Guess who bush just appointed to what?

[AnnInLa]

(this is an app't to the Exec Dept, Senate can't do anything about it)

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/16/1728/2676

........... ol' FU to the Democrats by appointing Dr. Erik Keroack to head up the Office of Family Planning, which adminsters all Title X programs. Title X of the Public Health Service Act provides family planning services primarily to low-income women.

big snip



At the Annual Abstinence Leadership Conference in Kansas, Keroack defended abstinence (in an aptly titled talk, "If I Only Had a Brain") by claiming that sex causes people to go through oxytocin withdrawal which in turn prevents people from bonding in relationships. Seriously.

explained that oxytocin is released during positive social interaction, massage, hugs, "trust" encounters, and sexual intercourse. "It promotes bonding by reducing fear and anxiety in social settings, increasing trust and trustworthiness, reducing stress and pain, and decreasing social aggression," he said.

But apparently if you've had sex with too many people you use up all that oxytocin: "People who have misused their sexual faculty and become bonded to multiple persons will diminish the power of oxytocin to maintain a permanent bond with an individual." Hear that? Too many sexual partners and you'll never love again!



go read the whole thing at:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/16/1728/2676

[redwitch]

1. sigh.

where do they find these people?

[Mz Pip]

2. Couldn't make

this shit up if I tried. :eyes:

Perhaps this is based on some research at Falwell's Liberty University. Or Bob Jones University. Very bizarre stuff.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Waya]

3. Sheeeeeesh............

:eyes:

[SutaUvaca]

4. goddamnitalltohell

When are we gonna be rid of these totally anti-science goons being appointed to places that need real experts to lead real work.
This subversive theocratic run of government appointees will take years to weed out and flush away.
I'm so sick of it.

[Bucky]

5. In a way, he's right

I've been fucked by every Republican president since Gerald Ford and now I can't feel nothing but numb.

[kimmerspixelated]

9. Good One!

[Justpat]

15. LOL!

:toast:

[Ilsa]

6. I wonder about some doctors...do they dream this junk up?

Fabricate research?

There's a limit to oxytocin? The hypothalamus and pituitary stop working? Someone better tell those breastfeeding-fundie moms who have 9-10 kids. They'll be all out of love by the fourth kid according to this idiot.

And why isn't there someone with heavy credientials who'll challenge this bullshit and the bullshittin' doc?

[gollygee]

7. I want to see the scientific study behind that

Do they really expect people to believe this stuff? They just make shit up and claim it's fact.

[AnnInLa]

16. Oxytocin.....I just read the whole Wikipedia article

about oxytocin.....said nothing about oxytocin getting "used up." (although the article was quite an education for me....I have to get out more.)

[sam sarrha]

8. abstinence program fortified with free all prime cable movie channels. that will work..!!

[tulsakatz]

10. actually.........

...it makes a lot of sense to me that a Bush appointee would want to discourage anything that promotes trust.

Trust, bad......fear, good!!

[blogslut]

11. How many is too many?

Is there a magic number for too many lovers? Because, to be honest, I probably passed that number at age 25. Yet somehow, I had enough oxytocin to bond with my now-grown child. I reeeeeally need to know that number because someday there will be grandchildren and I would like to know before hand if I will be able to bond with them. :sarcasm:

[AnnInLa]

22. If Married, then ONE. If gay, then NONE.

[musette_sf]

12. but if you snort crank and do it with a male hooker

the risk of oxytocin depletion is FAR diminished! :wtf:

[malaise]

13. So what if you've had too much sex

with one person? How would a lady know? Have I used up all my oxytocin?
Hubby and I need an urgent talk :D. What a fugging jackass!

[Clark2008]

20. If that were true, newlyweds wouldn't love each other after the

first six months.

(Newlywed and now newly pregnant as a result!)

[malaise]

24. LOL n/t

[KamaAina]

14. I was going to say "his horse to proconsul"

but apparently, in a cost-saving move, he went with only the posterior end of the horse. :P

[Ian David]

17. Hit the road, Doc Keroack! What an idiot.

You know, if Bush would appoint an Atheist to his Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, then he'd have a perfect record of choosing people as bad for the job as they could possibly be.

[Arkansas Granny]

18. Why do these people feel it is their duty to regulate anyone's,

let alone everyone's, sex life? Is this part of the "sex for procreation only" crowd? Most people have better things to concern themselves with.

[napi21]

19. Where the hell did all these new Depts come from?

I don't remember ever hearing about an"Office of Family Planning"! Nor did I ever hear about a "Faith Based Initiatives" crowd either!

I always thought the Pubs were supposed to be for smaller gov't? Hell, when the Dems take over, we can cut a a lot OF COSTS just be eliminating all these insidious Departments that Shrub started, and IS FUNDING I'm sure!

[AnnInLa]

23. evidently this Dept is to counter Family Planning clinics

same link as in OP: at kos:


What's so special about this appointment? After all, he's a doctor, right? A doctor at a crisis pregnancy center, one of those deceptive clinics that pose as real clinics and prevent women from having abortions through tactics like this:

According to a recent Planned Parenthood email, a 17-year-old girl mistakenly walked into a crisis pregnancy center thinking it was Planned Parenthood, which was next door. "The group took down the girl's confidential personal information and told her to come back for her appointment, which they said would be in their 'other office' (the real Planned Parenthood office nearby)."

When she showed up for her nonexistent appointment, she was met by the police, who had been erroneously tipped that a minor was being forced to abort. The crisis pregnancy center staff followed up this harassment by staking out the girl's house, phoning her father at work, and even talking to her classmates about her pregnancy, urging them to harass her.

[ComerPerro]

21. oh, the Wonderful World of Bushbot Science

[intaglio]

25. The University behind this research is likely in favour of this book

"The USA In Bible Prophecy" http://www.artisanpublishers.com/cgi-bin/ARTstore.cgi?user_action=detail&catalogno=BS00231

A brief sample from the blurb

/snip
Did Christ know of this North American Continent? ... Sure he did. Did He know this great nation would be Christian from its beginning? ... Of course he did. Is it possible that this nation, the greatest Christian super power of all time, known to Jesus Christ, was never mentioned, indicated, or foretold in the Bible?

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