Cranky Swamp Yankee

I too am pro-choice because, ultimately, it is your body. However, I think of abortion as a necessary evil and not as the ultimate solution to the problem of unwanted pregnancies. I have never killed anything in my life unless I ABSOLUTELY HAD TO. (Putting elderly pets to rest, slaughtering pigs to feed my family, etc.)THe killing that I've done has been ALWAYS with a heavy heart and with the resolution in my heart that it needed to be done. I believe that abortion is the taking of a life...whether that life is human or not is for others to decide.
If abortions are outlawed, it will not put a stop to them, it will just make them more dangerous.
In my humble, male opinion, abortion should be the last resort. The FIRST resort should be education and prevention.

Oops! I put this in the wrong place the first time! Here it is again.
I agree with Steve on this. And, since I know you personally, and don't really like you, I am totally AMAZED at what a good father you are! and, by the way, if you're not doing anything tomorrow night, Thayer, Jill, Mary and I are lifting at few at Uno's around 6:30.

These are great! Here are a couple from my sainted father: "You just missed another GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY to keep your goddamned mouth shut!" And, "Everybody is entitled to their own stupid opinions!"

I laughed until I cried BOTH times I watched this!!!!But I didn't see Cindy until the very end. She was the one showing her best side in the black and red swimsuit, right?

You've got MY vote, kid!
I've never been a big fan of Slow Joe Biden either, for pretty much the same reasons that you list.
I've really gotta stop reading these blogs during lunch time. You're referring to Obama as Jackass - Ill., and Biden as Hari-Plugs - Del. made me pass Coke Zero through my nose!

I can still remember when I first started going to kindergarten, Back when God was a kid!) I cried every day for a month! Poor, kindly, old Mrs. Dillion didn't know what to do with me!
Yesterday, my youngest grand daughter started kindergarten...and she had such a good time that she cried when she had to come home!

Don't you just LOVE technology?????? I'm sorry that you all that work, but it's kind of nice to hear that I'm not the ONLY one that pisses off the great Computer gods!!!

Good to have you back. I went back for a while, but I got so depressed over there that I had to give it up. I think mybloggers-ites are just a tad more open-minded.

Well, it's not actually a capital crime, but she DID break the law, and, by keeping the books, she HAS prevented others from reading them. In this day and age of "Nobody is to be held accountable for their own actions," it is refreshing to see that some jerks get what is coming to them.

Glad to hear that you're all right, Martin! I've been watching the news at night and thinking about you! 30 inches of rain!!!! Alligators swimming in the streets!!!! Sounds like a horror film!

Man, this stuff makes my head HURT! I'm not so sure middle-aged people are supposed to understand it.

Wow! Are you sure your ex didn't marry my ex? She sure sounds like Cruella to me!
Glad things ended up happily for your kids, but, man! I not so sure I would have backed down. (You're a better than I am!)

Wait a minute. I think I have a revelation here. You mean, if Blog X logs onto my blog, say, 10 times a month, that only counts as 1 technorati "point", where it would be 10 visitor "points." Is that right?

Sometimes, Eddie, I think you go out of your way to make me feel stupid.
My response to this post is a typical one for me when anything "computer" is involved...HUH?

I completely understand your anxiety and your fears. Although I've never written a movie script, I have written and had produced to stage plays, "The Cultivation of Succulents", about a middle-aged agoraphobic recluse who spends his life in an attic apartment of his mother's house, and "Blessed Event" about a family dealing with the emminent death of a kindly French-Canadian grandfather. (If you would like, I'll let you read them, when you've got the time. I'm even considering posting them on my blog as serials.) I've never been concerned about people stealing my work. (I've even posted short stories on other blogsites before the things were even published.)
My advise to you is, work on your script and stay away from what others are doing. That stuff is only a distraction, and you have no control over it anyway.
Use your energies for the creative process, and to hell with the rest of the world! If when you're finished, the studio tells you that the thing is too similar to another film, THEN you go about changing it.
Remember that there is nothing new under the sun. Shakepeare never had an original plot. Never. He always stole his plots from other plays, as did all the playwrites back then. The originality of a script is in the TELLING.
You know, when we first started investing in the stock market, my wife would pick up the business section every day to check out how things were going, and she would drive herself CRAZY with worry because of minor fluctuations.
I finally talked her out of it, and now she just checks the quarterly st statements and is a much happier person!
This comment is way too long.
Sorry!