A rant about Choice/Life

 When I first saw my daughter’s ultrasound I saw a life. It changed mine in more ways than one. Both my mother (A 60’s flower child) and I went from being pro-choice to pro-life instantly. Many other changes occurred, but the more I learned the more I believe that an abortion kills a thinking being. Science is finding a fetus’s learns before birth. http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/healthcare/244723-dnc-platform-supports-partial-birth-abortion-excludes-language-for-abortion-to-be-rare#.UE0iakRQ-7U  The learning time seems to be getting more and more closer towards conception.  As a Christian I can’t vote to take a life. This is why I am now opposed to the death penalty. I could not understand how the GOP says they are pro-life, yet be able to kill murderers.  Of course, how can the other side say the death penalty is murder, and yet an unborn child that has done nothing wrong can be killed.

Ok a moment here. Roe v Wade will not be struck down. Chief Roberts is against it, it’s not on Romney’s list of important things. (No he’s not said it, but if he is elected it will be over the economy). First and most of the second term abortions are completely safe.  I will say that while I oppose the early abortions I can deal with them only because I do value a woman’s right to choose. HOWEVER, There are some votes I would love to make.

Partial  Birth Abortion: First off,  I completely understand “in the case of the life of the mother” strict guidelines being set. I know in my case, if we were to have another child my wife will sign a living will to make sure her wishes will be followed in case something happened with our child. I know how I feel about abortion, but I just can’t lose that woman. Now, In the case where the mother’s life is not, how can you kill a baby that can learn? How? You are taking a baby out of the womb and killing it. As the parent of a child born 6 weeks premature child this scares the crap out of me.

So how can my daughter have to have my consent to get a nose job, but she does not have to in order to get an abortion. Don’t believe me? http://www.northfloridawomenshealth.com/parentalnotification.html This is not just in case of rape or incest.  Are you KIDDING me? My minor child, ya know the one where I go to jail if she misses school too much can go and get an abortion, and I have no say. Please. That is outrageous.

Both of these two issues are heavily supported by Planned Parenthood and the DNC. Please remember an organization that makes a lot of money off of abortions.  PP from the procedure, and then the money PP gives the DNC.

Finally a topic we can all disagree about. When I make a mistake I have to pay for it. At least I thought I did. There is a push to make sure public funding for abortions is the law of the land. Why? If the sex is consensual you made the choice to have sex. You should pay for the consequences.  Why should I pay for someone else’s elective surgery?  After all it is a choice.

OK rant over. 

I know this little post won’t change someone from Choice to pro-life. However, I do hope that just as you think no one should be Pro-life in all cases, Pro Choice is not absolute.  Also while you hear the DNC say how radical the GOP is, maybe they better be careful throwing stones.

I would like to thank @BigKev and  @A_MacNab for reading this and catching things in it.  I will say that I am speaking only for me and no one else.

Happy Anniversary My Love!

Seventeen years ago, after knocking down a lit candle and lots and lots of nerves, I heard the two words that have made my life better ever since, “I Do.”  Since then there have been different states, different jobs, and different lifestyles.  I have lost friends, gained friends, and yet there is still my Best friend.

She has put up with my obsessions, my transgressions, and even quite a few mutual lessons. Through it all, I smile on the way home, because it is to the wonderful woman who said “I do.”  The woman who has given us so much, including the greatest gift of a wonderful daughter.

It is east to say I Love You. I said it the day I asked her to marry me, and I hope I have every day since, and every day that is to come.

On this Seventeenth Anniversary of the day we got married I just want to thank you for saying “I do.”  You have been so far much better than I could ever have asked for a partner.   I thank God for the day you brought her into my life. Without a doubt, I can’t wait to have so many more.

A Strictly Unauthorized Scene

So this is not from Chuck vs the World, but this is for the fans who want Chuck and Sarah together.

Yeah I was feeling sarcastic when I wrote this. The following is a bit suggestive. Probably need to be an adult to read it. Hey Mel Brooks got away with it.

Chuck wrapped his arms around the beautiful blond bombshell. When he did she stiffened and backed up a step. Sarah then looked deeply into Chucks eyes. She was tired of the wait. Less than a week was far too long, she needed some Grade A Chuck right now. The nearest surface was a bed, so she pushed him down onto it while grabbing a knife from out of seemingly nowhere.  She cut the white button up shirt off him and exposed the skin underneath.

She gasped as the ripped musculature dominated her vision. Small amounts of drool fell from her mouth as she lusted after the six pack before her. Sarah grabbed Chucks belt in order to remove the pants that held her primary objective.

Before she could rip off her pants, Chuck grabbed her and rolled her on her back. Once there Chuck made quick work of the flimsy blouse.  After seeming to burn her skin with gentle kisses down her stomach, her pants following quickly along with her shirt in a heap on the floor.  Chuck journey lead lower and lower till he reached her core. Sarah’s screams of joy were heard well past the small confines of the room. The biggest problem was the sheet rock falling from the ceiling from her vocal cries of ecstasy.  Sarah could take no more as her eyes bored into is as she moaned now Chuck NOW.

Chuck stood up as he took his belt off. As he grabbed his zipper he heard in an Austrian accent for some reason, “So is it true what they say about you nerds”

ZZZIIIIPPPP

“It’s true.  It’s true!”

8 Hours later

After the best sex of her life Sarah rolled of the super stud. She just lay there quivering. When she glanced to her side Sarah saw Chuck with one leg propped in the air drinking Gatorade from a jug, streams of water hitting his chest. Don’t worry Sarah, after I drink this water I will be good for another twelve hours. I love you Sarah, your hair your beautiful Blue eyes.

20,000 words later

 And that’s how I feel about you Sarah. I want you to have my babies.

Now back to youre regularly scheduled program.

Simple Roast Beef Poboys

Ingredients:

Beef Roast

Large Diced Onion

2 Packs Brown Gravy Mix

Can of Crème of Mushroom

Can of Crème of Celery

Some type of garlic

1 tbl spoon Season All (Cajun or Old Bay)

1 French Bread or Baguette

Sandwich fixings (Traditionally: Mayo Lettuce Tomato)

Preparation:

Boil your roast for thirty to forty minutes.

Pull the roast out and place on a cutting board.

Save the stock (the water left in the pot after boiling)

Follow the instructions on the Brown Gravy Mix.

Add the onions and the 2 cans of soup and the season all.

Stir till it’s the same consistency then add the kitchen Bouquet to darken it.

Slice the roast into ½ inch to ¾ inch slices add to the pot. Cook on low until you can break it apart with a fork.

Slice the bread to make a sandwich.  Do not slice it in half.  Separate whatever size sandwiches you want.

Add Mayo than place meat and some of the gravy to the bread. (It should drip down your arm when eating it)

Top with other Fixings and serve.

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Heritage blurb

Yep it's true I havent forgotten this little story. Its still around, actually its going fairly well. This little excerpt is a promise. A promise I will complete Heritage. This section was written by Supesfan18. Without further ado...

Sarah Bartowski sat in the Blackhawk helicopter on her way to New Mexico.  With her husband’s head in her lap and fingers absentmindedly playing with the curls on his head, she thought back to their last few weeks.

Her best friend…no her sister…found out about their double life.  Then all of them found out they were related to Diane Beckman.  At the same time, the ancestral home Chuck had seen for the first time was destroyed, and Sarah feared everyone but Chuck were killed. Finally, she was kidnapped by a rogue agent out for revenge. But her magnificent husband came and rescued her.  Sadly, it was a short-lived victory.  Two days later, her worst fears were realized, and she was forced to tranq him.

Now it was her time to rescue him emotionally, just like he did for her all these years.

Sarah ran her left hand through his hair while simultaneously using her right to wipe the fresh tears falling down her face.  She had already called the New York Times and placed an ad; a coded message to someone she never told Chuck about.  The only person who could help save her husband was the very same man who had saved her.  She never thought it would ever come to this.  She had never been so scared in her life.

She was broken out of her thoughts by Chuck’s ringing cell phone.  She pulled the phone out of his pocket and saw it was Casey.

“Casey, he’s…he’s…”

“Just tell me what happened to him, Sarah.”

“Casey, he’s damaged.  Not physically, but mentally.  We have a Blackhawk, and we’re on our way to New Mexico.”

Casey coughed for a minute.

“Casey…. he may never forgive me, but this is the only way I know to save the man I love.”

“What do you mean?”

Sarah sighed.  “Casey, this is just between us. Have you ever heard of The Padre?”

“The Padre? Get off it, Walker.  That’s the story they tell recruits when the instructors don’t want to tell them how bad it can get. He’s an urban legend.”

“No, he’s not.  He exists.”

“So you’re saying there really is a priest who occasionally helps out the CIA with agents who have left the reservation?”

“That’s exactly what I am saying, Casey.”

Casey grunted in disbelief.  “Just ‘cause I’m on pain killers from the shrapnel in my shoulder, it doesn’t mean I’m an idiot.”

“Casey, you said it yourself.  I used to be Langston Graham’s wildcard enforcer.  On a mission back in 2007, something went very wrong.  I completed my mission, but Bryce bailed on me after I got hurt.  I was falling apart. I was taken to this man.  A man who was a deacon.  A man they called The Padre.  He helped me to survive.”

Sarah paused to wipe away some tears.  She pulled Chuck closer to her.  “You were right when you said I had been compromised when I met Chuck.  But The Padre taught me to see the emotions I was feeling not as a curse, but as a gift to be embraced.  He told me I’d meet a man one day who would need me. Not the spy, not Agent Walker.  Me.”

Casey thought for a moment. He recalled hearing a story about how a turncoat ambassador was assassinated just before he could pass schematics for a chemical weapon to Al Qaeda.  After getting the intel, they took him out.  However, his two young sons were killed at the same time.

“That mission in Poland?  2007?  That was you?”......


I have most of the first chapter handwritten mostly.  It promises to be a LONG chapter.

Chuck Fiction Contest

So I was reading a question on Twitter that MXPW posed. It was about what Chuck Fan Fics we reread.  It got me to thinking; I wonder what would be my top 5 fics of all time.  After a few days of changing it countless times, I came upon the realization that I was having fun trying to (-get) (+create) my list.  Inspiration was not far behind this epiphany.

Could others have fun with this too?

So I went on twitter and asked a few people who have unofficially become a book club for fics. Uplink, Big Kev67, DWNACrumby, JoeltotheD, and last, but not least, alladinsgenie4u responded. For some reason a poll entered my mind. On FF the Awesome awards have just concluded, congrats to all the great winners by the way. (You can find them here http://forum.fanfiction.net/topic/49974/42966453/1/#43287923) I was thinking the Awesomes’ are just for one year, and pick a winner. What if we tried to find the five best fics of all time?  A kind of people’s choice awards for Chuck fan fiction.

When I brought this idea up to the group, Crumby, added a brilliant idea. We should include a universe as one story. For example What Fates Impose has oodles of companion stories. The bright side of life verse, from Notorius JMG, and SharpasMarble’s wonderful series of stories come to mind. Than the question was asked “What about one shots.”  So I thought, there are countless one shots who never seem to get acclaim.

So, let’s make it more interesting and include the top five short fics. I decided to define short by chapters, and not words. (The FF site has problems with word counts. Don’t want to bore you with minutia.)

A great example of this is Chuck and Sarah vs the Force Field by Farringtongirl. It is 3 chapters, but it does not go into the depth that a “multi chapter fic does” it basically covers one event. Another example is Tuesdays by Armadilloi. So I think a fic between 1-5 chapters is a good place for Short stories.

Finally, in my opinion, the toughest category of all, the five best authors. Most of us have our first couple picked out, but what about three, four, or five best authors:  Brickroad, Frea, LEECAN, NinjaVanish, MySoapBox, Timewalker05, FromPentoPaper, the whole CIA gang, BillatWork, Poa…. See what I mean, (and that’s the short list).

When I decided to do this, there was a couple of things I felt were important:

First, anonymity. The authors who write Fan fiction are mostly not professionals. They do it for practice, training, and for the love of writing. I do not want to hurt someones feelings by letting anyone know how many votes someone receives. The only way I can think of accomplishing this is to contactme through DM on twitter @Bdaddydl, Email Bdaddydl@Gmail.com, and FanFiction http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2353759/BDaddyDL I welcome any other suggestions.

Secondly, It is my hope that it’s not just the newer stories that get nominated. For example, LeeCan’s, Only Two Options, was completed in September of ‘08.  Another is revelations by MySoapBox that was completed of May of 09.  The fandom has a diverse history. It amazes me how good they are, and how close some of the older stories come to future cannon.

If you want some suggestions of some great stories or authors, please feel free to look at my favorites, or even better ATC Dave’s http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2347669/

I am debating having a second round to get to the final 5 in each category. Please let me know if you think that’s a good idea.  This way people can vote again when they realize they forgot a great author or story.