Good thing this was on Twitter. Had it been on Facebook it would have been deleted because someone was offended by it:

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/saudi-women-launch-twitter-campaign-demanding-end-male-guardianship-1574537

Here's a link I also added to the convo (from a few days ago) about sleep in hospitals. The article itself does not pertain to sleep however it's worth a read:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/02/letting-go-2

"Modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions—and bad at knowing when to focus, instead, on improving the days that terminal patients have left."

Paul Krugman on lead in the water.

"Flint was just an extreme example of a much bigger problem. And it’s a problem that should be part of our political debate: Like it or not, poisoning kids is a partisan issue."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/opinion/black-lead-matters.html?_r=0

Reminds me of what was pointed out almost 20 years ago, by Pollitt:

"The threat to newborns is interesting when and only when it can, accurately or fancifully, be laid at women's doorstep. Babies 'possibly' impaired by maternal drinking? Front-page stories, a national wave of alarm. A New England Journal of Medicine report that 16 percent of American children have been mentally and neurologically damaged because of exposure to lead, mostly from flaking lead paint in substandard housing? Peter Jennings looks mournful and suggests that 'all parents can do' is to have their children tested frequently. If the mother isn't to blame, no one is to blame."

In this case Lenona if a Republican isn't to blame then no one is to blame.

And, in today's episode of Fun with Muslims, we feature Carbeque Jihad in Denmark.

Without the filibuster, the Senate simply becomes another House of Representatives.

I very much doubt Krugman was truly implying that, given that Michigan has been a (mostly) blue state since 1992. Yes, I know the governor is Republican.

BTW, if you like, here's what Matt Latimer, speechwriter for George W. Bush, wrote in January about Flint:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/opinion/republicans-ignore-a-poisoned-city.html?_r=0

First paragraphs:

"Ever since I became a conservative as a teenager growing up in the city of Flint, Mich., I’ve heard again and again from Republican leaders about their commitment to minorities and the poor. Even today, we are told that conservative solutions exist for persistent poverty, for joblessness, for the masses of people, like those in my hometown, who live lives of quiet despair. House Speaker Paul Ryan has been especially eloquent on this point. If only Republicans would get a chance to prove it.

"That chance has arrived in a big way. Unfortunately, my party is not taking it...."

Last paragraphs:

"...This is the Republicans’ chance to show their worth — the chance our leaders have said they always wanted. Why haven’t they been here over the decades, running serious candidates, supporting federal aid for the city, championing pilot projects that might show what a conservative approach to urban areas might do? Why aren’t they in Flint today, shipping in water bottles and holding fund-raisers for kids now condemned to lowered expectations because their brains were poisoned by lead?

"It cannot be, as the left would tell us, because Flint has a large African-American population. Or that the city has always been a Democratic stronghold. That’s exactly a place Republicans should target.

"I think it’s because they are used to staying away. The party is accustomed to talking about policies and ideas to help urban America and then implementing them in safe, Republican-friendly areas like Idaho or Arizona. It’s not easy to go to a place where nobody knows you or likes you. It’s not easy to make change.

"I do not for a moment question the sincerity of those voices in the party who call for a new approach to persistent poverty or who seek to welcome African-Americans and others into the fold. I don’t believe it’s impossible for conservatives to help a place like Flint. But first you have to show up."

So lets see, residents voted democrat for generations.

Residents chose to put lead lined pipes in their homes

Democrats chose to put lead lined pipes under the streets

Democrats chose to build a new water treatment plant closer to home, but failed to properly fund it

Democrats chose to not renew their water contract with a supplier based in a nearby city run by Democrats, becuase they felt that . . .

Democrats running that water plant were charging the city of Flint too much

Democrats chose to ILLEGALLY refuse to supply water Flint under the terms of the contract that would not expire for nearly two years

Democrats chose to pull water from the closest river

Democrats chose to not put in the additive that would have prevented this situation from ever arising

Democrats in the EPA who discovered the problem before the state did chose to not tell anyone about it.

But please lenona, tell us again how its the republicans fault

I DIDN'T say Republicans caused it.

If you think the liberal Krugman or the conservative Latimer said anything like that (as opposed to saying/implying that Republicans don't seem to care about doing any BETTER than the Democrats, here and now), kindly point it out - and/or explain what's wrong with anything else they said.