dolphin exhibiting some gender dysphoria.

This makes me laugh. Because I know when I was in Aspen, we got into that club. Take that, Mischa!


Jessica - Jan 03, 2006 7:51:29 am PST #6966 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I think it's a boy dolphin named Cindy, but the article doesn't say one way or the other.


Jesse - Jan 03, 2006 7:55:20 am PST #6967 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I like the identity theft ads.

Katie, there is no such thing as safe browsing, only safer. Sorry.

I'm pretty sure I read a short story in the last couple of years about a woman who has a dolphin's baby. But I don't think they were married.


Frankenbuddha - Jan 03, 2006 7:56:47 am PST #6968 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I think it's a boy dolphin named Cindy, but the article doesn't say one way or the other.

So it's Cindy the flaming dolphin, rather than otter?


Jessica - Jan 03, 2006 7:58:05 am PST #6969 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

If I ever wore either t-shirts or yellow, I would want this.


tommyrot - Jan 03, 2006 8:00:32 am PST #6970 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Ready for a post about some stupid political shit going on in Texas?

Women, children last

An irrational, secretive redistribution of millions of dollars robs Texas' poorest women of health care

It's not as if they weren't doing their job. In a state with the nation's highest number of uninsured residents, family planning clinics across Texas for years have offered women preventive medicine, including cancer screening, contraception and gynecological, prenatal and postpartum care.

This winter, however, these providers have been slammed by laws quietly crafted last spring. In riders that required no public discussion, Texas legislators arranged to shift $5 million of the federal money on which these clinics rely to a different sort of service: programs "for women seeking alternatives to abortion focused on pregnancy support services that promote childbirth." Another $20 million was diverted from the experienced clinics to alternative programs that may not provide the same level of service.

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El Paso's [Family Planning Department], which loses 50 percent of its funds, must now turn away some of its clients. The disruption will force more women into the county hospital at late stages of illness.

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In Dallas, withdrawal of $1.7 million is forcing the closure of three family planning clinics. In Houston, where the Legislature cut more than 50 percent of Planned Parenthood funds, as many as 10,000 women will lose access to well-woman exams, contraception and cancer screenings. Under federal law, none of these Texas clinics could have used these funds to perform abortions. Nevertheless, legislators chose to cripple the clinics.

The pivotal operating funds will go to pregnancy crisis centers or to 19 Federally Qualified Health Centers -- some of which never requested the help. These FQHCs are valuable resources, offering primary care to poor neighborhoods. But the clinics are scarce, far-flung, and often lack family planning services such as contraception. They can't replace the multiservice family planning clinics that have treated Texans for decades.

It's not just abortion that's under attack. It's birth control, sex education, etc....

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Also,

The state's Health and Human Services Commission tells us that this is a good thing, because "the active promotion of childbirth" is now the official policy of the State of Texas.

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eta: Also, contraception is the gateway to abortion


Gudanov - Jan 03, 2006 8:03:54 am PST #6971 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

It's not just abortion that's under attack. It's birth control, sex education, etc....

Well, cutting back on birth control is an important part of promoting childbirth.


Steph L. - Jan 03, 2006 8:08:56 am PST #6972 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

contraception is the gateway to abortion

Well, sure! Because contraception prevents pregnancy, and that leads to abortions to end...the...pregnancy.... Heyyyyyy. Wait a minute!


Gudanov - Jan 03, 2006 8:12:10 am PST #6973 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

Because contraception prevents pregnancy, and that leads to abortions to end...the...pregnancy....

See you have it all wrong. It's a gateway right. You let women control when they get pregnant, then that leads to them wanting to control staying pregnant.