And it still includes taxpayer funding of abortion. Good luck getting this past the voting bloc of pro-life Democrats and conservative Republicans. According to Rep. Stupak, he has enough in his voting bloc to vote down any bill which includes taxpayer funding of abortion.
@Angela Carone, not that I'm interesting in parsing catechism with you, but you say that you are a "born and raised Catholic." Leaving alone for the moment the shock of finding KPBS actually hiring someone who'd admit to that in public, what part of Sarah's trashing of our religion do you find funny?
I mean, you have seen her other work, mocking pro-lifers, right? You are pro-life, aren't you? After all, you're a "born and raised Catholic." Did you find that amusing as well?
I love it when Hollywood types tell the rest of us what WE should do to end world hunger.
Um, where's Sarah's house located? Is she sharing a studio apartment in Inglewood or does she enjoy the standard Hollywood Hills home enjoyed by so many of her "more sensitive than thou" collegues.
I volunteer handing out clothes to the homeless as part of a Catholic ministry. Anytime Sarah wants to come down from her ivory tower to get dirty with the people, give me a holler.
"We already have public ownership and most of us like it a lot. We have public schools and universities, public highways, Medicare/Medicaid, the V.A., the good old U.S. Postal Service, and Social Security."
First off, you're holding up public schools as something most of us like is a red herring. Most of us are stuck paying for incompetence of public schools with our tax dollars, and many of us, especially those of us in neighborhoods of color, would rather send our children to Catholic school, were not all of the tax money going to the public schools.
Public highways have become increasingly toll roads run by private companies, so that too is a straw man.
Medicaid and Medicare are routinely exploited for overpayment, to the point that even the left-leaning "60 Minutes" had to report on it.
The good old Postal Service has escalated postage rates so often that I'm stilling using stamps from 5 increases ago, and still they are running at a deficit.
As far as Social Security, what Social Security? This is FDR's ultimate Ponzi scheme that, because of the declining birth rate and rising abortion rate, there are no longer enough younger workers paying into the system in order to prop it up.
"When George W. Bush poured record amounts of money into government spending, there was no whisper that he was a socialist."
I guess you weren't following Citizen Voices back then on this very web site. There was plenty of socialism complaints from both the bloggers and the commenters. As well, none other than Glenn Beck complained that we can't have capitalism in times of proserity but socialism in times of decline. He was a different network back then, so that might be why you may not heard it. It was, nonetheless, far more than a whisper.
That's great, Senator Reid. Why bother with the diliberative process of fashioning legislation through normal channels when you can make the sausage behind closed doors.
So, in spite of the public option not being included in any of the bills, it now is included. Maybe I should believe POTUS when he says that health care reform won't include taxpayer funding for abortions. After all, if Sen. Reid can include a public option even though it is excluded from all of the bills, maybe Sen. Reid can exclude taxpayer funding for abortion even though it is included in all of the bills.
Then again, given POTUS and Sen. Reid's track record, I don't think so.
@rlomeli, I watched that and concluded that Ricki Lake, like another certain Hollywood celebrity who has something against medicine, has an agenda.
So, she had a positive labor experience using a midwife. Good for her. That's a far cry from concluding that all medical intervention in the birth process is unnatural and sinister. It also, as I stated originally, puts another guilt trip on parents who either choose or must have medical intervention.
@pbmama: "I am sorry your wife labored for 40 hours."
You and me both. If there was anything funny about this experience, it was that I was so upset with what my wife went through, she started to tell jokes to make ME feel better. That's why she's my hero.
"I hope the outcome was a healthy baby and healthy mama."
He's the smaller and more handsome half of my avatar, as a matter of fact, and, aside from a little reminder of the ultimate procedure, she's lost all the baby weight I still have.
"But please understand, study after study indicates that women who are forced to lay on their backs, strapped to monitors, injected w/ 'hormones' to speed up labor...these 'interventions' are precisely why women end up laboring for so long, and ultimately land on an operating table."
While I share your healthy skepticism for the medical profession, this is a straw man argument. "Study after study" is a broad brush which doesn't cover every peer-reviewed medical study. Unless you can be more specific, that's too general a statement to take seriously.
It also presumes that parents like ourselves were not informed of all options. We tried to have induce labor naturally; it didn't. We tried to dialate without pain medication; no go. We tried to dialate with pain medication; still nothing. The C-section ultimately determined why; an irregular uterine thinning that, while not life-threatening, could have only been determined by surgical examination. Had we not gone the more medically conducive route, my wife would have been pushing somewhere the baby couldn't go, causing a rupture and possible death for both of them. As it was, with all of the medical professionals on the wait in a rather confortable labor & delivery room, what could have been tragic out of ideology became routine --save for th 40 hours of labor, of course.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the site for the new library that hole in the ground next to the North parking lot for Petco Park right next to the trolley line?
My morning commute consisted of watching all of these earth movers digging a hole followed by nothing else. Meanwhile, a different building just two blocks north already has its superstructure.
How about selling the land on the open market, using that money to build the new city/county building and distribute the rest to the branch libraries? Even in this soft real estate, it has location.
My wife and I agreed that, if we had daughters, my wife would do their hair, even if that meant flying them home from college. The reason? Plane tickets are cheaper.
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Pelosi: New Health Care Bill Is 'Historic Moment'
And it still includes taxpayer funding of abortion. Good luck getting this past the voting bloc of pro-life Democrats and conservative Republicans. According to Rep. Stupak, he has enough in his voting bloc to vote down any bill which includes taxpayer funding of abortion.
October 29, 2009 at 11:23 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Sarah Silverman Saves The World, One Vatican At A Time
@Angela Carone, not that I'm interesting in parsing catechism with you, but you say that you are a "born and raised Catholic." Leaving alone for the moment the shock of finding KPBS actually hiring someone who'd admit to that in public, what part of Sarah's trashing of our religion do you find funny?
I mean, you have seen her other work, mocking pro-lifers, right? You are pro-life, aren't you? After all, you're a "born and raised Catholic." Did you find that amusing as well?
October 29, 2009 at 11:20 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Sarah Silverman Saves The World, One Vatican At A Time
I love it when Hollywood types tell the rest of us what WE should do to end world hunger.
Um, where's Sarah's house located? Is she sharing a studio apartment in Inglewood or does she enjoy the standard Hollywood Hills home enjoyed by so many of her "more sensitive than thou" collegues.
I volunteer handing out clothes to the homeless as part of a Catholic ministry. Anytime Sarah wants to come down from her ivory tower to get dirty with the people, give me a holler.
October 29, 2009 at 10:57 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Why Is Socialism Scary Again?
"We already have public ownership and most of us like it a lot. We have public schools and universities, public highways, Medicare/Medicaid, the V.A., the good old U.S. Postal Service, and Social Security."
First off, you're holding up public schools as something most of us like is a red herring. Most of us are stuck paying for incompetence of public schools with our tax dollars, and many of us, especially those of us in neighborhoods of color, would rather send our children to Catholic school, were not all of the tax money going to the public schools.
Public highways have become increasingly toll roads run by private companies, so that too is a straw man.
Medicaid and Medicare are routinely exploited for overpayment, to the point that even the left-leaning "60 Minutes" had to report on it.
The good old Postal Service has escalated postage rates so often that I'm stilling using stamps from 5 increases ago, and still they are running at a deficit.
As far as Social Security, what Social Security? This is FDR's ultimate Ponzi scheme that, because of the declining birth rate and rising abortion rate, there are no longer enough younger workers paying into the system in order to prop it up.
"When George W. Bush poured record amounts of money into government spending, there was no whisper that he was a socialist."
I guess you weren't following Citizen Voices back then on this very web site. There was plenty of socialism complaints from both the bloggers and the commenters. As well, none other than Glenn Beck complained that we can't have capitalism in times of proserity but socialism in times of decline. He was a different network back then, so that might be why you may not heard it. It was, nonetheless, far more than a whisper.
October 29, 2009 at 10:50 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Reid Gambles On Public Option In Health Care Bill
That's great, Senator Reid. Why bother with the diliberative process of fashioning legislation through normal channels when you can make the sausage behind closed doors.
So, in spite of the public option not being included in any of the bills, it now is included. Maybe I should believe POTUS when he says that health care reform won't include taxpayer funding for abortions. After all, if Sen. Reid can include a public option even though it is excluded from all of the bills, maybe Sen. Reid can exclude taxpayer funding for abortion even though it is included in all of the bills.
Then again, given POTUS and Sen. Reid's track record, I don't think so.
October 27, 2009 at 10:25 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Program Offers Women Drug-Free, All-Natural Childbirth
@rlomeli, I watched that and concluded that Ricki Lake, like another certain Hollywood celebrity who has something against medicine, has an agenda.
So, she had a positive labor experience using a midwife. Good for her. That's a far cry from concluding that all medical intervention in the birth process is unnatural and sinister. It also, as I stated originally, puts another guilt trip on parents who either choose or must have medical intervention.
October 27, 2009 at 10:03 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Program Offers Women Drug-Free, All-Natural Childbirth
@pbmama: "I am sorry your wife labored for 40 hours."
You and me both. If there was anything funny about this experience, it was that I was so upset with what my wife went through, she started to tell jokes to make ME feel better. That's why she's my hero.
"I hope the outcome was a healthy baby and healthy mama."
He's the smaller and more handsome half of my avatar, as a matter of fact, and, aside from a little reminder of the ultimate procedure, she's lost all the baby weight I still have.
"But please understand, study after study indicates that women who are forced to lay on their backs, strapped to monitors, injected w/ 'hormones' to speed up labor...these 'interventions' are precisely why women end up laboring for so long, and ultimately land on an operating table."
While I share your healthy skepticism for the medical profession, this is a straw man argument. "Study after study" is a broad brush which doesn't cover every peer-reviewed medical study. Unless you can be more specific, that's too general a statement to take seriously.
It also presumes that parents like ourselves were not informed of all options. We tried to have induce labor naturally; it didn't. We tried to dialate without pain medication; no go. We tried to dialate with pain medication; still nothing. The C-section ultimately determined why; an irregular uterine thinning that, while not life-threatening, could have only been determined by surgical examination. Had we not gone the more medically conducive route, my wife would have been pushing somewhere the baby couldn't go, causing a rupture and possible death for both of them. As it was, with all of the medical professionals on the wait in a rather confortable labor & delivery room, what could have been tragic out of ideology became routine --save for th 40 hours of labor, of course.
October 27, 2009 at 9:58 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
KPBS Reporter Sharon Heilbrunn speaks with Councilmembers Ben Hueso and Carl DeMaio about the contro
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the site for the new library that hole in the ground next to the North parking lot for Petco Park right next to the trolley line?
My morning commute consisted of watching all of these earth movers digging a hole followed by nothing else. Meanwhile, a different building just two blocks north already has its superstructure.
How about selling the land on the open market, using that money to build the new city/county building and distribute the rest to the branch libraries? Even in this soft real estate, it has location.
October 27, 2009 at 9:36 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Chris Rock's Documentary "Good Hair" Skips San Diego
My wife and I agreed that, if we had daughters, my wife would do their hair, even if that meant flying them home from college. The reason? Plane tickets are cheaper.
October 19, 2009 at 2:58 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Doctors React To Lack Of Liquid Tamiflu
Our son spit up the stuff the moment we put it in his mouth. We stopped giving him the stuff after only two doses.
I wish I could return it; maybe other children wouldn't react as our son did.
October 19, 2009 at 2:44 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )