Wednesday, September 02, 2015
President Obama plans on some male bonding with Bear Grylls
President Obama plans to spend a few days in the Alaskan wilderness with reality-tv star and outdoor guy/survivalist Bear Grylls and he's doing this to throw a spotlight on the issue of climate change. You know this is why Trump is still surging in the polls - he doesn't talk about issues that most or many people don't care about but plugs into practical everyday bread-and-butter issues like immigration. Climate change imo is a kind of left-wing intellectual issue, a pet academic subject of theirs that tolerates no dissent and the average Joe or Mary ain't all that jazzed up about it to be honest. I myself can't get into it either though I'm told I should care and if the polar bears disappear tomorrow well the seals will be happy about the development. The question on everybody's mind though is will Bear Grylls drink Obama's urine?
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I guess that is reinforcing your celebrity with more celebrity. Bear Grylls teaching
ReplyDeletethe pres how to light a grill using two sticks, Dog the Bounty Hunter outlining the fine arts of heavy metal jewelry to the Donald, Jeb Bush growing long hair and a beard with the Duck Dynasty, Jane Goodall pointing out the big chimp with the cigar
to Hillary....the question is, who gets stuck with ex-stars Honey Boo-Boo and Duggar
the Molester from '19 and Counting? :) I always sort of liked Bear Grylls, a guy that
can sing to tarantulas without sweating.
BTW Duggar was on that Ashley Madison site.
DeleteReince Pribus went and did homage at the feet of the Wizard of Trump. He must have given up on his project, Scott Walker. Ben Carson is #2 among COPsters.
ReplyDeleteI need a scorebook, ya know?
What do you make of that Kentucky county clerk that refuses to issue marriage licenses?. Its like White Castle refusing to sell hamburgers, no?
ReplyDeleteMy first reaction was you could be arrested over this??? That part smacks of an eerie totalitarianism and so in that sense I have to agree with Old Huck. Why can't the penalty be more simple, you lose your job?
DeleteRight; her sworn oath of office included adherence to US law. She insists
Deleteshe is holding a higher law, Gods'& Huck's. (which I cannot locate in the good book, but then the Commandments don't seem to address traffic cams either.)
Pet peeve of mine: we just like to arrest people in this country. The State flexing its muscle. Eric Garner:)
DeleteIn the Much Ado About Nothing Department, the jailed Kentucky clerk has
Deleteoffered, I think, a reasonable solution. She wants her printed name removed from the license forms and have others in her office issue them.
We suppose both sides will continue to muddy the waters though. My parting shot regarding the sanctimonious martyr:
"The Kentucky county clerk facing potentially stiff penalties for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses has been married four times, raising questions of hypocrisy and selective application of the Bible to her life.
The marriages are documented in court records obtained by U.S. News, which show that Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis divorced three times, first in 1994, then 2006 and again in 2008."
--exemplifying the 'judge not that ye' and 'people that live in glass houses'
aphorisms continue to apply.
She gave birth to twins five months after divorcing her first husband. They were fathered by her third husband but adopted by her second. Davis worked at the clerk's office at the time of each divorce and has since remarried
To be honest lack of consistency doesn't always bother me. If strict consistency were an absolute requirement the vast majority of us could not take political positions.
DeleteLittle college town half an hour drive north (Washington State U.) had a
DeletePlanned Parenthood until last night .
Bet it wasn't the sorority girls.
Your political position has become pretty plain over the years but personal question: could YOU work in some research lab and open up a box and inside is a later term fetal head what PP officials term the "calvarium"? You talk the talk but it's where the rubber meets the road.
DeleteMy expertise included disassembling and analyzing ammunition and detonators for years. So other than some animal work in college physiology, I can only relate that that type of work may safe the life of
Deletesome other dying newborn, whose parents would be forever grateful.
Can we assume the potential of stem cells here?
They say the Nazis got some valuable medical info from their human experimentation but most civilized folk don't think it was worth the moral cost.
DeleteI'm sure you realize though these better intact fetal organs mainly come from later-term abortions and some through partial birth. You kinda didn't answer the question though. You'd be great on those Sunday morning roundtables.
DeleteWhatever medical information Dr. Mengele got was of little or no value
Deleteas I understand it. Nazi ideology permitted (encouraged) brutality with
the millions in concentration camps, while medical laws in the rest of the world preclude medical (other than psychological) experiments on humans. It has been noted that the woman who has aborted may or may not volunteer donating the aborted fetal tissue, and given the rest of us,
we guess that is a small number. Perhaps guilt is a motivator, being an
altruistic decision following the most difficult decision of her life, who knows? My point is that no one is forcing anyone here and basically it
is a choice that will be made, whether in a clinic with medical care or in
some Yonkers alley; a choice that predates Christianity, even civilization.
That said, I understand the moral repugnance and empathize up to the point where doctors and nurses are 'justifiably' murdered and their facilities destroyed. While that reminds of the 'Night of the long knives',
I would not argue ad reductio ad adsurdum to the point of Godwin's Law.
The fact is that the practice of abortion threads throughout our history.
It is a desperate choice, in some cases arguably a trivial choice, made by
individuals about their pregnancy. In some cases upon the advice of a physician. It is a fact that it is legal. I believe, like you and many others,
access to birth control would greatly lessen, if not eradicate the practice.
Speaking of labwork, I one time assisted in plucking a ricochet 9mm bullet from the forehead of a fellow experimenter, who shot the top of
the metal window in the ballistics range. Since it was merely a flesh wound that did not penetrate the 'calverium', the rubber didn't quite
meet the road.....
So something that even Hillary Clinton finds disturbing you don't find disturbing?
DeletePoint#2 - For decades now pro-choicers have long maintained that the act of abortion does not take a human life now all of a sudden the fetal tissue is valuable to Science. I would think it's valuable to Science because it's human. I honestly don't think choicers have fully thought through their position. You have these grisly side alleys that you have to endorse if you support the "right" to an abortion. I don't have this problem as I've never been an apologist for abortion:)
DeleteUh, was it a mistake for me to bring up the arson at the PP office? :)
DeleteNo but I'm not supposed to bring up the subject of John Tesh with soapie.
DeleteLet me explain my aggravation with the subject of the PP arson. Most pro-lifers agree it's morally wrong to engage in these tactics but practically speaking it's also impractical and stupid because it takes the spotlight off what PP actually does and makes them into a group of undeserved martyrs and the msm just love this. It'd be like if Gloria Steinem were blogging against Hugh Hefner and somebody on her side shot him in the leg and so he becomes a saint to free speech and we're way OT.
DeleteIn Pennsylvania-
Delete"A 30-year-old Polk Township man has been arrested for his role after a 13-year-old girl performed a self-induced abortion using a pencil. Michael James Lisk has been charged with rape and concealing the death of a child.
State police were alerted to the case on Sunday after staff at Lehigh Valley Hospital treated the girl, who said she conducted the "home abortion" on herself using a lead pencil last Wednesday.
She subsequently became violently ill and began having contractions before ultimately delivering a baby at her residence
The girl had no legal access to abortion in Pennsylvania, where her parents must consent"
Sounds like a NY Times editorial or a HuffPost.
DeleteI'm personally against abortion in cases of rape/incest but as a practical matter I wouldn't prosecute any of the parties to such an abortion. Way past time we took this #1 pro-choice topic off the table:)
Delete'NY Times article or a HuffPost', not. The article was in the
DeletePocono Record of Stroudsburg, PA. Your neck of the woods, not mine.
Many pro-choice Americans support some form of parental involvement in a teen's abortion decision. It's one of the elements in the common ground package. PP and the abortion industry not much interested in common ground.
DeleteBB I bet you're excited about McDonald's all day breakfast menu.
ReplyDeleteAll day breakfast? Alleluia! Maybe see some familar faces , who knows?
DeleteBeing your typical omnivore, I skipped Mikey D's today and had peach pie
Deletefor breakfast. Tomorrow morning, I'm thinking of chili.
Thinking of insomnia and Bear Grylls, the forest fire fighters put in 15 hour days in
ReplyDeletethe mountains breathing smoke and dodging embers. But doggone if they can
grab a few hours sleep .
Who would name their little British tyke Bear? I was in a big meeting one time and
ReplyDeletethe surly plant manager announced that a bigtime German scientist would be visiting.
He said his name was Urs Krapp and asked if anyone knew what that meant. I volunteered 'bear shit', and amid much laughter was pronounced correct.
On the way to the Cross County Shopping Center in Yonkers is an old sidestreet called Hiscock Place. The irony is it's quite close to St. Joseph's Seminary.
DeleteHad a urologist in town by the name of Dr. Hollopeter and a dentist by
Deletethe name if Dr. Eek. Sort of real life characters of the common comical
types, the financial partners Dewey, Cheatham & Howe and the gardeners, Doolittle and Sittmoore.
There's some sci-fi writer by the name of Michael Moorcock and another one by the name of Turtledove. My friend and I always chuckle about it when we go Barnes & Nobleing.
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