November 2010
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Urge the President and Congress to stop...
On December 1st, World AIDS Day, we must take action to save women’s lives. Right now, young women are rapidly becoming the face of AIDS. Urge the President and Congress to stop abstinence-only programs that are helping to spread AIDS.
Today, women make up an ever increasing proportion of adults living with HIV/AIDS.
Globally, young adults, ages 15–24, account for approximately HALF of...
Zestra. →
coketalk:
It’s not a diet salad dressing. It’s a female arousal oil for which the networks refuse to run advertising. How odd, considering the fact that primetime television is brimming with geriatrics yammering on about four hour erections.
This rather blatant gender-based double standard has more than a few people wondering out loud to network executives, why are vaginas so scary?
I’m kind...
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Cognitive Dissonance: Rand Paul, STFU →
cognitivedissonance:
Rand Paul was saying there’s no rich and poor in America. And that we’re all interconnected. This was in defense of tax cuts for the rich.
Please, magical universe karma - transform Rand Paul into a non-white single mother looking for a job with a sick baby, overdue bills, and with no HS Diploma….
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cocknbull:
I Hate This Mess: You can burn me at the stake for this…
shonecakepastrypie:
growbeards:
But I said it before, and it looks like science has backed me up.
Men are more intelligent than women.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-405056/Men-intelligent-women-claims-new-study.html
According to a recent study, men have an I.Q…
Someone else must’ve pointed...
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It wasn’t God that created the human ‘I’ →
This is an article that examines what makes life meaningful. It was posted at my board, in a discussion about abortion and personhood.
IMO, the article establishes, in its own terms, very clearly, that a fetus cannot be a person, before 24 weeks:
A quick answer is that we need receptors in the skin to detect threats to tissue and those receptors need to be connected to parts of the brain ...
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The Election Story Not Told →
If the media failed to discuss in detail the law’s less attractive points, it also missed one of the campaign’s biggest ironies. Republicans, with their repeal and replace slogans, stirred up discontent about a law that was basically built with Republican and conservative ideas. That irony escaped the media. Right after Congress passed the law, former labor secretary Robert Reich wrote a column on...
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