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- I could have sworn I saw a story on Fox 4 this morning about another cop car being crushed by another motorist in Coppell but I can't find it. Edit: Here's a Channel 8 link. Thanks.Edit #2: After a strong rebuke from a person of power over at Fox 4, here is their link.
- Very uncomfortable interview moment when an old guy talks about how women used to practice contraception it back in the day. It would win an Emergency Brake award.
- Until around 1950, there was a Rhome Independent School District and a Fairview Independent School District in Wise County. They were both voted into Northwest ISD.
- I heard The Hammer on The Fan say that those TCU kids who bought from those "TCU drug dealers" better be worried because their purchase was "probably caught on tape" by the cops. No way. There's not a chance in the world. The buyers (and even the suppliers to the "drug dealers") have nothing to worry about. These "stings" are just what you see: Controlled buys. Nothing more, nothing less.
- I'm always bold enough to make personal bank deposits through the mail. I've done it for years and normally the deposit is posted within 24 to 48 hours. This time I made it on a Wednesday and it didn't make it to the bank's post office box until seven days later -- the post office box which is on the same property on which the deposit was mailed.
- And thanks to the nice lady (Rebecca?) over at First Financial for checking for me. But I sometimes wonder when I asked for help if a person doesn't secretly think, "Is this the crazy blog guy? I cannot screw this up!")
- Heck, even my friends will often say, "This is off the record, right?"
- A "court of inquiry" has been established to determine whether a sitting district judge and ex-DA withheld evidence that led to a wrongful conviction. Ninety-nine percent of Texas lawyers have never heard of such a court, and I'm in that group. (And after glancing at Chapter 52 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, I'm not exactly sure what what the court's purpose is.)
- That crazy "Zombie Apocalypse Survival" seminar in Decatur that I referenced a few weeks back now has Bridgeport Guns and Ammo as a sponsor.
- The wrongly accused Austin Carpenter in the TCU "scandal" is the great-grandson of John W. Carpenter who has a Dallas freeway named after him. (Which is also Highway 114 so we now have a Wise County connection to the TCU story!!!)
- Bud Kennedy of the Star-Telegram seems to think the TCU busts were much ado about nothing. (It was posted last night and already has more comments than the paper ever gets for a single story.)
- The Ticket listed the number of drug arrests of Texas college students by campus from 2006 to 2010 this morning and TCU was at bottom with four. Baylor had ninety-something. North Texas was in the three hundreds. Does anybody have that chart?
- Heard on the radio this morning: "You know who else is against the legalization of marijuana? Marijuana dealers. That tells you there is something fundamentally wrong with the policy."
81 comments:
Santorum and his men in black frocks are worried about women's contraception......but not about vastectomies and Viagra and what their crowd was doing to little boys.....go figure.
The aspirin comment brought back memories of Baylor 1963. Intro to New Testament professor walks into class....from podium says, "Ladies cross your legs." Pause and then says, "Now that the gates of hell are closed, we will begin class with prayer."
The preacher-boys in the class ate it up!!
Cop Car article:
http://www.wfaa.com/home/Driver-crashes-car-into-off-duty-officers-patrol-car-139510178.html
The "Bayer aspirin between the knees comment" is a reference to an old way, with an intended humor, of teaching a young woman of age how to avoid pregnancy...meant simply to remind one that keeping legs together works every time. Something that mothers, and fathers, pass along to daughters, etc. Daughter wants to be on BC, mom says "I got some BC for you...here's an aspirin." Daughter says "an ASPIRIN?...how the heck is that going to stop anything?"...Mom says..."when you feel the urge, put it between your knees and hold it there"...etc etc. Hahaha. and so forth. The newscaster just immediately assumed he meant something really strange.
Too bad we live in a country where teaching a woman that it's possible to avoid pregnancy by not having sex is something that "old guys" do and is "very uncomfortable" conversation.
I saw the pic of the cop car, too - on channel 8. He was off-duty @ 635 and Royal. check WFAA's website
Would that make him Wise County's own not-involved-in-TCU-drug-scandal Austin Carpenter?
"Stay Hard, drug dealers!"
Triple Fake Greggo
So we give Catholic affiliates an exemption from insurance law.
Do we give Muslim men practicing Sharia law an exemption from marriage/divorce laws?
Do we give Morman men practicing poligomy an exemption too?
PS. Look up stats and see how Morman men in Provo Utah are using welfare to support their 2nd,3rd, and 4th wives/families. Our tax dollars at work indeed.
The purveyors of legal intoxicants oppose the end of prohibition of illegal intoxicants.
When are you going to realize how small your fan base is?
9:44 - I think he has a pretty good idea how large his fan base is.
Faithful Abilene, TX Reader of LL
8:54 and 8:57, when we're really attempting to have a civil and honest discussion about birth control, you really think it's appropriate for that guy to give us the aspirin comment?
It shows that he doesn't comprehend the issues. Let's hope he doesn't really represent his party.
His solution is apparently, "don't have sex". While if followed by millions of young people, that's certainly one way that we could reduce pregnancy, it ignores the real world and has been proven, time and again, that that sort of educational approach is ineffective. Here's some other genius comments that I'm sure will solve all of our problems in the same way:
Just say "No";
Just throw strikes;
Get a college degree;
Lose 50 pounds;
Get a job;
Accept Jesus;
Make your free throws; and
Save your marriage.
While all of those may be appropriate sentiments, the short phrases do absolutely nothing to enable the person hearing the phrase to actually do what's being requested. What we need is actual learning, which takes teaching, effort, time, materials, etc. Not a useless catchphrase.
A foolish comment by and old and out-of-touch white guy.
Man, what a weiner you are. You NEVER post any comments about the 'GUN STORE GENTLEMAN." That nice enough?
Bud Kennedy is just Steve Blow without the sophistication and erudition.
The wrongly accused Austin Carpenter in the TCU "scandal" is the great-grandson of John W. Carpenter who has a Dallas freeway named after him.
And grandson of Ben Carpenter who founded, created or developed Las Colinas in Irving.
It must have been tough for poor, wittle Austin Carpenter growing up in Highland Park and all. I wonder if he is a member of the Occupy Movement
Try Not
Do or Do Not
TF Yoda
DF Bob Newhart
There is absolutely no amount of education, teaching, effort, time, materials, etc. that will keep young people from doing a little horizontal folk dancing.
I wish that someone would "screw up" your order/transaction/whatever just becuase of who you are. I am not sure why anyone would cater to you in fear of you posting about them. Most people keep you in the realm of newspapers... You cannot trust half of what you write.
"It must have been tough for poor, wittle Austin Carpenter growing up in Highland Park and all. I wonder if he is a member of the Occupy Movement"
I like how this guy is getting thrown under the bus just for being born into a family he had no control over. Not to mention he still had nothing to do with the TCU drug busts that made us realize he existed in the first place.
Rhome school was bought by their city some years back, and now looks like shit. NWISD sold some good property to the wrong people.
1000 - With the high number of unplanned pregnancies -- Planned Parenthood alone performs over 300,000 abortions a year -- how well is your emphasis on using contraceptives working in the real world? How bad do the results have to be before you admit that that sort of approach is ineffective?
Northwest ISD is more like Decatur ISD now.
928 - I googled "mormons, welfare, provo" and got a lot of hits discussing the LDS church's own welfare system. Here's a quote from one site: "Because of the high proportion of Latter-day Saints and the Church's own comprehensive welfare system, Utah spends much less of its budget on public welfare than the other states." Your claim is not readily available. Perhaps you can give your source?
9:44 & 10:37
Leave....just leave, and take your negativity with ya.
I'm sure there are people who actually believe that TCU has a fraction of the drug problem that Baylor, Rice, and SMU have. Perhaps, the campus police at those other universities actually practice law enforcement rather than turn a blind eye to drug-related offenses.
Wordy,
I suppose I'm not surprised that you've come to the aid of the out-of-touch old white guy.
The statistics are absolutely incontrovertible that sex education utilizing all methods of birth control and providing a full range of information is MORE EFFECTIVE than abstinence-only education.
So, I won't admit that is "ineffective". While it's not 100% effective, it's the best we've got.
I will say that abstinence-only education is ineffective and we have years of research to back that up.
Jeez, if it's not spelled out in the headline ("BARRY GREEN HERE IS YOUR STORY"), you'll never find it...
The cop was rear-ended, it's the second part of this story: http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/1-Killed-in-2-Construction-Wrecks-021712
Wordy your lack of logic in the contraception issue boggles me. Of course the use of contraception (devices, drugs etc.) have not eliminated ALL unwanted pregnancies but I suggest it has prevented many. Therefore, those methods have reduced the number of abortions - but not eliminated them. Further restricting contraceptives most likely would increase the number of abortions.
What a woman does with her body, with her birth control, and her choices are strictly her business and no one elses...especially the government or MEN!
BTW...the catholic church or republicans did not CHOOSE to make an issue out of viagra being approved and covered by their insurance policies. Bob Dole even made a commercial advertising for it. Remove this from their coverage and let all the republicans become the "BLUEBALL PARTY"
Hypocrites!!!!
THE END!
P.S. they also cover vasectomies! GO FIGURE!
Wordkyle, It was my understanding that the real world emphasis has been on abstinence-only programs in recent years. Your pregnancy and abortion statistics could easily show those programs are failures as well.
I am all for the abtinence-only message but that needs to be coupled with comprehensive sex education regarding pregnancy, STD's and the use of contraceptives. This is obvioulsy a very politicized issue but one where common sense needs to prevail. We know kids are going to do it anyway, abstinence only may delay that in some groups, so we should at least give them some education on pregnancy and STD prevention.
http://ari.ucsf.edu/science/reports/abstinence.pdf
http://ari.ucsf.edu/science/reports/abstinence.pdf
TCU drug problem no
DF James Mainess
6:41, I do believe I ate some of that at Baylor in the 80's, too.
Rage
Your fan base reaches all the way up here to Sunset. Big sky country.
It's not a matter of whether contraceptive drugs, abstinence etc are effective. It's a matter of whether the government should be forcing the insurance carriers of churches to give the drugs away free to their employees at their various facilities. The drugs are fairly inexpensive, why not let the people buy them if they want them and keep the government out of our business.
Best form of BC is to swallow.
"In Utah, a state which has large numbers of Mormons who believe in polygamy, some towns report that more than 50% of families are receiving public assistance. Since polygamy is illegal, many women collect welfare benefits for their children by claiming they are unmarried and do not know the whereabouts of the child's father. Intermarriage is common among people who practice polygamy. This leads to a higher-than-average rate of children born with Down syndrome or other disabilities requiring special care and higher government benefit payments.
Tracking down all cases of welfare fraud relating to polygamy is a difficult task, but the results can be astonishing. In 2001, for example, Utah polygamist Tom Green was sentenced to five years in prison as part of a crackdown on plural marriages. It was reported that Green had 30 children who were receiving welfare fraudulently at a cost of more than $150,000.
To further complicate the situation, Green was also part of a large group of polygamous Mormons who refuse to file income tax returns as a form of protest. During his trial, it was reported he had not submitted a return in 10 years."
Source: http://save.lovetoknow.com/Welfare_Fraud_Statistics
Most of the hits I saw touting the LDS's own church welfare program were LDS sites. FYI.
Hundreds of thousands of speeding tickets are given out every year. I have this idea for preventing speeding tickets. It's to teach people time management so they're not running late, calming exercises so they don't feel rushed, how to pay better attention to speed limit signs, etc. My way takes more effort and time, and demands more of participants, but it is 100% effective.
...Or we can just give people radar detectors, since they're going to speed anyway. Radar detectors fail fairly often; hundreds of thousands of users will receive speeding tickets, lose their licenses, be in accidents that kill people. But that's acceptable, because they're going to do it anyway. That's what we're doing now.
"My way takes more effort and time, and demands more of participants, but it is 100% effective."
You do realize it unreasonable to assume 100% participation once a child receives abstinence-only education. What happens to the kids that don't listen and decide to have sex anyway?
I dated this "Mormon" chick- she lived in the sec.8 apts in Rhome. What a nutjob. Terrible in the sack, too...♫
Wordkyle, it's harder to do when you actually have someone to have sex with. Maybe that's why you don't understand.
Rage
1:16, The chances of a Mormon chick living in Section 8 housing is about as likely as seeing a Lexus in a Walmart parking lot.
1233 - I don't know what the site you cited was. What it lacked was evidence. On the other hand, this report from the HHS shows that Utah had some of the lowest rates of government dependence in the country. (By the way, the Mormon church prohibited polygamy in 1890, and LDS members who commit polygamy are excommunicated.)
12:29 FTW! Garland, TX in the house
Andrea Mitchell. Her face & voice are sperm blockers.
My Other Brother Darryl
Goldthwaite, TX! REPRESENT!
Wordy,
Let me get this straight. For years, you have beaten us down with your position that abortion is wrong. You've told us that each aborted "child" is a life and deserves all possible rights.
Yet, today you equate education as to whether or not to conceive a child with the decision of whether or not to speed on the highway. Somehow, the precious "child" is now no more important than a Class C Misdemeanor. Radar detectors and contraceptives are equivalent in your mind.
I've been reading your garbage for years on here. Maybe it shouldn't surprise me.
But WK...
You don't have "Highway Star" by Deep Purple cranked up on the sound system to 120 decibels while driving...now do ya?
Double Fake Ritchie Blackmore
115 - I'm not necessarily endorsing abstinence-only education. However, contrary to the opinion of an earlier commenter, I don't consider 300,000+ abortions a year a "success." "They're gonna do it anyway" is not a valid reason to continue an unsuccessful course of action. I'm not sure what the answer is. Abstinence education is more effective when there are cultural and religious pressures reinforcing it. Maybe the answer is in that information.
DFBN - You didn't get it straight. There's your problem.
I consider 300,000 abortions a year a big success because that's 300,000 less on Medicaid.
I don't see you adopting any of those unwanted pregnancies WK. I suppose you prefer the government to pick up the tab of raising them.
Why am I not surprised to hear about another Democrat/Liberal thug group in the news. MEDIA MATTERS
Wowza you Dems and Libs are some kinda losers aren't you?
Honey Boo Boo and Momma on Anderson Cooper right now..
wk doesn't want 'em aborted and he doesn't want 'em on welfare. Nice trick if you can do it.
2:17, why don't you just kick on off and the world would have one less moron!
"Abstinence education is more effective when there are cultural and religious pressures reinforcing it."
I am not 100% sure of that to be the case. The following link is an article that actually supports abstinence-only, but detracts from your point above. I think the psychology behind this method of teaching abstinence-only is to avoid making sex such a stressful, hot topic. Just educating them on the frank facts of sex without creating a forbidden fruit atmosphere if you will.
Speaking from experience, as a teenager I couldn't wait to have sex simply because my parents, youth minister, and educators kept telling me that I shouldn't. They never really had a good explanation why, other than it was religiously and morally wrong; made me want to do it even more. As I got older I realized if they would have just been frank and honest about all the life altering things that could occur by having sex, I would have thought twice about it.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/study-abstinence-works/story?id=9731048
320 & 312 - If you think the only options are abortion, adoption or welfare, then you miss the point of the term abstinence.
If we reversed roe v. wade today, in 18-25 years the demographics would be such that no conservative republican could ever be elected as president again.
3:16
You must have a fat screen TV.
"person of power over at Fox 4"
Is that an oxymoron?
Double Fake Tell-it-to-Tim
Libs: No sense of humor (aspirin joke); No concern for innocent life (abortion on demand); no sense of self responsibility (Safe sex cause they're gonna do it anyway); all this = no clue as to how to solve today's problems. Their solution, throw money (other people's money) at it and move on to the next problem. When will we wake up as a nation and learn that liberalism, socialism, communism (but I repeat myself) will never succeed. I know, let's try totalitarinaism next. Obama in 2012.
3:21 what's wrong boo?
Can't handle the truth?
Want me to call the wambulance for ya?
WIND POWER 2012!!!
337 - I was citing a point made in the study provided in the 11:49 comment. As for your link, if the program achieves results, I'm all for it. In our ongoing dithering on the distraction of contraception rather than the economy under Obama, let me reiterate one point: Abstinence works as a behavior, avoiding both pregnancy and STDs; I'm for any program which effectively promotes more of that behavior.
What if I said I THINK the gun store guy is a wheels off nutcase?
WK, Abstinence is not a realistic solution. You would have to deprogram the hormones of every teenager, make sure no college student ever went to a party and got drunk, have a pill that could instantly neutralize passion, ad infinitum, you see the enormity of the problem of abstinence. Humans were programmed to reproduce millenniums before man-made morals and rules existed, nothing we can do about that but we do have contraception and in the worst case scenario, abortion.
uncle wally
I am not familiar with how the TCU and Fort Worth police do business, but I ran a narcotics task force for five years and we never, repeat never, made any U/C buys that we did not have eyes on and tape with video and audio. We also never brought a case to the prosecutor in which we made fewer than least three buys.
Is it ever really "off the record"
The answer is no.
New name, new face. WK is Mz! God, can't you all see that????
WK - again you drift off topic. It certainly isn't the Democrats who have made the contraception issue - it is primarily the Republicans. As far as I can tell, this discussion is going to produce no significant changes in the jobs count.
And please recognize that no one is "forced" to take the contraceptives. It is supposed to their "choice". Some employers claim it's against their religious policies. OK. But the insurance Co's should be happy to provide it as it will reduce their costs of covering pregnancy expenses.
THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE IS HAVING A GUN SHOW AT THE CIVIC CENTER OPENING NEXT SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AT 8 AM.
CHEF
300,000+ abortions a year;
19 million new STD infections every year;
40% of children born in the United States are out-of-wedlock (86% of births to teenage mothers.)
Knowledge of, awareness of, and availability of contraceptives are widespread. Apparently providing contraceptives is not a realistic solution. Arguing that human behavior can not be modified is ridiculous. The process of controlling our baser instincts to have a better society is called civilization. In today's America, however, controlling one's urges is called an "old white guy" concept. What are the societal forces that created that mindset?
One way to stop or slow down vehicle drivers from speeding, the conservative hard dic way, would be the death penalty, which conservatives love, for a violation of speeding in a motor vehicle. The Catholic's would probably endorse contraceptives readliy, if alter boys could get pregnant. It may not be possible for alter boys to hold a Bayer between their butt cheeks tight enough to save them. Google "Catholic Child Molestion" gives about 735000 hits.
Yeah, you go!fo_oh_too, but none of the bullshit reasons you state.
Notice to readers:
WordKyle knows everything. About everything. That will be all, carry on...♫
1001 - I don't watch Bill O'Reilly, but on his show in the first part of January he told Santorum that he would be "demonized" for his stance on contraceptives. On January 8 Stephanopoulos pressed Romney on the subject at the Republican debate. Romney reacted logically, asking why that issue was even being brought up. It was on January 20 that the Obama administration "reaffirmed" its stance on contraceptive coverage under Obamacare. Note that this issue comes up as Santorum gains momentum.
The term "abortion" doesn't test well with voters. They don't necessarily want it outlawed, but it makes them uncomfortable. "Contraceptives," however, is something 98% of Americans approve of. That's why the Democrat-controlled media have made contraceptives, and not abortion political headline news. It's something that can be used to, yes, demonize Santorum (and all Republicans, by implication) without cutting both ways.
617 - Thank goodness you finally got the memo.
Wordpile:
Take a trip to Provo. You can actually see entire developments of "compounds" where good Mormons practice pologomy in plain sight.
And this is the enlightened part of Utah surround Brigham Young.
Forgot about the James Manness, "Chicago Bear" treat.
wk said
"Arguing that human behavior can not be modified is ridiculous."
In the case of sex you are confusing behavior with suppressing a natural, hormonal function. There is a difference between abstinence and sexual repression. Absitinence is a choice that takes strong conviction, such as a priest (although that has never really worked out for them has it?). Sexual repression is trying to control a natural desire without the conviction. Just doens't work, especilly with teenagers who do not have the knowledge and wisdom of a wordkyle.
Oooops...forgot to sign my last post about abstinence and sexual repression.
wncle wally
It's really not that hard to demonize republicans. They make it easy. You would think that if they really wanted to win the presidency, they would be a little smarter about public statements.
They have the right to remain silent but not the ability. That's why Obama will win in November.
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