It is a Friday afternoon here in Seattle and I have spent the entire morning trying to get one of my “forever drug” prescriptions renewed — and failing because the Catholics have now considered one of my drugs to be a ‘dual use’ drug, meaning that it could harm the fetus of a baby, should I ever get pregnant. Really? Seriously? Wouldn’t it be something if, at my advanced age I would ever get pregnant would be newsworthy. I could see the headlines now:
Senior Citizen, 70, gives birth to a bouncing baby boy.
Okay, yeah. Lots of people are having kids late in life. But I’m also a man whose pronouns are he and asshole with the original equipment exterior plumbing package so why in the flying fuck are they resticting MY fucking pills? I have an appointment on Monday to get a prescription at UW Medicine, where I should have gone in the first fucking place.
But hey, enough about me right now. Let’s get on to the insanity of the day.
Headlines That Caught My Eye This Morning
Item 1: GOP lawmakers and candidates race to distance themselves from Alabama court decision
How could I NOT report on this story today? My plan was to start posting to this blog tomorrow, but this story couldn’t wait…
IVF embryos are a clump of roughly 100 cells, just barely past the zygote stage by less than five hours. They started out as a group of 20 or so harvested eggs in a petri dish fertilized by sperm. Once they’ve past from zygote to the embryo stage, the good ones are flash-frozen, and the not-so-good are destroyed. I’m sure there are more technical steps in there, but you get the basic gist. Once frozen and stored in a tank, they can be kept indefinately.
They aren’t viable outside of a human body — which is why they are frozen. It’s not like they could be put in a pre-school nursury, to get a jump-start on life before they are called on. While science has figured out how to mass-produce an AI-powered super sex doll of amazing proportions, they have yet to do something quite as simple as making an AI-powered uterous. So, until then…
It used to be pretty simple: Life begins at birth. It’s biblical, even. In Exodus 21:22 it states that if a man causes a woman to have a miscarriage, he shall be fined; however, if the woman dies then he will be put to death. The fetus was considered property, not a ‘life’, with a soul.
The idea that life begins at conception ignores the fact that roughly one-third of all pregnancies end up in spontaneous miscarriage in the first trimester. Most of those, within the first six to eight weeks, before the mother is even aware she’s pregnant.
But now suddenly, we have a group of GOP politicians who want to carve out an exception to the ‘live begins at conception’ rule.
Make up your minds: Is it a “life” or isn’t it? You can’t have it both ways.
Item 2: Ex-FBI Informant Charged With Biden Bribe Lie Arrested Again
It’s not unusual. The case originiated out of Los Angeles, not Nevada, where Alexander Smirnov was arrested. Federal rules require a detainee to see a magistrate within 24 hours of arrest, and so the magistrate in Nevada was on duty for the detention hearing. This guy let Smirnov bail out, against the prosecutors protestations. So they went back to the court in Los Angeles and obtained a different warrant — from the original jursidiction. The original court wants to make the decision as to whether to let the guy out on bail or not. It’s really that simple.
Item 3: Fight or flight: Fearful Trump critics weigh the risk of retribution if he’s re-elected
You can tell it is officially the SILLY SEASON. Every four years we have people making dire threats that they will leave the country if their candidate doesn’t win. None other than Donald J. Trump himself declared that if he didn’t win he was going to leave the country and never come back.
I’m going to leave this planet if either Joe Biden or Donald Trump get re-elected. How about that? It doesn’t bode well for either one of them.
Item 4: Biden, 81, says the key to his marriage is ‘good sex’
I did not just read that. I did not just read that. I did not just read that…
Do we really want to know that Joe? Is that what you think?
I know the LAST thing I want to imagine, something way below thinking about drowning in a deep vat of human shit is thinking about Joe Biden having …. s-e-x.
Ewww.
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What In The Hell Did I Just Watch?
La Brea – Paramount +
On September 26, 2021, a massive sinkhole opens in the middle of Los Angeles at the site of the La Brea Tar Pits and Wilshire Boulevard, pulling many people, vehicles and buildings, including the Petersen Automotive Museum, into its depths. The survivors find themselves trapped in a mysterious and dangerous primeval land where they must band together to survive.
Memes From the Meme Box
I receive dozens of memes in my Meme Box on a daily basis from people all over the landscape. Some are political, some topical, but most are just everyday events with a little fun inserted. My absolute favorite are just photos that will speak those thousand words clearly.
The internet is wrong more often than not.
The state Democrats are hedging their bets this year
Distractions and Delaying
