The End of Child Labor Laws?

If we are to have a country resembling a Dickens novel, there is one big thing standing in the way:

Child Labor Laws

But Jane Cunningham of Missouri is working on that:
Cunningham defended the deletion of these hour requirements, saying that children's ability to negotiate their own work schedule is an important part of teaching responsibility, which she said could foster higher academic performance.

Except according to the American Educational Research Journal who published a thorough study in 2000 which concluded:
We find no evidence that high school employment has either short- or long-term effects on grades in academic courses or that grades in these courses influence employment activities. Pre-existing differences between more and less intensively employed students fully account for the association between employment intensity and grades in academic courses.

Read more about Cunningham here:
http://ozarksfirst.com/fulltext?nxd_id=406876

The study is here but requires a subscription:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1163498

As my mom pointed out...they can't even have enough jobs for the adults, how are you going to have them for children?

Or they'll make us compete with children/minors who don't need and/or won't demand a living wage as adults do...

Doctor Who Premieres!!!

We finally get new Doctor Who episodes starting April 23 in the UK and USA!!!!

I'm so excited and on Friday, we get something to tide us over...

Unfamiliar Fishes

I'm so excited about this, too!!!

Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell March 22, 2011

Did you realize it's already been a year and a half since the Wordy Shipmates?

Library Post!

aka I might be in the current possession of more books than I know what to do with...

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor -They had the whole trilogy. I've never heard of it before but Amanda talked it up.

Doctor Who: The Doctor Trap by Simon Messingham -Donna!

Harry Potter y la Camara Secreta by JK Rowling -I'm really enjoying reading them again in Spanish.

Wardstone Chronicles: The Spook's Curse aka The Last Apprentice: Curse of the Bane by Joseph Delaney -The first book was pretty good.

You Can't Take No for an Answer

You Can't Take No for an Answer

[Dr. Teeth:]
You can't take no for an answer!
You can't take no for an answer!
You can't take no for an answer!
No, no, no.

[Sax solo (Zoot)]

[Dr. Teeth:]
Whenever there's a dream worth a-dreaming (dreaming!)
And you wanna see that dream come true (dream come true!)
There'll be plenty people talking
"Forget all about it"
Say "it isn't worth the trouble--
All the trouble that you're going through!" (it ain't worth it-NO!)
Well, what can you do?

[Chorus]

[Dr. Teeth/Backup Singers:]
You can't take no for an answer! (you can't take no)
You can't take no for an answer! (no no no no)
You can't take no for an answer!
No, no, no.

[Backup singers:]
No no no no no no no no no.
No no no no no no no no no.

[Dr. Teeth:]
Whatcha gonna do when the dimes get tough
and the world's treating you unkind?
You gotta hang on to your optimistic outlook
And keep possession of your positive state-of-mind
(state of mind, state of mind, state of mind, state, state, mind!)

The Event

So I don't watch The Event but I've noticed that the ads lately talk about the aliens being here first and how they're taking back their planet which leaves me to one conclusion...

So, they're Silurians?

Death Panels DO Exist Right NOW!

They're called insurance and pharmaceutical companies. Last month, the FDA wanted all drugs known as Makena to have the same formula so nobody would have the misfortune of a version not made as well. They awarded the sole responsibility of making Makena to KV Pharmaceutical.

Last month, a dose of the medication cost $10-20 each time but now that KV has exclusive rights, they've increased that price to as much $1,500 a dose!!!

Makena is used to prevent premature labor.

They're killing babies: wanted babies, babies being planned by parents who love them very much already but could never afford to pay that!

KV says the cost is justified to avoid the mental and physical disabilities that can come with very premature births except that parents and insurance companies won't be able to pay for the drug in the first place. We will see a rise in babies born too young to survive past birth or having to be in incubators for months.

Why can't those who spend so much time and effort to "protect" fetuses in the first trimester spend that much time and effort to protect those in the third?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_he_me/us_med_premature_birth_drug_5