tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post8375873720035118665..comments2024-03-28T08:34:43.846-07:00Comments on CONTRARY BRIN: Soon, Humanity Won't Be Alone in the UniverseDavid Brinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-22552598031519079212022-07-08T20:02:13.025-07:002022-07-08T20:02:13.025-07:00" by the time that field started producing it..." by the time that field started producing its market will have evaporated"<br /><br />Sorry, not a chance of that. What all those efforts might do is meet the Uk gas production halfway.<br /><br />onward<br /><br />onward<br /><br />David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-33239128830875411052022-07-08T17:56:41.191-07:002022-07-08T17:56:41.191-07:00Making the Dnieper gas field unusable
I suspect t...Making the Dnieper gas field unusable<br /><br />I suspect that has effectively already happened - it takes quite a while to develop a gas field and the Russian invasion has had the effect of supercharging the European push to renewables - by the time that field started producing its market will have evaporated duncan cairncrosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14153725128216947145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-34104366446447733402022-07-08T17:02:23.055-07:002022-07-08T17:02:23.055-07:00Let us take a moment from the world's troubles...Let us take a moment from the world's troubles to honor the memory of Larry Storch aka Cpl. Agarn of "F-Troop" has passed away at age 99. The show had the most incompetent army fort, the most cowardly tribe and one of the best theme songs ever. One of my favorite shows as a kid.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K4BvF_sb3Y<br /><br />DPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07087941506162882852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-8302399487334284102022-07-08T17:01:07.908-07:002022-07-08T17:01:07.908-07:00The big question - how long can the Russian econom...The big question - how long can the Russian economy continue to produce war materials in the face of wester sanctions when almost every key element of their war production depends on a foreign source.DPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07087941506162882852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-71077742018765739352022-07-08T11:46:22.252-07:002022-07-08T11:46:22.252-07:00Guys, when he is like this, all you are doing is f...Guys, when he is like this, all you are doing is feeding a troll. Sure, his salvoes are aimed nowhere near me and are purely masturbatory. But that's normal. What I won't reward is when his masturbation is pornographically hateful.<br /><br />===<br /><br />Different matter, re Ukraine:<br /><br />While his flip and immature presentation style can be grating, this fellow also dives very deep into contemporary military matters, esp. re Ukraine. Moreover, he is among the only pundits who even mentions what has to be Putin's only remaining strategic goal, to get close enough to Ukraine's Dnieper Gas Fields to make them unusable by EU nations, this coming winter, as an alternative to Russian gas. Even David Petraeus fails to mention how those fields, if fed quickly into existing pipelines, may be an existential threat to Putin's proto-czarist fantasies for Russia.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F0kSDV9U_E<br /><br />VP may envision that if he can do that - and either take or smash the port of Odesa - he'll have all the really important marbles. But without taking the whole east bank of the Dnieper, he will face a long, porous front, easily turned into partisan/guerrilla hell. And the EU may still find the guts to send in the drill crews.<br /><br />Anyway, this thing is being decided by a growing artillery duel, both sides equipped with counter-fire radars and spy satellites and ever-changing types of drones. (Expect a Rising Power and Russian ally to be found testing its weaponry and drones and counter-drone defenses there - as are we) ...<br /><br />...with the ever-present threat that a desperate Putin might 'blow up low earth orbit' - LEO - if he's losing that sumo match and thinks it might even the odds. Or just pulling down the temple around him.<br /><br />David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-43834670706088817482022-07-08T07:15:47.657-07:002022-07-08T07:15:47.657-07:00I'm not religious, but below is a good descrip...I'm not religious, but below is a good description anyway...<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/opinion/prayer-supreme-court-football.html<br /><i><br />It is miserable to be a hater. I pray to be more like Jesus with his crazy compassion and reckless love. Some days go better than others. I pray to remember that God loves Marjorie Taylor Greene exactly the same as God loves my grandson, because God loves, period. God does not have an app for Not Love. God sees beyond each person’s awfulness to each person’s needs. God loves them, as is. God is better at this than I am.<br /></i><br /><br />Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-1693025789815903762022-07-08T05:33:04.037-07:002022-07-08T05:33:04.037-07:00Alfred Differ:
I'm not sure he's engaging...Alfred Differ:<br /><i><br />I'm not sure he's engaging in 'both sides do it' when he barfs on seeing his hated worldview. I think a better explanation is that he can't NOT see that worldview because he hates it so much.<br />...<br />Locumranch sees monsters all around and can't quite imagine that we aren't.<br /></i><br /><br />Well, that's not entirely a disagreement with what I said. Or with what I meant by it, anyway.<br /><br />To me, modern-day Republicans are the monsters, and he perceives "fighting against the monsters" to be the same thing as "being the monsters". As if "suppressing the vote" and "not suppressing the vote" are equally partisan activities, because each is helpful to the party which engages in it.<br /><br />What loc said was, "Your progressive worldview is sick, one-sided & dysfunctional…", which is such an accurate description of the <b>right-wing</b> that I can't believe it is not glaringly obvious. That doesn't preclude the possibility that the progressive side also shares those characteristics, but in my view, we're "one-sided" in the belief that whoever gets the most runs should win a ballgame, or that there are real laws of physics which work a certain way. And even if both sides are equally sick, one-sided, & dysfunctional (which I don't concede, but even if...), the side which is attempting an ongoing coup to install itself as authoritarian dictators backed by Brownshirts is the clear and present danger. The side that insists on calling people "Latinx" or "pregnant person" can be dealt with (or ignored) later.Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-39419369494842549372022-07-08T01:05:02.464-07:002022-07-08T01:05:02.464-07:00Larry,
I'm not sure he's engaging in '...Larry,<br /><br />I'm not sure he's engaging in 'both sides do it' when he barfs on seeing his hated worldview. I think a better explanation is that he can't NOT see that worldview because he hates it so much. If I say the world is becoming a better place through intended and unintended actions of all of us, I must be one of those crazy utopia fanatics allied with progressives. How could I not be? It's unthinkable!<br /><br />I've seen this behavior before in a woman who was abused too much by the men in her life. We were all abusers in her eyes because it took only the slightest thing to set off that well honed defense within her. It's not that the defense wasn't justified, though. She'd been abused. What wasn't justified was lumping us all in with monsters.<br /><br />Locumranch sees monsters all around and can't quite imagine that we aren't.<br /><br /><br />… and he can't walk away from them either. Neither could she.<br /><br /><br /><br />Locumranch,<br /><br />Prove me wrong.<br />Paraphrase one of us non-progressives correctly.Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-57677898610341219472022-07-07T17:17:02.583-07:002022-07-07T17:17:02.583-07:00seen on Twitter:
Please don’t ask “how could thin...seen on Twitter:<br /><i><br />Please don’t ask “how could things possibly be worse?” because Republicans are not taking that as a rhetorical question.<br /></i>Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-18852538324375180192022-07-07T17:13:53.982-07:002022-07-07T17:13:53.982-07:00Alfred Differ to locumranch:
You live in an analo...Alfred Differ to locumranch:<br /><i><br />You live in an analog world and recognize it. I recognize that in you.<br /><br />"Your progressive worldview is sick, one-sided & dysfunctional…"<br /><br />…and this is what makes it so difficult for others to recognize it too.<br /></i><br /><br />It seems to me that locum is so wrapped up in "both sides do it" that he is incapable of recognizing an existential fight against a determined and resourceful enemy. Does he not see that the <b>Republican</b> worldview is sick, one-sided & dysfunctional? To the extent that liberals are one-sided today, it is for the same reason that America was one-sided in WWII rather than treating the Nazis as having a legitimate point of view. Same with current day Ukraine vis a vis Russia. One doesn't have to think that Ukrainians are all pure as the driven snow to want to help them against blatant foreign aggression.<br /><br />I don't support Democrats across the board because they are "always right" about every subject. I support Democrats because they are the only force capable of displacing Republicans. And right now in history, Republicans will use whatever power they acquire to destroy the very concept of democracy and justice, imposing a model of governance based on authoritarianism backed up by a mob of Brownshirts. I have to do what I can to prevent that or die trying (because death is preferable to that sort of life), regardless of the individual nutty things that individual Democrats might say or do.<br /><br />To presume from that that I foolishly believe Democrats are some kind of saviors who can never do wrong and who always act altruistically is absurd. What Democrats are is the only bulwark available against authoritarian rule. Nothing else matters more, because in the Republican world, no good that we want will ever be accomplished.Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-23966387710243283692022-07-07T15:18:22.211-07:002022-07-07T15:18:22.211-07:00locumranch,
Neither purist nor idealist, my attem...locumranch,<br /><br /><i>Neither purist nor idealist, my attempts to preserve life in no way make me a 'pro-life' zealot any more than the abortion services that I have provided transmogrify me into a 'pro-choice' pussyhatted partisan.</i><br /><br />Yah. You live in an analog world and recognize it. I recognize that in you.<br /><br /><i>Your progressive worldview is sick, one-sided & dysfunctional…</i><br /><br />…and this is what makes it so difficult for others to recognize it too. It's not that you find the worldview sick. It's that you mis-assign it. You've said it a number of times and can't seem to get the hint when you are told you are off target. When someone says your shots land no where near them, consider the possibility that YOU might be having difficulty in distinguishing your hated worldview from the real worldviews of those around you.<br /><br />Many years ago in a different forum, the owner was SO sure of what I believed that he would tell me. He argued I was deluding myself when I claimed otherwise. It's certainly possible I was deluded, but for him to be correct as often as he claimed would have required telepathy. He's a smart guy, but not THAT smart. At some point, the probabilities shift toward him being the deluded one.<br /><br />———<br /><br /><i>I admit to many similar shortcomings myself which (in turn) provides the rationale behind my skepticism in regard to ideals, perfectionisms and utopian fantasies.</i><br /><br />We've all been there. Some of us beat ourselves up over it too. It has to stop at some point, though, or we mistake our own shortcomings for those of others. We see the shortcoming too easily in them. Maybe it's there, but there is a strong chance our bias enables us to see signal in the noise.<br /><br />(Former smokers can be some of the worst when it comes to tolerating those who still do… or just live around those who do.)<br /><br />———<br /><br />In that other forum from years ago was a consistently vocal poster who was still active as a family doctor. He was a hard guy to like, but he grew on me to the annoyance of my wife. He was profoundly skeptical of people who claimed to do good for everyone and had no qualms saying so to their faces. <br /><br />It took a few months to see him as a rounded human being, but the image eventually emerged when CA was debating Prop 4. Remember that? 2008. (Maybe you weren't in the thick of our argument.) We were deciding whether parents had to be told what their daughters were up to regarding medical advice around pregnancy. He wanted us ALL to stay the hell out of these decisions and said he saw little difference between progressives thinking they knew what these girls needed and conservatives who said much the same. We were ALL wrong and should stay the hell out of it. I was already going to vote against it to leave things as they were, but I thought he had the better justification.<br /><br />That same doctor once told us that 75% of his business was related to obesity. Too many of his patients wouldn't take his advice and it soured his outlook on all of us. They wanted magic pills to melt the fat away or make them not be diabetics anymore. Everything from joint pain to kidney failure had patients wanting unicorn fart rainbows and it made him cynical. It also made it difficult for him to spot those of us who didn't believe in unicorns. If we mentioned unicorns tangentially we got labelled quickly.<br /><br />Some of us here want unicorns to be real, but our host isn't one of them. It's just that he's not as cynical as you are right now. Maybe you've had 75% of your former patients reject your advice and he hasn't gone through that, but I'd bet in a contest for who has taken more shit in their lives he'd probably beat you. I wouldn't, but I haven't had my reputation hanging out for all to see as much. Nor have I provided medical advice. All I've done with that kind of exposure is educated a few thousand people in a couple of narrow subjects and many of them loved me for it.Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-63794276293079836172022-07-07T13:30:45.927-07:002022-07-07T13:30:45.927-07:00Because I'm in a mood today...
I'm quotin...Because I'm in a mood today...<br /><br />I'm quoting more than I usually do, but the article is even longer.<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/opinion/work-busy-trap-millennials.html<br /><i><br />...<br />I think people are enervated not just by the Sisyphean pointlessness of their individual labors but also by the fact that they’re working in and for a society in which, increasingly, they have zero faith or investment. The future their elders are preparing to bequeath to them is one that reflects the fondest hopes of the same ignorant bigots a lot of them fled their hometowns to escape. American conservatism, which is demographically terminal and knows it, is acting like a moribund billionaire adding sadistic codicils to his will.<br /><br />More young people are opting not to have kids not only because they can’t afford them but also because they assume they’ll have only a scorched or sodden wasteland to grow up in. An increasingly popular retirement plan is figuring civilization will collapse before you have to worry about it. I’m not sure anyone’s composed a more eloquent epitaph for the planet than the stand-up comedian Kath Barbadoro, who tweeted: “It’s pretty funny that the world is ending and we all just have to keep going to our little jobs lol.”<br /><br />Midcentury science fiction writers assumed that the increased productivity brought on by mechanization would give workers an oppressive amount of leisure time, that our greatest threats would be boredom and ennui. But these authors’ prodigious imaginations were hobbled by their humanity and rationality; they’d forgotten that the world is ordered not by reason or decency but by rapacious avarice.<br /><br />In the actual dystopian future we now inhabit, the oligarchs have realized they could work everyone harder, pay them less, eliminate benefits, turn every human institution from medicine to corrections into a racket, charge far more for basic rights and services than people in any other nation would stand for without revolting, and get rich beyond the penny ante dreams of a Carnegie or Astor.<br /><br />In the past few decades, capitalism has exponentially increased the creation of wealth for the already incredibly wealthy at the negligible expense of the well-being, dignity and happiness of most of humanity, plus the nominal cost of a mass extinction and the destruction of the biosphere — like cutting out the inefficient business of digestion and metabolism by pouring a fine bottle of wine directly into the toilet, thereby eliminating the middleman of you.<br />...<br /></i><br />Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-10940566093984497482022-07-07T13:22:30.985-07:002022-07-07T13:22:30.985-07:00Sarah Huckabee Sanders is running for governor of ...Sarah Huckabee Sanders is running for governor of Arkansas. I just got an email from her, along with who-knows-how-many of her other supporters*, promising the following:<br /><br />As governor, I will always:<br />• Say NO to Joe Biden and the Radical Left<br />• Phase out the state income tax<br />• Educate – not indoctrinate – our kids<br />• Stand with our brave men and women in law enforcement<br /><br />As a left-wing-by-Canadian-standards** foreigner, I'm contemplating how to answer her poll :-)<br /><br /><br />*Someone with my name, or several someones, are Republicans and gun nuts. - and too stupid to realize that their email address isn't just their name at gmail…<br /><br />**Which means that Bernie Sanders looks a bit too right-wing for my tastes. Odd that he's considered left in America — here (and in Europe) he'd fit comfortably into a moderate right-wing party.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04909011338723657265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-12696415544395348612022-07-07T12:11:13.278-07:002022-07-07T12:11:13.278-07:00Oh, I buried the lead on that Pennsylvania story:
...Oh, I buried the lead on that Pennsylvania story:<br /><i><br />Needless to say, the Democratic candidate, state AG Josh Shapiro, is wildly against all of this. However, Trump is helping Mastriano aggressively and, remarkably, polling shows it to be close. <br /></i>Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-89062240993155739892022-07-07T12:09:12.125-07:002022-07-07T12:09:12.125-07:00Between COVID resurgence, Christian denominational...Between COVID resurgence, Christian denominationalism, and the Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor actively campaigning on voter suppression*, I'm reaching the point where encountering a mass shooter doesn't sound like the worst possible fate.<br /><br />The one thing I will refuse to do no matter what is "love Big Brother."<br /><br />* <br />https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2022/Senate/Maps/Jul07.html#item-7<br /><i><br />Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano has a plan for winning the governorship of Pennsylvania—and it doesn't entail getting more votes than Democrat Josh Shapiro. He wants the state legislature to pass a bunch of laws that do the following:<br /><br />Allow voter intimidation: Well, he doesn't call it that. He calls it letting partisan poll watchers get closer to the voters and be allowed to challenge any voter for any reason. If this passes, Republicans in police-like uniforms will show up in heavily Black precincts and challenge every voter to prove he or she is a citizen and resident of the county. These challenges may be accepted, in some cases, and may scare off voters in others. At the very least, it will throw sand in the gears of the election and make it drag on until 8 p.m. or later. Some voters will just give up and go home, which is fine and dandy with the poll watchers.<br /><br />Eliminate no-excuse absentee voting: In 2020, Democrats used absentee ballots much more than Republicans, so Mastriano wants to eliminate the practice. Make those lazy Democrats show up on Nov. 8 and stand in line for hours. He also wants to ban dropboxes for the voters who have a legitimate reason to use an absentee ballot.<br /><br />Appoint a radical secretary of state: In Pennsylvania the governor appoints the secretary of state, and if Mastriano wins, he will certainly appoint someone whose philosophy is: "If a vote is for a Democrat, it must be fraudulent," and take it from there. He says he has someone in mind already, but won't say who.<br /><br />Forcing all Pennsylvanians to reregister: He wants everyone removed from the voting rolls, forcing anyone who wants to vote to reregister. He is fairly sure that Republicans would do this in greater numbers than Democrats because he knows Democrats (especially young ones) often don't bother to vote in the midterms, so they are unlikely to reregister—even if they know they are required to. This is a more radical step than has been proposed anywhere else. It also violates federal law, but who cares about that when winning is at stake?<br /><br />Defund the state Supreme Court: If everyone is scratched from the voting rolls, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court would probably get to look at that first. To rein it in, Mastriano wants to remove its funding. No more clerks or secretaries or computers. Maybe make them work from home on their phones. Then they wouldn't get in his way.<br /></i>Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-23149867754710218462022-07-07T10:54:08.529-07:002022-07-07T10:54:08.529-07:00Our country’s oligarchs forgot to maintain the cru...<i> Our country’s oligarchs forgot to maintain the crucial Horatio Alger fiction that anyone can get ahead with hard work — or maybe they just dropped it, figuring we no longer had any choice.</i><br /><br />Hey, if you had choices, you wouldn't have to work for minimum wage, and profits would be affected.<br /><br />It's been pretty evident up here that talk of 'the market' setting prices applies to CEO compensation, but not to those dubbed 'essential workers' a couple of years ago. When workers don't have to accept minimum wage, employers petition the government for temporary foreign workers (ie. workers tied to just one job, who don't know about health & safety, and who will bugger off back where they came from as soon as the employer is finished with them).<br /><br />We're heading back to patronage politics, if we aren't already there. For example, my premier just appointed his nephew a cabinet minister, and nearly 90% of his party were appointed parliamentary assistants, which comes with a 15% pay boost. This is the same chap who legislated government workers (except police) to a 1% pay increase back before the pandemic and didn't modify it when the pandemic and inflation hit.<br /><br />Nurses and teachers didn't support the Conservatives. Ford is like Harris — big into grudges and payback.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04909011338723657265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-56434134883845788122022-07-07T06:37:07.335-07:002022-07-07T06:37:07.335-07:00Truth that even a boomer can recognize...
https:/...Truth that even a boomer can recognize...<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/opinion/work-busy-trap-millennials.html<br /><i><br />A decade later, people aren’t trying to sell busyness as a virtue anymore, not even to themselves. A new generation has grown to adulthood that’s never known capitalism as a functioning economic system. My generation, X, was the first postwar cohort to be downwardly mobile, but millennials were the first to know it going in. Our country’s oligarchs forgot to maintain the crucial Horatio Alger fiction that anyone can get ahead with hard work — or maybe they just dropped it, figuring we no longer had any choice. Through the internet, we could peer enviously at our neighbors in civilized countries, who get monthlong vacations, don’t have to devote decades to paying for their college degrees, and aren’t terrified of going broke if they get sick. To young people, America seems less like a country than an inescapable web of scams, and “hard work” less like a virtue than a propaganda slogan, inane as “Just say no.”<br /></i>Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-12494760111959272602022-07-07T05:13:36.424-07:002022-07-07T05:13:36.424-07:00 The Georgia Guidestones have been destroyed, poss... The Georgia Guidestones have been destroyed, possibly for religious reasons:<br /><br />https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62073675<br /><br />Given the scriptural prohibition on graven images, more traditional monuments may be in peril.Tim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12380916635831994159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-79614702143191248462022-07-07T02:32:59.840-07:002022-07-07T02:32:59.840-07:00This clip addresses, if the entire eleven minutes ...This clip addresses, if the entire eleven minutes are viewed, Locum’s concerns re purism/idealism. [Btw, I’m not going to argue about abortion.]<br />The optimists are attacked for being “narrow-minded”—their visions allegedly limited. But Pinker’s opponents on the panel reveal themselves to be nattering nabobs of negativism; one even insulting his physical appearance.<br />https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxv4gaopJkgAlan Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996922923136240709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-33989174843361187932022-07-07T00:36:45.572-07:002022-07-07T00:36:45.572-07:00Apparently locumranch has never heard of artificia...Apparently locumranch has never heard of artificial insemination or IVF. It's perfectly possible for a woman to be a virgin while having twins. In fact with IVF it's all the more likely that you would have twins.<br /><br />It's also rare that a woman wouldn't realize she's pregnant until giving birth, but it's certainly not unheard of- there are medical reasons why this can happen.Cari Bursteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05812444306433659243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-18201801723372033302022-07-06T23:47:33.745-07:002022-07-06T23:47:33.745-07:00Your schizophrenic responses only prove my point, ...<br />Your schizophrenic responses only prove my point, as you deny the humanity of the physically defective while you simultaneously claim to champion human rights & otherness. This is the first step on the short road to racial hygiene & genocide. <br /><br />Anencephaly is indeed a tragedy, but it is only a matter of degree that separates anencephaly from Down's syndrome and other congenital deficits that include disability, deformity, deviance & retardation.<br /><br />Neither purist nor idealist, my attempts to preserve life in no way make me a 'pro-life' zealot any more than the abortion services that I have provided transmogrify me into a 'pro-choice' pussyhatted partisan.<br /><br />What I am is 'pro-consistency' and 'anti-fallacy'.<br /><br />Your progressive worldview is sick, one-sided & dysfunctional; I no longer wish to be its enabler; and patients may either wait and 'be patient' (as patients do) or try to heal themselves.<br /><br />Kudos to Don_G, btw, for noting that people (1) lie to one another, (2) lie to themselves, (3) prefer lies over truth and (4) all-of-the-above, and I can confirm his observations by my delivery of 2 sets of twins from two different women who insisted that they were both virgins, even as the second baby popped its head out.<br /><br />It's almost as if virgin births & similar miracles happen every day, but only if you are fool enough to #BelieveAllWomen.<br /><br /><br />Best<br />_____<br /><br /><i>Seriously, Don_G, I admire that you showed mercy to that imperfect woman, especially when mercy requires an admission of your own credulousness & complicity. I admit to many similar shortcomings myself which (in turn) provides the rationale behind my skepticism in regard to ideals, perfectionisms and utopian fantasies.</i>locumranchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06812045410916208141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-77442498067443795572022-07-06T13:39:41.072-07:002022-07-06T13:39:41.072-07:00In the 80s I was on a jury in rural Montana. The w...In the 80s I was on a jury in rural Montana. The woman was on trial for manslaughter after a live birth that subsequently died. She was alone and said she was not aware that she was pregnant. The men on the jury found that incredible. The older farm women did not. We ended up voting for acquittal.Don Gisselbeckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05770961482198971383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-59387925010428480682022-07-06T10:13:35.879-07:002022-07-06T10:13:35.879-07:00For locum to define an anencephalic thing as a per...<i>For locum to define an anencephalic thing as a person was most revealing.</i><br /><br />I've been skipping them, as life's too short…<br /><br />My father was a pathologist, and told me of being at a conference where one of the speakers showed a picture of an hydrocephalic baby. Pathologists, who earned their living cutting up corpses to find out how they died, were puking.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04909011338723657265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-75290575500703333632022-07-06T08:53:55.772-07:002022-07-06T08:53:55.772-07:00For locum to define an anencephalic thing as a per...For locum to define an anencephalic thing as a person was most revealing.<br /><br />Cari it was not a 'rant' to point out that purist absolutism is an absurd position by ANYONE in this analog world. Or that "it's only about MY choice" has some kind of highly discomforting (and 99.999% only theoretical) fundamental limits.David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-45916131788329107672022-07-06T08:44:47.298-07:002022-07-06T08:44:47.298-07:00locumranch:
It's a hilarious irony that the m...locumranch:<br /><i><br />It's a hilarious irony that the most vocal supporters of elective abortion are the very same identity groups which have been previously targeted for eugenic purification by pre & post term abortion.<br /></i><br /><br />Just as ironic as the fact that white Christianists fawn over the <i>Dobbs</i> decision which will cause more black and minority babies to be born in red states, while rich white daughters and mistresses will continue to have abortions.<br /><br /><i><br />Or, as the NAZI high command might quip,...<br /></i><br /><br />You're seriously comparing <b>liberals</b> to Nazis when right-wingers march with literal swastika flags?<br /><br />Physician, heal thyself.Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.com