House of Eratosthenes

There’s a shark rule in place. If the sharks are not that hungry, and you somehow know this, it’s okay to look a little bit like a seal. But if they haven’t eaten all year long, which is the case with our lefty media here, then merely casting a shadow under the waves, is good enough to ask for trouble.

Phil lives in the state, and has some thoughts.

Interesting point made by Kingjester:

…unfortunately, while Democrats tend to shore up their ranks and defend their own, like a lioness defends her cub, Republicans tend to banish our wounded, like a leper to a Leper Colony.

Joe Getty, on the radio, made another good point: Everyone wants to talk about how outraged they are. Nobody ever talks the science about this stuff, as in, “by the way, that isn’t true.” Which strikes me as a bit odd, now that you mention it; Akin’s claim sounds to me, credibility-wise, a notch or three under the chestnut that your dotty old aunt sends you in the e-mail about gang initiation rituals involving driving around with the headlights off.

Well, if he’s to drop out, today’s the day to do it, and I hear he isn’t planning to.

I really can’t think of any substantial difference between “You can’t get pregnant from a legitimate rape” and “If you have a business, you didn’t build that.” Neither is true, and to the extent that either might be just partially true, the information would be so useless that it’s a daunting exercise to figure out what the point could possibly be; they’re both blisteringly offensive to whoever might be in the situation under discussion. Both statements imply someone let their mouth get ahead of their brain a little. But one has to do with the economy, which would, in a rational world, take center stage morning, noon and night; the other one was spoken by a Republican. And so we are to be obsessed with the Republican.

No policy differentials under discussion here. None at all. We’re just having an argument about how these politicians feel. That, right there, is the thing we have to get away from — that is the big lie. The people who think this is really important, and must somehow be acted-upon, are the people who are trying to put together a country in which “everybody” has a place, a role to play…and yet, how exactly is this to be acted-upon?

Search-and-destroy, that’s how. Oh look, a politician who has spoken some politically-incorrect thoughts about rape and pregnancy. Abracadabra! He should go away…

Update: Looks like it worked…

b>Update: No, it didn’t…

“…unfortunately, while Democrats tend to shore up their ranks and defend their own, like a lioness defends her cub, Republicans tend to banish our wounded, like a leper to a Leper Colony.”

Yeah, that’s what grown ups do. We know the difference between right and wrong, between defending those that deserve it and casting aside those that don’t.

I’m glad we never were asked to defend the likes of Bubba Clinton (cigar anyone?), or John Edwards (Sorry Honey, you might be dying of cancer but I get to get some), Ted (The Swimmer) Kennedy.

See, I look at it differently. The Dems are responsible for the death of right and wrong. It’s all the same now.

No thanks.
- tim | 08/21/2012 @ 09:29
Yeah – to the analogy, we shouldn’t be nominating cubs, we should be nominating lions and lionesses.

The second biggest problem with that statement, in my book, was how far off it is medically. There is a thought that a female orgasm can help the sperm swim to their destination; so, the reverse of that is that would be tougher for that to happen. However, stating the reverse as emphatically as he did is misleading and misguided. As strange as it may seem for some women, who struggle to orgasm even when they are trying and want to, there are some for whom the physical stimulation is all that is necessary for that muscular response. If he is that far off on medicine and science, do we want him writing legislation dealing with those two issues?

This leads into what I consider the biggest problem with his statement – “legitimate rape.” What the heck is that? Is he implying that if a woman’s body responds to the physical stimulation that occurs during a rape, the resulting pregnancy is her fault? And, how in the world could you ever term something as personally invasive and destructive as rape as legitimate?

There is a case to be made for the lack of a rape exception in one’s opposition to abortion; he was nowhere close to getting it right. And yes, we don’t just care about the power, we want our people to have substance. Maybe one day, some of our politicians will realize this, and step up to be the leaders they need to be. Like tim, I have no desire to defend poor behavior or speech. Character is supposed to be one of our go-to issues when people say that there is no difference between the (R)s and the (D)s; without character, the rest of it doesn’t matter, because it won’t be consistent. (See Obama, Barack.)
- Daniel | 08/21/2012 @ 10:38
The irony is that he was right.
Five minutes on google brings up these factoids:

1)less than 5% of all rapes– actual, forceful coercions into sexual intercourse— result in pregnancy. And that’s the HIGH estimate. Several estimations come in at as low as 1%.
2)one of the reasons for this, a fairly major reason, is that the trauma of the event causes the woman’s hormonal cycles to go off the rails, causing her body to block or reject the pregnancy.

Basically, they want to crucify Akins for…. getting the facts more or less right, but flubbing a soundbite about it.
- rhjunior | 08/21/2012 @ 13:12
Well duh, Rh. It’s all they have left, since those Damned, Evil (them, not me) in utero pictures have made a mockery of their “not people” lies. And the rape excuse is going to go away once someone in power figures out that the “Morning After” pill is a better, more Humane solution. Much like one member of a firing squad is firing blanks, allowing all of the squad to believe they were not a killer, giving every woman who has been raped that pill will allow them to believe it was just a precaution. But where does that leave the people who have profited so much from Abortion?…….
- Robert Mitchell Jr. | 08/21/2012 @ 14:13
UNEXPECTEDLY, this seems to have “evolved” from inane biology, to the dog whistle
of “Legitimate Rape”.
SEE: (ie)The ORIGINAL Vagina Monologues.
It’s as if “Morning after regret”, celebrity semen “farming”, and outright false accusations could NEVER have transpired.

I’m willing to “review” Mr. Akins thesis, but (*ahem*) we’ll all FIRST have to accept it to see what’s in it, kinda’ like Anthro-Global Warming Carbon Credits, the International Sea “treaty”, and The President’s offerings to acadamia.
- CaptDMO | 08/22/2012 @ 13:10

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