Based on what happened to SU yesterday, it’s not looking good for the Jets in today’s AFC Championship game. It’s not unusual for the sports god to be in cahoots to make my weekend suck and send me back to work miserable and dejected (more so than a typical Monday). The East-West Shrine game was a bright spot (not that I could watch it, as we don’t get the NFL Network, and I was kinda busy anyway), as SU running back Delone Carter was named MVP. So, good for him.

Back during her campaign, our newly elected teabagger congresscritter eschewed the topic of abortion, merely stating that it “was not the issue that would define her, nor would it be a priority of her campaign.” Whoopsie! All that’s changed now as the Registered Nurse (and female, I might add, only because I so often hear that it’s the evil men of the world who want to keep women down by taking ownership of their bodies and whatnot) Anne Marie Buerkle is now a crusader.

–At 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, without prior notice, Buerkle delivered a passionate speech on the House floor about federal laws that should be changed to restrict abortions. It was among a series of speeches that evening, to a mostly empty chamber, organized by the bipartisan Pro-Life Caucus in Congress.
— On Thursday, Buerkle signed as a co-sponsor of H.R. 3, the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.” The bill would permanently ban federal subsidies for abortion services, and also cut off federal subsidies and tax credits for any health insurance plans that include coverage of abortions. On the same day, she co-sponsored another bill that would rewrite President Barack Obama’s health care reform law to prohibit federal subsidies for abortion services.
— Buerkle plans to speak Monday to a crowd of 200,000 expected on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for the March for Life rally. The annual event commemorates the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that established a woman’s right to choose an abortion.

This should, of course, come as no surprise to anybody, since Buerkle was an anti-abortion activist, and spokesbitch for Operation Rescue, whose activities in its devotion to the right to life have of course never included encouraging the murder of physicians like Bernard Slepian and George Tiller.

Well, don’t blame me. I didn’t vote for her.

I didn’t get a whole lot accomplished yesterday, but I did manage to spend a lot of money in preparation for accomplishing things. And I plowed so I could get in and out. We didn’t get a whole helluvalotta new snow, but the wind blew some pretty impressive drifts across the tundra that is my driveway, and I took the time to scrape it down and widen it out a bit (though it was a bit nippy, the wind wasn’t blowing, and the sun was shining, so it wasn’t too bad – not as bad as watching the SU game, anyway).

Today should be even colder (and really, really cold tonight), but I need to hitch up the wagon and take a trip into town for supplies at some point. And then of course there’s always laundry to do.

Well, even if the Jets lose, at least Big Love is on tonight.