I wonder how the odds makers in Nevada would phrase the bet. What will take California down first - ideology or an earthquake? Better yet, what would be the odds. Maybe I would like to place a bet....

No......not from Chavez, although a crop that grows there and in California may be the culprit.

Get the peace pipe out folks, cuz the only way this crap makes any sense is if you are stoned out of your mind!

Reminds me of an old I Love Lucy show......Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel go off for a weekend to a romantic lake house. All the girls can think about is how they will get quality time with their husbands. All the guys want to do is fish and play poker. After a time, Lucy gets pissed off and shoots the fishing (row) boat full of holes, just before the guys, feeling guilty, announce that they want to take the girls out for a midnight cruise. Ricky even brings his guitar for "serenading". Well, you can image the sight, when, after rowing to the middle of lake, and after Ricky begins his "serenade", the boat starts to spring leaks........Lucy, with all the class she can muster, begins to try to fill the holes, now spouting water like a fountain, with pieces of her chewing gum.....Classic comedy. And somehow very like the state of "government" every time it tries to "fix" something.....Look - the clowns are leading the parade!

OMG - this flies in the face of luncacy! Yes, the great state of Cailfornia does have the Constitutional right to afford it's citizens (not including illegals here) whatever the voters "want". However, with the state on the verge of bankruptcy and it's voters fleeing the state at the rate of blood from a stuck pig, this is sheer folly.

Why should this concern the rest of us? Well, if our federal government continues on it's current course - bailing out car companies, banks, insurance companies (AIG) and bribing other state Senators for purposes of passing a federal healthcare bill, who is to say that bailing out failed states is not next on the list? And let's face it folks - that is our money - our federal taxes and our children's future earnings that is being spent.

I did not sign up for this.

KUDOS!

HuffPo is NOT a good mix. Get a grip!

The Fonz said - "Sally doesn't sound all that pro-Choice to me. How about all the murderers and lowlifes that are brought in to this world? And the fringe women who get pregnant under duress, single mothers, etc.... are more likely to produce a criminal so I say they should be encouraged. Tebow's situation isn't even relevant here - being born to a CHRISTIAN COUPLE - not some crackhead ghetto welfare mammy."

Sounds like Fonz has been watching the View. Didn't Joy B say something very similar? And how very scary is this whole line of thinking????? How can anyone know what a child will turn out to do in life? Who died and made Fonz God? This line of thinking screams eugenics. And we all know where that led......

I think Lady in Red needs to go look in the mirror. Human beings are not dogs or cats or parakeets ( I have a few) or fish. So, it is OK to put a suffering animal down. I get it. No argument there. But to put down a human being because he may suffer? Hello......we all suffer, to some extent or another. Through the miracle of modern medicine, amputees can lead full and successful lives. Can a horse with a bum leg survive without man's help?

Lady likes to invoke God. Fine. Did God create man before or after all the other creatures of the Earth? Did God create all creatures great and small and STOP with man?

God gave man intelligence and as a result, the ability to evolve intellectually. While the rest of the animal kingdom has evolved since the beginning of time, only man has evolved to the point where he can save (medically) the life of almost any creature God created.

Yes, dear Lady, we are a part of Nature, but God's plan made us dominant in Nature and provided to us the right of choice. God gave humans (not animals or plants or rocks) the right to choose between good and evil. He gave us sympathy and empathy - something the rest of the animal kingdom does not have - they operate on sheer instinct. And, that is why they are lesser beings. We, as humans are above instinct for we have the power of reason.

In today's society, when a four month old "fetus" can live outside the womb and go home with his/her mother and father as a viable baby, to argue that abortion is the only viable option is a wasted argument.

In our arrogance, we seem to believe that "our choice" is God's choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.

You are quite wrong. There are plenty of people who cannot conceive who are willing and able to nuture a child to adulthood. The choice is not - have a baby and be unable to provide for it's basic needs, the choice is have a baby and do your best to provide for it's basic needs, or give the child up for adoption.

And, while we are at it, please, as a Quaker, tell me what happens to the soul of the person who chooses the "superior" option of aborting and "unwanted, unloved, unnurtured little person? Better yet, what does the Quaker belief system hold as the fate of that "unwanted, unloved, unnurtured little person?

For the most part, in today's medically advanced society, abortion is the EASY way out. It's the way a teenager does not have to live up to consequences of his and her actions. It's a cop out. It is a way of never having to deal with the child you put up for adoption to come knocking at your door. It's a way out of the guilt. That's it. Abortion is a way out, not a way of coping, not a way of making amends, not a way of changing one's life, merely a sociological accepted way out.

I have to give you kudos for your viewpoint and the willingness to state it. That being said, "sentient" life is not an issue for those who wish to quash this advertisement (free speech), for it is from this same mind-set that we get all forms of "Save The..." you fill in the blanks. The only thing I have not really heard yet is Save The Rocks, though, at some point, I am sure that that is coming as well.

Some people, John Holdren, Obama's Science Czar has, in the past, advocated that birth control be administered through the water as an effort to "stabilize" population growth. Now, I must admit that this position of Mr. Holdren's was taken about 30 years ago, but......take a look at China today.

"Sentient life" is not an issue with the progressives - look like me, think like me, be like me, cookie cutter life is.