This needed to be seen again:

Google "life dynamics" and 20/20. You'll find that Life Dynamics made allegations about the sale of fetal tissue and "baby body parts" that became the basis of an ABC 20/20 investigation. The allegations were so disturbing that they prompted a Congressional investigation. The Congressional investigation, however, fell apart when it turned out that Life Dynamics' star "whistleblower" had been paid by Life Dynamics to tell his story, and the "whistleblower" admitted under oath that the statements he made in videos circulated by Life Dynamics were lies.

Life Dynamics also has a history of making claims that abortion providers routinely provide abortions to underage girls and fail to report that the pregnancies are the result of sexual abuse -- allegations that, regardless of a decade's worth of investigations, have yet to be substantiated.

In fact, the best piece on this is from Salon itself:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/11/04/parental_notification/

In between the nearly-interchangeable extremist rants, we have this:

Who's to blame.. those who hated unions, and the Southern states who had no labor laws, and we the people who were dumb enough to let the Germans and the Japanese set up shop in Georgia and the south. And GM itself, a company so foul with dull hubristic pride and confidence that even the Gods stopped laughing.

But what happened you say. Well... You see the South won this battle, and they won it with the same foreign aid they lacked to win their war of secession. Oops, and hello Lincoln.

The irony is that when the Japanese started to set up shop in the South, they soon realized that they couldn't do the full-on build-engines-from-scratch car factories that exist in Detroit or Nagasaki. Why? Because the school systems of the South -- especially after decades of legal and de facto segregation (aka 'white flight') -- weren't giving them the educated workers they needed for true factories.

So instead, they either went to Canada (where in addition to having a workforce that could read, they didn't have to worry about health care costs) to build the true factories, or set up simple final-assembly plants that put together the complex components made elsewhere. This also meant that they could justify paying their workers a lot less than what true factory workers got paid.

Climate change deniers and evolution deniers seem to be cut from the same or at least similar cloth.

Take away the Saudi sugar tit, and the Taliban collapses.

But of course the billionaire oil sheikhs want to keep their own little version of Gor on Earth, so they'll have to be dealt with first.

That's actually good news. Too many people treated their homes as ATMs over the past eight years, masking the fact that they aren't as well off as their parents with union jobs were thirty-odd years ago. In fact, the whole campaign to get Americans addicted to sky-high debt loads is tied to making them not realize that real wages peaked in 1974 and have been going down for the most part ever since, the main exceptions being during the Clinton years.

Want to take telephony for the deaf or hard of hearing to the next level? Have this set up so deaf users can receive calls, have them turned into text in something approaching real-time speeds, and then allow the deaf user to respond by text or voice. This would be a godsend, especially for persons who went deaf later in life and are more comfortable speaking than texting, which for nearly a decade has been a favored means of telecommunication for the hearing-impaired.

If the voice-recognition software is already that spiffy, we're just a chip speed upgrade away from making what I describe happen.

According to a friend in the know, she has had many openly gay clerks and staffers over the years.

Is she Patti LuPone or Elaine Paige or Julie London? Not quite, but this shows her as herself, and singing as herself, she bests 90% of the pretty wives and girlfriends of the record execs:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2009/04/16/exclusive-susan-boyle-s-first-ever-song-release-revealed-listen-to-it-here-86908-21283564/

Susan's a gifted amateur who's had some training but is also held back by more than a little stage fright, perhaps occasioned by an all-too-vivid awareness of being mentally 'different' from other people. Her rendition of "Cry Me A River", done ten years ago for a charity compilation CD, is probably her best complete song, though the ending of "Memory" approaches Elaine Paige in terms of quality, with perhaps a touch of Patti LuPone thrown in.

Would she have become famous without the whole looks/demeanor issue? Probably not. But then again, fame is as much about sheer luck and seizing whatever opportunities appear, as it is about talent or work. Look at all the pretty-faced songstresses who've been pushed down our throats because they happen to be sleeping with their producers. These silicone-enhanced warblers almost always need vocal enhancements in the studio, too. Say what you will about Susan Boyle -- unlike the silicone sisters, she will never need a producer to massively overproduce her vocal tracks to compensate for a half-octave range.

So very predictable.

I noticed that one important reason for childrens' resentment of their dads' new wives was left out: The likelihood that Daddy's new wife was the person who, in the kids' eyes, came between Daddy and Mommy and wrecked their happy home.

Yeah, yeah, it's really more complicated than that: Some couples aren't meant to be together even if they have kids, and commitment is hard, yadda yadda yadda. Try telling that to a kid whose main understanding of the situation is that Mommy and Daddy aren't together any more and that this interloper is probably the cause.