Current Events: June 2006 Archives

HT: The World IMHO via The Curt Jester

As you can see from the article, the war on contraception is more a war for common sense:

The New York Times joined the fray with a May 7 article titled "The War on Contraception.” Feminists point to several elements of the so-called war:

# The Food and Drug Administration has refused to approve the open sale of the morning-after pill in pharmacies.

# The administration has promoted abstinence as the chief way of avoiding pregnancy.

# Health insurers are reportedly under mounting pressure not to cover the morning-after pill.

# Four states – Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Dakota – have approved laws allowing pharmacists to refuse to sell birth control pills.

Sometimes I wonder, what are they really fighting for?

Dear New York Times:

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Just who the hell do you think you are?

You can start yapping to me about your High Holy Professional Obligation to Blab Classified Information Just Because You Think It Will Sell Ad Space when you tell me...

-- why you think you're a professional. If you're a real professional, you are subject to a governing board with rules and the authority to enforce them. Lawyers have the bar, doctors have their medical associations and boards. Where's your board? For that matter, where's your commission or license?

-- and who, precisely, gave you this task. This is a democracy. So who elected you? Who gave you this oversight power? To whom are you accountable?

Selfish jerks.

Good!

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I hated that movie. My hating that movie has very little to do with my feelings towards the war. It was just such annoying, blatant, one-sided propaganda that was touted as a documentary, and was no such thing. I watched this movie because someone said that everyone should "educate themselves" and watch it regardless of your political affiliation. I couldn't finish it because it was such baloney. It's like when you see movies like this, if you were on the fence whether you like Bush, or are a fence sitter on the war, it makes you want to become a hard line republican just despite Michael Moore!

Sgt. Peter Damon, 33, a supporter of President George W. Bush and the Iraq war, claims Moore misused the footage to portray him "in a false light" and as "disagreeing with the president about the war effort and as disagreeing with the war effort itself."

"It was kind of almost like the enemy was using me for propaganda. What soldier wants to be involved in that?" Damon told CBS's local television news affiliate. "I didn't lose my arms over there to come back and be used as ammunition against my commander-in-chief."

I wonder how much money Michael Moore made from his "educational documentary", to misuse this man's quotes for his own agenda.


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