Cindy Sheehan's infanticide attempt foiled by Skippy the Wonder Dog
With her book hitting the shelves next week, Cindy Sheehan reveals she fantasizes about going back in time and killing George W Bush when he was an infant and so preventing the Iraq War. The revulsion evoked by discussing infanticide notwithstanding, her plan could never work because of the inevitable intervention of Skippy the Wonder Dog.
From Radar Online:
The right-wingers who think nothing but the worst of Cindy Sheehan probably won't change their minds after reading Peace Mom. In the book, which hits bookstores September 19, the antiwar icon admits she has fantasized about going back in time and killing the infant George W. Bush, thereby preventing the Iraq War.
What if Cindy Sheehan could go back in time? If she succeeded at murdering the infant George W Bush in 1946, then the Iraq War would never have happened (or so she thinks). If there was no Iraq War, Casey Sheehan would be alive, and she would never have gone back in time. But if she didn't go back in time, George W Bush would have lived to become president, and the war would have happened...
This is called a paradox.
Most physicists believe a paradox can never happen. The universe doesn't allow it.
If Cindy Sheehan had gone back in time, and managed to be in the same room as George W Bush, and prepared to smash the baby's skull with a brick, Bush would survive. How? Simple. Skippy the Wonder Dog would have leapt up at that precise moment to spoil her attack.
Or someone would have entered the room for the baby's scheduled feeding.
Or she would have dropped the brick on her foot and broken her toe, attracting attention.
Or something else would have gone wrong. Something had to go wrong, because George W Bush was not killed.
Imagine it this way. (This example came from a book on the physics of time travel, the name of which evades me right now. If you are interested, I'll be updating this post later when I have a chance to find the book.)
Your have a time machine consisting of a tube with two ends. Something entering one end pops out the other exactly a half-second earlier. The two ends of the time machine are connected to pockets of a pool table. You decide to construct a paradox and so cause the universe to unravel. You are going to sink the ball in the pocket at the entrance of the time machine, but you've exquisitely calculated your shot such that when the ball emerges from the machine, it will cross the table and knock its earlier self -- the one still on its way to the machine -- off course. The ball won't enter the pocket, and you'll have the paradox of two balls in the present, one of which has no origin.
Poof! The universe dissolves as a result.
What really happens? You take your shot, the ball emerges, it hits the earlier version of itself, but only grazes it. It still manages to get into the pocket. Every time.
OK, you figure you can still destroy the universe. You construct a special ball that is actually an explosive. It is armed after being struck, and it is designed to explode at the slightest touch afterward. Now if the ball suffers even just a grazing touch from itself, it will explode, and so not enter the time machine, creating a paradox.
You take your shot. You look at the exit of the time machine, but to your horror, no ball exits. Instead a piece of star-shaped shrapnel comes winging out. It strikes the ball that is still on its way to the time machine entrance. The ball explodes, and even as the pieces fly everywhere, you see a piece of star-shaped shrapnel flying into the entrance of the time machine.
No paradox. Reality is safe.
Really, this was just an excuse to talk about time travel. But it was also meant to be instructive. The First Law of Temporal Imaginings is this: "If it happened, it happened." There is nothing you can do about it. Indeed, if you could go back in time, you would find out that whatever you did was just part of what happened. You just didn't realize that it was you that the newspapers were refering to when they wrote about the mysterious stranger wielding a brick who was picked up by police trying to break into the Bush residence on July 7, 1946, the day after George W Bush was born. Fortunately, according to the news reports, the Bushes left exactly one half-hour earlier. You see, you forgot to correct for Daylight Saving Time and add an extra hour to your time machine settings. When you left the the present 5pm on December 31, 2006, you set the machine to go back 530,208 hours, expecting to appear at 5pm on July 7, 1946, but really it's 6pm according to the local clock. Your plan to sneak in and murder the Bush child has failed. Like I said, something always goes wrong.
Or in the words of Ashleigh Brilliant, "Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future."
Anyone who insists on living in the past is wasting time. Literally and figuratively.
And anyone who spends their time thinking about impossible ways to kill babies is a waste of space.
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"Anti-war icon"????? There is insane and then there are the truly insane!
Posted by: Don't Want To at September 7, 2006 04:42 PM
I have a sudden urge to go watch the movie Twelve Monkeys
Posted by: Jonny_eh at September 7, 2006 04:47 PM
Who has given this woman all the publicity?
She is a very troubled person. Hope she gets the help she needs. Many mothers have suffered losses of sons and daughters fighting for their Country. This mother is way too political, which robs her of the sympathy she deserves.
Mrs. Sheehan should have gotten more timely help.
Posted by: Biddy at September 7, 2006 05:25 PM
he he...
or most likey she would have been caught, thrown in jail and there never would have been a Casey to begin with.
Posted by: Sierra at September 7, 2006 06:30 PM
It amazes me that there are still people out there who haven't realized she's crazy.
Ref time travel, a simpler example is the idea of going back before you were born and killing your father. Obviously something would have to go wrong with that.
Posted by: Jay at September 7, 2006 06:48 PM
In the past, I could never understand Steve's posts about Cindy Sheehan. Now... I can see why some people keep watches Sheehan. It's like watching a train crash in slow motion.
Also, her comment about killing the infant Bush is just disgusting. It disgusts me. It made me feels that I wasted two minutes of my life. I wants them back, please.
Also, how Cindy Sheehan can be sure that killing Bush off in the past would prevent the Iraq war? Maybe George H.W. Bush would ignores the United Nations and the Arab nations and sent the US forces into Iraq after the end of Gulf War one. Maybe Bill Clinton would grow a pairs and do something about Saddam. Maybe we'll have a different president who signs the order for the invasion.
Maybe Saddam got killed in a coup or civil war in Iraq and the instabilites spread to other countries, resulting in USA going in to keep the peace.
There are a lot of possibilities. So I have to say that Cindy Sheehan is 100 percent naive.
Posted by: Crazy Dan at September 7, 2006 07:06 PM
Time travel is a fantasy.
A normal person would say "if I could go back in time, maybe I return to the point where I could convince my son not to join the army".
A delusional person says " I will go back in time and destroy the leader on whom I have projected all my frustration and anger".
The concern here is that Cindy is not alone in her delusional state. Someone with similar delusions could easily act out their projection; they are already living a fantasy.
Posted by: john at September 7, 2006 07:15 PM
What about people who dream up possible ways to kill babies like the Idiot in Chief, are they also wastes of space?
Posted by: Adam T at September 7, 2006 07:19 PM
My advise, don't buy the book!
Posted by: Hunter at September 7, 2006 11:56 PM
...and here I thought Skippy was a Bush Kangaroo back in the 70's after school TV thing I watched.
I must be in a parallel universe or time warp.
;-)
Sheehan who?
Posted by: tomax7 at September 8, 2006 12:08 AM
With all due respect:
Steve
You are missing the possibility that up to eleven dimensions exist. The chance of achieving the goal that PMS expressed is nominial....yet possible.
Plausibility may be a problem. As with most ideas from the leftoids....plausibility is the thing.
Syncro
Posted by: Syncrodox at September 8, 2006 02:18 AM
Solution to violence is to commit violence. Check.
Posted by: Shaken at September 8, 2006 07:13 AM
Janke's obsession with this fruitcake is almost as embarrassing as her own behaviour.
Nobody would even remember who she is by now if there weren't so many people giving her free press every time she says something idiotic.
Posted by: at September 8, 2006 07:27 AM
Janke's obsession with this fruitcake is almost as embarrassing as her own behaviour.
Nobody would even remember who she is by now if there weren't so many people giving her free press every time she says something idiotic.
Posted by: Mambo Bananapatch at September 8, 2006 07:27 AM
Sorry for that double post.
Posted by: at September 8, 2006 07:28 AM
Sarah Connor-Bush: Tell me about my son.
Kyle Reese: He's about my height. He has your eyes.
Sarah Connor-Bush: What's he like?
Kyle Reese: You trust him. He's got a strength. I'd die for George W. Bush.
Sarah Connor-Bush: Well... at least now I know what to name him. I don't suppose you know who the father is, so I won't tell him to get lost when I meet him?
Kyle Reese: George never said much about him. I know he dies before the war.
Sarah Connor-Bush: Wait. I don't want to know.
Posted by: alan at September 8, 2006 08:27 AM
From a legal standpoint, infanticide denotes the situation where a mother kills her own infant child. The law law recognizes possible diminished responsibility due to emotional pressures on the mother of an infant. To kill someone else's infant is plain murder.
Posted by: murray at September 8, 2006 08:46 AM
It just so happens that I'm reading a book by Robert Forward called Timemaster where this time-travel non-paradox effect is central to the plot.
"In the region of a time machine, low probability events become certainties where they are necessary to prevent a paradox"
Posted by: DocBrown at September 8, 2006 08:56 AM
I often have time travel fantasies similar to Cindy's. They usually involve Cindy's mother and father, an old Chevrolet parked behind a bar, and multiple birth control devices.
An alternate fantasy involves Mr. Sheehan losing his pecker in the war.
Posted by: Peace Moonbeam at September 8, 2006 11:00 AM
Geeze Angry, would you either get another server or close down.
Posted by: Biddy at September 8, 2006 04:58 PM
As weird as it sounds, this post inspired a weird dream last night....
Posted by: Jon at September 8, 2006 07:36 PM
 
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