Posts by Russell Brown
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As opposed to our standard of "serious danger".
Quite. Although we do seem to do a better job of managing it than many other countries. Our rate of late-term (ie: at or after 21 weeks) abortions is 0.56% of all procedures -- less than half the US rate.
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On what evidence?
The kind that gets presented in court, Grant.
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Grant might also wish to refer to the case of James Kopp, a very close associate of Terry's in the foundation of Operation Rescue. He's kind of off the scene now, on account of having been jailed for 25 years for murdering a doctor in 1998.
The Operation rescue website claims Terry left in 1991 and there seems to be trademark issues. This is Terry official website.
Yeah, just catching up with all that craziness. There's some more in the link above. Terry also shunned his daughter after she got pregnant out of wedlock (WTF?) and tries to pretend he doesn't have a gay son.
Meanwhile, a Kos diarist has memories of Tiller that don't fit the "killer" image.
I really think the role of various right-wing media demagogues needs to be questioned here. There are already various video montages of Bill O'Reilly claiming over and over that Tiller "specialised" in the killing of "thousands" of "babies about to be born", as if he did so unmolested.
In reality, Kansas is one of only 10 US states that requires two independent doctors to verify a prognosis of "irreparable harm" to the mother of the pregnancy proceeds.
About 1% of US abortions are carried out at or after 21 weeks. No statistics are kept on terminations very late in pregnancy, but it's reasonable to assume the number is vanishingly small, and that those cases resemble the one I linked to in the original post.
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Teach me to use a phrase I originally heard on Laidlaw's Sunday Morning...
The quote originally comes from the legendary sports journalist T.P. McLean: "Sport is the study of the human being under pressure."
I've been dining out on it ever since.
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From that very same link, "The man who shot him was responsible".
So (I paraphrase) "nothing to do with us, but the guy got what was coming to him" isn't condoning?
But hey, let's go with this: I believe al Qaeda has never formally claimed responsibility for the 9/11 attacks, so perhaps some history needs re-writing there.
But honestly Grant, I've already lost track of whatever it is you're trying to argue.
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Russell. If you can point to the pro-life organisations that are celebrating Tiller's murder then you might be justified in linking the pro-life label to terrorism.
"George Tiller was a mass-murderer and, horrifically, he reaped what he sowed."
That's Randall Terry, head of Operation Rescue, in the last few hours.
Scott Roeder, the man charged, is a longtime member of the Freemen group, whose tenets include the reversal of Roe v Wade and the prohibition of abortion. These militias very commonly take what they describe as a "pro-life" platform. Eric Rudolph, who committed the deadly bombing at the Atlantic Olympics, was part of the same crowd -- indeed, he graduated to murdering concertgoers in Atlanta from bombing an abortion clinic.
Roeder was a subscriber to Prayer and Action News, a periodical that advanced the "justifiable homicide" philosophy. He posted on the Operation Rescue website. And he seems to have personally participated in countless pro-life group protests at clinics.
Is that enough for you?
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I really don't see watching reality TV as being very different from watching a sports telecast.
I was about to make the same comparison, but you've saved me the trouble.
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She should have had staunch supporters - caring professionals - with her throughout this whole process to keep her safe from the media and the international fuss, and support her at all times.
I suspect they know that now, but, again, no one could have predicted that her story would go so big, so quickly.
The stress was inevitable, particularly for someone as vulnerable as her, once the 'celebrity' thing and the wolves got her.
It seems that the incidents that set The Sun on its path were really relatively minor. The Sun's decision to pursue them was just frightening.
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I'll accept it's something I don't see (especially after the gouging, obviously.)
Phew. Otherwise I'd have been faced with preventing my darling watching Project Runway, for the sake of her, um, brain.
Truth is, I think quite a few people know very well what "non-scripted drama" (as it's called in the industry) is. Personally, I can't for the life of me understand what the interest is in the likes of Survivor or The Apprentice -- they seem dull and nasty -- but I accept that decent people can actually enjoy them.
That said, I agree it's a misnomer and, when directed to the Susan Boyle clip by this very blog, I found the very badly acted fake surprise to be quite revolting, and the whole piece nothing but manipulative.
Yes, but they did the same thing every week -- selective editing, the set-up of expectations -- and they didn't procure anything like the same result. At its heart, Boyle's story was actually real, and she has been trying to get in to these competitions for years.
As I noted above, the producers are not so clever that they can actually stage a global YouTube phenomenon (if they'd been expecting that, ITV wouldn't have been caught short without a YouTube channel), or get a British talent show contestant on Oprah.
There have been TV talent shows forever. They just haven't been quite as scary as this one.
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As far as Susan Boyle is concerned, I think it is much less to do with television than the venial and vile red-top British press, (The Sun in particular) who once again are displaying their finely-honed hypocrisy.
I think so. The Sun got wind that she was cracking under the pressure and made a cold decision to try and get a story out of further traumatising her.
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