Jim Carry takes a swipe at gun control nuts and a few others in the mix.

Happy Birthday wishes go out to Reginald Kenneth Dwight, aka Elton John, who turns 66 years old today.

 

 

 

 

Eric Clapton live at the Yokohama Arena 1999.  Man can he play the guitar.  Enjoy!!

Saturday evening we went to our second Dodger game in Glendale, Arizona. The Dodgers played the Chicago White Sox.  It was windy in Phoenix all day, but it subsidded in time for the game.  The Dodgers scored 6 runs in the 6th inning sending 12 batters to the plate.  The inning was topped off by a bases loaded double by Andre Ethier.  The Dodgers won 10-4.

 

Former Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda and current "special advisor to the chairman" walked the starting lineups out to the umpires at home plate before the game.  Tommy got a standing ovation from the crowd.  Tommy has spent 60 years with the Dodgers in various player, coaching, and front office positions.  Tommy managed the Dodgers during their last World Series win in 1988.   

 

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Lasorda, who is 85 years old, was walking pretty slow.  He suffered a slight heart attack in June of 2012 and walked like he had real sore knees. 

North Dakota lawmakers voted on Friday afternoon to pass a "personhood" abortion ban, which would endow fertilized eggs with all rights of a U.S. citizen and effectively outlaw abortion in North Dakota.  The measure, which passed the Senate last month, passed the House by a 57-35 vote and will now head to Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple's desk.  The Governor is expected to sign the bill into law.  The personhood abortion ban says that life begins at conception and that the fertilized egg cannot be aborted. 

The personhood ban will have far-reaching consequences even beyond abortion care, since it will charge doctors who damage embryos with criminal negligence.  This after the state government's defunding of planned parenthood in the state has closed, I think, all but one clinic in the state that does abortions. 

I can't imagine how this would get past the Supreme Court and Roe v Wade.  The Republicans, who are trying to re-brand themselves after losing the last presidential election, sure aren't slowing down on their war against women and reproductive rights.