Click on the title link and see who's still in the race and find out more about them.
The Obama/Clinton/McCain rich fuck circle jerk/boxing match is starting to nauseate me. I know damn well that a LOT of people are looking at these candidates like WTF man? I don't like any of 'em, & I'm gonna have to hold my nose and pick one because that's who the rich fucks want, and that's who is being presented to me as my choice of canddiates.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Concerns over Economy Push George W. Bush's Overall Job Approval to New Low
Among all Americans, 19% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 77% disapprove. When it comes to Bush's handling of the economy, 14% approve and 79% disapprove.
Hat tip to Make them Accountable
I couldn't figure out why my friend's roomate was always talking out of her ass about Obama, saying she wouldn't vote for him because he was a Muslim and he wouldn't say the pledge of allegiance. Click on the graphic above to enlarge it.
She told me the time before last time that I was over there that my news was boring. I tried to explain that her newz showz didn't give a crap about whether she got the story or not, that she was just a pair of eyeballs that they could sell shit to.
So the other day I'm over there & I hear this really annoying voice coming from the teevee & I go out to investigate it. I turned around and looked at her and snarled on my way out of the room, "I fucking hate Wolf Blitzer, & I'm sorry that you need sensationalized bullshit to keep your attention. Oy, no wonder the rest of the world thinks we're stupid, we are." Frankly, I'm sick of her willful ignorance. She watches CNN all the time.
and also today...
Danny asks an important question:
Yesterday in this blog, I reported on
that the President of a Hedge Fund was calling on the government to indict the businesses and business men who profited from subprime scams. Now, I asked a top CEO if he thought anyone would go to jail as a result of the economic disaster they created.
“No, “ he told me.
But Bob, said I, trading on how being in the same room with the high and the might allowed me to have one on one first person familiarity:
“You just agreed with NACA that this housing crisis was a created by the industry as a deceptive scheme to make money, not advance home ownership.”
“Yes,” he said, as he scrambled to get away from me.
“It was a scheme but it was not malicious, just driven by greed and opportunity. That’s not criminal.
HUhhh????
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Publishing the blogrolls
Seems to be the thing to do this week.
Alibris
Barnes and Noble
Bookfinder
Amazon
blogrolling.com - documentation and how to
by BlogRolling
fabulous and new to me
non-rightwing nutjob blogs
news
laugh
Research stuff
Buy books
Common Courage PressAlibris
Barnes and Noble
Bookfinder
Amazon
blogrolling.com - documentation and how to
by BlogRolling
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
This
is why I spend most of this half hour weekly show rolling my eyes. These people don't have a fucking clue what I go through in my life.
Monday, February 18, 2008
The plight of journalists in 98 countries reviewed
Annual Report 2008
The plight of journalists in 98 countries reviewed
Reporters Without Borders criticises lack of public commitment to press freedom and expresses fears of anti-media violence in coming months, as it releases its annual report today.
PDF - 3.3 Mb
2008 Annual Report
PDF, 3.3 Mo
Reporters Without Borders today accused public officials around the world of “impotence, cowardice and duplicity” in defending freedom of expression.
“The spinelessness of some Western countries and major international bodies is harming press freedom,” secretary-general Robert Ménard said in the organisation’s annual press freedom report, out today (13 February) and available at www.rsf.org. “The lack of determination by democratic countries in defending the values they supposedly stand for is alarming.”
Gee, ya think?
The plight of journalists in 98 countries reviewed
Reporters Without Borders criticises lack of public commitment to press freedom and expresses fears of anti-media violence in coming months, as it releases its annual report today.
PDF - 3.3 Mb
2008 Annual Report
PDF, 3.3 Mo
Reporters Without Borders today accused public officials around the world of “impotence, cowardice and duplicity” in defending freedom of expression.
“The spinelessness of some Western countries and major international bodies is harming press freedom,” secretary-general Robert Ménard said in the organisation’s annual press freedom report, out today (13 February) and available at www.rsf.org. “The lack of determination by democratic countries in defending the values they supposedly stand for is alarming.”
Gee, ya think?
My thoughts on McCain and Iran
Gordon over at Alternate Brain reveals a bit more about Insane McCain.
Ummmmm, I think that a man who will sing " Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" in public with the cameras on and an audience there to watch him, probably won't react with good humor to the opening of the Iranian Oil Bourse,:
1st Phase of Iran Oil Bourse Inaugurated on Kish Island
By IRNA
The Submarine Cable Disruptions didn't slow it down much at all.
Something tells me McCain won't like it if OPEC considers dumping US dollar either
If this guy wins the Presidency, we're McFucked.
Ummmmm, I think that a man who will sing " Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" in public with the cameras on and an audience there to watch him, probably won't react with good humor to the opening of the Iranian Oil Bourse,:
1st Phase of Iran Oil Bourse Inaugurated on Kish Island
By IRNA
The Submarine Cable Disruptions didn't slow it down much at all.
Something tells me McCain won't like it if OPEC considers dumping US dollar either
If this guy wins the Presidency, we're McFucked.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Bush on Drugs
Traffic is one of my favorite movies. My favorite line comes from Javier Rodriguez (Benicio Del Toro) trying to work with US DEA and actually get something worthwhile out of it. He's in the pool with these guys and he asks them "You like beisbol?"
Remember the last scene in the movie? Kids playing on a new and well lit baseball field in TJ (Tijuana).
Smart.
Now back to reality. The "war on drugs" now has not only the elite from TJ fleeing to live in the United States, but some of the middle class have fled TJ and now live here in San Diego. It's too dangerous to live in TJ now.
What will it take to end Mexican drug trafficking? President Bush thinks $1.4 billion.
...The plan envisions $1.4 billion in military equipment and training for Mexico's drug interdiction forces over three years, including eight Bell 412 helicopters, two CASA CN-245-300 surveillance planes, eighty-seven ion scanners used for drug detection, night vision gear, and sophisticated electronic inspection equipment. It would also fund software to facilitate cross-border intelligence sharing, forensics systems for identifying smuggled firearms, immigration document verification systems, and human rights and anti-corruption training for Mexican police...
...a $73 million funding decline in next year's proposed federal budget for drug treatment programs...
Ehhhh, not so smart. I can think of more effective ways to spend 1.4 billion, you?
Norm Stamper started out as a beat cop in San Diego. I somehow missed the aritcle he wrote entitled How Legalizing Drugs Will End the Violence & it's a good one.
CASHING IN ON AMERICA’S VETERANS (click here)
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
Roger Chapin calls himself a “non-profit entrepreneur.” You might call him a money-grubbing huckster… or worse.
This San Diego business operator with big-name Republican connections has found a way to profit handsomely from the natural impulse of the American people to “support our troops.”
Two words: Fucking bastard.
Posted by Jim Hightower
Roger Chapin calls himself a “non-profit entrepreneur.” You might call him a money-grubbing huckster… or worse.
This San Diego business operator with big-name Republican connections has found a way to profit handsomely from the natural impulse of the American people to “support our troops.”
Two words: Fucking bastard.
Northern Ill. University: Was the Killer Crazy, or the Campus Hopeless?
By Mark Ames, AlterNet. Posted February 16, 2008.
Bracket this massacre as the work of a lunatic on drugs, and you miss the chance to consider the horrors of life in middle America.
...Schoolyard shootings are too shocking and subversive to forget. They remind us that we were just as miserable as kids as we are as adult workers. In fact, the similarities between the two, the continuity of misery and entrapment from school to office, become depressingly clear when you study the two settings in the context of these murders...
I laughed when I read that because today I was looking for a hard copy of the Constitution in one of the texbooks I picked up at the dollar-a-grocery-bag library sale and read part of the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The only reason I read these articles is because the author seemed to approach the subject like I do. What really happened to these kids to push them over the edge?
Yeah, & on the other hand the media focuses intensely on 7 dead in a school shooting, but yeesh, something like 40-thousand people die in car wrecks and almost that many die of the flu every year. That's what I told the kid when she was scared to go to school because of all the sensational newz reportz anyway.
Bracket this massacre as the work of a lunatic on drugs, and you miss the chance to consider the horrors of life in middle America.
...Schoolyard shootings are too shocking and subversive to forget. They remind us that we were just as miserable as kids as we are as adult workers. In fact, the similarities between the two, the continuity of misery and entrapment from school to office, become depressingly clear when you study the two settings in the context of these murders...
I laughed when I read that because today I was looking for a hard copy of the Constitution in one of the texbooks I picked up at the dollar-a-grocery-bag library sale and read part of the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The only reason I read these articles is because the author seemed to approach the subject like I do. What really happened to these kids to push them over the edge?
Yeah, & on the other hand the media focuses intensely on 7 dead in a school shooting, but yeesh, something like 40-thousand people die in car wrecks and almost that many die of the flu every year. That's what I told the kid when she was scared to go to school because of all the sensational newz reportz anyway.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
When kissing cousins aren't so cute
SEX IN DEPTH
When kissing cousins aren't so cute
By William Sparrow
South Asia
Feb 16, 2008
...British Pakistanis' inter-family marriages are a concern of public health, due to disproportional representations of birth defects in their population. For British society it puts an added strain on the National Health Service, but short of introducing a law to forbid these marriages, there seems little can be done. The continued attempts to educate people about this seem to have been fruitless thus far...
Jeeezusss Christ man, there are six point seven billion fucking people on the planet and these dipshits are inbreeding?
bwaaa haaa haaaa hahahaha ha ha ha ha
When kissing cousins aren't so cute
By William Sparrow
South Asia
Feb 16, 2008
...British Pakistanis' inter-family marriages are a concern of public health, due to disproportional representations of birth defects in their population. For British society it puts an added strain on the National Health Service, but short of introducing a law to forbid these marriages, there seems little can be done. The continued attempts to educate people about this seem to have been fruitless thus far...
Jeeezusss Christ man, there are six point seven billion fucking people on the planet and these dipshits are inbreeding?
bwaaa haaa haaaa hahahaha ha ha ha ha
Last night I watched this photo essay re: Iraqi refugees
and I woke up with this song stuck in my head.
Sweden debates Iraq refugee policy
Sweden has taken in far more Iraqi refugees than the U.S. has.
...But Sweden's attitude could be shifting — and the country's asylum policy along with it....
...New immigrants are crowding Swedish classrooms and placing a greater burden on Sweden's cradle-to-grave welfare benefits...
Now I have to do homework. I have to take a position.
Iraq War -- Right or Wrong?
Right
Wrong
Right
Wrong
Right
Wrong
Right
Wrong
Right
Wrong
Right
Right/Wrong
Afghanistan is another story altogether.
Update 6:34 PM 2/16/2008
My head is killing me. Guess which position I took?
Sweden debates Iraq refugee policy
Sweden has taken in far more Iraqi refugees than the U.S. has.
...But Sweden's attitude could be shifting — and the country's asylum policy along with it....
...New immigrants are crowding Swedish classrooms and placing a greater burden on Sweden's cradle-to-grave welfare benefits...
Now I have to do homework. I have to take a position.
Iraq War -- Right or Wrong?
Right
Wrong
Right
Wrong
Right
Wrong
Right
Wrong
Right
Wrong
Right
Right/Wrong
Afghanistan is another story altogether.
Update 6:34 PM 2/16/2008
My head is killing me. Guess which position I took?
Friday, February 15, 2008
Reading tomorrow
and over the President's Day holiday.
Yeesh, looks like a huge undertaking.
How could I not? I love reading Jared Diamond's books.
And now it's off to watch NOW and Bill Moyers' Journal.
Peace out.
Yeesh, looks like a huge undertaking.
How could I not? I love reading Jared Diamond's books.
And now it's off to watch NOW and Bill Moyers' Journal.
Peace out.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Tomgram: Jonathan Schwarz, Bill Kristol's Obscure Masterpiece
posted February 14, 2008 2:58 pm
wherein Jonathon basically says William Kristol is an idiot and then proceeds to back that opinion up.
Surprised?
I'm not.
Here's the exchange when they turn to what will happen to Iraq's Kurds:
"ELLSBERG: The Kurds have every reason to believe they will be betrayed again by the United States, as so often in the past. The spectacle of our inviting Turks into this war... could not have been reassuring to the Kurds...
"KRISTOL: I'm against betraying the Kurds. Surely your point isn't that because we betrayed them in the past we should betray them this time?
"ELLSBERG: Not that we should, just that we will.
"KRISTOL: We will not. We will not."
In 1629, King Charles I granted a charter to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which included the authority to use a seal. It featured an Indian holding an arrow pointed down in a gesture of peace, with the words "Come over and help us," emphasizing the missionary and commercial intentions of the original colonists. This seal was used until 1686, shortly after the charter was annulled, and again from 1689-1692.
Wow, gimmee nine minutes worth of Olbermann any day,but this just made me smack my lips with satisfaction.
Hey, maybe this Valentines' Day wasn't so bad after all :)
wherein Jonathon basically says William Kristol is an idiot and then proceeds to back that opinion up.
Surprised?
I'm not.
Here's the exchange when they turn to what will happen to Iraq's Kurds:
"ELLSBERG: The Kurds have every reason to believe they will be betrayed again by the United States, as so often in the past. The spectacle of our inviting Turks into this war... could not have been reassuring to the Kurds...
"KRISTOL: I'm against betraying the Kurds. Surely your point isn't that because we betrayed them in the past we should betray them this time?
"ELLSBERG: Not that we should, just that we will.
"KRISTOL: We will not. We will not."
In 1629, King Charles I granted a charter to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which included the authority to use a seal. It featured an Indian holding an arrow pointed down in a gesture of peace, with the words "Come over and help us," emphasizing the missionary and commercial intentions of the original colonists. This seal was used until 1686, shortly after the charter was annulled, and again from 1689-1692.
Wow, gimmee nine minutes worth of Olbermann any day,but this just made me smack my lips with satisfaction.
Hey, maybe this Valentines' Day wasn't so bad after all :)
Valentines Day 2008
This PDF file is the homework I blew off while I was trying to get my computer up and running again, & then I went to LA to be entertained and see my friend. It's perfect for me since I have vast holes in my political knowledge base and I learn more when I can connect history to current events.
Today is Valentines Day.
Hillary Loves New York:
Candidates' Earmarks Worth Millions
Of Front-Runners, McCain Abstained
By Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 14, 2008; Page A01
Superdelegates 101 (Superdelegates loves them some Hillary)
When Evil Empires Collide: Murdoch Now Talking to Yahoo, Mao’s Valentine Gift
China threat. What threat?
Greater China
Feb 12, 2008
By Henry Rosemont
Democracy Now wants you to know something about chocolate and diamonds.
You know, those things that are supposed to signify love on Valentines Day?
Today is Valentines Day.
Hillary Loves New York:
Candidates' Earmarks Worth Millions
Of Front-Runners, McCain Abstained
By Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 14, 2008; Page A01
Superdelegates 101 (Superdelegates loves them some Hillary)
When Evil Empires Collide: Murdoch Now Talking to Yahoo, Mao’s Valentine Gift
China threat. What threat?
Greater China
Feb 12, 2008
By Henry Rosemont
Democracy Now wants you to know something about chocolate and diamonds.
You know, those things that are supposed to signify love on Valentines Day?
Monday, February 11, 2008
busy and pissy
Drove four and a half hours with my back teeth floating for the last hour to see Rickie Lee Jones tonight.
It's a two hour drive.
Fucking traffic.
I spent all weekend doing everybody's favorite thing, Reinstalling the OS. Have a few pictures left.
Fucking computers.
I will blogroll you as soon as I get a chance, please be patient, blogrolling was freaking out, and then my computer took a big fat shit.
Update 8:48 AM 2/12/2008: Rickie Lee Jones was great :)
I think she hit all of these at least once.
It's a two hour drive.
Fucking traffic.
I spent all weekend doing everybody's favorite thing, Reinstalling the OS. Have a few pictures left.
Fucking computers.
I will blogroll you as soon as I get a chance, please be patient, blogrolling was freaking out, and then my computer took a big fat shit.
Update 8:48 AM 2/12/2008: Rickie Lee Jones was great :)
I think she hit all of these at least once.
Friday, February 08, 2008
Egypt threatens to break the legs of Gaza infiltrators
Egypt is the second largest recipient of United States military aid after Israel.
Palestinian refugees in Egypt
By 1995 there were some 85,000 Palestinians in the Chicago metropolitan area, about half born outside the United States. Palestinians formed about 60 percent of the Arab population of the Chicago metropolitan area.
Dreams Stifled, Egypt’s Young Turn to Islamic Fervor
Palestinian refugees in Egypt
By 1995 there were some 85,000 Palestinians in the Chicago metropolitan area, about half born outside the United States. Palestinians formed about 60 percent of the Arab population of the Chicago metropolitan area.
Dreams Stifled, Egypt’s Young Turn to Islamic Fervor
I'm Loosely Based
Hat tip The Apostate
You're Loosely Based!
by Storey Clayton
While most people haven't heard of you, you're a really good and
interesting person. Rather clever and witty, you crack a lot of jokes about the world
around you. You do have a serious side, however, where your interest covers the homeless
and the inequalities of society. You're good at bringing people together, but they keep
asking you what your name means.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
Cynthia McKinney for President?
She's looking for the nomination for the Green Party.
She explains to Amy Goodman why she left the Democratic Party here.
Wow.
Democracy Now shows up the complete failure of the MainStream Media to report anything of importance to the American people.
Bush keeps trying to kill NPR, another source of news that doesn't try to distract us with what Britney Spears is doing today.
Local conservatives adrift after Romney pulls out
She explains to Amy Goodman why she left the Democratic Party here.
Wow.
Democracy Now shows up the complete failure of the MainStream Media to report anything of importance to the American people.
Bush keeps trying to kill NPR, another source of news that doesn't try to distract us with what Britney Spears is doing today.
Local conservatives adrift after Romney pulls out
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Federal Towing Contract Not Impeded by Ex-Worker's Scandal
Shit. Of COURSE NOT, it's San Diego. Business interests are never impeded by scandal because almost everybody's dirty here. From the time I could hear I heard "It ain't what you know, it's who you know." The old boy's network in this particular case just happens to have a big fat case of Pinoy Pride. I gotta admit though, that I appreciate Bob Filner, & I wish he was my congressman.
Completely unrelated, but interesting to me:
The curtain lifts for Bollywood in Pakistan
Feb 8, 2008
By Sudha Ramachandran
...But not everyone is putting out the welcome mat. Bollywood's less well-known cousin across the border, Lollywood, Pakistan's Lahore-based film industry, is apprehensive.
Lollywood, which has languished for years as Bollywood has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry with fans across continents, fears it will be wiped out completely when its Indian rival invades.
Even less welcoming will be Pakistan's jihadis and religious conservatives, who frown on Bollywood's song-dance culture...
Mmmmm, frankly, about as close to Bollywood as I can stand was a mariginally cute movie called Bollywood/Hollywood . The singing style drives me batshit crazy and I generally prefer songs sung in English since that is the language I speak, although occasionally I hear some great stuff on the Mexican stations. Not Ranchera Norteño though, I'm not fond of German polka.
Completely unrelated, but interesting to me:
The curtain lifts for Bollywood in Pakistan
Feb 8, 2008
By Sudha Ramachandran
...But not everyone is putting out the welcome mat. Bollywood's less well-known cousin across the border, Lollywood, Pakistan's Lahore-based film industry, is apprehensive.
Lollywood, which has languished for years as Bollywood has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry with fans across continents, fears it will be wiped out completely when its Indian rival invades.
Even less welcoming will be Pakistan's jihadis and religious conservatives, who frown on Bollywood's song-dance culture...
Mmmmm, frankly, about as close to Bollywood as I can stand was a mariginally cute movie called Bollywood/Hollywood . The singing style drives me batshit crazy and I generally prefer songs sung in English since that is the language I speak, although occasionally I hear some great stuff on the Mexican stations. Not
Nonpartisans stymied in attempts to get Republican ballots
Yep. First of all, Agnes and Myrtle from the Courage Campaign told you so.
Secondly, I remember a conversation with a Republican woman a few years ago who told me that she would never tell her Girl Scouts that the local Democratic Party was a serious option because they were so disorganized.
Mmmmmmm. I think the same woman lost her small business because the rent kept getting raised. I wonder if she's changed her mind at all?
skippy sends us over to Why Tuesday? to find out that Decline To State voters who voted on a Dem ballot may have some double bubble trouble.
Secondly, I remember a conversation with a Republican woman a few years ago who told me that she would never tell her Girl Scouts that the local Democratic Party was a serious option because they were so disorganized.
Mmmmmmm. I think the same woman lost her small business because the rent kept getting raised. I wonder if she's changed her mind at all?
skippy sends us over to Why Tuesday? to find out that Decline To State voters who voted on a Dem ballot may have some double bubble trouble.
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
I love Carl, he gets it
Tijuana burns
Our neighbor's house is on fire--and no one seems to give a damn
By Carl Luna 02/05/2008
And the Winner is?
And, ummmm, I don't like the sound of this:
Brokered Dem convention looking more likely
Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
do you?
Our neighbor's house is on fire--and no one seems to give a damn
By Carl Luna 02/05/2008
And the Winner is?
And, ummmm, I don't like the sound of this:
Brokered Dem convention looking more likely
Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
do you?
Why the Saudis aren't lifting a finger to ease oil prices
By Steve Yetiv and Lowell Feld
Wed Feb 6, 3:00 AM ET
(Snort. That title cracks me up. When was the last time the Saudi's lifted their fingers to do anything other than reach for a credit card?)
Wed Feb 6, 3:00 AM ET
(Snort. That title cracks me up. When was the last time the Saudi's lifted their fingers to do anything other than reach for a credit card?)
WTF?
What the fuck is going on with blogrolling.com?
I'm tired, I've been out doing the crap I hate doing anyway (shopping, ugh!) and now I'm aggravated because I want to read the new blogs I linked to and none of my blogrolls are showing up.
If you linked to me, I'll be happy to add you to my blogroll as soon as I can see the damned thing again, their site is down right now.
I'm tired, I've been out doing the crap I hate doing anyway (shopping, ugh!) and now I'm aggravated because I want to read the new blogs I linked to and none of my blogrolls are showing up.
If you linked to me, I'll be happy to add you to my blogroll as soon as I can see the damned thing again, their site is down right now.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Primary Election reporting
First the fulla crap MSM
Thomas Elias: Voting machines back on track
...Disputes over the touch-screen machines and the company that made them has forced the county to revert to tried-and-true paper ballots time and again....
Umm, yeah, the fishwrap be NOT talking about these hackable optical scanners in San Diego.
Here are a couple of places you can visit to see what's really going on:
skippy's all over it today :)
BradBlog
TPM Election Central
Who did YOU vote for? (Hat tip Make them Accountable )
Thomas Elias: Voting machines back on track
...Disputes over the touch-screen machines and the company that made them has forced the county to revert to tried-and-true paper ballots time and again....
Umm, yeah, the fishwrap be NOT talking about these hackable optical scanners in San Diego.
Here are a couple of places you can visit to see what's really going on:
skippy's all over it today :)
BradBlog
TPM Election Central
Who did YOU vote for? (Hat tip Make them Accountable )
Monday, February 04, 2008
Population post
Anybody that reads this silly little blog knows that "Peaceful Population control and a healthy planet" are important to me. Yeah, says it right there on my blog profile.
I'm on a couple of mailing lists that I actually want to be on and one of them is Population Connection . So guess what was in my mailbox this morning?
Demonstrating, once again, his contempt for the needs of poor women and families around the world, President Bush is calling on Congress to slash funding for overseas family planning programs by $134 million (or 29 percent) from the current level of $461 million.
Sadly, U.S. contributions to international family planning programs have been woefully inadequate over the past decade. Indeed, today, our nation is contributing significantly less than it did 14 years ago. The need, though, is increasing. As you may know, there are 6.7 billion people in the world today. By 2050, that number is projected to range from below 8 billion -- if we act now to make family planning and contraceptives available to the hundreds of millions of women who lack access to them -- to nearly 12 billion.
With this growing population comes a growing demand for family planning services. In fact, there are some 200 million women in the developing world who would like to delay or prevent pregnancy but lack access to safe, effective contraceptives, and the demand for contraceptives is projected to increase by 40 percent over the next 15 years.
Family planning benefits everyone, and few investments promise so high a return. It improves the health of women and children, economic and social conditions of communities and countries, and the environment.
In addition, the president today requested that Congress increase funding for discredited and dangerous abstinence-only programs targeted at young Americans. These programs have been found to be ineffective at reducing adolescent sexual activity and preventing teen pregnancy. Numerous evaluations have also found that federally funded abstinence-only programs are riddled with misinformation.
The president's proposal is the first step in a long budget process on Capitol Hill, and you can help ensure that these draconian cuts are rejected, and that Congress works to increase the funding for these programs. Please be on the lookout in the coming days for ways you can help.
Yeah, that sucks. You know what sucks even more?
Bush Budget Would Bring Record Deficits
By ANDREW TAYLOR
WASHINGTON (AP) — The record $3.1 trillion budget proposed by President Bush...
I'm on a couple of mailing lists that I actually want to be on and one of them is Population Connection . So guess what was in my mailbox this morning?
Demonstrating, once again, his contempt for the needs of poor women and families around the world, President Bush is calling on Congress to slash funding for overseas family planning programs by $134 million (or 29 percent) from the current level of $461 million.
Sadly, U.S. contributions to international family planning programs have been woefully inadequate over the past decade. Indeed, today, our nation is contributing significantly less than it did 14 years ago. The need, though, is increasing. As you may know, there are 6.7 billion people in the world today. By 2050, that number is projected to range from below 8 billion -- if we act now to make family planning and contraceptives available to the hundreds of millions of women who lack access to them -- to nearly 12 billion.
With this growing population comes a growing demand for family planning services. In fact, there are some 200 million women in the developing world who would like to delay or prevent pregnancy but lack access to safe, effective contraceptives, and the demand for contraceptives is projected to increase by 40 percent over the next 15 years.
Family planning benefits everyone, and few investments promise so high a return. It improves the health of women and children, economic and social conditions of communities and countries, and the environment.
In addition, the president today requested that Congress increase funding for discredited and dangerous abstinence-only programs targeted at young Americans. These programs have been found to be ineffective at reducing adolescent sexual activity and preventing teen pregnancy. Numerous evaluations have also found that federally funded abstinence-only programs are riddled with misinformation.
The president's proposal is the first step in a long budget process on Capitol Hill, and you can help ensure that these draconian cuts are rejected, and that Congress works to increase the funding for these programs. Please be on the lookout in the coming days for ways you can help.
Yeah, that sucks. You know what sucks even more?
Bush Budget Would Bring Record Deficits
By ANDREW TAYLOR
WASHINGTON (AP) — The record $3.1 trillion budget proposed by President Bush...
Yes Virginia
Working Class Whites ARE stupid enough to vote for The Madness of John McCain.
Yep-pers, they are the kind of fucktards that yell in your face "Freedom isn't Free!! "
Exxon Rakes in Record $10 Billion Quarterly Earnings While Cheering OPEC's Readiness to Cut Production
Raymond J. Learsy
Sooooooo, we're getting poked in the butt by a bunch of rich fucks at the gas pump and the Bush Administration has pissed all over the constitution also.
Yep-pers, they are the kind of fucktards that yell in your face "Freedom isn't Free!! "
Exxon Rakes in Record $10 Billion Quarterly Earnings While Cheering OPEC's Readiness to Cut Production
Raymond J. Learsy
Sooooooo, we're getting poked in the butt by a bunch of rich fucks at the gas pump and the Bush Administration has pissed all over the constitution also.
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