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[gwydion]

* A court in New Orleans has ordered at least thirteen more clinics closed in Texas, leaving eight, none of them in West Texas. Republicans closed half the clinics in Texas last Fall as part of their aggressive campaign to deny women access to health care. The Republicans are winning their War on Women. Elections matter. Midterm elections matter. Local Elections matter. Please, please vote. They are counting on you not to.

* A Writer for the National Review advocates hanging for women who have abortions. As we know, killing Women is what being "Pro-Life" is all about. https://twitter.com/KevinNR/status/516218876066287616

* "‘The Mysteries of Conjugal Love Revealed!’ 18th century sex manual is a total hoot!:" http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_mysteries_of_conjugal_love_revealed

* "We've Lost Another Transsister:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/10/weve-lost-another-transsister.html

* "GenderProud ID Video:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/10/genderproud-id-video.html
* An American freelance cameraman who had been living in Liberia for three years has contracted ebola. They are flying him home to an isolation ward, along with the NBC news team he had just started working with. It is unlikely the others have it, as they were following anti-infection protocols, and the cameraman turned himself in to a clinic pretty quickly. The news team will be well monitored and are taking the threat seriously. As with the Aid workers that were flown to Atlanta, I am not worried that this will cause an outbreak. Any outbreaks we have here will look like the cases in Texas or Nigeria, where it flew in on an airplane inside someone who didn't know they were infected.

The Nigerian outbreak has been completely contained, BTW. They did everything right, isolating the patient and his contacts quickly, checking children at schools and stepping up general screenings. One asshole deliberately hid and fled, infecting a doctor in a resort town, but they contained that quickly.

Unlike Dallas, where the hospital poo-pooed his ebola concerns and sent him home to infect potentially more people. his family are in quarantine, but Texas health officials are making no attempt to decontaminate the apartment where they are confined or providing them sensible help. There are five children in that home with the infected sheets and furniture.

The CDC is flying in a team of ten to sort out the Dallas situation, what with the locals doing a shit job of handling the outbreak and education for civilians.

Liberia plans to prosecute the Liberian man for traveling. It is possible he thought the woman he helped was miscarrying rather than dying of ebola.

* A court in New Orleans has ordered at least thirteen more clinics closed in Texas, leaving eight, none of them in West Texas. Republicans closed half the clinics in Texas last Fall as part of their aggressive campaign to deny women access to health care. The Republicans are winning their War on Women. Elections matter. Midterm elections matter. Local Elections matter. Please, please vote. They are counting on you not to.

* A Writer for the National Review advocates hanging for women who have abortions. As we know, killing Women is what being "Pro-Life" is all about. https://twitter.com/KevinNR/status/516218876066287616

* "‘The Mysteries of Conjugal Love Revealed!’ 18th century sex manual is a total hoot!:" http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_mysteries_of_conjugal_love_revealed

* "We've Lost Another Transsister:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/10/weve-lost-another-transsister.html

* "GenderProud ID Video:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/10/genderproud-id-video.html

* "Trans and Gay Panic Legal Defenses Banned In California:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/10/trans-and-gay-panic-legal-defenses.html

* I agree with this review which captures my disappointment with the portrayal of Finnick in the "Catching Fire movie. "Catching Fire straightwashes its stars:" http://freethoughtblogs.com/godlessness/2013/11/30/catching-fire-straightwashes-its-stars/

* "Neil Gaiman: ‘Terry Pratchett isn’t jolly. He’s angry’:" http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchett-angry-not-jolly-neil-gaiman

* The Halloween Haunt is back! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/halloween-haunt/id201083805

* "Mitch O'Connell: The Top 25 Weirdest and Most Inappropriate Children's books of All Time!:" http://mitchoconnell.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-top-25-weirdest-and-most_22.html

* It is ebay time again:
BPAL: JOHNATHAN HARKER 2006 (LE, Halloweenie): http://www.ebay.com/itm/301337029112?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

* Fundraiser to Help Us Pay Back Rent and Insurance: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws

Comments

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

While I agree that Catching Fire was terrible for omitting those scenes and should be criticised for it, I'm also leery about calling it "straightwashing" because it gives more implied credit for the books than the books deserve. we have, at best, some very very very dubiously implied scenes and a man who is a sex slave and some of his unknown, unpresented, unshown abusers are men. That's not even close to inclusion.

The film is terrible for removing even these tiny hints - but the books are also terrible for only giving these nigh non-existent hints

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

I agree the book was ambiguous, which is a problem, but I really, really didn't like them changing Finnick's characterization.

[mrbumblepants.livejournal.com]

I am leery of how the film is going to be mostly because of what Finnick does in the next book. I'm not sure how they're going to present his talking about his experience with sexual slavery. I'm not going to watch it in the theaters because I think if they do it right it's going to be something I will need to watch by myself, and if they do it wrong it's going to be infuriating.