Here is today’s top crazy ass headlines. Just click on the link to read the whole story.
Student auctions off her virginity!
An elephant successfully completes 3 years of Rehab for heroin addiction.
The Search for the Bare Booty Bandit continues
The Naked Photographer strikes again.
In 1994, John McCain voted against legislation — pushed through Congress by Joe Biden — that helped put an end to the practice of charging rape victims for sexual assault exams.
Twisted as it may sound, charging victims for a forensic exam was a real problem. For example, as AMERICAblog has documented (and the media is now reporting), when Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, the town charged rape victims for the exams.
Biden’s legislation required that state, local, and Indian governments provide the rape exams to victims free of charge as a condition of receiving federal funds under the Violence Against Women Act. In 2000, Alaska finally passed state legislation in order to qualify for federal funding.
McCain not only opposed Biden’s legislation, but also has voted against funding it as recently as October 2007.
McCain voted against final passage of Biden’s legislation. He had supported an earlier version, but on the question of actually making the legislation the law of the land, McCain joined 35 conservative Republicans (and 2 Democrats) and said “no” to ensuring that all women had access to rape exams free of charge.
Here’s the text of the rape exam provision in Biden’s legislation:
H.R.3355: Violent Crime Control
and Law Enforcement Act of 1994SEC. 2005. RAPE EXAM PAYMENTS.
`(a) RESTRICTION OF FUNDS-
`(1) IN GENERAL- A State, Indian tribal government, or unit of local government, shall not be entitled to funds under this part unless the State, Indian tribal government, unit of local government, or another governmental entity incurs the full out-of-pocket cost of forensic medical exams described in subsection (b) for victims of sexual assault.
`(2) REDISTRIBUTION- Funds withheld from a State or unit of local government under paragraph (1) shall be distributed to other States or units of local government pro rata. Funds withheld from an Indian tribal government under paragraph (1) shall be distributed to other Indian tribal governments pro rata.
`(b) MEDICAL COSTS- A State, Indian tribal government, or unit of local government shall be deemed to incur the full out-of-pocket cost of forensic medical exams for victims of sexual assault if any government entity–
`(1) provides such exams to victims free of charge to the victim;
`(2) arranges for victims to obtain such exams free of charge to the victims; or
`(3) reimburses victims for the cost of such exams if–
`(A) the reimbursement covers the full cost of such exams, without any deductible requirement or limit on the amount of a reimbursement;
`(B) the reimbursing governmental entity permits victims to apply for reimbursement for not less than one year from the date of the exam;
`(C) the reimbursing governmental entity provides reimbursement not later than 90 days after written notification of the victim’s expense; and
`(D) the State, Indian tribal government, unit of local government, or reimbursing governmental entity provides information at the time of the exam to all victims, including victims with limited or no English proficiency, regarding how to obtain reimbursement.
And here’s another link to McCain’s vote against the legislation and to his October 2007 vote against funding it.
A Spanish Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlikeEnglish, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.
‘House’ for instance, is feminine: ‘la casa.’ ‘Pencil,’ however, is
masculine: ‘el lapiz.’
A student asked, ‘What gender is ‘computer’?’
Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two
groups,
male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether
computer’
should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give
four
reasons for its recommendation.
The men’s group decided that ‘computer’ should
definitely be of the
Femini ne gender(’la computadora’), because:
1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is
Incomprehensible to everyone else;
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for
possible later retrieval; and
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending
half
your paycheck on accessories for it.
(THIS GETS BETTER!)
The women’s group,
however, concluded that computers should be Masculine
(’el co mputador’), because:
1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;
2. They have a lot of data but still can’t think for themselves;
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they
ARE the problem; and
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a
Little longer, you could have gotten a better model.
The women won.
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