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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 02:57 PM
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Dr. Seuss's Horton embraced by abortion foes
Dr. Seuss's Horton embraced by abortion foes

DENVER, Colo. - The Dr. Seuss tale of an elephant named Horton who struggles to protect a microscopic community from a larger world oblivious to its existence may become a plot twist in Colorado's debate over a proposed constitutional amendment on personhood.

The children's classic "Horton Hears a Who" will hit the big screen March 14.

It strikes abortion foe Colorado for Equal Rights as an opportunity to celebrate the story's central theme that "a person's a person, no matter how small."

The group is petitioning for a ballot measure asking voters to say personhood begins at conception.

"It's so true that whatever stage of life you're in, you're a person, whatever your size," says Kristi Burton, the group's 20-year-old founder.


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I ... am at a loss for words.
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ceile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 02:59 PM
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1. Laughable
If it weren't so damn scary...:scared:
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angstlessk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 02:59 PM
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2. hell get rid of penicillan...germs are people too! what idjits!!! n/t
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knowledgeispwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 03:00 PM
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3. LOL
:rofl:

My oh my! I'm glad I can laugh at these things.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 03:00 PM
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4. Obviously, the actual, environmental message of this tale is completely over their heads. n/t
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 03:01 PM
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5. What about the pro-Thneed people and the Lorax???
:shrug:
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 03:03 PM
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6. Well that makes sense to a point
In the book, he sits on a bird egg, and because of that the bird ends up being an elephant-bird. That's just about at their level of understanding of biology and reproduction.
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ingac70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 03:08 PM
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8. This references "Horton Hears a Who"...
Not "Horton Hatches the Egg".
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 03:10 PM
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9. Oh, whoops
lol. Guess what last night's bedtime story was.
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Jeffersons Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 03:07 PM
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7. I wonder what they'd think of this Dr. Seuss approach? check it out:
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE FREEDOM

Every Free
Down in Free-ville
Liked Freedom a lot...
But the Grinch,
Who ruled oil, in Texas
Did NOT!

The Grinch hated Freedom!
and the whole Constitution!
Don't ask why he supports Bill of Rights Resolution.
It could be that he never got screwed just quite right.
It could be, while pregnant, his mom drank to get tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his brain was two sizes too small.

But,
Whatever the reason,
His brain or disease,
He stood on the Hill, hating the Frees,
Staring down from the White House, with a sour Grinchy face
At the warm hearts below, of the whole human race.
For he knew every Free, in that big Free-ville nation
Was busy at work, to pay for vacation.

"And they're driving their cars!" he sighed with a moan.
"But after election, they’ll all sit at home!"
Then he growled, with his grinch-fingers nervously thumping,
"I MUST jack up fuel. They need a good humping!"
For, tomorrow, he knew...
...in a TV debate
He’d have to face issues that just wouldn’t wait!

And then! Oh, the truth! Oh, the TRUTH! TRUTH! TRUTH! TRUTH!
He’d never told it once, at least not since his youth!
Then the Frees, young and old, would sit down for TV.
And they'd listen! And they'd watch!
And they'd SEE! SEE! SEE! SEE!
They’d find out his sick brain, was as small as a pea
Which made Grinch wish his mom, had drunk only tea!

And THEN
They'd do something, he hated most from afar!
Every Free down in Free-ville, would head for their car,
and they’d open the doors, those Frees sure were striving.
Then they’d crank them all up and the Frees would start driving!
They'd drive! And they'd drive!
AND they'd DRIVE! DRIVE! DRIVE! DRIVE!

And the more the Grinch thought of the Fast-Driving-Frees…
The more he slumped into Grinch mental disease.
"Why for fifty-three years I've put up with this sin!
I MUST stop this Free-driving!
...But WHEN?"

Then he got a symptom!
An awful symptom!
THE GRINCH
GOT AN AWFULLY GREEDY BRAIN SYMPTOM!

"I know just what to do!" That Grinch was a mess.
As he decided to fool um in Christian-Cross-Dress!
He made a Christian-Claus hat and coat from our Flag.
Then he chuckled, while thinking of going in drag!
"With this coat and this hat, I'll earn their esteem!”
Is a nightmare in drag the American Dream?

"All I need is minorities, in some high places..."
The Grinch looked for brown or even black faces.
”Hmmm,” mulled the Grinch, “there’s that maid in my house.”
But she seems too feisty and I need a mouse
Did that stop the old Grinch...?

No! The Grinch simply said,
"If I can't find a minority, I'll make one instead!"
So he called Condoleezza. She came from the south
With a horn in the tooth-space, right in her mouth!
He knew with that horn, he’d control what she’d say
Unlike the black General, he’d made go away

THEN
He loaded his oil stocks
In some old empty sacks
And sent them to Houston
With no paper tracks.
As the Grinch blamed the Moslems, while making smart cracks…

Oil prices rose and the economy went down.
And you’d think those Frees would run him from town.
National debt went way up, which the Grinch found quite funny
But he tricked them again by printing more money!
All the Frees seemed asleep. Quiet snow filled the air.
All the Frees dreamt American Dreams without care
How’d he get in the White House? Well, it wasn’t quite fair.

"This is stop number one," that Grinch Cross-Dresser hissed
And he snuck to their car, with a can in his fist.
Then slid in the siphon, a rather tight pinch.
But if gas thieves could do it, then so could the Grinch.
He got gas in his mouth, for a moment or so.
But he knew without gas those cars wouldn’t go!
Then he went to a church, where cars parked in a row.
"These Christians," he grinned, "are too dumb to know!"

Then he slurped and slunk, with a smile most insane,
And sucked on his siphon, like Free candy-cane!
Toyotas and Dodges! Chevys and Fords!
There’s been no worse crime, since Huns ran in hoards!
He filled all his cans, in a manner quite stern
And lit up a match but the stuff wouldn’t burn!
Then called on his phone, while starting to frown
In Houston, they said “it’s too watered down!”

He knew low octane was real cheap to make.
And kept right on trying, while screaming “Petes sake!”
Then an idea arose, in his mind like a boil.
"I’ll go inside NOW and steal heating oil!"
The Grinch grabbed their supply, and started to shove
When he heard a small sound like the coo of a dove.
He turned around fast, and he saw a small Free!
Little Cindy-Lee Free, who was not more than three.

The Grinch had been caught by this little Free daughter
Who'd got out of bed for a cup of cold water.
She stared at the Grinch and said, "Christian Claus, why,
"Why are you taking our heating oil? WHY?"

You know, Grinch wasn’t smart but still oh-so-slick
He thought up a lie, and he thought it up quick!
"Why, my sweet little tot," the fake Christian lied,
"This oil will only light up on one side.
"So I'm recalling it back to Houston, my dear.
"I'll fix it up there. Then I'll bring it back here."

And his fib fooled the child. Then he patted her head
And he got her a drink and he sent he to bed.
And when Cindy-Lee Free went to bed with her cup,
HE went to the fireplace to light their oil right up!

Then the last thing he saw, way down the Free-hall
Was a framed Constitution, which hung from the wall
He set fire to the parchment, that nasty old liar.
But while it was burning, the Grinch caught on fire!
Unlike cheap gas, crap burns pretty well
Maybe that con would soon sear in Grinch-Hell!

Then
He did the same thing
Although singed to a cinder
Leaving every car empty
He even stole a fender!

And as sleepy-head Frees, all slept in their bed
He packed the High Court, without using his head
It was quarter past dawn... a good time to snooze
As he loaded the Court, with Nazis on booze…
All unadorned crooks, no ribbons or wrappings!
No tags or tinsel! No trimmings or trappings!
He’d raise fuel prices, as high as Mount Crumpit,
Then call his stock-broker and tell him to dump it!

"He, he, he on Free-Orleans!" he was grinch-ish-ly humming.
"They're finding out soon that relief is not coming!”
"They're waking up now! I know how they'll be!”
"Their mouths will hang open a minute or three…”
"Then, the Frees down in Free-ville will all cry WE SEE!"
"That's a noise," grinned the Grinch,
"That I simply must hear!"

So he paused. And the Grinch put a hand to his ear…
Then he turned on his grinch-nuke-tronic-eavesdrop.
Yeah, he’d stretch the law, when there wasn’t a cop…
But he HAD to hear all of those Free-hearts go pop!
And he did hear a sound rising over the snow.
It started in low. Then it started to grow...

The sound wasn't sad!
Why, this sound sounded merry!
It couldn't be so!
But it WAS merry! VERY!
He stared down at Free-ville!
The Grinch popped his eyes!
Then he shook!

What he saw was a shocking surprise!
Every Free down in Free-ville, the tall and the small,
Was finally free-thinking… with no Rights at all!
He HADN'T stopped Freedom from coming!
IT CAME!
All other dictators would soon learn the same!

And the Grinch, with his grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow,
Stood puzzling and puzzling: "How could it be so?
It came without a war! It came with no pact!
"It came without changing The Patriot Act!"
And he puzzled three hours, `till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before!
"Maybe Freedom," he thought, doesn't hang in a frame…
"Maybe Freedom...perhaps...is a much bigger game!"
And what happened then...?

Well...in Free-ville they say
That the Grinch's small brain
Finally wandered away!
And the minute his head didn't feel so up-tight…
He hid like Bin Laden, from the bright morning light…
And he lied like Saddam, right up to his trial!
And he...
...HE HIMSELF...!
Plead insanity, with a smile!
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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 03:10 PM
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10. Do they apply this same logic to people on death row?
Or are they selective in their Seussiness?

:shrug:
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 03:49 PM
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15. Do pro-lifers apply logic to anything they do?
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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 03:54 PM
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19. Cafeteria Seussologists?
:evilgrin:
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ingac70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 03:33 PM
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11. Suess' widow has sued anti-choice groups for this before...
these guys will be next.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 03:52 PM
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17. Yep. The used it in Congress in the early 90s
to defeat the Reproduction Rights Act.

I hope she does sue them. And I'm sure she will b/c she's very protective of Suess's work.
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trusty elf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 03:35 PM
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12. Hooton hears a whore
:dunce:

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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 03:45 PM
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13. The Whos were sentient beings whose existance did not require them to live in another organism
A fetus does not have upper brain function until somewhere around the third trimester, past the point at which the vast majority of abortions are done. Further, a fetus depends on another body to sustain it.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 03:54 PM
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18. another excellent point
so succinct!

Nicely done,SemicharmedQuark!

:applause:
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 03:49 PM
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14. If personhood begins at conception, wouldn't any female illegal alien
who got pregnant in this country be carrying an American citizen in her womb, regardless of whether she was deported before the birth?
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 03:51 PM
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16. excellent point!
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WernhamHogg Donating Member (378 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 03:58 PM
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20. I knew they would!
I saw a preview for the movie a couple of days ago and heard that line. My first thought was that the anti-woman crowd would be all over that message. They are getting way too predictable.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 05:32 PM
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21. and repetitive
they tried it in the early 90s as well.
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hendo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-28-08 08:17 AM
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22. First
It is awesome that they are making that into a movie, it is one of my favorite Dr Seuss books, right behing The Lorax.

Second, why do the anti-abortion people have to ruin everything :(
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