This whole giving birth thing looks weird and complicated. When it’s time, I think I’ll just sit in the corner blowing a vuvuzela.
Did Pelosi really say she wants to investigate Ground Zero mosque critics? Respecting the 1st Amendment sure has become confusing.
What I’m Bitterly Clinging To Today: 2nd Season of Cheers DVDs
The pendulum swings and the problem these days is less bigots than people who constantly scream bigot to try and silence debate.
I asked my Mom if she took the drugs when she brought me into the world. She didn’t remember. I would think she didn’t; I was always the good, polite one in the family.
The Commerce Clause says to ignore the 1st Amendment.
Random thought: Merle Haggard’s most recent album is great. I believe Jesus is God, and a pig is just ham.
Random thought: I hate ham. I find turkey “ham” to be superior to real ham.
Random thought: In the South, cars on cement blocks litter around 50% of yards. In Maine, the cars become lobster boats.
Yep. Pelosi wants to investigate Ground Zero Mosque critics. I demand an investigation to see if Pelosi is of the human species.
Also, I heard giving birth is not too bad if one was inclined to take drugs. However, there is this school of thought. All those women who didn’t take drugs, forget all their suffering once that baby is placed in their arms. I have seen quite a few women use words describing their husbands in a delivery room that would make a longshoreman blush. Once that baby was held by the mothers, they seemed to forget the entire event and were relaxed and happy to see their babies.
The things I remember most about childbirth are the fear, tears, screaming and mindless rants…and my wife was almost as bad! [rimshot!]
Why does Nancy Pelosi hate Harry Reid and Howard Dean?
-A vuvu ought to do a great job of drowning out all her “racket” 😉
-The left takes a daily “spaghetti at the wall” approach to accusations. Its the right who keeps playing the fool trying to answer and explain while the left only cares about what sticks.
-If grew up hearing a masculine person and a feminine person arguing then you know everything that is ever going to happen and be said in American politics.
-We really should try more offense. The few times we do it is fascinating how quickly the left comes unglued. They have no real defensive game.
-Whenever we have a liberal president we should change the “American Eagle” to a “post-American beagle”
-We dont have children, not rich enough to afford them or poor enough to know how to make other people pay for them. Someday hopefully.
-If we ever adopt I am going to find a little Chinese boy and name him “Texas.”
-I am always tempted by the fun of distorting political names like Nobama but I also know that my reasonable side has never really cared what anyone who did that had to say. Mostly because my first exposure to it was during the insightful yet classy “Bu$Hitler” years of leftists ranting.
What I’m Bitterly Clinging To Today: 2nd Season of Cheers DVDs
Isn’t season two the one where the fat guy goes into the bar and everybody yells his name?
Did Pelosi really say she wants to investigate Ground Zero mosque critics?
This so called woman is insane. Between her, biden, reid, and the disgrace in the white house, It has been an entertaining summer. Like a group of simians and a football. Add a vuvuzela and you have a sport.
Random thought: If the disgrace in the white house is forced to wear a burka under sharia law, how will his followers know what brand of mom jeans he is wearing?
If they find the mouse that ran off with pelosi’s bvrain, do they trap it or give it a medal?
Here is a few Michael Crichton quotes for random Thursday fun:
-Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
-Although knowledge of how things work is sufficient to allow manipulation of nature, what humans really want to know is why things work. Children don’t ask how the sky is blue. They ask why the sky is blue.
-Entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.
-You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. … You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
-But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost–they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.
-Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own.
-Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible. And it needs to be apolitical. To mix environmental concerns with the frantic fantasies that people have about one political party or another is to miss the cold truth — that there is very little difference between the parties, except a difference in pandering rhetoric.
-Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.
-I think everyone who says he knows God’s intention is showing a lot of very human ego.
-If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.
-In a media-saturated world, persistent hype lends unwarranted credulity to the wildest claims.
-“In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.”
-“They don’t have intelligence. They have what I call ‘thintelligence.’ They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it ‘being focused.’ They don’t see the surround. They don’t see the consequences.”
-“But now science is the belief system that is hundreds of years old. And, like the medieval system before it, science is starting not to fit the world any more. Science has attained so much power that its practical limits begin to be apparent. Largely through science, billions of us live in one small world, densely packed and intercommunicating. But science cannot help us decide what to do with that world, or how to live. Science can make a nuclear reactor, but it cannot tell us not to build it. Science can make pesticide, but cannot tell us not to use it. And our world starts to seem polluted in fundamental ways—air, and water, and land—because of ungovernable science.”
-Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.”
Yes? Why is that?”
Because it means the end of innovation,” Malcolm said. “This idea that the whole world is wired together is mass death. Every biologist knows that small groups in isolation evolve fastest. You put a thousand birds on an ocean island and they’ll evolve very fast. You put ten thousand on a big continent, and their evolution slows down. Now, for our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt. And everybody on earth knows that innovation only occurs in small groups. Put three people on a committee and they may get something done. Ten people, and it gets harder. Thirty people, and nothing happens. Thirty million, it becomes impossible. That’s the effect of mass media – it keeps anything from happening. Mass media swamps diversity. It makes every place the same. Bangkok or Tokyo or London: there’s a McDonald’s on one corner, a Benetton on another, a Gap across the street. Regional differences vanish. All differences vanish. In a mass-media world, there’s less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity – our most necessary resource? That’s disappearing faster than trees. But we haven’t figured that out, so now we’re planning to put five billion people together in cyberspace. And it’ll freeze the entire species. Everything will stop dead in its tracks. Everyone will think the same thing at the same time. Global uniformity.
If you blow a vuvuzela during the labor and delivery, prepare to have it forcibly relocated to a painful location in your body.
Here’s the thing about childbirth – it sucks (drugs help). Probably the thing that’ll surprise you the most is how blown away you’ll be by what a strong, amazing person Sarah is. Seeing what she has to do to push that baby into the world will fill you with awe. Women are extraordinarily strong. Childbirth is a trial-by-fire that brings not only a baby into the world, but also a mother.
SarahK- if he pulls out a vuvzela (or whatever those things are called)…you have every right to shove it somewhere that will ensure he feels something similar to what you are feeling at that moment.
Frank- My advice for the delivery room (from personal experience): Be attentive and appear to be helpful…even when there is nothing you can do. Don’t try to push your “help”…just be there for whatever she asks for. If you can’t do what she asks…at least pretend to to ask for help in getting it to happen. Whatever you do, do NOT ask for the football score or engage the doctor in conversation so deep that you forget to let your poor wife, who had an epidural, know when the contractions are coming. We remember these things for YEARS. It’s in your best interest to feign attention for that one day. 😉
I thought blowing your vuvuzela is what got Sarah K. into this predicament.
I’ve been told that repect must be earned. Apparently, Pelosi doesn’t believe that the First Amendment has earned it yet.
What I’m bitterly clinging to today: This ashtray, the paddle game, the remote control, matches, this lamp, this chair,…and that’s all I need.
Okay, I’m not all that bright, but the vulvuleza in the delivery room is one EVEN I can see won’t be advisable.
You better be damn sure SaraK isn’t packing when the room fills up with soccer fans to watch…
Wait a minute, on second thought, if the room fills up with soccer fans and SaraK IS packing, we could thin out the soccer fan herd some, SarahK will have something to focus on (reloading), and all the attention is diverted from Frank…
Dude, this may be one brilliant idea after all.
@#4 Basil — Why does Nancy Pelosi hate Harry Reid and Howard Dean?
Its reid and dean, pelousy wants to be on right side of an issue once in her pathetic life.
Blowing a vuvuzela? That’s what she said.
Frank and Sarah, I’m sure you will have a great birth experience, despite what the ‘oh my gosh it’s going to suck!’ types keep saying. In the end, there will be one fantastic Buttercup joining the party.
I’m thrilled Pelosi wants to investigate mosque critics: that plus Obama’s “report-your-neighbors-who-don’t-like-my-healthcare-plan-to-this-website” scheme is like the left’s true agenda leaping out of the closet. At this point, the only people who could support them are the dead people they somehow keep as constituents and those without 2 neurons to rub together.
My opposition to the Ground Zero mosque is entirely rooted in bigotry – so what? It’s still the right position. And last time I checked, I still had the right to be a bigot. As my namesake, the great A. Bunker said: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but you are one dumb Polack!”
@shiggz: I’m with you on the name calling thing.
O.K., here’s my thoughts on childbirth. No one prolly cares, but I seem to stand alone. I don’t (yet) have kids, but I long for the days when I was born — a time when men waited politely in the waiting room with cigars that could be thankfully lit even in the confines of the labor and delivery waiting room.
When I came into the world, my dad first greeted me through the nursery window as he pointed me out to our closest family friend, “He’s the ugly one over there.” I turned out all right, and my mum seems to have made it through life without eternal enmity against my pop for her ordeal suffered alone.
I’ve been there. I’ve worked in an O.R. and seen more births than I can remember. I josh about the waiting room thing. New bebbies are the second most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. I am Johnny Cash’s man who couldn’t cry, but I would well up every time. That said, this entire coaching thing must go. Women have been giving birth for a long time. In fact, the mother in _The_Good_Earth_ went back to the field an hour or two after the event, and she didn’t even have an obstetrician.
The idea of coaching was created so that somehow mothers and fathers could feel that the father is an integral part of the birthing process. He isn’t. Be there. You wouldn’t miss it for worlds. Hold her hand lovingly. Later, tell her what you feel, which will be that she and little Buttercup are the most beautiful things that God ever created.
And SarahK, I’m not a doctor, but I know two doctors who do not play one on TV. I know an Anesthetist who, while pregnant, made it fully known that she wanted the epidural started as she walked in the emergency room door. This made an impression on me. Also, my best friend is a physician, and he often reminds me, “You’ve got to help your body help itself.”
“Did Pelosi really say she wants to investigate Ground Zero mosque critics? Respecting the 1st Amendment sure has become confusing.”
Isn’t that cute. Frank thinks the democrats follow the Constitution. Silly Frank.
@Burmashave
I still think Frank should be there help reload if they get overwhelmed with soccer fans.
The whole giving birth thing is weird and complicated. That’s why men are given essentially pointless tasks during the process so as to keep them out of the way. But if she’s not going to be on major drugs, I really wouldn’t recommend the vuvuzela.
Also, whoever commented about your baby’s reaction to you and Sarah had it right. She will know your voices instantly and relax in your arms. That bonding moment is so strong, you will remember it for as long as you live. At two days old, my redhead (today, an Army pilot) was laying on my lap with his head near my knees looking at me with a smirk on his face. In an instant, he tried to propel / kick himself off my lap. It was a good thing I was holding his hands, because he almost did. He wanted to play right there. Quite the outgoing athlete at birth – and he’s never changed.
The most incredible thing about being a parent is figuring out who your child really is. And then, armed with that knowledge, helping them become the person they are meant to be.
I thought you already blew the vuvuzuela.