They were sold a plan that regulators should never have allowed without safeguards (i.e. caps on the upper end).
I believe Governments have a duty to protect consumers from predatory financial products.
I don't think "we" should pay for those people's gullibility. I think the utilities and their shareholders should take the hit.
Oh, and if someone gets into a car accident and doesn't have (mandatory) liability coverage "we" already pay for that. It's called UM (Un/Underinsured) coverage. Check your bill.
Wasn't it Indiana? Because women were calling Gov. Mike Pence to let him know that their periods had just started, or just ended, or were going just fine ....
They don't just want to stop abortions: they want to completely remove all access to birth control, too. That's their ultimate end goal.
Most Americans use birth control, and a much smaller percentage get abortions today because of that. If these zealots get their way, only rich people will get abortions, and their number of abortions will skyrocket. Even worse, so will the numbers of women dying from unsafe back alley abortions.
These bhatsit zealots actually know this, and bible-splain it as: "Wages of sin, blah,blah, blah."
Separation of Church and State, or we've lost the plot.
Yeah sorry, the "two sides can work it out" sounds a bit too libertarian to me. One side has a huge information advantage. I believe government has a role on the consumer's side.
As far as the "winterization" - they didn't because nobody on the regulatory side made them. That's because the utilities have "captured" the regulators. Ultimately the solution isn't the "market" but the ballot box, and I hope Texans send a message
it is. we adopted our son 10 years ago and it cost about 400 times that much and we had to send 5 years of tax returns, a notarized physical, background checks from the FBI and DHS, a letter explaining a shoplifiting charge from 22 years earlier, our marriage certificate to prove we had been married at least 5 years and an essay from my wife and I saying why we wanted to be parents. then we had a social worker come inspect our house twice and interrogate us separately. we also had to take 30 hours of parenting classes. looking back on it, it was worth it a million times over.
If some tech-savvy wonker wants to set up a system whereby post menopausal ladies in Maryland can pretend to be fecund Iowans contemplating abortions on the internet I'll be happy to trip their internet dragnet at least monthly and let them attempt to counsel the hell out of me.
hey if you really don't want women to abort babies who have down's syndrome, why don't all of these xtian states pass a law that any baby born with down's gets free health care for life. oh wait is that putting your money where your mouth is? thought so
yes, EXACTLY because they use pseudoscience to argue about medicine.
In Canada, reproductive health laws are governed by our Medical Procedures Laws, which is run by doctors and researchers. Much of it spends time on best practices for public health. They debate new treatments that are still considered experimental, testing medical appliance, or permitting new drugs, but they rely on data using science-based research.
If a 'well-meaning' group wants to stop abortions, they have to present themselves to this regulatory body, and prove that this widely available procedure is harmful to women, and harmful to the public.
Critically, they must back up their argument using recognized research using sound science. No outlier studies need apply. No weepy confessionals like we saw with that Down Syndrome circus.
Wait, wait, wait. Are you trying to tell me that all these people who loudly and violently proclaim that they are "Pro Life" might in fact be ginormous hypocrites??!!!!
Talk about having no right to privacy! Now they want to use internet tracking to find you, and then set telemarketers loose on you? While having to register a gun is too intrusive because "database" or whatever they're moaning about now?
Introduce a similar bill but with searches for guns and telemarketers calling to talk people out of buying a gun using (actually valid) statistics showing that owning guns increases, not decreases, the risk of someone in the household dying a violent death.
Of course they have the right to a gun. We're not challenging that right. We're just giving people information to empower them to make the best choice because we're willing to acknowledge the harms caused by guns.
I used to have a friend back in the early 90s who was part of a large Catholic family. Her youngest sister had Down Syndrome. The sister was born in the mid 60s and had been institutionalized as a child. This friend of mine loudly and proudly voted for Republicans consistently and once had to audacity to claim that it was our Gov Ann Richards's fault that there were budget cuts for funding facilities like the one her sister had been in her entire life.
Baja Minnesota without the Norwegian wisdom.
They were sold a plan that regulators should never have allowed without safeguards (i.e. caps on the upper end).
I believe Governments have a duty to protect consumers from predatory financial products.
I don't think "we" should pay for those people's gullibility. I think the utilities and their shareholders should take the hit.
Oh, and if someone gets into a car accident and doesn't have (mandatory) liability coverage "we" already pay for that. It's called UM (Un/Underinsured) coverage. Check your bill.
Wasn't it Indiana? Because women were calling Gov. Mike Pence to let him know that their periods had just started, or just ended, or were going just fine ....
They don't just want to stop abortions: they want to completely remove all access to birth control, too. That's their ultimate end goal.
Most Americans use birth control, and a much smaller percentage get abortions today because of that. If these zealots get their way, only rich people will get abortions, and their number of abortions will skyrocket. Even worse, so will the numbers of women dying from unsafe back alley abortions.
These bhatsit zealots actually know this, and bible-splain it as: "Wages of sin, blah,blah, blah."
Separation of Church and State, or we've lost the plot.
Yeah sorry, the "two sides can work it out" sounds a bit too libertarian to me. One side has a huge information advantage. I believe government has a role on the consumer's side.
As far as the "winterization" - they didn't because nobody on the regulatory side made them. That's because the utilities have "captured" the regulators. Ultimately the solution isn't the "market" but the ballot box, and I hope Texans send a message
it is. we adopted our son 10 years ago and it cost about 400 times that much and we had to send 5 years of tax returns, a notarized physical, background checks from the FBI and DHS, a letter explaining a shoplifiting charge from 22 years earlier, our marriage certificate to prove we had been married at least 5 years and an essay from my wife and I saying why we wanted to be parents. then we had a social worker come inspect our house twice and interrogate us separately. we also had to take 30 hours of parenting classes. looking back on it, it was worth it a million times over.
If some tech-savvy wonker wants to set up a system whereby post menopausal ladies in Maryland can pretend to be fecund Iowans contemplating abortions on the internet I'll be happy to trip their internet dragnet at least monthly and let them attempt to counsel the hell out of me.
hey if you really don't want women to abort babies who have down's syndrome, why don't all of these xtian states pass a law that any baby born with down's gets free health care for life. oh wait is that putting your money where your mouth is? thought so
yes, EXACTLY because they use pseudoscience to argue about medicine.
In Canada, reproductive health laws are governed by our Medical Procedures Laws, which is run by doctors and researchers. Much of it spends time on best practices for public health. They debate new treatments that are still considered experimental, testing medical appliance, or permitting new drugs, but they rely on data using science-based research.
If a 'well-meaning' group wants to stop abortions, they have to present themselves to this regulatory body, and prove that this widely available procedure is harmful to women, and harmful to the public.
Critically, they must back up their argument using recognized research using sound science. No outlier studies need apply. No weepy confessionals like we saw with that Down Syndrome circus.
They don't have a snowflakes chance in Cancun.
Pro-suffer the little children.
(or other "survivors" of the "deceased unborn")Who is "survivors"? Grandma? Uncle Steve? The fetus's imaginary children? Imaginary grandchildren?
Wait, wait, wait. Are you trying to tell me that all these people who loudly and violently proclaim that they are "Pro Life" might in fact be ginormous hypocrites??!!!!
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Talk about having no right to privacy! Now they want to use internet tracking to find you, and then set telemarketers loose on you? While having to register a gun is too intrusive because "database" or whatever they're moaning about now?
Introduce a similar bill but with searches for guns and telemarketers calling to talk people out of buying a gun using (actually valid) statistics showing that owning guns increases, not decreases, the risk of someone in the household dying a violent death.
Of course they have the right to a gun. We're not challenging that right. We're just giving people information to empower them to make the best choice because we're willing to acknowledge the harms caused by guns.
"South Carolina, South Dakota, and WHOO Iowa."
I didn't even know there was a "South" Iowa....
W and Y libel! (Seriously, Welsh has two more vowels than English. It just uses a different alphabet.)
Besides, Irish and Scots Gaelic are hoarding all the Os and Us, and Dutch bogarted all the As.
I used to have a friend back in the early 90s who was part of a large Catholic family. Her youngest sister had Down Syndrome. The sister was born in the mid 60s and had been institutionalized as a child. This friend of mine loudly and proudly voted for Republicans consistently and once had to audacity to claim that it was our Gov Ann Richards's fault that there were budget cuts for funding facilities like the one her sister had been in her entire life.
We're no longer friends.