Check this out. For those who don't remember the 60s, the RC church tried to have the pill pulled off the market in the 60s because they claimed it is an abortificient.

The RC church wants to ban all forms of contraception, not just the ones they claim are abortificients. According to the RC church, the only moral form of contraception is abstinence -- no IUD, no condoms (even for married couples), no sterilization, no pill, no nothing except abstinence.

Yet, as Uta Ranke-Heinneman points out in Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven, the RC church seems to have trouble morally justifying a temporal barrier (periodic abstinence) to prevent contraception while at the same time prohibiting a physical barrier (condom or diaphram), a chemical barrier (the contraceptive pill which operates primarily by inhibiting ovulation), or a mechanical barrier (IUD) to prevent contraception. Very few people realize how much the RC church changed its position on sex when it permitted natural family planning. Until that time, sex without the *intent* to procreate was a sin. With natural family planning, sex became sinful when it was engaged in without the possibility of pregnancy.

So just how much of a possibility must exist for sex to not be considered sinful? After all, condoms break, women don't always use the pill faithfully or another drug may interfere it its effectiveness, or an IUD can fail. So it is possible for a woman to become pregnant while using any artificial contraceptive. So I repeat the question, just how much of a possibility must exist for sex to not be considered sinful? Just how ineffective must a contraceptive techinique be to be approved by the church?

When are MEN going to start speaking up on this issue? When their wives make them use rubbers because all other contraceptives have been withdrawn from the market? And I do mean contraceptives, not abortion.

Afghanistan, Oil, and Intelligence (and lack thereof)

Bush Let It Happen
BuckStopsThere.com
The Politics of Treason By William Rivers Pitt, Truth Out, May 31, 2002
The Events, Planes and Players of September 11: Putting It All Together By Cheryl Seal, Democrats.com, June 4, 2002
Speech by FEMA Director Joe Allbaugh to the National Emergency Management Association Conference, September 10, 2001
US right questions Saudi ties By John Leyne, BBC, May 31, 2002
Bush: The Ignored Warning That Will Come To Haunt Him By Gordon Thomas, May 2, 2002 - Israeli Intelligence Warned US 5 Times that "terrorists plan to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture."
Did FBI Terrorism Expert John O'Neill QUIT Over Bush's Refusal to Heed the Phoenix Memo?
John O'Neill, the FBI's expert on bin Laden, received a copy of the Pheonix memo
''The dreadful record of the FBI'' By John Chuckman, YellowTimes.org, June 5, 2002
Rebel With a Cause By Eyal Press, The Nation, June 10, 2002
Startled marines find Afghan men all made up to see them Chris Stephen, Scotsman, May 24, 2002
Ashcroft, Jeb Bush, and the FLA Nazi Patrol Persecute Former NASA Scientist for Being a Dissenter - and Female By Cheryl Seal, May 30, 2002
Was 911 Permitted by the Powers-That-Be to Happen? by The Questioning Patriot, May 31, 2002
FBI Gets Broad Domestic Spy Powers By Pere Yost, AP, May 30, 2002 – If I join, do I get to check out those potential terrorists at the country club, with the government picking up the tab, of course?
Enron, the Bush administration, and the Central Asian War By Larry Chin, On Line Journal, Feb. 7, 2002
Patriot Act's supposed justification is gone by Peter Erlinder, Star Tribune, May 22, 2002
Enron, Sex, and Anti-Semitism, San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, 2002
Enron Pipedreams Buried in Afghanistan – Are Enron and Afghanistan Related thru Oil? By Ron Callari, Freezer Box, March 2, 2002
Feds: Ex-Agent Had Key Data, Stock scam charges have eerie link By Anthony M. DeStefano, Newsday, May 29, 2002
Bush Did Try to Save Enron By Sam Parry, Consortium News, May 29, 2002
Afghan Warlord Urges War Vs. U.S, AP, By Kathy Gannon, May 30, 2002
Central Asia gas deal signed, BBC, May 31, 2002
Oil riches in the pipeline, The Australian, May 31, 2002
Interview with Brent Scrowcroft, PBS, Oct 2001
More Pre-Attack Warning Memos Turn Up By Brian Blomquist , NY Post, May 30, 2002
FBI Director Meuller's Job Credentials, DoJ Cover-Up Specialist Bobby Mueller Named FBI Chief by Al Martin
U.S. Plans for Martial Law, Tele-Governance, Suspension of Elections By John Stanton and Wayne Madsen, News Insider, 20 May 2002
Tearful FBI Agent Apologizes To Sept. 11 Families and Victims By Jeff Johnson, CNSNews.com, May 30, 2002
Government doesn't need more power By Jesse Walker, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel On-Line, May 26, 2002, 911 Was a Failure of Analysis, Not Surveillance - Repeal USA Patriot Act
U.S. Ignored Face-to-Face Warnings from French Intelligence Agents From Sept 5-6 by James Ridgeway, Village Voice, May 29, 2002
Coleen Rowley's Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller, An edited version of the agent's 13-page letter, Time magazine, May 21, 2002
Steal this graphic.
Top Pentagon officials cancelled travel plans on Sept 10 for the next day because of security concerns, Newsweek, Sept 24, 2001
What Did Bush Know?
U.S. was warned that Moussaoui had close ties to al-Qaida, analyst says, By Damien Cave, salon.com, May 23, 2002
2 Days before 911, Bin Laden told mother to expect "big news", democrats.com
John O'Neill: Was He a Casualty of the Bush Administration? By Cheryl Seal, democrats.com
The U.S. ignored foreign warnings, too by John K. Cooley, International Herald Tribune, May 21, 2002
FBI Agent Alleges Moussaoui Roadblocks, Guardian (UK), Friday May 24, 2002
Pentagon Chiefs Planned For Jet Attack by Andy Lines, Mirror, May 24, 2002
Tracking a Counterterrorism Breakdown, NPR, May 23, 2002
Bush: The Ignored Warning That Will Come To Haunt Him By Gordon Thomas, May 2, 2002 - Israeli Intelligence Warned US 5 Times that " terrorists plan to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture."
Terrorist Ties Cited in Memo, By Eric Lichtblau And Josh Meyer, LA Times, May 23, 2002
Letter to the Editor on withdrawing from the ICC, May 7, 2002
Green Berets land in former Soviet republic, CNN, May 19, 2002
How W. Bush and His Administration Failed Us, BuzzFlash, May 21, 2002
Clinton Targeted Terrorism, ABC, Jan. 29, 1999
Explosive New Book Published in France Alleges that U.S. Was in Negotiations to Do a Deal with Taliban, CNN, Jan 8, 2002
September 11, 2001: No Surprise by Russ Kick
BUSH KNEW, The Guardian, May 20, 2002
Rep. Senators Lott and Hatch Block President's Anti-Terrorism Legislation: President wants Senate to hurry with new anti-terrorism laws, CNN, July 30, 1996
CIA admits foreknowledge of 9/11 By Larry Chin, Online Journal, May 6, 2002
Statement By U.S. Senator Feinstein On Concerns Raised About Possible Terrorist Attacks on Our Nation, May 19, 2002
U.S. warned in 1995 of plot to hijack planes, attack buildings By Maria Ressa, CNN, September 18, 2001
Mubarak warned US 12 days before 911, AP, Dec 7, 2001
US 'planned attack on Taleban', BBC, Sept. 18, 2001
US agents told: Back off bin Ladens, smh.com.au, Nov. 7, 2001
Why Was Ashcroft Flying in Leased Aricraft, not Commercial Airlines, last summer? CBS News, July 26, 2001 – Because he was afraid of hijackers!!!
Bush et al Couldn't Connect-the-Dots Yeah. Right., May 17, 2002
What Bush Knew In July, 2001 by Jim Pittman, May 16, 2002 – This story will knock your socks off
GIs Battle 'Ghosts' in Afghanistan : Search for Elusive Enemy Frustrates Americans by Peter Bake, Washington Post, May 16, 2002
American Taliban Uses Ashcroft Anti-Gun Control Arguments as Defense, Violence Policy Center, May 16, 2002

Bush, Terrorism, and Civil Liberties

Presidential Powers In Times Of Emergency: Could Terrorism Result In A Constitutional Dictator? By John W. Dean , FindLaw, June 7, 2002
Secret FBI files reveal covert activities at UC: Bureau's campus operations involved Reagan, CIA by Seth Rosenfeld, San Francisco Chronicle, June 9, 2002
GOP Dirty Tricks, Liberal Slant, Mike Hersh, June 5, 2002
A List of Accomplishments of Bush's First Year in Office, Liberal Slant, June 2002
When Pigs Fly! by Rebecca Knight, BuzzFlash, June 6, 2002
Judas of the GOP lashes out at corporate greed, San Francisco Chronicle, June 2, 2002
Greens to Liberals: Drop Dead! By Harold Meyerson, American Prospect, July 1, 2002
U.S.: Growing Problem Of Guantanamo Detainees, Common Dreams, June 2, 2002
White House Faces Disclosure Suit, Group Says Government Had Braced for Anthrax Attacks, Washington Post, June 8, 2002
Once Again, Bush Embarrasses the US by Gerard Baker, Financial Times, May 29 2002
Why populists and free-market fundies are never surprised , Molly Ivins, May 30, 2002
Pat Robertson's Quest for Eternal Life By Daniel Roth, Fortune, June 10, 2002
Tax the Wealthy: Why America needs the estate tax. By William R. Gates Sr. and Chuck Collins, American Prospect, June 17, 2002
Bush vs. women of the world by Joan Ryan, San Francisco Chronicle, May 26, 2002
Even Phyllis Schlafly Thinks Bush is Too Secretive, FindLaw, May 24, 2002
Bush's Nuke Policy Treats The Public As A Pawn by Peter Ferenbach, TomPaine, May 23, 2002
How to Beat Ass-KKKroft at His Own Game By Jackson Thoreau, Am Pol, May 4, 2002
The axis of nonsense by Andrew Murray, The Guardian, May 15, 2002
Bush Foreign Policy Suffering from "untreated bipolar disorder," AP, May 20, 2002
The Fake Persuaders: Corporations are Inventing People to Rubbish Their Opponents on the Internet by George Monbiot, Guardian of London, May 14, 2002
Republicans Against Lincoln, BuzzFlash, May 15, 2002
W's Record, BuzzFlash, May 10, 2002
A Timeline of Events Leading Up to the 911 Attack on the WTC, make sure to check out item number 12
Meet the New NRA: It's About More Than Guns by Dick Dahl, Join Together, May 8, 2002

Afghans Protest Over US Manipulation Of Summit Influence At Loya Jirga by Kate Clark in Kabul, The Independent, 12 June 2002
Warlords Return, Warlords Return, Human Rights Watch, June 6, 2002
Avenging Meena's Blood is Meaningful Only in the Context of Struggle Against Fundamentalism and for Democracy
Afghanistan's troubled start to democracy By Scott Baldauf, Dawn/The Christian Science Monitor News Service, May 29, 2002
Welfare Hospital For Afghan Refugee Women And Children Inaugurated by Afshan Shiraz Khan, The News International, May 28, 2002
Prisoners Released From Overcrowded Northern Prison Speak Of Brutality And Greed By Patrick Quinn, AP, May 25, 2002
Famine Hits Drought-Ridden Afghanistan By Justin Pope, AP, May 23, 2002
Forgotten Victims: The full human cost of US air strikes will never be known, but many more died than those killed directly by bombs, Jonathan Steele in Heart, The Guardian, May 20, 2002
Warrior and Peace: Is Ahmad Shah Masood a legitimate candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize? By Mohammad Shehzad, The News, May 12, 2002
Women Still Under Threat, Human Rights Watch, May 9, 2002
Freedom Of Press In Afghanistan, By Niko Price, AP via The Frontier Post, May 5, 2002
Afghan Laws Still Repress Women: Refusing suitor, leaving husband bring jail time by Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune, April 28, 2002
For the Sins of the Taliban By Peter Bouckaert and Saman Zia-Zarif, The Washington Post, Mar.20, 2002
Media Indifference To Afghan Crisis: Why Is The Mainstream Media Ignoring The Mass Death Of Afghan Civilians?, The Ecologist, March 2002
Free to Die: "The US [Govt.] doesn't give a damn for women's rights in Afghanistan", Le Monde diplomatique, March 2002
Warlord's Men Commit Rape In Revenge Against Taliban By David Filipov, Boston Globe, February 24, 2002
Afghan Women May Still Suffer by Noble Peace Prize Winner Koffie Annan, AP, Feb.20, 2002
Lifting The Veil On Taliban Sex Slavery: Of all the ways the Taliban abused women, this may be the worst By Tim Mcgirk and /Shomali Plain, Time, February 18, 2002
RAWA's Aid to Biggest Kabul Orphanage, Spring 2002
Central Asia gas deal signed, BBC, May 31, 2002 – Bush's major accomplishment. Where's Osama?

An Idea Whose Time Has Come
A dying breed of pro-lifers By Robert Novak, Chicago Sun Times, June 6, 2002 Nobody really expected that Robert Casey Jr., an experienced statewide candidate with a golden political name in Pennsylvania, would lose last month's Democratic primary for governor in a landslide. His crushing defeat raises a question with national political implications. Will he become the last pro-life Democrat ever to be a serious candidate for major office in a big urban state?
Wilkins to Face GOP Colleagues, Plead for Job, Answers Fail to Appease By R.H. Melton, Washington Post, June 9, 2002 –Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates paid a $100,000 settlement in a sexual harassment suit last year. Other women come forward. Why are Robertson and Falwell silent?
Homeland Security Hacks by Anonymous, BuzzFlash.com, June 12, 2002
Ralph Nader, the Greens, and the Right, Eric Altman, msnbc.com, June 12, 2002
Can U.S. avoid political expedience in fight against human exploitation?, Pioneer Press, June 7, 2002
Group says 27 million are enslaved, Reuters, May 29, 2002
What Congress Does Not Know about Enron and 9/11, John Luftus, May 31, 2002
"Shallow Throat" reveals Bush&Co.'s weak spots By Bernard Weiner, Online Journal, June 10, 2002
Why no Whitewater treatment over Halliburton?, Molly Ivins, Dallas – Fort Worth Star Telegram, June 9, 2002
Government By Anthrax by Richard J. Ochs, June 9, 2002
Left Justified, By David Lytel, democrats.com, June 6, 2002
Democrats are good for the pocketbook by Arthur I. Blaustein, San Jose Mercury News, accessed June 11, 2002
Assault On America by Rebecca Knight, BuzzFlash.com, June 7, 2002