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Jun. 2nd, 2009
Mona Charen: It's not fair to casually call people racist -- with a look at the Democratic party's smeary past.
( Because it's dumb to commit to doing a daily snark if you don't mean to keep it up )
( Because it's dumb to commit to doing a daily snark if you don't mean to keep it up )
Not a snark
Jun. 2nd, 2009 10:01 pmWe didn't know he was Clarence Thomas
He was just some geezer in the coach seats...
He was just some geezer in the coach seats...
Hippeastrum update with Tiller commentary
Jun. 2nd, 2009 10:08 pmSeven of the 64 seeds are showing leaflets and/or root shoots. That would be a little more than 10%. I think I will have as much germination as I want.
Tiller is weighing heavily on the minds of a lot of my LJ friends right now. I am trying to sort through the conflicting reports to find some quantitative data indicating how many of his late term abortions were performed because of a threat to the mother's life, how many because of a probably fatal defect to the baby, and how many (to quote a site whose data may be suspect) to women who simply weren't able to get their acts together earlier. Not that it makes his murder justifiable in any way, but I'd like to know.
Some folks don't get that I'm especially appalled at the violation of sanctuary implied by gunning the man down in the church. I guess they don't grok the concept of sanctuary in the medieval sense.
Meanwhile, a blogger whose name escapes me (but I'll add his name later if/when I run across it) asks a question that stopped me dead in my tracks: if abortion is indeed murder, how come none of these people ever seem to go after the ultimate murderesses, the pregnant women? Not even the most strident of the Operation Rescue folks seem to have gone that far in their rhetoric. This argues some recognition that there's a qualitative difference between terminating a pregnancy and (to paraphrase Henry V) spitting a naked infant on a pike.
These are not easy questions, and there are no easy answers.
Tiller is weighing heavily on the minds of a lot of my LJ friends right now. I am trying to sort through the conflicting reports to find some quantitative data indicating how many of his late term abortions were performed because of a threat to the mother's life, how many because of a probably fatal defect to the baby, and how many (to quote a site whose data may be suspect) to women who simply weren't able to get their acts together earlier. Not that it makes his murder justifiable in any way, but I'd like to know.
Some folks don't get that I'm especially appalled at the violation of sanctuary implied by gunning the man down in the church. I guess they don't grok the concept of sanctuary in the medieval sense.
Meanwhile, a blogger whose name escapes me (but I'll add his name later if/when I run across it) asks a question that stopped me dead in my tracks: if abortion is indeed murder, how come none of these people ever seem to go after the ultimate murderesses, the pregnant women? Not even the most strident of the Operation Rescue folks seem to have gone that far in their rhetoric. This argues some recognition that there's a qualitative difference between terminating a pregnancy and (to paraphrase Henry V) spitting a naked infant on a pike.
These are not easy questions, and there are no easy answers.