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Home Grown Ideological Terrorism Makes a Martyr Out Of Dr. George Tiller

cooper — Sun, 31 May 2009 20:50:11 +0000

Dr. George Tiller was Shot to Death today. Tiller, a Kansas physician, performed late term abortions, one of the few physician in the country to do so. He was found not guilty in March in a politically motivated trial where he was charged with 19 misdemeanors stemming from procedures he performed, and in another politically motivated move, immediately after the jury pronounced him not guilty, the state’s medical board announced it was investigating allegations against him that were nearly identical to those the jury had rejected.

So much for not having our own ideologically rooted terrorists.

Everyone has their saviors, and the 10 and 12 year old rape/incest victims Dr. Tiller performed late term abortions on had theirs in doctor Tiller.

Now he is a martyr.

A comment off opinion.

peace

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Wednesday Wonderings, WTF’s and Sound Bites.

cooper — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:39:26 +0000

The Church of Scientology is on trial in France, accused of “targeting vulnerable people for commercial gain”. I’m not an expert on Scientology, know little of it except that Greta Van Susteren — FOX news semi talking-head formerly of CNN — is one, as is her husband John Coale, a high ranking Scientiologist and trial lawyer, was appointed by my Governor to the Board of Directors of UMMS (University of MarylandMedical System). I’ve read the appointment is possible payback of a campaign debt donation. I have no way of knowing if this is true of course. I am interested in how this plays out in France though.

I flipped over to the Scientology website site and took a test. I can get the results when I go to my appointment at their place off of Dupont Circle in D.C..

Speaking of Spaceships, I now know I am one, thanks to Quilly, who sent me on this transportation quiz.

You may wonder why I am taking transportation quizzes. I’ve come to the conclusion that becoming a soundbite online prevents one from becoming a soundbite in real life.

Pesky annoyances:

I don’t know if the NYT assigned this dude this piece, or if he viciously grabbed at it with both of his little new wave conservative man hands, but Liberated and Unhappy, where Ross Douthat calls for a need to stigmatize single mothers, and other commentary as likely to have come from my grandfathers barber as anywhere else, is a surprisingly shitty piece even for an op-ed. It’s based on this piece of work…The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness by Wharton School economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers.

A subjective study, when possibly objective data, such as over the last 35 years female suicide rates have declined, while male suicide rates have increased, is not included, and there is no way to know that the vastness of the line the “happiness scale” in on these days, as opposed to 35 years ago, , makes it most likely…not much of a change after all. Douthat notes that the authors “avoid floating an easy explanation for their data”. Oblivious to the fact that they avoided floating an easy explanation because there isn’t one, he makes up one that works for him, and the NYT actually published it.

Sotomayor:

Ah, someone who wants to never forget there are real world consequences to her decisions…novel. My life bud G is pulling for her.

G:”Finally someone with Type 1 (immune mediated) diabetes on the Supreme Court”.

PEACE

Before someone gets a bug up their bottom, although he was being sarcastic, G has had JD since he was 12.

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To Soporific Feasts and Good Gin

cooper — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:43:35 +0000

Running for the Congo Women early in the morning, spending the rest of the day cleaning. The nocuous living conditions here must end. The place has fallen to ruin, undeterred by the Easter break I’ve been on since Thursday. I haven’t done a thing around here, and surprisingly neither have my temp housemates. What’s up with that?

The term is winding down. I’m tired, exhausted really. I’m heading to Miami next weekend for a conference. I hope to catch up with my mother after that, she’ll be on the gulf side somewhere
playing a golf tournament with 7 of her friends. That’s another “what’s up with”. My mother only started playing golf a year ago, she always played tennis but never really was much of a golfer, now she is going to play a four day “tournament” with 7 other women? She suggested I fly or drive over on her dime after the conference for a couple days, she’ll fly in early and we could have a couple of days together, getting massages and facials. She might even buy me a twin set, (see I’m Not That Kind Of Girl circa 3/07), if I’m good. ;)

I’m considering the offer, and may give in. A couple of good massages might get me through the rest of the term, and it’s not like all my work is not already in volumes on my laptop. I’m sure I’ll come up with several different ways to justify this one. I’m so happy not to be asked to justify not celebrating a religious holiday of a religion I don’t practice that my justification mojo is going to be much stronger.

I’m heading to the coast early Sunday morning with a few friends. We’re going to eat at a restaurant a friend recently helped open, and where he currently tends bar. We’ll eat late and proceed to close the bar, which will require him drive us back to our hotel. Don’t think for a minute this won’t be fun, it will. Don’t be disappointed. I’m only human after all, and though not a drinker routinely, in the company of good friends, and hopefully good food of the vegetable variety, all things are go.

Here’s wishing you all a soporific feast and good gin this weekend. Please do not talk politics or religion with your family, or at your friends bar. It makes for excessive rage, and you know what they say.

Immodica ira creat insaniam.

peace

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