Josh the Aspie’s Blog

Recently a scandal has arisen out of the fact that some pharmacists refuse to carry, or sell the “morning after” pill. One such example is a group of 3 pharmacists who worked for an Eckerd’s in Denton, Texas. A young woman who was raped came to the pharmacy seeking a morning after pill. The three pharmacists working there that night refused to fill the prescription. Due to Eckerd’s policies on the matter, the three were fired.

In my opinion, this is exactly how this should work. The owner of an establishment chooses what products are and are not available for sale, and chooses whether their employees may, or will, refuse to sell particular products or not. If the employees refuse to follow these procedures, the employer then enacts disciplinary action such as docking pay, written warnings, or termination. This represents the basic freedoms to contract, associate, and do business that are underpinnings of our free market.
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Yesterday I spent my day getting trained by the Red Cross. In exchange for nine hours of my time, and a few hours worth of pay, I learned skills that may help me to save the rest of one of my family members lives. I’d recommend that anyone out there who can, take the class.

The full version of the class is for First Aid, Adult CPR+AED and Child/Infant CPR.

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One of the major objections I’ve heard against drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge is that it would not produce a lot of oil. I’m not sure what people consider a lot, but the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Arctic Refuge survey (page 18), states that the mean average projected amount of oil is 13.8 bbo (Billion Barrels of Oil).

According to the United States Energy Information Administration (EIA) the united states used approximately 7.5 BBO in Crude Oil and Petroleum Products in 2006.

That’s approximately 1.8 years of fueling America just on it’s own.

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For those not in the know, Stargate SG-1 is one of the most successful and long running science fiction shows of all time, rivaling in popularity such Sci-Fi staples as Star Trek and Star Wars. It is based on the movie “Stargate.” Unfortunately, the series is in it’s final days, and seems to have definitely jumped the shark. One of the reasons for this is the increasingly improbable explanations for interacting with the rest of the world.

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