what's the difference?

How much better is it, Mr. Mourdock, to think that God wants a woman to be forced to carry and give birth to the child of her rape, than to think that God wanted the rape in the first place? Why can you not understand that we DO know what you were saying and find it TOTALLY reprehensible?!?!?
And say you could get your way and place these restraints on women. What then? Would you force the woman to raise the child too?? If not, why not? You have already inflicted your sense of morals on her this far, why not go all the way? Or do you think it will be easy to find other parents for this child? Are there couples just lining up to adopt a child whose father was a rapist? From everything I know, most people do the best they can to adopt a superlative child, from the best background they can arrange/afford. Is this not so? So why would they take on the uncertain future of the child of a violent criminal?
Go back and talk to your God again. And keep on doing that til you get a different, more humane answer.

Uncertainty pt. 2

I find it quite astonishing that the story is business owners need certainty. IMO, any business owner waiting for certainty should sell out and get a government job. That, at least until very recently, was the closest you could get to certainty in the working world.
Owning a business was about the farthest you could get from certainty. Did they not know this when they went into business? Have they not figured it out since?
In fact, life itself is uncertainty. This summer, 70 people simply went out to see a movie. Did they have certainty? How much less should one expect when talking about your profit for a quarter?
How can business people portray themselves (or be portrayed) as superior beings - you know, stronger, smarter, harder working, and also be such whiners?
Let's be honest. This is just another way to attack the government on the theory that we (or at least you) don't need it and we can do just fine on our own. Too bad they can't test that theory without messing things up for the rest of us.

Mystery Man

One thing that, IMO, unites all the voters this year is complete uncertainty about just WHAT Mitt Romney will do when he is elected. This is actually more of a problem for Republicans than Democrats. The latter don't care as much because they are doing all they can to keep him OUT of the White House. Of course, there is the possibility they will fail and then all they can do is hope really hard that either he will be the 'old' Mitt, the Massachusetts moderate, or the Congress will be able to blunt some of his more objectionable policies.
The Republicans, on the other hand, have to contemplate the very real possibility that they will have worked SO hard to elect a conservative and still not have one. Lately I have heard that they have decided they are willing to live with this just to get Obama out of office. Maybe so. Or maybe not. Either way they have a difficult decision.
And all of us have to decide just what we are risking and if it is worth it.