Give Me a W
Give Me a W
As I write the President is in something of a pickle. He seems to have earned his father's image not long after earning his old office. You remember how Mr. Trudeau used to draw Bush the elder, as a waffle. On the faith based initiative he has gone back and forth, promising one group of faithful they'll get the money, and promising another group of faithful the first group won't. On federal funding of experiments performed on unborn children, he hasn't publicly waffled. Instead he is in hiding, checking the wind before making up his mind. The enlightened among us are insisting that baby parts are the wave of the future, while the Pope, looking like Mother Theresa in pants, no wait, well, you get the picture, has given the President an earful. Here is my question. When we here at ETC were busy yelling at you for even thinking of voting for this man, many of you swore up and down that he was a stealth pro-lifer. You argued that it was in fact wise of him to play the issue down, so he could get in office, and turn the thing around. The only thing turning is our stomachs.
There has been no attempt to stop partial-birth abortion, something that nearly happened two or three times during the Clinton years. So my question is this, how many of you still are brimming with confidence that W will be a knight in shining army to the littlest of the little children, the frozen embryos none of us have been talking about?
If the man thinks it is worth the death of an unborn child to spare the victim
of rape or incest
from having to carry a child to term wouldn't he also believe it is just fine
to take the frozen unchosen and put them to use? Heck, if you think it is just
dandy to elect this man, I expect most of you have no qualms about this either.
We live in a culture of death, and we are at ease there. The state sees babies as means rather than ends because the church sees them the same way. Whether we want them, and in the case of in vitro fertilization, want them badly enough to either snuff out or merely freeze their little siblings, or don't want them, and practice abortifacient methods of birth control, or find a slightly less deadly way to keep them away, we are all serving ourselves, just like the women down at the abortion mifi. We serve the same God, just not as fully as our neighbors.
Will you give him four more years? And then what? Another electable waffle that stands by while babies are picked to pieces either because they are useful, or because they are not? I know you meant well, but is it possible there is blood on your hands?
Hot Hot Hot
This has always been a hit with our family, friends and all those of you who have visited us.
Laurence's Homemade Salsa
Ingredients:
2 large cans of whole tomatoes (I prefer Hunts brand)
4 green onions
1/2 jalapeno pepper (the wrinkled ones are best)
5 cloves of fresh garlic (crushed)
1/3 bunch of fresh cilantro
1/2 teaspoon of salt
Directions:
Combine all ingredients in large blender. Blend well. Taste for heat. You may
want to add more jalapeno. Enjoy! Try not to bite fingers while gorging yourself.
(Too bad RC can't send you his homebrew recipe!)
Hot Hot Hot Redux
Man is it hot out there. Everybody talks about how everybody talks about the weather and nobody does anything about it, but nobody does anything about it. Well, that's a stretch. Some folks are trying to do something about it. They want us to walk through the heat, instead of riding in our air--conditioned cars. It's those emissions that are making it hot, they keep saying down in Kyoto.
I do not have the space here to make the case that global warming is global
humbug, but I can give you an illustration that makes the same point, that science
has become as political as, say, politics. One of the great offenders against
mother ozone, according to all the experts, was freon. And so our masters banned
the production of freon, and now our air conditioners don't work as well as
they used to. You knew all that. What you probably didn't know was this. There
was a very large chemical company that once owned the patent on freon. I think
it was Dupont, but don't quote me on it. It so happened that Dupont, or whomever
it was, had created a substitute for freon. It didn't work near as well, but
still, they had a patent on it. When freon was banned, it was just at that time
when Dupont (whomever) was about to lose their patent on freon. It was about
to expire. They would have been forced to compete with other manufacturers.
How fortuitous for them, and those whose campaigns they supported, that we discovered
the stuff was acid on ozone at just that time. Their research that argued that
their product hurt the ozone was as honest as those tobacco scientists who argued
smoking gave us rosy cheeks. Don't believe the hype.