1. The Missus Old Retired Petty Officer gets into LAX tonight at a scheduled arrival of 2120 hours local. The Allegiant Air MD-82 is a non stop from Wichita Mid-Continent Airport. She has been at the Daughter and the Gang's visiting and taking care of certain things. Glad to have her back. After almost 27 years and the seagoing part being almost 17 years ago, not liking the separation. Unless it paid the bills like the ballast trains did.
2. Scott Roeder will be sentenced today for the murder of noted late term abortion provider George Tiller. Nola Foulston, the prosecutor, is going to ask for a hard 50. Roeder is 52. His days will be spent in a Kansas Correctional Facility to be named later. Sucks to be him. Regardless of how I feel about abortion, cold-blooded, pre-meditated murder is what it is. He admitted it. And he shot Dr. Tiller in church for crying out loud. Bag him and tag him, Nola.
We lived in Wichita for over eleven years. The subject of Dr. Tiller and abortion rights, anti-abortion rights and all is a testy one.
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Absence DOES make the heart grow fonder, don't it? ;-)
What Men Want
http://toylit.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-men-want-todays-news-poem-jan-29.html
"My honest belief was that if I didn't do something they would continue to die."
-Scott Roeder
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60S4UB20100129
The ancient women, wise with feral ways,
Passed matrilineal traditions down
From ape to human—knowing men could slay,
With lust, their daughters. Deaths wore bridal gowns
Before connubial beds became their graves
So brewing remedies these mothers saved
All humankind. Resentful, men thought slaves
Were made of them. He mastered war and raved
Against his mother—burning her to ash.
Denounced as midwife: now we call her witch.
Their wives and daughters—mothers died—the clash
Of sexes won. Thus Woman, made a 'bitch,'
To breed and grieve perhaps before the next.
The men would prise the fruit, more sons, from wombs
That rarely lasted forty years. But text
Reflected changing norms. In time, this grooms
A kinder sort of man who seeks a peer—
If only theoretically. Rights,
If slowly, catch the rhetoric—so dear
To many—bringing new and awful blights.
I think I know this killer's thoughts, this guy
Who shot that Kansas doc. He felt betrayed
By fellow man: resolved to make him die
And eased his guilt with Bible quotes. Unswayed,
The jury found enough to lock him up.
A shame, because a woman now, receives
In joy or rage a life from carnal tup
That soon awaits abortionist's coarse sieves;
Because she knows she really wants what men
Desire. To lust and grow and kill and feel—
Not nothing—just flushing. She wants what men
Desire: to fuck and kill and never heal;
To harvest death for medicines and soups
Or trashed in plastic bags in cans on stoops.
http://toylit.blogspot.com
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