criticizes the “right wing pediatrician-industrial complex” for perpetuating the “dubious medical belief” that rectal temperatures are the most accurate indicators of body temp — and in so doing, elevating medicine “at the expense of the dignity” of the child (who, if he happens to be a male child, is being made to feel violated and “shamed” like a “prison bitch”; and if it’s a female child? Well, then it’s none of your goddamn business how they prefer to have their temperatures taken. You creepy evangelical prudes).
— Or maybe I’m misreading the storyline.
Omigod, are they scared. And sex is all they’ve got.
Trudeau is so clever that it makes him babble a lot.
Gary Trudeau hasn’t been relevent (or funny) since the 70’s. If then.
As a comment0r over there said, TVU = rape, but D&C vacuum extraction of unviable tissue that is weeks away from being able to live outside the womb = just peachy.
I stopped reading him when he went off the rails over the Iraq war. He lied then, and he is lying again now.
Of course, it’s in service of the greater truth, so it’s okay. Just ask any progressive.
So it is okay for a five year old to be treated as transgendered and subjected to hormone and behavioral treatments (until their happy day of surgery–funded by the tax payers). And we are complete fucking homophobes for having problems with Obama’s education czar Kevin Jennings promoting high school fisting and underage kids picking up adult sexual partners in bus depots?
But a rectal thermometer reading is the worse thing evah? WTF?
If you refuse the procedure then you can get up and walk out.
Usually rape doesn’t work that way.
Does anyone even care anymore if the word rape means anything?
This is just stupidly misusing the word.
It’s like Johnny Depp saying that promotional photo-shoots feel like rape in Vanity Faire. Really? Do you think a rape victim would sign onto that Johnny? Apparently not because he apologized later.
Meanwhile Whoopi Goldberg on ‘the View’ thinks that Roman Polanski luring a 13 year old girl over on the pretext of a screen test, drugging her, and sodomizing her is not “rape rape”.
Sandra Bernhard says that she hopes Sarah Palin gets gang raped if she comes to New York.
These are the kind of ridiculous festering shit-heads who want to authoritatively lecture us on what is and is not rape according to how they feel at any given moment.
Trudeau? Trudeau? Wasn’t he that hippie Canadian prime minister with the slutty wife?
Stupid. It’s like complaining the alcohol swab is going to scare away people that need a tetanus shot, or better yet, the name. “Doc, what’s a tet and why my anus?!”
Lock-jaw is a CHOICE! Get your hands off MY right to suffer a life threatening bacterial muscular mandible spasms.
Meh.
Subject object agreement is for cowards!
Well at least you guys are consistent in your hatred of state regulation.
At least johntaylor is consistent in its asshattery.
TTP JD, TTP
Dunno geoffb, that’s looking like it may be a higher standard than is possible under the circumstances.
It is apparent, Geoffb, that this one cannot or will not disabuse itself of the habit of arguing against the caricature of conservatives it carries around in it’s head.
Strangler vine wrapped then, with squirrels.
How many other names have you commented under here, johntaylor?
By the way, you know what else isn’t absolute? Government power.
That is, so long as there are classical liberals, conservatives, and constitutionalists left standing.
The ghost of Dehl Berti is angry about our newest TTP appropriating the name of his best known television role.
Totally OT, but along the lines of pre-existing rights that the troll would have us forego, has anyone figured out what holster Raylan Givens uses?
Some days I fear where we might end up.
My father told me a few years ago that if the government decides to outlaw firearms ownership, I should give them my guns (which I don’t have anyway but I might later, maybe).
I wonder if he was correct. Would those who don’t comply end up as martyrs or simply be branded as outlaws? Would my resistance matter?
I will continue to ponder this and hope I don’t have the opportunity to find out.
It is funny to think that the people who originally found Doonsebury funny are well into their 60s. I honestly had not heard his name mentioned in more than 20 years. Does anyone here know anyone who knows anyone who still reads him?
I remember reading an anthology of his late 70s stuff when I was in college and I saw the humor in it. He was a McGovernite operating in the clear, but the strips ca. ’79, ’80 were funny enough. I didn’t know it then, but he went to a boarding school and it struck me (who also, miserably, went to one) that a lot of what he wrote was like a snarky senior (“upper former”) riffing on inside jokes that only a few had a chance of getting the references on.
Like a lot of Liberals, something seems to have snapped in him over the past few years. I am not sure what or why since by any objective measure, they seemed to have gotten every last thing they ever wanted.
Cranky, why on earth would you give up your last vestige of freedom? Yamamoto figured it out correctly; whether it’s Japan or US, there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass. That is the only reason that the US gov is held in line by its citizens.
Has disarming the populace ever worked out for the populace? Why would the populace want to be disarmed?
And, frankly, I wouldn’t be waiting till “later” to exercise your pre-existing rights .
“I will continue to ponder this and hope I don’t have the opportunity to find out.”
Cranky, they can pass a law, few will comply. What we need to worry about is incrementalism. They will hedge us in with carry and transport law, ammunition regulations, heavy penalties for minor infractions, and gun free zones. Regulate it so hard it won’t be worth it to the average joe. Once they’ve whittled the opposition down to a relative few diehards, no one that matters will care.
It’s the progressive way, and they know how to chew gum and oppress at the same time.
I remember reading him in college, Roddy, around 1979 or so and then forgetting all about him as he got more and more off into trying to develop his characters and they became cartoons within a cartoon.
The only reason I remember him at all is because he married Jane Pauley while she was hosting the Today Show with Tom Browkaw. He was never as clever as he seemed to think he was.
Don’t know what part of the country you’re from, Cranky, but I’ll put out a standing invitation to anyone in New England to get a firearms familiarization. I’ve done it with several acquaintances/neighbors, and they always leave with smile on their faces on the way to their local gun store.
They are all concerned with what has happened to the country and don’t intend to be subjects or slaves.
God made man, Sam Colt made men equal.
For how much longer, who knows.
Someone put some knowledge to me.
1. Is it true that the Texas law now requires a transvag ultra before an abortion?
2. Is it true that clearly non-rightist joints like Planned Parenthood also perform them anyways?
Extrapolating from there, do you just need to do a transvag ultra for practical reasons to check out the lay of the land before an abortion?
From my limited knowledge, I don’t know why Texas needs to mandate something that doctors just know to do as a matter of prudence. Why a new law?
But, also from there, why do leftists care at all beyond political point scoring?
Apparently it is making them mandantory that has the lefties stirred up, if you can stand that much irony.
The ulterior motive on the right is to get the woman to look at an ultrasound and consider a little more deeply what she is about to do. Playing on emotions.
Okay, it is about as straight forward as I thought then, B Moe.
This is where the left shows itself to be composed of shrieking morons.
The right can have these discussions between conservatives and libertarians. Should we put warning labels on cigarettes? Is this a teachable moment?
But, the left? The left? How can they even pretend to care? This is all they want to do from sun up until sun down. Nudge behavior. Make mandates. They do this in bills they vote on without even reading.
Cranky, I’d be interested in the logic your father used re turning in firearms. According to wikipedia (I know, a liberal bastion) there are almost 89 firearms per 100 households in the US.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country OK, my collection skews it a bit, but I’ll be glad to share with my neighbors. In the end, as Mao said, power comes from the barrel of a gun. With that kind of individual sovereignty, why would one assent to a government demand to disarm? Didn’t work out too well in all historical examples to date, did it?
Voting is a wonderful thing, but if the government no longer is subject to the consent of the governed, what is it worth?
I shudder at the idea that our government will decide they can get away with taking away guns from citizens. If our government ever gets to that point, we’ve got a government that is seriously out of control.
“I shudder at the idea that our government will decide they can get away with taking away guns from citizens”
No worry Blake, they won’t take your guns. They’ll just mandate each bullet and brass have an identifying trace on it, making ammo very expensive, and every purchase of a gun as obtrusive as possible, and getting a hunting license as complicated as getting a pilots license, and as many carry compliance laws as possible to discourage any new interest in being armed and self defended, that the market will dry up and become something only “extremists” talk about.
It’s who they are, it’s what they do.
Resist, even if you don’t want a gun. Stand up for the constitution and it’s spirit.
Dudes: Reloaders. Easy-peasy.
I had a few guns, but I sold them all to a guy down the street for cash just before he moved. I didn’t get his name.
I have fired many handguns, rifles, and shotguns. I don’t get to the range often enough. Of course, I lost the guns I didn’t sell in a freak boating accident on a very large lake, so I guess I’d have to rent them.
I think it’s called “being old.” He’s 85. I think he might be worried that I would end up dead or in prison. Also, I didn’t note that he was referring to the police coming to the house to get them.
Where I live, one is required to get a purchase permit if one is going to buy a handgun or a rifle that takes a magazine that can hold more than ten rounds. There is a record of me having such a permit. There is also likely a record of every background check made whenever I purchased anything classified as a firearm (a stripped lower, for instance) and how many I got.
How does one avoid confiscation if the police come to the door and demand firearms they believe are present?
I don’t believe “it can’t happen here” because we’ve already had a lot of things that can’t happen here happen here.
As far as ammo goes, not only can you reload, you can also stock up a tad.
If you don’t know how much ammo to buy, think zombie apocalypse and purchase accordingly.
leigh, what when they say each shell must carry an identifier? Powder purchases must be done with a license? Shotgun shells must pass a random federal safety check?
What I’m saying, they are going to come at us from all angles, the fight will be exhausting. expect nothing less.
I’m not going to say that cranky is winking with his first paragraph above… no, actually I am, in case people are missing this.
He’s winking.
But maybe I’m winking when I say that?
Hard to say.
Winking? Me?
Forget I ever said such a crazy thing, cranky.
[Wink.]
What?
You’ve noticed that. I’ve sensed something of the sort as well. I’m guessing many liberals know in their heart of hearts that, if they do succeed beyond their wildest dreams, that everything they know will come crashing down around them; liberalism being like a drunken binge or an over-the-top druggie stoner fest, unsustainable for the long run, and in the end, if not reigned in, the price is final.
Think Jim Morrison in Paris, getting ready to take a bath.
It’s hard for you and your ilk to keep sticking it to The Man when you become The Man.
Ken Kesey and his merry pranksters would have ended up a bunch of dour old scolds themselves. If they hadn’t fried their synapses, that is.
A shotgun is almost the perfect self-defense weapon, for known threats that are coming for your throat. A shame I don’t have too many.
“He’s winking.”
Whew, thought I was gonna have to conduct an intervention and find out what sicko had the nerve to kidnap cranky-d and post comments under Bill the cat’s cover;-)
I also think he was maybe winking with that story with the boating accident where he lost the rest of ’em, Danger.
Can’t be sure though. That sort of thing happens all the time.
;)
(Yes, I did an emoticon thingy. Fine. Sue me.)
Men should avoid winking.
JMO
JMO?
Just My Opinion.
Sometimes I make stuff up. Mostly when I’m trying to get in touch with my feminine side…
Heh. Good times.
You buy the appropriate caching materials from Cheaper Than Dirt, etc. CTD also sells US Army Field Manuals which outline step by step how to go about concealing things underground, etc., and use them beforehand.
Then you use any of several explanations outlined above. Or just tell them their records are wrong.
Of course, pursuing these options long before they show up is a good idea. Fortunately, CTD has been having sales on caching supplies lately.
johntaylor –
Nick and Simon called. They’re trying to put Duran Duran back together. Again.
Sorry, Cranky, I was nearing 40 Winks ;) when I asked my stupid questions last night. And I was so tired I forgot about my tragic boating accident.
leigh, I’ve always planned to get into re-loading, but for the afore-mentioned accident. Got any recommendations on gear?
We have two relaoaders, Red. Or we did before they were tragically destroyed in a barn fire. The bases are stamped Pacific 155, I think. They
arewere the hubby’s project. I’ll ask him about them when he gets done fixing his tractors later.Like a lot of Liberals, something seems to have snapped in him over the past few years. I am not sure what or why since by any objective measure, they seemed to have gotten every last thing they ever wanted.
They’ve tried everything, and yet people keep making the wrong choices. You can’t imagine how frustrating that is.