Saturday was a family day. I accidentally slept until NOON!!! I needed to be awake by about 10am (not too much to ask, eh? But it had been a whole week of 6 hrs of sleep per night and I guess it caught up with me), so had to scramble, but made it! We had tickets to watch on computer a LIVE performance from the Globe Theatre in London of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Only, as the performance was at 7:00pm BST, we needed to watch it at 2:00pm EST. And we did. But I also needed to get our son's birthday gifts wrapped and food prepped before their arrival about a half hour after the performance.
Wonderfully, we got everything done (including Wil mowing the lawn) before they arrived, with the exception of cutting up the food for kabobs. But! While I did so, VT*Grand stood in the kitchen and told me all about her life!! I LOVED THAT!! She is newly 14 and full of delight in her school life, play rehearsal and more.
I made a Cider Donut Cake for the birthday guy. (Cake that tastes like a cider donut! Only not greasy. Yum!) It was a new recipe to me and I am very pleased with it.
This waking up at 4 a.m. crud is getting *really old*. I did manage to clear sitting space for son and grandson. Cleaned the main bathroom - the other two still look like poorly maintained roadside-stop restrooms. I'll admit there was some employment of a putty knife and some scraping when it came to cleaning the sink countertop. But well, one down and two to go.
I don't see how the Ku Klux Klan act would be relevant in a civil suit. But it's important to note that both suits were filed specifically for the purpose of having the law reviewed, with the Illinois plaintiff specifically hoping to have it invalidated.
All along, the prohibitive effort has been directed at inhibiting surrogates (care providers) who are able to be affected by having their license/permit to do business rescinded. It is a triangulation to get around the fact that the Constitution does not permit agents of government interfering with the behavior of natural persons, until and unless a complaint about inurious behavior has been filed and proved. Obviously, fetal tissue cannot file a complaint about being removed from a uterus. There is no person to file a complaint and the "owner" of a sperm is on shakey ground because his property right cannot be proved without invading the privacy of the womb. Punishing supposed assisters of the crime of evicting a sperm is a "hail mary pass" that is destined to fail. However, in the interim, attention seekers are getting what they want--attention. Attacking women on behalf of an unwelcome lodger is sort of bizzare. But until now, I has cost the antagonistic attention seekers nothing. On the other hand, the medical community is somewhat to blame. In response to decreasing revenues from a decrease in the reproductive rate, traditional care providers have tried to protect what they perceive as a threat to their monpoly by both midwives and women's clinics. Never mind that one reason these alternatives have gained traction is because maternal care for women was been grossly deficient. Now that we know that parturition is actually precipitated by hormonal changes in the fetal brain, the practice of scheduling "deliveries" to accommodate the practitioner's schedule may help account for why the outcomes are so detrimental. A study in Britain has shown that surgical extractions have poor outsomes because the umbillical cord gets severed too sson (before the lungs have cleared to take in oxygen) and the brain suffers perinatal asphyxia which, in the most sever cases, results in cerebral palsy. Congress manipulating the citizenry via the private corporations that employ them is gigantic issue for which the strictures on medical professionals is like a canary in the cole mine.
I am too lazy at the moment to research it, but as memory serves me, the KKK Law outlaws acting *under color of law* to deprive or limit anyone's rights. I think there are one or two other relevant items as well.
I consider this premature at best. So far there have been only tow suits filed under the law, both for the explicit purpose of having it reviewed. In one case the plaintiff specifically hopes it will be overturned. I think the Justice Department is durrently following the correct strategy: Directly challenging the law's constitutionality.
"This would be a turn-up for the books: the Berliner Zeitung newspaper reports that there’s a chance the conservative CDU/CSU’s candidate - and Angela Merkel’s favoured successor - Armin Laschet, might not win a seat in parliament (see 16.15 entry below for an explanation of how the fiendishly complicated German electoral system works)."
Hannah! I had never heard about parturition being precipitated by hormonal changes in the fetal brain. Clicks with what I experienced in my third delivery. Baby two weeks overdue, pitocin to keep labor going. Baby heart-rate drops to 40 bpm and the nurses were so panicked they were trying to squeeze him out of me like toothpaste from a tube. Literally. Hands on my stomach and pushing for all they were worth. An ugly experience for both of us!
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DeleteSaturday was a family day. I accidentally slept until NOON!!! I needed to be awake by about 10am (not too much to ask, eh? But it had been a whole week of 6 hrs of sleep per night and I guess it caught up with me), so had to scramble, but made it! We had tickets to watch on computer a LIVE performance from the Globe Theatre in London of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Only, as the performance was at 7:00pm BST, we needed to watch it at 2:00pm EST. And we did. But I also needed to get our son's birthday gifts wrapped and food prepped before their arrival about a half hour after the performance.
ReplyDeleteWonderfully, we got everything done (including Wil mowing the lawn) before they arrived, with the exception of cutting up the food for kabobs. But! While I did so, VT*Grand stood in the kitchen and told me all about her life!! I LOVED THAT!! She is newly 14 and full of delight in her school life, play rehearsal and more.
Life is good.
I made a Cider Donut Cake for the birthday guy. (Cake that tastes like a cider donut! Only not greasy. Yum!) It was a new recipe to me and I am very pleased with it.
DeleteVery good, listener; may it continue so.
DeleteThis waking up at 4 a.m. crud is getting *really old*. I did manage to clear sitting space for son and grandson. Cleaned the main bathroom - the other two still look like poorly maintained roadside-stop restrooms. I'll admit there was some employment of a putty knife and some scraping when it came to cleaning the sink countertop. But well, one down and two to go.
ReplyDeleteTruth be told, NO ONE needs three bathrooms to clean. Maybe clean one that you never use...except for company.
DeleteTwo disbarred lawyers sued a Texas doctor who performed an abortion. Flustered ‘pro-lifers’ are backpedaling [Click] So far no word of whether the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 will be invoked by the defendant’s attorneys; I certainly hope so. I should think that some first-rate attorneys would take up the defense on a pro bono basis, and that a GoFundMe account most likely already exists or will shortly.
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DeleteI don't see how the Ku Klux Klan act would be relevant in a civil suit. But it's important to note that both suits were filed specifically for the purpose of having the law reviewed, with the Illinois plaintiff specifically hoping to have it invalidated.
DeleteAll along, the prohibitive effort has been directed at inhibiting surrogates (care providers) who are able to be affected by having their license/permit to do business rescinded.
DeleteIt is a triangulation to get around the fact that the Constitution does not permit agents of government interfering with the behavior of natural persons, until and unless a complaint about inurious behavior has been filed and proved.
Obviously, fetal tissue cannot file a complaint about being removed from a uterus. There is no person to file a complaint and the "owner" of a sperm is on shakey ground because his property right cannot be proved without invading the privacy of the womb.
Punishing supposed assisters of the crime of evicting a sperm is a "hail mary pass" that is destined to fail. However, in the interim, attention seekers are getting what they want--attention.
Attacking women on behalf of an unwelcome lodger is sort of bizzare. But until now, I has cost the antagonistic attention seekers nothing.
On the other hand, the medical community is somewhat to blame. In response to decreasing revenues from a decrease in the reproductive rate, traditional care providers have tried to protect what they perceive as a threat to their monpoly by both midwives and women's clinics. Never mind that one reason these alternatives have gained traction is because maternal care for women was been grossly deficient.
Now that we know that parturition is actually precipitated by hormonal changes in the fetal brain, the practice of scheduling "deliveries" to accommodate the practitioner's schedule may help account for why the outcomes are so detrimental. A study in Britain has shown that surgical extractions have poor outsomes because the umbillical cord gets severed too sson (before the lungs have cleared to take in oxygen) and the brain suffers perinatal asphyxia which, in the most sever cases, results in cerebral palsy.
Congress manipulating the citizenry via the private corporations that employ them is gigantic issue for which the strictures on medical professionals is like a canary in the cole mine.
Apologies for the typos.
DeleteOK, Hannah--we mean what you know.
DeleteI am too lazy at the moment to research it, but as memory serves me, the KKK Law outlaws acting *under color of law* to deprive or limit anyone's rights. I think there are one or two other relevant items as well.
DeleteLawrence Tribe on the use of the “KKK Law of 1871” against bounty hunters. [Click] In the Washington Post, but evidently not behind their paywall. Googling [ku klux klan act of 1871 and texas antiabortion law] turns up other similar columns.
DeleteI consider this premature at best. So far there have been only tow suits filed under the law, both for the explicit purpose of having it reviewed. In one case the plaintiff specifically hopes it will be overturned. I think the Justice Department is durrently following the correct strategy: Directly challenging the law's constitutionality.
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DeleteA resurgence in pastoralism, one of the world's more sustainable food systems, could help Spain adapt to climate change and revitalise depopulated rural areas. [Click]
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DeleteHannah! I had never heard about parturition being precipitated by hormonal changes in the fetal brain. Clicks with what I experienced in my third delivery. Baby two weeks overdue, pitocin to keep labor going. Baby heart-rate drops to 40 bpm and the nurses were so panicked they were trying to squeeze him out of me like toothpaste from a tube. Literally. Hands on my stomach and pushing for all they were worth. An ugly experience for both of us!
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