Magazine Drives and Transvestites

Each fall our children's elementary school PTA has a magazine drive.  We buy our fair share of magazines and then twist the arms of aunts and uncles to do their part so our children can win copious amounts of cheap Chinese crap.

One year our daughter won a 3/4 mile limousine ride to our local pizzeria for selling the most subscriptions, 60.  I think that is still a record.  A few years back, our son won and committed one of the most selfless acts I have seen a child do.  First prize that year was a life size cut out.  You could select from any number of pop culture icons.  Our son chose that Canadian music icon, Justa Beaver.  He kept his choice secret as the school had to order it.  After a few weeks, I took him up to school and with great secrecy he claimed his prize.  We took it home where he surprised his sister with the live size cut out of Justa Beaver. 

I got so tired of looking at the image of that silly dork.  I once hid it in the furnace closet only to scare the crap out of my wife when she opened the door.  I was going to hide in the tack room once but was a afraid my wife or a horse boarder would have a heart attack and die.

As I said, we buy our fair share of magazines.  I always get "Texas Monthly".  I like the magazine, and it cheeses my wife off as she eschews all things Texan, except cowboy boots, cowboy hats and this author.  While thumbing through the latest issue, I discovered an advertisement in the back that brought me consternation about my beloved birth place.  An advertisement for fashions aimed at cross dressers.  Suddenlyfemstyle.com.  If you google it you get 6.7 million results.  Suddenly fem style.com takes you to crossdresser.com.

For some strange reason my mind wondered to the Llano County Courthouse square of the 1960's with its mixture of Civil War, World War I and II statures, plaques and heroes.  There under the live oak trees, sitting on the red granite benches the spit and whittle club met.  Old men in their worn khakis and sweat stained Stetson hats chewing  tobacco and testing the sharpness of their Case pocket knives on the fallen branches.

Not a scene one would associate with pantie hose and silicone breasts.  But then again, the odds say one of those old cusses had occasion to put on his wife's girdle..

Shoe on the other foot thoughts...

What if the 2nd Amendment stated?

"The right of a woman to have an abortion shall not be infringed."

What if the following happened?

The Supreme Court ruled that the 2nd Amendment is a individual right but the government can make reasonable restrictions by a 5 to 4 vote, and you are one vote away from abolishing it.

There were reams of writings by the founding fathers explaining the foundation and importance of the 2nd Amendment and politicians and legal scholars all ignore it putting their own uniformed interpretation to it.

Abortions were banded in all the world except the United States and Switzerland. Every household must have at least one abortion in Switzerland.

Returning veterans are denied abortions because the government has determined they aren't mentally stable enough to have an abortion, despite no diagnosis or evidence reflecting this determination.

Major newspapers published a map showing the names and addresses of every women who had an abortion.

You had to register with local authorities before having an abortion.

You have a bumper sticker that reads, "If abortions are outlawed, only outlaws will preform abortions." And "I will give up my abortion when you pry my dead cold fetus from my hand."

Editorial pages in major newspapers called for the president and executive director of Planned Parenthood be killed.  The killing of all members of Plan Parenthood was advocated.  The razing of Planned Parenthood's headquarters and the salting of the ground was advocated.

The government's own statistics showed that unrestricted abortion actually showed it saved lives in the long term.

The National Rifle Association received half a billion dollars a year from the public treasury.

Piers Morgan held a week of shows dedicated to abolishing the 2nd Amendment, calling representatives of Plan Parenthood women's rights and abortion advocates "Stupid."  Guests advocate a late term abortion for radio host Ed Shultz because he is a proponent of unrestricted abortions.

Local governments placed exorbitant taxes on abortion equipment and facilities.

All abortion clinics and doctors must have a federal license and pay a fee to operate.  They are heavily regulated by the Department of Human Services.

Illegal gangs and criminal organizations will not close their clinics.

All the talk of restricting abortion let to millions of women getting pregnant so they can exercise their right to an abortion, creating a nine month backlog at clinics.

Joe Biden is put in charge of commission to limit the 2nd Amendment.

A conservative president decides he can't get legislation or a constitutional amendment to prevent the killing of the unborn and decides to act unilaterally, through executive order to make reasonable restrictions to the 2nd amendment, no abortions after 30 days, a national registry of woman who had abortions, background checks for all women who want an abortion, a limit to one abortion a lifetime. 

And if you say to yourself, guns kill children, you lack a sense of irony.

There are just some thoughts with the shoe on the other foot.