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SDB Evening News Reads for 060711: Migraines, Birth Control and Pant Suits

Posted: June 7, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: abortion rights, Economy, Foreign Affairs, just because, Reproductive Rights, SDB Evening News Reads, Yemen | Tags: , |35 Comments

Good afternoon, today is the anniversary of Griswold vs. Connecticut…so be happy you can control if you want children or how many you can have.  The way the GOP is going, you may not have that right much longer.  June is also Migraine Awareness Month, and since I am suffering from one at this time, excuse any typos or wandering I may exhibit…at least more then I usually do.

First thing, the birth control ruling that changed women’s lives…and gave us some control over our own bodies.

Today I’ll Thank The Courts That Birth Control Is Legal

Today I'll Thank The Courts That Birth Control Is Legal

Exactly 46 years ago today, in a ruling called Griswold vs. Connecticut, the Supreme Court decided that women had a right to decide that she would like to have sex without possibly having a baby every time she did it.

Most of us, both men and women, married or not, are very happy with that court decision, preferring not to have a child year in and year out.

Some, sadly, are still fighting the battle to go back to the “good old days” where every act of sexual intercourse would likely produce offspring.  Anything less, they claim, is the “culture of death.”

“Culture of death?” Yuk, it makes me sick!

Well, the “ass” man is at it again.  Santorum touts anti-abortion activism | Iowa Independent

Presidential candidate and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn) says he wants to be “known as the strongest, most-principled, authentic conservative” candidate in the 2012 elections, and emphasized his activism on social and cultural issues, specifically abortion, on Tuesday.

“It’s one thing to go in front of a pro-life group and say you’re pro-life,” Santorum told the media after a private meeting at West Des Moines’s Informed Choices Medical Clinic, which recently opened as a clinic offering women limited reproductive health care services that exclude contraception and abortion. “(But) it’s another thing to go out and actively work as an elected official to make real changes to culture when it comes to this issue.”

WTF kind of services do Informed Choice offer then if they exclude contraception and abortion? Do they give a woman a pea and tell her to hold it between her knees? I am so sick of all this shit, but I am in too much pain to comment on it. I hope y’all say something about it in the comments below.

You may remember I talked about this school for pregnant teens over in Detroit before.  At the time there was a possibility of the school being closed down. Well, now it is official:

The Maddow Blog – Principal: Detroit’s shutting down Catherine Ferguson Academy

Their school had been put on the Detroit Public Schools’ list of possible closures by the state-appointed Emergency Financial Manager. Under Michigan’s new emergency manager law, Robert Bobb had the power to do with each school what he wanted. A new emergency manager, Roy Roberts, took over last month. On May 26, he posted a new plan for closing schools, one described as created after “broad community input, including more than 40 community meetings.” This new plan suggested that Catherine Ferguson Academy might be sticking around in some form.

Apparently, that was not to be. Principal Andrews, who’s been there 20 years, said she went to a meeting yesterday for schools that are closing, and the list includes hers. “On Friday, June 17th, I turn in my keys,” she just told us. “It’s the end of my life’s work and the end of the school.” She says they told her the school was too expensive and that the student population was declining.

Fed Chairman Sticks With His View of a Slowly Mending Economy – NYTimes.com

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said on Tuesday that recent signs of economic weakness had not altered his basic view that the economy was mending slowly and that the pace of recovery “seems likely” to increase during the rest of the year.

Mr. Bernanke also said that he continued to see no evidence of broad and enduring inflation despite recent increases in the prices of oil and other commodities.

“Over all, the economic recovery appears to be continuing at a moderate pace, albeit at a rate that is both uneven across sectors and frustratingly slow from the perspective of millions of unemployed and underemployed workers,” Mr. Bernanke said in remarks that he planned to deliver Tuesday afternoon to a gathering of bankers in Atlanta.

And Obama’s remarks before Bernanke’s speech…

Obama… told reporters that he was worried about the pace of growth, but saw no possibility of another recession.

“I am concerned about the fact that the recovery that we’re on is not producing jobs as fast as I want it to happen,” Mr. Obama said.

Even when I don’t have a migraine, I have trouble with anything related to numbers or economics.  Hopefully Dak will explain more on this link in the comments.

Yemeni president ‘suffered 40pc burns’ – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh’s injuries from a rocket attack on his palace at the weekend were more serious than previously reported, a Yemeni official said, raising further questions about his rule.

Mr Saleh was initially said to have received a shrapnel wound, and his vice-president was quoted as saying the president would return to Yemen within days from Saudi Arabia where he is being treated.

The Yemeni official reiterated comments by a US official, saying Mr Saleh was in a more serious condition with burns over roughly 40 per cent of his body.

I hope this dude does not go back to Yemen…he needs to resign.

This is a cute link: NationalJournal.com – Separated at Birth: Merkel and Clinton – Tuesday, June 7,  2011

At a lunch in her honor on Tuesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel presented Secretary Clinton with a framed copy of a German newspaper that pokes fun at the similarity between the two women’s mid-sections.

Click the National Journal link for a short video.

I tried embed it below…but it did not work.

And now the importance of Fast-Acting Migraine Treatment Highlighted During National Migraine Awareness Month

Thirty-six million Americans suffer from migraines, leading to more than $20 billion in medical expenses and costs related to lost productivity each year¹. In recognition of National Migraine Awareness Month and the significant unmet medical needs of migraine patients, Zogenix, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZGNX) is highlighting the importance of selecting the appropriate medication for a patient’s “treatment toolbox” to address specific types of migraine episodes.

If you have suffered from one of these things, you know it is debilitating.

 “Migraines are a serious medical condition that can severely impair a patient’s ability to function in day-to-day activities. They are difficult to treat because there is a broad spectrum of migraines with significant variability in intensity, nausea, associated vomiting and speed of onset. Clinical experience suggests that the key to winning the battle is a multi-therapy approach that includes a fast-acting, convenient and easy-to use option for the more aggressive migraine attacks.”

That is it for me, I’m off to lock myself away in a dark cold room.

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35 Comments on “SDB Evening News Reads for 060711: Migraines, Birth Control and Pant Suits”

  1. Minkoff Minx says:
    June 7, 2011 at 4:49 pm

    Look forward to reading your comments later…Ciao!

  2. Minkoff Minx says:
    June 7, 2011 at 5:03 pm

    Did you all see this?

    NationalJournal.com – Will Weiner Resign? Half of New Yorkers Hope So – Tuesday, June 7, 2011

    Looks like New York City isn’t that bastion of permissive liberal moral relativism after all: Almost half of New Yorkers want Rep. Anthony Weiner to resign in the wake of his admission that he virtually cheated on his wife via kinky Facebook chats. SurveyUSA found that 46 percent of New Yorkers want him to leave office, 41 percent want to stay, and 13 percent aren’t sure. And it turns out men are less forgiving than women: 50 percent of guys want Weiner to resign, while 42 percent of women want him to. Whether he gives up his congressional shot, the poll results back up the analysis of many pundits that Weiner’s mayoral chances are shot: only 11 percent said they’d pick him to replace Mayor Michael Bloomberg next year, and 43 percent said they’d vote against him.

    • bostonboomer says:
      June 7, 2011 at 9:15 pm

      The only New Yorkers who count are the ones in Weiner’s district in Queens.

      Glenn Greewald speaks for me.

      There are few things more sickening — or revealing — to behold than a D.C. sex scandal. Huge numbers of people prance around flamboyantly condemning behavior in which they themselves routinely engage. Media stars contrive all sorts of high-minded justifications for luxuriating in every last dirty detail, when nothing is more obvious than that their only real interest is vicarious titillation. Reporters who would never dare challenge powerful political figures who torture, illegally eavesdrop, wage illegal wars or feed at the trough of sleazy legalized bribery suddenly walk upright — like proud peacocks with their feathers extended — pretending to be hard-core adversarial journalists as they collectively kick a sexually humiliated figure stripped of all importance. The ritual is as nauseating as it is predictable.

      What makes the Anthony Weiner story somewhat unique and thus worth discussing for a moment is that, as Hendrick Hertzberg points out, the pretense of substantive relevance (which, lame though it was in prior scandals, was at least maintained) has been more or less brazenly dispensed with here. This isn’t a case of illegal sex activity or gross hypocrisy (i.e., David Vitter, Larry Craig, Mark Foley (who built their careers on Family Values) or Eliot Spitzer (who viciously prosecuted trivial prostitution cases)). There’s no lying under oath (Clinton) or allegedly illegal payments (Ensign, Edwards). From what is known, none of the women claim harassment and Weiner didn’t even have actual sex with any of them. This is just pure mucking around in the private, consensual, unquestionably legal private sexual affairs of someone for partisan gain, voyeuristic fun and the soothing fulfillment of judgmental condemnation. And in that regard, it sets a new standard: the private sexual activities of public figures — down to the most intimate details — are now inherently newsworthy, without the need for any pretense of other relevance.

      I’d really like to know how many journalists, pundits and activist types clucking with righteous condemnation of Weiner would be comfortable having that standard applied to them.

      • Minkoff Minx says:
        June 7, 2011 at 10:30 pm

        I like this part:

        This isn’t a case of illegal sex activity or gross hypocrisy (i.e., David Vitter, Larry Craig, Mark Foley (who built their careers on Family Values) or Eliot Spitzer (who viciously prosecuted trivial prostitution cases)). There’s no lying under oath (Clinton) or allegedly illegal payments (Ensign, Edwards). From what is known, none of the women claim harassment and Weiner didn’t even have actual sex with any of them.

        True, very true. I am still bothered by the fact that he lied about it. Should have just come clean from the start.

      • Wonk the Vote says:
        June 7, 2011 at 11:20 pm

        I agree that it’s only for his constituents to decide. I also don’t have any respect for the media coverage and didn’t have any for it from day one. But I do hope this incident helps make twitter and yfrog (non)privacy polices more clear to people…

        Putting this up less to keep discussing the Weiner distraction and more as a heads up to anyone on twitter who didn’t realize even direct messages aren’t necessarily private…

        The Twitter Typo That Exposed Weiner:

        Privacy experts say that Weinergate underscores the importance of users understanding these social networking sites for what they are: social platforms meant to help people connect with one another, broadcast their ideas and create stores of personal information online. Services like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are built for sharing, not secrets.

        “Twitter was not really designed for privacy. If you do not want it public, don’t put it on Twitter,” said Chet Wisniewski, a security expert who writes for a blog run by Sophos, a software provider. “People shouldn’t consider social networks a place to communicate private things. … These services are designed to share, and privacy is a second consideration.”

        In Weiner’s defense, it’s extremely easy to slip-up and turn a private Twitter message into a public posting. Weiner apparently confused a DM with an “@ mention,” a public Twitter post directed at a specific user but visible to anyone on the service.

        To send a DM to a Twitter follower using TweetDeck, the Twitter application Weiner was reportedly using when he sent the fateful photo, a user prefaces a tweet with the letter D, followed by the Twitter username of the person he or she wants to communicate with privately (e.g. “D bbosker”). To send an @ mention, a user would preface a tweet with the @ symbol followed by the Twitter username of the person he or she wants to converse with in a targeted, but public, way (e.g. “@ bbosker”).

        Michael Fertik, CEO of Reputation.com, which helps people manage their online reputations, says the accidental exposure of messages that were meant to be private happens “millions of times a day.”

        Not only can human error lead to embarrassing disclosures, but technical troubles have been known to expose Twitter DMs in the past. For example, security flaws with third party Twitter applications, such as GroupTweet, have revealed users’ direct messages on several occasions. And last year, Twitter settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it put its customers’ privacy at risk — and compromised “nonpublic user information” — due to “lapses in the company’s data security.”

        Weiner also got himself into trouble by using a a photo-sharing service, yFrog, that makes photos posted to the service public.

    • Jadzia says:
      June 8, 2011 at 12:35 am

      I think the gender disparity in “wants him to resign” is VERY interesting and not at all what I would have expected. Perhaps I am treating men with the “soft bigotry of low expectations.” : ) And that, my friends, will be the one and only time I ever quote Dubya.

  3. Minkoff Minx says:
    June 7, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    nytimes The New York Times
    NYT NEWS ALERT: Up to 30 Dismembered Bodies Found Near Houston, Reuters Reports
    27 minutes ago

    This is going to be bad…

    • dakinikat says:
      June 7, 2011 at 6:22 pm

      Texas is a mess these days. It’s probably drug-related.

      • Minkoff Minx says:
        June 7, 2011 at 10:23 pm

        “Mass grave” tip in Hardin, Tex., turns out false – CBS News

        No bodies were found Tuesday at a Texas farmhouse that authorities had investigated after a tip from a person claiming to be a psychic, a sheriff’s official said.

        The “psychic” had told authorities that there were dozens of dismembered bodies buried at the house, about 70 miles northeast of Houston, which set off a mad scramble of law officials and news trucks to the scene.

        So Sorry, bout posting that tweet. When it came out the news did not say a psychic was the one who gave the tip…

      • Jadzia says:
        June 8, 2011 at 12:39 am

        Yeah, but it looks like the NYT and Reuters said that the bodies were FOUND, which doesn’t suggest to me that it was just a (now discredited) psychic “tip.” I am guessing the article was more clear about it being a tip rather than an actual fact, but boy is that a headline FAIL. Which is a long way of saying, it’s not a Minkoff Minx, or a migraine related, fail!

  4. Minkoff Minx says:
    June 7, 2011 at 6:14 pm

    Gay Girl in Damascus blogger joins ranks of Syria’s detained | World news | The Guardian

    And so the 35-year-old Syrian, an outspoken lesbian, feminist and anti-government protester, continued to post highly critical entries on the blog, A Gay Girl in Damascus, even as the security situation in her home country became ever more precarious, and her own position increasingly at risk.

    She was teargassed, arrested and detained with other protesters at demonstrations in March and April; at one rally she saw a young man shot dead in front of her. But “for those of us who have taken part in the protests,” she wrote, “there’s no going back.

  5. The Rock says:
    June 7, 2011 at 7:03 pm

    NationalJournal.com – Separated at Birth: Merkel and Clinton – Tuesday, June 7, 2011

    Thank you for that Minx!

    Dak, what does this mean, and how does it affect our econommy?
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-news/asian-pacific/yuan-expected-to-become-major-world-currency/article2046868/

    Obumbles is gearing up for the 2012 race…..Asshat.
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2011-06-08-Obama-brand-economy-campaign_n.htm

    30 bodies down here in Houston, eh? What people don’t know is that budget cuts are going to limit the number of police officers down here. We are so f%^&ed.

    Minx, I suffer from the occasional migrane and I SO know what you are going through. Excedrin migrane helps. To those that have never experienced a migrane, count yourself as lucky.

    I’m slow cooking some ox-tail to put in a rice dish and I need to start my tuna casserole. Tonight, I will finish with some banana bread (my bunch has three yellow and black ones left and this is not the time to be throwing away food). Cheers!!

    Hillary 2012

  6. madamab says:
    June 7, 2011 at 7:56 pm

    Minx, my mom and stepmom both had cluster headaches. The agony they went through was unbelievable. I really sympathize and hope you feel better.

    Loved your shout-out to Griswold.

  7. Fannie says:
    June 7, 2011 at 8:28 pm

    I wonder if Santorum has helped fund the Informed Choice Women’s Clinic……….it’s obviously a catholic based
    clinic, and is one of twenty pregnancy centers in the state. They use “CHOICE” because they want to take the WORD BACK. Little do they know that they are indeed taking us back, way back to the dark ages. God told them of offer free health services, pretty much like family palnning, except teach women the technique of holding the “PEA” between the leg, that making the women natural. They believe 100% in ultra sounds in a heart beat. They offer no condoms, no referals for birth control, no referals for abortions.

    They have 4 doctors, and a ton of volunteer nurses………..I hope someone checks to see if they are all bonified.
    I hope women start making posters, and walking up and down up and down their street. Women need to fight back against the catholic church……………remember they are our children’s molesters.

  8. jillforhill says:
    June 7, 2011 at 9:56 pm

    Is anyone watching the special on AC360 about the “Sissy Boy” Experiment? The father beat his poor child anytime this psycho psychiatrist thought he did anything a girl might do so the child would stop doing it. The victim of this “experiment” committed sucide when he was 38 yrs. old. This psycho psychiatrist should be in prison for what he did.

    • Wonk the Vote says:
      June 7, 2011 at 10:03 pm

      I had seen that being advertised. Can’t watch it tonight. Thanks for the info. That is so sad and despicable on so many levels. Why isn’t the psychiatrist in jail and is he still practicing? What about the father? Is he not in jail either? WTF?

      • jillforhill says:
        June 7, 2011 at 10:17 pm

        The father did not want a “sissy” son. The psychiatrist would give the boys blue chips if they did anything that a boy would do and a red chips if they did anyting a girl would do. They would watch both boys at school and at home,at the end of they day they would count up the chips and if there were more red chips they would get beat by the father. The victim would have more red chips and his bother would take them from him so he would not get beat. They put toys in front of the victim and told him to pick one,he picked a doll and he got beat and had vicious,horrible things said to him. They beat him so bad they gave him welts all over his body.

        The psychiatrist wrote/writes books and gave/gives speeches saying this experiment works in curing gay people. The family is coming out to counter this psycho psychiatrist and his lies because some people think doing what he says works.

        Tomorrow is part 2 where they try to talk to the psycho psychiatrist and why he did this and why is he lying.

      • jillforhill says:
        June 7, 2011 at 10:27 pm

        It was government funded research. The parents wanted it because the vicitm acted to much like a girl. They started this when the victim was 5 years old.

      • WomanVoter says:
        June 7, 2011 at 11:10 pm

        I already forgot the name of the program? I was trying to look it up, then realized I was to involved in the little boy’s story (Very sad) and the name didn’t register.

      • Wonk the Vote says:
        June 7, 2011 at 11:24 pm

        It was government funded research

        Abortion can’t be government funded but this “research” was? Again, WTF?!

      • Woman Voter says:
        June 8, 2011 at 2:12 am

        I was referring to the little boy, in the program on Anderson Cooper tonight, no abortion. He was five when he was in the program and when his suffering began.

      • Wonk the Vote says:
        June 8, 2011 at 2:24 am

        Woman Voter, I know you weren’t talking about abortion.

        I was replying to jill who said the program explained that the “research” program this psychiatrist abused the boy with was government funded.

        It just made me think of the abortion funding wars how abortion is such a sticking point and can’t be funded even though the government can fund war, torture, abusive “research,” etc.

      • Thursday's Child says:
        June 8, 2011 at 5:14 am

        First of all, that experiment had nothing whatsoever to do with “what a girl would do.” What you mean is that he would be beaten if he did anything stereotypically feminine, not if he did “anything a girl would do.” Male defined stereotypical femininity has nothing to do with girls or “what they would do”, it only has to do with men/boys.

      • Wonk the Vote says:
        June 8, 2011 at 5:25 am

        It is about stereotypically feminine rather than about what a girl would do, but this “research” doesn’t sound like it was carried out by people who seem like they’d make that kind of distinction. This reminds me of the creepy Christian clinics trying to make gay people straight.

    • WomanVoter says:
      June 7, 2011 at 10:08 pm

      It looks like his regular show?

    • WomanVoter says:
      June 7, 2011 at 11:01 pm

      I just saw the first part and it would appear they (The Government sponsored program) were using ‘Behavioral Therapy’, and well I was shocked.

  9. Jadzia says:
    June 8, 2011 at 12:44 am

    MM I am so sorry about your migraines. They SUCK. I am stuck taking Vicodin(*) for mine, which probably is not great while you’re pregnant (though my doc is prescribing it to me anyway) — I won’t take the other stuff she prescribed because there’s a warning that there’s a causation or correlation (can’t remember which) with birth anomalies that are apparently so horrible that they won’t tell you exactly what they are. I generally stay away from meds that say things like “a CERTAIN TYPE of birth defect.” Anyway, hope you feel better soon.

    (*)I hate Vicodin. Most people get nice and sleepy on it. I get up-all-night insomnia, the kind where you are awake, yet totally unproductive.

    • Minkoff Minx says:
      June 8, 2011 at 7:23 am

      @Jadzia Oh, I know what you mean. Darvocet is the thing that works on me, and now it is no longer prescribed because of side effects. (I have 1 pill left from before they recalled it…I have been saving it. Sort of like Elaine with the Sponge. Keep saying to myself, is this headache Darvocet Worthy? )

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