Two crazy, if not batshit crazy, Al.com (formerly The Birmingham News) offerings grabbed my attention today.
Down In Alabama
Feb 20, 2024
Ike Morgan
If Saban ran ...
We generally don't drop too many political poll stories unless they're really important. And, of course, applicable to serious issues and campaigns in the state of Alabama.
With that in mind, I'll share the results of a YouGov poll that said if Nick Saban runs as a Democrat for U.S. Senate in 2026, he'd beat Tommy Tuberville 42 percent to 39 percent (although that's close enough to be within the margin of error), reports AL.com's Howard Koplowitz.
If Saban did beat Tuberville it would make the former college football coaches 4-4 against each other in head-to-head matchups, incidentally.
If the theoretical poll sounds a little like a fantasy for liberal Crimson Tide fans, it probably is, since it assigns Saban to the Democratic party without having him adopt policy positions.
In the same poll, Tuberville was ahead of a "generic Democrat" 49-32 and ahead of former Democratic Sen. Doug Jones in another theoretical matchup, 52-27.
Saban has neither endorsed a political party nor expressed interest in running for office.
And we can appreciate that position.
I replied:
I'm curious if you have any "insider" gossip or crystal ball info that Nick Saban ever considered, is considering, running for the U.S. Senate?I wish Nick would run against Tuberville, who said on TV, I saw and heard it, if elected, he would do whatever Donald Trump said.
I wonder if Nick wants to drag himself through another colossal house of ill repute after leaving college football's NIL and transfer portal?I wonder what Miss Terry [the wife] might say about that?I wonder if Nick runs against Tuberville, if he and Miss Terry's lives will be at risk?I know for a fact that Nick leading his football team in the Black Lives Matter march in Tuscaloosa during the covid shutdown pissed off a lot of MAGAs.I hoped Doug Jones would beat Tuberville. Jones had put his life at risk prosecuting the Klansmen who bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.Alas, the South rose again and voted for Trump and Tuberville, and our Governor Kay Ivey, whom I hear said does what important Alabama conservatives tell her to do, when she's sober, and that's just how it is.
And this:
Crazy In AlabamaFeb 20, 2024John Archibald
Still crazy, after all these years
Is it just me? Tell me it’s not just me.
Or if it’s just me, tell me that, too. Because I’ll have some choices to make.
It’s been crazy in Montgomery since time immemorial. Since John Knox and his constitution, since George Wallace and his segregation, since Gov. Rose Emoji and his failure to understand the way text messages work.
But man. The crazy used to be on the fringes.
I guess I need to let the column speak it for me. Say it, column. Say it.
Learning to live with the anti-woke mind virus
Lord have mercy, it’s like the crazy crept up on us in the night. While we were supposed to be asleep.
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos are people too. Popsicle people, maybe, but people.
So when somebody drops a vial of humans in a lab, it’s not a cleanup on aisle one, anymore. It’s a wrongful death suit. We’re just a hop, skip and bump away from somebody getting locked up in Alabama’s death camp prisons for knocking over a test tube.
Is it just me? Tell me it’s not just me.
Alabama lawmakers are pushing bills that would protect themselves, that would give them the illusion of power over history, that would keep them from having to deal with real problems, that would make sure the state of Alabama will continue to feel unwelcome to any of those weirdos.
That’s the goal.
I replied:
Regarding the embryo is a protected child decision...
CBS
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled last week that frozen embryos created through in vitro fertilization, or IVF, are considered children under state law and are therefore subject to legislation dealing with the wrongful death of a minor if one is destroyed.
"The Wrongful Death of a Minor Act applies to all unborn children, regardless of their location," the opinion states, including "unborn children who are located outside of a biological uterus at the time they are killed."
The immediate impact of the ruling will be to allow three couples to sue for wrongful death after their frozen embryos were destroyed in an accident at a fertility clinic.
But this first-of-its-kind court decision could also have broader implications.
"No court — anywhere in the country — has reached the conclusion the main opinion reaches," Justice Greg Cook wrote in his dissenting opinion in the case, adding that it "almost certainly ends the creation of frozen embryos through in vitro fertilization (IVF) in Alabama."
Some time ago, something got into me and I wrote this below, which became a chapter in a book I was writing, Diary Of A Redneck Mystic Lawyer God Grabbed Once Upon A Time, now a free read at the internet library, archive.org - https://archive.org/details/diary-of-a-redneck-mystic- lawyer-god-grabbed-once-upon- a-time/page/n163/mode/2up Chapter 28: Did Colonial America women have an unalienable Right to use herbs made by God or Mother Nature (you pick) to prevent or end pregnancies?
A friend reported a dream earlier today, in which Archangel Michael said there are people who might try to kill me over my discussing "Eve's herbs", which end pregnancy.Same friend told me later today that he'd heard from a woman interested in those herbs, that my home state Alabama, and other red states, are preparing legislation to go quickly into effect, which makes herbs that cause miscarriage, class 1 drugs, which require a doctor's prescription. I replied that no doctor known to me would prescribe herbs for any reason. It later occurred to me that the Mafia and the south of the border drug cartels are gearing up to grow lots of those herbs to sell on the streets of America.That Pearl Harbor lookout issue aside, I marvel over the federal and state governments presuming they know better than God or Mother Nature (you pick) what Americans should or should not do with herbs made by God or Mother Nature (you pick
As a licensed attorney in Alabama, I have a serious legal problem with the federal and state governments preventing people from using herbs that grow wild in nature. Since when do governments have legal jurisdiction over God and Mother Nature?In that context, let me say I am not a physician, and I do not advise people about medical conditions, other than sometimes I tell people what I do about my own medical problems, by using physicians sometimes, alternative methods sometimes, and blending the two approaches sometimes.Sometimes I tell people how I use herbs, vitamins and minerals to make me smell like a skunk to Covid-19 and its many variants. I also had 3 Pfizer shots.Although I am not an herbalist, I used herbs in past times, which helped me, and I use a few herbs today, which seem to help conditions that medicine alone has not been able to help.The first time I caught salmonella and felt I surely would die, I took an herbal combination prescribed by a naturopath and the salmonella cleared up in a few days.The next time I caught salmonella and felt I surely would die, a veterinarian, who treated his animal patients with homeopathic remedies, as well as with modern veterinary medicine, gave me homeopathic arsenic, and the salmonella cleared up in a few days.Did I break state laws? Did those doctors violate state laws? Did that matter to me or them? No. What mattered was the salmonella went away.Some years ago, I read a very interesting report of a federal lawsuit filed by the Texas medical profession, seeking to ban acupuncturists, who were not M.D.s, from practicing acupuncture. The Texas medical profession's lawyers argued acupuncture was experimental medicine and, under Texas law, only the Texas medical profession could regulate and use acupuncture. The female federal judge noted that the Texas medical profession had been around about 100 years, while acupuncture had been used in China for 5,000 years and was not experimental. Judgment for the acupuncturists.Beyond all of that, I can say, based on many conversations I have had with religious right Americans face to face, on Facebook, and elsewhere online, that the root of the opposition to abortion in Alabama, and in America, is the religious right.If I were hired as a trial attorney, to deal with federal and/or state restrictions on herbs in a court case, I would subpoena anti-abortionists and put them on the witness stand, and prove through them that their opposition to abortion is rooted in their religion.I would hand them a Bible and ask them to read Genesis 2:7 to the Court.And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.They would be between a rock and a hard spot.I would ask them if the Bible is the inerrant word of God, every word in it is true? They would be between a rock and a hard spot.I would ask them who created the heavens and the earth, and al the plants and living beings on the earth? They would be between a rock and a hard spot.I would ask them if, in the Bible, the only herb God told Adam and Eve not to eat was the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil? They would be between a rock and a hard spot.I would ask them if God ever made a mistake? They would be between a rock and a hard spot.I would ask the witnesses if God made herbs that would cause miscarriage? The witnesses would be between a rock and a hard spot.I would hand them a copy of the Declaration of Independence and ask them to read the Preamble:In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
I would ask them if the Founding Fathers drew their authority from Nature and Nature's God? The witnesses would be between a rock and a hard spot.I would hand them a copy of Amendment I, U.S. Constitution and ask them to read the first line to the Court:Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.I would hand them a copy of Amendment 14, and ask them to read it to the Court.Section 1.All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State where they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.I would ask them if they see anything in Amendment 14 saying unborn persons have any of those rights and immunities. They would be between a rock and a hard spot.I would ask them if Amendment 14 applies the 1st line of Amendment 1 to the states? They would be between a rock and a hard spot.Of course, opposing legal counsel would object to questions that ask a lay person to state an opinion on the law. I would reply that I"m simply asking the witnesses to read the law and use their common sense to reply to my questions.In that context, and continuing my mystical and legal opining about such matters also were addressed in the two previous chapters of this unfolding book...Before and after Bible times, women used herbs to prevent and end pregnancies.Women used herbs in Colonial America to prevent and end pregnancies. Benjamin Franklin covered the practice in his book, THE AMERICAN INSTRUCTOR.I did a Google search for Ben Franklin's book and this NPR interview came up:For Ben Franklin, abortion was basic arithmetic
For Ben Franklin, abortion was basic arithmetic
NPR's Emily Feng speaks with Molly Farrell from The Ohio State University on why Ben Franklin included instructi...
A book by John M. Riddle, CONTRACEPTION AND ABORTION FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD THROUGH THE RENAISSANCE, traced the anthropological history of herbs used by women to prevent and end pregnancy.A similar, later book by Riddle, EVE'S HERBS: A HISTORY OF CONTRACEPTION AND ABORTION IN THE WEST, was featured in an exhaustive article in The American Historical Society article:archives.Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West. - American Botanical CouncilThe article's author reported that he and his wife enjoyed drinking pennyroyal tea. She was pregnant. She miscarried. He did research and learned pennyroyal was long used to end pregnancies. He did a lot more research and reported that, too, in his article, which some women told me is fascinating.The EVE'S HERBS book was available for free via a PDF, until it was taken down yesterday, because Riddle was receiving death threats.Here is a link to an Institute for New Economic Thinking interview of Riddle: Abortion Drugs Fundamental to Ancient Economies, Argues Historian
Abortion Drugs Fundamental to Ancient Economies, Argues Historian
As women’s rights to make reproductive choices come under assault, historian John M. Riddle argues that abortion...
The American Declaration of Independence says:We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."Unalienable means it cannot be taken away.Among these means there were other unalienable Rights.Clearly, the Declaration does not say women had unalienable rights. However, if men had unalienable rights, surely women had them, even if men back then did agreeWas women's ancient and ongoing use of herbs made by God or Mother Nature (you chooseAs pointed out earlier in this chapter, Benjamin Franklin, who was reputed to be a ladies man, spoke of such herbs in THE AMERICAN INSTRUCTOR.The American Declaration of Independence birthed the United States of America.The Declaration was America's first legal document.The U.S. Constitution and its Amendments were derived from the Declaration.Unalienable Rights were inherent in the U.S. Constitution and its Amendments.The U.S. Supreme Court decided American corporations have some Constitutional Rights, even though there is no mention of corporations in the Constitution and its Amendments, nor in the Declaration.If corporations have Constitutional Rights, how could the herbs created by God or Mother Nature (you chooseWell?Consider further rhetorical questions.Would the American religious right dare contest herbs God made, knowing very well what those herbs could be used for?Would anyone that heard, "It's not wise to piss off Mother Nature," dare contest herbs She made, knowing full well what those herbs could be used for?Would the American medical profession (AMA) contest those herbs?Would Big Pharma contest those herbs?Would the FDA, CDC and NIH contest those herbs?Would the Republicans and MAGAs and Donald Trump contest those herbs?Would 6 religious right U.S. Supreme Court Justices contest those herbs?Would Joe Biden and the Democrats contest those herbs?So, what about pregnant women living in red states, who do not want to carry their fetus to term?They birth a baby they don't want and resent?They commit suicide?They use a coat hanger?They do things to try to kill the fetus, so a doctor can legally perform an abortion to save the life of the mother?They go out of state to get abortions?They find pharmacy pills that cause abortions?They become herbalists and claim their herbs are an unalienable right, protected by the Declaration of Independence?They claim their herbs are part of their religion, protected by Amendment 1 and Amendment 14 of the U.S. Constitution?Consider, Native American tribes are allowed to use peyote, as part of their religion.Consider, a great many pills the FDA, CDC, NIH, AMA and Big Pharma depend on were derived from plants.Consider the medical uses today of marijuana extracts.Consider hemp was raised and sold by some of the Founding Fathers, including George Washington. Do you think they ever lit and smoked hemp?Do you think the Founding Fathers ever used hashish and opium brought back by The East India Trading Company to England and America?Do you know any forms of booze, a known killer, not derived from a plant?Do you smoke or chew tobacco, a known killer?Is it any skin off your nose, if women use God or Mother Nature's herbs (you chooseDon't you have something more important to do than butt your nose into the uteruses of women you don't know and could care less about, unless they are pregnant and want an abortion?Are you standing at an abortion clinic every day it's open, begging women who go inside to agree to let you adopt and raise their unwanted baby?Have you ever had a young child of yours die? If so, you know that hurt you far more than anyone can begin to imagine, who has not had a young child die.My first wife had two miscarriages, which upset her a lot. I was upset, but not nearly as much as her.When our son was later born, and then at 7 weeks he died of sudden infant death syndrome, my wife and I were devastated. It was a zillion times worse than the miscarriages.We did not have funerals for her miscarried fetuses, but we certainly had a funeral for our beautiful, dead infant son, whom we grieved for a very long time.I don't see funerals for miscarried or aborted fetuses.In the law is the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur, Latin for, "The thing speaks for itself."
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