tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248707.post1752770789657021067..comments2023-08-14T16:35:49.756+01:00Comments on Cruella-blog: The Real McCainCruellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03446805038957924958noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248707.post-63157225074339218952008-02-11T15:35:00.000+00:002008-02-11T15:35:00.000+00:00Kate, you got there first! I've had a post on how ...Kate, you got there first! I've had a post on how hideous McCain is in my drafts folder since Super Tuesday :)<BR/><BR/>Good stuff though!JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10322627334640771832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248707.post-34923041628620600112008-02-10T23:30:00.000+00:002008-02-10T23:30:00.000+00:00Paul - what they were trying to do was to pass a l...Paul - what they were trying to do was to pass a law that - for instance - if you assaulted a pregnant woman and resulted in her miscarrying - you would be charged with assault and harming an unborn fetus. And murder of a pregnant woman would count as double murder.<BR/><BR/>Now obviously it's not that I think it's ok to attack or murder pregnant women. The point is that it's a step down the road to giving fetuses a right to life. It's a policy the pro-life movement are seriously keen on.<BR/><BR/>It would also complicate abortion laws because if it's a crime to harm an unborn fetus, how on earth can abortion still be legal?<BR/><BR/>And Susan - yes, I know. It's the Hannity and Colmes problem - the public are presented with two "choices" right or left. But actually even the "left" choice is what a few decades back we would at best have called centrist, and the "right" choice is so extreme it's frightening. So when people are asked about politics they are asked which of these two positions do you support. People naturally assume that the "average" or "normal" view is somewhere between the two. But the halfway point is actually, by objective standards, corporatist fascism... Shudder.Cruellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03446805038957924958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248707.post-31507197746966162602008-02-10T20:00:00.000+00:002008-02-10T20:00:00.000+00:00What really scares me about my country and makes m...What really scares me about my country and makes me wish I could get out of here is that the lens through which politics is viewed in this country has been moved so far to the right that "conservatives" hate McCain because they don't think he's conservative <I>enough</I> and "independents" see him as a moderate.<BR/><BR/>I'm thinking brown shirts are going to become a fashion craze any day now.Soozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11189518606262769108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248707.post-27356807333058593482008-02-10T19:32:00.000+00:002008-02-10T19:32:00.000+00:00Voted YES on criminal penalty for harming unborn f...Voted YES on criminal penalty for harming unborn fetus during other crime.<BR/><BR/>What does that mean?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16047917804575313902noreply@blogger.com