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Feb. 9th, 2011 12:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* Today, all four of them gathered at the time I generally set up the sick kitty tapas bar. They are going to be so bummed when I run out of ingredients. Mache's last pill is four AM. The cold she caught while bacteria weakened is starting to improve. She's still sneezing, but the frequency is less and there are fewer extended sneezing fits. Just before bed, the Butt went over to his favorite tank and clawed at the outside to try to dig through to his nemesis the pleco. Hector is back to being a Princess over feedings. LM is eying the throne. Ah, normality. I'll know things are really back to normal when I entice Mache into sitting on the pettin throne by the computer, but each little step towards returning household rhythms is one more degree of relief for me.
* In a normal month I don't talk much about Mache. I think this is for much the same reason Mal doesn't talk about Zoe. She's my right hand cat, intelligent, competent, tough, brave, loyal, a leader of cats. She seldom complains and only to good purpose. If Mache is Zoe, Hector is River for obvious reasons if you read this journal at all. (I'd cast LM as Jayne, and if the Butt were brighter he'd make a good Wash, easy going, likable, fond of play.)
* Let's talk about Congressperson Pitts' war on women. The bill allows hospitals to let women die horrible deaths from ectopic pregnancies among other things. Protecting life means literally killing women in the name of a bundle of cells that have zero chance of surviving. I can only conclude that in Mr. Pitts' eyes, women are not truly alive and therefore not worth saving.
* Then there's the Republican House bill that is trying to redefine rape so incest and roofies don't count. I'm don't know for sure why Republican congress folk are so keen to decriminalize roofies and raping children, but I'm a little worried about the safety of women and children around the bill sponsors and supporters now. Maybe they didn't think it all the way through to practical applications, but it's really creepy to have elected officials argue this sort of thing.
* Mr Boehner keeps claiming that their first priority is jobs, yet the repeal of Health care reform would harm small businesses and thus kill jobs. I'm not sure why they think letting women die in emergency medical situations would create jobs, but it just looks like killing random women to me. I can only think the jobs it would promote are in the funeral industry, but is that really worth the price of all those lives? Maybe that's how killing health care reform is meant to create jobs. I guess they are hoping funeral industry expansion will balance the jobs lost in small businesses, but I doubt it would work, and again, this requires a whole lot of people to die unnecessarily.
* Someone else's take on it: http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/7502490.html?style=mine
* The Vicious Middle: http://lettersfromtitan.com/2011/02/09/the-vicious-middle/
* In a normal month I don't talk much about Mache. I think this is for much the same reason Mal doesn't talk about Zoe. She's my right hand cat, intelligent, competent, tough, brave, loyal, a leader of cats. She seldom complains and only to good purpose. If Mache is Zoe, Hector is River for obvious reasons if you read this journal at all. (I'd cast LM as Jayne, and if the Butt were brighter he'd make a good Wash, easy going, likable, fond of play.)
* Let's talk about Congressperson Pitts' war on women. The bill allows hospitals to let women die horrible deaths from ectopic pregnancies among other things. Protecting life means literally killing women in the name of a bundle of cells that have zero chance of surviving. I can only conclude that in Mr. Pitts' eyes, women are not truly alive and therefore not worth saving.
* Then there's the Republican House bill that is trying to redefine rape so incest and roofies don't count. I'm don't know for sure why Republican congress folk are so keen to decriminalize roofies and raping children, but I'm a little worried about the safety of women and children around the bill sponsors and supporters now. Maybe they didn't think it all the way through to practical applications, but it's really creepy to have elected officials argue this sort of thing.
* Mr Boehner keeps claiming that their first priority is jobs, yet the repeal of Health care reform would harm small businesses and thus kill jobs. I'm not sure why they think letting women die in emergency medical situations would create jobs, but it just looks like killing random women to me. I can only think the jobs it would promote are in the funeral industry, but is that really worth the price of all those lives? Maybe that's how killing health care reform is meant to create jobs. I guess they are hoping funeral industry expansion will balance the jobs lost in small businesses, but I doubt it would work, and again, this requires a whole lot of people to die unnecessarily.
* Someone else's take on it: http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/7502490.html?style=mine
* The Vicious Middle: http://lettersfromtitan.com/2011/02/09/the-vicious-middle/