Michael Kindt's Blog, page 514

If I lived in a society where the Westboro Baptist Church's ideology was the prevailing opinion I'd gladly be an outsider. :)That being said, there are always exceptions to ideas, it's really impossible to find a monistic solution that works in 100

The Thoreau approach. I am a vast and hardcore mutherfucking Thoreau fan. So, yeah, that approach works for me.

Have you read Walden? Read it. Read it now.

It's actually pretty weird how people think that if you make something illegal it will go away or diminish.

That's such bullshit. Every time you make something illegal, you GIVE it power. Banned books always sell the best. Do you think the Mexican drug cartels would be so scary and monstrous if what they were doing was legal?

Forbidden is always good, always desirable. Humans fucking love it.

The forbidden is power, the forbidden is greater than any law, greater than any social convention. If there is something (drug use, prostitution, whatever) within human society that you think shouldn't be there, the only way you are going to get rid of it is by going off to a desert island away from human society.

Humanity does what it does and it always has and will, regardless of laws or your opinion.

So there.

I'm asking nicely, because there isn't any oversight or other recourse I can take on tumblr: please remove the quotation marks from the final portion of your post. Santorum's obviously a horrible person, but he never said that, and 3,000+ tumblerites may g

Unfortunately, I can't. My site, along with the post in question, is satirical in nature and protected (for now) by FREE SPEECH. Actions speak louder than words, and if Mr. Santorum had the nards, this is exactly what he would say because it is exactly what he believes.

I'm asking nicely, because there isn't any oversight or other recourse I can take on tumblr: please remove the quotation marks from the final portion of your post. Santorum's obviously a horrible person, but he never said that, and 3,000+ tumblerites may g

Unfortunately, I can't. My site, along with the post in question, is satirical in nature and protected (for now) by FREE SPEECH. Actions speak louder than words, and if Mr. Santorum had the nards, this is exactly what he would say because it is exactly what he believes.

I'm asking nicely, because there isn't any oversight or other recourse I can take on tumblr: please remove the quotation marks from the final portion of your post. Santorum's obviously a horrible person, but he never said that, and 3,000+ tumblerites may g

Unfortunately, I can't. My site, along with the post in question, is satirical in nature and protected (for now) by FREE SPEECH. Actions speak louder than words, and if Mr. Santorum had the nards, this is exactly what he would say because it is exactly what he believes.

I'm asking nicely, because there isn't any oversight or other recourse I can take on tumblr: please remove the quotation marks from the final portion of your post. Santorum's obviously a horrible person, but he never said that, and 3,000+ tumblerites may g

Unfortunately, I can't. My site, along with the post in question, is satirical in nature and protected (for now) by FREE SPEECH. Actions speak louder than words, and if Mr. Santorum had the nards, this is exactly what he would say because it is exactly what he believes.

I'm asking nicely, because there isn't any oversight or other recourse I can take on tumblr: please remove the quotation marks from the final portion of your post. Santorum's obviously a horrible person, but he never said that, and 3,000+ tumblerites may g

Unfortunately, I can't. My site, along with the post in question, is satirical in nature and protected (for now) by FREE SPEECH. Actions speak louder than words, and if Mr. Santorum had the nards, this is exactly what he would say because it is exactly what he believes.

I'm asking nicely, because there isn't any oversight or other recourse I can take on tumblr: please remove the quotation marks from the final portion of your post. Santorum's obviously a horrible person, but he never said that, and 3,000+ tumblerites may g

Unfortunately, I can't. My site, along with the post in question, is satirical in nature and protected (for now) by FREE SPEECH. Actions speak louder than words, and if Mr. Santorum had the nards, this is exactly what he would say because it is exactly what he believes.

OUR ABORTION WAS DIFFERENT: WHEN THE ANTI-CHOICE CHOOSERick...

OUR ABORTION WAS DIFFERENT: WHEN THE ANTI-CHOICE CHOOSE

Rick Santorum, former Pennsylvania senator and likely presidential candidate, wants all abortions outlawed. He has even said that abortion providers should be "criminally charged." Clearly, his compassion for zygotes, fetuses, and other squishy, jelly-like substances not fully alive is without question. When it comes to actual human beings, however, there is some doubt. He voted to cut every social and welfare program that came before him as senator, and not just those helping women and girls, but those helping the poor, immigrants, children in general, and, of course, education.

Mr. Santorum doesn't hate all people, however. As a Republican, he loves rich people, white people, business people, and Christians. The real Americans, he calls them. There's one other person he loves, too: his wife, Karen Santorum.

He loves her so much, in fact, that in 1997 when she became seriously ill during the 2nd trimester of her pregnancy, he didn't want her to die.

In the 19th week of her pregnancy, Karen discovered during a routine exam that the fetus she was carrying had a fatal defect and was going to die inside of her. A long-shot surgery was performed that required cutting directly into the womb. It carried a high risk of infection and was performed not to save the fetus, but to reduce Karen's complications while she attempted to go full term.

Two days later, she became severely feverish. She was rushed to the hospital and placed on intravenous antibiotics, which reduced her fever and bought her some time, but could not eliminate the source of infection: the fetus.

Karen was going to die if her pregnancy was not ended, if the fetus was not removed from her body. So, at 20 weeks, one month before what doctors consider 'viability', labor was artificially induced and the infected fetus was delivered. It died shortly thereafter.

They named it Gabriel Michael Santorum.

The event is obviously tragic, especially for Karen, who, like her husband, opposes any and all forms of abortion, even when it saves a woman's life. As her fever subsided, she realized what was happening and asked for drugs to stop the labor, saying, "We're not inducing labor. That's abortion. No way." But it was too late.

Today, hindsight being 20/20, Karen says she would have authorized the procedure after all, justifying the saving of her own life by explaining that her other children would have lost a mother.

Indeed.

The procedure, whereby labor is induced to remove the fetus before it has any chance of surviving on its own, is considered by Mr. Santorum to be a 'partial-birth abortion', and he is correct. He also personally authorized one to save his wife, whom he loves.

Mr. Santorum is opposed to any and all forms of abortion. Incest? Too bad. Rape? Too bad. Twelve years old? Too bad. Wife, mother, daughter, lover, friend dying? Too bad.

This hypocrite needs to be kept out of all elective offices for the rest of his life.

"Abortion in any form is wrong," said Santorum in 2000, three years after the tragedy. "Except for my wife. If your wife's life was at stake and the only thing that could save her was an abortion, well, too bad. Your wife will have to die. It was different with my wife. You see, I love her. I don't even know your wife's name."

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*Briefe, p. 385."What I have played atwill really happen.I...

*Briefe, p. 385.

"What I have played at
will really happen.
I have not
ransomed myself
by writing.
All my life
I have been dead,
and now I shall
really die.
My life was
sweeter than others',
my death will be
that much more
terrible.
The writer in me
of course
will die at once,
for such a figure
has no basis,
has no substance,
isn't even of dust;
it is only
a little bit possible
in the maddest
earthly life,
it is only
a construction
of the craving
for the enjoyment.
This is the writer."

-Franz Kafka