Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is DeLay
So this grandstanding Jesus Creeper of a politician is currently making hay by condemning anyone who supports euthanasia. Yet in 1988 DeLay participated in a decision to withhold life support from his brain-damaged father, ensuring his rapid death. His father injured by a runaway tram device, DeLay successfully sued the manufacturers for restitution, then a few years later drafted legislation making it more difficult for people to sue manufacturers of faulty devices. Today DeLay is now ‘an outspoken defender of business against what he calls the crippling effects of “predatory, self-serving litigation”‘. It’s mind boggling to realise that people fall for this sort of duplicituous behaviour.
I am happy that the decision not to re feed Mrs Shavio has gone ahead. Not that the loss of life is something to celebrate, far from it in fact but that the people wanting this woman alive have somehow wanted to meddle in the affairs of the woman citing that this was best for her whille pandering to her parents own selfish needs.
Agreed. For further enlightenment, see the recent South Park episode: Best Friends Forever.
UCSF’s Center for Gender Equity hosts its annual “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” on Thursday — but judging from the list of activities being offered, the gender equity program is anything but equal.
For example, the 9- and 10-year-old daughters are being invited to participate in 17 hands-on activities such as working with microscopes,
slicing brains, doing skull comparisons, seeing what goes on in the operating room, playing surgeon, dentist or nurse for a day, and visiting
the intensive care unit nursery, where they can set up blood pressure cuffs and operate the monitors. They can learn about earthquake and disaster preparedness, how to use a fire extinguisher, how to operate several types of equipment — even fire a laser.
And what do the boys get to do? Learn about “gender equity in fun, creative ways using media, role playing and group games” — after which, the boys can get a bit of time in with a microscope or learn how the heart works. The boys have their own gender sensitivity program, where “they learn about violence prevention and how to be allies to the girls and women in their lives.”
Hence, while the boys undergo gender sensitivity training, the girls focus on their capabilities — be it handling a scalpel or microscope.
Sounds like a good program to me!