When the economy is going down the toilet...

When the economy and the environment are both going down the toilet...I cannot for the LIFE of me understand why the abortion issue looms at the top of party platform positions. A fertilized embryo results from the union of the sperm and the egg. So, why isn't the sperm and egg cell prior to fertilization accorded some human status? Self-gratification and Biblical Onanism is considered sinful. Perhaps we should pass some federal legislation to ban the act of self-gratification. Lots of luck enforcing that one!

The European Common Union nations permit abortion, but find capital punishment executions heinous. America applauds the death penalty, but finds abortion heinous.

McCain is a big war hero for bombing Hanoi, where he killed who knows how many fetuses. What were we doing in Viet Nam anyway? How can we justify that kind of war? Who appointed us the task of making the world a safe place for democracy? Are not other societies then equally entitled to make the world a safe place for theocracy? I am certain that they feel that they too are entitled to destroy the infidel in the name of what is holy and to please the Deity.


And the most obvious thing one can observe about the political conventions of BOTH parties is something that is never mentioned: namely, the obvious mob-like mentality of the crowds, who act like fools, boo, cheer, and pick up on incomplete sentences to chant as mantra slogans. I do not see this as the behavior of educated adults. I see it rather as a circus mentality, and am reminded of the bread-and-circus mentality of ancient Rome in its decline.

Everyone loves a good show and a drama. We love to elect ex-actors. Politicians give quite a performance.

The mobs and the demagogues deserve each other, and deserve their fate.