Vetoes

It is being said that all children are entitled to health care. This is true, but that care should be provided solely by their parents. Don't ask the taxpayers to contribute to what is your responsibility.

Child bearing is a voluntary activity, and if you suspect, or it has been proven, that you will be unable to support your children, don't have them. Abstinence is a 100% effective way to avoid pregnancy. If contraception does not violate your religious principles (or if you have none), there are many methods you can employ which are up to 99% effective in preventing conception.

If a woman has been raped or has been a victim of that small contraceptive failure rate, there is always adoption. Agencies take care to place babies with parents who can support them. Mothers who are unsure they can provide all the needs of their new-borns should avail themselves of those agencies.

If all else fails, I would agree that wards of the state should receive at least as much medical care as prisoners. It is a sad commentary on the condition of families, however, when we have to take the children away because the parents make it the only way they can receive medical care, and we must grudgingly accommodate their irresponsibility for the sake of the innocent.

Irritant

We have just received the most useless bit of information ever. J. K. Rowling has announced that Professor Dumbledore is gay. Apparently, she wants to further irritate the evangelists, who are already upset about the occult nature of her writings. Pettiness from the world's most affluent (unless it's The Oprah) woman in the world.

(Please excuse the split infinitive, but if "Star Trek" can do it. . . . )

Smear

For the information of those 17 people who don't listen to Rush, the Harry Reid smear letter was auctioned off for the equivalent of a couple of years salary over $2 million. The top bidder was a famed philanthropist, and the recipient of the charity was the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation which provides scholarships to the children of Marines and police officers who were killed in the line of duty. Rush is matching the funds, but his challenge to the 41 Democratic Senators who signed the letter to do likewise, has gone unanswered.

Lest you haven't downloaded it yet, the letter was sent to Clear Channel, Rush's corporate partner, trying, unsuccessfully, to cause trouble for and interfere in the career of the most popular talk show host in history. Its lies and distortions comprise a blatant abuse of power, an attack on a private citizen, and an attempt to deprive Rush of his livelihood. And it's signed by the likes of Senators Mrs. Bill Clinton, Obama and Dodd, who are Presidential candidates, and Teddy Kennedy, among others. Their shame has been memorialized in writing.

As seen. . .

Although it appears no one is visiting here, my local television station (NBC 24, KNVN) frequently shows my e-mails. For example:

Social Security never was a good idea, but now it will never go away, even if workers end up paying 30-40% of their income into it. As long as the Democrats need their votes, people who can't manage their own savings will be taken care of.

You don't suppose the Reverend AlGore of the Church of Global Warming made that propaganda film and wrote a couple of books so he could stir up some interest in a run for President, do you? I thought he had morphed into a pseudo-scientist.

Are we alone? Yes. There is no credible evidence to the contrary. Let's stop humoring the scientists; they've had enough fun.

Cruel and Unusual in LA

Former "Lost" star, Michelle Rodriguez, was sentenced Wednesday to six months in jail for failing to complete community service and alcohol monitoring as part of her probation from a drunken driving incident. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Daviann L. Mitchell ordered her to report to the county jail on Christmas Eve. Isn't that a little pissy?


Los Angeles again. The City Council, bowing to pressure from the ACLU, has said that homeless people will be allowed to sleep on sidewalks at night if they don't block doors and driveways, and are not involved in criminal activities. BUMS OF THE WORLD TAKE NOTE.

When I was young, there were no "homeless people." There were people who couldn't or wouldn't work, who lived on the streets and begged. They were called "bums." Many of them had just suffered through a great depression, and their plight was understandable. My grandmother left sandwiches on the back porch for them. Where they slept, no one wanted to know. They knew who was sympathetic, and they rarely abused their charity.

Now, Los Angeles has invited bums from around the world to their city. Millions could come from communities which are less tolerant. Angelenos can only hope that their charity will not be abused.

Revelations

Recently, I spent the best $1.07 ever. I sent my shopper to the Dollar Tree to purchase a universal TV remote (similar to one I paid $20 for at the drug store the last time). After inserting the batteries (which I had at the house), I programmed it quickly, and now I can resume my sedentary life, until I accidentally leave it where the puppy can chew it. Maybe I should have bought a gross of them.

In the news, a local Indian tribe is suing their attorney of 20 years for excessively enriching himself while his work with their casinos made millions for them. One of the charges against him is that he didn't reimburse the tribe for his $240,000 trip to France in the tribal jet. Do the words "tribal" and "jet" seem to go together to you?

Papal bull

Although the Notre Dame football team won its first game, the matter has not been resolved. The Pope has expressed strong displeasure with the inappropriate language employed by President Foonman. The Vatican press secretary refused to translate the Pope's word "Scheisskopf," but he assured us it was a pejorative description of Foonman.

Parenthetically, the issue of the three elderly nuns who are being evicted from their Santa Barbara convent, so that the property can be sold to satisfy some of the court costs incurred by pedophile priests, was not addressed. However, the Vatican rep did say, "Perhaps President Foonman could begin his penance by finding a spot for the sisters in the dorm, and providing them with free meal tickets." Of course, the good work they have been doing in the Hispanic community will be lost, but room and board is room and board.

The wit and wisdom of "Esquire"

A joke as told by Diane Kruger (blonde):

"A chicken and an egg are laying [sic] in bed. The chicken is smoking a cigarette with a very satisfying [sic] smile on his face. The egg is frowning and looking frustrated [?]. The egg says, 'Guess we answered that question.'"

Wisdom:

"Love does not mean never having to say you're sorry. It means having to say you're sorry over and over again, in new and different ways, every day, every week, every month, even when you don't want to, every year, until God grants you his mercy and you finally, blissfully, die."


P.S. "Menage a trois is French for 'in your dreams.'"