Arkansas Blog

Who would want to see the number of teenage pregnancies go down? We're one of the national leaders. I'd put them on the school supplies list if it were up to me. Teenagers have sex, they've always had sex, and they will always have sex. To pretend otherwise is not just dumb, it has very real consequences.

I'm all for sex education in schools, and condom distribution everywhere -- as both a pregnancy-reducing method and for STD prevention.

Still, if Arkansas' sex-obsessed religious bigots are opposed to it, I'm all for Max's axiom: "Perhaps there's still time to blow the whistle."

Not only does it work, but men for millennia seem to prefer it. Plus, if you know how to work it, it can make you independently wealthy.

Just sayin'.

Let 'em get preggers, acquire Chlamydia, HPV, gonorrhea, other STD's including HIV, but DO NOT provide options other than the tried-and-true abstinence! Bible-thumping Morons all...with their heads firmly in the sand (and up their butts). Stealth legislation, always a crowd pleaser...
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At a public university located somewhere near the center of the state, there was a proposal a few years back to make condoms available in the dorms. It was rejected. Apparently, college students don't have sex, despite getting screwed in other ways.

"So the web is tangled. If not Baker, who? The governor? I have a question in to that office. The state Education Department said it did not approve of this special language and had no role in its drafting." Max

The origin of the language is clear It was immaculate conception!

One sure way to stop the whining of the 15th century Bible beater is to start taking newborn, unwanted babies and slinging them out in the front yard to rot. Some people don't want anyone to use contraceptives, so let's target their yards. Let them rush and save the baby or clean up the mess...they're choice.

I don't want to sling an infant any more than the next guy, but these prevent-ers won't raise them, don't want to spend tax money on them, they think some great woo woo in the sky thinks it's a sin to prevent unwanted pregnancies....so with every newborn slung across a gravel lot.....THEY'RE to blame. Grownups don't have a very good record of preventing unwanted pregnancies, kids are even worse. Just say no.....just doesn't work. Didn't 10 years ago...won't 100 years from now. A lack of education about sex is far worse than free condoms at school.

So....man up and practice your swing. I figure the we won't have to skip very many babies across the parking lot before the wingnuts are willing to quit their sneaky anti-sex education/condom tricks. Batter up!

DBI, would you go along with the plan described at the blue name?

It's just amazing that not one of those that oppose any kind of birth control, sex education or omg, abortion never are seen with their lawyer in tow ready to sign a contract with the mother of an unwanted child promising to support said child and provide for its care, education and welfare.

If this is being debated in the committee BAKER chairs, might it be prudent of him to find out who indeed did write the language? Or would he prefer to be seen as someone more interested in his personal bully pulpit than offering valid options to the young people of Arkansas? Oh who am I kidding...he's the Senator for my area (but not MY senator)....I already know the answer to that question.

Condoms make great water ballons.

I thought the ones who let the babies rot were the abortionists? Seems like I have read about several incidents where the abortion providers get rid of them that way. So are you guys real big on abortion?

Congratulations, Irish.

CCRRR's like you continue to support and contribute to the spread and increase of the AIDS epidemic under the guise of religious conscience. Even your superior leader Benedict XVI joins in although some of his cardinals seem to have good sense and conscience.

Are you trying to reduce the popoulation numbers of the lower income levels you detest and continually suppress or do you just have a lot of investment in pharmaceutical manufacturers of AIDS medicines like pFizer and Glaxosmithkline.

My compliments on your evidence of compassionate conservatism at it's Bushevik best.

In reality Doc, anything you can heat over 160 degrees can safely be your food. And I'm told if you and buddy are caught in the desert and are dying of thirst, as long as you drink the other guy's urine, you'll be alright. But of course that silly bitch from Cedarville would think she was in a park in Eureka Springs if she caught you doing that.

Who knew the Pope had so many secret agents in the Arkansas legislature? In my little Baptist church growing up, calling someone a Papist was worse than implying they'd roll around in an Eureka Springs park like an animal.

Let's review....don't educate Mexicans so they'll grow up more likely to rob and rape. And make sure no kids in Arkansas know about birth control....yep...next we be drowning Arkansas women suspected of practicing witchcraft. Legislature go home!

AS A TAXPAYER, TO THE HILT, TWICE FOR EDUCATION, NO TESTING FOR MY KID. EVEN THO I PAID TWICE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION. AM SICK OF PAYING FOR YOUR KIDS TO SCREW AROUND. TEACH THEM NO DAMMIT. ARE YOU TELLING ME AND EVERYONE ELSE THAT THINKS NO IS AN ANSWER. THAT YOUR KIDS ARE TOO DAM DUMB TO SAY NO. DONT UNDERSTAND THE CONSEQUENCES SO THEY HAVE TO SAY YES. ARE YOUR KIDS TOO STUPID TO UNDERSTAND THIS CAUSE AND EFFECT. I DONT WANT TO PAY FOR ANYONES ABORTION, OR COUNSELING. OR CONDOMS. TAKE ME OFF YOUR STUPID SCREWY TAX LIST. MAYBE YOUR KIDS CANT SAY NO, MINE SURE AS HELL DID. AND I AM PROUD OF IT... NOT A CATHOLIC, NOT A BAPTIST, JUST SOMEONE WHO KNOWS RIGHT FROM WRONG AND TAUGHT THE KIDS THE SAME THING. ARE PUBLIC SCHOOL KIDS TOO DUMB TO SAY NO CAN THEY NOT EVEN CONSIDER BEING ABLE TO SAY NO.. THEY WILL HAVE ONE HELL OF A TIME IN THE REAL WORLD.. DONT PLAY IN TRAFFICE... OH I CANT SAY NO. I HAVE TO. HOW IGORANT IS THAT IDEA.. JUST CANT SAY NO. TEACH EM. THATS WHAT.. GET UP OFF YOUR FAT DUFFS AND TEACH EM WHATS RIGHT AND WRONG AND BE CONSISTENT AND DO AS YOU SAY , NOT LIKE YOU JUST WANT THEM TO. TEACH THEM RESPECT FOR THEMSELVES, AND EACH OTHER, AND FOR LIFE.
A LITTLE CONSIDERATION AND POLITENESS WOULDNT HURT EITHER.
TRY THAT ON FOR SIZE. IF THATS RIGHT WING SO BE IT. . ITS HUMAN , DECENT AND THE THING TO DO.

AND WHILE IM AT IT.. WHATS THIS "NO PROBLEM " DEAL , THE ANSWER TO THANK Y OU VERY MUCH, IS NOT NO PROBLEM, TIS YOU'RE WELCOME. OR DID WE HAVE TO DUMB IT DOWN FOR THEM FOR THIS TOO.. ALONG WITH CHANGE FOR A DOLLAR. START WITH THE SMALL STUFF. AND PRAY LIKE HELL THE REST FALLS INTO PLACE.. WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO DESTRUCTION, WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY , AND IT IS US. POGO.

Thank you for your input LargeAss. Congratulations on your kids learning a way not to make unwanted babies. Congratulate me for achieving the same with my kids too. So...our kids aren't the problem...good! But looking at the number of abortions and unwanted babies....obviously there are lots of kids getting knocked up and there's the problem.

Common sense says some kids get it. Some kids need Jesus. Some kids need condoms. Some kids need birth control pills, and some kids need to be sterilized....though Hitler sorta ruined that for all time. I'm for doing whatever results in the least unwanted pregnancies. And since our prisons are full of adults who started out life unwanted and abused.....I'm for legal abortion.

Never being born isn't half as bad as being born unwanted and unloved to a single mom who can barely wipe her own ass. It's ugly, it's sad...and it sucks. But humans will never be prefect until the Rapture comes....and in opinion that sucker is several centuries late. Our school motto should be Bag It Before You Shag It! Go team go!

No, Irishman, honey. We're just real big on welcoming back former trolls reincarnating under new nicks.

Plus, aren't YOU guys in and from the Emerald Isle responsible for the Catholic / Protestant religious "Troubles" of the past half-century or longer? The bombings? The killings? The murders?

Yeah. You are.

The Irish.

Dance your Jigs for Jesus, ReRun.

The World thanks you a lot.

Not.

"I thought the ones who let the babies rot were the abortionists?"

No, Irishman: that sick image foments only in your own ugly mind.

You think thoughtless uninformed bigots like you will mindlessly go along if you throw out the "rotting babies / abortionists" lie, don't you?

They probably will.

To you, and they, a zygote or blastocyst is a "baby." They're not. And "God" spontaneously "aborts" more than half of them "naturally" every day.

No matter. Fuck nature. Fuck facts.

You vomit lies about "rotting babies" and assume we'll buy 'em.

You think you can redefine cell-clumps as "babies", make them "individual citizens" and prosecute women and physicians who decide abortion is the healthiest choice.

You just LOST, legally, in Kansas, yet, turnip.

You're no doctor, Irishman. You're no woman. You're a male fundamentalist religious fascist, honeydew.

This Blog isn't composed of thoughtless uninformed religious fundamentalist bigots.

NOBODY, honey, lets babies rot, anywhere in the world. We mourn the millions of babies' deaths from malnutrition and murder each year because of no sex education, no condom distribution, no family planning, thanks largely to your Catholic church, Irishman.

GOOGLE it, for Christ's sake, four-leaf clover.

You're AGAINST all that, thistleweed.

You'd rather impose your hateful religious dogma, spew your repulsive "let babies rot" lies on people and countries, enable unwanted and unnecessary and even life-threatening pregnancies by thwarting sex education, family planning and contraception.

As the President of the Royal Society said two years ago (the oldest continuing scientific body on earth), "The Catholic Church's anti-condom distribution policy in Africa is resulting in 20 to 60 million deaths from sexually transmitted diseases."

That's Hitler and Stalin genocidal numbers, babydoll. Can we get real?

Let's get ALL the way down, Irishman.

Too many people worldwide, born and unborn, die needless excruciating deaths every day because of people like you and your glib religious psychopathy.

Try to cover it with cutesy green-beer alcoholic St. Pat's Day Parades, viciously irrational anti-same-sex equality, woman-hating, fact-fearing, anti-scientific patriarchal fascist superstitions.

Who do you think you're fooling, Adolph?

Society? Unh-unh, tapioca. We're losing count of all the countries who've so far voted for same-sex marriage and full human equality . . . including Catholic Spain.

Thanks to relentless religious fundamentalism, the United States is becoming the Arkansas of nations. Last in everything from health care to equality, economic viability to education.

Dumbed-down and cowed. Burqua-ed.

Respect?

Honey, Irishman, give us something -- ANYTHING -- to respect in your religion and we might.

But please stop overlaying God's name on your ugly "religious" dogmatic psychosis that's killing millions of Africans and persecuting millions more, worldwide.

Of course, your dress-wearing Pope Rat (yep, that's his blog-name globally) is a former Nazi youth.

It's death-worshipping insanity like yours, buttercup, that's led to the precipitous decline of religious influence in Europe and now the States -- and Religions' last-ditch tooth-baring cornered-dog violent stance around the world.

Love? Peace?

Bullshit, pea-pie. Tell the truth.

People, wherever they are, whatever color they are, whatever race or creed, all around the world, are fundamentally nice and just want to get along, raise families and enjoy their time on Earth.

But not YOU. Not our world "Leaders."

Your impulse is to hurt, punish and subjugate -- in the name of God.

What a cheap fucking shot, Judas.

You think you can slip your idiotic two-bit sound-bites by us . . . but NO, poontang.

And please stop giving us Irish a bad name.

I'm Irish. My family and many friends, all my life, are Irish.

NONE of us are sick like you.

"Adh mór ort."

That's Irish.

Prick.

Darn, Norma. I get tickled when then they go through their fourth or fifth troll reincarnation. Don't let the cat out of the bag so quick, although I understand the anger.

Besides, I've a cousin-in-law that went to Notre Dame and I was looking forward to letting Irish spin futilely a few more times.

I'm just a Scots-Irish with Norman heritage, but the ancestors spoke it in both places, although they called gaelic "the Irish" in Eire. Saol fada chugat! Norma, Slán go fóill!

Docster!

This is better than Pig Latin! Only the Gaelic can follow us!

My favorite bar opening in Los Angeles was two Dubliners who opened a VIP club on Melrose called:

"Póg mo thóin!"

Nobody knew what it meant and the entrance was just off Melrose, a nondescript door lit by one overhanging red lightbulb. You had to know.

This was a little after the Viper opened on the Strip. Which is where Jennifer and Brad and I got to be BFFs scraping Phoenix off the floor every night until, you know. Sad. Sad.

Vice closed "Póg mo thóin!" in six months, but oh my god!

Heaven while it lasted, Docster.

It was the only club I ever actually danced on the bar!

I'm pretty sure.

"Pog mo thoin!" would be a great banner to put up in front of the State Capitol building -- from the people to the current legislators. Most of them would think we were cheering them on, though. So I guess we'd better scrap the idea. How 'bout just getting someone to sponsor a bill to adopt it as our new state motto?