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March 5, 2007:
Pro Life, Pro Choice:
I am neither. Those two phrases are so polarizing that
meaningful discussion is eliminated when either one is invoked. Those easy labels
push people off the real issues involved and reduce communication to mindless
slogans. I don’t think these issues are the government’s
business. They are personal and private decisions, relevant only to the
people who make them, the knocked up women. If some women want to destroy
their developing embryo or fetus, that is not a federal case. It would only
become a federal case if they wanted my tax dollars to pay for the abortion.
If not, the decision is personal and private.
My personal position is to disapprove of abortion for
convenience. Indiscriminant behavior should have a penalty. The penalty in
this case would be a new responsibility for another human life, the child.
However, to put that opinion into law would be an attempt to legislate morality.
I think we learned that lesson with the 18th amendment. It is
impossible to legislate mortality. When you try, you are more likely to
create a new criminal class than to make an enforceable law.
Things Are Looking Up:
In Iraq,
we now have Sunnis killing Sunnis. It seems that one sect of Sunnis became
upset with another sect, so they put a big bomb in a mosque and blew it up. It’s not just Muslims killing
Muslims now, it’s literally brother against brother. Keep it up guys.
This is great. Bring our kids home George and let these savages go at each
other. Give them a chance to reduce their own population.
Comparison:
The VP was on the news again. He had the unmitigated gall
to compare himself to Harry Truman. That’s like pooh-pooh comparing
itself to chocolate.
Obscene:
We learn from the evening news that each candidate in this
presidential debacle will have spent 500 million each before it is over. For
crap sake! The whole gang of them together are not worth a million bucks, let
along 500 million. Where is that money coming from? What do the people who
are giving that much money to those buffoons expect in return? This is not
just out of hand it is swinish.
The Ethanol Fraud:
King George is singing the praises of ethanol along with Michigan’s
governor Granholm and the corn growers. Bush does not know any better. He is
just ignorant. Most of the other advocates, including Granholm do know
better. Ethanol is not economically feasible. It is the subsidies governments
are giving to the producers that make it look viable. Without those, ethanol
costs more than gasoline and is less efficient. In addition, the price of
corn has been pushed beyond reason with this waste of a valuable food crop.
With people starving, this insanity has become an international evil. You
need not believe in any particular God to know that behavior like that will
stain the nation’s soul.
Carter:
He wrote a book. So, what else is new? I think he is much
better as writer, speaker, and diplomat than he was as president. It seems he
wrote about the Middle East and told the truth about
the situation there. For that, he was called anti-Semitic. He made a good
point on the Stephanopoulos show. He pointed out that aid distributed through
American contractors will end up aiding no one but the contractors.
Eisenhower warned us about this federal military industrial conspiracy when
he left office in 1961. He called it the military industrial complex, but the
point was made.
Rice Again:
George must like her. He has her on “This
Week” often. She is dependable. She never changes. Georges asks a
question and she begins to babble. She babbles until she runs out of wind and
never answers the question. She is still spouting the old administration
line. Like the Sheeny-Man and Bush, she says we must win in Iraq,
never acknowledging that we have already lost. She also gives the same old
lie about Britain’s
withdrawal. It’s a good thing because it means the Iraqis in that area
are ready to take over and do the job. Sure! I think she should have Tony
Snow’s job. She just blows it out there with a straight face. In the
face of the facts, which show clearly that Al-Qaeda is stronger than ever, she claims Al-Qaeda has taken a
number of blows and we are degrading them worldwide. And the dance of
idiots continues.
Meanwhile in Pakistan:
Al-Qaeda has
taken over Northern
Pakistan and
they are building a separate government there. General Pervez
Musharraf, the president of Pakistan
seems powerless to stop them. He just knuckles under. Of course, it is not
his fault. It was America
that abandoned the festering boil in Afghanistan
to go tilting at windmills in Iraq.
Now that boil has erupted into Pakistan
and turned into a poisonous monster while we flop around in Iraq.
ABC’s Woodruff:
He is back at work documenting his own experience in
recovering from being blown up in Iraq.
He showed us a lot of kids who are fighting to recover from those disasters.
While he is at it, he is exposing some problem in the care they receive in VA
hospitals. Even in Walter Reed, the care is substandard. A General has been
fired. There always has to be a scapegoat. The big question I have is did he
have adequate resources to do the job? I rather doubt it. The Secretary of
the Army, Frances Harvey was also forced out. I don’t like Bates
putting the burden of blame on one or two people so easily. Maybe he ought to
take some of the blame. After all, he is the guy in charge. One thing is
clear. These fools are scared crapless of Woodruff. I love it!
Ford:
The company is in freefall. I have never seen a company go
so bad so fast. They continue to hemorrhage money and they are still spouting
the old line. Nothing has changed. It is as though William Clay Ford, the
management team, and the board of directors are all blind. They cannot seem
to notice that what they are doing is not working. I am sure I will lose my
healthcare insurance. I fear I will also lose my pension. Thanks for nothing
Mr. Ford!
Who Cares?
Anna Nicole Smith is being buried in the Bahamas.
This whole mess reminds me a great deal of the O. J. Simpson debacle. In that
case, everyone involved appeared to me as some kind of creepy crawler. The
same seems true of this Smith case. I think they are all crumbs except the
baby.
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