Willy-Nilly

This is going to be "one of those crazy all over the place" posts. I have a lot of things to get out of the way. So if you get bored skip to the next number!

1. We need the NEXT President of the USA to know how to CHEW WITH HIS/HER MOUTH SHUT! You have probably seen the video footage of Bush dropping the S bomb. I really do not care that he said "shit". More on this later. But come on! KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT WHEN YOU EAT! He looked like a horse eating barley. And Mr. President, there are these things called "forks" and "spoons". You do not have to shovel food into your noise hole using your hands. Really now. Chewing with your mouth shut is so simple, even a caveman can do it. In fact, most children get their first lesson in proper manners by learning to not chew with their mouth open.

2. Who cares if Bush said "shit"? EVERYONE says shit! I say shit all the time! Shit is one of the words I use most frequently. To be blunt, I do not give a shit that Bush said shit. And using the Alberto Gonzalez / US Justice Department logic of "the president is never wrong" EVERYONE can say shit on the TV and radio! It is now OK! The FCC can not fine you for saying shit, unless they fine the President first. This will not happen. The word shit is now de-classified and no longer off limits! Go at it!

3. Stem cells. Bush, for the first time ever, used the veto over the stem cell thing. The Senate and House passed the bill, but he did not sign it into law. You see, a lump of cells is a human life - and human life is sacred. So I will go with his "logic" on this. IF these stem cells are a sacred human life, what gives with keeping them in a FREEZER? And if the cells ARE a human life and they can survive in a freezer, then ALL HUMAN LIFE can survive in a freezer right? And what about the babies he had show up for a photo-op? The babies were the product of frozen cells transplanted into a woman. So clearly the cells ARE a human life. Slavery is banned. Yet the cells are for sale! You have to pay up thousands of bucks to get a lump of cells! Is that NOT the same as trafficking human life? I mean, they are SELLING this life right? And other people are BUYING the life. Sounds like slavery to me!

4. No matter how hard I try to see it the other way, a lump of cells in liquid nitrogen is just not "life". It is "medical waste". This is what will happen to the vast majority of these cells. And when they ARE thrown out, if that murder? If the power cuts out and the cells defrost, is the power company guilty of murder? Couples that have the cells created by artificial means in order to produce a baby have THOUSANDS made. So if they only bring one lump of cells to life and have the rest tossed did they "kill" thousands of people? It is just crazy.

5. Try to imagine the same speech Bush gave after the stem cell thing - only in the place of the snowflake babies lets put in some people with spinal cord injuries. Or people with M.S, M.D, ALS, in need of a liver or kidney transplant, suffering from cancer, or whatever. Not good enough? OK then lets stick in children suffering from all those things. Would his "we must protect life" speech fit?

6. I want to be EXCLUDED form the President's, or ANY politician's view of religion. I wonder what Bush would do if someone in his family had an illness that stem cell research might be able to fix. No doubt he would say "let them die, for it is God's will". And if he does, fine. It is really up to the individual. But I do not hold such views. Let those opposed to stem cell research shun ANY medical procedure that resulted from stem cell research - and let those of us who DO want the research be able to use it. See how easy that is?

7. Last point on the subject - if human life is really all that great, how about national health coverage for the poor and uninsured? How about free pre-natal care for all women - even the poor ones? How about free health care for all children up to age 18? Cost too much you say? But life is priceless right?!!? Plus, it will give us more strong healthy 18 year olds to draft into military service, so that they can go kill or be killed somewhere else. It seems that human life is only worth anything when that life is in a freezer. Once it is breathing air, it is cannon fodder. Or eligible for the death penalty.

8. The evangelical crowd is flocking to "support" Israel. And of course by "support" the evangelicals mean "speed up the end of the world". These people have been saying "this is the last generation" for decades now. They just can not WAIT for a major war in the Middle East because then Jesus can come back and they can all be raptured in an instant to Heaven. Crazy huh? You bet it is! Lets kill a bunch of people so a man of peace can return! And they expect him to not be pissed off. Of course a man of peace could never BE pissed off, for that is not very peaceful. So keep this in mind of you are Jewish. The evangelicals will support you ONLY to serve their ends, which is the stuff they think is written in the Book Of revelations. And by the way, they might not tell you this but they believe Jews will not go to Heaven - unless they accept Jesus as the Son Of God.

9. If you believe in all this "end of the world" crap do me a favor. Go to wherever you think the final battle will be - and fight the battle YOURSELF. Leave me out of it. Lets get all the people that want a Holy War together in the same place and let them go at it. When they are done killing each other the rest of the world can get on with the 21st Century.


I could go on but I grow weary. All this stuff just sucks. It all sucks except for the "we can say shit" thing that is.