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    ^ i was looking for that letter to post earlier in the thread but couldn't find it, i'd forgotten it was to that pitiful excuse for a human being Ann-"women shouldn't be allowed to vote"-Coulter

    thanks for posting.

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    10/07/11

    The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill yesterday that would make it a federal crime for U.S. residents to discuss or plan activities on foreign soil that, if carried out in the U.S., would violate the Controlled

    Substances Act (CSA) -- even if the planned activities are legal in the countries where they're carried out.

    H.R. 313, the "Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act of 2011," is sponsored by Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), and allows prosecutors to bring conspiracy charges against anyone who discusses, plans or advises someone else to engage in any activity that violates the CSA, the massive federal law that prohibits drugs like marijuana and strictly regulates prescription medication.

    "Under this bill, if a young couple plans a wedding in Amsterdam, and as part of the wedding, they plan to buy the bridal party some marijuana, they would be subject to prosecution," said Bill Piper, director of national affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance, which advocates for reforming the country's drug laws. "The strange thing is that the purchase of and smoking the marijuana while you're there wouldn't be illegal. But this law would make planning the wedding from the U.S. a federal crime."

    The law could also potentially affect academics and medical professionals. For example, a U.S. doctor who works with overseas doctors or government officials on needle exchange programs could be subject to criminal prosecution. A U.S. resident who advises someone in another country on how to grow marijuana or how to run a medical marijuana dispensary would also be in violation of the new law, even if medical marijuana is legal in the country where the recipient of the advice resides. If interpreted broadly enough, a prosecutor could possibly even charge doctors, academics and policymakers from contributing their expertise to additional experiments like the drug decriminalization project Portugal, which has successfully reduced drug crime, addiction and overdose deaths.

    The Controlled Substances Act also regulates the distribution of prescription drugs, so something as simple as emailing a friend vacationing in Tijuana some suggestions on where to buy prescription medication over the counter could subject a U.S. resident to criminal prosecution. "It could even be something like advising them where to buy cold medicine overseas that they'd have to show I.D. to get here in the U.S.," Piper says.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/us-drug-policy-war-congress_n_998993.html

  14. Posted · Edited by nabraxas

    November 14, 2012

    Savita Halappanavar (31), a dentist, presented with back pain at the hospital on October 21st, was found to be miscarrying, and died of septicaemia a week later.

    Her husband, Praveen Halappanavar (34), an engineer at Boston Scientific in Galway, says she asked several times over a three-day period that the pregnancy be terminated. He says that, having been told she was miscarrying, and after one day in severe pain, Ms Halappanavar asked for a medical termination.

    This was refused, he says, because the foetal heartbeat was still present and they were told, “this is a Catholic country”.

    She spent a further 2½ days “in agony” until the foetal heartbeat stopped.

    Intensive care

    The dead foetus was removed and Savita was taken to the high dependency unit and then the intensive care unit, where she died of septicaemia on the 28th.

    An autopsy carried out by Dr Grace Callagy two days later found she died of septicaemia “documented ante-mortem” and E.coli ESBL.

    Speaking from Belgaum in the Karnataka region of southwest India, Mr Halappanavar said an internal examination was performed when she first presented.

    “The doctor told us the cervix was fully dilated, amniotic fluid was leaking and unfortunately the baby wouldn’t survive.” The doctor, he says, said it should be over in a few hours. There followed three days, he says, of the foetal heartbeat being checked several times a day.

    “Savita was really in agony. She was very upset, but she accepted she was losing the baby. When the consultant came on the ward rounds on Monday morning Savita asked if they could not save the baby could they induce to end the pregnancy. The consultant said, ‘As long as there is a foetal heartbeat we can’t do anything’.

    “Again on Tuesday morning, the ward rounds and the same discussion. The consultant said it was the law, that this is a Catholic country. Savita [a Hindu] said: ‘I am neither Irish nor Catholic’ but they said there was nothing they could do.

    “That evening she developed shakes and shivering and she was vomiting. She went to use the toilet and she collapsed. There were big alarms and a doctor took bloods and started her on antibiotics.

    “The next morning I said she was so sick and asked again that they just end it, but they said they couldn’t.”

    Critically ill

    At lunchtime the foetal heart had stopped and Ms Halappanavar was brought to theatre to have the womb contents removed. “When she came out she was talking okay but she was very sick. That’s the last time I spoke to her.”

    At 11 pm he got a call from the hospital. “They said they were shifting her to intensive care. Her heart and pulse were low, her temperature was high. She was sedated and critical but stable. She stayed stable on Friday but by 7pm on Saturday they said her heart, kidneys and liver weren’t functioning. She was critically ill. That night, we lost her.”

    Mr Halappanavar took his wife’s body home on Thursday, November 1st, where she was cremated and laid to rest on November 3rd.

     

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2012/1114/1224326575203.html

    i know Ireland takes it's Catholicism seriously, but this is just homicide w/no rational excuse.... :BANGHEAD2:

  16. Posted

    November 13, 2012

    Asked whether Catholic celibacy was a possible contributor to child sex abuse, Prof Briggs told news.com.au celibacy was not the problem “for men who are sexually attracted to children" anyway.

    “There has been an acceptance over the years that having sex with a boy is not breaking celibacy," she said.

    “What priests told me was that the biggest crime was to have sex with a woman."

    “Churches are psychologically attractive to sex offenders because they can ask for forgiveness one day and offend again on another day," she said.

    “There was one priest in Victoria who admitted when caught that he had confessed 200 times and nobody had reported him, because priests are not allowed to report anyone who confesses in a confessional."

     

    http://www.news.com.au/news/child-sex-abuse-not-the-biggest-sin-and-confession-gives-a-clean-slate-pedophile-priests-believe/story-e6frfkor-1226515833723

  18. Posted · Edited by nabraxas

    Internet Industry Association (IIA) had released a filter code on child abuse for the industry. IIA have stated that no new legilsation amendments were required because ISPs were installing filters to block access to faclitiate carrying out legal

    requests under s313 of the Telecommunications Act.[120][121] However no known code has been publicly released yet.

    Internode, TPG and Exetel have been against the scheme, unless the law compels them. iiNet is one notable exception in that they will work with the law, but haven't got a position on the scheme. Vodafone is supporting the IIA filter code, however it's not clear whether they will implement it.[122]

     

    http://en.wikipedia....ip_in_Australia

    iinet Representative:

    what has happened, between the AFP telling you it was voluntary?

    Then : AFP explicitly state compliance with section 313 of the Act (for the specific purpose of the 'worst of the worst' blocks) was optional/voluntary/up to the ISP.

    Now : AFP explicitly state compliance with section 313 of the Act (for the specific purposes of the 'worst of the worst' blocks) is required.

    It's not complicated. The Act hasn't changed, the section 313 notice has. Previously, it seems, some ISPs were prepared to act on the 'voluntary' s313.

    We declined.

    Now that it is no longer voluntary, we are complying.

     

    http://forums.whirlp...833450&p=7#r140

  19. Posted

    & yeah, sometimes it's nice to just go to work, do your job, go home & forget about it.

    higher paid positions usually come w/more responsibility, stress, often more hours (at Coles managers are expected to stay at work until the job is finished, & if that means staying back 2 or 3 hours then that's what you have to do & you wont be paid for that extra time).

    usually work is taken home, if not physically then mentally.

    some people will take less pay for a more relaxed work experience.

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  20. Posted

    Whatever happened to passion, bettering yourself and obtaining a skilled position?

    like i said most ov the checkout staff are students or at school.

    they are bettering themselves, & at the same time they are earning money & finding out what it's really like in the "real world"

    remove that opportunity & some ov them might not be able to afford to study, & the school kids will continue to sponge off their parents, or

    otherwise wont be able to afford driving lessons or to save up for their first car.

  21. Posted

    used to spend alot ov time in Sorrento.

    coles started a development there on a small bit ov land.

    i asked in the local grocery store what they thought about it.

    they said it would be fine because it was only going to be a small coles express.

    when it opened it was a full on supermarket w/most ov the development being done

    underground, which was why on the surface it looked small.

    at a stroke coles put 2 local bottleshops, 1 deli, a grocer & a newsagent out ov business.

  22. Posted · Edited by nabraxas

    Joseph "Joey" Deacon was born with severe cerebral palsy, a neurological condition that left him with a muscular "spastic pattern" that particularly affected his arms and legs. Deacon's condition resulted in a tendency for muscular Tonus[disambiguation needed] in the form of flexion of arms and extension of legs. This prevented fine motor control in hand and arm movements and, although Deacon could walk with assistance, he used a wheelchair for most of his life. Deacon's speech was also unintelligible to most of the people around him due to cerebral palsy.

    In 1981, the last year of his life, Joey Deacon was featured on the children's magazine programme Blue Peter for the International Year of the Disabled. He was presented as an example of a man who achieved a lot in spite of his disabilities. Despite the sensitive way in which Blue Peter covered his life, the impact was not as intended. The sights and sounds of Deacon's distinctive speech and movements had a lasting impact on young viewers, who quickly learnt to imitate them. His name and mannerisms quickly became a label of ridicule in school playgrounds across the country.[4]

     

    joey1.jpg

    ahh yes, as a 12 year old we called everyone a "Joey" & imitated his speech & movements.

    30 odd years later & i can remember this guys name w/no problem.

  23. Posted

    apparently there's an interwebs campaign to try & stop peeps using the "r" word:

    The “r” Word

     

    Some people have mental retardation (intellectual disabilities). While mental retardation is not a bad word, when used to describe someone or something you think is bad or stupid it becomes another thoughtless hurtful word. People with intellectual and developmental disabilities are not bad. Their condition is not bad. The prejudice and discrimination to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities is BAD…and WRONG! Please stop using the word ‘retard’. It hurts individuals and families of those with disabilities.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    http://therword.org/

  24. Posted

    it gets used alot on the internet & upsets alot ov people.

    but the word "idiot" doesn't upset anyone & hardly seems that derogatory.

    however:

    In 19th and early 20th century medicine and psychology, an "idiot" was a person with a very severe mental retardation.

    Individuals with the lowest mental age level (less than three years) were identified as idiots; imbeciles had a mental age of three to seven years, and morons had a mental age of seven to ten years.[9]

    The term "idiot" was used to refer to people having an IQ below 30.[10][11] IQ, or intelligence quotient, was originally determined by dividing a person's mental age, as determined by standardized tests, by their actual age. The concept of mental age has fallen into disfavor, though, and IQ is now determined on the basis of statistical distributions.[12]

    In current medical classification, these people are now said to have "profound mental retardation."[8]

     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot

    so "idiot" is actually quite a "bad" thing to call someone & it's still politically correct..YAY!

    the world seems full ov idiots because there's one born every minute.

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