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I got tired of blogger because it was so flaky and unstable. (i.e. why I left Live journal)...

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Go check it out.

Since most everyone has figured out I have a new site and has gone there, I'm taking off the automagical redirection to http://jcb.pentex-net.com (i.e. my new blog)...

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I have relocated my blog to http://jcb.pentex-net.com for my public blogging. The reason was in part the 2 days downtime, and in part, the hooky interface that I just can't stand. Please go there for my new content. I'll put up a redirect in the near future.

I will continue to use this as a more personal blog, but probably mark it private in the near future.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/07/BAG3UAMJ1O1.DTL

Dog owners said it was about time that man's best friend got his own housing code.

"It's only fair and reasonable,'' said Jim Gunther, who shares his house with a Schnauzer named Hugo. "A lot of people are ignorant, and they shouldn't own pets. Maybe this will make some people think twice.''

That's right... San Francisco has mandated a housing code for dogs, what they can drink out of, etc.

Apparently government's job is to tell people how to deal with all the petty little details of how to run their lives. Heck, why don't we have tax-payer funded animal nannies in every home because we stupid citizens can't handle that either...

http://www.local6.com/news/4061915/detail.html

TEXAS CITY, Texas -- Some parents were up in arms Friday after 10 students were strip-searched for a missing $10 bill at an award-winning charter school in Texas.

The incident happened Thursday at Mainland Preparatory Academy near Texas City, The Galveston County Daily News reported.

This is outrageous. As far as I can tell this is a publicly funded charter school, I base this on this excerpt from their website:

The Texas Department of Health has issued an important update on immunization requirements for children and students. All public schools must be in compliance. The law requires that "students" be fully vaccinated against specified diseases. A student may be enrolled provisionally.. to remain enrolled, the student must completed the required subsequent doses in each vaccine series on schedule and as rapidly as is medically feasible and provide acceptable evidence of vaccination to the school. (From: http://www.mainlandprep.org/news/Vol6Issue2-Immunizations.htm)

If you support the concept of stripping down 11 year-olds over 10 dollars, then by all means do nothing. If you think this is despicable, contact the school.

http://www.mainlandprep.org/

Wilma Green, Principal
Phone: 409-934-9100
Email: wgreen@mainlandprep.org
319 Newman Rd.
LaMarque, Texas 77568
Main school #: 409-934-9100
Fax #: 409-934-9136

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,52888,00.html

You can read the story, some praying student for Israel were surrounded, assaulted, and threatened with death. The University and the Police (not UI but in California) did nothing.

Liberalism is dying as a political force in this country. It's just that simple. And the more they begin to realize this, the more violent they will get. They can't accept election results when they lose, they will engage in outright vote fraud in order to win (see Washington State governor race), and they will threaten death very publicly to anyone who voices opposition while administrators stand by. Sure, conservatives (or those who call themselves such) engage in bad behavior too, but they generally aren't protected and I've heard of no such story involved a conservative mob. Heck, we can't even stand on the sidewalk of an abortion clinic with a rosary in our hand and not be arrested.

Now, SFSU receives tax dollars and is a state institution. It need to abide by the laws, particularly equal protection. If you are offended by this, let the administrators know. Here is the contact info.

Robert A. Corrigan
President, SFSU
http://www.sfsu.edu/pdirect/561.htm
(415) 338-1381
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~corrigan/
corrigan@sfsu.edu

Dean Saffold
psaffold@sfsu.edu
(415) 338-2032
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~psaffold/

Department of Public Safety -- upd@sfsu.edu -- (415) 338-7200
http://www.sfsu.edu/~dps/ headed by Chief Kimberly Wible wible@sfsu.edu
Office of the Chief (415) 338-2747
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~wible/

Let them know what you think about this...

Hundreds of thousands die, millions are homeless and at risk for disease. The UN's top priority? Make sure these people contracept and can get abortions; "Get those people free condoms NOW". Can there be any more proof that the UN is completely out of touch with the needs of the human race? Take care of the poisoned water? Nah... just make sure they have substandard free condoms. The more I see this, the more I'm glad the US set up an aid coaltion (which looks like is going to give up to the UN). There needs to be an honest humanitarian agency in the world, and not a day goes by where the UN proves it shouldn't be it.

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FRIDAY FAX

January 7, 2004
Volume 8, Number 3


UNFPA Elusive About Abortion Aid for Tsunami Victims

The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) describes itself as the "largest international public sector supplier of contraceptives, condoms and other reproductive health essentials," and states that such supplies are "critical to protecting reproductive health in emergency situations." Yet in press releases on its tsunami relief activities, UNFPA steers clear of directly stating that it provides contraceptives or abortion aids. UNFPA may be responding to past public criticism after disclosures that it was providing such supplies.

In its January 6 press release, the latest and most explicit to date, UNFPA has requested $28 million in donations for, among other things, "the reestablishment of basic reproductive health services" in Indonesia, the re-establishment of "reproductive health services," purchases of "reproductive health commodities" and promotion of "adolescent reproductive health" in the Maldives, and to meet "urgent reproductive health needs" and "restore" and raise awareness of "emergency reproductive health services" in Sri Lanka.

According to UNFPA's "Reproductive Health in Emergency Situations" manual, the "reproductive health needs" of refugees include "guaranteeing the availability of free condoms." Indeed, UNFPA's website says that "Free condoms are among the first reproductive health supplies to reach people caught in a crisis situation...UNFPA provides both male and female condoms in emergencies."

The manual also describes the "reproductive health kits" developed by UNFPA for "the initial acute phase of the emergency," which include "condoms," "oral and injectable contraceptives" including the abortifacient morning-after pills, and "IUD[s]." The kits also contain manual vacuum aspirators, portable abortion devices that are easily used
in primitive conditions such as refugee areas.

The supplies in the kits are "stored by UNFPA in preparation for immediate distribution when an earthquake, flood...or other crisis arises." Thus, UNFPA is able to "mount a quick response to emergencies, especially in the initial stages [and] can ship out supplies of condoms and other commodities within a few days." In 2003, UNFPA shipped out over 300 of these "reproductive health kits" to 34 "emergency destinations." [Each reproductive health kit is designed to assist populations totaling between 10,000-150,000 for up to three months.] UNFPA has not disclosed
whether it is providing these kits for tsunami refugees.

UNFPA's increasing caution in revealing the full extent of its activities may be the result of past public relations flops. In 1999, UNFPA faced public criticism after it was revealed that it had distributed reproductive health kits to Albanian refugee camps. The Population Research Institute, among others, claimed that UNFPA had "constructed a 'social marketing' campaign to fabricate demand" for contraceptives and abortifacients among a "captive audience" of refugees.

According to its mandate, UNFPA should not participate in any efforts to increase access to abortion or to provide the medical or technical expertise to facilitate abortion. However, numerous reports from both governmental and nongovernmental sources reveal that UNFPA aggressively promotes abortion.

Copyright 2004 - C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute).
Permission granted for unlimited use. Credit required.

Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute
866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 427
New York, New York 10017
Phone: (212) 754-5948 Fax: (212) 754-9291
E-mail: c-fam@c-fam.org Website: www.c-fam.org

http://www.lifenews.com/state825.html

Rochester, NY (LifeNews.com) -- A family court judge who gained national attention last year in a similar case has told a drug-addicted mother of seven not to have any more children until she can prove she is able to care for the kids the has. However, the judge ruled out using abortion as method of birth control.

While I like the fact the judge ruled out abortion, a court order regulating when someone can or cannot get pregnant is a road that should not be traveled in this country. We were there during the eugenics days in the 30s or so. We should not go back, even in this case where the woman shouldn't be having kids, it isn't up to the government to decide that.