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yeaH! Tommy

horray another buffista baby

Is it OK to ask why they think you wouldn't be allowed?

Same basic thing as Susan had last year.

Pregnancy has been messing up my blood pressure, and they don't want it to turn into full pre-eclampsia. The BP has been mainly stable with medication, but the protein spill levels have been creeping up, so it remains a risk. As the only cure/stop for the pregnancy related blood pressure thing is delivery, they consider inducing me when I hit term (which is technically 37 weeks, though like me, they'd prefer at least 38) safer than going the full 40.

One of my friends told me a story about her eight year old calling from camp one day with the horrifying realization that she had been stuck in a canoe with children.

This was me my first day of school. I made the school nurse call my mom to come get me because "The children were giving me a headache." So world weary at 4, was I.

OMG, this weekend was the first time I'd ever seen the Surreal Life. Cracked me up, even Mr. H, who hates that kind of thing, was getting into it. "Dude! You're going to get your ass kicked by a Brady!"

Stayed up past my bedtime last night watching C-SPAN. I have no words for what those people just did. Insanity.

My father just emailed me some comments from my hometown congressman:

Mr. Capuano (D. Mass). Mr. Speaker, you have heard all the legal arguments, all the moral arguments. We see these things differently, and I understand that. I am here to speak for myself.

I have a living will that I wrote years ago, and I will check it myself as many Americans will. The bottom line is, I do not want you interfering with my wife and me. Leave us alone. Let us make our own decisions. It is not up to you. That has always been the way it has been in this country, and that is the way it should be.

For 6 years I have been hearing how the nuclear family is all we care about. Now we do not. Stay out of my family. If you can do it here, you can do it to me. You can do it to every one of my constituents.

Leave us alone. Let my nuclear family make my decisions and my wife's decisions without your input.

Capuano is the Somervillains' Congresscritter, FWIW.

I can't believe over 40 Democrats voted for it. Hell, I can't believe anyone voted for it for anything but the most cynical of reasons.

The democrats voted for what? Please, do enlighten the less politically aware.

Uh oh. Lingering morning stupid now joining forces with lunch food coma. Total loss of brain function in T minus 5 seconds.

5, 4, 3, 2, t conk

The bill to scrap everything the lower courts did and to let a federal court decide whether or not there is any such thing as spousal rights anymore.

This would be the part where Schiff tells Jack McCoy he's not supposed to use the law to make new laws, right? He's old, he's fictional, but Adam Schiff, '08.