Americans hate the Federal Government more than ever

[DrW]

13 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

You won't find the word "lesbian" because the researcher uses the term "sexual minority women."

 

Yes, I read the grant proposal too.  The story was exaggerated, but "lesbian contraception" is a not insignificant part of the research.

 

OK, I did not want to post the whole NIH abstract and project terms. But here they are:

 

Abstract Text:
High rates of contraceptive dissatisfaction, switching, and discontinuation in the US demand new approaches to contraceptive acceptability and promotion. Behavioral models of contraceptive use have failed to address sexuality, even though contraception is designed for sexual activity. By following new contraceptive users across 12 months, this study will 1) document sexual acceptability for a variety of contraceptive methods, 2) determine associations between sexual acceptability and continuation over time, and 3) set the stage for the creation of new, more valid sexuality measures to be used in future reproductive health research and interventions. The proposal catalyzes a patient-centered approach to contraception that has the potential to improve women's experiences with their methods. Research from this program could ultimately be used to help match women with the method(s) they will find the most sexually acceptable— methods they will like and use—thereby helping women fully realize the social, economic, and health benefits of contraception. RELEVANCE (See instructions): Many effective contraceptives are available today, but half of women discontinue use within a year due to dissatisfaction with available methods. Women have requested oral contraception to be used immediately in advance of infrequent intercourse. This proposed “On Demand” Contraceptive Center is focused on the development of effective, safe, acceptable contraceptives for women which block ovulation to prevent pregnancy.
Project Terms:
Address; Adverse effects; Affect; Arousal; base; Behavior; Behavioral Model; behavioral study; Breast; Characteristics; Child; Client; clinical practice; Clinical Trials; cohort; condoms; Contraception Behavior; Contraceptive Agents; Contraceptive Availability; contraceptive efficacy; Contraceptive methods; Contraceptive Usage; Copper Intrauterine Devices; Counseling; Data; Decreased Libido; Depo Provera; design; Desired Family Sizes; Development; Dimensions; Disinhibition; Economics; Equation; Esthesia; experience; Factor Analysis; Failure; Family Planning; Female; Future; Goals; Health; Health Benefit; Hemorrhage; Heterosexuals; Hormonal; Implant; improved; indexing; Individual; Injectable; Instruction; instrument; interest; Intervention; Intrauterine Devices; Lead; lens; Levonorgestrel; Libido; Life; Link; Longitudinal Studies; Lubrication; male; Male Condoms; Measures; men; Method Acceptability; Methods; middle age; Modeling; Muscle Cramp; novel; novel strategies; Oral; Oral Contraceptives; Orgasm; Outcome; Ovulation; Pain; patient oriented; Patients; Pattern; Perception; Personal Satisfaction; Persons; Physiological; pill; preference; Pregnancy; prevent; product development; programs; prospective; psychologic; Psychological Factors; Psychometrics; Public Health; racial and ethnic; Reporting; Reproductive Health; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; reversible contraceptive; Risk; Role; Sample Size; satisfaction; Sex Behavior; Sex Functioning; Sexual Dysfunction; Sexual Partners; Sexuality; Shapes; social; socioeconomics; Structure; Surveys; Time; tool; Translations; unintended pregnancy; Vagina; Vaginal Ring; Woman; Work

Can you please tell me where you find the terms "sexual minority women" or "lesbian contraception"? Please understand me correctly, it is obvious that the PI works on these topics. However, they are not part of the research funded by the NIH. 

[3rdnlng]

It's been a long standing tradition here at PPP to never post more than a line or two about lesbians without also posting some damn sexy pics of them. DrW, you are new and can almost be forgiven, but do need to make up for it in some way.

[DrW]

9 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

It's been a long standing tradition here at PPP to never post more than a line or two about lesbians without also posting some damn sexy pics of them. DrW, you are new and can almost be forgiven, but do need to make up for it in some way.

 

On the internet, I can only provide a picture of Sappho (from the island of Lesbos), who is the symbol of love between women. All my other pics of lesbians cannot be shown on a web site that is accessible to minors. But, here you go:

 

[Koko78]

15 hours ago, DrW said:

 

On the internet, I can only provide a picture of Sappho (from the island of Lesbos), who is the symbol of love between women. All my other pics of lesbians cannot be shown on a web site that is accessible to minors. But, here you go:

 

 

Oh wow, you guys see the way she's handling that lute?!?

[unbillievable]

That study makes sense to a liberal because their definition of "women" is not restricted by biology.

 

 

Edited June 8, 2018 by unbillievable

[row_33]

That stuff was in the unstudied portion of the Latin textbooks, we'd always go read that stuff.

 

One day we asked about the translation in one text of the man lamenting that his slave boy was aging and it was no longer a pleasure looking at his wrinkling face as he...... well... the teacher ended that discussion quickly....

 

[B-Man]

With the authorities having cleaned up all crime and corruption in the state of Illinois, 

 

Mom investigated by Department of Children and Family Services for letting 8-year-old walk her dog alone.

 

 

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[DC Tom]

32 minutes ago, B-Man said:

With the authorities having cleaned up all crime and corruption in the state of Illinois, 

 

Mom investigated by Department of Children and Family Services for letting 8-year-old walk her dog alone.

 

 

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Letting a kid outside in North Chicago is arguably child endangerment...

[B-Man]

WHO CONTROLS THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH?

Under the Constitution, the President exercises all executive authority. But we do not live under the government that is described in the Constitution. We live in a society that is dominated by the Fourth Branch of government, the unelected bureaucracy that is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution. And the Fourth Branch is increasingly declaring its independence from the elected officials to whom it ostensibly reports–that is to say, from the voters.

 

Thus the current spectacle in Washington, D.C., where the federal bureaucracy, all of which nominally reports to President Trump, is largely dedicated to overthrowing him. The Department of Justice is the most notorious instance, but Mark Krikorian illuminates more examples of *independent* bureaucracies. The subject is the murder of Mollie Tibbetts in Iowa.

 

The murderer, an illegal alien, had little trouble living in this country for years, interacting with a variety of government agencies, in part because some of those agencies apparently subscribe to a code of silence:

Tibbetts’s killer is reported to have lived in the United States for seven years, from age 17, and worked at an Iowa dairy farm for four of those years. He worked on the books, having used a stolen identity to get past the Social Security–number check (not E-Verify) used by his employer. His lawyer said that the killer “diligently filed tax returns legally with the IRS.” He had a car registered in someone else’s name and managed to drive for years without a license. He had a child with a high-school classmate of Tibbetts’s, meaning he was presumably listed as the father on the birth certificate.

 

That’s a lot of interaction with our institutions. That an illegal alien can do all that — for years — without raising a red flag represents a profound failure of policy. For instance: He used someone else’s identity to get the dairy-farm job — was the rightful owner of that identity notified when his Social Security number was used to check employment eligibility? If I make a change online to my bank account, I receive an email notifying me of the change so that if it was done improperly I can alert the bank. There is no such notification for the use of our most important personal identifiers, and the Social Security Administration resists the very suggestion of coordination with the immigration authorities to identify illegal aliens in the work force.

 

The killer filed tax returns, presumably using the stolen identity. Was the victim of this identity theft notified that another tax return was being filed in his name? Again, no — the IRS refuses cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security, even when it knows the filer is an illegal alien (as when a filer provides an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number on the tax return but has a different, stolen number on the W-2 form).

 

 

So the Social Security Administration and the IRS are not cooperating in the enforcement of federal law, which is the prime duty of the executive branch, according to Article II of the Constitution. President Trump runs both of those agencies. Why can’t he make them shape up? That question is the key to understanding American politics in the 21st Century.

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/who-controls-the-executive-branch.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+powerlineblog%2Flivefeed+(Power+Line)

[B-Man]

 

 

A judge ruling that states' safety concerns "dwarf" the First Amendment is the kind of thing that SHOULD spark mass protests in this country.

 

THERE is your proverbial "slippery slope"

 

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Breaking: US District Court Judge Robert S. Lasnik has ruled against the State Department regarding their settlement with Cody Wilson over 3D printed guns. He has issued a preliminary injunction.

 

 

 

 

 

Judge Lasnik claims that Cody Wilson's First Amendment rights are "currently abridged, but it has not been abrogated" which is fairly stunning.

 

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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

 

 

Seems pretty clear

Edited August 27, 2018 by B-Man

[B-Man]

Shut............ It................. Down.

 

Failure: The $1.7 Billion Federal Job Corps Program Doesn’t ‘Demonstrate Beneficial Job Training Outcomes’

by Mary Chastain

 

The Department of Labor’s Job Corps program receives an annual budget of $1.7 billion dollars. You’d think a program that is a sacred cow to people on both sides of the aisle and with that budget pushes out success after success.

 

Nope. This Great Society program birthed by JFK’s brother-in-law R. Sargent Shriver has turned into a money pit, a waste of that taxpayer money, according to those close to the program who spoke to The New York Times:

“Job Corps doesn’t work,” said Teresa Sanders, a former teacher at the North Texas center who quit in frustration in 2015 after a rash of violent episodes inside the center, but who keeps in touch with dozens of former students through a Facebook page. “The adults are making money, the politicians are getting photo ops. But we are all failing the students.”

 

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[B-Man]

THE REVOLT AGAINST THE MASSES: Two Years Later, the Elites Are Still Disconnected From Voters.

 

In our May Winning the Issues survey, we asked voters if they thought their voice was heard effectively in the political and public policy discourse on major issues. By a 21 percent to 61 percent margin, they said “no.” Republicans were at 32 percent to 49 percent (yes/no); independents at 11 percent to 72 percent, and Democrats at 20 percent to 63 percent.

 

Most people that we survey and talk with in focus groups aren’t angry as much as frustrated and despondent over what they see as a political system run by elites who do not understand the problems they are facing. A January 2017 Congressional Institute survey found that by a 73 percent to 15 percent margin, people agreed — elites don’t get them or their concerns.

 

Some political observers — elites themselves — have put the blame for the division we’re seeing in the country on ordinary people feeling that they have no purpose. That’s certainly not what I’ve seen in focus groups or in the results of our research.

 

In fact, it’s just the opposite. People believe that it is the elites and institutions that don’t value the average person and what they contribute to the nation.

 

 

 

 

 

  Marco Rubio: When It Comes to Public Policy Priorities, There Is ‘Enormous Gap’ Between Elites, Everyday People.

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

 

Time to bring this back................

 

 

THIS IS A GOOD IDEA: Bipartisan Bill Would Stop States From Denying Occupational Licenses Due to Student Loan Debt. 

 

It should be illegal in general to leverage government licenses around unrelated topics:

 

Qualifications for a driver’s license should be limited to driving, qualifications for a plumbing license should be limited to plumbing. And anyway, most things that are licensed shouldn’t be.

 

 

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[Koko78]

28 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

Time to bring this back................

 

THIS IS A GOOD IDEA: Bipartisan Bill Would Stop States From Denying Occupational Licenses Due to Student Loan Debt. 

 

It should be illegal in general to leverage government licenses around unrelated topics:

 

Qualifications for a driver’s license should be limited to driving, qualifications for a plumbing license should be limited to plumbing. And anyway, most things that are licensed shouldn’t be.

 

I don't necessarily disagree with the bill to stop the license suspensions, but for every sob story about a nurse who had health issues, there are stories about doctors making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year and just tell the Department of Education to piss off. They don't have to care about credit scores once they get their practices going strong.

 

It was really egregious before the federal government changed the bankruptcy laws awhile back. People (not just doctors) would open their own practice, start making tons of money, then declare personal bankruptcy to discharge debt they had the ability to pay.

 

This is the same theory behind suspending drivers licenses for non-payment of child support. Sure, they argument is that people can't work and pay their support if they can't drive, however they weren't paying when they could drive to work, so who gives a *****?

Edited March 3, 2019 by Koko78

[The_Dude]

Revolution!

[Koko78]

16 minutes ago, The_Dude said:

Revolution!

 

[B-Man]

Forgotten no longer by Don Surber

Original Article   Donald John Trump became the first third-party candidate to be elected president. First, he destroyed the Republican Party, then took its nomination and won the White House by destroying Hillary by exposing her as a grifter (you'd be in jail) and a drunk (Sick Hillary). He kept the name Republican because changing all that stationery is expensive.   {snip}   "The forgotten men and women of America will be forgotten no longer. That is the heart of this new movement and the future of the Republican Party. People came to vote and these people, the media, they said where are they coming from? What's going on here? These are hard-working, great, great Americans. These are unbelievable people who have not been treated fairly. Hillary called them deplorable. They're not deplorable. Who would have thought that a word was going to play so badly? That's the problem in politics. One wrong word and it's over. She also said irredeemable, but we won't mention that," President Trump said today. Ah yes, Hillary's cute and cutting remark about a basket of deplorables as she shucked and jived for the elitists who gave her more than a billion bucks to blow on an election she made about her (I'm With Her) instead of the country. Journalists who agreed with her assessment that America is deplorable laughed and wrote stories about her clever remark. President Trump said it cost her the election. Who are you to argue? He won.     More at the link:

[Tiberius]

"Top" ten poorest states in the USA: 

 

https://www.fcnl.org/updates/top-10-poorest-states-in-the-u-s-1630

 

Republican policies have not got them off the list. Why is that?