RIP Nancy Reagan

[cranberry]

I think he's just going to see P-Funk.

George Clanton | SXSW 2016 Event Schedule

Or teeing off at the Austin Country Club.

 

[X-Hack]

I see what you did there.

 

[YankeeFan]

Link is no good.

** and the post I was responding to has been deleted **

 

[YankeeFan]

Cruz would allow abortion only in cases in which the mother’s life is in jeopardy: “I think that every human life is a precious gift from God and should be protected in law from conception until natural death.”

Ted Cruz says questions about Mourdock rape comment are ‘an unfortunate distraction from the issues that matter’

 

[Dick Whitman]

Cruz would allow abortion only in cases in which the mother’s life is in jeopardy: “I think that every human life is a precious gift from God and should be protected in law from conception until natural death.”

Ted Cruz says questions about Mourdock rape comment are ‘an unfortunate distraction from the issues that matter’

True conservative. I like it.

 

[YankeeFan]

So, "every human life is a precious gift from God," is a controversial statement.

That's kind of funny.

Liberals want human life to not be protected if it's the result of rape.

OK, and I can fully understand that point of view if you only look at it from the mother's point of view.

But, how do you justify it if you look at if from the child's point of view?

If a child is born that is the product of a rape, can we still exclude certain rights from him/her, or is that only ok as long as they are in utero?

 

[Dick Whitman]

Liberals want human life to not be protected if it's the result of rape.

So do conservatives.

I have been making this argument for years, and you battle me on it.

 

[YankeeFan]

So do conservatives.

I have been making this argument for years, and you battle me on it.

Because they're willing to engage in political compromise to protect as many lives as possible.

 

[Starman]

Load up on guns, bring your friends, if you're that fired up about it.

If you're not, then don't.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

If a child is born that is the product of a rape, can we still exclude certain rights from him/her, or is that only ok as long as they are in utero?

"Born" is the key here.

Fetuses don't have rights in the womb.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Reagan didn't attend Bess Truman's. W didn't attend Lady Bird's. Carter didn't attend Mamie Eisenhower's. Nobody noticed or cared. This one for some reason has a different sort of tint to it.

There's probably some level of truth to what you are getting at, but for the most part it is because in the age of social media everything is a controversy on some level. I bet if they had Twitter in the late 70s we could have read about the hick peanut planter failing to get his ass to Abilene and pay respect.

 

[X-Hack]

There's probably some level of truth to what you're getting at too, but we had social media in 2007 when nobody noticed or cared that Junior was too busy clearing brush in Crawford to drive his ass over to the Hill Country to pay respect to Miz Lady Bird. The "who does he think he is," "who does she think she is" and "who do they think they are" nature of the screeching leveled at the Obamas is qualitatively different from what the unhinged of the left ever leveled at the Bushes, Twitter or no Twitter.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

This is getting traction because it comes on the heels of him not attending Scalia's funeral.

 

[X-Hack]

Plenty of precedent for presidents not attending SCOTUS justices' funerals too. That controversy was just as silly and proves my point equally, since he was respecting the wishes of Scalia's family, who didn't want the funeral to be a circus, and attended the viewing of Scalia's body lying in state instead. It's easy enough to criticize the man's policies if that's your bent, but this kind of stuff is bull**** and it's exactly why we deserve the type of election we're getting this year.

 

[Starman]

This is getting traction because it comes on the heels of him not attending Scalia's funeral.

It's getting traction from the right wing screech machine and its ringleaders on Farcebook and Twatter. Obama scratches ass = they erupt in outrage.

 

[exmediahack]

He is the keynote speaker.

He's the president. Move the speech back three hours.

 

[exmediahack]

There's probably some level of truth to what you're getting at too, but we had social media in 2007 when nobody noticed or cared that Junior was too busy clearing brush in Crawford to drive his ass over to the Hill Country to pay respect to Miz Lady Bird. The "who does he think he is," "who does she think she is" and "who do they think they are" nature of the screeching leveled at the Obamas is qualitatively different from what the unhinged of the left ever leveled at the Bushes, Twitter or no Twitter.

As I believe Bush should have gone to Miz Lady Bird's goodbye bash. Especially for a fellow Texan.

 

[X-Hack]

Totally misses the point. You may personally believe that, and I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you were actually articulating this feeling at the time and aren't just saying it now, but there was no outrage in the blogosphere or cable news.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Have we talked about the get-up Mr. T was wearing at the funeral?

Would it have killed you to wear a suit and tie? What are you, a freakin' cartoon character?

 

[exmediahack]

Have we talked about the get-up Mr. T was wearing at the funeral?

Would it have killed you to wear a suit and tie? What are you, a freakin' cartoon character?

I pity the fool who tells me how to dress for the one invitation I get this decade.