April 10, 2006

Back To The Future

Saturday, 15 Goodenuf 2006

If anyone is interested in what it would be like to be in a country where abortion is illegal in every circumstance, and the women who have abortions are imprisoned, I would strongly suggest you read this article that appeared in the New York Times Magazine on Sunday. This is the world that the anti-choice people want us all to live in - one where everyone involved in the procedure gets some hard prison time. Although I did see that, if the woman who gets an abortion turns the provider in, she gets off relatively scot-free. So the government seems to be encouraging its' citizens to turn into snitches IMHO. This article also points out that the rich don't have to worry about all those silly legalities - they can just fly their pregnant women to a land where they can have their abortion in peace and safety.

I'm wondering if anyone who has read this would be interested in going to El Salvador for any reason whatsoever. I know I'm not - and I will be engaging in a dialogue with a central american whose opinion I respect a lot to find out if this is a trend in that neck of the woods. Just in case I manage to get some disposable income one of these days, and decide to visit some exotic (to me) lands once more. Because I will most defintiely be trying to avoid supporting this sort fo behavior with my tourist dollar. And I would respectfully suggest that you consider doing the same.

I would also like to point out that others are upset about this too. Lots of others that I didn't just link to as well...

In other news, it has been reported that the US government is no longer informing its' people how much money they are printing, and that the government is injecting two trillion dollars into the monetary system. By a strange coincidence (cough), all of the stories for the last week have focused on illegal immigration. Not on the corpo-weasels who won't pay a decent wage, and instead hire illegals for much less (and then don't have to worry about those pesky things like health care benefits, unemployment insurance, and treating their employees like human beings), mind you - just the people they have lured into doing their slave labor for them. Funny how that works...

It was also a lot of fun to watch the Royal Canadian Air Farce on Friday. One of my new favorite recurring skits is called Driving With Alan Park. And on Friday I fell off the couch when this one came on the screen (I'm paraphrasing here, so bear with me):

I heard that the national debt clock in the US is going to need an overhaul, and they're upset because it's going to cost quite a bit to add an extra digit to the debt clock in the near future, because the national debt exceeds nine trillion dollars. I think that they should be a little more upset that their national debt is more than nine trillion dollars.

Remember to put your thinking toque on, and check out the brain teasers below. Maybe you'll be the first to come up with one of the correct answers!

Posted by (: Tom :) at April 10, 2006 06:50 PM