February 09, 2006

Kicking Widows and Orphans, Why Religion and Medicine Don't Mix, & Various Bloggy Tidbits

From Pandagon a letter to the editor from a woman whose doctor - who is hopefully being sued to the high heavens for malpractice - wouldn't inform her of the need for or perform an emergency D&C when she miscarried. That's right, even though the fetus was dead and she could have died, the "doctor" wouldn't perform an "abortion" and advised the woman to "practice abstinence and get married."

Steve Gilliard reminds us how the new budget will support the troops: by cutting off one-time death benefits to their widows and children. It would also terminate monthly surivor checks to minors who are not full-time students. So, if your dad gets killed in Iraq, better not freak out from grief and quit going to school. And lest we forget [a]lmost a third of the 141 targeted programs are in education...[and]would among other things reduce inflation adjustments for hospitals, nursing homes, home health care providers and hospices..

Yahoo sucks. And Majikthise reminds us that we may be more tied to them than we think, underscoring a related point that was made at Wampum a while ago when they stopped trackback pings to Yahoo (among others).

The pile on against the story that implies it's better to be crazy and beautiful than fan and sane starts with Shakespeare's Sister (links within her post). Plus Amp has up the first Big Fat Carnival.

Evidence that the FISA courts may have used illegal wiretaps to get warrants.

Quick! We better do something about this leaker before he releases more information that helps the evildoers!

In the latest in bird flu (maybe), 45,000 chickens died suspicious deaths in Nigeria.

MikeVotes has two posts on the fate of total information awareness and links to a CSMonitor story discussing how electronic surveillance could mistake a blogswarm for a terrorist plot.

No wonder I wish I could do this instead of facing the world.

Posted by binky at February 9, 2006 01:52 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Blogorama


Comments

Bush's budget priorities remind me (yet again) that he would have been right at home if he'd been living in Versailles in the 1780's.

Posted by: Armand at February 9, 2006 03:47 PM | PERMALINK

His warlike proclivities make me think that he'd have been even more comfortable there twentyish years later.

Posted by: jacflash at February 9, 2006 06:43 PM | PERMALINK
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