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Let's see what we learn from this article on sex education in city schools : 1) Some parents and religious leaders are outraged that schools plan to teach evidence-based information. 2) Despite the name, Fox "News" appears to be an entertainment program. 3) City officials are unfamiliar with the abstinence method of birth control. 4) Some parents want schools to offer abstinence-only indoctrination sessions as an alternative to education classes. 5) The Chinese government is incompetent. 6) Our government, not to be outdone in the incompetence department, wasted more than one billion dollars on abstinence-only indoctrination programs. 7) Last, but not least, President Obama magnanimously doled out a $250 million pay off, earmarked to undermine public health, to appease opponents of his health insurance reform.

Rebel Libyan Dude in Charge : We won! Tyrant dead, country free, time to move on. Most pressing order of business ... Libyans : Um, security, a functioning government? RLDC : No! Libyans : Economy? RLDC : Pfft! Libyans : Health, education, infrastructure? RLDC : Don't be silly, people. First and foremost ... wait for it ... here, I'll give you a hint ... has to do with the law of divorce and marriage I've just abolished ... women lose the right to keep the family home if they divorce , huzzah!

Talk about an inauspicious start in the newly freed Libya : The transitional government leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil set out a vision for the post-Gadhafi future with an Islamist tint, saying that Islamic Sharia law would be the "basic source" of legislation in the country and that existing laws that contradict the teachings of Islam would be nullified. In a gesture that showed his own piety, he urged Libyans not to express their joy by firing in the air, but rather to chant "Allahu Akbar," or God is Great. He then stepped aside and knelt to offer a brief prayer of thanks.

Or, for that matter, has he ever met and interacted with any women? I ask because, based on his public statements, it appears Michael Borg is unaware that women happen to be people: He shot his kids - then tucked them into bed. Police revealed Wednesday that the Westchester lawyer who wiped out his family in a twisted murder-suicide used a 12-gauge shotgun to blast his pajama-clad children. Samuel Friedlander, who was in the midst of a bitter divorce, fired into the bodies of sleeping 10-year-old Molly and 8-year-old Gregory in their Cross River home. ... Friedlander, 50, used a table or chair leg to kill his estranged wife, Amy, 46, during the bloodbath early Tuesday. "We believe she was bludgeoned in the bedroom," Kopy said. "We believe a struggle occurred. It was a struggle that cost her her life." After he killed his wife and kids, he went down to the unfinished basement and fatally shot himself with the Remington 870. He did not leave a note. The couple were g

This article is intended as satire, I think. Unfortunately, it's poorly executed satire and the topic is birth control. That's a dangerous combination in dire need of a remedy , or two . Here's mine: Plan B isn't pining for the fjords, it's no more Pharmacies are out of Plan B because Plan B has been discontinued by its manufacturer quite some time ago. So forget about Plan B and familiarize yourselves with the available emergency contraceptive pill (ECP) brands. Next Choice and Postinor Next Choice and Postinor (outside the US) are the equivalent of Plan B -- 2 pill levonorgestrel (LNG), a progestin, dose brands available without a prescription and on Amazon. Take both pills at the same time (disregard label instructions), as soon as possible after the act of unprotected intercourse, up to 120 hrs/5 days. The sooner you use it, the more effective it is. Plan B One-Step, i-Pill/Nextime, and Postinor 1/Postinor2 Unidosis Plan B One-Step , i-Pill / Nextime , a

Rev. Shawn Ratigan (via CBSNews) In 2009 Bishop Robert Finn settles lawsuits with 47 plaintiffs in sexual abuse cases for $10 million and agree[s] to a long list of preventive measures, among them to report anyone suspected of being a pedophile immediately to law enforcement authorities. May 2010 Parish principal raises concerns, in a written report, that the Rev. Shawn Ratigan [is] behaving inappropriately around children . Monsignor Robert Murphy , the diocese's vicar general, receives the principal's concerns, speaks with Ratigan about setting boundaries with children , and gives Bishop Finn a verbal summary of the concerns and his meeting with the priest. [ Finn acknowledged that the parish principal raised concerns in May 2010, and admitted that he didn't read the principal's report until Spring 2011.] December 2010 A computer technician finds on Ratigan's laptop hundreds of what he called "disturbing" images of children, most of them fully cl

Nursing student Ben Cochran offers a response and puts to rest the fears of all those who thought he might be a mediocre satirist, and the hopes of those who thought he would be inclined to remedy his professional incompetence: If you were among the many who were offended by my column last week, then let me take this opportunity to offer you a heartfelt apology. I am well aware that my stance was not a popular one. As an Opinion columnist, my primary goal is to generate informed discussion. To that end, I intentionally try to be provocative. As such, sometimes my columns offend people. Please understand that my intent was not to cause people to become enraged. I simply hoped they would disagree with the expressed opinion and state reasons for that disagreement. I wanted to see a lively debate, and hopefully, learn something in the process. The position I argued for is a valid opinion by virtue of the fact that it is an opinion. Unfortunately, my word choice was not the best. I cannot

How incompetent are our politicians, you ask? Well, they managed to award a medal to an unregistered Pakistani ISI agent operating illegally in our country: The night should have been a coup for Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai . Once a poor villager from halfway around the world, Fai had become the go-to man in Washington, D.C., for his cause, Kashmir, the Himalayan region long caught in a tug of war between Pakistan and India. ... The FBI was monitoring almost every move Fai made, every email he sent, every call he received. Investigators believed Fai's main donors were not well-meaning idealists but members of the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, or ISI, the most powerful of Pakistan's spy agencies. Within weeks, the Justice Department would send Fai a letter of warning. Within months, he would be pulled over by New York police with $35,000 in cash in his car. And by the next year, Fai would be arrested, the unlikely central character in a scheme by a foreign government to pa

Of God , that is: In the most horrifying terror scheme, al-Asiri created a bomb that was strapped between the legs of kid brother Abdullah - who blew himself up in a suicide mission. The surviving brother was hardly shaken by his sibling's explosive end in a failed try at assassinating Saudi Prince Mohammad bin Nayef. "Come see my brother Abdullah's body parts," al-Asiri told an AQAP Web magazine after the death. "May he enjoy it, he was killed the way he hoped for and his body was torn for the love of God."

Did you know that Israel registers the religion and ethnicity of its citizens? Israel registers its citizens according to both their religion and their ethnicity, although it does not include an "Israeli" ethnicity, labelling its Jewish citizens as of "Jewish" ethnicity. And while newborns, apparently, can be registered as "without religion" , it's not enough for adults to just ask to have their religious registration changed from "Jewish" to "without religion": Kaniuk [an author and veteran of the of the 1948 War of Independence], 81, sought to equate his standing to that of his grandson, born last year, who is registered as "without religion" at the Population Registry. The infant was originally classified as a Christian American, like his mother. Kaniuk's daughter was born in Israel but is defined by the Interior Ministry as an American Christian because her own mother was born in the United States and is a Christi

UPDATE: Ben Cochran responds. In all his glory and my reaction: Dear [ Dean ], I am an Ob/Gyn and a medblogger and I am emailing you to alert you to the fact that one of your nursing students, Ben Cochran, appears to be incompetent. Based on his article , Mr. Cochran: People go to the doctor when they’re sick. 1) Is unfamiliar with the concept of preventive medicine and all that it entails. What girl have you ever heard of that goes to a doc in the box for birth control? 2) Has no understanding of student healthcare. If you have a lung problem, you see a pulmonologist. If you have a heart problem, you see a cardiologist. If you have a cunt problem, you see a gynecologist. 3) Knows nothing about the scope of practice of Pediatricians, Family Practitioners, Nurse Practitioners, or, for that matter, Ob/Gyns. If you have a cunt problem, you see a gynecologist....Go read your Redbook in the lobby of a specialist while you get a mani as you wait to get your hatchet wound inspected....Pl