Two points right up front so there can be no misunderstanding, no misinterpretation, no twisting of my words, no false accusations.
- I am, on general principle, opposed to abortions except in cases of rape, incest, sexual abuse or in cases where it is certain that the fetus is horribly deformed (see Sherri Finkbine and the 1962 Arizona Supreme Court decision and the harmful effects of THALIDOMIDE).
- Despite my opposition, I am fully cognizant of the fact that I am not a woman and that I have no right to making decisions for women about their bodies (it’s almost comical – almost – to now hear the anti vaxxers invoking the my body, my choice mantra that pro-choice women have been saying for years).
Now, despite having gotten those two points out of the way, there will be those usual nutcases who brand me as a murderer, a communist or any other derogatory label they attach to me. But that’s okay. I’m comfortable with my position and I can sleep at night.
What I don’t understand is how those Repugnantcan legislators over in Texas can live with themselves. What’s even more puzzling about the males among that group is how their wives can live with them.
They have enacted a law that’s clearly unconstitutional (though the U.S. Supreme Court, thanks to Trump’s appointees, has, while not actually upholding the law, refused to take action of any kind on it, not even suspending the law until the legal challenges can be heard).
While the Texas law does not strike down Roe v. Wade, what it does do is incentivize those without a dog in the hunt to intervene into the private affairs of people they might not even know.
In legal parlance, that calls into question a little matter jurists like to call legal standing, meaning that if you are not directly affected by an action, you have no legal right to intervene. For example, if I’m standing on a street corner and driver A runs a red light and broadsides driver B, driver B has a right to file suit but I would not because I have no legal standing, or direct interest, in the carnage the wreck may have caused.
But in Texas, everyone now has legal standing in all cases of abortion after detection of a fetal heartbeat, which physicians say is not really a heartbeat at all, but more of a random flutter.
So, if I reside in Texas and I witness a woman enter an abortion clinic, or see anyone even give here a ride to that clinic, give her advice on or money for an abortion, or have knowledge of anyone who provides abortions, I can now SUE that advisor, that doctor, that pregnant woman, that driver and collect up to $10,000 from each one – the woman, the driver, the advisor, and the doctor.
So, what we now have is a state where there is no hotline if you see a man enter a kindergarten with an AR-15 but there is if you see a woman go into a Planned Parenthood parking lot in her vehicle. Texas will not force a 12-year-old to wear a mask at school but it will force her to have a baby.
Repugnantcans: the party of limited government where mask mandates can be banned, abortions can be outlawed, school curricula can be dictated by legislators and voting restrictions can be imposed on citizens – all so we can get the guvmint out of our lives..
Oh, by the way, the new law makes no exceptions for rape, incest, or sexual abuse.
That, folks, creates a whole new cottage industry: Finksmanship, Inc. Remember all those stories about how the Nazis and later the Communist Party in the Soviet Union and China had neighbors spying on neighbors? Well, now we have it on our very own doorstep – deep in the heart of Texas.
Instead of concerning themselves with an archaic power grid that left everyone in the state except Ted Cruz in a deep freeze last winter, the Texas governor and legislators plow into that knotty problem of what to do about their womenfolk.
Repugnantcans are all about pro-life up to birth. After that, the little tykes are on their own. No laws promoting day care, no intervention to prevent hunger and poverty – especially if such efforts would go against the interest of big corporations like utilities, pharmaceutical companies, oil and gas or defense contractors.
The DEMOCRATS, led by Nancy Pelosi, are scrambling for a strategy to overcome the Texas law absent any showing of a spine by five of the Supreme Court justices. As is customary for the Democrats, they’ve been caught off guard by a conniving, sinister Repugnantcan Party which always seems to be a step or two ahead of the less organized Democrats.
One of the Democratic suggestions is to pack the Supreme Court by enlarging its membership from nine to 13. Good luck with that. You think for a nanosecond Mitch McConnell’s gonna let that happen? Not a chance! And I’m not sure that would be a viable answer anyway. Someday, there would be another Repugnantcan president who would get his shot at appointing justices and before you know it, there would be seven Repugnantcan appointees to just six Dems and some Democrat would be calling to expand to 17. Where would it end?
But one of our readers did come up with a helluva plan and it had merit and would turn the Repugnantcan strategy back onto them (I’d love to identify him, but he may wish to remain anonymous, so I won’t).
Every Democratic Texas legislator and congressmen who has friends in the media should suggest to all their reporter friends that they approach Repugnantcan Texas legislators to interview them about the new law. Most would consent without hesitation because campaign contributions is the mother’s milk of politics and the best way to attract contributions is by keeping your face out there before the public.
At some point in the interview, the reporter should ask the Repugnantcan what alternative a Texas woman had available to her if she had no other choice but to terminate her pregnancy.
Some would dance around it but a persistent reporter could glean some response – such as, “Well, she’d just have to go to another state or to Mexico where it’s legal.” Or he might suggest something as benign as saying, “She would need to consult her physician.”
Bingo! That Repugnantcan has provided advice and counsel and anyone who sees the interview response on TV or reads it in a newspaper could sue.
Any bets as to how long it would take the Texas Legislature to repeal that law?
Louisiana Voice 
Tom, I don’t expect you to publish this but I have a sure fire way to stop abortions, clergy sexual abuse, incest, etc. MEN, KEEP YOUR PENIS IN YOUR PANTS! NONE of this would happen if Men would be the “protectors” of their families, extended families and community families. Stop blaming women and any flirtatious ways for causing abortions, sexual abuse, or incest. Keep your penis in your pants!
I think I read or heard that Texas Legislators exempted themselves from any liability to the vigilante provisions of the law. But even if that is the case, it hopefully only pertains to them in their official capacity. If asked the “advice” not as a Legislator but as an informed citizen. maybe, just maybe, they can be held liable and subject to a “vigilante” suit. The one I’d love to see get sued 100,000 times would be the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton. Let’s see if he will give legal advice – as one would expect would be part and parcel of his responsibility as AG.
In any event, I’d so love to see Republican Legislators fall on their own sword.
Why are you calling Ivermectin names and trying to ridicule those using it when it’s a proven, cheap drug that saves lives? And why do you “otherize” people by name-calling? (Republicans and Democrats are a “uniparty” — it is only by looking at the actions of individuals can we know who is right and who is wrong on an issue.) Why is your page full of emotion, especially contempt, but few facts?
The country is in deep trouble; you have to know that. Yet, you are painting broad strokes of “us vs them” when surely you realize that globalists elites will rid you of your online speech as soon as you are no longer useful to them, just as they are currently doing to conservative and traditional Americans.
You sound informed, but angry rather than thoughtful. America desperatly needs passionate people, now more than ever. You must know that congress is selling us out, that state leaders are weak when they should be stepping up, and that the multi-nationalist corporate and banking classes are tightening the screws on all of us.
I’m honestly puzzled, because I was part of the left when we were anti-corporate, anti-elite, pro-tolerance, anti-corruption, anti-intel….and putting stickers up that suggested “Question authority.” Seriously, where have all those values gone? Why are you guys now buddying up to the multinationals, to Big Tech and Big Pharma? Why are you treating fellow citizens as objects of contempt rather than joining them in pointing out the threat of totalitarianism we all face?
We need you, man. It’s time for us all to pull together, to stop the cheap rhetoric and the dehumanizing of others and save this country. Please consider the power you wield and wield it for the people, not the powerful.
We thank you. Bless–
I’m not sure what you read, but if you’ve read my posts for any time at all, you would know that I am quite often critical of the multinational corporations – especially big pharma, oil and gas, weapons manufacturers – and both political parties. As such, I believe we’re in agreement on many issues so, again, I’m not sure where you’re coming from – because you certainly aren’t reading what I’ve been writing.
But as for Ivermectin, it’s not proven, it’s not for human consumption and it’s certainly not as well researched as a coronavirus treatment as the vaccines. So, on that point, we do disagree.
You should read up on Invermectin. Not only is it for human consumption, it has saved tens of thousands of lives. It’s creators were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015
Right, for “control of certain parasitic infections…” There’s a big difference between a virus and a parasite.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2015/press-release/
Here’s another tidbit on your dewormer:
Is there a serious problem with anti-vaxxers and Trumpers pushing Ivermectin?
Let me just put this down in black and white.
Trumpers and anti-vaxxers should not be allowed to run around lose without adult supervision. I imagine taking a group of these people to Disney on one of those big long chains, slapping the toilet mints out of their hands during toilet patrol, and constantly remind them not to lick the sidewalk.
Here is why these idiots should not be qualified as adults. Trumpers and anti-vaxxers grabbed hold of Ivermectin for two reasons. It was a pill with a name that did something they were not sure what exactly it was about, and you could buy it over the counter because horse owners use it.
That is it.
Now here is why all of those Trumpers and anti-vaxxers are going to be hurting soon. Ivermectin has a high incidence of SJS and TEN in users who do not carefully follow dosing models.
SJS / TEN is a legitimate problem even if you work with a doctor for a number of medications. A person who is too stupid to understand vaccines IS NOT SOMEONE WHO SHOULD EVERY BE ALLOWED TO MAKE MEDICAL CHOICES UNASSISTED. They are not adults.
So what about SJS and TEN. They are allergic reactions to complex medicines that cause a serious and life threatening illness that is also horrible to undergo.
I survived SJS only thanks to an entire medial team at Dartmouth Medical system.
SJS and TEN occur slowly as you take the medicine. You get a small fever and it passes. Then you get a sore on your mouth. Most people go get some ointment and that is that.
Then their socks hurt their legs. You have athlete’s foot. You spray it with jock powder and ignore it.
The seeming fungus on your leg expands upward, you get more sores in your mouth.
You go to the doctor who will never have seen this, and never think to check. There is no test, just context clues.
In four weeks it is past curing, now you have to live with it because what is happening is the drug you are taking is causing your skin to reject your body. Your mouth fills with sores that run down your throat. Your skin reacts the same way it does in third degree burns. It will all fall off.
Right before they put you in a coma a bunch of people come by to explain what life after what is the equivalent to 100% burns on your body will be. I had great insurance, but if not they will explain what 550,000 in debt will mean when you wake up. And all the time they are getting informed consent, which means informing you as you scream in agony from something that feels as bad, according to the doctors, has napalm burns, you can sit there and think what being an anti-vaxxer means now that your body will forever more be a home to horrible diseased and your life a living hell of pain.
You may not be the enemy, but all signs point to you being a bot.
Mr. Winham is correct. I am getting the same horseshit about pulling together, stop the rhetoric, save America with a soldier holding a broken and defeated Statute of LIberty, et c etc. Don’t believe anything, simply look, think, and if it sounds funny and stinks, it is a Repugnant or a precious Christian. Precious means not a real follower, one who needs love like Trumpites. We got electricity back yesterday pm, got a thrill going to Z Home Depot, lots of power trucks and my soul, National Guard units heading north, doing thier duty. love always ron thompson