No Runny Eggs

In case you missed Shoebox’s post below, go read it. There is an expansion or two based on what Ed Morrissey found, including a confirmation of the veracity of the YouTubed conversation Shoebox and Erick Erickson embedded:

Guy Benson not only tracked down the audio to the Chicago Tribune, but he came up with this little gem from the transcripts of the Illinois Legislature (specifically, pages 32-34, from the 4/22/2002 session):

[T]he only plausible rationale, to my mind, for this legislation would be if you had a suspicion that a doctor, the attending physician, who has made the assessment that this is a nonviable fetus and that, let’s say for the purposes of the mother’s health, is being "” that "” that labor is being induced, that that physician (a) is going to make the wrong assessment and (b) if the physician discovered, after the labor had been induced, that, in fact, he made an error, and in fact this was not a nonviable fetus but, in fact, a live child, that the physician, of his own accord or her own accord, would not try to exercise the sort of medical procedures and practices that would be involved in saving that child.

Now, if "” if you think that there are possibilities that doctors would not do that, then maybe this bill makes sense, but I "” I suspect and my impression is, is that the Medical Society suspects that doctors feel that they would already be under that obligation, that they would already be making these determinations, and that essentially adding a "” an additional doctor who the has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments is really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion.

Now, if that’s the case –and "” and I know some of us feel very strongly one way or the other on that issue "” that’s fine, but I think it’s important to understand that this issue ultimately is about abortion and not live births. Because if these children are being born alive, I, at least, have confidence that a doctor who is in that room is going to make sure they’re looked after.

Ed goes on to point out that the above statement came after it was revealed that the doctors at the mis-named Christ Hospital were allowing babies born alive during abortion procedures to die without any care.

To steal from another movie…

Denver, we have a problem. We have a main bus B undervolt. We’ve got a lot of thruster activity here, Denver. There’s another master alarm, Denver. We’ve got a computer restart. We’ve got a ping light. We’ve got multiple cautions and warnings, Denver. We’ve gotta reset and restart.

We Shoe’s have become Olympic junkies!   Mrs. Shoe and I like to see the skill required for each event, even the more arcane like trampoline or ping pong.   Thing 1 and Thing 2 have been taking in every minute they are allowed to watch.   This is really the first Olympics they’ve paid attention to.   They  are mesmerized by the sports that they’ve never seen before.

Monday night’s broadcast had an event that we, and many of you, will remember for a long time to come.   Lolo Jones ran in one of the 100 meter hurdle heats.   She was a heavy favorite, expected to take gold in the Event.   While slow out of the block, Jones quickly caught and passed the other competitors.   She was about to blow the field away when at the second to last hurdle, her foot hit the hurdle, she lost stride and finished seventh, out of the finals.

After the event, NBC stuck a camera in  Lolo Jones’  face and asked “How do you feel?”  

Jones was obviously numb from the event.    With her mind reeling, Jones managed a response that applies not only to an Olympic hurdler but to many, many situations in life:

“It’s the hurdles. If you can’t get over all 10, you can’t be the champion.”

Wednesday, Zogby released a poll showing John McCain with a 5 point lead amongst likely voters. The poll shows Barack Obama losing significant ground in all of his core groups; Democrats, under the age of 35, women and voters with incomes under $50K.

After taking body blows for the past two weeks over his response to the Russian invasion of Georgia and his performance at the Saddleback Civil Forum, Barack Obama seeked  maintain the Marquess of Queensberry rules and reassure his acolytes while warning McCain and said that McCain:

doesn’t know what he’s up against!

A month ago Barack Obama was ahead by 7 points and in Germany finishing his “World Tour.” He was the toast of Europe. Today, Barack Obama may need to look over his shoulder just to ensure he gets out of the Democrat convention with the nomination.

Rather than touring Europe as if he was already the President of the United States, Barack Obama could have benefited from Lolo Jones’ wisdom. From here on out Barack should remember:

“It’s the hurdles. If you can’t get over all 10, you can’t be the champion.”