Anti-choice politician changes name to Pro-Life

[BurtWorm]

From Feministing:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Feministing/~3/257647817/008869.html

Oh those wacky anti-choicers!

A Senate candidate has legally changed his name to Pro-Life and will appear on the ballot that way this year, state election officials say.

As Marvin Pro-Life Richardson, the organic strawberry farmer from Letha, 30 miles northwest of Boise, was denied the use of his middle name when he ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2006 because the state's policy bars the use of slogans on the ballot.

Now, though, officials in the Idaho secretary of state's office say they have no choice because Pro-Life is his full and only name. He says he will run for the highest state office on the ballot every two years for the rest of his life, advocating murder charges for doctors who perform abortions and for women who obtain the procedure.

Sounds like a charming guy. I think I'm going to change my middle name to Profuckingchoice, just for funsies. Any other fun stick-it-to-the-Man names?

[niyad]

1. I thought this was a joke when I heard about it the other day

[LSparkle]

2. Reminds me of the old blues guys ...

I'm sure I have these wrong but Clarence "Frogman" Henry
and (XX) "Gatemouth" Brown ...

Think I'll change my middle name to "Hussein" in solidarity
with B. Husstein Obama!

[Jester Messiah]

3. A landfill by any other name would smell as rank... [nt]

[uppityperson]

4. I knew a guy named 1069 (one zero six nine)

He was called Mr 1069, or 10 (one zero) by friends. He didn't get to keep his teaching job for long after that, got a bit, um, odd.

So, mr pro-life wants murder charges for women who get abortions? I wonder if that carries the death penalty or merely life in prison?

Edited to add more about 1069 (me, OCD?):
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,915817,00.html

For the record he would like to be known as 1069 (pronounced One Zero Six Nine), but friends may call him "One Zero" for short. He wants society to recognize his right to use the four digits as his legal name rather than the one his parents gave him—Michael Herbert Dengler. After four years of unsuccessful attempts to get North Dakota and Minnesota authorities, the telephone company and a series of employers to identify him by his numerical name, Dengler, now 32 and a sometime short-order cook, last week sued for the name change in Minnesota's Hennepin County district court.

For Dengler each digit has an ingenious symbolic significance. One means, "I am part of the whole of life, which is one." Fair enough. But the others are more esoteric. Nine, for example, "stands for relationship to essence in the difference in the meaning when actualizing the spatially everpresent nature of life."

Minnesota law requires no reason for a name change so long as it is not for fraudulent purposes. The judge who heard the petition said he was impressed by Dengler's sincerity but could not rule until he had pondered whether a number could qualify under the statutory meaning of the word name.

http://www.court.state.nd.us/court/opinions/9205.htm

"The first character, 1, stands for my concept of nature which manifests itself as one individual among the various forms of life. I stand as a single entity amongst millions of other entities, animate and inanimate. But yet even though I am an entity unto myself, I am part of the whole of life which is one. I am one; life is one; and together we are one.

"The second character, 0, shows my relationship with time in movement through life; I feel that I recognize a

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past, experience a present, and am aware of a future with equal regard. I am therefore zero with respect to my march on the road of life.

"The third character, 6, is equal to the relationship I have with the universe in my understanding of space of my spatial occupancy through this life.

"The fourth and final character, 9, stands for the relationship I have to essence in the difference in the meaning when actualizing the spatially ever present nature of life. This final digit is like a string which surrounds the entirety of the previous three digits and explains the first three digits' concepts as they interact among each other to produce my philosophy."

Petitioner concluded with:

"The interaction of these phenomenon, which are represented by these numerals, creates an identity which is me. The only way that this identity can be expressed is 1069."

http://www.gnostics.com/numberstue.html

1069 is a collective unconscious constant number;

1069 / 37 = 28.891891891...



...which can describe the fine-structure constant from physics...aem = 1 / 137.036



DENGLER NUMBER: 1069

(( 10 ^ ( 1068.999988 / 37 ) - 25 )) / 666 ) ^ - 2 = 1 / 137.036

LEAHY'S DREAM NUMBER: 2808

(( 10 ^ (( 2807.999988 / 37 ) - 72 )) / 666 ) ^ - 2 = 1 / 137.036

PLATO"S CYCLIC NUMBER: 25920

(( 10 ^ ( 2591.999783 / 666 )) / 666 ) ^ - 2 = 1 / 137.036

JOHN OF PATMOS TRANCE NUMBERS: 144, 1260 , 9505

(( 10 ^ ( 143.9999879 / 37 )) / 666 ) ^ - 2 = 1 / 137.036

(( 10 ^ (( 1259.999783 / 666 ) + 2 )) / 666 ) ^ - 2 = 1/137.036

(( 10 ^ (( 9504.999988 / 37 ) - 253 )) / 666 ) ^ - 2 = 1/ 137.036

HINDU YUGA NUMBER : 108

(( 10 ^ (( 107.999999 / .37 ) - 288 )) / 666 ) ^ - 2 = 1/137.036