Pro-lifer Alert

Before you vote Bush - think again!!!

In each of eight years of the Clinton Administration the number of abortions performed throughout the US and among all demographics went down compared to the year before and at the end of his term were on par with the numbers at the end of Reagan's 2nd term.

In the two years of activity betweem 2001-2002 ( the most recent numbers available) the number of abortions under GW Bush is on the rise. Most people attribute this increase to poor economic policies which leave fewer choices available to women with difficult choices.

This should give one pause to consider whether the language of pro-lifers that seeks to criminalize abortion actually has reduction in number as their motive.

There's a light...

over at the Frankenstein place.
There's a light-- burning in the fireplace.
There's a bright, bright light
in the darkness of everybody's life.

Life is looking up again - Happy Halloween
bonus points for identifying source of this lyric.

Misleader in Chief

It is not a stretch to call this guy a miserable failure.

Play with his face.

See if you can make him look honest.

What I wish for tonight...

More than any other thing tonight, John Kerry needs to say, in the simplest possible way:

" I ask you to vote for me so that we can take our country back."

CBS and Gallop

Show Kerry and Bush in a statisical dead heat with Kerry getting a very slight edge in one and Bush in the other. In the past 50 years, no incumbent president has ever won re-election from a position of less than 55%. With news like this and only days to go in this election one has to feel good.

I really do! Thanks for these words, Mr Neil Diamond

I believe in new beginnings
Extra innings, brand new starts
Loving hearts that care the way I do
All these things and happy endings too.

Okay, another tie!!

Missed opportunities on both sides made this debate about as boring as they come.

One would have expected either candidate to at least speak to the audience. Kerry made some half-hearted attempts at this but it didn't play well on TV. Both relied too heavily on their sound-bites, so much so that by the end of some answers i had forgotten the questions. The audience echoed this perception at the end of the debate with their sense that their questions were not answered.

Kerry did present himself as being able to stand toe-to-toe with W. but in the process might have missed an opportunity to get his message out.

Round Two Debate Tonight

Can Kerry keep up his momentum from the last debate?

I have been thinking about this a great deal and hope there is an exchange that goes something like this:

W: My opponent wants to apply a "global test" so that the world can decide when we go to war blah blah blah...

Kerry: When I was speaking during the last debate I assumed my audience has an IQ higher than that of the average 6 year old. What I said was that when our country decides to go to war we need to apply a "global test so that our own people and other nations can clearly understand our rational for that war. That is not the same as having others decide if we go to war. Such a test might include, for example, telling the truth.

Fun with Dick and John!!!

Tonight's the debate of the Vice Presidential Candidates. Hopefully we can get Dick to squirm a bit and even drop one or two "F" bombs. Of course with a delay ala Janet Jackson we wouldn't actually hear them as anything more than a bleep or two.

A massive coronary might bhe a way for Cheney to invoke a kind of sympathy but it could also backfire if others his age start thinking of the healthcare advantages he has over the rest of the world. It would be quite a gamble to take that risk.

Let's all watch and see.