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Can't marry, can't divorce?

A judge in Arizona has refused to divorce the "pregnant man" that gave birth to three kids.

Welcome to the world's most confusing divorce case. A judge in Arizona today declined to grant a divorce to Thomas Beatie, who attained minor celebrity status as the "pregnant man" a few years back and gave birth to three children. Beatie, who was born a woman but identifies as a man, married wife Nancy in Hawaii in 2003. But was he a man or a woman at the time? Beatie had undergone a double-mastectomy by then and was starting hormone therapy, but he still had a woman's reproductive organs, reports AP. The judge today decreed that there wasn't enough evidence proving Beatie was a man at the time of the wedding. That makes it a same-sex marriage, which means that the state of Arizona doesn't recognize it. And if the state doesn't recognize the marriage, it can't grant a divorce, either.

Not sure with whom I am more disappointed with..

Victoria's Secret for putting out a line like this, or the "parents" who buy this for/allow their pre-teen children to wear them.

Predictably, both sides of the issues have weighed inacross the blogosphere.

As a father to a young girl, I'm saddened that "society" has made our young girls grow up faster and faster, by dressing them in miniature versions of today's fashions.  Hip hugger jeans are fine on a 18-25 year old.  They aren't appropriate on an 8 year old child. 

As a parent, it's hard to find clothes that aren't hyper-sexualized copy cats versions of what the older girls are wearing.

Can't our daughters enjoy being a kid, and not be rushed into looking like a smaller version of one of the Kardashians?

Again, I don't fault Victoria's Secret for launching the line.  If there is a Market, someone fill that role.  What's sad is that some "parents"feel it's okay for their pre-teen daughter to wear a pair of panties with "Call Me!", "Feeling Lucky?", and other suggestive phrases printed on them.

Act like a parent, and not your child's "cool" friend.  Use some judgement.

The guy who swallowed everything Lance told him, suddenly gets tough..

I like Rick Reilly's work.  Even the pieces I don't agree with, I appreciate because they generally cause one to think.  I like that.  This bit on Tiger and a recent Nike ad set Reilly off:

After a 2009 sex scandal that would make Magic Mike blush, it seemed as if Woods was finally coming around. Back to No. 1 in the world. Got himself a girlfriend he could bring home to mom. People even were starting to feel a little sorry for him.

And then he allows Nike to release an ad that spits goo in the eye of anybody who was on the fence. It ran on social media after Woods won in Orlando last week. It was a picture of him with the caption: "Winning Takes Care of Everything."

The only problem is, it's a big whopping jelly-filled lie.

Winning doesn't take care of everything. There are some stains winning can't scrub clean. Like the worst sex scandal in pro sports history. Like talking about being sorry but never walking it. Like pretending you're going to curb your temper and your filthy mouth on the golf course and then doing nothing of the kind.

(Last week, Woods texted Rory McIlroy: "Get your finger out of your a-- and win this week." Remind me: What charm school did he attend again?)

Life is life and lies are lies. Playing golf well doesn't buy you forgiveness or redemption or peace. The road to heaven isn't paved with giant novelty checks.

Ask Lance Armstrong if winning takes care of everything. Ask Pete Rose. Ask Joe Paterno's family. If winning took care of everything, why is the winning prison softball team still in prison?

I have one rule on Tiger Woods: Admire the game, not the man. The game is the greatest I've ever seen. But the man is rude and vulgar and has a screw-you-I'm-Tiger-Woods policy that's not the least bit becoming. The arrogance it takes to allow this ad to run is Reason No. 7,393.

If you're Elin Nordegren, his ex-wife, and you see that line, "Winning Takes Care of Everything," don't you throw your laptop across the room? He cheated on her with a parade of porn stars, Vegas escorts and even a daughter of a neighbor. I'm thinking another win at Bay Hill isn't going to take care of much for her.

The problem isn't "winning takes care of everything." The problem is that Woods clearly believes it does.

I'll put aside for a moment that Reilly can't really know what Woods believes.  Rick needs to take his own advise, and follow his rule on Tiger: watch him play, appreciate his skill, and dislike the person.

Tiger is trying to do one thing, which ironically is the same think Reilly is trying to do-be the best in his profession at what he does. 

I get his dislike for who Woods is, but where is it written that a Champion has to be a good guy?

Reilly is pissed because Woods didn't apologize enough (or the right way), wasn't contrite enough, and hasn't made things right with those he hurt.

Say Tiger did all those things, received the blessing of Reilly, but never finished in the Top 50 of any tournament he entered for the rest of his life?  Would that make Reilly feel better about Tiger, the Man?

You don't like him?  Fine.  Change the chanel when golf is on, don't support any of his sponsors.  Never write about him again.

Just don't be mad when the guy didn't do what you thought he should do.

Planned Parenthood endorses post-birth abortions..

I don't care what your position on abortion is, this video should disgust you.

 

One can make the argument that life doesn't begin at conception (a position I happen to disagree with).  No one can make the argument that a fetus delivered from the womb to outside the mother's body that is alive, is not a full-fledged person.

No one except Planned Parenthood, that is.

Yes Wolf, the American People were misled..

Too bad you didn't investigate claims made by the Obama Administration prior to Obamacare becoming the law of the land:

 

Is this the most pressing issue facing education today?

 

What a Nation of wimps we have turned into.

Better late than never..

Obama is only 65 days late submitting this year's budget.  If there is anything I have learned from his blatant disregard of this important duty (he's been late 4 of 5 times), is that when a President is late with his budget, Democrats don't care.

President Obama will release his budget for fiscal year 2014 on April 10, the White House announced Thursday, more than two months after he was legally required to submit one.

This is the fourth time in five years Obama has missed the statutory deadline to submit a budget, which is more times than any president dating back to the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921.

Further, it’s the third year in a row Obama has failed to submit a budget on time; he is the only president to ever miss the legal deadline in consecutive years. This year’s budget will officially be 65 days late, which is still shy of the all-time record for longest delay. Obama’s first budget in 2009 was submitted 98 days after the legal deadline.

I'm curious to learn if that mentality continues the next time a Republican is in office, and the budget is late.  Why do I have the feeling the answer is no?

Weekly IUC goes up for the second straight week..

This week the number ticks up to 357,000.  The estimates were for 340,000, so a jump this large needs to be recognized.  Is this the beginning of Obama Sequestration workers finding their way to the unemployment lines?

Will we soon see yogurt with this type of bacteria added?

Pretty cool findings:

A study of lab mice, published on Wednesday, begs to differ. It concludes that one of the most common and effective forms of bariatric surgery, called Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, melts away pounds not - or not only - by re-routing the digestive tract, as long thought, but by changing the bacteria in the gut.

Or, in non-scientific terms, the surgery somehow replaces fattening microbes with slimming ones.

If that occurs in people, too, then the same bacteria-changing legerdemain achieved by gastric bypass might be accomplished without putting obese patients under the knife in an expensive and risky operation.

"These elegant experiments show that you can mimic the action of surgery with something less invasive," said Dr. Francesco Rubino of Catholic University in Rome and a pioneer in gastric-bypass surgery. "For instance, you might transfer bacteria or even manipulate the diet" to encourage slimming bacteria and squelch fattening kinds, said Rubino, who was not involved in the study.

Funny, isn't it?

After telling us for weeks how the Obama Sequester would cause immediately loss of jobs for DoD workers, the Federal Government somehow found a way to ease the impact:

Defense officials say the Pentagon will sharply cut the number of unpaid furlough days civilians will have to take in the next several months from 22 to 14, reducing the financial impact of the budget cuts on as many as 700,000 workers.

Officials say Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made the decision Wednesday. Military and defense leaders continue to work through the details, trying to decide how to allocate the more than $10 billion Congress shifted to operations accounts. Officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

Interesting that when faced with a crisis of damaging political capital, this Administration was able to find other places to cut spending.

Now can they begin to apply that same determination to find other areas of waste within the budget?