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sabotabby ([personal profile] sabotabby) wrote2007-01-16 09:58 pm

The Culture of Life in a nutshell

Via [livejournal.com profile] realcdaae: We don't know how many people—most of them poor and black—died because of Hurricane Katrina. A lot of them died slowly, especially the sick and elderly, because help couldn't get there in time.

Fortunately, the, um, pre-born were rescued. Huzzah for the snowflake babies!

“That is great! I’m going to call all our officers and tell them. They’ll be pretty excited,” said Lt. Eric Bumgarner, one of seven Illinois Conservation Police officers and three Louisiana state troopers who sloshed through floodwaters to remove the embryos. Bumgarner said he has often wondered what happened to the embryos: “One of these embryos could be the next president.”

Arguably, said embryo couldn't do a worse job than the current president did.

[identity profile] realcdaae.livejournal.com 2007-01-17 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
I think they forgot to unfreeze the current president's brain before they gave him the job.

Wait, no, I'm pretty sure that was deliberate.

[personal profile] fannishnonsense 2007-01-17 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Yech. I'd say "nut" shell is about right.

[identity profile] eyelidlessness.livejournal.com 2007-01-17 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
Arguably, said embryo couldn't do a worse job than the current president did.
That's why Bush is awesome. He's the worst imaginable. It's going to be a sad day when innocent Americans are forced, once again, to make America weaker and more vulnerable. Until then, we can thank the godsend that is Bush for basically doing our job, as activists and concerned citizens, for us.

[identity profile] realcdaae.livejournal.com 2007-01-17 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Touche.

[identity profile] eyelidlessness.livejournal.com 2007-01-17 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
That accounts for part of the sarcastic tone in my comment. I mean, on the one hand, I really think there's something to the idea that no activists could possibly damage the US as much as Bush is—and I really do look at our needs in terms of damaging the US as an entity, as a state, and if not eliminating it as such, at least drastically reducing its power in the world. On the other hand, I find it ironic, sad, and actually really perplexing that activists don't see it in that light and take advantage of it. I mean, we have the opportunity of a lifetime—a completely moronic administration that has made nearly every mistake in reaching its goals that it could, and has, perhaps irreparably, damaged US image in the world—and the majority of reactions have been to wish it would just go away.

I mean, there has been a little bit of an upsurge in radical activity, but nothing on the scale of the opportunities that have been cropping up for the last few years. So I just thank the gods that Bush is such a moron... I mean, imagine if that fascist were actually good at what he does.

[identity profile] frandroid.livejournal.com 2007-01-17 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Robert Jensen mentioned that students had little to do in organizing the anti-Iraq war protests, as opposed to the anti-Vietnam war protests, where they were front and center. He might also have made a remark about the quality of today's education, but that might just be me.

some simple mathematics...

[identity profile] theoldanarchist.livejournal.com 2007-01-17 04:58 am (UTC)(link)

Not to cast aspersions upon Lt. Bumgarner or anything, but let's examine this for a minute. If memory serves correctly, you have to be at least 35 to run for president. A president serves for 4 years, which means that there would be almost 9 administrations between now (assuming one of these embryos was implanted and the baby was born prior to the next presidential election). So, again assuming that any of these embryos is ever implanted and comes to term, not a single one of them will be the next president.

What an absurd thing to say... As if that was reason to rescue embryos instead of... hrrrmmmm... uuuhhhhh... oh yeah! Already living people!

[identity profile] 5-miles.livejournal.com 2007-01-17 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
katrina just keeps getting more and more disturbing.

[identity profile] andreazenith.livejournal.com 2007-01-17 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
Right now, I really hate people.

This isn't helping. =>.<=

(But educating oneself is good!).
*hugs*
Anj

[identity profile] esizzle.livejournal.com 2007-01-17 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
I get the picture of an embryo running in the next election

[identity profile] symonblack.livejournal.com 2007-01-17 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Me too. I see one of those sci-fi support canisters--all green goo and wires and such--with robotic spider legs underneath. Maybe a loudspeaker on top. And a straw boater hat on top of that.
Voila. The next Lincoln.

Re: some simple mathematics...

[identity profile] theoldanarchist.livejournal.com 2007-01-17 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)

Or, hell... just elect the unborn embryo president!

I love it when Republicans bitch about the two-term limit, considering those bastards shoved the damn amendment down the country's throat in the first damn place!

Seems logical...

[identity profile] theoldanarchist.livejournal.com 2007-01-17 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)

Some Republicans (and the editors of the L.A. Times) have suggested amending the Constitution to allow the foreign-born to run for president (and, in principle, I do not object), so that Schwarzenegger can run in '08. Why not also amend the Constitution to remove the age limit for running? That way, a foreign-unborn embryo could be the next president.

[identity profile] misfratz.livejournal.com 2007-01-17 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Um. Sorry to be childish, but: Bumgarner bwahahahaha! I suppose the thought processes go well with the name.

Oh. I'm now trying to remember whether 'bum' means 'arse' in America too... Probably not, so there you have both incredibly immature and ridiculous English in one comment.

[identity profile] andreazenith.livejournal.com 2007-01-18 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
You've got yourself a deal. =~.^=

[identity profile] lopukhov.livejournal.com 2007-01-19 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Looking at the couple, they'd probably call it Katrina.



So last semester, in our intro to epidemiology class homework, there was a question about if we think the Ahmurrcan dept. of health would be prepared/ready in the case of an infectious outbreak like SARS in Hogtown. The black people in my class respond, "L-Mao. Katrina."

[identity profile] lopukhov.livejournal.com 2007-01-19 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately, we're not good like Canuckistanis, and 1.33 years after Katrina, the only reason anyone cleans up New Orleans anymore is for Mardi Gras.