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.
Cold doesn’t sound like the word for it. :cold:
I think I remember you saying, pj, that you no longer have Showtime but if you or anyone else does, check out Shameless for me. It stars William :bong: Macy as a crazy drunk :40: and a young friend of mine, Jane Levy, has a role which I think I previewed here the other day.
I hope progressives find the page in the playbook to be really mean and nasty and relentlessly pin the stealthy controversial beliefs of these looney tunes on them before the ‘voila’ moment after they assume office or the bench. And I wish someone start calling them on that ‘the Amurkin peepul think’ crap they keep dishing out when they are talking about their supporters when it is more correct to preface the phrase with’some of’ or ‘a small but noisy and marginal rabble but not necessarily a majority of’.
The high today will be 18 and the low 8. I will not venture out if I can help it.
This morning I was looking at the woods which are completely leafless. Standing there, about 40 feet from me, were 7 deer. I didn’t see any of them until one flicked an ear. It amazed me how these big animals can be so invisible. Equally amazing is that they are not shivering.
Sadly, no, I don’t have Showtime anymore. Too bad, as I’d like to see that show. Oh well. If things continue the way they are with our “liberal” governor, I’ll be luck y if I have enough money to afford the electricity to watch free teevee.
Ooh,balmy down there. At high noon, we’re all the way up to 7° here. Tonight is supposed be around -15°. No counting the wind chill, of course.
Oh well, that’s just a regular winter day in Minnesota, so I won’t complain. Much.
At least, PJ, we don’t have to worry that our rich fellow residents will be bothered by having their taxes raised. In fact they’ll be lowering them because Cuomo doesn’t want to renew the surcharge.
But, what was our choice? Palidino would probably not be better.
Vern, I do get Showtime in Brooklyn but I won’t be there this evening. However, next Sunday I will be home so I’ll catch it then.
There are more African Americans under correctional control today — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. As of 2004, more African American men were disenfranchised (due to felon disenfranchisement laws) than in 1870, the year the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that explicitly deny the right to vote on the basis of race.
A black child born today is less likely to be raised by both parents than a black child born during slavery. The recent disintegration of the African American family is due in large part to the mass imprisonment of black fathers. If you take into account prisoners, a large majority of African American men in some urban areas have been labeled felons for life. (In the Chicago area, the figure is nearly 80%.) These men are part of a growing undercaste — not class, caste — permanently relegated, by law, to a second-class status.
http://balkin.blogspot.com/2011/01/martin-luther-king-day-reflections-on.html
Of course the people to blame are the teachers.
It’s around the same temperature here in Minneapolis. Warm enough to take the cross-country skis out for a jaunt around the golf course though.