Is Oklahoma so well-governed that her elected officials are at liberty to plan contingencies for the zombie apocalypse? Not that a law will help prevent that, but after all, legislators must legislate.

It’s mystifying, but an Oklahoma state Senator has introduced a bill which

prohibits the manufacture or sale of “food or any other product intended for human consumption which contains aborted human fetuses in the ingredients or which used aborted human fetuses in the research or development of any of the ingredients.”

As crazy as it sounds, there may be something to this cannibalism issue. State Senator Ralph Shortey

may be acting on claims that the San Diego-based company Semonyx used proteins derived from human embryonic kidney cells to test artificial sweeteners, NPR reported. The cell line, known as HEK 293, was created from a human embryo in 1970 and has become a staple in biochemistry labs around the world.

If this is true, our society has become so disgusting and decadent that, really, I think it’s about time Christians start praying for fire and brimstone, a la Sodom and Gomorrah.  Are we willing to cannibalize babies so that we may cut calories while still enjoying sweets?

The “any other product” apart from food prohibition is intriguing. Disgusting as it is, we already have beauty products containing placenta.  It baffles me that some women are sufficiently vain as to use something like that, but they’re out there.  (I’d add a Tom Cruise placenta joke here, but if I think on that too long I’ll gag.)   Given that people are willing to use and consume placenta for those purposes, I think going that extra step and consuming aborted fetuses is quite realistic.  It’s just small step away from embryonic stem cell research.

I oppose embryonic stem cell research.  Not only are adult stem cells are leading to remarkable cures, ASC research lacks the ethical issues of embryonic stem cells. I think that’s where we should focus our attention.  Although I disagree, I do at least sympathize with the arguments ESC proponents make for investigating every possible avenue to save lives and cure illnesses.  But the idea that we might use embryos – from any source, including abortions – purely for vanity or convenience is repugnant.  ”Slippery slope” arguments can be facile.  But the slippery slope arguments that pro-life proponents have been making since Roe v. Wade   are being fulfilled all the time.

This was first published in 1865 – a former slave’s response to a letter from his master, asking him to come back and work for him after the war.  It’s too good to quote – click through to read the whole thing.

I’m increasingly discouraged by political developments, and then I remind myself: God is not sitting up in heaven thinking, “Oh crap – the GOP doesn’t have a decent candidate to pit against the worst president in recent history. Whatever will I do?!” In the larger picture, things – even in Obama’s inflationary, debt-ridden, crony-capitalist joke of a budgetless economy – are okay. You know who’s got problems? Somalians have problems.

It’s discouraging, but not really surprising, to have yet another confirmation that Romney’s not going to go to the mat on getting rid of Obamacare.

Is Newt working from the Saul Alinsky playbook?  It’s hypocritical for him to run against the establishment given his longtime establishment credentials, and I do not support class warfare. But the Alinsky techniques work.  My main problem with the Alinsky rules is that the left has routinely used them against us, for decades, and we never respond in kind and have never formulated an effective defense. So I’m heartily enjoying seeing someone on the right “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” And it’s high time we make the left live up to it’s own book of rules.  So if Newt wants to go Alinsky, that’s fine with me – as long as he does so against the left and not people on his own side.

Jon Stewart throws the right a bone from time to time, but he’s also abundantly clear about which side he really works for. Ace sums up Stewart’s clown-nose-on mugging about Romney’s outrageously outrageous income: Straight-Shooter Jon Stewart: I Can’t Believe Mitt Romney Makes $57,000 Per Day That’s So Much More Unbelievable Than My Own $41,000 Per Day

Yes, that certainly is shocking – I can see why Stewart has his panties in a wad over the sheer decadence of it.  Even more shocking is how many people watch his show as a substitute for the news. Oh wait – it’s really not any more biased than network news, is it?

Everyone’s (and by everyone, I mean the left) is shocked to pieces about Romney’s 15% tax rate. I think 15% is ample – in fact it’s 5% more than we give to the church – but now everyone who’s stressed about it can stand down.  The WSJ calculated Romney’s actual rate, and it’s 44.75%.  There. Feel better now?

Here’s an interesting career track for you: Megadeath bassist –> Lutheran pastor.  This is old news, but along those lines, Queen guitarist Brian May branched out into astrophysics.

More on the Megaupload story – and of course, it’s political.  If Ayn Rand were alive, she’d be laughing hysterically right about now.

And in alt-universe news of the day, Obama corroborated Breitbart’s claims about Nancy Pelosi’s insider trading.  Evidently he is so determined to run against Congress he is willing to throw his own people under the bus.

Okay, break’s over, back on my head…

Someone asked me,  ”What do you think about the recent GOP political twists?”

I replied, “I think about binge drinking.”

So I’m ignoring it all for the time being and taking a Star Trek break – watching The Captains on Netflix.