Meh. Coincidence. Or, if you don’t buy that, definitive proof that SCIENCE is on the side of pro-choice.
Either way, just noticing this so-called discrepancy marks you as a bitterclingery neanderthal who is anti- woman, anti- health, and anti- choice/freedom.
— Which, speaking of discrepancies, reminds me: you shouldn’t make contraceptives an issue because 99% of all women in the US have used them. Which is why we need to make sure contraceptives are “free,” because otherwise, how in the world can we expect the 99% of women who’ve used them to get them and avoid a women’s health crisis?
Oh, wait —
Attempting a logical argument: -10 points.
HERETIC!
Just slightly more ideological diversity than the faculty club.
The Sacraments must be forced upon everyone.
They know exactly who is going to be forced to do what.
I want free ice cream and whiskey.
and glad to see you back!
When you click on homepage above it puts you back into the mode you were in when the softwear was being reloaded. FYI.
Stack committes with your cronies off, vilify and encourage attacks on your opponents, ….
Oh, c’mon, you sillies! You don’t really expect the Very Serious Minds in Washington to let a bunch of know-nothing hicktard knuckle-dragging mouth-breathing Godbotherers into the Very Serious Science Club, do you? That would be like inviting NASCAR fans to serve on the National Endowment of the Arts!
No, no. Only the Really Smart People should tell us what to do. Just because the rules apply to every American, doesn’t mean that every American gets a say in things. That’s just madness!
Another weird PW Tweet shows up.
So…they’ve been “kind” enough to force others to fund my contraception, but they’re bound and determined to make it difficult for me to satisfy my monthly chocolate cravings: http://www.breitbart.tv/flotus-makes-candy-makers-shrink-bar-sizes/
How about they get out of the business of both & let me take care of myself?
So if “contraception” is “free” and a woman and I agree to have sex, and do so, without a condom because we have agreed that I am virtually disease free and she has had the wart shot; if she gets pregnant, I’m off the hook for child support, right? Being as there are plenty of “free” “enhanced” “contraceptive choices” available. Right?
Are the candymakers going to shrink the prices along with the candy bars? Probably not.
Roar! I am woman! Lead me.
if she gets pregnant, I’m off the hook for child support, right?
I’m pretty sure you’ve got it right, LMC. Looking at it logically:
If men had any interest in births and the rewards and responsibilities accruing thereto, then they would have a voice in the birth control debate. The authorities assure us that birth control is strictly a women’s issue. Therefore, children are not the reward nor responsibility of men. Q.E.D.
Is a condom primarily a contraceptive or is it used primarily to prevent the spread of STDs?
Can this be determined a priori?
Does it matter?
The way I see it, I already paid for her birth control. If she didn’t take it, no skin off my ass. Right?
The insurance companies have a duty to reach out to her and educate her on her “free” contraceptive choices. So if she “chooses” to get pregnant, I should be left out. After all, I didn’t get to choose to pay for the pill or not.
I could see if she got the untreatable clap, I might be in trouble. But if she gets warts, that’s her parents problem, and if she comes down with pregnancy? Shit girl, you need to take your medicine. It must be good if it’s FREE!
True to form, I’m going totally OT here, but perhaps not.
See, I followed the Insty link to Whittle’s “Han Shot First” Afterburner, which by itself is exactly what you’d expect from Whittle on the subject but is nonetheless fun to watch.
But right before the vid came the inevitable commercial, titled something like “Bad Meeting #42,” and it showed what erupts in the meeting as soon as the guy turns off the lights to show the PowerPoint, and I swear it’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages because the timing was exquisite.
Could I go back and see it after watching Whittle? No, I could not. Because when I hit Refresh, YouTube loaded a different ad, and then another one, and then another one, and I fear I’ll never see such hilarity again in my whole life, which as you might have guessed, is as good as over now that I can’t find my ad.
Which serves as a vivid metaphor for the topic of this post, whatever it is.
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Are the candymakers going to shrink the prices along with the candy bars? Probably not.
I am telling you, I would far rather they restored the “fun size” to its original fun size and hiked the price up rather than continue with the steady price and the shrinking candy, which is such a factory of sadness I can’t even say.
#onAroll
The authorities assure us that birth control is strictly a women’s issue. Therefore, children are not the reward nor responsibility of men. Q.E.D.
Big score for Big Fatherlessness, and by extension, teh wimmins.
Because there’s nothing more liberating that raising a passel of kidses on your own sans dad.
#SMOD2012
I would far rather they restored the “fun size” to its original fun size …
Isn’t that the truth? I noticed this at Hallowe’en when I was filching all the tiny Paydays out off the bowl. Funsize? Ha! Any smaller and those funsize candies can sub for bridge mix.
“fun size”? what are we talking about here?
we went from sex to candy bars… what would your therapist say…
So can Obama buy a womans vote for a subsidy worth $9 a month? Evidently his people think so.
dicentra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=IhlIKABO6x0
Steve, a thousand blessings on you and your posterity. You saved my very life today (insert Elton John ballad).
Where’s Joycelyn Elders when you need her?
Vibrators for everyone!!!
FWIW, Bad Meeting #36 is pretty good, too, but it doesn’t have a cat skulking off the table, which is the best part of #42, IMAO.
If I’m paying for contraception but I ain’t getting any, can I sue the government to provide me a concubine? Seems only fair.
Sex is apparently a right, so yeah, I think we need the government to supply women. Then again, that might run up against the issue that men in general are bad unless you need a spider killed.
What’s a progressive to do?
ultrasound as rape
Under the new legislation, women who want an abortion will be forcibly penetrated for no medical reason. Where’s the outrage?
Well Palin was wrong, it’s not “death panels” it’s just death panel.
So far.
When did preventative morph into preventive in newsie-speak? It bugs. Not as much as “At the end of the day…”, but it still bugs.
I just had to leave the Tribble feed over at the Hughniverse because I could tell I was going to get downright mean, and I prefer to avoid apologies whenever possible.
Carol Platt Liebau was lamenting Santorum’s lamentable failure to pivot the “contraceptive issue” into a Constitutional issue, and oh he totally gave them ammo, alas alack, please please stop it with the social issues because we’ll get killed.
I argued that promiscuity (enabled by the pill) is very much a root contributor to the Entitlement Society and by extension very much about The Debt, so it’s not necessarily a deal-breaker to bring it up.
Oh, the weeping and garment-rending! BUT WE CAN’T SAY THAT, EVEN IF IT’S TRUE!
To which I responded, why isn’t the Truth good enough, and whose assumptions are we accepting when we conceded that social issues Should Not Be Mentioned?
Because, they insisted, even if Moynihan was right 50 years ago, he was ignored, so obviously he was a loser. Despite the fact that 50 years ago the social disaster was a hypothetical, whereas today it’s evident for all to see.
After a linky to a Preference Cascade article, I high-tailed it out of there. A few of them will no doubt think me a coward for ducking out, which they can think if they’d like, but I really WOULD have said awful things had I stayed.
Oh, by the way, I’m a single-issue voter. Hope that comes as a surprise to the regulars here.
Just needed to vent.
Thanks, all.
Death panels are so retail. Now a Preventative Services Task Force sounds like a vehicle to ration on a true wholesale level.
“I’m a single-issue voter”
something about trees ?
This is for the Progressives what a Sarah Michelle Gellar doll is for Buffy geeks.
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“I’m a single issue voter.”
As opposed to Cheryl Crow, who’s a “single tissue voter”.
What? And health providers or product developers affected by its decisions can’t sue it for recourse.
We’ll just see about that. I see multitudes of legal challenges in the future.
TP should be measured in “crows”.
What with pregnancy being considered a disease we can say that one group of preventative services got the big “two thumbs up” and a “right on man!” from the panel.
newrouter: That Steyn article is right on the money.
If you don’t want to argue that the promiscuity is one of the foundations of the Entitlement Society, point out that our indebtedness largely owes to shrinking demographics, which means that pushing contraception is exactly the wrong thing to do.
Ask the Charlie Roses if they really wants to have that argument: if they do, destroy them with the facts. If they don’t, pivot to the Constitutional argument and destroy them with those facts.
It’s so maddening to have such useful idiots on our side that they won’t use winning arguments because they’re so afraid of being mocked.
The unintended side effect of “free contraceptives” for everyone, is that this will cause shortages. Someone has to pay for them, and it’s not going to be the drug companies. The Government will mandate that these drugs need to be available, and at the cheapest cost. Somewhere in that balance it no longer is profitable for drug companies to manufacture them, so they won’t.
What? That’s crazy talk? Except that it is already happening.
Let me get the death panel thing straight… my balls get a “D”.
OK
Probably because I’m not authorized by the State to have them..
andrea mitchell’s reaction the “aspirin method” of contraception is too funny. abstinence: the cheapest form of contraception and accessible to the proletariat to boot.
abstinence: the cheapest form of contraception and accessible to the proletariat to boot.
AND ALSO A TOOL OF THE PATRIARCHY BECAUSE MEN HATE HATE HATE IT WHEN WOMEN OFFER NO-STRINGS-ATTACHED SEX.
Is it just me or is the upcoming generation totally unattached to (and unimpressed by) the old feminist arguments about Teh Patriarchy and how marriage must be stamped out because it gives Amanda Marcotte the hives and how women cannot be free from oppression until they can rut like animals at will and destroy the fruits of conception?
@43, antillious:
Fantastic. Well done, government.
And people try to keep pointing me at the UK’s system of care as being what we should strive for because everyone gets some care, for free.
“AND ALSO A TOOL OF THE PATRIARCHY”
the wymens: dumb bastards who can’t control themselves
Funny how the Canadiens and the Brits are planning to abandon their healthcare model and go private.
I’ve argued in the past that this is Obama’s recession; it is a tough case to make, as it relies in part on the understanding that markets are anticipatory, and that is way beyond a 5 word headline. Of course the talking heads are prepared to give the impression that Obama is not responsible for anything up until, well, whenever is convenient. These academics pull their punches on their conclusions, there are differences in perception between Main Street and Wall Street, as they do need to maintain their academic credibility, but they put numbers to the problem, do some really good stats, and conclude that the publicly available indices of market activity reacted negatively to the prospect of Obama winning.
SCIENCE.
“Tool of the Patriarchy” is my nickname for… you know.
Just call it “The Patriarch”. Then go do some nation building. Peace be upon you
hey hey ho ho patriarchy bastards need to be replaced with muslim bastards. i luv marxism.
shocking dishonesty in the mbm
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“according to Republican observers,”
thanxs for your input jeb!!11!!
santorum needs to do more: free dildos and vibrators for peeps with vaginas or surgically facsimiles . also restore the burka.
Motionview. I have some thoughts along the lines of your #50 up at the pub.
vagina warrior: kick cunts now campaign
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McSally affirmative action a hole
mcsally should get a job at planned parenthood. she could kill peeps daily. without the air craft.
NRO on women in combat.
Can we just stipulate that the undecided middle really hasn’t thought out their positions very well or very deeply?
And that the reason they stay in the shallows is because nobody on the right has the ‘nads to speak boldly and over the heads of the MSM to provide them with alternate assumptions about reality?
Such as that Church and Family are the primary bulwark against the State, which is why the Left has done its level best to bulldoze both.
And that the Left holds the State as God, and this God (like all official state gods) will tolerate no rivals.
And that the HHS mandate is a naked example of the contempt the Left has for everyone else’s values and opinions and beliefs.
And that the Sexual Revolution was a full-on assault against Family and Church for the express purpose of clearing the way for the State to be the God.
And that if the Left really wants to discuss contraception, then fine, why do they hate babies so much? Why do they hate motherhood?
And that Family and Church are the ideal venues for individuals to pass down their individual values and beliefs and practices as their consciences dictate. The Left demonstrably does NOT want individuals to do that: they want to be the ones who decide FOR you.
And that the Entitlement State is largely the result of fatherlessness, an epidemic that has its roots in welfare plus promiscuity plus racialist paternalism.
And that the adults have been selling the young a bill of goods about sexuality: just as the overlords in Brave New World did, they want the populace to become drunken on no-fault sex and hedonism so that they’ll be that much easier to control, the populace having lost its ability to think because it’s too busy with mindless enjoyment.
MAN there’s a lot of truth we can stuff down the throats of the Statists if they keep insisting on talking about contraception.
Too bad I’m so damned ugly on TV: I coulda been a contenda.
I think Ricky is handling the contraceptive issue quite well.
And i also question the timing of contraceptives becoming an issue.
Ricky gets a tick in the polls and BAM birth control is issue #1 for days at a time.
This country is stocked with manipulative bastards.
I hope the GOP primaries do come down to the wire. I hope the convention is brokered. I hope it starts a revolution. And I hope it is televised.
In the primaries, the candidates are nothing more than salesmen. And Mitt Romney is a pathetic salesman, because he can’t close the deal, even with all the brand awareness and advertising dollars and manufactured inevitableness. All he can do is run negative ads.
Fuck him.
do me a favor, wear your helmet.
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The contraception flap, according to Republican observers, is evidence of an undisciplined campaign that is already stumbling under the weight of intensifying scrutiny.
Bah! They already used that line to torpedo the Cain campaign; can’t our Imperious Establishmentarian Overlords even be bothered to come up with something new, specifically tailored to the Santorum campaign?
Where’s the wit? The craftmanship? Is it too much to demand fresh lies from their filthy lying lie-holes?
“These academics pull their punches on their conclusions…as they do need to maintain their academic credibility”
Too late! The corruption of the academy by left wing politics was a voluntary surrender of its credibility. The ferocity of progressives’ tyrannical outlook is such as to disqualify them from any benefit of the doubt.
The same goes for most of the press, who so eagerly repeat the government’s economic numbers without skeptical analysis. The government’s numbers are progressive’s numbers. All progressives are really communists, and all communists are liars. Credibility? “Hohohoho, Mister Finn, you’re going to be Mister Finnagain!”
In every store I go to where consumer products are sold, save for Lowe’s or Home Depot, there is only about 18 yards of lubes, rubbers–a dozen varieties (ribbed reservoir ends, in colors, in both “magnum” and standard)–and sponges, that yes, there is definitly a birth control issue in the US.
Also, no pharmacy seems to dispense birth control pills. There is, however, something called “BCP” that represents 20% of their business volume, so when I figure it out, I’ll get back to you.
I think Santorum. pace JG, is definitly responsible for the fact that 50% of the college kids in the US practice a method called “pull out,” and I think we need to explore this issue further with an eye towards subsidy or, frankly, Dred Scott will return.
No really. I read it–I’m a reporter.
“Jimmy and the Tools of Patriarchy.” Best. Band name. Ever.
McGehee, a Tv series about that band on tour whose members (heh) didn’t cover their jimmie’s: “Sons of Patriarchy”.
groan.
Jeff G. posted on 2/17 @ 4:09 pm
If I’m paying for contraception but I ain’t getting any, can I sue the government to provide me a concubine? Seems only fair.
That is only fair! And it could be part of a jobs bill for out of work ladies. A real win win there!
Oh and birth control pills cost about $9 a week. Condoms are probably almost certainly less, since unless you are a real player, you are probably not burning through a box a week on average.
Jeff and Pixy, the mobile version of PW isn’t displaying — just a blank screen. If the mobile theme can’t be re-enabled, the detect/redirect function needs to be turned off so the full-size site gets served.
Brett, I meant it in the sense that the results clearly show that Obama is bad for the economy, but if they said that the paper wouldn’t have gotten published, so they had to change the conclusion itself to the innocuous statement about the difference in perception between Wall St and Main St.
I am searching around for this on the Web and struggling, perhaps someone might have an idea: I would like to get detailed polling data from the 2008 campaign. In the paper cited I see they have daily Gallup national tracking poll. The data series starts on March 11, 2008, and ends on October 31, 2008, I would be happy with that for now but I would really like data back into Summer 2007. Any suggestions on how to access that, or if it was even acquired? Or any other historical group presidential poll data for early in 2007 through the end of the 2008 campaign. Hillary was official Jan 2007, Edwards Dec 2006, Obama Dec 2007, I would think there would be good polling data at least from summer 2007.
Motionview, I don’t know if this will help but you can access month by month at RCP.
Also if you missed it #57 is for you.
Jeff and Pixy, the screen of archived materials turns up on my desktop whenever I go to the PW homepage. This doesn’t happen on my laptop, so perhaps it is a problem here at chez leigh, but I don’t think so.
Leigh, is your desktop browser gone into “offline” mode?
Thanks for both geoffb, I am trying to get caught up on my self-imposed blogsponsiblities.
I think so, geoff. I went to Bing and found Protein Wisdom and logged in through the last comment thread that is archived.
Topic? Women in combat equals pregnant soldiers. See the brilliant idea to deploy women on USN ships.