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Ripped from the Headlines, no. 2: GOP carrying for wildlife

Congress just voted for a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.

And if that wasn’t enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses.)

So, if you’re a wild horse and you sow wild oats, there’s help from the GOP; but if you’re human, well that’s a different bucket of oats.

I didn’t know the GOP cared so much for wildlife.

Or maybe they just want to make sure there’s more cannon fodder for the war machine.

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Liberty

Liberty means responsibility; that is why most men dread it. –George Bernard Shaw

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While out for dinner this evening…

A social observation occurred to me when a young boy, probably four or five, returned to his dinner table and made an announcement.

My observation, based on the young man’s announcement is this: up until the age of eight it is socially acceptable to come out of a public rest room and announce to family, friends, and bystanders alike that you just went pee or poop. It is also socially acceptable to make the same pronouncement in the same social situation when you are above 80 years old. Any age in between it is not de rigueur to speak or your derriere in a public place like a restaurant.

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