I got an MA in creative writing and new media and getting it was one of the best years of my life.
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Within a day of 17-year-old Zoey 101 star Jamie Lynn Spears giving birth to a baby girl, Maddie Briann, Time Magazine reports that a high school in Gloucester, Massachusetts, has discovered a teen girl pregnancy pact among its students. At last count, 17 teenage girls in this 1,200 student high school have been found to be pregnant, 4 times the number of pregnancies as last year. The school nurse became suspicious when her office was inundated with a steady stream of requests for a pregnancy test throughout the school year. Further investigation into the matter revealed that these teen girls had made a pregnancy pact and vowed to raise their babies together.
Is Hollywood to blame for this pregnancy pact?
Is Hollywood glamorizing teen pregnancy? Some would say yes. After all, the pregnancy of teen idol Jamie Lynn Spears has been all over the television and print media. Movies such as Juno, depicting a pregnant teenage girl, also feed into glamorizing teen pregnancy……………
However, these 17 girls in the pregnancy pact do not have millions of dollars to raise their babies. One pregnant mother confessed that the father of her baby is a 24 year old homeless man. Many of these newly pregnant teen moms reacted to the news with great joy and, according to Principal Joseph Sullivan, were disappointed at a negative pregnancy test. Some of these girls returned to the school clinic multiple times for pregnancy tests.
Or is the economy of Gloucester to blame for the pregnancy pact?
Still others blame the pregnancy pact that these teenage girls entered into on the economy of the area. Gloucester, Massachusetts, population 30,000.
The Massachusetts pregnancy pact was a result of the school being in a highly Catholic community. Catholicism is constantly encouraging for people to have babies (in huge numbers too) and are always damning birth control…yet if a teen in a Catholic school does get pregnant, they usually get kicked out of that school for it. How messed up is that?
Point being: you cant blame the media anymore for teen pregnancies than people are already blaming the media for school shootings. The environment they're in plays a stronger factor than what they watch on tv.
Many people seem to think that modern liberalism equals an increase in the size in government. If this were true, why did the size of the federal government shrink under the Clinton administration, yet grow under the Bush administration?
Do you think that many people are just confused or dishonest in their portrayal of a national health-care system? Mitt Romney, the republican governor of Massachusetts, signed into law a state-wide healthcare system; does this make him a communist? Does this make the state of Massachusetts communist? If not, why is Hillary Clinton's proposed national health care system, which is not much different, considered socialist?
The far right is confused and grasping for straws. Anything they can do to try and save themselves while their Titanic is slowly sinking. If they had their way we would all be walking in our jack boots in goose step with fearless leader. We would all have a picture of fearless leader in every room in our homes and in our cars. We would thank fearless leader for everything we have and if we dared even think of dissent against fearless leader we would be hauled off and never seen again and our families would die of hard labor in a concentration camp. North Koreans can tell you all about it.
Mike Gundy flips out about a Jenni Carlson column about Bobby Reid. Mike Gundy forgot that nobody should read Jenni Carlson columns. Read and talk about the whole thing at TheLostOgle.com.
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Ask for their tax and financial information and write your congress people and ask for investigations into this group as they may be abusing the tax exempt status they have
what are you leftys affraid of . all we want is some information
yeah We should picket them like they are doing Dr Savage
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Governor Mitt Romney teaches a Boston Globe reporter a lesson about who really represents the people of Massachusetts.
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I have 3 different recent examples.
1.The media tryed to smear Bill O'reilly as a racist. I listened to his radio show that day. He was trying to say that racism is stupid, & that White people shouldn't be scared to go into black neighborhoods.
2.Rush Limbaugh. I don't like Rush Limbaugh, but I think he was right in his commentary about the Democrats using phony soldiers to further their anti-war agenda. But most of the people in the media are slamming him for his comments.
3.Larry Craig. The media is covering the Larry Craig incident to make the Republicans look like stupid hypocrites. In 1989 Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank admitted a lengthy relationship with a male hooker who ran a bisexual prostitution service out of Frank's apartment. What Barney frank did was much worse then what Larry Craig did. And he is still in congress, & gets interviews on television.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/frank.htm
No.
Neither do I want proof that Sean Hannity is a pompous (fill in the blank) who applauds a right wing felon while demeaning anyone that disagrees with him.
Do you have proof that Rush Limbaugh did not refer to every vet that disagrees with the Iraq war as "phony soldiers"?