Alcohol Testing. !!!!!!!!!!!!Woman Jailed After Reporting Her Own Rape, Denied Use Of Morning-After Pill Due To Religious Conflict!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Germany indicts CIA agens for kidnapping of El-Masri (kidnapping previously covered here). Bulk glowsticks.
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WAR ON DRUGS: High School To Expand Alcohol Testing
Drug tests were ruled uncontitutional for students. Then they were allowed only for sports. Then they were allowed for anyone in any extracurricular activity. Now, they are for everybody. The incremental control of every person’s body continues…….
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So now she has to have a rapist’s baby? Yes, she had an outstanding warrant, but how does that allow someone’s religious objections to force her to have an unwanted child????
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ABUSE OF AUTHORITY, WAR ON TERROR, TORTURE: Germany seeks 13 over CIA ‘kidnap’ of El-Masri – CNN.com
I covered this man’s sad fate before – US citizen, kidnapped, tortured, permanently crippled, then left on a hillside in a 3rd world country with no explanation. He’s suing. There will never be justice on this, however. Those in power get away with it eve
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EYE CANDY: Get glowsticks — in bulk
$1 gets you 11 8-inch glow bracelets, or 2 22-inch necklaces! Damn good prices compared to the Assateauge Island convenience shop where they are several dollars EACH.
February 1, 2007 at 8:28 AM
Re: the rape victim…that’s horrible. Sadly, I think this has happened many times before, but it seems to be getting more and more common in America, where someone feels they have the right to make someone else’s decisions for them.
Like how some pharmacists refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control, and actually get away with it. WTF? It’s their job. If they have moral objections to filling birth control prescriptions, they should find another career so their beliefs won’t infringe on the rights of others. It’d be like me taking an IT position and then saying I was morally against computers because they’re the conduit of Satan…or something equally absurd.
I’ve heard firsthand, from a military female, how rapes are extremely common in the military, but it’s very “hushed up” and no one reports it. Also, there’s some whackjob ideology that if “they don’t let the girls take birth control pills, then they’ll have less sex, therefore won’t get pregnant” which is TOTAL BS. So, guess what happened? Sometimes girls in the military get pregnant, but it doesn’t stop there, either; sometimes they don’t discharge them so they can get a safe abortion, so they have to carry it to term.
It’s so sickening, how women’s rights are eroded right here where we live.
February 1, 2007 at 10:51 AM
What, no comments about the bulk glowsticks? JUST KIDDING. Yea, this is very fucked up — it’s a huge example of the erosion of Church Vs. State. There’s no reason they couldn’t simply have someone else give her the birth control; and frankly, I don’t think it is within a guard’s rights to deny giving her medicine she wants just because the guard doesn’t agree with it.
The guard should be fired. It’s completely sickening.
It’s no surprise the military is that fucked up too! Just look at Abu Ghraib!
February 1, 2007 at 12:59 PM
No shit.
I agree, he should be fired! It’s none of his business.
And it’s funny you mention the glow sticks because I noticed that and actually wanted to buy some…haha! I used to be obsessed with glow sticks when I was little.
February 1, 2007 at 1:04 PM
They are quite cool to have on camping trips, especially at the beach!
Even better if you can get a kite to launch with 1 or more attached. . . At Assateague, Christian put up a blinking led and you could actually see it when the kite was *above* the clouds.
Actually, *I* could see it. Everyone else had a hard time finding it, but could once I invented “moon units” (it’s “2 moons to the right of the moon, and 3 moons down”). Yay good vision!
February 1, 2007 at 1:21 PM
That’s an awesome idea!!
Sometimes I also used to see people wearing them at Alchemy. ;)
February 1, 2007 at 5:12 PM
re: Glowsticks. Buy a whole bunch and sell them to fools at Assateaggue next time. For a dollar or so cheaper than the store. Either that or do two for $5 type of thing. I figure people who buy glow sticks understand selling of that kind of nature.
re: the raped woman. There’s gotta be more to that story than they’re telling you. They arrested her for a juvenile warrant? I think only the woman and the c.o. know what happened as far as the pill goes. However, as a catholic, as much as I disagree with abortion/etc. I don’t think anyone has the right to take away somebody’s free will. Although I don’t see why the prison system should pay for morning after pills. If it’s her personal supply though…I dunno. You know what… I’m not touching that with a 20 foot clown pole.
February 2, 2007 at 9:32 AM
Well, by that logic, if you had heart pills that you needed to live, they could simply let you die, because “why should the prison system pay for your pills”?
The fact of the matter is, even if you’re guilty of murder, you still have a legal right to whatever medicine you need. It doesn’t matter if you’re not carrying it on your person at the moment.
Anyway, the officers are now being sued, and have been suspended. WITH pay, of course. Seems more like a blessing than a punishment to me. Free vacation.