I can’t believe I forgot to mention this before. Any of you watch “Chuck?” It’s a spy show about a nerd who becomes a spy. It’s funny with some action. Not really for kids though but I enjoy it.
Anyway, Adam Baldwin is in it. And as some of you know, he’s a pretty conservative guy. (He retweeted CMR once so we’re practically peeps.)
In a recent episode Baldwin’s character, Col. John Casey, is asked about preparing and planning for a mission.
Casey says: “Readiness, like life, begins at the point of conception.” I nearly fell out of my seat. I couldn’t believe I heard what I heard. But that’s awesome. Casey is typically good for a few hippie jokes here and there but that pro-life line was great.
What makes me extra happy is that the one time a television show breaks from liberal orthodoxy in years and libs freak. Message boards lit up calling it a “low point” or “just weird” or “The abortion throw out was not relevant and not needed.”
Hey, any time pro-choice libs are mad, I get happy. I know it’s shallow but…yeah.
And the star of Chuck, Zac Levi, is a pretty committed Christian. We wrote a post on it a while ago. You can check that out here.
December 8, 2011 at 7:27 pm
ok- I'm going to make 'Chuck' my next on-line television show
December 8, 2011 at 9:10 pm
My sister-in-law keeps telling me I need to watch this show, maybe I finally will.
It's amusing that pro-aborts have no issue calling a single-celled amoeba life, but a newly formed human being? Clutch at pearls, good lawd no!
December 8, 2011 at 10:18 pm
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”—George Orwell
December 8, 2011 at 11:25 pm
Dear Anonymous, Ad hominem comments such as your rude one about Katie/her family, are not a sign of intellect, nor do they add to the conversation. Peace be with you.
December 9, 2011 at 12:39 am
Adam Baldwin is probably my favorite actor—one of the few good things about Firefly (do not get me started), and the best thing about the very-very-good Halo 3: ODST. The three lead characters of that game are based on their voice-actors' characters in Firefly (Dutch, Buck, Micky=Jayne, Mal, Wash), but I think the actors had more control (or maybe the writers were just more mature than Joss Whedon, not that that's hard). Thus, Dutch, unlike Jayne, is not a sociopath, and is happily married and religious (the latter seen in this somewhat tongue-in-cheek prayer). Baldwin himself is some manner of Evangelical, I believe.
BTW, he's not related to Alec and co., in case anyone asks.
December 9, 2011 at 4:35 am
on the topic of christian "holywood" Jim Cavizel has found an acting job, about 7 years since his last, the passion of the christ.
I'm guessing his 7-year sabbatical was not voluntary.
December 9, 2011 at 3:54 pm
What network/day is it on?
(Sorry too lazy to look it up.)
December 9, 2011 at 6:26 pm
Fridays at 8pm/7central on NBC.
December 9, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Anonymous of 11:35 — Cavizel starred in that horrible cable remake of The Prisoner in 2009 and appeared in six or seven other projects in the years between Passion and Person of Interest. There was no "7-year sabbatical". Has he been a major star who can open a movie? No, but you can say the same for most other actors.
December 9, 2011 at 6:58 pm
YIKES! NOOOO! Not NBC! 🙁
That network is banned in my home. Hmmm. I may have to re-think that one show. But I hate to give them a moment's support.
Thanks ANON
December 9, 2011 at 7:35 pm
@Katie There no such thing as pro abortion. Atleast I hope there isn't becaused that wrong, the term is pro-choice because a women should have the choice to abort a pregnancy that would put the baby in a bad home or threaten the mothers life. aka not as birth control. Oh an an Amoeba, thing clearly you have read up on your biology, because an Amoeba is a fully functional SINGLE-cell Organism. Sorry but a don't know too many humans that are single cell organisms. In other word The Amoeba has all it needs to survive in one cell. I'm pretty sure a unicellular human doesn't. I respect people having different side of views but if you gonna say something please back it up with actual fact.
Oh and Chuck is an amazing show great cast, and Yvonne Strohovski is a beautiful, talented, and outstanding actress. An i hate NBC as well but not for the same reason, because they completely screwed chuck over for the past 5 years Sorry to see it go.
-BioEngineer at the great University of Pittsburgh
December 9, 2011 at 7:54 pm
My family watched 'Chuck' since the beginning. My granddaughters love it. It's good family entertainment. Some of the characters are really out there, but in an funny way.
December 9, 2011 at 11:44 pm
Tim Thompson: Your view that there is not a pro-abortion movement and that abortion is not used as birth control, coupled with the poor English of your post, makes me think that you are not really a "BioEngineer" anywhere. Perhaps English is not your first language, in which case, I apologize.
Regarding the short, pithy comment Katie made about the anti-(inconvenient human)-life proponents' application of the term "life" to an amoeba and not to a zygote; here is a more detailed (long-winded, less pithy?) comment:
The zygote has within it the power to grow (which it does from the point of conception) and the latent power of organized development (which it begins to exercise in about two weeks after conception). From a biological standpoint, the mother simply provides the environment within which the new being (i.e., a being with different genetic make up than the matter of its being prior to conception) may develop. Because a human being requires cell differentiation from the zygote stage through maturation is not significant when considering whether or not the zygote is living and, in fact, a human life. Directing one's own development while having a consistent unique genetic code should constitute not just "life" but "a life". I question anyone's sincerity who thinks these are not important facts when determining when a human being begins his existence. (I'm not saying you have to agree with me to be intellectually sincere, but you had better come up with something compelling to address the issues of biological self-organization.)
Just a note if any rebuttal is forthcoming: As Aristotle points out, "nature" is that which happens always or for the most part. Please don't bog down the discussion with exceptions. If you are a scientist, your MO is to deal with (or try to discover) the consistent before you tackle the exception.
Merry Christmas, Tim!
-liberal art graduate from the lowly Thomas Aquinas College
December 10, 2011 at 7:44 am
ALL multicellular life begins at conception. Plants, animals, humans. However, a highly significant percentage don't make it to maturity.
Some plant seeds die, or fail to locate in a nurturing environment. Then there's the problem of things like caterpillars and larger creatures who eat plants.
Not all animals make it. We've seen wildlife programs, right?
In humans, it's reckoned 15% of babies are lost due to miscarriage:- [http://www.centerforhumanreprod.com/miscarriages.html ]
So, what is our attitude to all the life that is wasted naturally?
December 10, 2011 at 7:45 am
P.S. Adam is an amazing actor and a great human being 🙂
December 12, 2011 at 10:32 pm
I just now happened to see this:
@Tim the Bio whatever:
Get your money back from wherever you earned your bio degree. They lied to you. At the moment of conception a human egg is fertilized and it is ONE SINGLE CELL: (Same # of cells as an amoebae.)
It is alive, and it is not horse or dog – it is human. Therefore it a human life. To kill it is wrong.
Now if I missed something in the translation of what you were trying to say then sorry.
As for Xaclone or whatever:
How do we feel about humans that die of natural causes? That's kind of a weird question. How do you feel about it? I am generally sad. When there is a miscarriage it is a tragic thing. When I don't know about it – I am less sad. People die. Sometimes it is meant to people. So long as I DIDN'T KILL THEM FOR MY OWN REASONS.
Surprised to see the comparison between a human and a caterpillar as there is a fairly large difference between the two – at least in my neighborhood. Humans are special. Look in the mirror. You are special too gosh darn it!