KK must be very lonely. He keeps emailing me with messages in the third person. How odd. Oh well I guess I will have to pray for patience.
WordPress Plugins and Tools
Ever embed a YouTube only to have it break your validation? There are plugins that will help with this, but they are for the most part only for posts or pages, for sidebar videos you were on your own.
Never fear intrepid WordPress/YouTube user there is a tool that will solve this problem, “Valid XHTML YouTube embed code generator” will generate a valid code and resize the video to your specifications.
Two comment plugins that make things easier for you and your commenters
Comment Remix Adds both front and admin end functionality
and
WP Ajax Edit Comments Because everyone should have the opportunity to correct their mistakes. 😉
and if you want to show off how many of those stellar comments you’ve received (or like me lack thereof ) try Liz Strauss Comment Counter
Tip of the Week
Are you having trouble with your end of post plugins and your posts running into each other? our your photos overhanging your postmeta?
Try adding this between them [sourcecode language=’php’]
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For more WordPress help or design contact: Fat Cat Designs.
Yes there are Roses but watch out for Pricks
As anyone who has ever been in an abusive relationship knows, it isn’t always bad. Sometimes there are roses. Nevertheless, they are still being delivered by a prick. This situation is no different.
Harper & Co. have abandoned their support of Bill C484. Their new angle is to bring in a bill “to replace Bill C-484, the Unborn Victims of Crime Act, so that it closes the debate about fetal rights and focuses instead on penalizing criminals who harm pregnant women.” Great idea wonder how they came up with it?
With all the rumours of war election, it is hard to see this as anything but an abusive government suddenly recognizing that women have the vote and that vote is unlikely to go their way after forcing themselves into Canadian womens’ private parts.
So while I raise a glass in salute to all the women out there who made their voices heard, I’m not letting my guard down around this government. 
The Bad Girl Report
Abortion News & Views from across Cyberspace.
Todays report starts with this post by Amanda Marcotte explaining why pandering to the mushy middle is not the way to defend rights;
Every time a pro-choicer tries to appeal to the “mushy middle” with these tactics, they reaffirm the idea that there are Good Girls who have lots of children and not lots of sex, and Bad Girls who are just Good Girls who’ve lost their way. It might win votes–no one could accuse Barack Obama at this point of having a poor political compass–but it ultimately comes at the cost of undercutting abortion rights. Because if abortion is always wrong, always the bad choice, always a regretful action–that is, if there are so many broken Bad Girls out there–then it becomes impossible to really defend women’s rights. .
Definitely a column some of our politicians could do with reading.
Next we move on to the CMA who came out in opposition to Bill C-484 yesterday and it’s potential to make criminals out of doctors.
By a wide margin, the Canadian Medical Association voted yesterday to oppose Bill C-484, “and any legislation that would result in compromising access for women to the medical services required to terminate a pregnancy.”
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in his ever so special way of using non-judgmental or inflammatory language, Ken Epps responded;
“Bill C-484, if it were to become law, would in fact not affect the law on abortion nor would it criminalize pregnant women for any harm they may cause to their own fetuses/unborn children.“
Hey Ken now I’m totally convinced it isn’t about abortion. (Not)
And we end the report with this Knicker Knotted (K)gnashing of teeth from our friends at ALL
MEDIA BLACKOUT OF PRO-LIFE MASS ARREST, FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS
Washington, DC (20 August 2008) On Aug. 1, 18 pro-lifers were falsely, brutally arrested on bogus charges by Maryland state police officers. Most were scared, crying teenage kids. They weren’t told the charges for which they were being arrested and they weren’t read their Miranda Rights. The girls were humiliatingly searched, and all were locked up. Most weren’t allowed to see their lawyers and were denied their phone calls.
This is one of the largest mass arrests of pro-lifers since the days of the clinic rescue movement which ended in the early 1990s. It’s a clear violation of First and Fourth Amendment rights.
It’s being ignored in a massive media blackout.
“This type of harassment has been used against peaceful protestors in the past and never have these tyrannical methods been acceptable,” said Jen Catelli, director of media relations at American Life League. “The pro-life community needs to stand up and demand media attention for these heinous abuses.”
Defend Life’s Maryland Face the Truth Tour had one final stop to make in Hagerstown, Maryland. They peacefully set up their signs along a stretch of highway and began to pray. State police officers soon showed up and demanded they take down their signs. The pro-lifers complied and moved to a different area.
State police followed and began making arrests.
“They violated all our rights,” said Jack Ames, president and founder of Defend Life. Ames spent the night locked in a cell with the other pro-lifers. Ames and his fellow pro-lifers spent the night praying and singing the Lord’s Prayer, the Ave Maria and Tantum Ergo. The next morning officials released the pro-lifers. Charges have since been dropped.
“American Life League is committed to making sure these people get the attention they deserve,” Catelli said. “This kind of blatant disregard for pro-lifers’ rights on the part of Governor Martin O’Malley’s state police won’t be tolerated. If these pro-lifers were pro-abortion activists or PETA protesters, this would have been on the front page of every newspaper on the East Coast.”
“As more information surfaces about this mass arrest, ALL will ensure that everyone in the pro-life movement hears about these heroes,” Catelli continued.
American Life League was cofounded in 1979 by Judie Brown. It is the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States and is committed to the protection of all innocent human beings from the moment of creation to natural death. For more information or media inquiries, please contact Katie Walker at 540.659.4942.
Guess the Baltimore Sun doesn’t count as media
The no rights for women crowd has apparently settled for second best
Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
George Carlin
Kick Ass Bloggers
Kick Ass Blogger Mattt put me down for this award. Thanks Mattt! {{luv}}
Here’s the Rulez;
Choose 5 bloggers that you feel are “Kick Ass Bloggers”
Let ‘em know in your post or via email, twitter or blog comments that they’ve received an award
Share the love and link back to both the person who awarded you and back to MammaDawg
Hop on back to the Kick Ass Blogger Club HQ to sign Mr. Linky then pass it on!
Of course with these awards you can’t link to everyone you feel deserves it and some have already been listed so in no particular order and no disrespect to those not listed;
- Hope & Onions: though currently unable to write to her blog, even as an archive it is valuable.
- The Apophatic Attic: Go. Read. You’ll thank me.
- Pogge: A level of writing and discourse I can only aspire to.
- In The House and Senate:
- Blind Man With A Pistol
So keep reading and keep writing and remember
“He’s doing politics, we’re doing health care”
Quote from Robert Ouellet.
“Robert Ouellet a radiologist in Montreal, said safe injection sites are an important point of entry for addicts into the health care system. He said the goal is harm reduction — by lowering the risk of disease transmission through dirty needles — as well as by providing education about drug addiction”.
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Health Minister Tony Clement does what ReformaCons do best, try to win by smearing your opponent. Of course when the case you are making has no real basis in fact, smear tactics are what’s left.
This time it is doctors who support Insite who are getting slammed.
“Is it ethical for health-care professionals to support the administration of drugs that are of unknown substance, or purity or potency — drugs that cannot otherwise be legally prescribed?”
In any other medical setting, supervised overdoses would be considered “highly unprofessional,”
So are we meant to nod our heads in agreement that many Canadian doctors are both unethical and unprofessional? This is though the same government who wants politicians not doctors to decide what can/should/will be done with women’s reproductive concerns. Little wonder then that they have no hesitancy in purporting to know more about how to treat addicts than health care professionals.
Clement goes on to talk about continued efforts at addiction treatment, however, treatment has many facets such as dealing with underlying issues of addiction and life changes. Many addicts are poor and/or homeless and often have some sort of background of abuse or mental health issues. This are issues that need to be addressed long before what are often shame based treatments are considered.
In any case the lock ’em all up crowd of which the Cons are part, see prison as the treatment for addiction. War on Drugs™ and all that. The major source of concern is more likely that places such as Insite humanize rather than demonize those with addiction.
Canada’s New Government™ is old, stale and mouldy and needs to be thrown out like last months bread.
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