It’s official. The U.S. death toll in Iraq has hit the 4,000 mark.
At this rate, if John McCain wins and we’re there for “100 years if necessary,” that’ll bring our tally up to at least 80,000 deaths in this hundred-year war (and probably just wipe out all of Iraq, seeing as how iraqbodycount.org has a minimum of 82,349 documented civilian deaths to date).
I wonder where the candidates stand on repealling that ban the Bush administration put back into effect that bars photos of soldiers’ coffins from being published. Anyone know? Hit me up.
Filed under: Stupid Ads, women of color | Tags: brujas, lactose intolerant, leche, Milk, PMS, witches
Because we all know PMS-ing women are brujas. *eyeroll*
And as Jezebel pointed out, aren’t women of color more prone to lactose intolerance? Nice research there on your sexist ad, California Milk Processor Board.
Filed under: Reproductive Rights, women of color | Tags: abstinence-only, immigrant women, Medicaid, reproductive health, sex education, United Nations, United States, women of color
It’s a no-brainer that women of color often don’t receive a high standard of health care in the United States, but it’s not often that the United Nations chimes in on that fact:
[O]ne day before International Women’s Day, a United Nations committee expressed concern about “wide racial disparities” in sexual and reproductive health in the United States. The Committee was responding to pervasive and dramatic disparities between the reproductive health of women of color and white women…
