<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Courtesy of the Washington Post at:</div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ng7qr49">http://tinyurl.com/ng7qr49</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">--------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; color: rgb(44, 44, 44); font-size: 1.9em; line-height: 1.2em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; ">Tampons threatened during Texas abortion debate</h1><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">I can understand if they took away knives and guns. But tampons?</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">That’s what happened to women who wanted to watch the ongoing debate over proposed abortion restrictions in the Texas senate Friday when state troopers tried to confiscate their tampons and other feminine hygiene products.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Why? Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, the senate president, reportedly didn’t want the women to have any items that could be thrown from the gallery at the lawmakers during their discussion. To be fair, that’s about anything a woman could carry in her purse, and one Twitter photo showed a box of energy bars in the box of confiscated items.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">But there’s an ugly side to what sounds like a ridiculous story: According to KETK news,Texas Department of Public Safety officers inspecting bags found one jar suspected to contain urine, 18 jars suspected of holding feces and three jars suspected to contain paint.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">An Associated Press story reported that Texas state Sen. Kirk Watson of Austin, the leader of the Texas Senate Democrats, said he stopped the tampon confiscation and called the move “boneheaded” and “crazy.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">But a news release on the DPS web site states the inspections will continue.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><span style="text-align: left; ">Just remember, as David McLemore, a Texas freelance writer and author of </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Joy-ebook/dp/B004FV5C8A" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left; ">“A Soldier’s Joy,”</a><span style="text-align: left; "> wrote on his Facebook page: “When tampons are outlawed, only outlaws will have tampons.”</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><span style="text-align: left; ">--------------------</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><span style="text-align: left; ">Courtesy of the Texas Department of Public Safety at:</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/director_staff/media_and_communications/pr071213a.htm">http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/director_staff/media_and_communications/pr071213a.htm</a></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><h3 style="padding-top: 0px; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">News Release</span></font></h3><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><span class="italictype" style="font-style: oblique; text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="font-style: oblique; ">July 12, 2013</span></div></span><span style="text-align: left; "></span></span><h4><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">DPS Enhances Inspections at Texas Capitol</strong></h4><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 2px; text-align: left; "></p><div><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">NOTE: The Texas Senate authorized the inspection enhancements.</strong></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) today received information that individuals planned to use a variety of items or props to disrupt legislative proceedings at the Texas Capitol.</span></div><p></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 2px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Therefore for safety purposes, DPS recommended to the <em>Texas Senate</em> that all bags be inspected prior to allowing individuals to enter the Senate gallery, which the <em>Texas Senate</em> authorized.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 2px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">During these inspections, DPS officers have thus far discovered one jar suspected to contain urine, 18 jars suspected to contain feces, and three bottles suspected to contain paint. All of these items – as well as significant quantities of feminine hygiene products, glitter and confetti possessed by individuals – were required to be discarded; otherwise those individuals were denied entry into the gallery.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 2px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">In the interest of the safety and security of Texas legislators and the general public, these inspections will continue until the conclusion of Senate business</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 2px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------</span></p><p></p></div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .<br><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div><br></div></body></html>