I think you forgot a "not" in there.

Yes, that's an important word. Edited.

Because if you (rabid anti-abortionist) stick to your guns on all points, you have to admit that you don't really give a fuck about women and that you secretly believe that rape victims were "asking for it" and incest isn't so bad. And then there goes your re-election.

It's the rabid women anti-choicers who disturb me. But I've heard some of them talk, and I truly think they believe that rape and incest only happens to "those" kinds of people, and if they were deserving folk, God would have protected them, and since they ended up pregnant it shows God's opinion of them, and if God has abandoned them, so should the laws.

Aims, did you get my email from a day or so ago? I need your address!

I thought I sent it to you! Crappity!! Resent in a minnit.

Excellent.

Ooh. Go NASA!

Exclusive: Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget

President Barack Obama will ask Congress next year to fund a new heavy-lift launcher to take humans to the moon, asteroids, and the moons of Mars, ScienceInsider has learned. The president chose the new direction for the U.S. human space flight program Wednesday at a White House meeting with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, according to officials familiar with the discussion. NASA would receive an additional $1 billion in 2011 both to get the new launcher on track and to bolster the agency’s fleet of robotic Earth-monitoring spacecraft.

Joe is going to pee when he hears that.

I am going to stand by my, I HATE PEOPLE statement.

Stupidheads against gov't involvement in healthcare - THEN YOU GET NO SAY ABOUT ABORTIONS!!!! Same stupidheads that argue against big gov't getting all up in their grill wrt guns/safety issues/education - THEN YOU GET NO SAY ABOUT MARRIAGE!

YOU JACKHOLES!

Ooh, I just realized the Famous Footwear store is in the same complex as what I guess is my closest Target. I am now excited for the trip! Too bad my friend who lives nearby there will be out of town for two weeks....

Not offended at all, Aims.

And yup to Teppy; she said yes, and I've read (mostly feminist, but even some non-) theologians frame it not just as submission, but as active assent, a perfect reverse of whatever choice was involved in original sin: faced with a mysterious request, apparently either absurd or physically impossible, instead of saying, Nah, fuck it, she went all Jasmine-taking-Aladdin's-hand-and-stepping-off-the-balcony and said, "I trust you. Makes no sense, but I'm sure down to my bones that I trust you. So, YES."

And my completely unsubstantiated Biblical fanfic fanwank is that she wasn't the first possible Mother of God who was asked, that there were others to whom the offer was made, but they couldn't quite nerve themselves up to make that jump. They couldn't quite trust their own sanity or their families' willingness to support them and not flip out like mammals, or they were just too young and scared. And they walked away without harm and went on to lead perfectly decent, somewhat more ordinary lives.

I really kinda want to write a fic about one of the others, a few years older than Mary, having a caravan of peddlers come through her town with gossip from Jerusalem about that thug who just got himself executed, and his crazy friends and extremely crazy mother and damn, the big cities are full of loons and it's good to be back on the small town circuit, and what she thinks (privately, never saying a word to anyone else) about it all.

Shit, Anne Rice is writing Bible fanfic and I know mine couldn't possibly be worse than hers.