Haha! That took me a second. I would respond with a resounding "hell yes!" because it's so damn funny, but I don't think withholding ejaculation leads to conception :)

Posted at August 14, 2008 6:23 PM in response to HHS Secretary Tries To Dispel Fear of Defining Contraception as Abortion...By Refusing to Discuss it.

Thanks to both Jade and GTFOOH. This blog was posted in the most untimely manner, unfortunately right after Edwards admitted to having an affair. Thus it will probably be buried. Thanks to anyone who rummages through the Edwards craze and finds this :)

Posted at August 8, 2008 4:52 PM in response to Comments On My Rape In The Military Blog: Rape Stats Are "Pure Propaganda."

Thanks, tk for your input. I don't doubt that the Army officials on the ground are doing good work to keep this issue in check, it's the people way up on the ladder I'm worried about; the people in the offices, making the policies. There seems to have been a little effort, but not enough and not quickly enough.

Plus, it's a universal red flag for "something to hide" when an official ignores a subpoena.

Posted at August 7, 2008 1:18 PM in response to 1 in 3 Military Females Raped, but Apparently the Pentagon Doesn't Think It's a Problem

Thanks! Hope you took the action!

Also, this is the bogus reason the Pentagon gave for keeping Whitley away from the hearing:

"It is inappropriate to question Dr. Whitley about the program when Mr. Dominguez, the decision maker responsible for the program and for the program's results, is available to answer those questions."

Um, what? Now they're not even citing an inappropriate constitutional stipulation; they're just saying they disagree? IT'S A SUBPOENA, not a suggestion!

Posted at August 6, 2008 6:22 PM in response to 1 in 3 Military Females Raped, but Apparently the Pentagon Doesn't Think It's a Problem

Um. What's with all the trollers nowadays? Repubs must be getting nervous.

Nevermind the fact that I ride public transit to work every day. But thanks for making assumptions about me- isn't that what GOPs are good at?

Thanks, Donal for adding a valuable aspect to the discussion.

You Lalo35, can kiss my ass. And I don't even care if I get kicked off this site for saying that- I'm pretty much done with all the abusers on this blog and no system of accountability.

Posted at August 2, 2008 2:41 AM in response to Oil By Numbers

Yup- wouldnt have surprised me if she had.

Posted at August 1, 2008 12:47 PM in response to Gonzales and Goodling: Stranger Than Fiction

I would probably opt to say something like F*@$% Yeah!

Sorry again about the messed up formatting; TPM really needs to improve their posting interface; my posts always come out weird.

Posted at July 30, 2008 4:19 PM in response to Rove In Contempt? Say It's So, Nancy!

The sheer magnitude of war spending pretty much compounds the vast carelessness of it all. Especially when you look at the ways that domestic imperatives have been lacking funding and affecting the lives of Americans. Last year, we spent $133 Billion on the Iraq war. If our elected officials had been investing in our economy here at home, we could have paid for: health care for 3,920,9905 people for one year, Head Start for 18,251,681 students for one year; and we could have powered 137,823,834 homes with renewable electricity for one year.

To bring this information home to all Americans, Progressive Future has built an online tool called the Invest in US Calculator. The calculator takes a person's 2007 income before taxes and tells you how much of that person's tax money went to fund the war (average: $235), and how many seconds of war that bought (average: .04 seconds). Then it tells you, with that money, how many days of health coverage that could pay for (average: 25), how many days of Head Start education (average: 12), how many days of heating a home with renewable energy (average: 78), and how many days of veterans' higher education benefits (average: 5) that money could have paid for. Then we are asking users to sign our Invest In US petition, which we plan on taking to Congress, the Platform Committees, and the media to push for new priorities for tax spending: http://progressivefuture.org/invest-in-us-calculator?id4=BLTP

Posted at July 28, 2008 6:17 PM in response to John McCain & International Republican Institute: NYT Glosses over $18M Blackwater Bill

Okay, so the widget didn't post right. That random text in the middle is supposed to be the badge of our calculator. But it really is pretty awesome, so click the link and check it out.

Posted at July 25, 2008 5:37 PM in response to Would you rather pay for: .04 seconds of war or 25 days of health coverage?

It's horrible that these men and women stand up to defend our country, and we treat them like theyre just a number. What would you do if you went to a therapist and their only method of assessment was to have you fill out a standardized questionnaire?

Thank you for expressing your concern and compassion for this issue. I hope other will stand with you as well.

Posted at July 25, 2008 5:00 PM in response to Suicidal vet was "begging for help, and [VA] kicked him to the curb"