Let's not talk about sex, baby

Congess extends abstinence-only funding

Posted by Kate Sheppard at 10:38 AM on 13 Jul 2007

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Perhaps I can mention this without this post devolving into a population pissing match, but FYI, on Wednesday the House approved continued funding of abstinence-only education as part of Section 510 of Title V of the Social Security Act. The Dems had indicated that they were going to cut the $50 million grant program, but it was reattached to the bill pretty late in the game, despite the fact that Rep. John Dingell (chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Title V funding) noted that it "seems to be a colossal failure." So, really Dems, wtf? I hope you were distracted by all that work you're putting in on getting solid energy legislation passed. Or something.

(h/t: Ann at Feministing)

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Thanks for this post, Kate

Women's reproductive rights issues remain at the top of the list for reducing poverty and improving the environment. The topics have all been covered so many times most people seem to have lost interest in them but the struggle continues.

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by biodiversivist at 12:06 PM on 14 Jul 2007

Congress People are Invertebrates

Hey, all:

I saw a great program last night on Bill Moyers' Journal, on which they were discussing impeachment of the two stooges in the White House: Cheney and that idiot. The guests were named Nichols and Fein (sorry I missed the first names) and they were especially insightful and critical of Congress for their lack of courage. There hasn't been a clearer stronger case for impeachment in history. The abuses and crimes of BushCo. have caused and will continue to cause a severe Constitutional crisis, and impeachment is the Constitution's remedy. Fein's comment at one point was that Representatives were 'invertebrates'.

The same observation applies here, in spades, in Congress's abject failure to reject this Fundamentalist, backward, archaic, failed school policy. Along with "No Child Left With a Dime", all of them have an awful lot to answer for, just in education. Matt Tiabbi writes in Rolling Stone, and his line is 'Hell is too good for all of them.'

This makes a very good object lesson or cautionary tale: We have to do a lot goddam better. We have to speak truth to power at every stinking opportunity, every goddam time. WE are in a crisis, and diplomacy and nicety will not cut it--not a bit. WE have to kill Carbon immediately, and to do so we have to go through the political system and kick the collective ass of the Corporate Oligarchy. No more Mr./Ms. Nice Guy/Gal. If we don't we are so terribly fucked, let alone future life on the planet.

Hell will be too good for all of US.

David
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by SustainableGreen at 1:27 PM on 14 Jul 2007

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