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WCGreen

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12. It's the broadcast media's fault....

Reply to RKP5637 (Reply #11)

Wed Feb 22, 2012, 05:08 PM

Feb 2012

all though print media assumes a large part of the blame.

There is just nothing of value news wise on television. And since most people get their news from the TV, well....

All TV does is present pictures that they then fit into a narrative that is hard to bust out of once started.

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Judge: State can't make druggists sell Plan B contraceptive [View all] cleanhippie Feb 2012 OP

This is soooo screwed up in so many ways - soooo backward. US = United Stupidity. n/t RKP5637 Feb 2012 #1

Idiocracy, here we come... WCGreen Feb 2012 #3

You know, I tried to watch Idiocracy all the way through and never made it ... it struck RKP5637 Feb 2012 #11

It's the broadcast media's fault.... WCGreen Feb 2012 #12

If they recieve certification from the state.... WCGreen Feb 2012 #2

Pull their licence Angry Dragon Feb 2012 #7

Can someone tell me what the difference would be Angry Dragon Feb 2012 #4

appointed by georgie boy, big surprise niyad Feb 2012 #5

dear pharmacists, if you have objections to providing legal drugs, GET ANOTHER JOB niyad Feb 2012 #6

funny how the religious crowd reads a job description, takes the job anyway, THEN msongs Feb 2012 #10

It Would Be Nice If..... zorahopkins Feb 2012 #8

So, a pharmacists rights to withhold prescrition medicine trumps a person's rights to get them? Old and In the Way Feb 2012 #9

No, the ruling was that the state can not command a business to carry certain merchandise ProgressiveProfessor Feb 2012 #20

I want my right to freedom FROM religion MiniMe Feb 2012 #13

In this country, it would seem that only christians get that right. cleanhippie Feb 2012 #16

DO YOUR JOB or FIND ANOTHER ONE. Warren DeMontague Feb 2012 #14

Nominated by Bush the Dumber... joeybee12 Feb 2012 #15

The war on women goes on. CrispyQ Feb 2012 #17

Well then Politicalboi Feb 2012 #18

Most of the responses so far have missed a key point...it was pharmacies not pharmacists ProgressiveProfessor Feb 2012 #19

Sounds like an opportunity. Jester Messiah Feb 2012 #21