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Did you hear the White House wants you to report “fishy” casual conversations and forward private emails?

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care.  These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation.  Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

Sen. John Cornyn wants to know what Obama plans to do with the names, remarks, email addresses, and IP addresses of the people who oppose his healthcare plan.

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This post at InsideCatholic is thought provoking.  (It’s for grown ups, though).

Victims Unseen

We have ignored the boys. And we ignored them, as we have been ignoring them, these many years. Governments and foundations shovel money into programs to teach math and science specifically to girls, but not a penny, not for any subject, devoted specifically to boys. Why is that? Nowadays in some places a boy growing up with a father is as rare as an orphan used to be.

Go, read, tell me what you think.  I’m inclined to agree that schools are designed by girls, for girls, by the way.  I’ve mentioned that before.

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Mr X said “blue”.  He’s actually doing very well with pl and bl dipthongs.  He still very rarely says more than one syllable of a word, but has started putting two words together.  Mostly, “No mommy!” and “What mommy!”  (Not a question, more a statement of outrage at being interrupted.

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Oh, goody.  Under Obamacare, I can look forward to in-home nurse visits to discuss family planning with the goal of increasing birth intervals.

(p. 767)
20 ‘‘(aa) The term ‘nurse home visitation services’
21 means home visits by trained nurses to families with a
22 first-time pregnant woman, or a child (under 2 years of
23 age), who is eligible for medical assistance under this title,
24 but only, to the extent determined by the Secretary based
(p. 768)
1 upon evidence, that such services are effective in one or
2 more of the following:
3 ‘‘(1) Improving maternal or child health and
4 pregnancy outcomes or increasing birth intervals be
5tween pregnancies.
6 ‘‘(2) Reducing the incidence of child abuse, ne
7glect, and injury, improving family stability (includ
8ing reduction in the incidence of intimate partner vi
9olence), or reducing maternal and child involvement
10 in the criminal justice system.

On the face of it, “reducing the incidence of child abuse” sounds like a great goal.  Until you remember that agents of the state (nurses, in this case) will be showing up at your house in order to do this.  The government has repeatedly had to warn and train social workers in parent’s rights, and special legislation had to be passed requiring social workers to be trained in citizen’s constitutional rights (apparently, it wasn’t part of their education).  Everyone’s heard of abuses by CPS that devastate children and families.  This sounds like a nightmare.  And why is no one concerned with reducing paternal involvement in the criminal justice system?

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New button on my sidebar.

Go Flag Yourself. Make sure you report every fishy conversation, blogpost,  and email.  I’ve made it easy to report me – just click on the button!

I’m going to start with a fishy email I received:

This is the moment our movement was built for.

…

That’s why Organizing for America is putting together thousands of events this month where you can reach out to neighbors, show your support, and make certain your members of Congress know that you’re counting on them to act.

That sounds like fishy manufactured support to me.  The email urges me to sign up for event updates, so they can make sure to load the audience with members supporting their point of view.  Very astroturf/artificial grassroots, as Nancy Pelosi calls it.

Oh, it came from barackobama.com.  So that makes it…community organized, so it’s not manuafactured, I guess.

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New breastfeeding baby doll. Apparently, it’s very controversial.  I’m not sure why, my little girls are around breastfeeding mothers and try to nurse their dolls and bears just like they see Mommy do.   The article ends with:

“What’s next?” wrote Eric Ruhalter, a parenting columnist for New Jersey’s Star Ledger. “Bebe Sot — the doll who has a problem with a different kind of bottle, and loses his family, job and feelings of self-worth? Bebe Limp — the male doll who experiences erectile dysfunction? Bebe Cell Mate — a weak, unimposing doll that experiences all the indignation and humiliation of life in prison?

Sorry, but even if the fake bra that comes with Baby Glutton freaks you out, that was over the top.  Breastfeeding and alcoholism, ED, and prison time have nothing in common.  That critic seems to think that being aware of how babies eat is an adult subject that will ruin a child’s innocence.

I do admit the falsies in the halter top is weird.

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I posted an article on my Examiner page – Breastfeeding while homeschooling.  Check it out and gimme some comment love!  I’m the new girl their and I wanna be popular.  Or at least make them think I’m popular.  See?  I’m even attempting slang.  So you know I must be desparate!