February 2012
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FACT SHEET: Women’s Preventive Services and... →
Under the new policy to be announced today, women will have free preventive care that includes contraceptive services no matter where she works. The policy also ensures that if a woman works for religious employers with objections to providing contraceptive services as part of its health plan, the religious employer will not be required to provide contraception coverage, but her insurance...
Breaking: Komen Apologizes, Says Will Reinstate... →
Sooo….huh. Good, then? Will they refund stem-cell research?
Susan G. Komen Foundation Also Stops Funding... →
In addition to pulling funds from Planned Parenthood for The Susan G. Komen Foundation also decided to stop funding embryonic stem cell research centers making it fully transparent the organization has evolved from non-political non-profit to a partisan advocacy organization.
That means the loss of $3.75 million to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, $4.5 million to the University...
January 2012
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Yeah So Pulp Sold Out the Warfield in Less Than 10... →
BUT I GET TO GO B/C THE WOMBAT GOT TIX. We are not scalpers or robots. We are real people. I swear.
The First Woman To Go 'Round The World Did It As A... →
discoverynews:
She was the first woman ever to circumnavigate the globe, but she did it dressed as a man. For more than two years she traveled on a French naval vessel with linen bandages wrapped tightly around her upper body to flatten her chest. It was a small ship with 300 men who knew her as “Jean.” But she wasn’t Jean. She was Jeanne. Then one day, they found her out.
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Income Inequality is Bad for Society. Really Bad. →
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“People have told us “if you want your daughter to play with other LEGOs, buy...”
– LEGO: the Good, the Bad, & the Frilly | SPARK Movement (via sparkamovement)
Gingrich Wins South Carolina Primary →
Huh. Values voters, eh?
Obama Reaffirms Insurers Must Cover Contraceptives... →
The Obama administration said Friday thathealth insurance plans must cover contraceptives for women without charge, and it rejected a broad exemption sought by the Roman Catholic Church for insurance provided to employees of Catholic hospitals, colleges and charities.
It took them long enough. Keep actually taking stands on things, please. And thank you.
Citing SOPA-Like Charges, The Feds Just Shut Down... →
So, what would SOPA and PIPA accomplish that can’t be accomplished without them?
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Romney: "not very much" income = $374,000/year
Romney on his income taxes: “What’s the effective rate that I’ve been paying? It’s probably closer to the 15 percent rate than anything, because my last ten years, I’ve - my income comes overwhelmingly from investments…I got a little bit of income from my book, but I gave that all away. And then I get speakers fees from time to time, but not very much.”
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#FactsWithoutWikipedia Superman invented planking.
#FactsWithoutWikipedia Superman invented planking. twitter.com/SupermanTweets…
— Superman (@SupermanTweets) January 18, 2012
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Remember this? Probably not, this boat was full... →
thenelsontwins:
Rescuers dicing with choppy seas are searching for 200 asylum seekers after their overcrowded wooden ship sank off Indonesia’s main island of Java. So far only 33 people have been found alive.
Cultural excuses: What lies behind cultural... →
genderacrossborders:
Culture becomes a convenient excuse for many advocates of harmful practises against women because it is an extremely sensitive topic. In this precarious situation, the debate over cultural relativism and right to self-determination overshadows the most important issue - women’s suffering and abuse - that is simply unacceptable. Culture is created and lived by people and...
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