MFM: Story? What story? This is not as important as homo athletes or the Kardashians

I am coming out as a lesbian trapped in a man's body

You like softball?

Posted by: Vic at May 01, 2013 09:21 AM (53z96)

The WH was stupid.  They left the door wide open for the Saudi's to come back and show all sorts of proof they met and told them about Tamerlan.

In other news, Jason Collins is still ghey.

Some of the Newtown families pushing for legislation totally unrelated to the crime that impacted their lives, has successfully erased any empathy I once had for them.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 01, 2013 09:25 AM (DrWcr)

Or at least until he gets a contract

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 01, 2013 09:28 AM (kdS6q)

IOW he is a Democrat with an R after his name.  Isn't that the case for all MA Republican politicians?

In completely unrelated news, I am suddenly considering making a lateral move into the class action medical tort field. I have a sneaking suspicion this is going to turn out to be a high growth practice area.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Please? at May 01, 2013 09:26 AM (VtjlW)

^^^This.

So I'm down on one knee, rubbing glitter all over this seriously hot girl's legs and one of the other dancers walks back in and freezes. The best friend doesn't bat an eye, "Don't worry, his wife knows. We're good."

You go to hell and you die.

Posted by: Caustic at May 01, 2013 09:31 AM (/b8+5)

Or maybe we need to turn the poachers on to delta smelt, or whatever those stupid little fish are called.

Russian intelligence: You might want to keep an eye on Tamerlan Tsarnaev, he's not exactly friendly to western ideals.

Saudi Intelligence: This Tamerlan Tsarnaev is kind of radical, even for us.

Eric Holder and DOJ: Sounds kind of vague, could you be more specific?

>>>Some of the Newtown families pushing for legislation totally unrelated to the crime that impacted their lives, has successfully erased any empathy I once had for them.

 Look, I feel bad for them. I honestly do. I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like to lose a family member under those circumstances.

However, it is getting to the point where they're using that dead family member's memory as a cheap political prop. 

The link I put up is of one of them giving a hard time to Kelly Ayotte because of her vote on the gun bill. That's fine, you can go to your representatives and senators and complain. It's a Democratic Republic. You should be complaining or talking to the people you represent you.

But am I supposed to believe it wasn't staged? A decent contingent of media members just happened to be there?

Also, I don't think the woman is from New Hampshire, so Ayotte isn't even her senator.  Furthermore, why Ayotte and not a Republican in a red state? Well we all know the answer to that.

It bothers me that this stuff is staged and planned. That these people are turning themselves and the memories of their loved one into cheap props.  All the while not pushing for anything concrete. They simply want a gun control bill passed. They don't seem to care what is in it or if it will in face prevent another mass shooting.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Please? at May 01, 2013 09:26 AM (VtjlW)

I know a research ethics expert who can serve as a consultant!

Actually quick note about this.  You're partially right.  Thanks to the animal rights morons, animal testing is fading fast.  To get approval for early stage human trials the FDA requires only 2 animal tests in different species.  There are varying arguments over how much the FDA nitpicks your various choice of species (I've always felt not much.) Then there are early stage Phase I's (about 50 people) then Phase IIs (a few hundered people) and finally phase III (upper hundreds, to a few thousands.)

But beyond that in order to get labeling for use in children (and AFAIK 15 year olds should count as children) you'd need to do at least 1 phase 3 study specifically in children. (As well as present data from your 2 phase 3 adults and post-marketing studies.)

Here's the thing.  I can present you with a TON of articles showing that pharmaceutical companies don't like to do this pediatric studies.  They're expensive, possible legal problems, and often the market isn't big enough (there are exceptions, like allergy meds.)  In fact, it's so bad that the government has added patent extensions as carrots to get them to do these studies. (In part because doctors were using them off label anyway, sometimes to ill effect).

And yet I'm supposed to believe that the makers of Plan B just ran out and did them on their own? Yeah....I'm thinking no.  But this isn't off label usage (by definition).  So if my guess is right (spoiler: it usually is) the FDA is violating it's own regulations on this one.  (Of course you'd need to FOIA the FDA for the phase III data on Plan B.)

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 01, 2013 09:33 AM (mV8sg)

Eric probably asked if he was a member of the Tea Party and when they said no, he figured Timur the Lame was safe

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Please? at May 01, 2013 09:35 AM (VtjlW)

I got it, I just thought I'd add some knowledge.

The worst part is that post marketing data studies.  Unless the FDA specifically put them in place, there's usually no formal "Phase IV" studies (the sort of de facto name for post marketing release.) (There are annual reporting requirements, but the Clinton defesnse of "I didn't know" seems acceptable there.)

There's the Adverse Events Registry, but that's not put together by the drug company it's a hodgepodge set of reports that aren't even rated by causal link. (So if I start taking a drug, and vomiting my doctor may report it to the registry even if it's possibility of being caused the drug is "0" because we know I ate some bad fish the night before and my entire family is sick.)

Now pharma companies have enlightened self interest to go through the database to head off any problems.  But I just got done reading the FDA guidance on "Pharmacovigilance" yesterday for a project I'm doing to finish out my job.  And...well....if I'm reading it correctly they concede that non formal post-marketing is..problematic.

Things stupid    teenage    girls   (BIRM)     will do with Plan B:

1) Take it before    AND after    sex, to "make sure" they don't get pregnant

2)    Take it a few days after they've had sex, because they "forgot" and what's the difference?

3) Take it as regular birth control

4)    Buy it for and share      it with their friends,      ignoring potential     complications that    could    result if a friend    suffers from a health condition that may be exacerbated or triggered by the Plan B hormones

5)    Sell it to younger girls who are not old enough to buy it over the counter but are still sexually active.   Black market morning after pills FTW!

6) Grind it up and put it in the food of girls or teachers they don't like,   especially if they're pregnant.   I've said before and I'll say it again:    there is no more vicious, uncaring, cruel and MEAN    force on earth than a pack of teenage girls.

7) Take it for several days or weeks after a sexual encounter, again to "make sure."

  Drop    some in the pill bowl at a "Pharm Party"    for anyone to scarf down with a     handful of other drugs and a can of beer.

Those are all just off the top of my head,   and    say nothing about    how     early and prolonged use of Plan B can have devastating consequences for a woman's overall health, let alone reproductive health,   and even less to say about how OTHERS will misuse this new OTC loophole to    help in their    abuse young girls and women.  

How exactly does a 15 year old show proof of age, btw?      Someone care to enlighten me?   I didn't even get my driver's license till I was 17, and the only picture ID I had was my high school ID card that I got my freshman year (age 13) and had every year after that.  There was no age info on that card -- just my picture, my name, and the name of my high school.   It was     heavy laminated paper.  I could have made    one myself in my bedroom with some card stock and a laminating kit.   And we don't think kids will use their fake IDs to buy beer AND Plan B pills?

This is a very, very stupid idea.  

Posted by: Ben at May 01, 2013 09:33 AM (C2Y4l)

That's the problem, and that despite them losing family members, I take great personal offense at them trying to infringe upon my rights, like I'm somehow partially responsible for their loss.

And it's all for nothing, it's just theater.  That's why my empathy has dried up.  If they're engaging in political theater at the behest of the Democrats, I'm not going to be to worried about how they feel about their dead loved ones.  They need to start worrying about how they feel about their dead loved ones, because form the outside, it's not looking like too much.

Posted by: DangerGirl at May 01, 2013 09:43 AM (vzfrq) ]

*sends positive vibes and virtual brownies to DangerGirl*

*in Bela Karoli voice*  You can doooo it!

Sandy Fluke Me: Somebody better pony up to pay for this because I go through these like M and Ms

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at May 01, 2013 09:43 AM (wR+pz)

This:

"I am just wondering why the burden of my mother being gunned down in the halls of her elementary school isn't more important than that."

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Is completely pathetic. I have no sympathy for this woman now. And is speaks volumes about the current state of our culture when she can't understand that suggesting "background checks at gun shows" as some sort of response to the Sandy Hook massacre is freakin retarded.

I would have told her that what she's saying is pathetic. But I'm a tea party wingnutz kook.

When you say "gym", do you mean the "locker room"?

I think he means "steam room".

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 01, 2013 09:41 AM (da5Wo)

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Those are all parts of the gym.  What difference does it make?

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 01, 2013 09:38 AM (2LZ0t)

FTFY

"The data seems to be suggesting healthcare is having an impact," Zandi said.

Economics. How do they work?

@AtC.

Briefly searching the Clinicaltrials.gov data base pulls up a big fat 0 for "Plan B" "Studies with results" and "Ages 0-17."

http://goo.gl/6Bjp4

Strangely it looks like someone is trying to do a study using Mirena IUD as a form of emergency contraception: http://goo.gl/1NL2r (Note the age group, specifically 18-45.)

I'd also note this is really weird because it just doesn't make sense. I mean it'd only make sense in some bizzaro world where a law was passed mandating the coverage of every form of contraception regardless of cost.  The a pharmaceutical company would have a huge incentive to push their expensive product into every corner of the market to maximize profits. (Ignore WashU as sponsor for that BTW, they're probably fronting for Mirena makers.)

So yeah....that.  (:sigh: if only I could get within earshot of a freaking congressman)

alexthechick young enough to use Plan B?

Not s/p The Big Change?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2013 09:45 AM (/WLC3)

They never did say "where" it was but it looked obvious to me that it was in a town.  Maybe not a large city but still within the city limits.

I posted this previously but I thought Cruz would not meet the criteria to run for President since he was born in Canada to a Cuban immigrant father even though his mother was from Delaware?

Anyway, Ayotte was put into a hard place but her response , after stating her empathy, should have pointed out that Connecticut has some of the strictest gun control laws in the Country and that did not prevent the Newton  shooting.   The bill I voted on did nothing to prevent further shootings and was only a further infringement on the 2nd amendment.   I understand your position but you must work to change the 2nd amendment and not try to usurp it if you want change.  

Regarding the Gonorrhea superbug.  In the past diseases helped to keep societies functional.  TB, Syphillis, infection rates were higher in those who acted outside societal norms.  Medical advancements have contributed to a liberalizing (eroding) of societal structure. 

Issues like the G. superbug, resistant staph and TB makes me wonder how society will change when the chickens really come home to roost.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 01, 2013 09:47 AM (3LaGb

I'd have been eviscerated in the press because I'd have said something along the lines of:   "I    understand    the pain you feel over the loss of your mother, and I hope that you will find    peace someday.       But     throughout history it has been    proven,    time and again,    that     personal     feelings    and    emotional events    cannot and must not     drive   legislation.      This is no different.    Only the names have changed."

And then I'd be called everything from a pig to a dog   (or, since I'm a chick,   everything from a c*nt to a whore to a whore's c*nt)       and be accused of     metaphorically     spitting in this woman's face.

Posted by: polynikes at May 01, 2013 09:52 AM (m2CN7)

What changes could she have suggested to the 2nd to prevent that school shooting? 

I guess we don have a "Don't steal guns and murder people" clause in there, so maybe that'll solve the problem. 

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at May 01, 2013 09:54 AM (SzAZ7)

Spray paint????  When did that ban start?

A new study conducted by researchers in Australia shows that women prefer men with heavy stubble over clean-shaven guys

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I hate the Dutch!

Posted by: Heralder at May 01, 2013 09:55 AM (+xmn4)

The changes they want to the 2nd amendment is to eliminate it.  That would take a 28th amendment.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit

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Yep.

I find it comical the woman showed her "courage" by running out and not taking the Senator's offer to speak 1:1

Posted by: flyonthewall at May 01, 2013 09:54 AM (aZ7lL)

Oh right, I was going to comment on that prior to AtC getting me all bothered about FDA regulations, how we're killing people, and why pointing this out probably lead to me being fired.

Anyway.

I read the Gonorrhea article and in part it sounds like people trying to gin up support for further funding of their pet project.

Let's state up front: we have a huge antibiotic problem coming.  For about 150000 reasons (overuse, lack of development, etc. etc. etc.)

Having said that.  This "superbug" has killed precisely 0 people.  It seems to have (based on the article) a very short incubation time, meaning that it'll be harder for people to spread it.

So in many ways it's exactly not like AIDS (which actually became transmittable well before any signs of infection, which is part of what contributed to it's rapid spread.)

Now I'm not saying this is a non-issue, but I am saying that it may amount to the rough equivalent of SARS (anyone remember SARS? Yeah, that's kinda my point.)

Although it could spread like wild fire, we'll just have to see! (it may be worth pointing out that in direct competition antibiotic resistant bacteria usually lose to their wild type counterparts because being AR requires extra expenditures of energy not useful in an antibiotic free environment, so this may simply drop off the map as people get infected with a shit ton of different diseases.  Which is ironic really.)

Posted by: Tobacco Road at May 01, 2013 09:55 AM (4Mv1T)

Nope, same here.  You're wife always complains to me about it too.

Seriously though, mine does too, and every girlfriend I've had does as well.  Maybe they just mean looks, not practice.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at May 01, 2013 10:01 AM (SzAZ7)

I also had to show ID once to buy a can of compressed air.

Yes, compressed air, for cleaning out my computer fans.

By the way the term for the craziness described here is "sexual exceptionalism" the idea that for some reason Sex provides exceptions for every other law (like minor consenting laws.)

Osama bin Laden was killed just after midnight Pock-ee-stahn time on May 2.  Do we wait til May 2 to mark the occasion or should it be today, Washington time, when Obama was pulled off the golf course to fire the shot?

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at May 01, 2013 10:12 AM (wR+pz)

I have never had to show ID to buy it here????

It might have been longer ago than that. I thought
it was very strange, but the guy told me after OKC bombing the stuff
required ID.

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at May 01, 2013 10:12 AM (wR+pz)

It's also used in a lot of meth operations. 

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 01, 2013 10:10 AM (jKWYf)

I know, what a shame.  Just one Chris Christie could feed a village for years.

BTW, what the hell was that daughter doing in NH?   Stay the fuck in CT, bitch.      I wish I'd known she was going to be there to confront Ayotte, because I'd have been there to    confront HER.     "Just because your g-ddamn state disarmed your mother and left her helpless    to defend herself or any of the other victims doesn't mean that you have the right to put me and MY loved ones in the same position.   Get the hell out of here and go home, little bitch."

I got a little excited when I read that poachers killed the last RINO's, but alas it was rhinos.

Posted by: Heralder at May 01, 2013 10:15 AM (+xmn4)

There isn't enough garlic in the world.

Posted by: Miss Marple at May 01, 2013 10:17 AM (GoIUi)

When our (female) ambassador in Egypt is killed tomorrow*,   there will be no correlation to the anniversary of Bin Laden's death   according to the White House.

*Naturally I don't know this;   I'm just spitballing.     It's not like our gubmint gives a shit about her anyway, right?

Well y'all enough arguing about FDA approval processes, big pharma's rent seeking under ObamaCare and super gonorrhea, I have to go cut the law, it looks like a jungle with all the gigantic dandelions.

Home ownership, I bitch about it then I look out my window and see the pretty Japanese maple tree and think "yeah it's probably worth it."

Before I bolt, I forget is someone in the Horde from Florida?  The wife and I are thinking about visiting her grandmother down (St. Pete's) there possibly in November but didn't know what the weather would be like. (We're also thinking about tacking a bahama's cruise to the end of the trip.)

I know what you're all thinking "he's losing his job?! How."

One answer, Vaccine trials baby! (Incidentally, I'm one of the few people outside of the medical staff on those trials capable of reading and understanding almost every aspect of the consent form including any prior studies listed.  Screw everyone else!)

If I had any complaint in how you conduct yourself, it's that you're too subtle. When I read your comments I just cannot get the point your trying to make. Please be more direct.

Posted by: Heralder at May 01, 2013 10:21 AM (+xmn4)

MWR is about as subtle as a hand grenade in a barrel of oatmeal.

(Reuters) - Private-sector hiring slowed again in April as companies added the fewest employees in seven months, the latest sign the economy is encountering a soft patch, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday.

"A soft patch," eh?    What a novel way of describing a grinding, neverending,   intractable    recession     that's      essentially    a depression.

Businesses added 119,000 employees to their payrolls last month, according to the ADP National Employment Report, falling short of economists' expectations for a gain of 150,000 jobs. It was the smallest gain since last September.

"Falling short of    expectations" = "unexpectedly."

Posted by: Heralder at May 01, 2013 10:21 AM (+xmn4)

I will endeavor to better elucidate   my points in   the future.  

So I'm down on one knee, rubbing glitter all over this seriously hot girl's legs and one of the other dancers walks back in and freezes. The best friend doesn't bat an eye, "Don't worry, his wife knows. We're good."

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 01, 2013 09:28 AM (da5Wo)

OK, just got back from prepping for a Monday meeting that’s bound to fail – but it’s not going to be my fault.

BC, IÂ’ll match your story.  A few years ago, Mrs P and I were vacationing at a B&B in East Haddam, CT (a quite ritzy locale).  Because one of Mrs PÂ’s friends had just lost her boyfriend and was feeling in the dumps, we took her along with us for a change of scene.  There wasnÂ’t an extra room for her, so we got a cot and while the two girls took the bed, I took the cot.

Comes the next morning.  Mrs P walks out to the kitchen for a cup of tea.  I follow.  At the breakfast table are three couples, and we do the usual chit-chat – how are you, where are you from, what are you doing, etcetera.

Then the friend comes out of the bedroom.  I should point out that sheÂ’s a very luscious racktastic redhead, and as she came into the kitchen, she was just slipping a robe over a sheer nightdress.

The couples look at her, then back to us.  By this time the friend was getting a cup of coffee, so I whispered to her, “Trust me.”  I turned back to the couples, put my arms around both womensÂ’ waists and said, “Well, youÂ’ve already met my wife.  And this - ” – at which point I stuck out the tip of my tongue just enough to make it look like I was running it around the friendÂ’s ear – “ – is our friend.”

Later, Mrs P said she wished she had known I was going to do that, since she would have done the other ear.  Ah, missed chances.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 01, 2013 10:28 AM (sbV1u)

I'd like to "reach out to them" alright.  With high explosives.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 01, 2013 10:26 AM (da5Wo)

McConnell making a joke?  A GOOD joke?    Based on arguably the best moment from the RNC?

The world is ending!

AWESOME.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 01, 2013 10:30 AM (da5Wo)

LOL!

Even when the rants are a couple of paragraphs it is never a TLR 'cause you know there is gold in there.

Posted by: RWC at May 01, 2013 10:31 AM (fWAjv)

*preen!*

How the fuck did we let the Communists steal our phrase?  Hell, we repeat it three times every time we use it.

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 01, 2013 10:32 AM (GVxQo)

Will it be called,  "First Lady of Fashion Disaster?"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at May 01, 2013 10:18 AM (4df7R)

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Internet high five!

wouldn't it be simpler to just lace the water supply with Plan-B like we do  fluoride?

After all, who'd ever want to be burdened with a child. Then we can have all the happy sex we want, ghey or that other kind.

for the children...

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at May 01, 2013 09:48 AM (XIxXP)

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 01, 2013 10:30 AM (da5Wo)

Top drawer, sir.  Top.  Drawer.

**golf clap**

lol....the scoamf's wife is getting her own style app

I thought "What Not To Wear" was already taken.