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New Texas Law Requires Sonogram Prior to Abortion

May 24th, 2011

Yesterday, I wrote an article speculating about Governor Perry’s political aspirations. In that article, I suggested that the Governor has not always been true to the conservative ideas he espouses around election time. But I have to give him some credit when and where I believe it’s due. Today our governor signed House Bill 15 into law. The new legislation requires any woman seeking an abortion, to first undergo a sonogram. The physician is then required to show and explain the image to the mother, as well as allow her to hear the child’s heart beat.

The purpose of course is to make sure that women are being provided with all possible information before they make the life changing decision to terminate a pregnancy. Critics of the bill say it makes an already difficult decision even more difficult. Really?! By making sure all information is available? Is that the story the pro-aborts are going to stick with? Honestly I don’t see why this is such a terrible idea. No one is prohibiting the woman from making her choice. The goal is simply to make sure she doesn’t make one she’ll regret later!

Some Pro-life groups were also opposing the law on the basis that it provides too many loopholes. These organizations fear that the law is too easy to bypass thanks to exemptions like the baby being a product of rape or incest, or being diagnosed as having “an irreversible medical condition.” While I agree that these and other exemptions are probably too open to interpretation, and while I’m quite sure that various groups who promote abortion will certainly employ them to the point of questionable legality, I have to think that an imperfect protection of the rights of mother and child, is certainly better than no protection at all! Look, this all seems very reasonable to me! At the end of the day who really loses? A child gets another shot at living to term. And the mother has the peace of mind that comes from knowing she’s making a huge decision with all available information, and maybe avoids one that will ruin her life and cost the life of her child unnecessarily. Oh… well of course if she chooses to forgo the abortion and carry the child to term, that’s one less abortion performed and one less check written to a doctor or “reproductive counseling” organization. But of course, nothing this serious is ever about money!

Sonic

January 8th, 2010

Things are changing and it is nowhere more evident than at the Tyler Sonic drive through. During the drive through and drive up restaurant hay day of the nineteen fifties the average suburban family survived exclusively on root beer floats and cheeseburgers, congregating at the Sonic, like desert wildlife nourishing their bodies in the watering hole’s life giving root beer floats and cheeseburgers. Any given night at the Sonic was nothing less than the beginning of a summer long drag race musical.

These days, however, Sonic blends into the multitude of fast food chains all trying desperately to relive the same era. But no matter how bad everyone wants to go back to the nineteen fifties we will eventually have to accept our fate instead of living in the fast food past. This brings us to the denial facing Sonic, which is mainly that it sees itself as some sort of quality restaurant.

Unfortunately, Sonic has spent the money required for this on its comedy abortion, “two guys in a car commercial” shoveled down my eye throat three or four times a day. To switch topics for one second, there are about six hundred thousand students out there who could make a better commercial with nothing but their iPhones. But no number of eager undervalued students could salvage Sonics mediocre at best menu. You see, when you take out of account the things that are impossible to do wrong, such as, corn dogs and milkshakes, Sonic is revealed as nothing more than a slightly above average McDonalds, and no one should eat at McDonalds.