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<DIV>On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:57:58 -0700 "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
List" <<A href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</A>>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000080 face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>I haven't heard a peep
out of you for ages.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>What's going on in your
world?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Jeanene</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Interesting question. I'm working on an encyclopedia article on Servants --
a global overview from 1750 to the present, 2000 words. The publisher doesn't
know that I am also driving a paratransit bus, but I like to think that my life
will be a refutation of Aldous Huxley's <EM>Brave New World.</EM> In other
words, God (contrary to the implications of Huxley's veneration of "Our Ford," I
believe there is one) fully intended for us to all be alphas, and for alphas to
do physical labor as well as mental labor.</DIV>
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<DIV>I actually got a response from an intelligent husband and father in
Tennessee to an article I posted on the abortion noncontroversy. Naturally I
responded back at great length, as is my usual habit on any subject. If anyone
wants to get into the discussion, it is available at</DIV>
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href="http://siarlysjenkins.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-abortion-campaign.html">http://siarlysjenkins.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-abortion-campaign.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV>I'm going to post another one soon on the recent Supreme Court decision.
Doing the math behind the opinions, it comes out 7-2 for <EM>Roe v. Wade</EM>,
with only a few details being up for grabs. My reading is that the court acted
like a court, said nothing about whether the "Partial Birth Abortion" law was a
good or bad idea, and simply said, yeah, that's within Congress's authority to
bat back and forth if they choose to. The media is always too quick to find a
sound byte, and so are the advocacy groups and opposing attorneys.
<P>Federal courts have a guiding principal that if there is any reasonable
interpretation of a law that would make it constitutionally acceptable, courts
will adopt that interpretation. The court did so, and in doing so it has ruled
out most of the dangers feared by the original plaintiffs who asked for
injunctions against the law's enforcement. It is also rather odd that a pro-life
senator like Santorum pushed a law to establish a bright-line distinction
between infanticide and abortion -- I thought the whole point of the pro-life
argument was that there is no distinction??? Anyway, after reading the ruling, I
find it has very little significance.</P>
<P>But you asked about me, not what have I been running my mouth about lately. I
took a week vacation to visit friends in DC, expecting temps in the 60s and 70s
(April is generally one of the best months to be there, October is the other),
but it hovered around 34. We have had about four April days since I returned to
Wisconsin, but today was another February day.</P>
<P>I'm trying to ration the available sunlight in my window among three types of
plants, African violets and some other stuff I can't remember the name of, and
getting my bike tuned up at the shop so the rear brake won't drag on the
wheel.</P>
<P>What's new with you?</P>
<P>Siarlys</P>
<P>P.S. Yes, "gummint" is slang for government. Its either West Virginia, or
southern, or rural, or hillbilly (my hillbilly ancestors fought for the union,
as did many in Georgia, North Carolina and Alabama), or something. I think the
most common saying is "not bad for gummint work," which means not really very
good at all.</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>