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• MTV Scraps Reality Show About Young People Losing Their Virginity

  May 23, 2012 at 6:32am

  ABC Family basically already made the show you’re talking about. Checkout ‘The Secret Life of the American Teenager’.
  Teen boy meets girl, one night stand at band camp, surprise pregnancy, followed by basically everything you listed, though not quite as raw or gritty. It was of interest that the ‘protagonist’ rejected abortion out of hand and actually addressed the fact of making a commitment to deal with the mistake she made.
  Yes, it’s a show for teenagers, and being 28 I’m not the target audience, but it held my interest as I myself was the product of a accidental teenage pregnancy who was adopted by my grandparents out of my best interest. I’ve turned out quite well! But it was knowing that past, I think, that helped me see early on that actions have consequences, that it can happen to you, and I made choices to prevent the same ‘mistake’ from happening in my life.
  I realized sex comes with an enormous responsibility, not just to yourself, but to others, which is the reason I point to of why I waited until I was 20 to ‘go all the way’…and looking at some of my still-single friends from HS with multiple kids by multiple women, I think I made the right choice. I‘m living proof that abortion isn’t the only choice, but of course the best choice is not putting yourself into that position in the first place!

• Geraldo Details Graphic TSA Experience: ‘I Got Manually Raped by a Guy Who…Was Getting Off on it’

  May 11, 2012 at 8:04pm

  In reply to Ruckus_Tom.

  At the very least, bring in the Israelis to train them. They know a bit about preventing terrorism on their flights.
  A GREAT idea I’ve heard proposed is to give TSA hiring preference to returning Iraq/Afghan veteran soldiers. They’re already specially trained, tested, and experienced at spotting the suspicious behavior that precedes an attack (they had to for survival!).
  This would hopefully lend the TSA at least some credibility and respect, AND would go a long way toward reducing the number of unemployed veterans. Why would we spend millions on their training and skilllsets, put them in harms way, then bring them home and say “Good luck!”? They are a valuable resource that deserves utilization, and I think that would be a perfect way to do it!

• Why Is The Media Blaming Black Voters for North Carolina’s Anti-Gay Amendment?

  May 10, 2012 at 8:35pm

  Even if civil unions were approved in the interest of marriage equality, they would also have to be equally available to hetero couples. Equality usually goes both ways, so if only gay couples could get civil unions, that would curiously discriminate against hetero couples, right?
  Not everyone, gay or straight, wants to get married to get the same benefits as marriage.

• Romney Scolds Reporter: ‘Aren’t There Issues of Significance You Want to Talk About?’

  May 10, 2012 at 8:27pm

  I felt the same way with Obama’s gay marriage proclamation: “Ok, so you support gay marriage. So what? Now can we discuss actual important issues that effect more than 2% of the population, such as jobs, the economy, increasing domestically-sourced energy supplies, Iran, Russia, The longest 2 wars in our history, the largest National Debt in the history of mankind……since gay marriage is now out of the way, can we solely focus on that whole host of glaring, pressing problems of national import?

  The tactic of “um, the Economy, um ,yeah LOOK OVER THERE, A PONY!” is NOT GOING TO WORK ANYMORE! Misdirection only works if we’re looking at only ONE hand. Our president might think he’s Criss Angel, but we’re not mindfreaked anymore.

• ‘A Consumer-Protection Law’: Utah Becomes First State to Enforce 72-Hour Waiting Period for Abortions

  May 10, 2012 at 8:21pm

  In reply to MDDAWG.

  Truthfully, I can’t imagine someone making a decision such as that in any less than 3 days. Heck, I did over a month of research last time before buying a CAR. I think I would have to give serious, deep, and long thought to killing someone.
  I propose this test for prospective aborters: You tell the doctor you want an abortion, he pulls a handgun out of his desk that he tells you is loaded (blanks in reality), and tells you that he will terminate the life inside you, if you have the stomach to point the gun at him and pull the trigger, as both acts are essentially the same. If you have no qualms about ending a child’s life, then why would you balk at killing an adult? The morality is the same on both, at least in my book of ethics.

• ‘A Consumer-Protection Law’: Utah Becomes First State to Enforce 72-Hour Waiting Period for Abortions

  May 10, 2012 at 8:12pm

  In reply to The Third Archon.

  I think it is no coincidence that the year standardized test scores in K-12 began to decline from their all-time high happens to be the same year the Dept of Education was established. Race to the bottom indeed.

• ‘A Consumer-Protection Law’: Utah Becomes First State to Enforce 72-Hour Waiting Period for Abortions

  May 10, 2012 at 8:10pm

  In reply to conservative karl.

  Exactly. Only in Liberal La La Land does a relationship in which you decide to have a child with another person on purpose happen in 3 days or less.

• ‘A Consumer-Protection Law’: Utah Becomes First State to Enforce 72-Hour Waiting Period for Abortions

  May 10, 2012 at 7:56pm

  “If waiting 72 hours before resolving an unwanted pregnancy is a good idea, why not a 72-hour wait before getting pregnant on purpose?”

  Um, I’ve never met anyone who told me “yeah, we only met yesterday but we’re totally already trying to get pregnant!”
  Only in Liberal La La Land does a relationship in which you decide to have a child with another person on purpose happen in 3 days or less. Most people self-impose a waiting period of years before deciding to have children together on purpose, many much longer. Where do they even come up with ideas as (sorry, only way to describe it) retarded as this reporter?

• ‘A Consumer-Protection Law’: Utah Becomes First State to Enforce 72-Hour Waiting Period for Abortions

  May 10, 2012 at 7:51pm

  In reply to auburntaylors96.

  Agreed. I consider myself pro-choice, in that by choosing to have sex with someone, you have chosen to accept responsibility for the possible outcomes of that activity, be it pregnancy or disease. I get upset when I hear people discover they are pregnant, and their reaction is “how could this happen?”.
  My guess, probably because you had unprotected sex with that guy at the bar last week. What was his name? Oh, you never asked… *Facepalm*

• ‘A Consumer-Protection Law’: Utah Becomes First State to Enforce 72-Hour Waiting Period for Abortions

  May 10, 2012 at 7:47pm

  “I also think you should have to wait 72 hours before going to church every week”

  This comment readily exposes the idiocy of the reporter who wrote it. That idea would be a BLATANT violation of the 1st Amendment, in that it would be a government making law which restricts your freedom of worship. Unlike abortion, Freedom OF religion is in the Constitution. And that’s coming from me, an Atheist. A rare Atheist who admires people with faith rather than reviling them.

  I think a majority of people would become gun rights activists if they performed the thought experiment of applying all the restrictions of the 2nd Amendment to the 1st Amendment. Imagine needing a permit and a waiting period to express an opinion. Imagine needing a license to carry your opinion in public, and not being able to carry that opinion in a bar, church, school, or government/state building. Imagine needing permission from your local sheriff to join a new church.
  If any of those restrictions became law RE The 1st Amendment, people would be screaming from the rooftops and burning down Congress, but when applied to the 2nd, it‘s just ’common sense restriction’?
  I hate interpretations of the Constitution. I’m a straight Constructionist.