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I was already in so much shock and grief over the assassination of Dr. George Tiller. And then I read this on my way out of work this morning. Nowhere does this forced-birther-pandering asshole mention that Dr. Tiller provided medically necessary abortion services for doomed pregnancies. I was filled with so much rage that I just couldn't sleep past 3 hours, even though I have another 12-hour night shift tonight and will be so tired I'll have a hard time seeing straight. I want to set the record straight and am going to submit the following to as many newspapers and blogs as I possibly can. I woke up crying and my husband just hugged me and didn't say anything about my being too obsessed with abortion rights like he usually does. 

Set The Record Straight 

It was with shock and deep grief that I read of the vicious, cold-blooded murder of Dr. George Tiller. While he was at church, no less. And then I read the journalistic accounts and I was filled with cold rage at the lies that are being spread about this truly great man, this champion for women’s lives. The accounts mention that he provided late-term abortions and then went on to quote the anti-abortion rhetoric regarding his “slaughter of thousands of little boys and girls.” 

The record must be set straight. Dr. George Tiller provided third-trimester abortions to women with doomed pregnancies. The majority of the fetuses were already dead, the rest would not survive past birth if they went to term. In many cases, both woman and fetus would die if the pregnancy continued. These were very much wanted pregnancies that went horribly wrong. Contrary to anti-abortion aspersions, no woman obtains a third-trimester abortion simply because she no longer wishes to be pregnant and wants to fit into a prom dress or a bikini. Third-trimester abortions are illegal for any reason other than severe fetal deformity and grave threat to the health or life of the pregnant woman. 

“Pro-lifers” tried time and time again to get Dr. Tiller’s medical license revoked, but those efforts were shot down in court every time because Dr. Tiller only ever performed medically necessary third-trimester abortions. They shot at him, they stalked him, they vandalized his property, and they forced him to take security measures that ultimately failed. So dedicated was he to saving women’s lives that he pushed on despite these vicious acts of terrorism. 

My heart goes out to his wife, his children, and his grandchildren. Though we did not personally know Dr. Tiller, the assassination of this compassionate, loving and exceedingly courageous man has left a hole in the hearts of millions of us.  

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I am so happy that I could kiss the ground! I just celebrated my one-year wedding anniversary last Monday (we got married exactly five years to the day we first kissed). We celebrated by falling down a mountain (in this case, mountain biking at Northstar at Tahoe) and having dinner at a fabulous brew pub, Fifty Fifty Brewing in Truckee, CA. For our honeymoon last year we spent 3 days at Mammoth Mountain's stellar bike park, whilst eating every night afterward at Mammoth Mountain Brewing, which serves both excellent beer and excellent food. Northstar's bike park is very cool, but Mammoth Mountain is the bike park to end all bike parks!

Two months ago I quit my job at the Death Orb (Kaiser San Jose). I posted my resume on Monster.com and before I even had a chance to browse through available opportunities, I was being aggressively solicited by travel nursing agencies (yay nursing shortage!). I was offered a position on a med-surg floor in South Lake Tahoe, asked my husband how he felt about moving to Tahoe and away we went. I had been a nurse for not even two years and I was so dejected and burned out. I would get sick to my stomach when I was gettng ready for work. I thought that maybe I just wasn't cut out to be a nurse. But now I LOVE my job. I love this hospital. I love the people I work with. The ratio is higher her (6 to 1 rather than 5 to 1), but the system is so much more efficient; there is so much more accountability and help in terms of competent nurse's aides, and there is electronic charting. Kaiser, on the other hand, sucked ass!

And I've started my online RN to BSN program through California State University, Dominguez Hills. I am on track for graduation December 2009. My husband is on track to complete his Bachelor's in Health Care Administration the following semester.

Now, if we could just find a place that would allow us to have a dog, our lives would be complete!

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I love this! Post on antitheism

Another Look At The Ten Commandments

I am the LORD thy GOd and I give you these Ten Commandments:

1. I am He that brought you out of Egypt (like in the movie), You shall not returneth to Egypt, nor shall you think that the Pyramids are "cool," "nifty," or "symbolic." That would be putting other gods before Me, and claiming that they are better architects, which is a sore spot and, hence, right out.
2. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vein. Drugs are fine, but mainlining ANYTHING is a bad scene.
3. You shall keep the Sabbath day holy, as well as Columbus Day Thanksgiving. Make sure to look for the bargains for these, though, but don't let it stop you from spending. Remember: The more thou spendest, the holier thou art.
4. Honor they father and thy mother, even if thy father molests thee. For abortions shall not be legal, so thou art stuck with thy affliction... naneenaneebooboo.
5. You shall not murder, except in the name of Me, or the Pope or any diocese, or to convert heathens, or to defend democracy or to hunt queers, women, commies or sissies.
6. You shall not commit adultery. This applies only to married women. Sex is a bad thing as it promotes fun, which is right out, and must be stopped. I put all those nerves in thy sexual regions to fulfill My quota (damn union labor laws), but that doesn't mean you can use them just for the sake of pleasure, which is unholy and against Me. Why this is, I don't know, but I don't need to, being God. Someone get these bugs offa Me!
7. Thou shalt not steal, unless thou art the Pope, any diocese or government leader, or really wealthy, or if thou canst somehow work it in to the state or national charter.
8. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor, unless thy neighbor is a commie, heathen or queer, which I despiseth, or unless thou art a Good Christian(tm), in which case thou canst do anything, so long as thou sayest that it is in My name (which thou wilt anyway).
9. Go ahead and covet.
10. Thou shalt not think. Thought is bad and may lead to Questioning, which is a mortal sin. Go to sleep. Feel comfortable in thy confusion and kill anyone who questions thou.

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It has just come to my attention - thank you new_world_smurf - that NARAL has caved to extreme stupidity and has been inexplicably capitulating to forced-birther trogs.  I have been donating automatically on a monthly basis for several years now, but canceled that monthly donation as soon as I verified this.  I called NARAL at (202) 973-3045 and made sure to tell them I was canceling due to my extreme dismay of its support of anti-choice candidates under Nancy Keenan's leadership. I urge you to do the same.

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What is the evolutionary significance of our overwhelming penchant for religion?  Is there an evolutionary benefit to believing in what is so obviously fantastical (i.e., utter bullshit)?  Or is faith an evolutionary aberrance?

Sharks have little changed over 10s of millions of years.  They, along with many Terran species, have hit an evolutionary cul-de-sac.  Homo sapiens is perhaps 1 million years old, less than an evolutionary eyeblink.  As a species, we are young and brash, yet there has never been anything like us in the history of this planet.  Not only can we manipulate tools with uncanny precision, but our imaginations along with our thirst for knowledge/insatiable desire to control our environment is leading us to the brink of destruction.  There is little doubt, at least in my mind, that Terra will heal herself and continue living without us should we succeed in annihilating ourselves (as the extremist godbags so fervently desire), but I would so like to think that the human species has an immortal future in this universe, even though I will not be able to partake of it.  If we are hitting our evolutionary cul-de-sac, arrogance & superstitious belief, then we will be utter evolutionary failures...

Is conscious life an evolutionary mistake, an aberrance?  Or is it a perfectly natural, albeit relatively rare, evolutionary phenomenon? 

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One of the more asinine things that christian "pro-lifers" claim is that their deity is pro-life and, as such, holds human life as eminently sacred, especially unborn human life.  As a former christian who, unlike the vast majority of self-identified christians, has actually read the bible in its entirety (an enlightening, as well as vomit-inducing, exercise) I will attest that this assertion is patently false.

Nowhere is human life so cheap as it is within the pages of "the sweetest story ever told."  Following is an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, list of passages which show that, indeed, the christian deity is anything but pro-life.

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