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The High Price of Campus Birth Control

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
“College women are at the highest risk for unintended pregnancy because they’re sexually active, they’re very fertile, and they are away from home,” says Dr. Shulman

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I thought nappy headed project skanks or toothless tobacco chewing trailer bimbos were at the highest risk, imagine that.

See, talk about us right leaning types not reading, this is the kind of crazy shit I love reading. This is supposed to be a serious story, but it’s riddled with so much comedic material I swear that it must be satire and I’m being set-up.
See for yourself.

Paula Tran, a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, relies on her school’s health center for affordable birth control pills. Even though she doesn’t have insurance, she bought a year supply from the clinic for only $7 per pack last fall. But when she goes back for more this September, she’ll be hit with a bill five times that amount, something she says will definitely affect her spending. “It will cut into the kinds of notebooks I buy to the kind of groceries I get to the cable package that I order,” she says.

See I told ya…what kind of fucken cable package she can order!!?

(link) For decades college campus health centers have been a resource for budget-conscious female students seeking birth control. Because of agreements with pharmaceutical companies, most campus clinics were able to distribute brand name prescription contraceptives, from pills to the patch to a monthly vaginal device like NuvaRing, for no more than a couple of bucks.That all ended earlier this year. Health experts say the price bump for college students ggw1.jpgwas inadvertent — a byproduct of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, a federal law that went into effect in January. The law alters how drug makers calculate Medicaid-related rebates paid to states, but it ultimately made it expensive for companies to offer schools such deep discounts on birth control. As a result, brand name prescription prices for campus clinics rose from about the $3 to $10 range per month to the $30 to $50 range. Organon, the maker of Cyclessa and Desogen birth control pills and the NuvaRing, says the company is not happy about having to increase prices for colleges. But Nick Hart, Organon’s executive director of contraception, says they were forced to make “a business decision” after the law went into effect.

A 2006 survey conducted by the American College Health Association (ACHA) found that 39% of undergraduate women use oral contraceptives. Many providers are afraid that if the convenience of free or cheap birth control on campus is taken away, female students might just get turned off by prescription birth control methods altogether and use other less effective ones like condoms or Plan B, known as the morning after pill.

 According to Planned Parenthood, and many worry if students skip out on it or move to a method they’re not as comfortable with, it can lead to more unwanted student pregnancies. “I think there are some who will just try to wing it and see how it goes. They’ll say ‘Well I go to school here, my boyfriend is in another city and I only see him once or twice a month and I won’t use anything’ rather than pay for something they can’t afford.

Tran: “I have friends who refuse to talk to their parents about it, they’re unable to get under their insurance, can’t afford to get their own insurance and are already working just to pay tuition,” she says. “Some have stopped already and are taking stock in Plan B and having that around because they don’t have regular intercourse.”

Oh Snoop now your not going to insult millions and millions of college skanks around the nation are you?

Well with this kind of logic:

Susan Maly, a 22-year-old student at the University of Iowa, says she struggled with switching pills recently,
She finds the dramatic price increase “unfair” to women who have come to rely on birth control, and feel comfortable with the brand they are on.

Sure why not. They sure as hell don’t read this blog… 

Shit, I just got the NFL Sunday ticket and it is about $40 more than it was the last time I had it, I think the gubment should subsidize that price difference.
What is tougher, men giving up football or young college skanks giving up sex?
Tough one huh?

C’mon libs want the gubment out of their bedrooms, but when it’s time to engage in headboard banging activity you mean that these educated skanks want me to pay to keep them from fucking up their lives.

drinking3.jpgLet me think this one out, I’m in.. let’s say, med school or law school, not some bullshit major like liberal arts. I want to finish school and get that degree so I can make the big bucks and become successful, BUT that hunk Brad is looking might fine in those jeans and I could sure use a good pelvic ass clapping workout about now. Just throw down a few drinks and we can get busy!

Oh shit that evil G Dub took that money meant for my weekend skank activities and now how am I going to afford my cell phone, my (real) boyfriends cell phone, i-pod, tanning time, nail care, gas for my SUV (thanks mom and daddy), cable TV, dorm room stripper pole, batteries for my vibrator for between classes, tickets to Tori Amos, the mean green, shoes, purse….damm!

Yes the media is absolutely sure that university students are just too fucken stupid to stay out of such trouble. Shit, we can’t expect students to think of their future, finish school, get their degree and begin their lives in a planned and sensible way, can we?
We have to play nanny to hold their hands, er uh p..is, er uh contraception… for them.

It’s all Bush’s fault?

I found this last line (here) it is fitting;

Perhaps the story title should read, “Narcissistic Sex and Sex Used To Mediate Past Pain Will Now Cost College Women More Money.” LOL!

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If you own a cell phone you need to be aware of this…

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Was watching the news when a story about this new cell phone services Spoofcard.com

Selling points on the site:

SpoofCard calling cards offers you the ability to change what someone sees on their caller ID display when they receive a phone call.
Key Benefits: Make calls truly private, Ability to record calls, Change your voice, Fun and inexpensive, Easy to use and fast to set up!

Ya know this world and our society is already fucked up, I don’t have to editorialize to you people what scam artists, criminals, pedophiles, vindictive people will use this site for.

I’m just dumbfounded that this is even legal and unlike dude below I don’t think this shit is the least bit funny.

Check out the story clip.

“So far I have…………………..

Pranked a friend in the Army, and told him that I was from the (lets just say a government intelligence agency) and that if he didn’t quit using government property to surf for animal porn he would be reported to his superiors,and demoted in rank, and possibly even receive a dishonorable discharge. ( I made sure to leave the automated switchboard # for that agency on his caller ID just in case he called it to verify)

I’ve called Republicans and tried to get them to convert to the Democratic party and vice versa.

I’ve ordered Domino’s pizza from the Pizza Hut ID

I’ve called friends when they were home sleeping at 3AM. I called their cells and made their home number show up on caller ID, using the spooky male voice I’d say, “lean over and look under the bed”……. They SHIT when they thought someone was in the house with them!!

April Fools Day, I called my own mother while she was at work, making her own home phone # show up on the caller ID. Using the spooky male voice I pretended to be a burglar and inventory the nice things in her house that I was going to steal. The real clicher was when I named the new TV she had bought that same day and told her it was still in the original box sitting in the middle of the living room. She hung up on me! I had to immediately dial her right back in the normal fashion and say “April Fools”. She would hardly let me speak, she kept cutting me off saying, “I call you back, I need to call the police. Someone is in my damn house”.

Once I even used it for a vengeful purpose. A guy I hated at work…… lets just say his boss got a prank call from him (using the male voice and acting drunk) and left a very very nasty message on his bosses answering machine. He couldn’t deny it. He looked like a schmuck and a liar no matter what he said because there is no possible way to deny your own caller ID with a time/date stamp on the box. (unless you know about the spoofcard) He only lasted about another week at work, until they came up with a sufficient reason to fire him. LET IT BE KNOWN, YOU DON’T MAKE PASSES AT A GUYS GIRLFRIEND! ESPECIALLY IF HE KNOWS THE POWER OF THE SPOOFCARD!

And last but not least, I even used the “POWER” for a good purpose before also. My brother caught his son (my nephew) dabbleing with selling weed. Of course the next day my nephew gets a mysterious call on his cell from a guy saying “we’re watching your every move! And we know about the dope sales.” When he summons up the nerve to call the number to see who it was……..Low & Behold………it’s the non-emergency number to the local Sherriff’s Department. He’s since gone the way of the straight and narrow. So I have to admit my nephews future was well worth the $10 I paid for the spoofcard……….and I even had 58 minutes left to harrass my buddies!

LET’S HEAR YOUR ADVENTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

No worries for me because I don’t live on my cell phone and except for calls from Mrs. Snoop, work and my daughters and I don’t many cell calls.
I sure as hell don’t have my bank in my phone, but anybody that still does not get that your bank would NEVER ever call you about a bank matter on your cell phone will be the prime targets of this type of service.
Just one more reason to be skeptical of the world around you.

Don’t say Snoop didn’t warn ya.

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