Cooper Notes:
The heat here in this building was out early this morning; it had something to do with the fan motor on the furnace burning out and the heat shutting off to prevent the wires from turning in to toast and starting a fire. Initially there was an odor of burning plastic, but that soon disappeared as the heat went off and the cold took over.…..
Fixed already thank-goodness.
NYU has opened up the dorm requests to transgender individuals but not exactly in a general way. Trans gender individuals can now request roommate assignments based on the gender with which they identify, rather than the gender on their birth certificate, starting next fall. They will however only be placed with students who make the same request, which is like going one quarter way up the line and stopping.
Not only does John Edwards give me the creeps, Giuliani gives me the creeps. ( and I don’t know why) I’m tired of getting creeped out by political candidates.
I am hoping when Obama opens his campaign officially on Saturday that a much clearer picture comes through.
“Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY) reintroduced the Prevention First Act in the House on Monday. This bill, which was not acted on the last congress, is designed to increase access to both contraception and comprehensive sex education and reduce the number of unintended pregnancies in the US. The bill, which was introduced in the Senate by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) in early January, is now in committee in both Houses.”
“The legislation would increase funds for the National Family Planning Program (known as Title X) and for Medicaid Family Planning Services. The bill would also end insurance discrimination against women, spread awareness about emergency contraception, provide rape victims with free emergency contraception, and require medically accurate information in federally funded sex education programs.”
“I am proud to reintroduce this bill which serves as an innovative and comprehensive approach to protecting women’s reproductive health, decreasing the spread of STDs, and reducing the number of unintended pregnancies,” Rep. Slaughter said of the bill in a Senate press release. “If we want to reduce the number of abortions in this country, the methodology is clear — empower women to prevent unintended pregnancies through education and access to contraception.”
Let’s see what happens this time.
I’m sitting here with freezing hands still trying to get some work done but clicking from one internet site to another quite rambunctiously as if possessed.
I’ll get to yours eventually so beware. ;)
Im the meantime my wombeditor wrote a song go check it out.
i think it’s a sign of the times when anyone who runs for office gives us the heebie-jeebies. i’ve missed you, cooper. hoping to be rambunctious with you some day soon. ;)
Politics in general gives me the heebie-geebies.
I’ve been “heat lucky” here this winter so far.
I hope they have better luck with that bill this time around.
I don’t think BC has any transgender policy. I’ll have to check.
The Prevention First Act seems a more viable measure than that whole business about state-mandated Gardisil vaccinations in Texas. When you leave people without options as to their healthcare and health education, you’re just asking for trouble.
The real question is whether “the sense God gave a crowbar” will be a new standard in this congress. I hope no one gets vertigo.
As to Edwards (I hate when you close comments just when I feel myself winding up to be a smartass,) I think anyone who gives a blogger a job is asking for it. He so knew they were bloggers.
RudyG should give you the creeps. He was a has been mayor
saved by 9/11, and if he runs for president, that will all come back to haunt him. He has many great skelton’s that deserve to come out. From showing the poorest judgment in hiring and keeping on Kerik to being a total idiot about his lover. And everything in between. His first term he cleaned up the city. The second term he was a despot
I agree with your comment on Courting that Edwards is a bit light. I believe he thoroughly vetted the women as that’s what employers, especially ones with security concerns or in the public spotlight do and he matches both criteria – plus more. Just drinking coffee, brain’s still asleep. The bloggers he hired are well known and a quick Google check can show everything the radical right brought up
He was going to cave into pressure from the very people he’s supposed to be fighting. Why should he care what Malkin thinks of him? By almost caving in, he was saying that he will take their negative campaign more seriously than his real campaign.
As a blogger who has the worst of my life all over the place, it scared me on many levels. I don’t use obscenities just because I don’t, but I used sarcasm and irony when I was a political blogger. It’s easier to drive points across, makes it more fun and even bloggers who don’t use IM language use blogspeak
Anybody running for president now has to care and be above a negative campaign. RudyG won’t care about the negative campaign New Yorkers will be sure to run Hillary’s a pro at them. Think Barack will instinctively know how to fight one, but don’t know enough yet. I’m too jaded
Prevention First Act sounds maybe good. I have problems with anything that says it will “end” in this case insurance discrimination against women which is a problem that affects middle class and poor men also. Health insurance reform has to be universal to be affective
Now that I have written a post in your comments, I’m glad you’re warm, your WombatEditor wrote some really fine lyrics
NYU seemed to try to solve one problem by beginning another.
Tran:I miss you too; it is a long times between. Rambunctious sounds good to me.
kait: i bet they don’t
mojo: I don’t know really I am for the vaccinations as well, if one wants to opt out I guess one can go the route that one goes when they want to opt out of the other vaccinations.
Doug: I only close them to give people a break, sometimes you like that yes? ;)
I can’t help it I thinK it shows him or his people to have a little less between the ear than I would wish in a prez. Still not as little as the one we have but whatever.
pia: yea he is such a windbag full of bullshit is it not funny.
It doesn’t matter what he does at this point. If he knew all about them and that includes having read the stuff they write — which is often totally awesome although does wear on ones nerves — he should have already had a response ready for what he should have known was coming.
Lack of preparedness, lack of forethought, lack of…well we have had six years of that already we don’t need more.