{"id":13110,"date":"2012-10-02T18:27:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T22:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=13110"},"modified":"2012-10-02T18:28:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T22:28:19","slug":"ecards-from-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/10\/ecards-from-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"eCards from Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Women_postcard1_580-550x389.jpeg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13111\" title=\"Women_postcard1_580-550x389\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Women_postcard1_580-550x389-300x212.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Women_postcard1_580-550x389-300x212.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Women_postcard1_580-550x389.jpeg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ah so nice to see so many lies packed into a campaign ecard. First off it is not the misnamed &#8220;Affordable Care Act&#8221; that pays for birth control but the HHS Mandate as currently codified. \u00a0The HHS used Obamacare as an excuse to ram this down.<\/p>\n<p>The $18,000 figure also seems rather extravagant implying \u00a0$1500 a month while at school. \u00a0The figure actually comes from Planned Parenthood (no surprise there) for lifetime costs of hormonal birth control which they estimate as running from $5,400 TO $18,000. \u00a0So this e-card would then imply that parents are suppose to pay for a lifetime of contraceptive use if the taxpayers don&#8217;t &#8211; really? \u00a0What about food costs since that seems a bit more fundamental? \u00a0Though considering Food Stamps use is rising maybe that is where we are heading.<\/p>\n<p>This ad is also descriptive of the entitlement philosophy. \u00a0Someone makes the decision to contracept and the responsibility for paying for it is somebody other than the person contracepting.<\/p>\n<p>As if this ecard wasn&#8217;t creepy enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/lady-parts-obama.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13113\" title=\"lady parts obama\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/lady-parts-obama-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/lady-parts-obama-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/lady-parts-obama.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So much for human dignity, lets reduce people to their genitals because surely nothing could go wrong with that idea. <\/p>\n<p>Via &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeminorityreport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Minority Report<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ah so nice to see so many lies packed into a campaign ecard. 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