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    Image of Kaehoku Kaehoku
    07/23/09

    In reply to Club Gets Off Scot-Free After Hiring Underage Stripper • Abortion Providers Are Growing Scarce, Study Says
    Wasn't Rhode Island also the state that elected a Governor (or maybe a Mayor of Providence) who was in jail while campaigning, and when he won?
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    07/24/09

    @Kaehoku: If I remember right, Buddy Cianci wasn't in JAIL, but he was accused of burning his ex with cigarettes while a state trooper stood gaurd outside the door. He was re-elected.

    That was felony number one.

    He didn't run again when he was accused , tried, and convicted of corruption charges.
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    07/23/09

    In reply to Club Gets Off Scot-Free After Hiring Underage Stripper • Abortion Providers Are Growing Scarce, Study Says
    oh, for the last time: brain scans do not demonstrate theory or causality. Science Journalism Fail.
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    Image of Wibbles Wibbles
    07/23/09

    @cpma282: It's a cliche at this point: Mainstream Science Journalism will fail 99% of the time.

    Then we all do jazzhands.
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    07/23/09

    In reply to Club Gets Off Scot-Free After Hiring Underage Stripper • Abortion Providers Are Growing Scarce, Study Says
    Oh, Rhode Island. State Motto: The most corrupt state in the union.

    I lived and worked there for four years. THE LONGEST FOUR YEARS OF MY LIFE.

    It's too bad. It could be a marvelous place to live: all that coastline! But the politicans -- and the people who keep voting them in -- are NUTS.

    Full Disclosure -- I am from Massachusetts, the only state that really matters in New England.
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    07/23/09

    @NewsBunny: Hey c'mon now. Where I'm from, we call you guys Massholes :)
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    Image of MissTicklebritches MissTicklebritches
    07/23/09

    @NewsBunny: oh, honey, don't sell Illinois short! We've had 3 governors in jail, and soon we'll have a fourth! Don't even look at our local governments in and around Chicago. Todd Stroger, FTL!
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    07/24/09

    @alouette: Call us what you want. YOU didn't start the revolution.

    :)
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    07/23/09

    In reply to Club Gets Off Scot-Free After Hiring Underage Stripper • Abortion Providers Are Growing Scarce, Study Says
    If giant inflatable vaginas are your thing

    What's all this "if"?
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    Edited by sportz.star at 07/23/09 5:52 PM sportz.star was starred sportz.star was unstarred
    Image of wealhtheow wealhtheow
    07/23/09

    In reply to Club Gets Off Scot-Free After Hiring Underage Stripper • Abortion Providers Are Growing Scarce, Study Says
    I'm actually with the mother in Florida--I'm not really down with federally and state funded schools teaching religion. To my mind, that includes songs. Now, if teachers want to talk about the songs' historical context, or do some critical analysis--I'm all for it. But just flat out teaching religion in schools is unconstitutional.
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    LolaQuinn is full of beans promoted this comment Edited by wealhtheow at 07/23/09 5:51 PM wealhtheow was starred wealhtheow was unstarred
    Image of LolaQuinn is full of beans LolaQuinn is full of beans
    07/23/09

    @wealhtheow: I'm with you. Once you aren't religious anymore, you realize how completely institutionalized religion is in public schools. This is a perfect example...no one thought twice until this mother said something. Now if only we could fix that damn Pledge of Allegiance...
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    Image of wealhtheow wealhtheow
    07/23/09

    @LolaQuinn is full of beans: Or our money. Is it still legal tender if I don't agree with "in God we trust"?
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    Image of Her Grace Her Grace
    07/23/09

    @wealhtheow: On the one hand, the atheist hand, I strongly agree with you. The tacit approval of religion in schools isn't cool, and bothers me a great deal.

    On the other hand, the choral and classical singer hand, I disagree strongly. This genre of music, and most classical music, have strongly religious themes, but to not teach them leaves a gaping hole in music education (which is already underfunded and undertaught anyway). I was never taught them like I had to believe them to be able to sing them with strength and skill, and being a nonbeliever singing such nonsense words probably made me a better singer in the end, anyway--I could emote about god and Christ with the best of them down to the bottom of my little atheist heart. My choral education, in the public schools I attended k-12, did not include any history or theory of music; I did take both in college, because I wanted to. The songs were just words on paper, part of a musical tradition that was vaguely glossed over, presented equally alongside Disney medleys and modern compositions.

    To cut religious texts from the realm of choral performance would be to lose a great deal of beautiful music. Some of my favourite music is religious (I'm a Verdi fan). It isn't doing the nonreligious any favours to argue that we cannot have this music in schools (and limit an already limited curriculum further); rather, we should try to educate the students about the nonnecessity of belief in performance. Use examples from opera, perhaps: no opera singer believes she is really going to die, or marry the hero, or whatever, but that is what she sings. We can all sing things that are not true for us, and beautifully.
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    07/24/09

    @Her Grace: Certainly a lot of music has religious themes, and it would be a shame for students to miss out on all of it. But (and I think we agree here), when songs with religious content are taught I think there should be at least some in-class discussion about it. Otherwise you get what I got in school--90% Christian music for public school choir, with all the accompanying pressumptions.

    On a complete tangent, I didn't take music past elementary school and can't think what you mean by "an already limited curriculum". Do you mean because of budget constraints, or are there things that music classes specifically omit?
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    07/23/09

    In reply to Club Gets Off Scot-Free After Hiring Underage Stripper • Abortion Providers Are Growing Scarce, Study Says
    I don't know about the Ohio thing, I live in Toledo and saw a pole this morning that said that showed approximately 54% support in favor of requiring the father's written permission
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    Image of Megan Megan
    07/23/09

    @whats_in_a_name: It's undoubtedly not a rigorous poll.

    Also, as Katha Pollitt pointed out elsewhere, this very provision was determined to be unconstitutional under Planned Parenthood v. Casey. So it's just a publicity stunt, as the vast majority of these crazy anti-abortion bills often are.
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    07/23/09

    @whats_in_a_name: The spousal consent provision of a Pennsylvania abortion law was held to be an "undue burden" on a woman's right to choose (Planned Parenthood v. Casey), so as of right this second, this bill as written (which goes farther than just spousal consent) would be unconstitutional and invalid. If the SCOTUS really means what it says about stare decisis, the law would have to be struck down.

    The thing that's so shocking to me is that if you're not sure who the father is you have to submit a LIST OF DUDES YOU SLEPT WITH. Seriously, Ohio? They are not messing around when it comes to slut shaming. Yikes.
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    07/23/09

    @Megan: Thanks, I didn't know that this type of provision had already been found unconstitutional.

    @Penny_Esq:
    Saddly that part don't shock me at all, I have an acquaintance who was pregnant awhile ago, she was asked to list all of the potential fathers (she didn't know who it was) when she went in for prenatal care.
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    Image of CParis CParis
    07/23/09

    @Penny_Esq:

    Actually, what every woman seeking an abortion should do is name the doofi who sponsored the bill as possible babydaddies. The required paternity tests and public humiliation could be big fun!
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    I'm Chuck Bass promoted this comment CParis was starred CParis was unstarred
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    07/23/09

    @CParis: That is the awesomest idea, ever.
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    07/23/09

    @CParis: Win! And you know at least one of them has a secret abortion in his past.

    @whats_in_a_name: What purpose is served by listing the potential fathers? Unless you have their medical records their identities wouldn't necessarily improve your prenatal care, right? Crazy.
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    Image of CParis CParis
    07/23/09

    @Penny_Esq:

    The bill requires prenatal (around 10 wks) paternity testing, so that you can identify the babydaddy and secure his approval before you get the abortion.
    Sounds like an episode of the "Maury Show".
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    Image of doodley is not amused doodley is not amused
    07/23/09

    @Penny_Esq: It's even better than that. All the alleged potential fathers have to submit to paternity tests. No paternity test, no abortion.

    http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=128_HB_252
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    07/23/09

    In reply to Club Gets Off Scot-Free After Hiring Underage Stripper • Abortion Providers Are Growing Scarce, Study Says
    Dear Rhode Island,

    Thank you.

    Regards,
    Texas
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    Image of hellosunshine hellosunshine
    07/23/09

    @labeled: Right? I saw the headline, cringed, then sighed with relief when I saw it wasn't Texas. Then got mad at the actual content.
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    Image of Mayonegg Mayonegg
    07/23/09

    In reply to Club Gets Off Scot-Free After Hiring Underage Stripper • Abortion Providers Are Growing Scarce, Study Says
    I'm not sure that the repeated footage of that girl bouncing around was even relevant after the club in question refused to let the news crew film the inside of the venue. If underage stripping is the issue at hand, why have footage of someone who is of age (assumption*) grinding about in the background... shock value? ah. right.
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    Image of wealhtheow wealhtheow
    07/23/09

    @Mayonegg: My favorite bit was when the newscaster intoned "many strippers are victims of sexual assault" over footage of a half-naked girl writhing.
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    Image of Highsmith Highsmith
    07/23/09

    In reply to Club Gets Off Scot-Free After Hiring Underage Stripper • Abortion Providers Are Growing Scarce, Study Says
    Yeah. Cause a "gentleman" pays underage women TENS of dollars to shake their tatas in his face.

    I'd call it the "Horny Toads Club".
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    samethingwedoeverynightpinky promoted this comment Highsmith was starred Highsmith was unstarred
    Image of BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
    07/23/09

    In reply to Club Gets Off Scot-Free After Hiring Underage Stripper • Abortion Providers Are Growing Scarce, Study Says
    Is my vagina supposed to have tentacles? For to trap the the fast-moving men?
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    Image of inabook inabook
    07/23/09

    In reply to Club Gets Off Scot-Free After Hiring Underage Stripper • Abortion Providers Are Growing Scarce, Study Says
    Really, eyewitness news, was the sexy dancing background video really necessary?
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    Intern Katy promoted this comment inabook was starred inabook was unstarred
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    07/23/09

    @inabook: I know! I found the "stripper" wearing jeans kind of hilarious.

    Also, my apologies for momentarily demoting your comment. I clicked the wrong button by mistake.
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    Image of Snizzy-Snazz Bullets Snizzy-Snazz Bullets
    07/23/09

    In reply to Club Gets Off Scot-Free After Hiring Underage Stripper • Abortion Providers Are Growing Scarce, Study Says
    Plowing the fields nude, huh?

    I like to wash my dishes in the nude, wearing only a fedora. If this embarrasses the kitchen gods, they should grant me money for takeout.
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    BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) promoted this comment Snizzy-Snazz Bullets was starred Snizzy-Snazz Bullets was unstarred
    Image of whats_in_a_name whats_in_a_name
    07/23/09

    @Death Clits and Killer Cocks: No, that's how you get the kitchen gods to give you a dishwasher, to get money for takeout you have to do your grocery shopping naked while wearing a sombrero
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    Image of Spacegirl goes home Spacegirl goes home
    07/23/09

    In reply to Club Gets Off Scot-Free After Hiring Underage Stripper • Abortion Providers Are Growing Scarce, Study Says
    Wow, a club named Cheaters, huh? Employing 16 year old runaways? That's Kwality with a capital "K"
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    Image of Maritsa Maritsa
    07/23/09

    @Spacegirl.goes.home: It's also Klassy, but apparently not Kriminal.
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    07/23/09

    @Maritsa: I think it's Krazy.
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    07/23/09

    @BabyJane: Just remember guys, there's no sex in the Khampagne room.
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    07/23/09

    @Maritsa: Kut it out!
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    07/23/09

    @Spacegirl.goes.home: I know of another strip club in Rhode Island called The Fuzzy Grape, and somehow I find that more offensive. Cheaters is gross but honest!
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    07/23/09

    @TheFormerJuneBronson: Ew, sounds like you can get the clap just by looking at the building.
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    Image of Penny_Esq Penny_Esq
    07/23/09

    @TheFormerJuneBronson: The Fuzzy Grape? Is that some kind of vagina euphemism? Or does it refer to the quality of the wine?
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    07/23/09

    @Penny_Esq: Change the name to "Fuzzy Grapes" and it could be about the grooming habits of its patrons.
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    07/23/09

    @Penny_Esq: I have never been able to figure out the rationale behind that name. You can imagine the kinds of questions it inspired in my six-year-old mind. I think my cousin was the one who told me it was a strip club. Then she had to go and tell me my uncle had been there. I still find that pretty gross.
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    07/23/09

    In reply to Club Gets Off Scot-Free After Hiring Underage Stripper • Abortion Providers Are Growing Scarce, Study Says
    as somebody who lives only a few miles from this club, i can tell you that yes, Cheaters is a huge pink building, clearly visible to all the traffic passing by above on Rt95. it's quite a "landmark."
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    Image of NewsBunny NewsBunny
    07/23/09

    @msAnthrope: Not as much as a landmark as Nibbles Woodaway, the Big Blue Bug!
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    Image of msAnthrope msAnthrope
    07/23/09

    @msAnthrope:

    yeah, i love how they dress him up for different holidays.
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    Image of Grim Reaper of the Forest Grim Reaper of the Forest
    07/23/09

    @NewsBunny: My favorite landmark driving to my parents house from grad school!
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    07/23/09

    @NewsBunny: I love that bug.
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    Image of NewsBunny NewsBunny
    07/24/09

    @msAnthrope: I have been on the roof, right next to Nibbles, reporting live as he was lit up for Xmas. The owner of New England Pest Control, who always refers to Nibbles as a living creature -- gave me a lovely Nibbles stuffed animal.

    That owner was NUTS, but in a good way. "Nibbles doesn't mind the rain or snow! NIbbles likes getting makeovers every season! NIbbles has chosen such and such as his charity of the year!"
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    Image of badmutha badmutha
    07/23/09

    In reply to Club Gets Off Scot-Free After Hiring Underage Stripper • Abortion Providers Are Growing Scarce, Study Says
    Cheaters Gentleman's Club - An oxymoronic name if I ever heard one.
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