Over on Twitter on Thursday, Laura Ingraham asked what I'm sure was her version of a touching, heartfelt, emotional, gotcha question:
I think it's pretty obvious what the answer is, so no response from Sen. Davis is really necessary. But to play the game, I'm sure that Ms. Davis would answer "none of the children on the playground should have been aborted." After all, what's at issue is not children on a playground, but zygotes and fetuses.
And of course, an equally easy question to ask in return is, "Laua Ingraham: Which kids that you see on the playground do you actually seriously care about in the slightest, most especially if that playground is in a poor, black neighborhood?" But the larger point is how utterly disingenuous and smarmy her idiotic question is. After all, even in as far right a state as Texas is, a state so radically far-right it's trying to pass one of the most draconian anti-abortion bills in the country -- even that state bill, SB 5, allowed for abortions up to 20 weeks. So, if this is the game she wants to play, then the question to Laura Ingraham or Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) or any Republican in the Texas State Senate is -- Any of you: "Since you are supporting a bill that permits abortions up to 20 weeks, which kids that you see on that playground shouldn't be there?" Ms. Ingraham, you might as well go first. Gov. Perry can wait a moment. I'm sure in Texas, it's ladies first. (Except in matters that concern their own bodies.) And all your other supporters of the bill, you just mingle among yourselves and line up after. Let Laura Ingraham answer first which of those children she'd like to see aborted up to 20 weeks. And yes, it's as stupid a question to ask her (and them) as it is for her to ask. Then again, it would be just as easy to flip Ms. Ingraham's question about the sacredness of life another way. Because as heart-endearing as the thought of a little child is, children do grow up day-by-day and the adults they become are from that very same child who thankfully is running and jumping on the playground that Laura Ingraham wants to huge oh-so close in her arms. So, Laura Ingraham: Since life is so sacred to you, even to the degree of unborn life, which young men and women that you see playing in the prison yard with death sentences shouldn't be executed? There are reasonable debating points on the issue of abortion. But when people like the Laura Ingrahams of the world throw in such inanity, it shows that they don't have a clue what they are. They aren't debating pro-choice or pro-life, they're just trying to be smarmy.
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Hours later, I was still being blocked getting into my Twitter account. So, I had a thought -- I generally use Firefox as my browser, so I launched Internet Explorer to see if I could get into my account there. And I could. So, that told me the problem was connected to Firefox in some way. And when that's the case, there's usually one leading culprit. Cookies are being blocked.
I checked my settings, and sure enough, Cookies for twitter.com were being blocked. I changed the settings and...bingo! I'm in! Now, I will definitely take blame for not thinking of Cookies first -- though I suspect a whole lot of people don't think of Cookies first. But I should have. But...how hard would it be for Twitter to put on a page that someone has clicked to get help about not being able to log in that say -- "Check to make sure your freaking Cookies aren't being blocked"??!!!! Though I suspect they would use "freaking." But the important thing. Mission Accomplished! The unimportant thing: I can now tweet again. But the cool thing is that I am all the way up to 7 people following me! I like to consider them my minions. We can have club meetings and everything. For anyone else who wishes to join in, the The comeuppance edition.
Have you ever gotten a letter from lawyer that tried to bully you? Or know someone who got one? Or just had someone throw their weight around in a really bothersome way at your expense? Jake Freivald lives in a town in New Jersey and put up his own, little appreciative website for it. And then one day, he got a cease-and-desist letter from a lawyer, Richard Trenk, the Township Attorney. One of those, "let me push you around a bit because I can and want to frighten you" things. And that, unfortunately, should have put an ed to Mr. Freivald's little effort. Except that he didn't let it end. He either had a friend who was a lawyer, or spoke with a lawyer and was as pissed off as Jake Freivald. And this attorney, Stephen B. Kaplitt, took the case pro bono and wrote back. Let's just say he wasn't frightened. "Obviously [your letter] was sent in jest, and the world can certainly use more legal satire. Bravo, Mr. Trenk!" He is just getting warmed up. It's quite wonderful, and you can see the whole letter here. Here in Chicago now. It's always an adventure trying to get everything set up for the stay. After enough visits, I've started to get it down to a science, though today I just hit a new glitch. Since I'm new to Twitter, I had to log in on my notebook computer, which I tend to use more for traveling, and not much in Los Angeles. But Twitter is not wanting me to log in, apparently, making me feel a bit twittish.
I put in my name and password, but no go. I click, "Forget password?" -- but rather than sending me a temp password to re-set, it takes me to to "Sign up for Twitter" page. When I click on Support, and go to the "Re-set your password" page...it, too, sends me to that sign-up page, and doesn't send anything. This time, I figured that maybe they're actually asking me to sign-up again, so I tried -- but nope, it wouldn't accept that since I was trying to sign up with information they already have for another member: me. And then another page explains what to do, which is what I've been doing, which doesn't work, asks if this information helped, and when I clicked "No," I had my favorite moment of the whole effort -- an error message pops up to say that there was a problem and the message couldn't be sent! There was a problem? Really? No kidding... They do have a contact page, at least. But it's a mailing address. No email. Ha! I do suspect there might be some larger glitch that's causing this issue, and eventually I should be able to get access to my account. So I'll try again later. Okay, so it's earlier than late afternoon. What can I say? I'm at LAX, was able to get Wi-Fi, and wanted to try out the mobile app that this blog provider offers. (Besides which, there's a 30 minute delay boarding...) It works quite well -- but typing with one finger on an iPod touch is hardly ideal. It's good for you, though -- MUCH shorter postings. And so, signing off. They're finally starting to board! Today is travel day to Chicago, but I should be popping back up to the surface later this afternoon. Talk among yourselves. I'll leave the music on for those who prefer to dance..
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