Indiana.....

[InterestedInColumbus]

Hmmmmmm. Some good stuff here

Lots of pass through money coming from the Feds with lots of strings, but yes you are absolutely right. The Dems are just the lesser of two evils and with the GOP today that gives the Dems a lot of room for evil.

If the Dems would just quit it with the give-aways and take the money and channel it into small business starts, or economic development zones, or Pell grants (with an emphasis on STEM and not liberal arts), or some new-age version of the WPA it would be such a welcome and refreshing public policy change that they'd sweep the next elections.

As long as they stick with TANF and SNAP and EITC and that bullshit all I can do is hold my nose and vote.

EITC is actually a major positive (economically sound - encourages work while helping people out of poverty) and I disagree that the dems are taxing the middle class to death, but your point is well taken that we need a far greater emphasis on building and rebuilding a modern infrastructure, which would create jobs to do the work and develop platforms for further job growth. However, since the Rs in Washington are completely wedded to the burn the fields model of politics vis a vis Obama, we are stuck.

I strongly encourage you to have your voice heard to try to attract both parties to you. It is the future - I am pretty confident that fiscal conservation and social liberalism will be the paradigm by 2050 in the US.

 

[RobDownSouth]

What's with theses gays? Jesus, everybody loves the gays and their money. Why do they give a shit if a couple of businesses discriminate against them? There are more than enough companies that'll be happy to take their money. Live and let live, I always say. The gays have it made, for Christ's sake. They're the third rail. I think people don't like them more for that then the fact that they are gay. Whiney, crybabies. The free market solves this in two minutes. My Governor is banning taxpayer funded non-essential travel to Indiana. Fuck. I'm more pissed that my taxes are paying for "non-essential travel". Stop complaining about every little Goddamn thing.

The free market solves everything, doesn't it?
Sunspots, bleach stains, pregnant teenagers...EVERYTHING!

#QueerbaitClassDerp

 

[Ramone45]

The free market solves everything, doesn't it?
Sunspots, bleach stains, pregnant teenagers...EVERYTHING!

#QueerbaitClassDerp

Come on! You cannot deny that it is working beautifully here. This is a classic example of why we need THE GOVERNMENT to butt out. Act like an asshole(for any reason), go out of business. Perfect. The Gays need to stop being so hysterical.

 

[KingOrfeo]

More from Indiana: Woman who says she miscarried is sentenced to 20 years for feticide.

 

[sr71plt]

Come on! You cannot deny that it is working beautifully here. This is a classic example of why we need THE GOVERNMENT to butt out. Act like an asshole(for any reason), go out of business. Perfect. The Gays need to stop being so hysterical.

Do you have any concept of what you posted here? It's the Indiana GOVERNMENT that enacted and is going to enforce this law.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Do you have any concept of what you posted here? It's the Indiana GOVERNMENT that enacted and is going to enforce this law.

No, Pee Wee, the cops are gonna roll their eyes when youre crying cause the ChuckeCheese people wont let you inside wearing a thong.

 

[Ramone45]

Do you have any concept of what you posted here? It's the Indiana GOVERNMENT that enacted and is going to enforce this law.

It the government would stick to fixing potholes and figuring out ways to cut taxes, we wouldn't have these problems. Who in their right mind is going to discriminate against gays. Hell I think a bigger problem is gay businesses discriminating against me. They make me feel very uncomfortable when I shop for dungarees in their "boutiques".

 

[Busybody]

Still Waiting For the Gays To Go to the Muslim Bakery…

 

[sr71plt]

It the government would stick to fixing potholes and figuring out ways to cut taxes, we wouldn't have these problems. Who in their right mind is going to discriminate against gays. Hell I think a bigger problem is gay businesses discriminating against me. They make me feel very uncomfortable when I shop for dungarees in their "boutiques".

Most likely because they gauge you a potential shoplifter.

Guess it hasn't occurred to you that fixing potholes and cutting taxes don't go together well. Perhaps it's time for you to run for office and experience the problems involved for yourself.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Who in their right mind is going to discriminate against gays.

People in their right mind are not part of this problem, but a problem it is.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Most likely because they gauge you a potential shoplifter.

*snickersnort*

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Indiana and health care-

In Scott County, there is one HIV testing clinic, but four other counties in Indiana also have just one HIV clinic. There is a lack of access to healthcare in these rural communities, which is one reason why HIV is beginning to rapidly spread throughout the county and nearby locations. A study from Trust for America’s Health in 2013 concluded that Indiana was last in getting federal funding per capita from the Centers for Disease Control. Indiana gets $13.72 per person for public healthcare, while other states were averaging about $19.54 per person. This lack of federal money has meant that healthcare clinics are far and few between, and the state is not getting any money that could be used for needle-exchange programs.

http://gazettereview.com/category/health/

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Regardless of the conflicting charges, the police used disproven science to declare that the fetus could have survived out of the womb. The court pathologist applied a “whole lung float test,” which tests if the lungs of the fetus float in liquid. If the lungs float, it means they have taken in air, but if they sink, it means that the baby has not breathed and therefore could not have lived without the mother. However, this test has been unreliable for over a century. In control tests, the lungs of stillborn infants have floated and the lungs of live-born infants have sunk in the liquid, according to forensic pathologists Pekka Saukko and Bernard Knight.

Despite the complete lack of evidence, as of March 13, Patel is the first woman convicted under Indiana’s Fetal Homicide Law.


http://www.awolau.org/blog/awol/2015/03/miscarriage-of-justice

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Patel told detectives in a taped interview shown in court that she had “opened the baby’s mouth and tried to resuscitate it,” which might explain why there would have been air in the fetus’s lungs. (Prahlow testified that Patel’s resuscitation attempts, as she described them, were so minimal that they wouldn’t have had any effect on the baby’s lungs.)


decomposition: If the fetus has decomposed even a little bit, the lungs can fill with gas bubbles that would also result in the lung floating. Finally, Davis said, a fetus’s lungs can fill with air just by going through the vaginal canal, because pressure on the chest creates a “bellows effect.”

others are said to have observed the phenomenon previously, the «lung test» is traditionally attributed to the German doctor Johannes Schreyer (1655 – 1694) (4, 5). In 1690 Schreyer described a case of suspected infanticide in which the lungs of the exhumed child’s corpse sank, resulting in the acquittal of the 15-year-old mother (5) (Fig 2). It is uncertain how early this type of examination was used in Norway, but it was in any case performed in 1782 by the regimental surgeon Rasmus Hess (1734 – 1803) in Kongsvinger (6). In earlier times the outcome of the test could literally be a matter of life and death for the mother: if a child born clandestinely had not been born alive, the mother could not be convicted of infanticide. In brief, the basic principle is that if a newborn child has breathed, the lung tissue at autopsy will be inflated with air and float in water, but if the child was stillborn, the lungs will not float. In clear-cut cases not only the lungs but the whole block of thoracic organs (lungs with trachea, thymus and heart) will float. Interpretation of the test is difficult when there is decomposition because this can produce gas which may give a false positive flotation test result. If resuscitation has been attempted with artificial respiration, the test will of course be positive as well.


http://tidsskriftet.no/article/3115854/en_GB

*gsgs comment- we use accurate scientific methods, before making statements about 5,300-year-old mummies, archaeological finds dated from 3.7 million years, ago. But, we cannot be accurate about human flesh, that still resembles living human flesh ? Even if it means a woman will waste what remains of her life, in prison ?*