The Binary Circumstance

Gov. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois has asked the feds if his state can have permission to buy prescription drugs from Canada.

Blagojevich commissioned a report earlier this year that said Illinois would save as much as $91 million if state employees and retirees bought drugs from Canada, which is illegal. Illinois spent $340 million on prescription drugs for its employees and retirees last fiscal year, a 15 percent increase from the previous year.

The Food and Drug Administration criticized that report for inflating savings and wrongly assuming Canadian health authorities could guarantee the safety of drugs sent to the United States.

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File this under “How to force taxpayers to give their money to pharmaceutical giants while conducting human experiments on servicemen.”

Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the U.S. District Court in Washington ruled that the government must stop forcing GIs to get anthrax vaccinations on the grounds that the drug is experimental:

“The women and men of our armed forces put their lives on the line every day to preserve and safeguard the freedoms that all Americans cherish and enjoy,??? Sullivan said.

“Absent an informed consent or presidential waiver, the United States cannot demand that members of the armed forces also serve as guinea pigs for experimental drugs,??? Sullivan said.
The Pentagon had no immediate comment.

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My posting on Why Heterosexual Relations Should Be Banned got blogged at MakeOutCity.com
MakeOutCity also points to a posting by Oliver Willis who says:

One of the problems with this issue is that I think we have intermingled government and religion. Each individual religion should be left to their own as to how they want to treat issues like sexual orientation, and even race. The government, on the other hand, should be blind to the religious aspects of marriage - and maybe instead of rushing to propose constitutional amendments to ban gay marriage (how about we outlaw hunger, or some more pressing issue first, guys?), we should get the government out of the marriage business.

While I agree that there are far more pressing issues than gay marriage, a government like ours which is based on mystical premises, is really a religion disguised as a government. Religion and manadatory government will in many respects be strong allies as both survive by destroying the basis for rational thought–reality. So I wouldn’t expect our government to get out of the religion/marriage issue any time soon.

The expansion of religion and force-based governments is dependent upon destroying the capacity of the human mind to think rationally, and that process must begin with children. It is for this reason that heterosexual marriage and breeding are are so important to both government and religion. Get ‘em while they’re young.

File this under “Straight people can be so bizarre.”

Yesterday, Joseph Lehman Jr., the 38-year-old son of Washington States’s corrections chief was sentenced to four years in prison for raping his two-month old daugher. What this story doesn’t tell you, but could be seen on local TV news, is that the baby rapist is morbidly obese, apparently unable to control his own weight. Also seen in the TV reports: in violation of court rules at the sentencing hearing, the rapist’s mother “crossed the bar” and approached her son at the hearing, giving him a big hug. The court let it pass. The court let a few other things pass:
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