Yet more Bill O'Reilly Insanity -- "Never the case" a "mother's life is in danger"
Mon Oct 16, 2006 at 09:52:16 PM PDT
According to
Media Matters, Bill O'Reilly has once again gone off the factual deep end.
The money quote is this; discussing South Dakota's if-Roe-is-overturned law, he said:
South Dakota, as you know, has voted to outlaw abortions unless the mother's life is in danger, which is never the case, because you can always have a C-section and do those kinds of things.
A New Holiday: Trucemas (from 1914)
Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 10:22:07 AM PDT
I've been noting the media tempest-in-a-teapot over "Christmas under attack" and "Don't wish me Happy Holidays, it's Christmastime", and it's gotten me thinking about what people are
actually celebrating this Dec. 25th. As far as I can tell, those of us who are celebrating at all fall into three camps:
- The people for whom this is the religious version of President's Day (Yippee! Someone was born!) (We won't go into the whole "When were they born" business, we'll let them settle on a day. ;))
- The people for whom this is "They stole our ancestor's holiday and co-opted it into theirs, but we'll take the day off from work with pay they're giving us anyway harrumph." ;)
- The people for whom this is "The day they grew up spending with family exchanging gifts and all that, and still like doing that with their current family of birth/choice/etc."
I'd like to add one to that, relating to a historical event, that I think most everyone but the most fanatical of people in #1 could get behind with some amount of ease.