http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/02/01/obama-administration-alters-contraception-plan Comments On: Obama administration alters contraception plan by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Fri, 24 May 2013 18:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Hackett]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:02:02 -0600 Arkansas Times
Of course, 50% of all abortions are spontaneous and thus we will have to have RAPErt sue God for that since I am sure that Saline forgives that one. Don't know where RAPErt wants to shove his probe on that one but like they say, don't hold up a 1 iron in a thunderstorm.
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:42:48 -0600 Arkansas Times
The Catholic Church of my youth had a good supply of preists and nuns since there were few if any options for the ughly or gay members.

Then after it became able for gays to go out into the world and have a job and a life then the priest/nun pool drained overnight.

Long hours, virtually no pay and no family (chastity/poverty/seclusion) of their own was just too much of a hard sell.

When I started 1st grade our parish church and school had a monsignor, 3 priests and 15 or 16 nuns.

Now a new priest is assigned 3 or 4 parishes plus many churches have closed due to no preists.

The church ran out of priests when the potential applicants lost their respect for the church.

Now with the endless constant attack on women's rights and deniel of freewill the same seems to be occuring with women whom were always the backbone of the active church.

All across Europe there are grand cathedrals which are empty save for tourists and a couple elderly women studying for final exams.

The US won't be far behind as more and more women notice the inequality and exploitation they endure.

It has been my experience that hate movements seem to fizzle as the moderate section fades away as the extreme double down on mean. It then spirals into failure since the extreme feel threatened and then triple down on mean and even more of the moderate slink off quietly wondering why they ever had gone along in the 1st place.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:25:10 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:34:55 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:32:07 -0600 Arkansas Times http://thedailyhatch.org/2013/02/01/roe-vs…
Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:19:35 -0600 Arkansas Times
Trickle trickle trickle and organized religion will be dead in 30 or 40 years and peace will break out all over soon after. As it's been for those who blow us up overseas, religion is also the main reason life is bad in the US today. People dwelling in fantasy are people you can't reason with. And this victim-hood that comes with all religion makes them mean. Lordy, if I thought someone was dumping on me 24-7, I'd be mean too.

But like ole Khrushchev said about America dying from within, organized religion is doing the same without the help of people like me who mostly just ignore it. I would like to see them taxed like everyone else. They got their finger in all pies especially in politics and education, the only difference between them and me is that I don't have a big parking lot. Tax them! It will help keep them from eating up our neighborhoods building giant Gyms For Jesus! Amen!

Faith of our Fathers has turned into a studded club used to wreck our country and the world for that matter. It's no good, it won't save you from death, won't save your 1st grader from crazy bullets, makes very few people actually behave better though it might have 50 years ago. It's a brand like Coke to use against all the Pepsi people and it has made life cheap and unbearable.

So good....take your Glock to church, keep yer women barefoot and pregnant and have so many kids you'll never have a pot to piss in. Take advice about marriage, sex, and children from Priests who never had any of those things....except for a tasty altar boy of course. It's nuts, you're nuts and now America is nuts. Where is that Rapture??? Bring it!!
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:23:56 -0600 Arkansas Times
I think we're on the way - very slowly - to single payer. Too many people are going to fall through the exemption cracks, and once the deadline rolls around and those numbers are discovered it's going to cause all sorts of grief and single payer is the only thing that fixes the problems. Right now everyone is focused on birth control, and it makes for all kinds of back and forth, but what it really does is mask the bigger problem, and that is affordability.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/us/polit…

The Obama administration adopted a strict definition of affordable health insurance on Wednesday that will deny federal financial assistance to millions of Americans with modest incomes who cannot afford family coverage offered by employers.

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My take on all this - and I fall in to the above category - is that the real constitutional question in all this is about employment. As a non employed spouse, the cost of what is available to me is more than 18% of gross income. That is not affordable, and results in a direct correlation to health care and employment. An exemption benefits the government, not me. What started out as a means of luring employees during WWII will have become a requirement to be part of the work force in order to afford health insurance.

The true beneficiaries are the insurance companies and corporate America, in gaining further control of the masses.

What I don't know is how all of it will implode. Still, birth control is an important fight, one that the religionists can not win anymore unless we let them. They are making as much noise as they can, and they right now still have too much sway in congress, but I really do think we are watching their endgame.
Posted by Vanessa]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:50:39 -0600 Arkansas Times If that is the question then why yes to viagra and no to birth control?
Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:47:18 -0600 Arkansas Times
Now, the rest of the taxpayers have to subsidize health insurance for their employees as well. How is this a "fair" compromise?
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:46:53 -0600 Arkansas Times
What if the company you work for is bought out by a high school football coach? Then your healthcare plan is "walk it off you wussy!!!"

Gov't should assure a level playing field and have minimums of coverage such as car insurance policies with various required $ amounts.

Why is the "COST TO BOSS" the main criteria for medical coverage?

Separate medical coverage away from anything to do with employment.

That is pure lunacy!
Posted by Citizen1]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:49:34 -0600 Arkansas Times
Why can't government take this opt out or in idea a bit further and kill the mandate to buy private for profit insurance? Why can't government simply enable consumers ability to opt out of all sorts of forced packages such as satellite and cable television... we all pay for dozens or more channels we will never watch? Why is government not on our side?

It's not about us except for the looting.
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:31:35 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Conwegian]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:52:53 -0600 Arkansas Times