In several states, women considering abortion are given government-issued brochures warning that the procedure could increase their chance of developing breast cancer, despite scientific findings to the contrary.Read More......
More than a year ago, a panel of scientists convened by the National Cancer Institute reviewed available data and concluded there is no link. A scientific review in the Lancet, a British medical journal, came to the same conclusion, questioning the methodology in studies that suggested a link....
"We're going to continue to educate the public about this," said Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, an anti-abortion group. She dismissed the National Cancer Institute's findings as politically motivated and maintained that the link has been scientifically proven.
The effort to write the issue into state law began in the mid-1990s, when a few studies suggested women who had abortions or miscarriages might be more likely to develop breast cancer. The warnings are now required in Texas and Mississippi, and health officials in Kansas and Louisiana voluntarily issue them.
In Mississippi, women who want abortions must sign a form indicating they've been told there is a "medical risk" of breast cancer. In other states, brochures say there is a link or that evidence is mixed.
The Army has dropped its demand that an AWOL New Jersey National GuardThe Army also plans to "investigate" its own actions in the treatment of Lt. Dyer.
lieutenant who said she was raped at a base in Mississippi report back to duty
at the scene of the alleged assault. Instead, Lt. Jennifer Dyer was directed to
report to an Army installation in New Jersey.
Former presidential candidate Howard Dean is considering a bid to become chairman of the national Democratic Party.Read More......
"He told me he was thinking about it," Steve Grossman, himself a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said Monday. Grossman was a Dean backer during the former Vermont governor's failed presidential bid.
....if Dean were to run for DNC chair, he would need to pledge that he would serve the full four-year term, thus ruling out a presidential bid in 2008.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat suffered a brain hemorrhage on Tuesday and aides said he had died at a French hospital, but confusion over his fate grew as officials insisted in public that he still clung to life.Read More......
Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath, in a strenuous denial, said the Palestinian president, 75, was "very much alive," but at least five senior sources said he had succumbed to the mystery illness that led to his being flown to Paris on Oct. 29.
Accept election resultsLet me just conclude by saying the writer is absolutely correct. We should treat George Bush exactly as they treated Bill Clinton. Read More......
Ever since we learned that President Bush had won
reelection, a flow of letters and editorials has
talked about how the voters who supported John Kerry
cannot fathom living under a second Bush
administration.
It is time for all Americans to remember that the
reason our government has survived for so long is that
we vote for the leaders we prefer and then, win or
lose, we stand behind those leaders whom the majority
of Americans have chosen. That is what has made
America strong over the past centuries.
How do the Kerry supporters think we conservatives
felt during eight years of President Bill Clinton? We
did not gnash our teeth, cry in anguish and scream
about how we must leave the country. We accepted the
will of the majority and moved on, as Americans,
dedicated to making life and government better.
It is time for everyone to grow up and pull together.
Ted Howland
Mickleton
So God is indeed a Republican. He must be. His hand helped re-elect a President, with a popular mandate, whose job approval ratings were the lowest since ratings began of any President who has been re-elected. His hand helped re-elect a President in a country where "wrong track" was way ahead of "right track." His hand helped re-elect a President in a country where, in the rust belt and the South, millions of jobs have been lost.Hmmm... which supernatural being is more likely to prefer a world based on war, in which hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians are wantonly killed, in which we jail people simply for who they love, and in which we pit human beings against each other based on their basest hatreds and prejudices?
Sarpy County [Nebraska] election officials are trying to figure out how they ended up with more votes than voters in the general election. As many as 10,000 extra votes have been tallied and candidates are still waiting for corrected totals.Read More......
Johnny Boykin lost his bid to be on the Papillion City Council. The difference between victory and defeat in the race was 127 votes.
Boykin says, "When I went in to work the next day and saw that 3,342 people had shown up to vote in our war, I thought something's not right."
He's right. There are not even 3,000 people registered to vote in his ward.
For some reason, some votes were counted twice.
Deputy Sarpy County Election Commissioner Ed Gilbert says, "It affected 32 of the 80 precincts. And I suppose as many as 10,000 votes."
Sarpy County BORROWED the election equipment from Omaha-based ELECTION SYSTEMS & SOFTWARE. ITS EMPLOYEES operated the machines that are now double-checking the ballots.
Fuck the South. Fuck 'em. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they'd stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, those are states we want to keep.WHAT YOU READ ABOVE WAS FROM THAT WEB SITE, THIS IS NOW FROM ME, JOHN: As an aside, I have to admit I'm intrigued by the notion of how much money blue states pay in taxes and how much the red states GET from the federal government. That's always a big fight in Congress, with highway funding, etc. Perhaps we need to put our lobbying where our mouth is. Figure out the programs that most benefit the red states and target them. If my relationship doesn't get social security benefits, then red states will lose other benefits. Works for me. You need to get their attention.
And now what do we get? We're the fucking Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real America? The Authentic America. Really?
Cause we fucking founded this country, assholes. Those Founding Fathers you keep going on and on about? All that bullshit about what you think they meant by the Second Amendment giving you the right to keep your assault weapons in the glove compartment because you didn't bother to read the first half of the fucking sentence? Who do you think those wig-wearing lacy-shirt sporting revolutionaries were? They were fucking blue-staters, dickhead. Boston? Philadelphia? New York? Hello? Think there might be a reason all the fucking monuments are up here in our backyard?
No, No. Get the fuck out. We're not letting you visit the Liberty Bell and fucking Plymouth Rock anymore until you get over your real American selves and start respecting those other nine amendments. Who do you think those fucking stripes on the flag are for? Nine are for fucking blue states. And it would be 10 if those Vermonters had gotten their fucking Subarus together and broken off from New York a little earlier. Get it? We started this shit, so don't get all uppity about how real you are you Johnny-come-lately "Oooooh I've been a state for almost a hundred years" dickheads. Fuck off....
Well this gravy train is fucking over. Take your liberal-bashing, federal-tax-leaching, confederate-flag-waving, holier-than-thou, hypocritical bullshit and shove it up your ass.
And no, you can't have your fucking convention in New York next time. Fuck off.
Hmmm, it doesn't look like they're very thrilled with the attack either. Don't they know that we're saving them?
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Clearly this child has no idea what the sign she's holding means. If she does, her parents should have their children taken away. She's far to young to be exposed to such a word.
Regulators are letting some airlines carry smaller reserves of fuel on international flights to reduce weight and save money, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday.Read More......
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Carrying heavy debt and battling discounters, big airlines are looking for any savings advantage, especially in fuel use.
This summer, the FAA relaxed a long-standing requirement that aircraft on international flights carry 10 percent extra fuel to cover detours because of weather, navigational problems or the need to extend the flight to an alternate airport.
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So far, American Airlines and Continental Airlines are the only two carriers that have been permitted to carry less fuel, the FAA said.
American, a unit of AMR Corp., hopes to save up to $10.5 million a year by reducing its fuel reserve levels.
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