The Boulder Fires 12/31/2021

      

   As most of you know, I am a graduate of The University of Colorado Boulder, class of 1965.  This would make me an expert on the presently burning Boulder Fire.  With the 100 mph winds in the area and the persistent drought, the fire itself is hard to follow.  I have no vehicle capable of sustaining that speed.

   The real threat to the University is to the athletic stadiums and The Sink (drinking hole).  I worked at The Sink for my Jr. & Sr. years at Colorado and as you well know this establishment is the #2 beer outlet in the nation (primarily Coors, a local product).  Ron De Santis with his U of Miami has the #1 spot.  With athletics being placed before academics in our state institutions of higher learning, across the nation, you can be assured that the stadiums will be up and running long before classrooms will be restored.  And if you are worried about The Sink, rest assured, The University of Colorado, long claimed to be the #1 party school in America, will quickly be up and running.  If you don’t have 3.2% beer available at your state’s universities, you might look into it.  Alcohol consumption can rival the Lottery for state income.  Help drinking become the #2 sport at your university.  Do it for God and Country.

Keep Athletics & Entertainment Strong, Old Buz

“I don’t listen to the experts.  I listen to my gut.” – Donald Trump, 45^th President of The U.S.

P.S. Thoughts and prayers are a far better way to handle the drought than desalinization would be.  I.e. Go after the effects not the cause or cure.  “God Bless America”  On the pandemic: "Thank "Q" for sharing."

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Who Are We?

 

   Our US Senate just passed an annual military spending bill for $768.2 billion, over ¾ of a trillion dollars, sent to it by the House of Representatives.  It is ready to be signed by our president and he most likely will sign it.  You see, it truly has bipartisan support.  85% of the Senate voted for this military budget.  It is over $24 billion more than the Pentagon requested.  The Senate can’t come together on voting rights, healthcare or education.  Each side of the aisle votes like a rubber stamp, against the other, but on annual military spending, it is all cum-by-yah in our government.  Why is that when we currently spend more than the next 10 nations combined on our military?  Democrats and Republican representatives sure love military spending.  We increased the amount after pulling out of a 20 year shooting war.  One of the reasons given for the Afghanistan pull out was “military spending.”  Is it possible that in the first five years of that war we had accomplished our reason for being there and for the next 15 years, the purpose was military spending?

   When President Eisenhower left office in 1961 he warned of “The Military/Industrial Complex” threatening the nation.  It no longer threatens.  It is our nation.  For those of you born after 1961, it seems normal and therefore perfectly OK.  How does the above vote jive with the concept of a “Christian Nation?”  Could it be that we are delusional in our national emphasis on maintaining a giant military?  In that respect, is our nation morally blind and perhaps not “One Nation Under God?”  On the other hand, the first ¾ of The Holy Bible, a popular mythological novel, presents a militaristic God, but the last ¼ talks about a “Prince of Peace.” 

   Perhaps on this eve of brotherly love we could rejoice and be thankful for our elected representatives coming together, in a non-partisan way to keep America free (but not necessarily with all of us voting).  There will always be time to build back better and we can worry about maintenance of infrastructure tomorrow.

Christmas Cheers, Old Buz   12/24/2021

Abortion & The Law

   There are mediating factors between abortion and the law.  The two primary ones are morality and science.  Semantics tend to get involved too.  Some might call the termination of a pregnancy a murder.  I wouldn’t strenuously object to the use of the term.  It is the willful termination of a human life.  I hate to admit it, but the Catholics got it right on this one.  “Life begins at the time of conception.”  The embryo is certainly alive and is it not the first stage of a human individual?   Put out enough religion based moral decrees and sooner or later you are bound to get one right.

   The embryo, fetus, unborn child, baby are all the same critter.  They are stages of development.  The same is true of the twenty year old water skier and the eighty year old in assisted living.  It is the same human in a different stage of life’s journey.  And how is it different to end this human life at 13 weeks than it is at 25weeks?  The mother and her doctor are deciding to end a human life in either case.  An embryo is not a chicken or a lizard.  The acorn is part of the life story of the mighty oak.  Same critter, at a different stage in its development.

   Fetal viability is an odd concept to be used in laws governing abortion rights.  For one thing, ending a life at 19 weeks isn’t a whole lot different than ending one at 20 weeks.  For another what does viability refer to?  A baby born in a well-equipped hospital can be born premature, in the last trimester and still have a good chance of survival.  Not so good for a baby born at home and delivered by a mid-wife.   I believe that this early birth technology will be developed to a point where an embryo can be on high-tech life support through gestation.  What will that do to the definition of “fetal viability”?

   When the pro-abortion women claim something like, “My body.  My choice.”  I believe they are somewhat incorrect.  They are housing and feeding another human being.  That is who they claim the decision of life or death over.  Perhaps they have that right.  Not because it is their body, but because it is their possession and they have the right to end its life.  A woman surely has a better right to kill her unborn than a man has to fly half way around the world to kill a stranger, afforded by his membership in the military.  I would guess that the best captain to guide a moral rudder would be the half-bred child of The Golden Rule and reason.

   So, to me, the best three guiding factors for considering an abortion would be:  is the child wanted, is the child the result of a rape and what are the pending health ramifications for the mother and the child in child birth?  There needs to be the nationally legal, over the counter availability of a cheap “morning after” pill.  This pill would result in the least guilt for the woman and the least pain for an unlikely embryo.  On the morning after, there would be very little embryo awareness even if there were an embryo.  Possibly less awareness of pain than grass has when you mow your lawn.

Merry Christmas, Old Buz       12/03/2021      

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