Today is the first day to file ballot petitions in the Chicago mayoral race. There are going to be 15 or 16 candidates -- at least until the literally hundreds of petition challenges decide who actually made it and who didn't.
Chicago -- uniquely in Illinois, I believe -- uses the "jungle" primary system. The idea is to make sure that no Republican clown appears on the final ballot. (I'm not kidding. One year a professional clown won the Republican mayoral primary.)
Alan, thanks so much for the material you posted on the last thread. It does my heart good to know that Nevada and Michigan are solidly Democratic! And that was one humdinger of a quote of the day!
Listener, when I got to be fourteen or so, my Great Aunt Nora told me she would have to stop calling me Little Creature, since at that point I was taller than she was. I couldn't see where the one thing followed from the other, but Aunt Nora was an eminently sensible lady. Don't recall ever trying on her shoes though.
Speaking of thanking Alan. . . . "Yang believes that the revelation will have implications beyond the small community of researchers who admit an interest in wombat scat." *That's* what I should have done with my life!
Great wombat story from a friend's childhood. His brother found a wombat in the front yard. Told Warwick to run inside an get their mother's bread bowl. Which he did, and his brother threw over the wombat's back. And then stood on top of. And wombat rose up and walked away, bread bowl and brother and all. So I'd say a wombat can pretty do as a wombat wishes. . . .
Glad to have posted some bits interesting to my good friends here. Going to be hard to top cubical wombat scat, though! The Republican clown reminds me of the time a head shop owner won the local Democratic primary here; I voted for him because I figured at least we would know what he was smoking, unlike the GOP incumbent. I should think that Dear Leader will think twice before belittling Adam Schiff again!
Ohio is trying to pass a "Heartbeat Bill" making it illegal to get an abortion after six weeks. This is the comment I put up on Facebook, hope I can copy it here:
I pulled up some pictures of a 6 week fetus. They're only about 1/4" long and they look like a semi-formed dolphin. The woman most likely does not know that she is pregnant. The right-wingers keep romanticizing the fetus and acting like it looks like a cuddly living baby. It does not. It doesn't look human at all. So, yeah it's inside a woman who didn't plan on it, doesn't want it, so let's kill her. She has other children? Too bad.
I know how to make miniature wire hangers and I also have polymer clay to make little "dolphin fetuses", and if they pass this vicious "we hate women" law our "representatives" will be receiving them. I'd bet 99% of those old men pushing this have no idea what a fetus looks like. I'll show them. Manage Image may contain: one or more people fetusinhand Well, I don't think the photo is going to come up.
I've been unable to determine whether they're talking "gestational age" which is based on the first date of your last normal period, or "fetal age" which is based on actual conception date. This is what I just posted on facebook.
Dear Ohio. I have only once had a problematical pregnancy. I knew at embryonic age of 16 days. Had I been in a situation where I had to choose to abort before six weeks or not at all, that is what I would have chosen. But I didn't have to choose, waited, was able to think things through and did NOT have an abortion. YOU, gentlemen, have just added untold numbers to your "death toll." Congratulations for the good werk, you freaking morons.
I believe that every person has the right to choose. I also believe in the sanctity of human life. So I don't tend to hang out in anybody's camp. It would be lovely if every person who has sex considered the possibility of pregnancy and either took precautions or made a different choice. But life itself is imperfect. I don't believe we have cause to judge others. But a fetus is in fact a human embryo and does deserve some respect.
Ah, man, am I ever staying out of this piranha tank! Not, I hasten to add, for lack of a strong opinion on the matter. I'm just too tired at the moment to work myself up into righteous indignation.
I know it's a little early for Christmas videos, but this one came up on my YouTube suggestions. Note the three gifts - ever so much more practical than gold, frankincense and myrrh!
I'm writing a quiz on Torvill and Dean, so I've been looking them up on Wikipedia to supplement reading their two books. Just now I've been toodling around on YouTube, and what should come up on the suggestion list but Torvill and Dean's Olympic gold winning routine from 1984. Now, I did go through a phase of watching a lot of their videos some months back, but not recently. Google owns YouTube, so maybe my Google searches from today somehow crossed over to YouTube? In any case, it weirded me out.
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Today is the first day to file ballot petitions in the Chicago mayoral race. There are going to be 15 or 16 candidates -- at least until the literally hundreds of petition challenges decide who actually made it and who didn't.
ReplyDeleteChicago -- uniquely in Illinois, I believe -- uses the "jungle" primary system. The idea is to make sure that no Republican clown appears on the final ballot. (I'm not kidding. One year a professional clown won the Republican mayoral primary.)
Alan, thanks so much for the material you posted on the last thread. It does my heart good to know that Nevada and Michigan are solidly Democratic! And that was one humdinger of a quote of the day!
ReplyDeleteListener, when I got to be fourteen or so, my Great Aunt Nora told me she would have to stop calling me Little Creature, since at that point I was taller than she was. I couldn't see where the one thing followed from the other, but Aunt Nora was an eminently sensible lady. Don't recall ever trying on her shoes though.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of thanking Alan. . . . "Yang believes that the revelation will have implications beyond the small community of researchers who admit an interest in wombat scat." *That's* what I should have done with my life!
ReplyDeleteGreat wombat story from a friend's childhood. His brother found a wombat in the front yard. Told Warwick to run inside an get their mother's bread bowl. Which he did, and his brother threw over the wombat's back. And then stood on top of. And wombat rose up and walked away, bread bowl and brother and all. So I'd say a wombat can pretty do as a wombat wishes. . . .
Glad to have posted some bits interesting to my good friends here. Going to be hard to top cubical wombat scat, though! The Republican clown reminds me of the time a head shop owner won the local Democratic primary here; I voted for him because I figured at least we would know what he was smoking, unlike the GOP incumbent.
ReplyDeleteI should think that Dear Leader will think twice before belittling Adam Schiff again!
Ohio is trying to pass a "Heartbeat Bill" making it illegal to get an abortion after six weeks. This is the comment I put up on Facebook, hope I can copy it here:
ReplyDeleteI pulled up some pictures of a 6 week fetus. They're only about 1/4" long and they look like a semi-formed dolphin. The woman most likely does not know that she is pregnant. The right-wingers keep romanticizing the fetus and acting like it looks like a cuddly living baby. It does not. It doesn't look human at all. So, yeah it's inside a woman who didn't plan on it, doesn't want it, so let's kill her. She has other children? Too bad.
I know how to make miniature wire hangers and I also have polymer clay to make little "dolphin fetuses", and if they pass this vicious "we hate women" law our "representatives" will be receiving them. I'd bet 99% of those old men pushing this have no idea what a fetus looks like. I'll show them.
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Well, I don't think the photo is going to come up.
I've been unable to determine whether they're talking "gestational age" which is based on the first date of your last normal period, or "fetal age" which is based on actual conception date. This is what I just posted on facebook.
ReplyDeleteDear Ohio. I have only once had a problematical pregnancy. I knew at embryonic age of 16 days. Had I been in a situation where I had to choose to abort before six weeks or not at all, that is what I would have chosen. But I didn't have to choose, waited, was able to think things through and did NOT have an abortion. YOU, gentlemen, have just added untold numbers to your "death toll." Congratulations for the good werk, you freaking morons.
You make an excellent point, puddle.
DeleteI believe that every person has the right to choose. I also believe in the sanctity of human life. So I don't tend to hang out in anybody's camp. It would be lovely if every person who has sex considered the possibility of pregnancy and either took precautions or made a different choice. But life itself is imperfect. I don't believe we have cause to judge others. But a fetus is in fact a human embryo and does deserve some respect.
Ah, man, am I ever staying out of this piranha tank! Not, I hasten to add, for lack of a strong opinion on the matter. I'm just too tired at the moment to work myself up into righteous indignation.
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And Susan, you have a right to be angry. Ohio needs help.
ReplyDeleteI know it's a little early for Christmas videos, but this one came up on my YouTube suggestions. Note the three gifts - ever so much more practical than gold, frankincense and myrrh!
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Okay, I'm creeped out.
ReplyDeleteI'm writing a quiz on Torvill and Dean, so I've been looking them up on Wikipedia to supplement reading their two books. Just now I've been toodling around on YouTube, and what should come up on the suggestion list but Torvill and Dean's Olympic gold winning routine from 1984. Now, I did go through a phase of watching a lot of their videos some months back, but not recently. Google owns YouTube, so maybe my Google searches from today somehow crossed over to YouTube? In any case, it weirded me out.
Had to watch my favorite T&D routine, "Take Five," to settle myself. How I love watching them. They're pure magic!
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