Viet-Justice

The ND Legislature has voted to give a fertalized egg the rights of a person.

The bill declares that “any organism with the genome of homo sapiens” is a person protected by rights granted by the North Dakota Constitution and state laws.

The bill passed 51-41 and is sponsored  Republican Dan Ruby.  Like many Republicans he attempts to get votes from “the core” of the party, unfortunately he has opened up a can of worms that doesn’t help out the Republican party.

“Human embryo” means all human beings from the beginning of the
embryonic period of their biological development through eight weeks,
irrespective of age, health, function, physical dependency, or method of
reproduction, whether in vivo or in vitro.

So harming a “human embryo” is the same as harming a person according to this clown.  This effectively means that birth control is off the menu in North Dakota since you are bringing harm to the embryo by net letting it implant in the uterus.  It would also ban fertility treatments since some of the fertalized eggs are discarded or simply fail to implant.  The creation of a “human embryo” with the knowledge that you may not have a successful implantation may be harming that embryo.

The state shall naturalize all preborn persons and shall afford to them all the
privileges and immunities of state citizenship guaranteed in section 21 of article I of
the Constitution of North Dakota, except that the state is not required to include
preborn children in state and local censuses

Rep. Ruby should be glad North Dakota does not border Mexico.  Mention of the word “citizenship” for the preborn would bring thousands of illegals across the border who don’t get the meaning of what is being accomplished here.

The people over at Office of Strategic Influence had an interesting thought.  Since an embryo is a person, does that mean that uploading your ultrasound to Facebook to share with all your friends is Child Pornography?  You are taking a picture of a nude “person” under the age of 18 and distributing it on the Internet.  Unintended consequences and as idiotic as some prosecutors are expect someone to make a name for themselves by charging people for distribution of child pornography.

The right to life is the paramount right of a person. The right to life is a more
fundamental right of a preborn child than the mother’s right to liberty or pursuit
of happiness, which does not include the right to kill other people. In no way
does a child’s right to life interfere with a mother’s right to life.

Whoa! Here come the Christian Taliban!  The right to life of a preborn child is greater than the mother’s right to liberty or pursuit of happiness.  There is no logic in this piece of legislation.  The pursuit of liberty and happiness is paramount.  Being stuck with a parasite for 9 months then a leech for 18 years interferes with both.  Logically speaking, you can always make another which means the woman has higher priority than any preborn.  She can always make another and we would assume that she is currently contributing to society, whereas a preborn has at least 15 years before they begin doing anything useful due to silly laws.  At least we Asians start contributing at an earlier age in our home countries.

This is clearly in line with something the Taliban would say, therefore we must oppose any legislation that puts our government on a sympathetic track with the terrorists we are fighting against.  Women fought a long time for rights in this country and anything that reduces the importance of women, or those of us that are already here for that matter, is sympathizing with Islamic terrorist philosophy which treats women as less than goats.  The idea that a state representative would commit to writing the idea that freedom and the pursuit of happiness is secondary is frightening and a sign that our elected officials do not have the interests of the American people in mind.  People being those of us that contribute to society and pay the politicians salary.

In a counterpoint to Brother Grimm’s bad argument for socialized healthcare I would like to point out that the reasoning behind his bad argument are flawed. First of all Government should be minimalist and all of the Libertarian flaws that he points out regarding affordable roads and police forces are foolish. In is an inevitable fact every family will become more wealthy over time. I must qualify that “family” is meant in the Asian sense of the word to mean the entire clan, not just a mother, father, and immediate children. When wealth is pooled across an entire clan it is possible to afford private police forces and private road repair. Just look at many Asian communities and you will find private policing and private funding paving roads more often than the government does.

Back to the story of paying for other people’s health care there are many reasons why the government should not get their grubby hands on our clan’s money to pay for some other clan’s problems. First is the feasibility issue. In a clan structure you are indebted to your relatives to chip in where they chipped in for you. For example, if your 3 uncles helped pay for your college, then you need to chip in to help pay for their children’s college. Since you have no control over how many children they have had you might be chipping in quite a bit. You also have to look at the cost of private nursing when your elders become too old to take care of themselves. That is quite a burden on the individual and I’m not quite sure how one can afford to take care of their own family, pay for private police and roads, contribute to charitable causes and pay higher taxes to cover people that aren’t related to you and who aren’t going to be contributing to the success of your family.

Military Generals must make life and death decisions every day. CEO’s must decide what is worth it to the business. As an individual you are a General and CEO for your immediate family and if you are among your elder council you are the Board of Directors for your entire clan. Socialized medicine has no place in a world where you can ask The Board for help with your medical expenses. In addition as CEO of your household you have the responsibility to decide on the proper course of action. In the case of Tyler, his parents chose to engage in deficit spending based on human emotion and hope that things would end up ok. They ended up losing in the end and have a huge debt burden to cover now. How is this my problem? Is it my uncle’s problem? My 5 year old 1^st cousin’s problem? No, we aren’t related to the family in question, therefore we owe them nothing unless it is out of charity. As rulers of the household the parents could have came to the conclusion that there was no ROI to be had by spending money on treatment after the first round. Perhaps they may have opted out of treatment entirely or tried holistic medicine. Sometimes the responsible thing to do is say that treatment is not worth the burden it will place on our checkbook and our relative’s checkbook. Responsible does not always equal kind or fair, but life isn’t fair. Get over it.

Grimm is totally off base when he says it is time to step up.

If we are the nation that we all say that we are, it is time to step up, pitch in, make sure your friends and neighbors aren’t left to the tender mercies of Social Darwinism and come up with a solution. Insurance companies aren’t going to do it. Doctors and hospitals aren’t going to do it. We have to do it as one nation, under God (or Allah, Buddha, Vishnu, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Insert the deity of your choice here), indivisible, with liberty and justice for all, not just those who can afford it.

Darwinism is a necessity that human society has attempted to eliminate. The animal kingdom has gains and losses and attempts to tamper with the balance have resulted in the need to cull the herd. Deer populations have exploded with the elimination of natural predatory forces. As a result we have licensed slaughters of deer referred to as hunting season. Don’t think that communist countries magically solve all of society’s woes. Government run homeless shelters sometimes overflow leaving some people out on the street in the cold. What happens when you have too many people to take care of? In the Eastern Bloc communist party youth sometimes took to setting homeless people on fire to reduce the consumption on the system. That may not happen in America literally, but it shows that once the system is overloaded measures must be taken to bring it back into equilibrium. This may mean reducing coverage or creating a shortage, meaning long lines for critical care. The latter means that the government would deliberately create a shortage so many people would die off before money is spent on their treatment. That would be the same as figuratively setting people on fire, so you can say we’re a bit better off than the USSR was. In modern China the people have to buy their own insurance because the government coverage is useless. There is minimal government coverage for general practitioners and if you need a specialist you have to cover that yourself. That’s modern socialism for you. With economic theory the opportunity cost is what you give up to get something else. What socialized medicine does is it takes free will out of the individual’s opportunity cost analysis. There is no reason to give up some of your family’s wealth and comparative advantage to assist someone else. This is especially true when the world is facing a population crisis. We need more Darwinism and other population controls, not less. By maintaining the status quo we are maintaining an environmentally friendly platform. Most liberals are perfectly fine with abortion, but want to expend tons of resources once the child is born. Conservatives on the other hand are likely to take the opposite approach and expend tons of resources protecting an unborn human, but spend little on its development after it is born. We need to mesh both of these philosophies to reduce the population before it goes up and to get rid of some of the population that is here.

There comes a time it is not possible to justify the costs associated with a particular situation, no matter what that situation is. A company will not expend millions of dollars on a losing venture and will stop funding the effort once it is apparent that no amount of money thrown at the problem can turn the situation around. Insurance is referred to as a vehicle of Risk Transference. What is left over is residual risk; however, many people choose not to quantify those risks and choose to spend themselves into oblivion without stopping at a hard number. Socialized health care will result in shifting that decision out to a government bureaucrat who will be making those same life and death choices for you based on how much money is left in the pot. The situation is exactly the same after introducing socialized medicine. Since the situation will be exactly the same in the end, except that personal liberty will be reduced, and that we will be fighting against Darwinism when the human race is overpopulating the planet, there seems to be no reason to switch philosophies regarding the care of your fellow man. Therefore I believe it is ok to say, “Tough Shit” unlike Brother Grimm. That’s not to say I wouldn’t be swayed in the future. Check back in with me when we reduce the planet’s population by a minimum of 200 million.

Studies have shown that heated seats in some luxury cars may impair sperm production. It is too early to draw any conclusions, but this is promising news. We should do more studies into this to determine if all Catholics and Muslims should have to own luxury cars. Winter temperatures in Europe and North America favor using Catholics as early test subjects, while the Middle East presents more of a challenge. Night temperatures can be quite chilly at various times during the year, therefore we will have a smaller window to test the hypothesis.

This is very exciting. Hybrids truly are the future of luxury automobiles. By not emitting greenhouse gases these vehicles contribute to global cooling. Combine global cooling with heated seats, which hopefully results in reduced population and we have a very green vehicle indeed. Thank you Lexus and Rolls Royce!

Scientists have discovered a possible cure for brain cancer in scorpion venom. This venom is from the Deathstalker scorpion which is a highly dangerous species. Some of the toxins seem to bind to the receptors on cancer cells while leaving the other cells in the body undamaged. Note that only some of the toxins are not dangerous. I believe we need to do further study into the benefits of Deathstalker venom. Fortunately the scorpion is found in the right place to conduct this research.

L. quinquestriatus can be found in desert and scrubland habitats ranging from North Africa through to the Middle East. Countries where it lives include Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Mali, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Iran, Pakistan, Quatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

I think that the population of these countries, with the exception of one, would make great test subjects for scorpion venom. In order to save on research funds we should just use the venom straight and on a large segment of the population. After all a mind is a terrible thing.

Over 6000 Chinese children are sick after consuming contaminated baby formula. The food products were contaminated with melamine which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of dogs and cats in the US after corrupt officials turned a blind eye to spiking pet food with the chemical. It’s nice to see that Karma does exist in this world. No word on how many executives and government officials are going to face the firing squad.

The Bush administration has proposed new rules allowing doctors to refuse to perform work and get paychecks for being total Gen X slackers.

Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said that health care professionals should not face retaliation from employers or from medical societies because they object to abortion.

“Freedom of conscience is not to be surrendered upon issuance of a medical degree,” said Leavitt.

It is obvious that Mr. Leavitt has never had a job before. Freedom of conscience need not be surrendered upon the issuance of any degree. Unfortunately he does not understand the fact that when you enter into an employment agreement your freedoms end. You have a contractual agreement that says you will do whatever your employer says. If you do not like the job then find another employer. This new policy says it is perfectly OK for any worker who does not want to do a specific task to go on boycott. This is unacceptable to any normal employer who is attempting to run a business and turn a profit. If it is good enough for doctors than it is certainly good enough for auto mechanics, teachers, and any other occupation.

What is even more dangerous than a poor policy is the fact that our government is encouraging anti-capitalistic policies. It is no wonder that our president is friends with the communist Vladimir Putin. Americans need to understand that getting a job and bringing home a paycheck is essential to their survival. Refusing to go to work will result in getting fired. If you feel that your employer is going to ask something of you such as performing an abortion, working weekends, or putting in more than 50 hours a week then you need to find another job or move to France. This is where Asians and other immigrants hold the advantage. We are willing to do what ever it takes to get the job done without questioning the moral implications of it. Until Americans learn how to go to work without bringing their own personal morality or opinions into it they will forever take a backseat to immigrants who understand the true value of attaining success.

A recent study has shown that high concentrations of soy foods results in reduced sperm count among test subjects. Anecdotally this does not really a appear to be a problem in Asian countries. If one were to look at the population of China then this would be quite apparent. More than likely any negative effects were bred out of the Asian population centuries ago. The studies appear to provide us with some insights in solving some of the greatest problems the world faces today. Overpopulation is one problem that we face. One group of people we can blame is religious fundamentalists. I’m speaking mainly of the Catholics and the Muslims. By banning contraception the Catholics have increased the typical family size to numbers beyond reason. This is resulted in famine and suffering in many parts of the catholic world. Muslims marry a large number of wives thus have a larger number of children. The fact that these two groups breed at an alarming rate is something that the rest of us should be deeply concerned over. The Asian solution is quite clear. For the good of the planet we should embark upon a campaign to provide a limitless supply of soy products to the Middle East and Latin America. By wiping out hunger now we will wipe out hunger in the future by reducing the population of two very troublesome groups that do not play well with others in their ecosystems. By reducing the population of Catholics we stand a better chance of saving the rain forest. By reducing the population of Muslims we reduce the number of suicide bombers which is a great thing for everyone.

According to a new study 50% of gun deaths are not homicides, but suicides.

Suicides accounted for 55 percent of the nation’s nearly 31,000 firearm deaths in 2005, the most recent year for which statistics are available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That’s good to know that the recent Supreme Court ruling is not going to affect 50% of the people that are shot. Since we are supposedly having a recession (I’m not convinced), then fewer people mean more jobs and wealth for the rest of us. Fewer people also mean less pollution. If the Democrats want to prove that they are the environmentally friendly party then they should strive to put more guns on the street. That’s the kind of environmentally friendly platform I can go for.

Middle Eastern terrorists are all the rage these days. They get all of the press attention and for good reason. There is; however, another group of terrorists out there. These are right wing Christian religious terrorists that blow up buildings in the name of God.

Since 1977, casualties from this war include seven murders, 17 attempted murders, three kidnappings, 152 assaults, 305 completed or attempted bombings and arsons, 375 invasions, 482 stalking incidents, 380 death threats, 618 bomb threats, 100 acid attacks, and 1,254 acts of vandalism, according to the National Abortion Federation.

We should not forget that terrorists despise freedom. Christian Taliban believe that their religion is the central force in the universe and that women should submit to the will of God. But being religious nut jobs they are none too bright.

After 9/11, Planned Parenthood and other abortion rights groups received 554 envelopes containing white powder and messages like: “You have been exposed to anthrax. … We are going to kill all of you.” They were signed by the Army of God

So, you’re going to mail anthrax to a clinic where there are pregnant women? Way to go Jimbo! I’m guessing if the pregnant woman were to die that would make you a baby killer, no different than a doctor performing an abortion or a drunk driver running down a pregnant mother. I never thought that Army of God could be responsible for promoting infanticide, but guess again! This must mean that the Christian Right must be angry at the abortion doctors for beating them to the kill. They don’t even have the decency to blow themselves up in Muslim neighborhoods which must also mean they’re against us in the War on Terror.