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Comment on Racist campaign ad is brazenly inappropriate by Mac

Mac — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:44:34 +0000

You have to think that if the government is borrowing 40 cents of every dollar they are spending, who is big enough to loan us that kind of cash?

Comment on Senate agenda boasts few changes by Ariana

Ariana — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:13:37 +0000

Michael McHugh is an inspiration; as a freshman starting at UH, I can only aspire to accomplish the things he has achieved; I would very much like to meet this man and talk to him about improving UH

Comment on University’s reputation tarnished by calendar by Aviana

Aviana — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:45:55 +0000

Dude, I see so many hot guys at the gym. While personally not a fan of speedos, I would totally buy a "Hottest Men of UH" calendar. Someone get on that stat.

Comment on ‘Fantasy’ fixes previous issues by Aviana

Aviana — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:43:50 +0000

So it's a better game because it throws the storyline out the window and instead focuses on tedious non-linear gameplay? Okay, whatever. I didn't play XIII for an open world experience. I played KOTOR for that. I played XIII for a story about the most badass older sister around and her struggle to stay sane while the world falls the hell around her. I'm not going to play XIII-2, because it takes the marvelous characterization and exciting story of the last one and tosses it out the window. I mean, come on, Lightning spent the entirety of the previous game fighting fate, she's not going to suddenly give up and submit to Etro just because Etro is a nicer god. Also Serah is perhaps the dumbest main character I've seen in a long time, even dumber than Vaan, if that's possible. So I'll pass.

Comment on Racist campaign ad is brazenly inappropriate by Aviana

Aviana — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:37:26 +0000

Saw the ad on Fox this morning, and I thought it was actually very effective. I don't see why Asian-Americans are getting upset about this, because a) they are American, not citizens of China, and therefor the ad was not targeted at them and b) the ad is completely accurate. Just look up Foxconn and you'll see that. It would have taken Apple 9 months to get enough industrial engineers to make a plant here in America for making iPads. It took them only 14 days in China. I can guarantee that's because of this country's ludicrous economic downturn, which was in turn caused by out-of-control government spending. Shocking, yes; insulting, not really, unless you're a liberal and therefor support spending until China becomes the most powerful nation in the world instead of us.

Comment on For the cure by Aviana

Aviana — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:29:11 +0000

I agree with you about 80%, but it's difficult to close your legs when two giant hands and a gun are holding them open. You can't really plan for rape, and while I advocate conceal-and-carries, a lot of women would rather be raped than carry a gun (stupid, I know, but it's their life, not mine). I would rather "kill" a fetus than allow the genes of a rapist to be passed on to a creature of my womb. It's not fair to the fetus and it's not fair to me to be responsible for the havoc a morally corrupt man wrought on my body.
Also, if Komen were smart, since they are "looking for the cure", they could actually use PP to conduct studies about how mammograms and abortions affect cancer in the long term.
Otherwise, thank you for posting the links. It's good information to have on hand, and I wish the UH journalists could learn to be unbiased.
Just my two cents.

Comment on For the cure by Aviana

Aviana — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:22:27 +0000

As I said to Liz, while the money does not directly go to abortions, it allows PP to reallocate its own funds toward abortions. So even though legally Komen was not supporting abortions, through a technicality, they actually were.

Comment on For the cure by Aviana

Aviana — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:20:53 +0000

I think the issue is less the defunding of PP but more the reasons behind it. As far as can be told, PP was defunded because the VP of Komen does not believe in abortions. I'm not sure if that is a political or ideological reason, but that's the point the article is making. I've seen a press release claiming that the defunding was because "abortions increase the risk of breast cancer", but I don't believe that to be true. Part of the reason that this is such a big deal is that – even if the funds aren't used directly for abortions – donating to PP allows them to have excess money to put towards abortions. Now I don't see this as a bad thing, but the VP of Komen does. I hope that helps you understand what's going on a bit better.

Comment on For the cure by Caleb

Caleb — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:09:32 +0000

It's funny. Abortions and contraceptives, so called 'preventative care', either terminate or alter a natural, healthy, biological act called pregnancy. You would think from how people talk that pregnancy is some sort of disease.

Now, as for basic economics- it is absurd to believe any federal or private funding doesn't help Planned Parenthood provide abortions. Think of it this way- say you receive $100 from your parents for food and gas. Now say they started to only give you $80. Have you stopped buying one or the other, or simply cut back? You would answer cut back. That extra money simply allows you to re-allocate your resources, and that is what any sort of outside funding does; Planned Parenthood gets to re-allocate their resources.

Now, as for mammograms. New research shows that if you have a genetic risk for breast cancer that mammograms (with their awesome radiation) actually increases a woman's risk for cancer. So that so called life saving exam is actually helping to kill women. Who wants to fund that? (http://www.preventcancer.com/patients/mammography/ijhs_mammography.htm) <—– link with medical journal article's stated

Also, many Planned Parenthood clinics do nothing but perform abortions and simply recommend women to other non-PP clinics for mammograms, pap smears and the like. Do a little research. A big scandal last year involving PP showed how little 'women's health' they actually do. (the prostitute-pimp scandal, and scandal involving 30 PP clinics being called that offered no mammograms; shocking, I know)

Also, as I know how this 'journalist' is unable to present both sides of the story to UH students, Komen received 100% increase in donations after announcing the split with PP (http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/02/komen-donations-jump-100-after-cutting-planned-parenthood/), another story I'm sure none of you heard.

Moral of the story is…. government shouldn't be funding ANYTHING that is not defense, then we wouldn't be having these discussions. Also, close your legs women, that's the #1 way to prevent pregnancy.

I applaud Komen, and since I just so happen to do some work with them, I know plenty of people who were just thrilled by the news. Too bad they did a reversal, because we all know that the liberal way is the only way.

Comment on Racist campaign ad is brazenly inappropriate by Caleb

Caleb — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:44:59 +0000

While the ad may be in poor taste (that is debatable), we need to remember what message the ad was trying to get across- Stavenow likes to spend big and tax big, which results in jobs being sent out of state or overseas. Political ads are supposed to be jarring and catchy, and this ad is both of those.

Comment on For the cure by Lent

Lent — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:26:58 +0000

Anyone that thinks that donated money can't be used for what ever purpose the organization wants is a fool. Money can be put in a separate account, but other accounts that were paying for "screening poor women for cancer" simply stop using that money for that and redirect it, e.g. Increase abortion funding. There is no way to keep donated money going to PP from being used for abortions.

Comment on For the cure by Jack

Jack — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:21:31 +0000

Liz, your assumptions are wrong. Komen provides zero funding for PP services that go to abortions. Neither does the Federal government (thanks to the Hayes act)….But even making that erroneus assumption your argument is ridiculous. Apparently, you're saying that because PP uses just 3% of its funding (from other sources besides Komen or the Federal government) for abortion services that 50% of America (presumably a short hand stat for anti-choice supporters) do not support PP? If that's true, it's a pretty disgusting indication of how ideologically rigid such decisions are from the so called 'Pro-Life' camp. What about the other 97% of the services PP offers to poor women? What about breast cancer screening? Pap smears? Or is 'Pro-Life' ideology so rigid that ALL poor women must suffer and die to provide a purity ratio for politically motivated Americans who blanche at just 3% of what PP actually does?

Luckily, most Americans are smarter and more kind than that. Millions believe such arguments are without merit and will fund PP regardless of what you (or your like minded ideologues) think or say.

Comment on For the cure by Spanky

Spanky — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:08:40 +0000

Liz, You might want to get your facts straight. NONE, that's ZERO, of the money Komen gave to PP went to "fund abortion". It went to screen poor women for cancer, which is, allegedly, the goal of Komen. Komen is the organization that decided to play politics here, and they lost. PP has many missions, not simply providing legal abortions. Komen seems to have decided one of its missions is to interfere with poor women's health to make cheap political points. Komen bought this.

Comment on For the cure by Liz

Liz — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:50:24 +0000

Just to clarify your logic: Komen remained apolitical so long as they were supporting Planned Parenthood, but became political (as I understand you mean: ideologically motivated) once they pulled support from them? This argument assumes that support for PP is non-partisan, non-political, and non-ideologically motivated. And that's simply untrue. You are forgetting the 50% of Americans who do not support the mission of PP and would willingly donate money to support Komen's cancer research if they knew a portion of that money were not funding abortion.

Comment on Racist campaign ad is brazenly inappropriate by jason bergman

jason bergman — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:56:48 +0000

This add, while in poor taste is more xenophobic than racist. It is meant to stir up the fears of his constituents in attempt to blame the 'other' as the cause of high unemployment. It is a very classic example of stoking the nativist fears that has been a main stay in U.S. politics since it's founding. The man is simply trying to say, without actually uttering the words, "They're taking our jobs." Which by the way is exactly what progressives and liberals do when they go after corporations for outsourcing. I want to stress that I think the add was/is in poor taste, that the add is highly xenophobic and relies entirely on scare tactics, and that I think he very well could have gotten the same message across without the over the top theatrics.

Comment on Unrest in Syria supported by veto by Arafat

Arafat — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:21:01 +0000

"The North Atlantic Treaty Organization handled itself just fine in the toppling of Gaddafi. Given the situation, Assad should be no different."

Of course the problem is Libya's now ruled by Islamist fascists. Another brillaint NATO and Obama plan gone to hell.

^^^^^^^^^
"Islam is a peaceful religion and the Arab people are just like any other."

Actually not. Islam was founded by a megalomaniacal warrior who raided caravans and villages for money, women and power. He and his men murdered without remorse and led as brutal despots.

It's little wonder we see the same sort of leadership throughout much of the Muslim world, for Mohammed, THEIR prophet, is considered a perfect man by Muslims. Amazing isn't it?

Begs the question" What would Christ do?

Or, a variation on that theme…What would Buddha do?

Comment on ‘Fantasy’ fixes previous issues by Jared

Jared — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:50:16 +0000

I'm glad that they remade FFXIII and improved upon its many flaws, but those of us that wasted our money buying XIII new should get a discount on XIII-2.

Comment on Censoring Chicano culture by Mike Wazowski

Mike Wazowski — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:52:16 +0000

>i love that mike is complaining about censorship after he said he wanted the DC defunded (censorship) because he didn't agree with an opinion article

Mike complained about an article that advocated for censorship. He called for the DC to be defunded because it advocates for censorship, when it is nominally a tool for expression of the student viewpoint on news for the community.

> class act, that guy.

Thank you.

>must've gotten an A in History 1 or something.

Well, a 5 on the AP test – but we'll call it an A.

Comment on Censoring Chicano culture by John

John — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:22:25 +0000

i love that mike is complaining about censorship after he said he wanted the DC defunded (censorship) because he didn't agree with an opinion article. class act, that guy. must've gotten an A in History 1 or something.

Comment on Criticism crosses the line by David C.

David C. — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:45:13 +0000

It is a perfect analogy. Obama is no different now than when he was first running for president. He hardly served his constituents, and the U.S. for that matter, when he literally used his senate seat to run for president. He has no shame at all. Hed cares nothing for this country, only for the prize of being called Mr. President. Shameful and disgraceful.