The Canadian Medical Association voted Wednesday (“by a wide margin”, according to the Edmonton Sun) to come out against C-484, The Unborn Victims of Crime Act:
Dr. Robert Ouellet, who assumed the CMA presidency yesterday, said the physician group opposes the bill.
“It’s not about abortion, being for or against abortion,” Ouellet said. “It’s being against making doctors criminals.”
Ouellet said the CMA has a legal paper suggesting the bill, if passed, could make a doctor who performs an abortion vulnerable to charges.
Also, from the ‘ruthlessly flogging parody’s lifeless carcass’ file, John Hinderaker (h/t Jeff Fecke):
The latest campaign kerfuffle is Obama’s effort to make hay out of John McCain’s inability to tell a reporter how many houses he owns. McCain mumbled something about condos and said the reporter should talk to his wife. Predictably, Obama is trying to spin this exchange as showing that McCain is “out of touch.”
I can relate, though. For example, if a reporter asked me how many ties I own, there’s no way I could answer. Just like McCain, I’d tell him he has to ask my wife. Likewise if someone wants to know how many Wii games my kids have.
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Touche, I guess. The truth is that McCain isn’t out of touch with “ordinary people” because he’s rich, he’s out of touch with his own domestic arrangements because he cares little about material things, and for many years has devoted his extraordinary energies not to enjoying his wife’s money, but to serving the American people. Given the number of nights he’s spent in hotels or on military bases over the last few years, it’s no wonder he hasn’t seen much of his wife’s condos.
Apparently the wingnuts are now hell-bent on adding ‘logic’ and ‘argumentation’ to the post-9/11 rhetorical body count. (What, y’all thought they’d stop with slaying parody, irony and reality?) Alas, it seems Hindrocket didn’t get the official McCain campaign memo re: generic response to criticism before posting–noun, verb, POW:
“This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years—in prison,” referring to the prisoner of war camp that McCain was in during the Vietnam War.
I’m amazed someone hasn’t yet come up with a drinking game for superfluous McCain POW references.
bastard.logic 