(Since I moved my blog to a new server I’M having trouble commenting. Apparently you guys aren’t, which is good. So I’m posting my comment to your comments as a comment!)

First of all, parents can opt-out of the vaccination. It is not being forced on people, per se. Second, as I understand it, the vaccine is 100% effective. As I understand it, the science results are in, have been checked and confirmed and this vaccine is a miracle drug.

So you can look at this in a few different ways. The governor was essentially bypassing a legislature that would never in a million years do this. I’m sure the Right is going nuts over this down there. In that sense, it was a brave thing to do because I do believe it is the right thing to do. Let people opt out, but make this vaccine available to everyone.

Drug companies are a big worry. The big-dollar marketing of drugs is worrisome. The stranglehold they have on our government is worrisome. I mean, we passed a law that said we, the people, can’t collectively bargain with the drug companies. What the fuck? I seriously don’t know how those guys kept their jobs after voting for a law that prohibits the US government from getting volume discounts.

So the relationship between Merck and the governor is relevant. Clearly Merck wants to sell this drug and they just made a huge sale thanks to the governor. But its a good drug, hopefully the first of a lot of good drugs, that helps fight against the deadliest disease, cancer. I think we have to see this as a good thing.

I just can’t fucking believe this. The governor of Texas mandated that all girls entering the 6th grade be vaccinated against HPV, which can lead to cervical cancer.

Now we all know how Christians are known for their love of humanity and their desire to limit the suffering of God’s creatures, right? Their reaction to this?

The governor’s action seems to signify that God’s moral law regarding sex outside of marriage can be transgressed without consequence.

WHAT THE FUCK!

This retard, who goes by the name of Rick Scarborough, is with the Christian lobbying group Vision America.

The problems with this are almost too many to dissect. In fact, I’m overwhelmed with hatred for these fucking dirtballs to the point that I don’t want to pick their insanity apart.

If your God thinks it is better for people to die of cancer than to get vaccinated, he is as much of a dumbshit as you are. I just can’t fathom that anyone would see a successful vaccine against a cancer-causing virus as a bad thing. Since when is death better than having sex?

These people are fucked up and they must be stopped.

We all know that Catholic League President Bill Donohue plays the rusty trombone. I think we are all honorary “foul-mouthed anti-Christian bigots” today.

I moved my web site to a new, clustered server, so I’m ready to be slash dotted, farked and digg’d.

Let me know if you see anything odd or errors or anything else untoward.

M.

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs challenged major record labels to strip copying restrictions from music sold online, but the RIAA fired back Wednesday, suggesting the company should open up its anti-piracy technology to rivals instead.

This is hilarious. Some dumb “analyst” says:

“All these music services wouldn’t work without DRM,” said David Card, music and media analyst for Jupiter Research. “(Music labels) are very nervous about distributing content that is unprotected.

Ummm…perhaps you should have actually read Jobs’s article? In it he says:

In 2006, under 2 billion DRM-protected songs were sold worldwide by online stores, while over 20 billion songs were sold completely DRM-free and unprotected on CDs by the music companies themselves.

Major labels are selling most of their music unprotected. It is trivial to rip and share this music. Steve Jobs is apparently the only one looking at this issue logically. The rest are dinosaurs sinking in the tar pits.

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In regards to the non-binding resolution opposing a US troop increase in Iraq, McCain says something to the effect of a vote for this is a vote of no confidence in our troops.

This is the same ol’ warmed over Republican BS that to be critical or opposed to the actions of the administration is to be critical or opposed to the troops on the ground. It is saying that any conflict started for any reason by any administration must be supported 100% by every Senator 100% of the time.

Bullshit! We are a representative government and 70% of Americans oppose an increase of troops in Iraq. Our elected congressional representatives know this and they have a duty to try to get this voice heard.

Bush said they were in “listening mode” and their decision was to completely ignore the Iraq Study Group, completely ignore the sentiment of the populace and completely ignore the congress.

Now I personally don’t think a troop surge is the worst idea in the world if we had clear, obtainable goals and a really good plan to achieve them. This plan is too little too late.

So point 1: McCain should make his case without resorting to this incorrect notion that anything but supporting Bush hurts our troops.

Point 2: Bush has not proven that we are getting closer to achieving our goals in Iraq and it is prudent and sensible for the Congress to use whatever power it has to effect the decisions being made.

I was very saddened to learn that Molly Ivins died. She was a great and much needed voice and she will be missed.

Yesterday one of the quotes of the day on my google home page:

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

This sums up nicely my main bitch about the Republican war on taxes. The disadvantages of wealth, even if they include a big tax bill, are NOTHING compared to the disadvantages of poverty. I think tax burdens should be kept as low as possible, but progressive taxation makes perfect sense, and the Right Wing sounds like a bunch of baby whiners when they bitch about it.

This poor woman is raped, booked on an outstanding warrant when she reports it and then denied emergency contraception from the nurse in the jail for religious reasons.

WHAT THE FUCK. The nurse should be fired prior to being shot and the cops should be fired prior to be anally sodomized.

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