Bishops Push for Veto on Contraception Bill

ALBANY — The state’s Catholic leaders have stepped up the battle over a bill that would let women and girls get “morning after” contraceptives without prescriptions, despite the fact that the legislation has yet to hit Gov. George Pataki’s desk. [...] “It is difficult to imagine why anyone would support restricting parental rights and potentially exposing young girls to harmful and powerful medications on a repeated basis in this way,” the bishops wrote, adding that a veto from the Republican governor, who is an abortion rights advocate, would gain him “the gratitude of parents throughout the state and nation.”

Oh, please just go fuck yourself with your sexist bullshit.

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As extremely auto loan credit bad moves around the network, the mobile device will “handoff” to various cell sites during calls, or while waiting (idle) between calls it will reselect cell sites.

The B.C. police have “bait car” videos of car thefts from inside the stolen car online at BaitCar.com. I totally love the one they call “The Prayer“.

Once in a while you get that now-why-didn’t-I-think-of-that feeling: Man goes to court, appeals to highest authority

Mr. Christ, 53, lives in Washington. Though he was born Peter R. Phillips, he began calling himself Jesus Christ about 15 years ago — as a sign, he contends, of his intense devotion to his religion. Many local governments recognize common-law name changes. Indeed, his U.S. passport, Social Security card and D.C. driver’s license all read “Jesus Christ.”

Everything was going peacefully for Jesus until not long ago, when he tried to buy some property in West Virginia. The state authorities wouldn’t give him a deed unless they had an official record of a name change. So he applied for one in the D.C. courts. A judge turned him down on the grounds that the name would be offensive to many people, and possibly even incite violence.

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Nice little piece on Dubya and the religious mindset: Keeping it Simple, Stupid

To be evangelical is to banish doubt from your life. The term is most commonly used to describe born-again, fundamentalist Christians who believe all truth resides exclusively in the Christian Bible and the teachings of Jesus Christ. To an evangelical Christian, all nuance is Satan’s nose in the tent of blissful certainty. And, if nuance is the Devil’s nose, any facts that might challenge their narrow views, such as evolution and the real geological age of the earth, are Satan personified.

When facts become a problem for evangelicals, they simply dismiss them. If pushed, they attack the offending facts, no matter how nonsensical, absurd, untrue, juvenile or just plain silly their rebuttal has to be.

Interesting to see how this turns out: O’Connor Retires From Supreme Court

WASHINGTON – Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court and a swing vote on abortion as well as other contentious issues, announced her retirement Friday. A bruising Senate confirmation struggle loomed as President Bush pledged to name a successor quickly.

Let the theocracy games begin…

Reader Jeremy from Cleveland draws our attention to a pathetic story from the home of the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame: The local health museum, HealthSpace Cleveland, has waived a $5,000 rental fee to allow a faith healer to use its facilities. Here are a few excerpts from the coverage in the the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Faith healer to be at health museum; $5,000 fee waived for healing service).

The Cleveland health education museum will open its doors to faith healer Dr. Issam Nemeh on July 10, creating an unusual venue for a purported miracle healing service. HealthSpace Cleveland waived the customary $5,000 rental fee for Nemeh… “We decided not to charge them because a number of board members are supporters of Dr. Nemeh’s work…

The Plain Dealer reported earlier… that Nemeh had sued after being kicked out of a medical residency program at Fairview Hospital [and] that even though Nemeh claimed he worked as an anesthesiologist at Richmond General Hospital for several years, officials at the hospital said Nemeh worked there for only four months.