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He was utterly excellent!
No truer spokesman for the real God during my lifetime.
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He was utterly excellent!
No truer spokesman for the real God during my lifetime.
Tom
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Texas takes it to the next level.
Texas has been exploiting any opening in the law they can create. And now, they target the pharma industry. All they need to do is get a small group of people to sue the Pharma industry and say one thing got shipped to Texas. Heck, they can order it themselves probably. The good news is, this isn't enforceable as it crosses state lines. The bad news is, they are trying to create a rule that SCOTUS will back.article said:
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This is just evil.
www.nytimes.com
Millions of dollars’ worth of birth control pills and other contraceptives destined for people in low-income countries have been destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration, the United States Agency for International Development said on Thursday.
The pills, intrauterine devices and hormonal implants, valued at about $9.7 million, had been purchased by the agency before it was largely dismantled earlier this year. They had been stuck in a warehouse in Belgium for months, since the State Department said that contraception was not “lifesaving” and that the United States would no longer fund the purchase of birth control products for low-income nations.
Internal State Department and U.S.A.I.D. documents and correspondence obtained by The New York Times show that several international organizations, including the Gates Foundation and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, had offered to buy or accept a donation of the contraceptives. The government would have incurred no costs or might have even been able to recoup taxpayer funds under those scenarios.
Instead the administration decided to proceed with destroying the products, an operation that was estimated to cost $167,000.
$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials
The birth control pills, IUDs and hormonal implants were purchased by U.S.A.I.D. for women in low-income countries. They had been in limbo in a Belgian warehouse after the U.S. cut much of its foreign aid.
Millions of dollars’ worth of birth control pills and other contraceptives destined for people in low-income countries have been destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration, the United States Agency for International Development said on Thursday.
The pills, intrauterine devices and hormonal implants, valued at about $9.7 million, had been purchased by the agency before it was largely dismantled earlier this year. They had been stuck in a warehouse in Belgium for months, since the State Department said that contraception was not “lifesaving” and that the United States would no longer fund the purchase of birth control products for low-income nations.
Internal State Department and U.S.A.I.D. documents and correspondence obtained by The New York Times show that several international organizations, including the Gates Foundation and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, had offered to buy or accept a donation of the contraceptives. The government would have incurred no costs or might have even been able to recoup taxpayer funds under those scenarios.
Instead the administration decided to proceed with destroying the products, an operation that was estimated to cost $167,000.
It's also old.This is just evil.
$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials
The birth control pills, IUDs and hormonal implants were purchased by U.S.A.I.D. for women in low-income countries. They had been in limbo in a Belgian warehouse after the U.S. cut much of its foreign aid.
Millions of dollars’ worth of birth control pills and other contraceptives destined for people in low-income countries have been destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration, the United States Agency for International Development said on Thursday.
The pills, intrauterine devices and hormonal implants, valued at about $9.7 million, had been purchased by the agency before it was largely dismantled earlier this year. They had been stuck in a warehouse in Belgium for months, since the State Department said that contraception was not “lifesaving” and that the United States would no longer fund the purchase of birth control products for low-income nations.
Internal State Department and U.S.A.I.D. documents and correspondence obtained by The New York Times show that several international organizations, including the Gates Foundation and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, had offered to buy or accept a donation of the contraceptives. The government would have incurred no costs or might have even been able to recoup taxpayer funds under those scenarios.
Instead the administration decided to proceed with destroying the products, an operation that was estimated to cost $167,000.
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It wasn't that old.It's also old.This is just evil.
$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials
The birth control pills, IUDs and hormonal implants were purchased by U.S.A.I.D. for women in low-income countries. They had been in limbo in a Belgian warehouse after the U.S. cut much of its foreign aid.
Millions of dollars’ worth of birth control pills and other contraceptives destined for people in low-income countries have been destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration, the United States Agency for International Development said on Thursday.
The pills, intrauterine devices and hormonal implants, valued at about $9.7 million, had been purchased by the agency before it was largely dismantled earlier this year. They had been stuck in a warehouse in Belgium for months, since the State Department said that contraception was not “lifesaving” and that the United States would no longer fund the purchase of birth control products for low-income nations.
Internal State Department and U.S.A.I.D. documents and correspondence obtained by The New York Times show that several international organizations, including the Gates Foundation and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, had offered to buy or accept a donation of the contraceptives. The government would have incurred no costs or might have even been able to recoup taxpayer funds under those scenarios.
Instead the administration decided to proceed with destroying the products, an operation that was estimated to cost $167,000.
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It's not old at all.
From the story,
However the story has since been updated.
They have a new article about it.
www.nytimes.com
From the story,
However the story has since been updated.
They have a new article about it.
Belgian Authorities Say $10 Million Supply of Birth Control Has Not Yet Been Destroyed
Contraceptives bought by U.S.A.I.D. have been in limbo in a Belgian warehouse. The U.S. government said the products were destroyed, but local authorities found them.
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Glad the Belgians did not destroy them. They should just take ownership of them since the US doesn’t want them anymore.
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Why go to the effort of destroying them, when you can get the exact same boost in popularity in the Bible Belt by just saying that you did?
The voters who support the destruction likely don't even know which state Belgium is in*, so they are hardly likely to go and check.
* It's probably one of those hippy blue states on the West Coast, or in the North East.
The voters who support the destruction likely don't even know which state Belgium is in*, so they are hardly likely to go and check.
* It's probably one of those hippy blue states on the West Coast, or in the North East.
Shadowy Man
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Given the geographic distribution of Waffle Houses I suspect that Belgium is one of the few European countries those people actually know something about.
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Belgian Waffles are only known by that name in North America.
The name originates with a Belgian called Maurice Vermersch, who sold Brussels Waffles at the 1964 World's Fair in New York; According to The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, M. Vermersch changed the name to Belgian Waffles when he realised that most Americans didn't know where Brussels was located.
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I think he was reticent to admit that Americans hate Brussels sprouts.
WAB
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Somebody needs to do a poll: how many Americans think hot dogs are made out of dogs?
If there are some who believe that the largest city in the world is Asia, and this one remarkable woman who thought the moon was the sun seen at night, anything's possible.
If there are some who believe that the largest city in the world is Asia, and this one remarkable woman who thought the moon was the sun seen at night, anything's possible.
Well, I've never had one but I know I would hate them! (I don't like cooked leaves of any variety.)
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thebeave
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You're probably referring to Chelsea Handler.
Chelsea Handler Says She 'Didn't Know Until I Was 40' That the Sun and Moon Are Not the Same
WAB
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Yes! I believe you are right.
And California is responding by proposing to allow anonymous prescriptions:
I'm puzzled about how this verifies that it's actually a doctor doing the prescribing.
And they're trying to go after mifepristone on the basis that it contaminates the water supply. Um, no, even if a meaningful amount of it reaches the sewage facilities the same things that break down the organics most certainly would break it down, also. PFASs make it through the sewage plant because the C-F bonds are so strong that neither microbes nor powerful oxidizing agents (nor anything else in nature) can appreciably break them, but not ordinary organics.
And they're also "concerned" about abortion remains in the water. Hey, nature already dumps more in the system with miscarriages than mifepristone does. And there's no biological difference, mifepristone does nothing to the fetus itself, only causes the pregnancy to fail. Thus what comes out is exactly the same as for any other failure of the pregnancy.
www.medpagetoday.com
And they're also "concerned" about abortion remains in the water. Hey, nature already dumps more in the system with miscarriages than mifepristone does. And there's no biological difference, mifepristone does nothing to the fetus itself, only causes the pregnancy to fail. Thus what comes out is exactly the same as for any other failure of the pregnancy.
Abortion Contaminants in the Water Supply: Are the Rumors True?
Experts say mifepristone pollution risks are negligible; group ties issue to MAHA report
www.medpagetoday.com
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You can't stop every form of self harm...