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POPSI am me, all day every day More: It doesn't take away my freedom - curbs do that, building steps do that. I cannot blame my disability for the actions of others. There are some who treat me vastly differently, true. But I never stopped being me, they stopped being them. I refuse to take responsibility for anothers decision.
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POPSThe Personhood of Corporations
I started out with clipping the Mark Morford article called "This is a difficult letter to write, Of course it will never happen to you. Until it does. --- As frightening as becoming a victim of the Capitalist System is... there is even a more shocking event going on right now in the chambers of the Supreme Court. This Bush/Roberts Court is about to give to the greedy corporations the power to gobble up all our freedoms and become the omnipotent POWER over everything and everyone who inhabits this Earth. They (the corp) will have the power to choose who is to be elected here in the USA Excerpt from this article: http://forum.colbertnation.com/tcr/board/message?board.id=politics&thread.id=12732 This new case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, presents the best opportunity for the Roberts Court to use its five vote majority to totally re-write the face of politics in America, rolling us back to the pre-1907 era of the Robber Barons. THIS IS NO JOKE! thinkin
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POPSAnd This One's For The Ladies.... These folks just never seem to run out of creative ideas to take us back (way back) to the days when a woman's place was barefoot pregnant and prone. IMO, they've been too sheltered from reality and just don't have enough constructive work to do.
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POPSNew Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor questions corporate personhood Wow. What a fantastic thing it would be to have the whole "corporate personhood" thing reexamined. Especially since "corporate personhood" arose via dictum in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad — it was never argued as a legal matter before the court, it was merely asserted as an "oh, by the way".
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POPSLife In my opinion, the only question that is pertinent to any type of legislation is to when personhood begins. Myers is quite correct when he makes the assertion that life is a continuum. Bringing in the metaphysical concept of a soul only manages to cloud the issue with a religious dogma.
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POPSWould Your Clone Have Its Own Soul? "Oddly enough, though, I’d clone my beloved dead dog, Kit, in a heartbeat"; "Yet I also know that no matter how convincingly I expressed to you my scientific understanding that even identical twins have different environmental experiences starting from their different positioning in their mother’s womb, and the fact that this hypothetical canine clone was its own unique organism, my emotions would still fail to wrap around these empirical facts and I would indeed feel intuitively as though the puppy were Kit reborn." A clear description of some of the puzzlement we face when confronting the concept of cloning. what do you think?
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POPSPersonhood Clearly "pick and choose" Christians will vehemently disagree and scream murderer. That's about all they have left in their arsenal, emotional appeals based on church dogma. And everyone knows my position on dogma.
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POPSThe Extreme Team Behind Amendment 48
This constitutional amendment is not about protecting life. Amendment 48 does nothing less than rob us of the ability to make many of life's most important decisions. The architects of the proposed amendment know this. The initiative's sponsor Kristi Burton asserts, "As far as birth control, IVF and abortion and all that, our amendment doesn't ban anything." But then she slyly admits, "That would be up to the legislature and courts. If our amendment passes and that's (a fertilized egg) considered a person you'd have to view those issues in that way." Ms. Burton knows full well that the only purpose to granting a fertilized egg full human rights is to target the right to birth control, IVF and stem cell research. If it were simply about targeting the right to an abortion, then Amendment 48 would have attempted to define life as starting at the moment a pregnancy begins and not before, as Amendment 48 does. The groups supporting Amendment 48, as listed on the Personhood Col
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