me: Can you really defend partial birth abortion? Is parental notification that unreasonable? Girls can't get their ears pierced without the approval of a parent! Continuing to speak of people who have serious moral concerns as if they are evil wackos is not going to win them over.
jo: Everybody has a right to privacy and to control their own bodies -- except those under 21, who belong to their parents.
We'll just restrict some women's rights a little. Morality requires it.
You're not trying the think-like-an-alien thing. Just pretend for a moment that the aliens think you're actually killing a human being, and that there are everlasting consequences for that. No really, just try it. Yeah, they're crazy aliens, but if you imagine what it must be like to think such a bizarre thing, you might learn something.
jo: No, you are not an evil wacko. But you are the thin edge of the wedge.
I am not in favor of making abortion illegal. I apologize if I gave you that impression.
One clarification: provisional votes probably will not count in any case. (People only vote provisionally if their registration could not be found.) I doubt more than 10% of the provisional votes will ultimately count.
Also, you who are despairing over this election, or suspecting that there was fraud or intimidation, why don't you get involved with the election process yourself? There's no rule that election judges have to be 70-something ladies. Election judges have absolute say over who gets to vote. Election authorities are usually understaffed and overworked, they'd be glad to have your help. Nevermind being a pollwatcher (who has to sit in the corner and behave) go where the power is, get involved in the guts of the process itself. Ask your party's precinct leader to put your name in, or contact your County Clerk and see what openings they have.
Finally, FWIW, I'm Republican, and Catholic, and I voted for Kerry, but I know a lot of Catholics for whom abortion is a huge issue, and I know they all voted for Bush. As long as Democrats continue to make no concessions at all on this one issue, they will lose all that potential suport. Catholics used to be mostly Democrats.
Can you really defend partial birth abortion? Is parental notification that unreasonable? Girls can't get their ears pierced without the approval of a parent! Continuing to speak of people who have serious moral concerns as if they are evil wackos is not going to win them over. More people voted for Bush than approved of the job he has done as president. I think that is telling.
Maybe, pretend that the wacky anti-abortion Christians are aliens and try to see it from their point of view. (Surely most readers here can do the skiffy thing.) Then you can try to discuss the issue with time in their terms, and perhaps get somewhere.
As I said, I did vote for Kerry, because whatever Bush says he stands for, he has done great evil. I am very sad, and I dread what will come next.
Alice: You might let your roomate know that early or absentee votes are not counted early. They're counted after the polls have closed.
(Working as an election judge this election. I think it's going to be a very long day.)
Dave Owen: Did I just really type "nor you I" in a comment to an editor? Thank goodness I'm not a professional writer.
Arrrgh! Of course I only spotted my typo hours after I posted. That's how it always goes.
It's a mis-edit, actually, from writing and re-writing the same trivial, pointless thing until I can't see it anymore. If I didn't get so anxious, I wouldn't make these stupid mistakes, and if I didn't make these stupid mistakes I wouldn't get so anxious.
A cover letter cripples me for a full week. It's pathetic.
Off to do some deep breathing.
Teresa,
FWIW, whenever you wind up retiring, I might (I hope) be able to participate like a sane person in comments and such. Now, as soon as I begins typing my crazy-writer-mind starts up: Oh my God, what are you doing with that COMMA! Don't you realize SHE'S AN EDITOR!!!
Yeah, right. What am I saying? I don't think crazy-writer-mind ever gives up. Blurgh. It's very tiring.
Speaking of, well, slobbery cats:
I was shopping for a small farm years ago. One place I looked had a cat and a milk cow. They were apparently friends. The cat came over and rubbed against the cow. The cow went lick with its big cow tongue (about the size of the cat). One swipe and the cat was completely wet. The cat had arched into it though, so I assume this was okay with it.
I wonder what the cow thought. That the cat was a really small member of its herd?
(Neverminding the movie, which I haven't seen yet and likely won't until the extended DVD comes out, and so of course I can't read large swaths of many blogs for a while...)
"Toroids" hmm? Very cute.
Basic Physics Savvy: 85% Made some dumb mistakes.
I don't know how basic the tested savvy is, though, as most of the questions play on the difference between the everyday meaning of certain words, and the technical physics usage of them. (Which is no excuse for my poor performance, but you could be perfectly savvy and not know the technical word meanings, IMO.)
Just posted the link to sci.physics. The quiz server will probably be overwhelmed.
Ugh, I hate computer failures. It's like suddenly going dumb and deaf in the middle of a really good conversation, while losing all your notes.
My only assurance against data loss is to never have anything worth keeping, but I realize for most people this isn't reasonable.
Hope the data can somehow be recovered. Good luck.
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