Again, as I stumbled around the internet world, I came across this sci-fi short story. As I read it, I thought to myself “What a perfect example of liberalism!” The elements that drew me to that conclusion:
1) A crack- and alcohol- addicted single mother.
2) A baby in need of care.
3) The mother is not encouraged nor forced to tend to her motherly duties.
4) A surrogate is used instead of the real mother, and society is okay with this.
5) When the real authority figure (mother) is told of a problem, the authority figure avoids taking responsibility.
6) As a matter of fact, she forces responsibility onto another entity.
7) The government inserts itself into the structure of the family unit, assuming that it knows best.
8) Par of the solution involves scaring the heck out of people, specifically little babies, in this case.
9) The solution is inadequate.
10) When a real, valid attempt is made to rectify the situation, panties all over the nation go into wad mode.
11) The one trying to fix the situation is blamed for creating a problem, instead of the crack head mother.
12) Society is fine with simulated love as a replacement for real love.
13) The only entity with any sense and logic is not a real person.
14) When the situation becomes known, protests break out, albeit protest gatherings of an electronic and spectator variety.
15) Some of the solutions involved eliminating the robot, who offended their sensibilities, and not the irresponsible mother.
16) Lawyers inserted themselves into a situation that didn’t really require them to solve a problem.
17) Crack mom sued the robot company for doing its job.
18) Instead of solving a real problem, society decided to try to hide it and build a false sense of self-esteem: “This incident did not affect the doctrine that supplying crack mothers with household robots had been a success. It significantly reduced the time they spent on the streets, and having clean apartments improved their morale somewhat. ”
19) A news interview was scheduled, and the actress doing the interview kept repeating her question, trying to get the answer she wanted, and not the answer that reflected the truth. What’s that movie quote? “You can’t handle the truth!”
20) I’ll let the final few paragraphs make the last point:
The incident increased the demand for actual child-care robots, which were allowed five years later. The consequences were pretty much what the opponents had feared. Many children grew up more attached to their robot nannies than to their actual parents.
This was mitigated by making the robot nannies somewhat severe and offering parents advice on how to compete for their children’s love. This sometimes worked. Moreover, the robots were programmed so that the nicer the parents were, the nicer the robot would be, still letting the parents win the contest for the children’s affections. This often worked.
I found one sentence to be particularly humorous: “Through the magic of modern audio systems children don’t hear the bad language, and women can only hear it if they assure R781 that they are not ladies. ” Oh, and the obvious over use of polling.
This story just begs to be dissected and discussed. There’s already so much of this reflected in our society already. Are we headed down this road now? I think the answer is obvious. But this whole story is a nice stick-in-the-eye to the left. The funniest part of the whole tale is that the lefties won’t understand exactly what this story is about.
Good morning Hamsters. And it is a good morning in Wisconsin. Alberta Darling wins her recall election, making it 4 Pubbies to 2 Dems winning. Control of the Senate stays in Pubbie hands. The Dems were as usual howling about Waukesha County being late with election results–that’s cheating ya know ’cause they don’t know how many bogus votes they have… Read more »
Update: At 12:30 ET, News 3 in Wisconsin calls the race for Darling. The GOP retains control of the senate, 17/16, with two shots to increase that advantage next week. After months of agitation over the collective bargaining law, the supreme court election, and now the recalls, they haven’t regained control of anything. Now they have to go for the… Read more »
#89 – But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Darling WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#89 hamous
Just the same as with Healthulus. The only way to get it repealed is to get majorities in both houses and someone other than the current chief executive.
#66 ST, I know the folks who own the training stable. Jennifer Goslin’s mother Gwen and father John were my riding teachers when we first moved to Houston in 1969. Jennifer was a toddler then. Many of our horse riding friends over they years started out at her parents’ barn west of Houston. The loss of dear horses is so… Read more »
Bummer. Looks like they’re gonna get the three they need to take back control of the WI senate. Couple of things upcoming may indicate its a short-lived victory. Two Dems face recall elections next week. And Walker signed a redistricting plan into law tonight that would probably favor Republicans in 2012. Plus there’s no way the Dem senate can reverse… Read more »
Getting closer!!!!!!!
AUG. 9 RECALL ELECTION RESULTS
8/9/2011
Last updated at 10:19 p.m.
8th Senate District – 63% reporting
49% – Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills (Inc.)
51% – Rep. Sandy Pasch, D-Whitefish Bay
18th Senate District – 87% reporting
50% – Sen. Randy Hopper, R-Fond du Lac (Inc.)
50% – Jessica King, D-Oshkosh
AUG. 9 RECALL ELECTION RESULTS 8/9/2011 Last updated at 10:10 p.m. 2nd Senate District – 82% reporting 58% – Sen. Robert Cowles, R-Allouez (Incumbent) – x 42% – Nancy Nusbaum, D-De Pere 8th Senate District – 43% reporting 44% – Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills (Inc.) 56% – Rep. Sandy Pasch, D-Whitefish Bay 10th Senate District – 75% reporting 58%… Read more »
Sad stories today about pet birds and much-loved horses, deceased in fires.
Speaking of birds…
13 exotic birds killed in FL house fire. I wonder how tasty they were?
AUG. 9 RECALL ELECTION RESULTS 8/9/2011 Last updated at 9:40 p.m. 2nd Senate District – 82% reporting 58% – Sen. Robert Cowles, R-Allouez (Incumbent) – x 42% – Nancy Nusbaum, D-De Pere 8th Senate District – 39% reporting 44% – Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills (Inc.) 56% – Rep. Sandy Pasch, D-Whitefish Bay 10th Senate District – 75% reporting 58%… Read more »
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$45,000 Reward Offered in Search for Missing Missouri Girl
3-year-old southeast Missouri girl missing since Saturday.
Today 9:23 PM GOP Leading 4 Of 6 Races (Wisconsin)
No. It was “Satan! come out!”
Just one important question for you…
Did he use the words, “I baptize you im the name of The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit.” ?????
🙂
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Must be a slow burn
I remain so.
Im confused. The principal last year invited a priest over to the campus to give it a blessing just before TAKS testing started for the 6th Grade. Students and faculty were all invited to join if they desired. I dd join and in the process I was sprayed with holy water. I posted about this on this site Hamous then… Read more »
*kneemail request* – for the State of Wisconsin!
Open thread: Total recall
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Im confused.
But then I’ve been in the heat all day.
Shannon #71;
You mean for Pope? I’m Catholic now. Just ask Hamous. I’ll probably become one again next year too.
Tedtam #58;
I hope it was clean and unused toilet paper. Yikes!
Darren
As a non- phony Mormon, somehow I think you’re pretty far down the list.
LOL
uh? A phony mormon is someone who isn’t a real mormon. Pretty much describes him, doesn’t it? Jeff Warrens wasn’t a “Mormon”. When one says “Mormon” that associates with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Warrens was never a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; rather, he was part of the Fundamentalist Church of… Read more »
Breaking: Reid appoints John Kerry, Patty Murray, and Max Baucus to Super Committee
Whoahoo. That should help make sure we get tax hikes.
Huh? A phony mormon is someone who isn’t a real mormon. Pretty much describes him, doesn’t it?
Do I count? 😉
Shannon; Life in prison for the phony Mormon pedophile. And he deserves it. I do appretciate you making a distinction between Warrens and Mormonism. In fact at times I very much appreciate people who do that. With two Mormons in the presidential race there’s been Mormon talk popping here and there over the net and there will be more. One… Read more »
I knew someone who lost their horse in this faaar today. The comments were sickening. I have known Dr. Haugland and his wife for many, many years. Precisely why they are not only my equine vets, they are my friends. My prayers and sadness goes out to ALL who had lost their loved ones. Jean is very distraught, right now.… Read more »
Found this about CL Bryant.
http://www.teapartypatriots.org/BlogPostView.aspx?id=322b6b8c-f6ef-4a75-ab6f-d53188fb1e28
#62 Whaddayanno, I caught some more Savage in my yard today. 😉
#61 Kat I didn’t see any mention of this C.L. Bryant on the website. I read through their statement and it seems like sound people, sound ideas to me. Maybe belatedly claiming they are “tea party”organizers… One item caught my eye: we exposed the problems with Sen. Arlen Specter’s $140 billion asbestos trust fund that led to the plan’s defeat.… Read more »
Watch out for that little Michael Savage 😉
*blog BREAK*…………………….folks I’d love to hear / read anyone’s 2 cents on this Gent – if this has been discussed recently here I must have missed it:
C.L. Bryant—former Democrat and NAACP Chapter President—current Tea Party leader and freedom fighter.
and the website:
http://www.freedomworks.org/foundation
THANKS in advance!
#54/55/56
The bird talk is boring? Sorry. I am going out to do some more of that hand watering. When I return, I’ll prolly want to talk about my cats.
I guess they ran out of cricket bats.
This sounds too much like an Aggie joke: Suicide by Toilet Paper
I’ve seen them.
#55 – ONE?
it’s 1000!!!
54
That’s one demerit for even putting it in their minds.
Let me know when y’all are fixing to talk about cats.
#44 Sarge Over by the birdbath We are down to only 3 cardinals that visit our seed banquet spread on the patio every evening. Previous summers, the cardinals would not arrive until late in the twilight. This year, they have learned that there will not be any seeds left by then, so they fly in with the doves, pigeons, sparrows,… Read more »
You have to hand it to O, at least he is consistent. Now he wants tougher regulations on work trucks and cuts to the “greenhouse gas” they emit.
It seems that each and everything he does is destructive to the economy and country as a whole. PF is really a good handle for him.
Rioting in the UK.
Sales of American baseball bats skyrocket.
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That’s all I have to say about gun control in the UK.
Cincuenta 😉
It worked! I ate my peas and the Dow closed 430 points higher! Barry’s a Magic Man!
Nebraska Bishop excommunicates hundreds in March of 1966….. Members of multiple organizations in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska were excommunicated by Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz in March 1996 for promoting positions he deemed “totally incompatible with the Catholic faith”.[2] The organizations include Call to Action, Catholics for a Free Choice, Planned Parenthood, the Hemlock Society, the Freemasons, and the… Read more »
Thanks for the compliment. I’ll try not to let it go to my head.
Who ELSE doing this could possibly be funnier?
Video: Barney Frank signals, er, support for natural gas power
#44 Sarge
One of the funniest things I think I’ve ever seen you post.