The health care bill that passed the senate includes an amendment that precludes the government offered insurance plan from covering abortions. It also says private insurers that insure people who receive federal subsidies will not be able to cover abortions. There are some exceptions, such as rape and incest, or if the mother's life is in danger.

I have to say, I feel good about this. Ever since we had my son, I can't imagine killing a baby, or contributing money in the form of taxes, towards abortion.

I'd never thought I'd see the day when the slashdot community advocated the decriminalization of possession of child porn, using the moderation system to silence anyone who disagrees.

Seeing the nasty comments and jokes just reminded me of how cruel and insensitive many, especially tweens, can be. Starving for attention I suppose.

One problem with giving people a semi-anonymous platform for voicing their opinions, especially being as substantive as 140 characters can be, is they use it.

Another problem is, it can be permanent.

I'm so glad it's being used as a news source by some "news outlets."

10/11/2009 - Family Guy has Peter borrow American flag for toilet paper.

After SNL broadcast a poorly done skit in which President Obama scored himself, CNN quickly organized a fact-checking campaign to discredit the comedy skit. Yes, a skit. I attempted, unsuccessfully, to find CNN, or MSNBC segments discrediting skits done about Palin or Bush.

I'm not sure I'd want my children spending their time doing this in school, regardless of who is president.

MyNorthwest.com is reporting that Phillip Arnold Paul has escaped during a field trip to a county fair that he was on with other inmates from the mental hospital he was committed to.

Unfortunately, this is not a setup to a bad horror movie. Paul, a diagnosed schizophrenic, was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 1987 after he strangled an elderly woman, doused her body with gasoline, and buried her in her own flower garden.

jacob@jakes-laptop:~$ apt-get moo
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...."Have you mooed today?"...
                

			

US Representative Earl Blumenauer, a Democrat from Oregon, introduced H.R. 3311 for research and study into a transition into a per-mile vehicle tax system. The proposed study will cost taxpayers 154,500,000.00. Yes, that's 154 million dollars.

The concern, and the reason for the proposed vehicle miles traveled (VMT) fee is, with the growing popularity of fuel efficient vehicles, less gas is purchased which results in fewer tax dollars available for a variety of government endeavors.