I DONT UNDERSTAND.

"Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great. When a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate."

This cracked me up - Joe Klein:

Ronald Reagan used to say that the most frightening nine words in the English language were "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." That is no longer true. This year, the most frightening eight words are "I'm John McCain and I approved this message."

You Say that Like It's a Bad Thing

Amendment 48 in Colorado is a controversial ballot measure that would make the term "person" "include any human being from the moment of fertilization", with all the constitutional rights that confers.

I'm with Allyson, that's insane. Should sex only be allowed in very controlled circumstances to make implantation as likely as possible? If not, you are putting the lives of people at risk.

Speaking of the issue, I was very annoyed with Palin when she was asked about abortion by Katie Couric and didn't want to be pinned down as wanting to make abortion illegal. I mean c'mon, just say it.

The supreme court justice thing in the debate was, I thought, a real mess for McCain. He's not going to apply a litmus test for justices, but any justice you doesn't pass the test is unqualified. He also said he approved Ginsberg because she was qualified, but according to his own statement later, she is unqualified.

So, last night we were having a conversation about conservatives and the republican party.

I don't get it.

I don't get how the current incarnation of the Republican party could possibly be thought of as conservative.

From legislating when life begins to where prayer should occur to funding a fucked up war that is not working to wanting to be interventionist around the world to nationalizing banks.... it's all about MORE government.

I'd love for conservatives to take BACK their party, because the current Republican party is not quite the bastion of conservatism.

If, God Forbid, McCain/Palin get elected to the White House, I'ma start hadning out copies of The Handmaid's Tale as a primer on the New American Life.

Joe the Plumber not actually licensed to practice plumbing. (Also, a tax cheat, a fairly hardcore wingnut rather than the undecided voter he was first said to be, and some say a GOP plant. But the "not a real plumber" part somehow amuses me the most.)

The airquotes thing set off white hot rage I haven't felt in a long time.

I've decided to just throw in quotes ANY time he mentions health.

That would make a great Obama commercial. The McCain "Health" Plan, McCain's concern for the "health" of our economy...

Joe the Plumber not actually licensed to practice plumbing.

Professional licenseing? That's just gummint interference in the lives of hard working murricans.

Aw man, amych beats me with the Joe the Plumber not a plumber breaking news!

Should sex only be allowed in very controlled circumstances to make implantation as likely as possible? If not, you are putting the lives of people at risk.

Yep. Are you a breeding-age female? Sorry, no coffee for you. Coffee has been shown to slightly up the chances of killing your pre-birth abdominally residing human. Are you planning on breast-feeding your post-birth baby? Sorry, but if you are breast-feeding, there's still a chance you'll ovulate, and a fertilized ovum is less likely to implant successfully in a breast-feeding mother. So by breast-feeding one baby, you could be killing the next one. Are you a female between the ages of 11 and 55? Many medicines and diagnostic treatments, such as x-rays, are out for you. There's a chance that they'd put the human in your abdomen at risk, and as you won't know that you're pregnant for weeks, you'll just have to live with that cancer/broken bone/bladder infection/pneumonia/abscess/mental illness, etc. And as for jobs, boy howdy. Don't even think about anything that could put six fertilized cells in your abdomen at risk. Stress may cause some miscarriages, so any jobs that have stressful aspects, such as, well, nearly all of them, would be right out.

Look, women, just starve in sick, yet fertile righteousness already.