Perry: Government you can TRUST.

[Cramulus]

to tack on a completely superfluous and medically unnecessary extra expense to abortion, making it even less accessible to the poor.

That's my American dream.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

to tack on a completely superfluous and medically unnecessary extra expense to abortion, making it even less accessible to the poor.

That's my American dream.

WALMART HAS 25 REGISTERS AND ONLY, LIKE, FIVE OF THEM ARE EVER OPEN! BREED MORE POOR PEOPLE!

[deadfong]

The judge apparently found only part of the law unconstitutional:

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Judge-stays-sonogram-law-2148085.php

To those women seeking an abortion, the law would have required doctors to display an ultrasound image of the fetus, make the heartbeat audible and describe the fetus' dimensions, cardiac activity and internal and external organs.

Sparks said all of those requirements violate First Amendment protections against state-ordered speech.

Sparks let stand the law's requirement that sonograms be performed at least 24 hours before an abortion, unless the patient lives 100 miles or more from the nearest provider. In that case, the wait would be shortened to two hours.

Sonograms already are routinely performed before abortions for diagnostic reasons. Typically, they are done the same day.

Kinda sounds like women in Texas who want an abortion will still have to pay for two sonograms, but at least they won't have to hear any speechifying about it.

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Look guys, not only is Perry more empirical than Obama, but he doesn't use science as a political bludgeon like the Left does.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/275818/anti-science-smear-rich-lowry

[Cain]

Ah, Rich Lowry.

If ever you needed a man to perform literary fellatio on a complete and utter moron, Lowry would be your man.

[Doktor Howl]

Ho ho ho!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44361767/ns/politics-decision_2012/

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas governor Rick Perry tried to sideline a state commissioner who opposed expanding the scope of a nuclear-waste landfill owned by one of the governor's biggest political donors, Reuters has learned.

Bobby Gregory, owner of a wildlife ranch and landfill company south of Austin, had opposed a plan to let 36 states send nuclear waste to a 1,338-acre site in Andrews County.

On the other side of the issue was billionaire Harold Simmons and his company Waste Control Specialists LLC, which stood to gain millions of dollars from accepting out-of-state shipments. Simmons had donated over $1 million to Perry's gubernatorial campaigns.

A report in the Los Angeles Times in August examined the case of the Texas waste site and Perry's ties to Simmons, a conservative who funded the Swift Boat campaign that helped torpedo John Kerry's presidential bid.

Perry maintains his appointments are based on merit, and Simmons is inclined to help any conservative Republican, spokespeople for the two said.

In any case, the January vote by the eight-member Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission was key to the future profitability of the nuclear landfill.

Reuters has learned that late last year, after it became clear that the commission might block Waste Control's request to truck in waste from around the country, Perry's appointments chief, Teresa Spears, offered commissioner Gregory an alternative job — a prestigious appointment as a regent of a state university.

Under Texas law, Gregory could not hold two state-appointed positions requiring Senate approval at the same time, and so taking the regent job would have required him to leave the waste commission.

Gary Newton, a lawyer for Gregory's company, Texas Disposal Systems, told Reuters his boss declined the offer. "There was a call from Ms. Spears. Bobby said they asked him if he was interested in this position. It was a Board of Regents position. He said 'No, I'm not interested in that type of appointment,' and declined," Newton said.

Gregory's term as commissioner ended on August 31 this year, so Perry can now replace him. The waste commission voted in January to allow imports, though it still has to examine and approve specific applications to import waste on a case-by-case basis.

[Adios]

 

The Perry bobbleheads will completely ignore this.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Of course. DAMN FEDS BEATIN UP ON BIDNESS! DAMN SOSHULIZT REGYALAYSHUNS! GOOD THANG WE GOT PERRY!

[Kai]

My dad used to say, "The entire field of biology, with all it's advancements, discoveries, and innovations, is ultimately based on evolution.  There is no meaningful argument against evolutionary theory."

I dunno if that's precisely true (paging Kai), but it makes a lot of sense.  Science is connected.  If you deny evolution, you have to re-explain everything that's been built off of it.

It is. Frankly, there wasn't biology before 1859. Once we knew that species changed over time, and that the mechanism was natural selection, life started to make sense. After the Mendelian and molecular revolutions, it /really/ started to make sense, because then we not only knew how changes occurred, but where inherited variation originated (i.e. DNA).

The great geneticist Theodosius Dobzansky said, "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution", and he was a theist. It's basically like claiming geocentrism is the best supported cosmological model. It's /way/ out there. Any biologist who doesn't accept it...wait, lets put it this way. A person who doesn't accept decent with modification cannot be a biologist in any real sense of the word. It's that essential.

[Epimetheus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obHxrBZfKis

Relevant to both topics at hand because the guy puts up a lot of informative evolutionary biology vids too.

[Cain]

Unfortunately, Political Science and Economics have no such basic, concrete theories which are foundational for understanding of the subject as a whole.

This explains why science continues to progress, and economics and politics do not.

[PopeTom]

Unfortunately, Political Science and Economics have no such basic, concrete theories which are foundational for understanding of the subject as a whole.

This explains why science continues to progress, and economics and politics do not.

Science:  This isn't working out the way I expected.  Perhaps I am wrong and should examine other possibilities.

Economic: This isn't working out the way I expected.  We just need to do it on a much bigger scale.

Politics: This isn't working out the way I expected.  People just don't understand (Conservatism/Liberalism/Anarchy/Libertarianism/Ayn Rand/etc.) but since I understand it perfectly I should just be made dictator; I promise to be a benevolent one.   

Religion: This isn't working out the way I expected.  Don't worry God has a plan.

PopeTom: This isn't working out the way I expected.  I'm going to go take a nap.

[Cain]

Indeed.  Though I dare say, politics and economics would likely benefit from those involved in them taking more naps.

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

Indeed.  Though I dare say, politics and economics would likely benefit from those involved in them taking more dirt naps.

[Kai]

Unfortunately, Political Science and Economics have no such basic, concrete theories which are foundational for understanding of the subject as a whole.

This explains why science continues to progress, and economics and politics do not.

If Economics and political science used sociobiology as foundation, I think they would advance quite nicely.