The ridicule technique is preferred by the Senate and Facebook, largely because it doesn't go anywhere and you can keep it going forever while you sound tremendously concerned but never actually do anything. It's great to sound lofty but it doesn't mean much unless your congregation sends you money ... as it does for politicians but rarely for Facebook.
There was a commentary regarding abortion in a subsequent article, The Revolution if the GOP Ever Really Does Overturn Roe v Wade - Updated, but the article is specifically addressing legal / legislative process rather than the rightness or wrongness of abortion. It's the latter consideration which was addressed in comments but I specifically did not focus on the morality of it because it's pointless and I knew Kannafoot would never touch it if there's any moralizing.
The reaction was to pick up the horror of the soulless leftists and that's very nice, very nice but it doesn't address fifty to sixty years of Congressional chaos we have endured in which conservative politicos have been more than happy to reduce America to a Stone Age rock fight so long as their needs are met. As you can see from Trump, Cruz, and other secondary riff raff the GOP has rolled out for this, they succeeded on their side.
Obviously I don't like abortion, no-one does. However, I observe the reality that women will feel, for whatever reasons, such a tremendous need to obtain an abortion they will risk their lives to get one. I'm assuming it's not necessary to dredge a citation for something which I regard as common knowledge. We know chop shops are real and we know women died in them.
As to talking to women ... um, are you serious, Dagwood. My problem may be in part due to talking to way too many women and there are obvious Fraser consequences to that. Not recommended. It's a grand time but know the perils, young Casanova (larfs).
(Ed: were you really a Casanova?)
Not even close but I did make some hellacious mistakes I will carry until I drop. I don't need to flog myself here over them as I do it every day anyway.
Note: I never left a woman carrying a baby, not ever. I have been meticulous about pregnancy prevention in my life, relying solely on the No. 1 advice from my ol' Dad: never, ever believe a woman about birth control. It's on you, cowboy. Wear a hat. I did.
Many more women have had abortions than you may realize and often from women you would never suspect. Not surprisingly most regretted it but they also would not or could not have made another decision due to life circumstances, etc, etc. She's alone, boyfriend has walked, no support, and now she's knocked-up.
Many more women than you may realize have been sexually-abused by older relatives and I mean one shitload more women have been abused this way than you may realize. There's a high probability someone you know well has been treated in this way and she may still carry so much undeserved shame she still cannot talk about it.
I've talked to a lotta women, mates.
My concern is specifically Congressional process on this because ...
because ...
it seems highly clear there isn't one. There isn't even a hint of process when the legislative endeavor becomes little different from going to the NCAA Finals ... for fifty years.
Marginally-relevant side-note: Queen Bee is in The City right now for NCAA Finals. Yah, Queen Bee! I never heard her mention sports in any way in her life! (A friend is involved so off she went. It doesn't look like she suffers much!)
Note: Gee divided the family into bloods and non-bloods and he had a funny way of doing it. His nickname is so not him. I can't even imagine him saying 'gee' ever.
So the bloods and maybe lots of the non-bloods will know Queen Bee is not wealthy ... but ... she has worked for Delta Airlines through much of her life and she was clever enough to realize climbing up through management is a fool's game which eats your life and gives you lots of money ... but step back and look at number one: it eats your life. Corporate management likely means a cubicle for the rest of yer miserable life. Think hard, young Stanley Steamer. So what if you get Fiji for two weeks a year. The rest of yer life is complete shit with working sixty to eighty hours a week routinely. That's no gift, that's enslavement. Don't screw with us, Revolution Boy, or you won't make the payments on that Fiji vacation and then you're fucked. Enjoy Socialism.
Note: that's no melodrama as I know people who are exceptionally bright and are absolutely trapped in that corporate structure because they assumed way the hell too much debt to play the role of up-and-coming VP. Once you get sucked into that, your ass is gone, Jimmy Stewart, no matter how good you looked when you went to Washington.
"Mister Smith Goes to Washington" is Congress the way you wish it really worked. He fights the good fight, he filibusters to the point of death ... and he wins, he wins. Jimmy Stewart takes the day. It's corny beyond a documentary on Kansas farmers but it's so charming. In fact, Stewart may actually have been a Kansas farmer in the movie. You will love him, ga-ron-teed.
For Queen Bee's life, you're just as likely to find her in the Philippines as in The City or in Geneva, all of which have seen her smiling face in recent months. She doesn't live large but dayum does she live large! She's been highly clever about that.
Some of the computer zeroes may remember MRC from SWORCC / UCCC / CITS and she is a woman of extremely pale skin and extremely light blonde hair. Maybe you remember. She was a woman of not so great means but, man, did she travel. She saved and saved and each year she went to someplace really extraordinary. She is one of the most well-traveled people I know and she never made that much money but she sure made a lot of life.
Returning to Congress and NCAA Finals, I can't say I have much use for either one as Congressional speeches sound much like bouncing basketballs, a sound I loathe more or imagine I would loathe more than a Colt .45 shot at my head. If it's a choice, go ahead and shoot me because I can't stand that random bouncing sound and it will get me dribbling on myself, whether it comes from Ted Cruz or it comes from a basketball court.
As stated previously, my concern is not the morality of abortion but rather whether the state has any say in such a thing. I don't believe it does and others disagree. Fair enough but this has been a sixty-year dogfight which has gone nowhere whatsoever so just what the hell is it going to take to settle it. I would like to at least last long enough in the game to hear Congress talking of something important for the future of the country rather than moralizing endlessly like some second-rate country preacher.
Note: yah, I know some second-rate country preachers can be the finest kind ... but many of them are not. It's rather less than a self-policing system.
The question remains how will this matter be resolved and this my way or nothin' obviously doesn't work so it's something else. What will that be?
Harassing women to prevent abortions is cowardly and creates only resentment and fear. It's not likely it has any significant effect on abortions, particularly not on a worldwide basis because in which case it's trivial. It's quite possible the harassment does more psychological damage than the process of the abortion itself. As you know well, the harassment is routinely vicious and frequently life-threatening.
Harassing me with ideas of the fetus and such doesn't do much of anything as there's no moralistic preloading in me about it. I've seen many and I can't say they're particularly attractive. The only thing I know for sure about them is dropping one on a sidewalk wouldn't tell me any more than whether it fries faster in the Summertime than an egg. That kind of language is easy to throw but it means nothing and amounts to nothing because my personal view on the matter is irrelevant.
My legal view of it is I don't like it but believe it's necessary to preserve the free choice of women and fundamental freedom of Americans. My personal view is not relevant to the fundamental of American principles and restricting things almost invariably falls counter to that.
That freedom is being constrained in so many ways at the same time just now and James Comey, FBI Director, is testifying to Congress, in effect, he believes Apple is, in essence, permitting formation of terrorist networks via its encryption of iPhones. In other words, if you don't let the FBI see, without warrant, any of your personal information then you're potentially a terrorist. This is America? If yes, fuck you and show me how the FBI is not a greater terror than al Qaeda when terrorists hardly ever kill anyone in U.S. FBI and cops do it all the time.
If you liked that, you will also love the snooper device on which police departments have spent ten million dollars recently. This one permits wholesale surveillance of civilian cell traffic by posing as a cell tower and retransmitting whatever comes into it. Again, they do not obtain a search warrant to use it.
Note: that may not be the precise process but it's close. I can find a citation if you wish.
There are multiple gross invasions of privacy in America but it's only one which gets much attention and it's perennially the same one. As from the top, this is not process, it's a damn Stone Age rock fight.
Repeating: this is NOT about the goodness or badness of abortion but rather how it gets settled as to the law of the land.
Maybe some hardcore holdouts think the answer is to hang in for Cruz, the lightweight substitute for the Trump who has gone full-out Crazy Eddie. Cruz will ban it and all the GOP dreams will come true.
Tell me this ain't Disneyland, Dagwood. There's so much resentment on so many things in the country just now and you seriously want to compound that with another one ... and think you will get away with it. There are already near-riots taking place so, sure, that's one great plan to piss people off even more.
Someone needs a serious answer to the resolution and I haven't heard one yet.
There was a commentary regarding abortion in a subsequent article, The Revolution if the GOP Ever Really Does Overturn Roe v Wade - Updated, but the article is specifically addressing legal / legislative process rather than the rightness or wrongness of abortion. It's the latter consideration which was addressed in comments but I specifically did not focus on the morality of it because it's pointless and I knew Kannafoot would never touch it if there's any moralizing.
The reaction was to pick up the horror of the soulless leftists and that's very nice, very nice but it doesn't address fifty to sixty years of Congressional chaos we have endured in which conservative politicos have been more than happy to reduce America to a Stone Age rock fight so long as their needs are met. As you can see from Trump, Cruz, and other secondary riff raff the GOP has rolled out for this, they succeeded on their side.
Obviously I don't like abortion, no-one does. However, I observe the reality that women will feel, for whatever reasons, such a tremendous need to obtain an abortion they will risk their lives to get one. I'm assuming it's not necessary to dredge a citation for something which I regard as common knowledge. We know chop shops are real and we know women died in them.
As to talking to women ... um, are you serious, Dagwood. My problem may be in part due to talking to way too many women and there are obvious Fraser consequences to that. Not recommended. It's a grand time but know the perils, young Casanova (larfs).
(Ed: were you really a Casanova?)
Not even close but I did make some hellacious mistakes I will carry until I drop. I don't need to flog myself here over them as I do it every day anyway.
Note: I never left a woman carrying a baby, not ever. I have been meticulous about pregnancy prevention in my life, relying solely on the No. 1 advice from my ol' Dad: never, ever believe a woman about birth control. It's on you, cowboy. Wear a hat. I did.
Many more women have had abortions than you may realize and often from women you would never suspect. Not surprisingly most regretted it but they also would not or could not have made another decision due to life circumstances, etc, etc. She's alone, boyfriend has walked, no support, and now she's knocked-up.
Many more women than you may realize have been sexually-abused by older relatives and I mean one shitload more women have been abused this way than you may realize. There's a high probability someone you know well has been treated in this way and she may still carry so much undeserved shame she still cannot talk about it.
I've talked to a lotta women, mates.
My concern is specifically Congressional process on this because ...
because ...
it seems highly clear there isn't one. There isn't even a hint of process when the legislative endeavor becomes little different from going to the NCAA Finals ... for fifty years.
Marginally-relevant side-note: Queen Bee is in The City right now for NCAA Finals. Yah, Queen Bee! I never heard her mention sports in any way in her life! (A friend is involved so off she went. It doesn't look like she suffers much!)
Note: Gee divided the family into bloods and non-bloods and he had a funny way of doing it. His nickname is so not him. I can't even imagine him saying 'gee' ever.
So the bloods and maybe lots of the non-bloods will know Queen Bee is not wealthy ... but ... she has worked for Delta Airlines through much of her life and she was clever enough to realize climbing up through management is a fool's game which eats your life and gives you lots of money ... but step back and look at number one: it eats your life. Corporate management likely means a cubicle for the rest of yer miserable life. Think hard, young Stanley Steamer. So what if you get Fiji for two weeks a year. The rest of yer life is complete shit with working sixty to eighty hours a week routinely. That's no gift, that's enslavement. Don't screw with us, Revolution Boy, or you won't make the payments on that Fiji vacation and then you're fucked. Enjoy Socialism.
Note: that's no melodrama as I know people who are exceptionally bright and are absolutely trapped in that corporate structure because they assumed way the hell too much debt to play the role of up-and-coming VP. Once you get sucked into that, your ass is gone, Jimmy Stewart, no matter how good you looked when you went to Washington.
"Mister Smith Goes to Washington" is Congress the way you wish it really worked. He fights the good fight, he filibusters to the point of death ... and he wins, he wins. Jimmy Stewart takes the day. It's corny beyond a documentary on Kansas farmers but it's so charming. In fact, Stewart may actually have been a Kansas farmer in the movie. You will love him, ga-ron-teed.
For Queen Bee's life, you're just as likely to find her in the Philippines as in The City or in Geneva, all of which have seen her smiling face in recent months. She doesn't live large but dayum does she live large! She's been highly clever about that.
Some of the computer zeroes may remember MRC from SWORCC / UCCC / CITS and she is a woman of extremely pale skin and extremely light blonde hair. Maybe you remember. She was a woman of not so great means but, man, did she travel. She saved and saved and each year she went to someplace really extraordinary. She is one of the most well-traveled people I know and she never made that much money but she sure made a lot of life.
Returning to Congress and NCAA Finals, I can't say I have much use for either one as Congressional speeches sound much like bouncing basketballs, a sound I loathe more or imagine I would loathe more than a Colt .45 shot at my head. If it's a choice, go ahead and shoot me because I can't stand that random bouncing sound and it will get me dribbling on myself, whether it comes from Ted Cruz or it comes from a basketball court.
As stated previously, my concern is not the morality of abortion but rather whether the state has any say in such a thing. I don't believe it does and others disagree. Fair enough but this has been a sixty-year dogfight which has gone nowhere whatsoever so just what the hell is it going to take to settle it. I would like to at least last long enough in the game to hear Congress talking of something important for the future of the country rather than moralizing endlessly like some second-rate country preacher.
Note: yah, I know some second-rate country preachers can be the finest kind ... but many of them are not. It's rather less than a self-policing system.
The question remains how will this matter be resolved and this my way or nothin' obviously doesn't work so it's something else. What will that be?
Harassing women to prevent abortions is cowardly and creates only resentment and fear. It's not likely it has any significant effect on abortions, particularly not on a worldwide basis because in which case it's trivial. It's quite possible the harassment does more psychological damage than the process of the abortion itself. As you know well, the harassment is routinely vicious and frequently life-threatening.
Harassing me with ideas of the fetus and such doesn't do much of anything as there's no moralistic preloading in me about it. I've seen many and I can't say they're particularly attractive. The only thing I know for sure about them is dropping one on a sidewalk wouldn't tell me any more than whether it fries faster in the Summertime than an egg. That kind of language is easy to throw but it means nothing and amounts to nothing because my personal view on the matter is irrelevant.
My legal view of it is I don't like it but believe it's necessary to preserve the free choice of women and fundamental freedom of Americans. My personal view is not relevant to the fundamental of American principles and restricting things almost invariably falls counter to that.
That freedom is being constrained in so many ways at the same time just now and James Comey, FBI Director, is testifying to Congress, in effect, he believes Apple is, in essence, permitting formation of terrorist networks via its encryption of iPhones. In other words, if you don't let the FBI see, without warrant, any of your personal information then you're potentially a terrorist. This is America? If yes, fuck you and show me how the FBI is not a greater terror than al Qaeda when terrorists hardly ever kill anyone in U.S. FBI and cops do it all the time.
If you liked that, you will also love the snooper device on which police departments have spent ten million dollars recently. This one permits wholesale surveillance of civilian cell traffic by posing as a cell tower and retransmitting whatever comes into it. Again, they do not obtain a search warrant to use it.
Note: that may not be the precise process but it's close. I can find a citation if you wish.
There are multiple gross invasions of privacy in America but it's only one which gets much attention and it's perennially the same one. As from the top, this is not process, it's a damn Stone Age rock fight.
Repeating: this is NOT about the goodness or badness of abortion but rather how it gets settled as to the law of the land.
Maybe some hardcore holdouts think the answer is to hang in for Cruz, the lightweight substitute for the Trump who has gone full-out Crazy Eddie. Cruz will ban it and all the GOP dreams will come true.
Tell me this ain't Disneyland, Dagwood. There's so much resentment on so many things in the country just now and you seriously want to compound that with another one ... and think you will get away with it. There are already near-riots taking place so, sure, that's one great plan to piss people off even more.
Someone needs a serious answer to the resolution and I haven't heard one yet.
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