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Why doesn't California have the fortitude to ban tanning beds altogether if they are so dangerous.

No idea.

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You can get an abortion but not a tan, kid

October 9, 2011

by Don Surber

California continues to be an embarrassment to the other 49 states. The state government now bans people from using tanning beds until they are 18. But minors will continue to be able to have abortions without the permission ? or even knowledge ? of their parents. So much for my body, my choice.

From Reuters: ?Minors in the state of California will no longer be allowed to use tanning beds after Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill on Sunday prohibiting anyone under the age of 18 from using ultraviolet tanning devices. California is the first state in the nation to ban minors from using tanning beds, legislators said.?

The law takes effect on January 1.

I suppose we can now call it the not-so-golden state.

Before, kids 14-18 could use a tanning bed. I wonder if this applies to families that have tanning beds of their own. I wonder if anyone will dare to challenge this idiocy in court.

Maybe California will do with tans what it does with pot and allow for medical tanning.

Frankly, I think we ought to stop the government from passing any law that is designed to protect our health. Governments are supposed to protect our rights, not our health.

http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/44015

Apples and oranges. If minor sex could be banned, which leads to pregnancy (as tanning leads to cancer), then this would be a plausible comparison. Or, on the other hand, if skin cancer treatment were being banned for minors, the comparison would also be plausible.

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3DHS / Re: Will Nato member Turkey go to war with Greece and Israel?
« on: October 02, 2011, 11:56:19 AM »
Without going back and reading the 2 pages of this thread, I give a decisive NO - Turkey will not be going to war with anyone. They are posturing right now, and analysis are saying that Erdogan really has to take a defensive posture because of the mood of his nation... not because he has any serious intention of going to war with anyone. And that Israel understands that as well.

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   When I was in the Navy I met Iranians pretty often.

     The Iranian Navy was US equipped and their sailors came to our Navy schools for everything from cooking to welding.

      They seemed like normal people, allowing for their being sailors.

LOL, Plane. You will find everywhere in the world that we all have more in common than you think - every one is just trying to make a life, regardless of where they're from, religion or heritage.  :P

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With Iran there is always hope for the future. The people are entirely more sophisticated and intelligent than anyone else in the region - which is a miracle considering.

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3DHS / Re: Biden is OK with China's one child policy
« on: August 25, 2011, 01:44:34 AM »
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER:

"The vice president of the United States should never say about a policy as immoral as that
"I understand."

This is one of the failings of this administration. Yes, we cannot do anything about China's one-child policy. We cannot unilaterally change the regime in Syria and Iran. But this administration simply refuses to speak out on the basic fundamental moral issues on which all Americans are united. It is a scandal to say, "We understand."

The number of forced abortions in China as a result of this, the misery and essentially the torture that people have felt having to destroy a child, even infanticide, as a result of this is simply outrageous. And for a vice president to say he understands is essentially to negate, even to betray our values.


He's right - Biden should have kept his fat mouth shut.

But as horrible as the policies are there, it's a terrible thing to decide WHEN the children should die - as part of a family planning program or of famines later.

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3DHS / Re: Biden is OK with China's one child policy
« on: August 24, 2011, 05:13:41 PM »
Why?
I don't *like* it, but as said in this thread, famine is the alternative.

here's just one of many


It is complicated, I never said it wasn't.

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3DHS / Re: Hey bitch, don't blame whitey, blame your president
« on: August 24, 2011, 04:09:55 PM »
BREAKING NEWS: President Obama has just confirmed that the DC earthquake occurred on a rare and obscure fault-line, apparently known as "Bush's Fault". Obama also announced that the Secret Service and Maxine Waters continues an investigation of the quake's suspicious ties to the Tea Party. Conservatives however have proven that it was caused by the founding fathers rolling over in their graves.

Another one:

"Wonder if Rick Perry believed it was an earthquake or just the scientific community stomping in unison?"

And don't miss the DEVASTATING PICTURES of the quake aftermath:


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3DHS / Re: Biden is OK with China's one child policy
« on: August 24, 2011, 04:02:03 PM »
DISGRACEFUL!

Why?

I don't *like* it, but as said in this thread, famine is the alternative.

Hasn't anyone ever wondered why the Chinese are willing to eat damn near anything? Famine is in their living memory.

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3DHS / Re: Who Cares About the Middle East?
« on: August 24, 2011, 03:59:44 PM »
Surpringly, I loved this. Excellent.

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3DHS / Re: NASA: Aliens will attack because of global warming!!!!
« on: August 22, 2011, 02:39:09 AM »
I see where one of the authors does work for NASA, and i see where it was published in Acta Astronautica, but i don't see where NASA commissioned the work, so maybe the Guardian misled a bit. If so, my bad.

Quite right. One of the authors NASA as his professional affiliation, that is all. In the world of STM publishing (I work for the company that published this paper), affiliation to does not mean approved by.

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3DHS / Re: Obama Turns 50 Despite Republican Opposition
« on: August 05, 2011, 11:11:03 AM »
By the way, I was trying to get in to respond to your comment last night using my Blackberry. It seems the site renders for mobile browsing, but when trying to logon, the boxes where you would input user name and password didn't render.

Any way this can be fixed? Not urgent obviously, but just when too lazy to boot up the computer...

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3DHS / Re: Obama Turns 50 Despite Republican Opposition
« on: August 05, 2011, 02:43:01 AM »
As always the MSM (including the Onion) gets it wrong. It was not McConnell who wanted to postpone Obama's birthday right before the election in 2012. It was Obama who was willing to put SS, Medicare and Vets on the cutting table in order to avoid the negative publicity and sink in the poll numbers as his longevity ( and who knows for sure what that number really is - see birthers) and leadership are called in to question each year at the beginning of August.

I put it for a laugh. And will continue to laugh about it.

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3DHS / Obama Turns 50 Despite Republican Opposition
« on: August 04, 2011, 03:44:09 PM »
Obama Turns 50 Despite Republican Opposition

 ;D

WASHINGTON?After months of heated negotiations and failed attempts to achieve any kind of consensus, President Obama turned 50 years old Thursday, drawing strong criticism from Republicans in Congress. "With the host of problems this country is currently facing, the fact that our president is devoting time to the human process of aging is an affront to Americans everywhere," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who advocated a provision to keep Obama 49 at least through the fall of 2013. "To move forward unilaterally and simply begin the next year of his life without bipartisan support?is that any way to lead a country?" According to White House officials, Obama attempted to work with Republicans right up until the Aug. 4 deadline, but was ultimately left with no choice except to turn a year older.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/obama-turns-50-despite-republican-opposition,21061/

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3DHS / Re: Murbarak show trial to begin this week.....
« on: August 03, 2011, 04:01:36 PM »
He picked his nose.
Sick!


Sick indeed! And the cloning thing is still making me laugh. WTF? I checked that on some other sites and sure enough, it seems the accusation was made in the courtroom. What a circus.

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