I’m naked sometimes.
The first instance arose after passage of his health care overhaul, when the Department of Health and Human Services ordered that all insurance plans cover contraceptives and sterilization for women, with no copayment. The mandate means many Americans would have to be complicit in something their faith forbids.
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Steve Chapman commentary: Obama’s ‘war on religion’ - chicagotribune.com I seriously do not understand why faith traditions’ views on family planning are something that have to be paid attention to, but their views on, say, the death penalty, or war, or poverty, are not something worth consternation about. You don’t hear people talking about how the military is anti-catholic because of all the fucking killer robots we’ve got. My faith forbids invading countries’ airspace and blowing up their citizens. Can I opt out of financing that? (via sexartandpolitics) Ditto to sexartandpolitics’ commentary. |
This image was captured today when riot police stormed the Dale Farm travellers armed with batons, shields and firing tasers, despite promises the eviction would be peaceful. This morning’s surprise eviction was reminiscent of a war zone as police in riot gear used sledgehammers to clear the way for the bailiffs.
The clashes left six people injured and resulted in 23 arrests. The entire operation was estimated to have cost 18 million pounds.
And this is why your “gypsy” costumes aren’t cute.
NASA says we might all be aliens
Whether or not you believe in life outside of our solar system, the fact that we are all here means that the stuff we’re made of must have come from somewhere. After studying meteorites and discovering ready-made components of DNA present, NASA has concluded that the building blocks of life as we know it may have crashed down on Earth from above.
Researchers at the Goddard Space Flight Center discovered portions of DNA on chunks of crashed space rock in both Antarctica and Australia. The extraterrestrial visitors contained various types of nucleobases, which are thought to be essential in the creation of DNA, and life in general. The scientists were able to isolate the compounds and prove that they weren’t created here on Earth. This was particularly important, as critics often cite contamination as the reason for these compounds appearing on meteorites that have been studied in the past.
The team also concluded that certain space rocks — depending on their makeup and speed — work like manufacturing facilities for these biological precursors. The implications of the discovery are far-reaching, and suggest that humanity may owe its existence to a well-placed meteorite in the early days of the Earth, and that without it the planet might be a rocky, watery wasteland
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“I went to a Subway sandwich shop, and I said, ‘Let me have a bun,’ but she wouldn’t sell me just a bun. She said it had to have something on it. She told me it’s against regulations for Subway to sell just a bun; I guess the two halves ain’t supposed to touch. So, I said, ‘Alright, put some lettuce on it,’ which they did. They said, ‘That’ll be $1.75.’ I said, ‘It’s for a duck.’ They said, ‘Alright, well then it’s free.’ See, I did not know that — ducks eat for free at Subway” — Mitch Hedberg
