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The nation’s infant mortality rate is 6.9 deaths per 1000 births. The nation’s capitol, Washington, DC, has an infant mortality rate of 11.42. The rate among blacks stands at 13.25. NPR reports that the rates down South are increasing. Why?”Nobody wants to take care of poor children, whether they are black or white or whatever color,” says Oleta Fitzgerald, Southern regional director for the Children’s Defense Fund. Nobody wants to take care of poor children in the heart of the nation’s bible belt. Nobody wants to take care of poor children in our so-called Christian nation. Nobody wants to take care of poor children. Got it. Not even Medicaid helps for the poor and rural pregnant women and their children born with low birth weight and more likely to be born prematurely or stillborn. The article linked to in the title to this posting says that a lot of doctors in rural areas will not take Medicaid.There is a solution. There is something you can do right now. Support H.R. 676 and provide women and children in poverty with medical care. H.R. 676 is a single payer health insurance bill sponsored by Rep. John Conyers. This is a single payer and not a single provider proposal. Socialism? Well yea. So what? The Congressmen and women who will be voting on this bill all receive Socialized Medicine provided by our taxes. The military and veterans all receive Socialized Medicine provided by our taxes. Your daddy and mommy, granddaddy and grandmama receive Socialized Medicine once they turn 65. So why can’t newborns of poor women. Remember, these children can not even live past their first birthday, little a lone make it all the damn way to 65 for Medicare.So do we want children to grow up by giving them a chance to at least get past their first birthday? Well then we will have to supply them and their mothers with medical care. And we are not doing that. I am most sick about living in a totally immoral Christian nation that actually promotes high infant mortality among the poorest in our country. (Remember, it is the Christians who keep harping on this being a Christian nation. I just like to stick it in their face when the Christians demonstrate their obviously anti-Christ policies.)For more information, see “SICKO” next week.Peter Nuhn

PHILADELPHIA (June 19) – It looks like the U.S. Mint has struck again – or not struck again, depending on how you look at it. New dollar coins featuring John Adams are missing edge inscriptions including “In God We Trust,” according to the Professional Coin Grading Service, a rare coin authentication company based in Newport Beach, Calif. The company said people have found hundreds of Adams dollar coins without the edge lettering, repeating a previous mistake. In March, an unknown number of George Washington dollar coins were struck at the Philadelphia Mint without “In God We Trust,” “E Pluribus Unum,” and the year and mint mark inscribed on the edge.

http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/mint-releases-more-godless-dollars/20070620101309990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001YES!!! YES!!! YESSSS!!!!!! The Conspiracy continues!!! Bwoo-hah-hah-hahhhhh!

Okay, I know the five members of the SCOTUS who wear mitres on their heads are pathetic, but the poster child for incredible ignorance, Justice Scalia has totally lost it now.Our Constitution is being held up to the example of a fictional character. No not Jesus, but Jack Bauer. Apparently, a Canadian jurist pissed off our Justice Scalia when he expressed his thankfulness that security personnel around the world don’t ask themselves, “What would Jack Bauer do?”Justice Scalia said that no jury would convict Bauer of engaging torture or denying habeas corpus to a citizen. And they certainly would not get away with convicting Bauer in his courtroom. Let’s not tell Justice Scalia that Jack Bauer is really a fictional character and doesn’t exist. It might ruin the show “24″ for him. Peter Nuhn

Well, almost secular. According to the Vatican, you shouldn’t kill in your car, you should help other people, and you shouldn’t commit “immoral acts” in your car.Thanks Pope. I’ve not killed anyone with my car yet, but I was considering it until I saw your commandments. Now I won’t.I mean, really, how stupid is this? I can’t sin in my car? Doesn’t it make sense that if I cared about what the vatican says I would ALREADY not be sinning in my car (or out of it)? How many catholics out there WERE using prostitutes but will stop now?I wonder if the pope-mobile breaks the “expression of power and domination” commandment, with the huge bulletproof dome and all the guards…And yes, still nothing about graven images.

The Vatican’s office for migrants and itinerants issued these commandments Tuesday:1. You shall not kill.2. The road shall be for you a means of communion between people and not of mortal harm.3. Courtesy, uprightness and prudence will help you deal with unforeseen events.4. Be charitable and help your neighbor in need, especially victims of accidents.5. Cars shall not be for you an expression of power and domination, and an occasion of sin.6. Charitably convince the young and not so young not to drive when they are not in a fitting condition to do so.7. Support the families of accident victims.8. Bring guilty motorists and their victims together, at the appropriate time, so that they can undergo the liberating experience of forgiveness.9. On the road, protect the more vulnerable party.10. Feel responsible toward others.

The New York Times reports today that FOX and CBS are refusing to air a condom commercial. The reason? FOX writes ?Contraceptive advertising must stress health-related uses rather than the prevention of pregnancy.? Meanwhile, CBS defends its decision simply by stating it ?did not find it appropriate? for its network. What an outrage! Planned Parenthood has advocated for programs that prevent sexually transmitted infections AND unintended pregnancies for years, most recently through our Prevention First! Campaign – and we’ve faced extremist opposition to these commonsense measures every step of the way. This latest move by CBS and FOX is yet another example of how narrow-minded, biased thinking can prevent a well-intentioned, prevention-focused message from reaching millions of viewers.

Folx, I’m not one to post stuff from Planned Parenthood on the blog, but you ALL KNOW that condom use IS a church/state separation issue. While the networks are not state owned (and can therefore do whatever they want), it’s important to understand where their heads are. Up their asses.

States are looking into the fact that in some of them there is no process to deny the right of the mentally ill to vote in elections. So there are groups trying to get the mentally ill disenfranchised. That seems to me be opening up a can of worms. Especially if some groups I know of want to be able to determine for themselves who is and who is not capable of voting or understanding the voting process. I mean obviously George Dubya Bush does not understand the process along with Karl Rove and just about all of the other Republican Party officials when they intentionally disenfranchised Democrat Party groups like blacks and jews as they did in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004.If states start determining who is competent to vote, then I want to go after the Republicans. I am pretty sure their core constituent group, the TheoCons are too mentally impaired to vote for sure. I’m interested i what you have to say.Peter Nuhn

OH This is great — Thanks to the CC guys for making this site and letting us know.Remember folx, sex should be safe and fun — this site will help achieve both those ends. I think they should add one that has a pic of Jesus on the reservoir end, just to be blasphemous.http://ChristianCondoms.com

A kindly police officer pulled me over for speeding a few weeks ago (THANKX KIND SIR), and today was my day in court. I arrived early. I wore a suit. A good suit (later to be covered in beagle hair, but that’s another story). I had also done my research, and came in with strategy and the needed paperwork.This was to be my third time in court, but my first as a defendant. The first time I would ask for a secular oath from a person who may very well hold it against me, even if unconsciously.They lined us up in alphabetical order, asked us to raise our hands, “Do you swear… so help me God”. Everyone says ‘I Do”. everyone but me, who yells out “excuse me sir, I need a secular affirmation”.”oh no… An ATHEIST” exclaimed the judge. The bailiff drew his baton. The crowd took out their tomatoes and started hurling them at me. I fell to the ground, the walls bleeding ketchup, finally dying to the chant of “Convert or die… convert or die… convert or die!”OK. That last paragraph didn’t really happen, but a scene like that ran through my head as I made the request. It wasn’t easy. Surprised, the judge asked again what I wanted, I said “Just a secular affirmation would be great, please”. “OK”, he said, “Do you promise to tell the truth?” I did.After my hearing, the judge told me it was his first secular affirmation. EVER! This judge was, well, mature! He’s seen thousands of cases, and this was his first secular affirmation?Statistically speaking, that’s a lot of Atheists swearing to air.

Arizona and Utah have so many polygamists that the Republican state Attorneys General for those two states have stated they will not prosecute child rapists anymore. Better yet, get this. “We are not going to go out there and persecute people for their beliefs,” said Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard. Then Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff stated: “We determined six or seven years ago that there was no way we could prosecute 10,000 polygamists and put the kids into foster care. There’s no way that we have the money or the resources to do that.” Ain’t it funny how they found the money and resources to arrest, prosecute and jail a couple of million black people for dope, but arresting, prosecuting and jailing 10,000 white child rapists is just too difficult for these Republican law and order type Attorneys General.Forcing little girls to marry an old man just for the sex of it is what passes for religion in this country? And remember, Utah wouldn’t even be a state if it hadn’t outlawed polygamy. I just love the way some religious leaders think they can pick and choose the secular laws they want to observe, the same way they pick and choose the moral lessons they like in the KJV.This goes hand in hand with my previous posting about the Rhode Island Catholic Bishop who doesn’t think he needs to observe the IRS code. What gives with these people?Peter Nuhn

LEXINGTON, Kentucky (AP) – President George W. Bush ’s nominee for America’s top doctor has come under fire from gay rights groups for voting to expel a lesbian pastor from the United Methodist Church and writing in 1991 that gay sex is unnatural and unhealthy. The surgeon general nominee, Kentucky cardiologist Dr. James Holsinger, also helped found a Methodist congregation that, according to gay rights activists, believes homosexuality is a matter of choice and can be “cured.” “He has a pretty clear bias against gays and lesbians,” said Christina Gilgor, director of the Kentucky Fairness Alliance, a gay rights group. “This ideology flies in the face of current scientific medical studies. That makes me uneasy that he rejects science and promotes ideology.”

Sooo.. Touching yourself is a sin, but spreading hate against a group of people who want nothing more than to have a family, well, that’s Bush-Christianity! All hail Jesus — my way — when I say — and with whom I say– or we’ll CURE you!