Obama To Cut Funding For ‘Abstinence-Only’ Sex Education

As we’ve seen in the last few months, with this being his last year in office, President Obama has no f**ks left to give and he is showing the GOP his middle finger at every turn …

He has just announced that his 2017 budget proposal eliminates a $10 million-a-year grant program for abstinence-only education.

Ten million for absitince-only programs? As someone who lives in South Carolina and has seen, and continues to see, more than my share of pregnant high school girls, we know that abstince only programs do not work.

Knowledge is power. But Obama’s budget not only eradicates abstinence-only-until-marriage sex education funding, it also increases funds for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, maintains funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Adolescent and School Health, and calls for a five-year extension of the Personal Responsibility Education Program.

Knowledge is power. And so I say, “Good on Obama” for arming young girls with the knowledge that, sure, while abstinence is the only 100% effective way to avoid getting pregnant or avoid STDS and HIV and such, there are some girls who do have sex and who need to know their other options, such as birth control, for both themselves and their partners.

It’s smart; it’s sensible; it’s completely Obama.

But, best of all, and this is just me being all shallow and stuff, is that knowledge that somewhere in Wasilla, Alaska, in a house littered with booze and guns and animals pelts, Blister Palin, single mother to two children from two different Baby Daddy’s, is lying on a bed, her mother, the Mama Grizzly Bore™, applying cold compresses to her forehead, is moaning:

“How will I make a living now if I can’t talk about how abstinence only is the best policy?”

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Maybe It's A Conspiracy, But It's A Theory, Too

Now this is all a conspiracy theory, but given that it involves Alaska’s Most Famous White Trash Family, the Palins, well, maybe it’s true …

Last month, on that most holy of days, of course, Christmas Day, Mama Grizzly Bore™ celebrated the birth of daughter Blister’s most recent out-of-wedlock spawn, Sailor Grace. Or … did they?

Sailor Grace’s birth was announced  on December 24 by the Palins on Blister’s blog, and Mama Grizzly Bore™ herself followed up the very next day with a post on her Facebook page on the 25th showing her holding the newborn.

But … the photo Mama Grizzly Bore™ put up on Facebook was posted from New Orleans, so how is the MGB™ holding her brand new granddaughter in New Orleans the day after the child was born in Alaska? Well, MGB™ could have sent the photo to someone else, someone in New Orleans, and they posted it, or she was in New Orleans that day with the baby. Now, if she was there, exactly how did she have a picture of her and her new, one day old granddaughter?

Then, Alleged Baby Daddy, Dakota Meyer, posted this picture to his Twitter account.

Cute, no? But someone noticed something a little odd … something written on the tape holding Blister’s IV in place on her hand.

Right Wing Crooks did some photo enhancing to sharpen the image, then traced over the leftover dark spots to indicate what appeared to be written on the tape. They enhanced the photo and came up with this:

The first number definitely does not look like a 12 at all in either picture. The second looks like a 4, not a 20-anything. The 15 is clear. So, if this picture, of Blister holding her daughter is correct, Blister Palin gave birth on 11/4/2015 or perhaps earlier, and not on 12/24/2015 as she claims.

So, to start off, let’s go back to the miraculous conception … and misconception:

In March 2015, MGB™ announced the engagement of Blister to former Marine and Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer.  It was strange because the Palins, mother and daughter especially, are two of the biggest media whores online, posting pictures constantly of their lives and such, but after the engagement announcement, there was nothing; no Blister shopping for rings; no Blister trying on wedding gowns; no Blister doing that pre-wedding stuff anywhere, anyhow, ever.

Then, in May, just weeks before the wedding, Blister and Mama Grizzly Bore™ announced the wedding was called off and had people wondered why; two reasons emerged:

Dakota Meyer had been married before — which was ALLEGEDLY news to the Palins and they were devastated by the lie and called the whole thing off.

Blister announced she was pregnant and refused to name the father; she refused to name Dakota Meyer as the Daddy and he thought some hanky-panky was going on with Abstinence Mom and so the wedding was off.

So, let’s travel back, again, this time to around Valentine’s Day, when Blister posted two interesting photos to her Instagram page, both taken in Las Vegas ….

In one photo Blister is posing with her family and her best friend, Marina Lupas, an Anchorage-based “adult performer” in a Las Vegas Italian restaurant. In the second photo, a selfie, we see Blister and Marina in the ladies’ room of a Vegas restaurant or casino or something. In the caption accompanying that photo, Bristol says: 

“Reminder of the good old days.  The night before I ruined my life forever.  Worst Valentine’s Day ever.”

Huh? What? The theory at this point is that Blister actually conceived one night in Vegas after a night of partying and a hook-up with some random whomever and suddenly, Abstinence Mom found herself knocked up … AGAIN!

Now, if Blister was knocked up on February 14th, her baby would be due between the 9th and 21st of November.  When her engagement was announced in March — ALLEGEDLY to make the baby “legitimate” and, even better, the child of an American Hero … imagine how MGB™ would ride that for publicity — Blister was already one month pregnant by some random dude she found at a slot machine. 

And MGB™ knew if the public learned that Blister was knocked up as the result of a partying one-night stand in Vegas, her hopes of stardom and relevance, and riding the coattails of an American hero, would come to naught and so the plot was hatched; Bristol would document her pregnancy, complete with photos every month but she would post these photos to Instagram two months AFTER they were taken.  And so, in late November, when Blister posted a photo claiming her baby was due in 3 weeks — Christmas Eve — the baby had already been born.

So let’s go back to that photo MGB™ posted on Facebook of herself and Todd holding newborn Sailor one day after she was “born” — 24 December — in a photo stamped “New Orleans!”  The conspiracy is that the photo of MGB™, Todd, and Sailor was taken shortly after the baby was born on November 4th, and they held off posting it until the day after Blister claimed the baby was born when they were actually in New Orleans. 

And they did all this to make it appear the baby was Dakota Meyer’s child. If the baby were born in December, that would place conception AFTER the Blister-Dakota engagement was announced, thereby making it appear that either Blister and Dakota bumped uglies before the wedding night that never happened, or that the baby was conceived AFTER the marriage in May and just arrived a wee bit early.

And that’s the theory. I am not here to say it’s true, I’m not here to say it’s false; I am just here to deliver a rather interesting story.

Still, I could see the Palins doing this because, seriously, do they ever tell the truth about anything?

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Texas Strips Planned Parenthood Of HIV Prevention Funding Because ... Abortion

Leave it to Texas … again.

The state has dealt yet another blow to Planned Parenthood this week by stopping more than half a million dollars in federal funding that the organization uses for HIV prevention and screening in the Greater Houston area.

Prevention of HIV; screening for HIV. No more.

That $600,000 that Planned Parenthood gets every year comes from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but because it is administered by state health officials, they can choose to end it.

So, in the Houston area, no more HIV testing, no more counseling, no more condom distribution and no more referral services to connect anyone who has the virus with specialized care. No explanation given.

And this latest attack on Planned Parenthood in Texas comes on the heels of the state's decision to kick Planned Parenthood out of the Medicaid program. In October, state health officials announced they intend to block the $3.1 million in Medicaid reimbursements that PP receives every year for the thousands and thousands of patients who use their clinics for cancer screenings, HIV tests, contraceptives and other preventative health services.

So, again, no HIV tests, no cancer screenings, no contraceptives, no preventative healthcare in Texas from Planned Parenthood because … abortion. It’s that simple.

State health department Inspector General Stuart Bowen says a recent string of videos shot by undercover anti-abortion activists is undisputed evidence that Planned Parenthood is “no longer capable of performing medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal, and ethical manner.”

And, since this is Texas … where the state Legislature is rabidly anti-choice, and where they punish anything  even remotely tied to pro-choice efforts … those same state health officials have banned organizations from receiving state funds to promote abstinence to teenagers if those groups operate within 1,000 feet of an abortion provider, like Planned Parenthood, or have a name that sounds at all similar to any abortion provider, affiliate or “any entity that engages in pro-abortion advocacy.”

So, abstinence education is out, too. And so is HIV education, prevention, testing and counseling. And all because three-percent of Planned Parenthood’s services allow a woman the right to choose what she wants to do with her body. 

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The Daily Hypocrite: The Abstinence Spokeswoman Is Pregnant ... And Unwed ... Again!

I kinda wish that Blister Palin had taken some of the $262,000 she was paid by the Candies Foundation to be their Abstinence Ambassador and purchased a dictionary so she could look up the word “abstinence.”

Yes, it’s true y’all, America’s most infamous unwed mother, and holy rolling self entitled, media whoring, and apparently man whoring, lying religious hypocrite is pregnant again … a month after she called off her wedding to Dakota Meyer, the guy who forgot to tell her he’d been married before.

And, of course Blister, who tried to make herself famous by selling herself, and her first child, to each and every reality show out there, has asked us to give her some privacy. Wrong! You put yourself out there, hon, and you held yourself up to be the Christian role model, a paragon of virtue, for all young girls, and yet you can’t even keep your legs closed.

“I know this has been, and will be, a huge disappointment to my family, to my close friends, and to many of you. But please respect Tripp’s and my privacy during this time. I do not want any lectures and I do not want any sympathy.” — Blister Palin

Oh, honey, you don’t get sympathy the second time you find yourself unwed and pregnant, especially at your age. I mean, surely you knew that by letting your boyfriend — or whomever it was that impregnated you, because you aren’t saying — insert his 'Tab A' into your 'Slot B' might result in pregnancy, right? I mean, you learned that lesson … right? 

Perhaps, perhaps, when you got knocked up the first time in your teens we might have felt some sympathy for you, but then you went and said you got knocked up because you were drunk. Underage drinking leads to unwed motherhood, should ‘a been your tagline for your Candies gig, except you never learned the lesson.

And let’s talk hypocrisy, like a couple of weeks ago when you went after Miley Cyrus for her thoughts on Christianity — something she’s allowed to do in this country — and you held up your Christian faith as the greatest thing ever, even though you knew at that time that you were pregnant by the man you broke up with a few weeks before the wedding.

The hypocrite child doesn’t fall far from the hypocrite mother.

And, to be clear, she is a lying hypocrite, because she was paid to be on The Oprah Show a few years back and she swore to Oprah—which, to some, is almost like swearing to God—that she would never do the nasty again. See, Blister had been paid to do an interview with In Touch magazine and told them that she was “not going to have sex until I’m married. I can guarantee it.”

Oprah then wondered if it was a realistic goal.

“It’s a realistic goal for myself.” — Blister Palin

Hmmm, not so much. Then there was the ad she made — for which she was also paid, remember — with MTV man-whore Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino in which she told girls to abstain from sex until marriage:

“I know you’re all about that abstinence thing, but come on, B-Palin, are you serious? You’re not gonna hook up before you’re married? For real?” — The Situation

“For real.” — Blister

So, yeah, here’s the girl who made history being the knocked-up-unwed-teenage-daughter of a Vice Presidential candidate, who then went on to make hundreds of thousands of dollars telling young girls that abstinence is the only way, swearing to God and Oprah that she would never ever have pre-marital sex gain, and now she’s pregnant, and unmarried, and possibly trying to shop around that story to any network that wants to air hypocrites and liars preaching the gospel.

I imagine she’s on the phone with TLC now.

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Random Musings

So, anti-abortion activist Randall Terry is claiming that he has been receiving death threats from someone in a Texas town not far from the Geller shootings:

"Coincidence? God knows."

And so now, because it’s the new ‘It’ thing to do, Terry has started a GoFundMe to raise $200,000 to protect himself and his family from these Muslims.

Seriously? A money beg?

Sidenote: I was flipped off the other day by a hillbilly in a pickup, so I’ve started my own GoFundMe page to help raise some money for therapy to get over it; and by ‘therapy,’ I mean tequila so I only need about thirty bucks … Help me!

This is rich …

There’s an outbreak of Chlamydia at a high school in the Crane Independent School District in Texas that has forced administrators to send a warning notes home to parents. As of now, there are twenty reported cases of the STD, meaning that 1 in 15 students at the school is infected.

Talk about an STD Petri dish, but I digress …

What’s really rich about this story is that the high school offers a three-day sexual education course once a year that emphasizes abstinence but that Crane ISD "does not offer a curriculum in human sexuality.

So they don’t tell kids how to protect themselves should they have sex, they just tell them not to have sex, and then keep their STD doctors on speed dial when the Chlamydia Outbreak occurs.

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Well, this week, after returning from Miami, we took Carlos’ car in to have that pesky engine light checked and it turned out that it was a bad gas cap that affected the sensors in the gas tank and flicked on the light. But then my car needed some servicing, too, after having 1500 miles put on her in a week, and so she went in for some new rotors and pads — whatever that means — and that was another added expense.

Then there was MaxGoldberg.

One night, while getting ready to go to sleep, Max came onto the bed and sat by my head. He kept twisted his head and licking the inside of his mouth — if you’ve ever seen Grimm and seen a hexenbiest change, you know how Max looked.

Well, I thought nothing about it; food caught in his teeth maybe, but the next morning, after his breakfast, he was still doing it, and then drooling a lot, and then drooling blood. Off the vet — funny side note: MaxGoldberg in the cat carrier, howling so loudly that he sounded like a police siren — and it was determined that one of Max’s fangs had bent and every time he closed his mouth it was gutting his tongue and gums; it was also determined that the other fang was loose and might do the same damage.

Now, MaxGoldberg is fang-less; healing nicely, but fang-less.

Other Sidenote: how lucky am I to have Carlos because the vet called with the diagnosis and the cost of tooth extraction and sedation and blahblahblah and quoted a price well over $700! Carlos shrieked, and said he wouldn’t pay that and in an instant the price suddenly dropped to a hair over $400.

I would have never thought to bargain; I would have forked over my credit card and then maybe thought about not eating for a month to pay that bill.

Four-hundred is still a lot of money, but Max is one of our babies and well worth it.

So, I love me some BBC America, and this week I tuned into Ripper Street, sort of a police procedural that takes place in Whitechapel, in London, around the time of Jack Attacks.

Now, the show isn’t about The Ripper, just about that area, but it does star a couple of hotties: Matthew Macfadyen as Detective Inspector Edmund Reid, and Adam Rothenberg as Captain Homer Jackson, a flamboyantly dressing American doctor.

So far one episode in, I’m liking the show and, as always, the Man Candy.

Another MaxGoldberg Sidenote:

I was still at work when Carlos picked Max up that night, but I called home to see how he was doing. No answer. I figured they weren’t home yet, so I waited and called another time …

Well, actually, I called nine times in forty-five minutes.

Carlos wondered if I would call the house that mush if it was him coming home from the hospital.

I wondered about that, too …

I’m just gonna say it: People are stupid.

I mean, how else do you explain that when the story broke that an aide to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was pleading guilty in Bridge Gate that all hell would break loose because of the headline:

“Christie Ally Expected To Plead Guilty”

Twitter exploded with the news that Kirstie Alley was going to jail.

Seriously; people are dumb.

Well, I kinda already knew this …

Irish men have just been voted the Sexiest Men In The World according to MissTravel.com, a US-based travel and dating website.

In second place, but trailing by over 1,000 votes were Australians, followed by Pakistani men, American men and English men.

I could ‘a told y’all that … case in point:

[Colin Farrell, Hugh Jackman]

First we had Marco Rubio announcing his run at the White House with an ode to Game of Thrones and now Scott Walker is channeling a little Star Wars — dubbing himself Scottwalker — as he readies for his ill-fated campaign.

Seriously? Grown-assed men, running for the highest office in the land, channeling TV shows as their jump-off point?

Grow the eff up already.

Carlos and I are being sued. Oy! And, well, it seriously looks like we’re going to lose because the facts in the case are irrefutable: we’re homosexuals.

See, an Omaha woman, sixty-six-year-old Sylvia Driskell, who says she is an ambassador for God and the Baby Jeebus, is suing all homosexuals and is asking a federal judge to decide whether homosexuality is a sin.

Driskell contends “that homosexuality is a sin and that they [The Homosexuals] know it is a sin” because “why else would they have been hiding in the closet(?)”

Oh lordy, someone needs to lay hands on this woman and it looks like it is that federal judge, John Gerrad, because he has refused to allow Sylvia to be a legal spokestool for God and his son, Jesus Christ.

Whoosh! Time to put that cash back in the bank accounts!

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Minute Rant: Blister Palin

Okay … maybe  more than  a minute rant …

I used to think it was a toss-up as to which woman was the worst mother ever; I mean, was it That Woman, who sold her own daughter’s private porn tape. Or is it Mama Grizzly Bore™, that self-righteous, illiterate prig who could have, I shudder, been a heartbeat away from being President of the United States?

Well, for today, I’m saying it’s the MGB™ because of the way her eldest daughter, Blister, er, Bristol, er, I was right the first time, turned out.

You remember Blister, who got knocked up by Levi Johnston while her mother — before she quit being governor of Alaska because it was too hard — was all about the abstinence? Blister, who later on admitted that she was a drunken high school girl when she banged Levi.

That Blister; the Blister who is now engaged to Medal of Honor soldier, Dakota Meyer. The Blister who is now living with Meyer without benefit of marriage … which is not really a big deal except …

The Blister who cashed a huge paycheck from the Candie’s Foundation for being their, ahem, cough, choke, “Ambassador for Abstinence”.

Yes, the Abstinence Queen, who cashed a paycheck for telling young girls to abstain from having sex until they were married — advice she never took form her own mother — is living in sin … again … because this isn’t the first time Blister has done the shacking up with a boyfriend, fiancé or f**k-buddy.

Sidenote: The Candie’s Foundation] was able to find a paltry $35,000 to grant to charities from the $1,242,476 it received in public donations for their campaign, while they also managed to pay Blister Palin $262,500 to promote an abstinence only campaign.

A quarter of a million dollars for a girl who got knocked up in high school and has lived with more than a handful of her suitors — like the guy named Gino with whom she was in what she called a ‘trial marriage’ which I think means all sex, all the time — in what I would guess is a strictly non-abstinence only household.

In addition, while telling young girls to stay away from sex, while she was obviously having sex with the aforementioned Gino, and collecting $262,000 from Candies, Blister sued Baby Daddy Levi for $1750 per month in child support before getting enegaged to him again and before she broke up with him  again right after she got a job on Dancing with the Stars for a $350,000 paycheck.

Then again, last year when, I assume, the DWTS money was all gone, Blister once again sued Levi for child support claiming she had zero income, even though she'd said in an interview with ABC that she worked at a dermatologist’s office.

See what I mean; the worst mother in the world isn’t the mother who found her daughter’s homemade sex tape and took it to an adult video producer and sold it to finance a career for herself and her children.

The worst mother in the world is the one who talked about abstinence only, and raised her daughter abstinence only, until her daughter got knocked up and because an Ambassador for Abstinence while living with at least two, maybe more, boyfriends. The mother who raised the daughter to collect money while lying ... and lying flat on her back; to sue for child support, saying she makes no money, and then drop the suit when she gets a TV gig.

Congratulations Mama Grizzly Bore™. You will never be President — not even of the Wasilla PTA — but you’re possibly the Worst Mother in the World … until Blister’s children grow up and then we’ll revisit the title.

source: Wonkette