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Now nobody knew quite what to make of him or quite what to think, but there he was and in he walked.

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Thursday, August 24, 2006

Congratulations!

After surveying the headlines today, I thought some congratulations were in order.

Congratulations to Tom Cruise for proving that running your mouth in public the way he did can and does have an affect on your life. Paramount announced their decision to sever ties with Tom Cruise from their studio "amid disputes over money and style." Viacom chief Summer Redstone "cited Cruise'’s infamous 'Oprah' couch jumping, his interview with Matt Lauer on the 'Today' show as well as his attack on Brooke Shields over pharmacological drugs." Steven Spielberg was surprised to hear the news. Well, hopefully Cruise has learned that certain ideologies will get you in trouble. And hopefully the rest of Hollywood will too.

Congratulations to the Vermont liberazzi as they celebrate the news of the end of the first gay civil union. The two women who stood in line not so long ago in July of 2000 anxious to be the first to take advantage of Vermont's new law legalizing civil unions have decided they made a mistake. This news is coupled by the new ruling that gay couples can file for joint custody of children who had the great misfortune of being brought into this social train wreck. Way to go Vermont.

Congratulations to the rest of the country as we celebrate the final approval of the "Plan B" pill. Now more women than ever can retain a promiscuous lifestyle without fear of consequences. At least, not any consequences that can be seen. At least none that will be seen for the time being. Well, at least not this week. Maybe. There will still be the risk of STDs, there will still be the harmful side effects of the drug, and there will now be an even greater number of conceived human lives that will be unknowingly aborted.

In addition to the documented abortions (as reported by Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers, and tallied by counters like this one) there is an unreported and therefore unknown number of lives lost to chemical contraceptives. One report says that 3% of healthy women (5% of overweight women) get pregnant on the pill. That means that at least 3% of the time, the first function of the pill failed and an egg was released, the second function of the pill failed and the sperm made it to the egg, and the third function of the pill failed and the newly conceived human implanted in the woman's uterus. If this happens 3% of the time, then one can surmise that a greater percentage of the time the third function of the pill -- the prevention of implantation -- works. So in over 3% of all women, they are aborting a child without ever knowing it. Congratulations to them. They're parents and will never know it. At least not right away.

So way to go, America. Our culture will take the gold in the downhill slalom.

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Blogger Kristi said...

The gay couple that dissolved their "union" sorta smacks of the woman behind Roe v. Wade, taking it back. Not as much, but sorta.

7:42 PM  
Blogger AdmiralDack said...

Except the lesbians were not divorcing because they reversed their opinion about homosexual unions. They're merely taking advantage of the full union/divorce "cycle of marriage" in America today. They're probably both looking forward to doing it again with their next partners.

Roe on the other hand reversed her views about abortion and became an outspoken defender of the unborn.

1:39 PM  

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