From the NYT:
In an investigation conducted secretly for months, the Kansas attorney general is demanding that clinics turn over the complete medical records of nearly 90 women and girls who had abortions. [...] The clinics said Kline demanded their complete, unedited medical records for women who sought abortions at least 22 weeks into their pregnancies in 2003, as well as those for girls 15 and younger who sought abortions. Court papers did not identify the clinics.The records sought include the patient's name, medical history, details of her sex life, birth control practices and psychological profile.
The clinics, which said nearly 90 women and girls would be affected, are offering to provide records with some key information, including names, edited out.
Sorry things have been so quiet lately, but the new website is taking forever. It's ALMOST done. The folks over at Just Two Girls have been very good about helping me, but I am e-commerce inept and things don't ever seem to go easily when I want to do a project like this. I seem to have some kind of forcefield that makes e-commerce and fax machines hate me.
Oscar is responding very well to the Phenobarb. It does not appear to make him sleepy, and he's been much more normal, if he ever was normal! He is back to playing with his ball, chasing around the house, and general seems to be his old happy self. We even had company over the other night, and Oscar didn't bite him! He also didn't bite the guy who delivered the sushi, so life seems to be much better.
I was recently taken to task for not being particularly interested in the fascinating name-calling commentary of a someone who commented on my blog.
This led me to wonder about commenting in general. I rarely comment on the blogs I read. I post quite a bit in forums, but I always find posting on blogs -- unless they're run by people I know and I am conversing with them -- sort of useless. Very rarely, someone will bring up something I know something about on a blog and I will then post details I can add to the discussion, but posting for the sake of posting, which seems very popular in the blogosphere, is beyond me.
This is actually a rather serious question. I wonder why I blog at all with some frequency, but even when I slow down considerably, as I have been recently, I still write occasionally. The question of why people write, why people create anything at all, actually, is of unending interest to me. So if you comment on a lot of blogs, and run across this one in your travels, leave a note as to why you do it.
UPDATE: Silly me, I should have known that The Onion would have the something to say on the subject.
The other day we took some foreign currency to the bank. It took about half an hour to get it deposited because the teller wasn't good with numbers. I thought that was pretty bad, but it was nothing compared to this:
Administration officials acknowledged that their plan would force the government to borrow about $774 billion of the next decade, and several trillion more in the decades that follow, because the government would still have to pay full benefits to people who are already 55 years or older. All this borrowing will show up in annual budget deficits.On Monday, Mr. Bolten affirmed the White House view that such "transition costs" are not an increase in government debt, because the government would get more than its money back many decades from now as future retirees depend more on their private accounts than on government-guaranteed benefits.
"Transition financing does not represent new debt," Mr. Bolten told reporters.
So...since I just moved, and that's a big transition, can I borrow several trillion dollars that won't be counted as debt?