[SACRAMENTO.CBSLOCAL] Sacramento County's health department will begin distributing a take-home STD test for women that won't cost users a penny.
The city has one of the highest rates of STDs in the state, and it keeps going up every year. Now a new online program will hopefully get more people to get tested.
"We definitely need all the help we can get," said Sacramento County Public Health Officer Dr. Olivia Kasirye.
The division of public health says STDs are spreading like wildfire in Sacramento, with chlamydia and gonorrhea considered an epidemic.
"Many people who have STDs do not have symptoms. So they would not know otherwise, unless they do the testing," said Kasirye.
STD tests can be costly and uncomfortable for some. So now the county is offering in-home tests for women, which are paid for by the state.
"More like a swab in the private area and then they put it in the tube. The tube is then sealed and mailed off to the lab," said Kasirye.
You can sign up online and a few days later you'll receive a kit in the mail. It won't cost a thing.
"Free, anonymous, at home, yeah sounds good," said one Sacramento woman. "I can imagine a lot of women signing up for that."
After about a week later, results are posted online where only users can see them with a confidential code.
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Sounds like this program is another subsidy to more equal women.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] A Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, bill that could strip tax-exempt status from Little League, the Boy Scouts of America and other "discriminatory" nonprofit youth-serving groups could come up for a final vote this week.
The first-of-its-kind bill, SB 323, passed the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Senate and sailed through Assembly committees to a floor vote, possibly this week.
But opponents are taking heart that there might not be enough votes in the state Assembly to pass the bill.
The chamber did not consider the bill in its Monday session, but may take it up when it convenes Friday.
The bill, introduced by State Sen. Ricardo Lara, names the Boy Scouts, Little League, Future Farmers of America and 19 other organizations as examples of groups that could be stripped of their tax-exempt status if found to discriminate based on gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, race, religion or religious affiliation.
The measure also threatens retaliation tax-exempt status for public and private schools found to sponsor discriminatory youth groups. One critic said it could even threaten an exemption status held by a church. "The power to tax is the power to destroy."
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The Future Farmers of America (FFA) is a particular dire threat to progressive socialism democracy. How dare they wear those racist blue corduroy jackets, study animal husbandry [even the term seems homophobic], feed livestock and then EAT THEM!.....Assuming they will one day have land to farm, how vulgar and crass. That's the people's land !
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This bill is bad for California and its citizens. But, it may be good for the Boy Scouts, Little League, and the Future Farmers of America, that will be shining lights in a dark and perverted land.
My guess is that they will get a pass and every group that espouses "American" or "Traditional" values will get pilloried, sued and taxed into oblivion.
[DAILYCALLER] Students in a rural Kentucky county -- and their parents -- are the latest to join a growing national chorus of scorn for the healthy school lunches touted by first lady Michelle Obama.
"They say it tastes like vomit," said Harlan County Public Schools board member Myra Mosley at a contentious board meeting last week, reports The Harlan Daily Enterprise.
The growing body of USDA meal regulations implemented by the Department of Agriculture under the "Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010″ has long been a signature issue for the first lady.
Denizens of Harlan County don't much care, though. Their primary concern at the board meeting was a bevy of complaints that local children are starving at lunch -- and for the remainder of the school day -- because the food on offer in the cafeteria is crappy and there isn't nearly enough of it.
"Kids can't learn when they're hungry!" parents shouted to the board, according to the Enterprise.
Other gripes involved the new bread, which students don't want to eat because it's brown wheat bread, and the new milk, which is skim or one percent fat, not two percent or whole. The cafeteria's chocolate- and strawberry-flavored milk offerings are now nonfat.
Jack Miniard, the school district's director of school and community nutrition, was on hand to explain that the federal government now governs both food choices and portion sizes in most American school districts including Harlan County.
Under the National School Lunch Program, Under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, participating schools must provide lunches -- including free or reduced price lunches -- with minimum amounts of fresh fruits, fresh vegetables and whole grains. Also, in what presumably falls outside the hunger-free aspect of the act, there's a calorie cap: 850 for high school lunches, 700 for middle schools and a mere 650 calories for kids in elementary school.
Students can only have one serving of meat or other protein. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... rich kids can buy a second portion each day on their own dime.
Servings of carbohydrates such as potatoes are limited to just a single serving of three-fourths of a cup per student.
On the plus side, students can eat as many fruits and vegetables as they want.
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The point is rarely made that Mooch has absolutely NO experience with the subject at hand. NO, NADA, NONE.
She is not a dietitian or food expert in any way. (except planning for White House banquets)
She just pulled stats out of her huge ass and proceeded to inflict standards on our children without any skillset in the subject of the nutritional diets for our children.
Yet EVERY school administrator bowed to her expertise and forced our kids to eat this idiot's meal plan.
Goes to show you, you can fool Democrats and school administrators, but can't fool kids
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Normal children need at least most of those fats and sugars, &c. They've got lots of energy to maintain. An obese child is usually a glandular problem.
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But I doubt the food tastes like vomit. Eating mystery meat if part of the process of growing up.
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SPAM is very popular in the Pacific Islands. I like mine fried, with crispy edges. :-)
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Perhaps this is all part of a larger plan which will herald the return of the brown bag, PB&J, apple, and cookie. Make the stuff unfit to eat.... end the costly subsidies due to lack of interest.
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This issue is near and dear to my heart. Since my wife works at the local elementary school cafeteria. Over the last few years the only kids not packing were the kids on the free or reduced lunch. Families paying full price feel the meal is not worth the cost. Kids do not like it.
The kids on free or reduced lunch routinely try and trade the GIvernment lunch for real food.
Once a mom came into the cafeteria to have lunch with their child. She carried in an 'unhealthy' happy meal. When the kid sat down they swapped lunches and mom at the free lunch.
I have said this before. This new program has created the healthiest trash cans in schools. Kids routinely dump 1/2 their lunch in the trash.
Lastly. When kids run up a tab they still get a free lunch. Usually a grill cheese. Use to be peanut butter and jelly but now peanuts are 'poison' for all children and is banned from the cafeteria.
[THEHILL] Senator Barbara Call me Senator! Boxer Senator-for-Life from Caliphornia... (D-Calif.) said Monday night she wants the minimum wage increased to $10, a nearly $3 boost from its current level of $7.25.
Babs may well be in the running for dumbest Senator now that Joe Biden is Vice President...
"I think about $10. I think that would be right," Boxer said in an appearance on MSNBC's "The Ed Show."
Boxer said that a boost to the minimum wage would "make a huge difference."
"People are struggling," she said. "The difference between the very wealthy and the working poor has grown."
Boxer also said an increase in the minimum wage would advance the core causes of the Obama presidency.
It will certainly advance the core causes of the labor unions who have contracts that increase wages whenever the minimum wage increases...
"We raise that minimum wage, and we move forward with the vision of this president that we have, which is everyone pays their fair share; we make investments where it matters. It's going to be a great century for us.
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Personally I think boxers should only make money if they win the bout, otherwise they should get nothing.
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She is a cheap B-tch.... Minimum wage should be 16 BUCKS.... Shock and Awe has been the hallmark of the Big O administration..... " Spread the wealth around " nes pas ?
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Actually it should be much higher than 16 BUCKS....possibly as high as 31 BUCKS....owing to the need for restorative measures resulting from discriminatory retroactive impacts, etc. I recommend lump-sum retro, katch-me-up payments or free Obamamobiles.
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I agree Besoeker but lets pull ou all the stops - F the 40 ACRES and a mule.... you need a DOLLAR a minute, $60 an hour, $2400 a week,$108 Thousand a year, flip them burgers for a "liveable wage". ---- Spread the wealth around -- FiNger --- to the O ---- OHHHHH I missed and it ended up in the boxers ---- OHHHH --- She had her Thrill for the year...
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Yes, 40 acres sounds like a lot of weed eating and work. And a mule.... no air conditioning on one of them, and they don't breed well either. Take the cash and lump sum. Like winning Powerball, prolly need a 'good lawyer' [pardon the oxymaroon].
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You can grow a lot of weed on 40 acres. Way more than $108,000 a year. But you'll sweat!
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10 plus unemployment insurance, disability insurance, employers portion of social security, etc.
More central planning. Cause the right people weren't in charge last time (never understanding, there will never be the 'right' people)
Wonder why the economy sucks and is flat, just keep lying to yourselves about the real world around you. Taking actions based upon falsehoods usually doesn't generate the intended result.
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P2K you have given me an idea. I am a story teller or try to be. Remember the Bible story of the three sons who are given money to manage. Then the results after a time. We have people in power with similar difficulties. They attack the one who has grown his money.
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So companies hire illegals because they don't want to pay minimum wage.
So we make the legals legal so they hvae to be paid above the table and then we raise the minimum wage to ensure that the illegal workers are still doing the work as before, cutting the newly legal folks out of their jobs. Did I get that right because it makes little sense to me.
The Obama administration has delayed a step crucial to the launch of the new healthcare law, the signing of final agreements with insurance plans to be sold on federal health insurance exchanges starting October 1.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notified insurance companies on Tuesday that it would not sign final agreements with the plans between September 5 and 9, as originally anticipated, but would wait until mid-September instead, according to insurance industry sources.
Are they allowed to delay signing per the law or is this just more executive over-reach?
Nevertheless, Joanne Peters, a spokeswoman for HHS, said the department remains "on track to open" the marketplaces on time on October 1.
The reason for the hold-up was unclear. Sources attributed it to technology problems involving the display of insurance products within the federal information technology system.
Peters said only that the government was responding to "feedback" from the companies, "providing additional flexibility and time to handle technical requests."
Coming at a time when state and federal officials are still working to overcome challenges to the information technology systems necessary to make the exchanges work, some experts say that even a small delay could jeopardize the start of the six-month open enrollment period.
U.S. officials have said repeatedly that the marketplaces, which are the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reform law, would begin on time.
But the October 1 deadline has already begun to falter at the state level, with Oregon announcing plans to scale back the launch of its own marketplace and California saying it would consider a similar move.
Tuesday's notification by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the HHS agency spearheading marketplace development, affects insurance plans that would be sold in federal exchanges that the administration is setting up in 34 of the 50 U.S. states. The remaining 16 states, including Oregon and California, are setting up their own marketplaces.
"It makes me wonder if open enrollment can start on October 1," said a former administration official who worked to implement Obama's healthcare reform.
"But having everything ready on October 1 is not a critical issue. What matters to people is January 1, which is when the coverage is supposed to start. If that were delayed, it would be a substantive setback."
Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is expected to extend federally subsidized health coverage to an estimated 7 million uninsured Americans in 2014 through the marketplaces.
But insurance plans must be qualified to meet specific standards if they are to be sold on the exchanges. And each insurer must sign a contract with the federal government.
The new timetable for qualified plan agreements is the latest in a series of delays for Obamacare.
The most significant came in early July when the White House and the Treasury Department announced a one-year delay in a major Obamacare provision that would have required employers with at least 50 full-time workers to provide health insurance or pay a penalty beginning in 2014.
Legal and political opposition from Republicans and their conservative allies have already fragmented Obamacare's original vision.
Only about half the states have opted to expand Medicaid program for the poor to uninsured families living below the poverty level, and Republicans in Congress have denied nearly $1 billion in new implementation funding this year alone.
The Government Accountability Office cautioned in June that the law known as Obamacare could miss the October 1 enrollment deadline because of missed deadlines and delays in several areas including the certification of health plans for sale on the exchanges.
Another U.S. watchdog, the HHS Office of the Inspector General, warned earlier this month that the government was months behind testing data security for the federal data hub that represents the information technology backbone of the new marketplaces.
The state of Oregon has already scaled back the October 1 debut of its own healthcare exchange by preventing state residents from signing up for coverage on their own until mid-October. California said last week that it, too, would consider a soft launch of its exchange if tests show it is not ready to accommodate wide public access.
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The "People in Charge" have realized , "It's a cluster fuck" and are delaying as hard as they can, Obbullshit will be out of office relatively soon.
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I have a feeling the insurance companies and their attorneys may also be providing input to the government that is less than helpful to those in charge. The insurance companies have to feel like they got rolled by The Won. Now is the time for clawbacks.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[DAILYCALLER] Students in a rural Kentucky county -- and their parents -- are the latest to join a growing national chorus of scorn for the healthy school lunches touted by first lady Michelle Obama.
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