Kill the Sun

Well done, America!

The '80s girl in me is crying right now. Patrick Swayze reportedly has five weeks left to live.

These are so funny!



They're based on Korknisse (Ravelry Link)

MAKE THE PIE HIGHER
by George W. Bush

I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It's a world of madmen and uncertainty
and potential mental losses.

Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the Internet become more few?
How many hands have I shaked?

They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.
I know that the human being and the fish can coexist.
Families is where our nation finds hope, where our wings take dream.

Put food on your family!
Knock down the tollbooth!
Vulcanize society!
Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/piehigher.asp

My first born absolutely must have one of these:



(ETA: OK, I guess not if it's a boy)

The creators of the BEST lip balm in the world have announced that as of 25th May, they will cease production. Nooooooo. It's Fair Trade and Organic, made with top ingredients. I really shouldn't be this upset over lip balm, but really it's the best.

http://www.mamacocos.com/

Bunny's ok!! *bounces*

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.

When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags - riding in the passenger seat was a treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.

We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this.

We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.

We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms.

We had friends - we went outside and found them.

We played elastics and brandings, and sometimes that ball really hurt!

We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no law suits.

We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.

We played knock and run and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.

We walked to friends' homes.

We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.

We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...They actually sided with the law.

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

And you're one of them. Congratulations!

Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.

For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like to read about us.

This my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and it might put a smile on your face:

The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986........They are called youth.

They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children, and the Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda Carlisle.

For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam.

AIDS has existed since they were born. CD's have existed since they were born.

Michael Jackson has always been white.

To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance.

They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are films from last year.

They can never imagine life before computers.

They'll never have pretended to be the A Team, RedHand Gang or the Famous Five

They can't believe a black and white television ever existed. And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone.

Now let's check if we're getting old...
1. You understand what was written above and you smile.

2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out.

3. Your friends are getting married/already married.

4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.

5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.

6. You remember watching Charlene and Scotts wedding

7. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good Old days, repeating again all the funny things you have experienced together.

This makes me feel sick. What the hell is wrong with these people?

Ruling forces chemists to follow script for the pill
April 4, 2005


The Governor of the US state of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, has issued an emergency rule that requires pharmacies to accept and fill prescriptions for contraceptives without delay.

The decree comes after a growing number of complaints nationwide that some pharmacists are refusing to dispense birth control pills and the morning after pill.

Mr Blagojevich has also set up a free telephone number that residents can use to report refusals by pharmacies.

Reproductive rights groups said Mr Blagojevich's was the first statewide regulation to tackle the issue. "We are hopeful that governors across the country will follow his lead," said Nancy Keenan, national president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League Pro-Choice America.

The ruling was issued on Friday and took effect immediately, although Mr Blagojevich, a Democrat, said it would later go through a review process to become permanent.

It came in response to complaints that on February 23 a pharmacist in Chicago refused to fill prescriptions for two women. Mr Blagojevic joined reproductive rights groups in describing the refusals as part of a concerted push by conservative groups to decrease the availability of contraceptives.

"It's not just in the Loop [central Chicago]; this is happening all over the country," he said. "There's a pattern of this behaviour. This is not just a coincidence but part and parcel of a larger campaign."

Women in at least 12 states, including Texas, North Carolina and California, have reported encountering pharmacists who are unwilling to fill their prescriptions. "We've heard stories about them being turned away or referred to other pharmacies," said Karen Pearl, national president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

"Even more alarmingly, some women are being denied birth control, and the pharmacist keeps their prescription. They are also being given moral lectures, religious lectures. Women are being told contraception is abortion, which it is not."

The director of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Fernando Grillo, said the new rule "clarifies a duty we believe has always existed". The agency has filed a complaint against the Chicago pharmacy, which could result in a fine or licence suspension.

A lawyer at the National Women's Law Centre, Rachel Laser, said 45 states had conscience clauses that exempted doctors from performing abortions on moral grounds, but only Arkansas, Mississippi, South Dakota and Georgia had laws or regulations permitting pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions.

There are no federal laws forcing pharmacies to fill all prescriptions.

At least 11 states are considering legislation that would allow pharmacists to deny prescriptions.

The Washington Post