After all, the ignorant author who wrote it trashed an entire occupation.
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Prop 8 opponents marched in San Francisco's Castro district to express their view the constitutional amendment should be overturned by the state's high court, and never mind if it did, the court would probably be doing it illegally.
After all, slavery in the United States constitution was not overturned by the courts but by constitutional amendment. Prohibition was repealed not by a court ruling but by another constitutional amendment. That's what is really needed here, but the political pressure by the LGBT groups may be hard for the high court to ignore.
The high court's hearing is this morning.
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New UI claims dropped a bit last week.
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If GM is allowed to go under, it could have absolutely devastating effects on the economy.
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A golden eagle survived when it crashed head first into a truck windshield.
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The is one for the lunch hour: A 92-year-old woman "delivered" a 60-year-old baby in one of the rare cases of a lithopedion or "stone baby."
Snip about this interesting phenomenon:
According to a 1996 paper in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, only 290 cases of lithopedion have ever been documented by medical literature, the earliest being that of a 68-year-old French woman Madame Colombe Chatri who, when autopsied after her death in 1582, was found to be carrying a fully-developed stone baby in her abdominal cavity. Chatri, whose abdomen was said to be “swollen, hard and painful throughout her life,” had been carrying her stone child for 28 years.
The mean duration of a “stone pregnancy,” according to the Journal article, is 22 years. Some women, such as China’s Huang Yijun, have carried their calcified fetuses for more than 50 years.
How could a woman walk around with a stone baby for years and years and not realize something was amiss?
“In some cases, there would be symptoms of an early pregnancy and then they would go away,” says Burger. “The women would just think they just lost a pregnancy and wouldn’t think any more of it.”
In other cases, a lack of money or medical resources comes into play. Huang Yijun told reporters she didn’t have the money to have her fetus removed after doctors told her it had died inside her in 1948. So, she simply “did nothing and ignored it.”
Here are a couple of Google images of "stone babies" for your viewing pleasure:
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