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[Junkenstein]

Ah, I caught that. My thought about psuedo thing was from the standard google search, seems to be tons but I've no idea what is a reliable source here. (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pre+partum+depression&aq=f&oq=pre+partum+depression&aqs=chrome.0.59j60l2j0l3.4234&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)

Fairly sure Ricky Lake isnt. Daily mail certainly not. The term I was looking for seems to be "pre natal depression".

It may be the idea with people actually wanting the race to the bottom because they seem to believe it will only get better once we get there. Expanding that out is rather worrying. Not thinking about the middle east here at all.

I think I'm struggling with a lot of concepts here. Probably best to shut up. Thanks for being patient here, it's appreciated.

[Junkenstein]

Back to your regularly scheduled "What the fuck?"

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130310/METRO/303100306

Shriner, who believes God put her on earth to stop the arrival of the Antichrist, said in an interview she wasn't aware how irrational Pingilley had become until reading her blog after her death.

If she had known, she said, she would have done something to help her.

"Her last blog — I don't know where she came up with it," said Shriner, 47, of Carrollton, Ohio, near Canton. "Some stuff was pretty out there. It was just crazy."

But Shriner also said she didn't believe Pingilley killed herself. She said the death was made to look like a suicide by the people who really killed her — a NATO hit squad.

Where to begin?

[Junkenstein]

The "Yeah, it's nice to confirm this" files:
http://www.neurope.eu/article/papal-conclave-begins-vatican-revealed-own-europes-biggest-gay-sauna

As Cardinals gather to select the next Pope, the Vatican has been found to have made a €23 million investment in an apartment block that contains "Europe's biggest gay sauna," Europa Multiclub according to reports in Rome and the UK Independent newspaper.

The building also houses priests, an Archbishop and, occupying a 12 room apartment on the first floor, Cardinal Ivan Dias, the head of the Congregation for Evangelisation of Peoples.

Cardinal Dias will be in the conclave and is a believes that homosexuality can be cured of their "unnatural tendancies" through the Sacrement of Pennance. It is not known if the Cardinal has visited the sauna.

La Repubblica said "The cardinals were said to have uncovered an underground gay network, whose members organise sexual meetings in several venues in Rome and Vatican City, leaving them prone to blackmail. They included a villa outside the Italian capital, a sauna in a Rome suburb, a beauty parlour in the centre, and a former university residence that was in use by a provincial Italian archbishop."

>It is not known if Europa Multiclub is the sauna referred to.

The report is being kept locked away until the next Pope is chosen, who will have to deal with its contents. It is rumoured that the Cardinals wish to read the report, not least out of concerns that the next pontiff could be named in it.

Cross your fingers boys and girls. It's just about funny enough to happen.

[Junkenstein]

Today's Bout of the blindingly obvious brought you you by Laura Bush:

http://news.yahoo.com/laura-bush-says-republicans-frightened-women-150008515--abc-news-politics.html

Some Republican candidates in the 2012 elections "frightened" women, says former first lady Laura Bush.
CNN's Erin Burnett asked Bush Monday in an interview whether Republicans making social issues like gay marriage and abortion so central to the platform led to more than half of women voters voting for President Obama.
"There are obvious examples of candidates that were - that I think frightened some women, but they were the exception rather than the norm in the party," Bush said. "There are all of those social issues that are very, very heartfelt by people. And I understand that. There are differences and there just will be."

Bush said that what she liked most about the Republican Party was that there's room for all opinions on different issues.
"And I'm glad that in our party we have room for all," she said. "I think that's important too."

It doesn't matter what kind of crazy you are, you are welcome.

Also brought to you today by Laura Bush - Madness.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Ah, I caught that. My thought about psuedo thing was from the standard google search, seems to be tons but I've no idea what is a reliable source here. (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pre+partum+depression&aq=f&oq=pre+partum+depression&aqs=chrome.0.59j60l2j0l3.4234&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)

Fairly sure Ricky Lake isnt. Daily mail certainly not. The term I was looking for seems to be "pre natal depression".

It may be the idea with people actually wanting the race to the bottom because they seem to believe it will only get better once we get there. Expanding that out is rather worrying. Not thinking about the middle east here at all.

I think I'm struggling with a lot of concepts here. Probably best to shut up. Thanks for being patient here, it's appreciated.

Prenatal depression, again, is a term that can only be used retrospectively after the birth of a baby because of the definition of the word "natal". It is also not a diagnosis or a technical term, just one that people bandy about on talk shows and forums because they heard it somewhere and think it makes them sound like they know what they're doing. I caution against doing that, because it has the opposite effect when you're dealing with people who do know what they're talking about. It's also important to know what postpartum depression actually is (it really lives all by itself in it's own depression category, because it's got a bunch of fairly unique symptoms that are extremely uncommon in depression) so that you don't mistake pregnancy depression for just a pre-birth form of postpartum depression. Depression during pregnancy is depression, and is, unsurprisingly, very common in women who are prone to depression. One can also be depressed after pregnancy. Postpartum depression, however, is a beast of a different color, to the point where many specialists would like it renamed so that people stop confusing it with depression.

[Junkenstein]

Ah, Thanks Nigel that clarifies a few things. I think I was mainly going wrong by thinking that there may be a specific kind of depression related to carrying a child. I'm also pretty bloody stupid at times so the patience is appreciated.

[Elder Iptuous]

Just saw this news blurb about Biden "differentiat[ing] between the "garden variety slap across the face" and other violent acts which indicate domestic violence"
http://freebeacon.com/biden-this-isnt-your-garden-variety-slap-across-the-face/

cant see the youtube behind the nannywall.  is it as cringeworthy as it sounds?

[Junkenstein]

New pope from Argentina.

http://www.vaticancrimes.us/

I've been looking over the above, the reporting seems legit.

[Elder Iptuous]

Pope Bergoglio
sounds good...

[Lenin McCarthy]

Pope Francis. First Jesuit pope (fun fact: Norway had a constitutional ban on Jesuits entering the country until 1956). First Latin American pope. But still a white conservative old fart.

[Elder Iptuous]

so, i know the last pope was officially Benedict, but i heard him referred to more as pope Ratzinger, apart from the media...

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Ah, Thanks Nigel that clarifies a few things. I think I was mainly going wrong by thinking that there may be a specific kind of depression related to carrying a child. I'm also pretty bloody stupid at times so the patience is appreciated.

YW!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Just saw this news blurb about Biden "differentiat[ing] between the "garden variety slap across the face" and other violent acts which indicate domestic violence"
http://freebeacon.com/biden-this-isnt-your-garden-variety-slap-across-the-face/

cant see the youtube behind the nannywall.  is it as cringeworthy as it sounds?

From the oddly-edited snippet of video (Biden is literally cut off midsentence, which to me signals that whoever edited it is intentionally removing context) it sounds as if he is talking about warning signs for domestic abuse that is at high risk for escalating to homicide.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Yeah, I found the snipped portion of the quote.

"This isn't your garden variety slap across the face, which is not acceptable in and of itself," he said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/in-rockville-visit-biden-announces-new-program-to-curb-domestic-violence/2013/03/13/9c5acbc8-8bf5-11e2-9f54-f3fdd70acad2_story.html?wprss=rss_southern-maryland

The Justice Department program, modeled after efforts in Maryland and Massachusetts, will help local law enforcement and medical personnel to identify women at risk of being murdered by intimate partners. Biden said that research has shown that certain predictive behaviors--including attempted strangulation and sexual assault--place women at elevated risk of becoming homicide victims.

You might want to reconsider your source's credibility. That not-so-slick move, all by itself, seriously throws their ethics and motivation into suspicion.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

  Yeah, actually, I just looked that "news site" over a little more closely. It's 100% tabloid trash with a pinch of reptar.