The American Pravda loves to compare their favorite idol, President Obama, to Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK, and even Ronald Reagan. Other than the accurate comparison to the big government FDR, what absolute lunacy!
From day one, I nailed Obama to his true clone, Jimmy Carter. Obama's an absolute replica of the bumbling Carter on both domestic and foreign policy. By the time this Egyptian revolution comes to a close, we shall all see the parallels on foreign policy between Obama on Egypt to Carter on Iran.
Read from Big Government:
Obama’s Carter Moment
by Pamela Geller
"In stark, bitter contrast to his indifference to the popular Iranian uprising in the summer of 2009, Barack Obama has almost immediately engaged in events on the ground in Egypt, and it’s not good. Obama took no such action with Iran — a jihadist terrorist state agitating in countries all over the world. That was an historic missed opportunity.
In 2009, his silence about the brutal, murderous putdown of its people by the Iranian mullahcracy amount to his tacit support of that putdown, and spoke volumes. Obama became part of the problem, not part of the solution. He gave religious barbarism the free hand. In response, Iranian protestors had a direct message for America’s president: 'You’re Either With Us or With Them.'
And since then also, Obama’s most consistent response to Iran (as well as to North Korea’s hostile moves) has been to ignore them and hope that proven evildoers will behave themselves. Wrong. The good cop is off the beat.
Obama failed, and the consequences of his failure have begun to be made manifest now in Egypt. I cannot understate the importance of Egypt to American interests and Israeli security. Egypt is arguably the second-most important country to the US in the region. Mubarak has been a U.S. ally for decades. We send three billion dollars a year to Egypt. And Egypt made a peace deal with Israel.
But knowing Obama, he will throw another ally under the bus.
Yes, Mubarak needs to institute democratic reform. I pray he doesn’t brutally respond to the uprising like Iran did — they slaughtered their people and crushed the Iranian revolution.
Meanwhile, the more the layers are peeled back, the more we see the hand of Iran behind what is unfolding in Egypt and all over the Middle East.
Who has emerged as a leader for post-Mubarak Egypt? Iran’s man, Mohammad ElBaradei. It is widely acknowledged that, as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), ElBaradei ignored and left out of reports evidence that the IAEA had about Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program. He did as much as the North Koreans to advance Iran’s nuclear weapons program. For years he provided the cover they needed in the international community to build their annihilationist program.
If Obama had seized the moment in the Iranian freedom uprising, we would not be in this position now. Iran is casting a dark cloud over the free world. The mullahs are conducting a covert war against the West in Iraq and Afghanistan. Iran has aligned with Venezuela and Brazil, in an Islamic imperialistic advance into Latin America. And now Iran’s bomb man ElBaradei is jockeying for power in Egypt.
Whatever comes after Mubarak will be terrible. Make no mistake.
The disastrous handling of the Iranian hostage crisis by the worst-ever President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, led to the rise of Islamic jihad across the world (that and the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan). If we still had an ally in Iran, what a wonderful and different world this would be.
The Islamic takeover in Iran also started out as a secular movement and democratic unrest. Then Khomeini flew in from France and it was game over. Fast forward to 2011 in Egypt, and the same story is playing out again.
The global jihad means to install beachheads in Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, and in any other state that may succumb, in what appears to a domino effect. There are now rumblings in Syria and Jordan as well. Turkey is switching sides.
And the rest of the Muslim world has its finger on their itchy trigger. I hold little hope that freedom lovers in these countries have any shot against the devout Muslim movements when the leader of the free world has long since abdicated. Egypt is a secular government. The objective for all freedom-loving peoples in the world should be a transition to a new secular government. Will those elements in the protest movement be able to stave off Islamic supremacists? Iranian imperialism? I think not.
Iran has its hooves all over this.
This could be America and the West’s worst nightmare. All that military aid in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood would change everything. The Muslim Brotherhood is the head of the snake in the global violent Islamic supremacist war. They are our mortal enemy and are committed to our destruction. In a captured internal document in the largest Muslim Brotherhood terror funding case in US history, the stated aim of the Muslim Brotherhood is 'eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and sabatoging its miserable house.' And they are doing it. The Brotherhood proxies here in the US include CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, MAS, MSA, et al. Complete infiltration. Their operatives, notably Grover Norquist, are in key positions of power (on the left and the right), bought and paid for with jihad dollars.
And Obama? That quisling President invited the Muslim Brotherhood to his infamous 'speech to the ummah' back in June of 2009. Civilizational surrender.
I am all for political freedom. But will Islamic jihad allow for anything but the sharia? Never. As bad as Mubarak was and is, Islamic law is far worse. The battle in Egypt is between the secularists and Islamic supremacists; they are united only in their hate for Israel, as mandated by the Qur’an. The cries of 'Allahu akbar' in the streets do not instill confidence in the outcome.
May free men prevail."
UPDATE: The forgotten Egyptians: The Copts
More on the infamous Muslim Brotherhood from New Zeal:
Monday, January 31, 2011
Egyptians and Their Hatred for Israel
It always comes down to their hatred for Israel. No wonder these Muslim nations which have no oil are so backward. If they spent half the energy they use in hating Israel toward something productive, perhaps they could rise above their extreme levels of poverty.
If you ask me, I think the turmoil in Egypt is a judgment from God for the recent persecution of the Egyptian Christians. God will not sit back idly while His followers are being massacred. Add that to the hatred for God's chosen people, the Jews, and the Muslim world can look forward to the unleashing of God's wrath upon them.
The Egyptians, in their quest for freedom, will in the end be worse off than before the riots because the Muslim Brotherhood will use this chaos to come in and gain control of the nation. Mubarak, the lowlife thug that he is, will look like a prince after a few years of the Brotherhood in charge, especially for the female population of Egypt.
From Atlas Shrugs:
Learn more about the Muslim Brotherhood here.
If you ask me, I think the turmoil in Egypt is a judgment from God for the recent persecution of the Egyptian Christians. God will not sit back idly while His followers are being massacred. Add that to the hatred for God's chosen people, the Jews, and the Muslim world can look forward to the unleashing of God's wrath upon them.
The Egyptians, in their quest for freedom, will in the end be worse off than before the riots because the Muslim Brotherhood will use this chaos to come in and gain control of the nation. Mubarak, the lowlife thug that he is, will look like a prince after a few years of the Brotherhood in charge, especially for the female population of Egypt.
From Atlas Shrugs:
Learn more about the Muslim Brotherhood here.
The Muslim Growth Explosion
Talk about bad news just before you retire for the night. It should be no surprise, but the Muslim population throughout the world is increasing at double the rate of the infidel population.
Now, if they were peace-loving Muslims, I would have no problem with these statistics, though it is sad to see so many people who reject Christ and by doing so end up with a one-way ticket to hell. But, a little reality check reminds me that a huge number of them are not peace-loving. In fact, MANY Muslims want to see a worldwide Islamic caliphate. Now, I don't know about you, but I'm not too fond of burkhas, and I don't want to be treated like a second-class citizen just because I am a female.
Hey, I did my part by having five children. Get out there and change these statistics for the welfare of the entire world.
Read the disturbing facts via Jihad Watch:
World Muslim population growing twice as fast as non-Muslim population
"With that growth will come increasing demands for Sharia across the globe. Demographic Jihad Update: 'World Muslim Population Grows Twice as Fast as Others,' by Lauren Frayer for AOL News, January 27 (thanks to all who sent this in):
'The global number of Muslims is expected to jump 35 percent in the next 20 years, growing twice as fast as the non-Muslim population, according to a study published today. But Muslims are multiplying at a slower pace than before, and their numbers are expected to level out in the coming decades.
That's according to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, which published on its website today projections for growth in the Muslim population between 2010 and 2030. The analysis could stoke fears among critics of Islam in Europe and America, who claim the religion clashes with Western values and spreads extremism. But it could also abate those fears, with evidence that Islam is not exploding across the globe as fast as some pundits may have suggested....
According to the Pew report, the total number of people who identify themselves as Muslims is currently about 1.6 billion. That figure is expected to rise to 2.2 billion by the year 2030. That's an average growth rate of 1.5 percent, compared with forecast growth of 0.7 percent for non-Muslims over the next 20 years. If those trends continue, Muslims will make up 26.4 percent of the world's population in 2030, compared with 23.4 percent now....'"
Now, if they were peace-loving Muslims, I would have no problem with these statistics, though it is sad to see so many people who reject Christ and by doing so end up with a one-way ticket to hell. But, a little reality check reminds me that a huge number of them are not peace-loving. In fact, MANY Muslims want to see a worldwide Islamic caliphate. Now, I don't know about you, but I'm not too fond of burkhas, and I don't want to be treated like a second-class citizen just because I am a female.
Hey, I did my part by having five children. Get out there and change these statistics for the welfare of the entire world.
Read the disturbing facts via Jihad Watch:
World Muslim population growing twice as fast as non-Muslim population
"With that growth will come increasing demands for Sharia across the globe. Demographic Jihad Update: 'World Muslim Population Grows Twice as Fast as Others,' by Lauren Frayer for AOL News, January 27 (thanks to all who sent this in):
'The global number of Muslims is expected to jump 35 percent in the next 20 years, growing twice as fast as the non-Muslim population, according to a study published today. But Muslims are multiplying at a slower pace than before, and their numbers are expected to level out in the coming decades.
That's according to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, which published on its website today projections for growth in the Muslim population between 2010 and 2030. The analysis could stoke fears among critics of Islam in Europe and America, who claim the religion clashes with Western values and spreads extremism. But it could also abate those fears, with evidence that Islam is not exploding across the globe as fast as some pundits may have suggested....
According to the Pew report, the total number of people who identify themselves as Muslims is currently about 1.6 billion. That figure is expected to rise to 2.2 billion by the year 2030. That's an average growth rate of 1.5 percent, compared with forecast growth of 0.7 percent for non-Muslims over the next 20 years. If those trends continue, Muslims will make up 26.4 percent of the world's population in 2030, compared with 23.4 percent now....'"
Ties Between SEIU and Terrorists
I've warned about the marriage between the Hard Left and the Islamists. It is a strange union. Though they both share the same great disdain for the God of the Bible and His devoted followers, they don't quite agree on homosexuality. At some point, this issue will divide them.
In the meantime, there is some hanky panky going on between Obama's favorite union, SEIU and terrorists groups. Wow! What a surprise! Read all about it, via Weasel Zippers:
SEIU Members Being Investigated For Working With Hamas and FARC Terrorists…
"The Islamists/leftist axis of evil remains as strong as ever.
(Big Gov’t)- Prominent current and former members of SEIU local 73 are being investigated for their potential ties to the Hamas and FARC terrorist groups.
Late last year, their homes were raided by the FBI, and they were subpoenaed to appear in front of a grand jury for questioning.
Joe Iosbaker, Chief Steward of SEIU 73, and Tom Burke (former board member of SEIU 73) are among 9 people who are subjects in the investigation. None of them have been charged with any crimes, yet.
Two days ago, they refused again to appear in front of the grand jury.
The interesting thing about these SEIU folks is that they also belong to a violently radical group called the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. From their website:
"The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a revolutionary socialist and Marxist-Leninist organization in the United States.
1) We stand for the right to self-determination up to and including secession for the African American nation in the Black Belt South.
While rejecting Zionist claims on Palestine and white supremacist claims to a white southern nation or northwestern nation, we do acknowledge the fact that the most advanced sections of the Black liberation movement, from the 1800s on, have demanded a Black Republic in the South."
It gets worse from there.
This is the same group who, along with the other subjects of the FBI investigation, takes credit for staging the 2008 RNC protest-riots.
Shockingly, SEIU leadership is supporting their accused members, and the chosen strategy of not cooperating with law enforcement.'
Keep reading…"
In the meantime, there is some hanky panky going on between Obama's favorite union, SEIU and terrorists groups. Wow! What a surprise! Read all about it, via Weasel Zippers:
SEIU Members Being Investigated For Working With Hamas and FARC Terrorists…
"The Islamists/leftist axis of evil remains as strong as ever.
(Big Gov’t)- Prominent current and former members of SEIU local 73 are being investigated for their potential ties to the Hamas and FARC terrorist groups.
Late last year, their homes were raided by the FBI, and they were subpoenaed to appear in front of a grand jury for questioning.
Joe Iosbaker, Chief Steward of SEIU 73, and Tom Burke (former board member of SEIU 73) are among 9 people who are subjects in the investigation. None of them have been charged with any crimes, yet.
Two days ago, they refused again to appear in front of the grand jury.
The interesting thing about these SEIU folks is that they also belong to a violently radical group called the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. From their website:
"The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a revolutionary socialist and Marxist-Leninist organization in the United States.
1) We stand for the right to self-determination up to and including secession for the African American nation in the Black Belt South.
While rejecting Zionist claims on Palestine and white supremacist claims to a white southern nation or northwestern nation, we do acknowledge the fact that the most advanced sections of the Black liberation movement, from the 1800s on, have demanded a Black Republic in the South."
It gets worse from there.
This is the same group who, along with the other subjects of the FBI investigation, takes credit for staging the 2008 RNC protest-riots.
Shockingly, SEIU leadership is supporting their accused members, and the chosen strategy of not cooperating with law enforcement.'
Keep reading…"
The Scholars on the Left
The geniuses in the Democratic Party, starting with President Obama, come up with some lunatic statements. Try to imagine the hoopla if either one of these comments had come out of the mouth of George W. Bush or Sarah Palin.
First, from our genius president, the smartest man to ever sit in the White House, via Gateway Pundit:
"President Obama declares, 'As I said, we will be out of Afghanistan by the end of this year… Combat operations in Afghanistan have ended.'"
Oh really? Tell that to our troops and their families.
And from the brilliant senator from New York, Chuckie Schumer, who still hasn't learned the three branches of government. From Weasel Zippers:
First, from our genius president, the smartest man to ever sit in the White House, via Gateway Pundit:
"President Obama declares, 'As I said, we will be out of Afghanistan by the end of this year… Combat operations in Afghanistan have ended.'"
Oh really? Tell that to our troops and their families.
And from the brilliant senator from New York, Chuckie Schumer, who still hasn't learned the three branches of government. From Weasel Zippers:
Saturday, January 29, 2011
The Stage Is Being Set
We have Jimmy Carter to thank for the overthrow of the Shah of Iran in 1979 and the ushering in of the hard-line Islamists led by the Ayatollah Khomeini. Certainly, the Shah was not the ideal leader, just as Hosni Mubarak leaves a lot to be desired in Egypt. In the not too distant future, we are likely to witness the overthrow of Mubarak and the rise to power of the Egyptian terrorist group known as the Muslim Brotherhood, all while President Obama does absolutely nothing to stop this scenario from occurring. Mubarak and the Shah, as bad as they are, and were in the Shah's case, look like knights in shining armor compared to Islamic terrorists that now reign in Iran and in all probability will take over Egypt.
The United States is a huge contributor of financial aid to Egypt, to the tune of $2 billion/year. It's time for President Obama to use his leverage and take a stand on behalf of Mubarak. Sure, he should pressure him to make some real reforms because the Egyptian people are suffering in poverty, but Egypt has been an ally of the United States and is at peace with Israel, something that must be remembered as allies in the Middle East are few and far between. And the Muslim Brotherhood in charge of the Suez Canal? How's that sound?
Sometimes a bad situation can be made a whole lot worse, and with Barack Obama at the helm, I have little confidence that America will rise to the occasion and save Egypt from becoming another terrorist state. While Obama fiddles, the Iranians are rejoicing with the prospect of yet another terrorist state on Israel's doorstep.
With Hezbollah now in charge of Lebanon, the savage Palestinians in Gaza, the increased unrest in Jordan, and the chaos in Egypt, the stage is now being set for the war of all wars written about in the book of Obadiah, a war in which Israel will wipe out her enemies.
Check out the following from John McTernan.
The United States is a huge contributor of financial aid to Egypt, to the tune of $2 billion/year. It's time for President Obama to use his leverage and take a stand on behalf of Mubarak. Sure, he should pressure him to make some real reforms because the Egyptian people are suffering in poverty, but Egypt has been an ally of the United States and is at peace with Israel, something that must be remembered as allies in the Middle East are few and far between. And the Muslim Brotherhood in charge of the Suez Canal? How's that sound?
Sometimes a bad situation can be made a whole lot worse, and with Barack Obama at the helm, I have little confidence that America will rise to the occasion and save Egypt from becoming another terrorist state. While Obama fiddles, the Iranians are rejoicing with the prospect of yet another terrorist state on Israel's doorstep.
With Hezbollah now in charge of Lebanon, the savage Palestinians in Gaza, the increased unrest in Jordan, and the chaos in Egypt, the stage is now being set for the war of all wars written about in the book of Obadiah, a war in which Israel will wipe out her enemies.
Check out the following from John McTernan.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Americans Are Dumb As Dirt
Conservatives have every reason to be very concerned about the 2012 presidential election. Regardless of the success in the 2010 Congressional races, we MUST NOT be overly confident that Obama can be defeated.
Yes, Americans are overwhelming opposed to big government and all the spending and debt that our politicians have forced upon us. But, President Obama has a way with words and a charisma which draws the public to him. I am convinced that the public is as dumb as dirt if they truly believe that the radical Obama has changed his stripes and become a centrist.
Forget what the man says because he will say anything to get re-elected. Instead, watch what is going on behind the scenes, especially when it comes to executive orders. This will be difficult to do since he has a willing press to hide his every radical move from the public.
Check out the president's poll numbers. Ever since late June 2009, the president's presidential approval index has been in the negatives, usually in the negative teens. But, recently, his numbers have been improving. Apparently, Americans are beginnning to forget about Obama's radical agenda and his Chicago thug-style political dealings. They are once again falling for his lies--hook, line, and sinker.
What is really scary is the fact that if he wins another term, he has no third term to worry about, unless, of course, he turns America into a dictatorship. He could essentially push through any radical agenda without worrying about re-election. If you think the last two years have been bad, you ain't seen nothing yet! May God have mercy on America!
Read from the American Thinker:
The 40-Percent President: Obama's Cruise to Reelection
By Paul Kengor
"We're at the halfway mark of Barack Obama's first term as president. I say 'first term' because I'm confident that this isn't his last. Conservatives will not want to hear this, but I've felt all along that Obama will be a two-term president, and nothing I've seen dispels that notion.
My thinking is grounded primarily in two sets of data.
The first is expressed in the title of this article: 40 percent. President Barack Obama does not dip below 40-percent approval. Period.
Liberals called Ronald Reagan the Teflon President. No matter what Reagan did, nothing undermined his presidency. Well, Barack Obama is the 40-Percent President. No matter what Obama does, nothing undermines his presidency -- or at least nothing drops it below 40-percent approval.
Of course, Reagan achieved record approvals, which is how he was reelected by winning 49 states and taking the Electoral College 525-13. I don't expect Obama to get anywhere near that; his disapproval ratings are too sizable. Of course, Obama doesn't need 525 Electoral votes; he needs only enough to win.
It will be difficult to defeat a presidential incumbent who can't seem to ever slip below 40 percent and, in essence, merely needs to muster another 10 percent at election time. Picking up that 10 percent shouldn't be terribly difficult with a public that prefers to know about who's prancing around half-naked on 'Dancing with the Stars' or who's stripping on 'Desperate Housewives' over bothering with trifling concepts like wealth redistribution, nationalization, progressivism, or negative liberties. One hilarious video clip shows Obama's own supporters literally not knowing the difference between a Kenyan and Keynesian (click here).
It frustrates me when I hear conservative talk show hosts (Sean Hannity especially) shouting, 'Obama's approval is dropping like a rock!' Each time I've heard that, I've paused patiently to listen for the information that followed, only to discover that the president's numbers weren't dropping, or were barely dropping, and never below the 40-percent range.
Dropping like a rock? No.
Barack Obama has an incredibly devout base, made up of a handful of super-loyal constituencies. This includes the roughly 20-23 percent of Americans who are genuine liberals. Alas, that's another frustration: Conservatives occasionally claim that Obama's angry left-wing base has turned on him. Nonsense. Sure, liberals fume at Obama now and then, but they're usually angry. In the end, those liberals will never vote for a Republican as president and against Obama. The left is too disciplined.
In short, Obama can do practically anything, including worsen an already awful economy, generate unimaginable debts, and retain a lock on a significant portion of the electorate. Beyond that portion, it's simply a matter of Obama again duping enough of the oblivious -- who pay attention to presidential politics only about four weeks every four years -- and enough of our nation's exalted 'moderates' and 'independents.' These folks are incredibly fickle, often not making up their mind for president until they're in that voting booth, as they did in November 2008.
As I wrote here at the time and have reiterated elsewhere since (click here), these were the dupes that made Obama president. Will they again? They've certainly done nothing to fill me with optimism.
I know the counter-response to this: Kengor, you're wrong -- the moderates and independents that elected Obama in November 2008 bailed on the Democrats in November 2010. Yes, they spurned the Democratic majority in the House in 2010, but that will not necessarily extend to Obama in 2012. Besides, Obama doesn't need all of them. He needs just enough of them.
If Americans were willing to elect a man as far to the left as Obama in November 2008 -- despite his background, his remarkably radical associations, and his highly troubling and still mysterious background -- enough of them will again.
Finally, that brings me to my second set of data: Obama is again surging in the polls, just when it looked like he might dip below 40 percent. (I recall one poll had him momentarily at 39 percent.) As I write, Obama's RealClearPolitics cumulative job approval is 51%. Yes, 51 percent.
That's stunning. After everything that has happened during this man's presidency, from nearly $1 trillion in blown stimulus to nationalizing GM to persistent 10-percent unemployment, and after the Democrats' trouncing in the November midterm, how could Obama suddenly pop above 50%? Was it the rally-round-the-president after the Tucson shooting and Obama's (admittedly) well-done speech? Was it Obama's compromise to extend the Bush tax cuts?
Maybe, in part. But those positives shouldn't outweigh all the negatives. And yet, the negatives haven't sunk Obama. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright may have damned America, but he couldn't damn Obama.
Again, conservatives will not want to hear this. But unlike liberals, we conservatives are supposed to base our judgment not on emotion, but on cold, hard facts, and I fear that my pessimistic appraisal may fall in the category of cold, hard fact.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying conservatives should lie down, roll over, and accept this as a fait accompli. Quite the contrary -- that would be un-American. I'm simply not optimistic."
Yes, Americans are overwhelming opposed to big government and all the spending and debt that our politicians have forced upon us. But, President Obama has a way with words and a charisma which draws the public to him. I am convinced that the public is as dumb as dirt if they truly believe that the radical Obama has changed his stripes and become a centrist.
Forget what the man says because he will say anything to get re-elected. Instead, watch what is going on behind the scenes, especially when it comes to executive orders. This will be difficult to do since he has a willing press to hide his every radical move from the public.
Check out the president's poll numbers. Ever since late June 2009, the president's presidential approval index has been in the negatives, usually in the negative teens. But, recently, his numbers have been improving. Apparently, Americans are beginnning to forget about Obama's radical agenda and his Chicago thug-style political dealings. They are once again falling for his lies--hook, line, and sinker.
What is really scary is the fact that if he wins another term, he has no third term to worry about, unless, of course, he turns America into a dictatorship. He could essentially push through any radical agenda without worrying about re-election. If you think the last two years have been bad, you ain't seen nothing yet! May God have mercy on America!
Read from the American Thinker:
The 40-Percent President: Obama's Cruise to Reelection
By Paul Kengor
"We're at the halfway mark of Barack Obama's first term as president. I say 'first term' because I'm confident that this isn't his last. Conservatives will not want to hear this, but I've felt all along that Obama will be a two-term president, and nothing I've seen dispels that notion.
My thinking is grounded primarily in two sets of data.
The first is expressed in the title of this article: 40 percent. President Barack Obama does not dip below 40-percent approval. Period.
Liberals called Ronald Reagan the Teflon President. No matter what Reagan did, nothing undermined his presidency. Well, Barack Obama is the 40-Percent President. No matter what Obama does, nothing undermines his presidency -- or at least nothing drops it below 40-percent approval.
Of course, Reagan achieved record approvals, which is how he was reelected by winning 49 states and taking the Electoral College 525-13. I don't expect Obama to get anywhere near that; his disapproval ratings are too sizable. Of course, Obama doesn't need 525 Electoral votes; he needs only enough to win.
It will be difficult to defeat a presidential incumbent who can't seem to ever slip below 40 percent and, in essence, merely needs to muster another 10 percent at election time. Picking up that 10 percent shouldn't be terribly difficult with a public that prefers to know about who's prancing around half-naked on 'Dancing with the Stars' or who's stripping on 'Desperate Housewives' over bothering with trifling concepts like wealth redistribution, nationalization, progressivism, or negative liberties. One hilarious video clip shows Obama's own supporters literally not knowing the difference between a Kenyan and Keynesian (click here).
It frustrates me when I hear conservative talk show hosts (Sean Hannity especially) shouting, 'Obama's approval is dropping like a rock!' Each time I've heard that, I've paused patiently to listen for the information that followed, only to discover that the president's numbers weren't dropping, or were barely dropping, and never below the 40-percent range.
Dropping like a rock? No.
Barack Obama has an incredibly devout base, made up of a handful of super-loyal constituencies. This includes the roughly 20-23 percent of Americans who are genuine liberals. Alas, that's another frustration: Conservatives occasionally claim that Obama's angry left-wing base has turned on him. Nonsense. Sure, liberals fume at Obama now and then, but they're usually angry. In the end, those liberals will never vote for a Republican as president and against Obama. The left is too disciplined.
In short, Obama can do practically anything, including worsen an already awful economy, generate unimaginable debts, and retain a lock on a significant portion of the electorate. Beyond that portion, it's simply a matter of Obama again duping enough of the oblivious -- who pay attention to presidential politics only about four weeks every four years -- and enough of our nation's exalted 'moderates' and 'independents.' These folks are incredibly fickle, often not making up their mind for president until they're in that voting booth, as they did in November 2008.
As I wrote here at the time and have reiterated elsewhere since (click here), these were the dupes that made Obama president. Will they again? They've certainly done nothing to fill me with optimism.
I know the counter-response to this: Kengor, you're wrong -- the moderates and independents that elected Obama in November 2008 bailed on the Democrats in November 2010. Yes, they spurned the Democratic majority in the House in 2010, but that will not necessarily extend to Obama in 2012. Besides, Obama doesn't need all of them. He needs just enough of them.
If Americans were willing to elect a man as far to the left as Obama in November 2008 -- despite his background, his remarkably radical associations, and his highly troubling and still mysterious background -- enough of them will again.
Finally, that brings me to my second set of data: Obama is again surging in the polls, just when it looked like he might dip below 40 percent. (I recall one poll had him momentarily at 39 percent.) As I write, Obama's RealClearPolitics cumulative job approval is 51%. Yes, 51 percent.
That's stunning. After everything that has happened during this man's presidency, from nearly $1 trillion in blown stimulus to nationalizing GM to persistent 10-percent unemployment, and after the Democrats' trouncing in the November midterm, how could Obama suddenly pop above 50%? Was it the rally-round-the-president after the Tucson shooting and Obama's (admittedly) well-done speech? Was it Obama's compromise to extend the Bush tax cuts?
Maybe, in part. But those positives shouldn't outweigh all the negatives. And yet, the negatives haven't sunk Obama. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright may have damned America, but he couldn't damn Obama.
Again, conservatives will not want to hear this. But unlike liberals, we conservatives are supposed to base our judgment not on emotion, but on cold, hard facts, and I fear that my pessimistic appraisal may fall in the category of cold, hard fact.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying conservatives should lie down, roll over, and accept this as a fait accompli. Quite the contrary -- that would be un-American. I'm simply not optimistic."
What They're Not Telling Us
After all the talk of political disagreements leading to violence after the tragic Tucson shooting, it would seem odd that the American Pravda would neglect to report of a threat made against a leading GOP figure in Maine. Or would it?
In this age of corruption by leftists journalists with a clear agenda, we cannot expect to see much truth broadcast to the public. We are living in an era not much different from Soviet Russia and its Pravda publication as we receive all the news that the American Pravda deems worthy of mention. Agenda trumps truth every time.
Read of the latest story the corrupt press ignored, via The Blaze:
The Anti-GOP Threat in Maine You Didn’t Hear About
"In this era of 'violent rhetoric,' which is blamed on conservatives, there‘s a recent GOP death threat you probably haven’t heard of. Not a threat made against a liberal, but rather a threat made two weeks ago against the chairman of the Maine GOP that references the Tucson shootings:
The threat came after the assassination attempt of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, while much of the media was trying to blame that incident on conservative rhetoric and made a point to cite supposed examples. That the threat in Maine didn’t garner national attention, then, is surprising. Or maybe it isn’t.
My Fox Maine reports that police are still trying to figure out the threat author’s identity:
'Police are investigating a threatening voicemail left for Maine GOP Chair Charlie Webster, who is widely credited for orchestrating the Republican takeover of the Maine legislature.
The message was discovered by staffers on Wednesday morning at the Maine GOP headquarters in Augusta. The caller, who was male, didn’t specify why he was upset with Webster, but he did reference the kind of gun used in last week’s deadly rampage in Tucson:
“Webster might survive a nine millimeter, but doubtful he’d survive a 50 cal. There’s a lot of 50 cals in Maine. He should change his tune because a lot of people are really mad."
If you recognize the voice on the message, you’re asked to call Augusta police.'"
In this age of corruption by leftists journalists with a clear agenda, we cannot expect to see much truth broadcast to the public. We are living in an era not much different from Soviet Russia and its Pravda publication as we receive all the news that the American Pravda deems worthy of mention. Agenda trumps truth every time.
Read of the latest story the corrupt press ignored, via The Blaze:
The Anti-GOP Threat in Maine You Didn’t Hear About
"In this era of 'violent rhetoric,' which is blamed on conservatives, there‘s a recent GOP death threat you probably haven’t heard of. Not a threat made against a liberal, but rather a threat made two weeks ago against the chairman of the Maine GOP that references the Tucson shootings:
The threat came after the assassination attempt of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, while much of the media was trying to blame that incident on conservative rhetoric and made a point to cite supposed examples. That the threat in Maine didn’t garner national attention, then, is surprising. Or maybe it isn’t.
My Fox Maine reports that police are still trying to figure out the threat author’s identity:
'Police are investigating a threatening voicemail left for Maine GOP Chair Charlie Webster, who is widely credited for orchestrating the Republican takeover of the Maine legislature.
The message was discovered by staffers on Wednesday morning at the Maine GOP headquarters in Augusta. The caller, who was male, didn’t specify why he was upset with Webster, but he did reference the kind of gun used in last week’s deadly rampage in Tucson:
“Webster might survive a nine millimeter, but doubtful he’d survive a 50 cal. There’s a lot of 50 cals in Maine. He should change his tune because a lot of people are really mad."
If you recognize the voice on the message, you’re asked to call Augusta police.'"
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Abby Sees the Light on Abortion
If an unborn baby is nothing more than a blob of tissue, why exactly can the baby be seen on an ultrasound struggling to avoid the instrument the abortionist "doctor" uses to end its life?
Ultrasound has truly become the biggest enemy of all to the pro-abortion crowd. There's nothing like viewing a tiny perfectly formed child to awaken a deceived individual to the truth that an abortion is the murder of an innocent and helpless life. Just as slavery was a moral stain on America in the1800s and earlier, abortion is the modern-day moral stain on this nation. How God grieves for the enormous loss of life!
Read from One News Now:
Unplanned awakening
"Like many young people, Abby Johnson just wanted to help people. Scanning the various volunteer organization booths set up at her college one day, she was drawn to the nice lady and the bright pink decorations at the Planned Parenthood booth. There she was told that the organization helps women who are facing a crisis, and that the Planned Parenthood clinics are important to women's safety.
That sounded good, but she hesitated over the issue of abortion. She knew Planned Parenthood provided abortions, and she had been raised in a Christian, pro-life home. She was assured, however, that Planned Parenthood's goal was to reduce the number of abortions by supplying birth control and information to women in need.
She was hooked. She'd found a place to serve and help others. Thus began her relationship with Planned Parenthood, starting as a volunteer and ending as director of a clinic in Texas.
Through a kind of perfect storm of events, Abby's beliefs were turned upside-down -- or perhaps right side up would more aptly describe it. These days she can often be found praying alongside the pro-life volunteers who used to pray for her outside the clinic she once ran. She tells her compelling story in the new book unPLANNED.
The main event in that perfect storm took place when Abby was asked to help with an ultrasound-guided abortion at her clinic. It was the first time she'd assisted in an abortion. She maneuvered the ultrasound probe until the 13-week-old fetus was clearly visible on the screen. She then watched as the cannula, inserted by the abortion doctor, appeared. Abby was already beginning to feel uncomfortable. She kept reminding herself of what she'd been taught: The fetus doesn't feel pain.
'The next movement was the sudden jerk of a tiny foot as the baby started kicking, as if trying to move away from the probing invader. As the cannula pressed in, the baby began struggling to turn and twist away. It seemed clear to me that the fetus could feel the cannula and did not like the feeling. And then the doctor's voice broke through, startling me. "Beam me up, Scotty," he said lightheartedly to the nurse. He was telling her to turn on the suction -- in an abortion the suction isn't turned on until the doctor feels he has the cannula in exactly the right place....[N]ow I could see the tiny body violently twisting with it. For the briefest moment it looked as if the baby were being wrung like a dishcloth, twirled and squeezed. And then the little body crumpled and began disappearing into the cannula before my eyes. The last thing I saw was the tiny, perfectly formed backbone sucked into the tube, and then everything was gone.'
That was Abby's moment of truth. She knew she could no longer participate in abortions, or work for an organization that performed them.
That fateful event came on the heels of a directive from headquarters to increase revenue by stepping up the number of abortions at her clinic. That went against everything she'd believed about Planned Parenthood's goals.
The other critical event happening at the time was the '40 Days for Life' campaign, run by the Coalition for Life. Those were the local pro-life 'zealots' she saw day in and day out as she pulled into the parking lot at the clinic. This was a particularly intense time of prayer: for 40 days and 40 nights, at least two volunteers were outside the clinic fence praying at all times. (See related story)
Within days of witnessing the abortion on the ultrasound monitor, Abby resigned her position and fled straight into the arms of the Coalition for Life. In retrospect, Abby sees God's hand in the confluence of events that led, as she puts it, to the scales falling from her eyes.
She was literally embraced by the Coalition folks, those people who had never stopped praying for her, never stopped believing she might change her mind one day. Their demeanor toward Abby -- before and after her change of heart -- was one of compassion and caring. That stands in stark contrast to her former colleagues and friends at Planned Parenthood who now want nothing to do with her.
In an interview, I asked Abby how she accounted for that difference. 'A lot of what I've learned is that people in the pro-choice movement are constantly preaching about tolerance and acceptance, but they don't know the first thing about either. They talk about them, they have the ideas in their heads, but not in their hearts. I haven't experienced tolerance and acceptance from those at Planned Parenthood, but I have experienced it from people they would consider to be intolerant. It was the Coalition for Life people who were the ones loving me even when I was doing something they considered objectionable, and they were loving me when I finally came to the right side.'
The book took courage to write. Abby herself had two abortions before her change of heart. She notes that, ironically, one of Planned Parenthood's original selling points to her was that by providing birth control, they were reducing abortion rates. All three of Abby's pregnancies -- the two that ended in abortion, and the one that is now her daughter -- occurred despite the use of birth control.
Abby also raises the verboten topic of post-abortion guilt, writing that many of the women she counseled suffered guilt for years after having abortions.
'Choice' has become the idol our society worships, not only in discussions around abortions, but in all aspects of life. We want to choose whether to stay married, or get married, or have premarital sex, or abort our babies -- instead of obeying God's laws.
Abby told me that when she saw the image of the baby on the ultrasound monitor she thought, 'So that's "choice." But what I actually saw was the taking of a life.'"
Ultrasound has truly become the biggest enemy of all to the pro-abortion crowd. There's nothing like viewing a tiny perfectly formed child to awaken a deceived individual to the truth that an abortion is the murder of an innocent and helpless life. Just as slavery was a moral stain on America in the1800s and earlier, abortion is the modern-day moral stain on this nation. How God grieves for the enormous loss of life!
Read from One News Now:
Unplanned awakening
"Like many young people, Abby Johnson just wanted to help people. Scanning the various volunteer organization booths set up at her college one day, she was drawn to the nice lady and the bright pink decorations at the Planned Parenthood booth. There she was told that the organization helps women who are facing a crisis, and that the Planned Parenthood clinics are important to women's safety.
That sounded good, but she hesitated over the issue of abortion. She knew Planned Parenthood provided abortions, and she had been raised in a Christian, pro-life home. She was assured, however, that Planned Parenthood's goal was to reduce the number of abortions by supplying birth control and information to women in need.
She was hooked. She'd found a place to serve and help others. Thus began her relationship with Planned Parenthood, starting as a volunteer and ending as director of a clinic in Texas.
Through a kind of perfect storm of events, Abby's beliefs were turned upside-down -- or perhaps right side up would more aptly describe it. These days she can often be found praying alongside the pro-life volunteers who used to pray for her outside the clinic she once ran. She tells her compelling story in the new book unPLANNED.
The main event in that perfect storm took place when Abby was asked to help with an ultrasound-guided abortion at her clinic. It was the first time she'd assisted in an abortion. She maneuvered the ultrasound probe until the 13-week-old fetus was clearly visible on the screen. She then watched as the cannula, inserted by the abortion doctor, appeared. Abby was already beginning to feel uncomfortable. She kept reminding herself of what she'd been taught: The fetus doesn't feel pain.
'The next movement was the sudden jerk of a tiny foot as the baby started kicking, as if trying to move away from the probing invader. As the cannula pressed in, the baby began struggling to turn and twist away. It seemed clear to me that the fetus could feel the cannula and did not like the feeling. And then the doctor's voice broke through, startling me. "Beam me up, Scotty," he said lightheartedly to the nurse. He was telling her to turn on the suction -- in an abortion the suction isn't turned on until the doctor feels he has the cannula in exactly the right place....[N]ow I could see the tiny body violently twisting with it. For the briefest moment it looked as if the baby were being wrung like a dishcloth, twirled and squeezed. And then the little body crumpled and began disappearing into the cannula before my eyes. The last thing I saw was the tiny, perfectly formed backbone sucked into the tube, and then everything was gone.'
That was Abby's moment of truth. She knew she could no longer participate in abortions, or work for an organization that performed them.
That fateful event came on the heels of a directive from headquarters to increase revenue by stepping up the number of abortions at her clinic. That went against everything she'd believed about Planned Parenthood's goals.
The other critical event happening at the time was the '40 Days for Life' campaign, run by the Coalition for Life. Those were the local pro-life 'zealots' she saw day in and day out as she pulled into the parking lot at the clinic. This was a particularly intense time of prayer: for 40 days and 40 nights, at least two volunteers were outside the clinic fence praying at all times. (See related story)
Within days of witnessing the abortion on the ultrasound monitor, Abby resigned her position and fled straight into the arms of the Coalition for Life. In retrospect, Abby sees God's hand in the confluence of events that led, as she puts it, to the scales falling from her eyes.
She was literally embraced by the Coalition folks, those people who had never stopped praying for her, never stopped believing she might change her mind one day. Their demeanor toward Abby -- before and after her change of heart -- was one of compassion and caring. That stands in stark contrast to her former colleagues and friends at Planned Parenthood who now want nothing to do with her.
In an interview, I asked Abby how she accounted for that difference. 'A lot of what I've learned is that people in the pro-choice movement are constantly preaching about tolerance and acceptance, but they don't know the first thing about either. They talk about them, they have the ideas in their heads, but not in their hearts. I haven't experienced tolerance and acceptance from those at Planned Parenthood, but I have experienced it from people they would consider to be intolerant. It was the Coalition for Life people who were the ones loving me even when I was doing something they considered objectionable, and they were loving me when I finally came to the right side.'
The book took courage to write. Abby herself had two abortions before her change of heart. She notes that, ironically, one of Planned Parenthood's original selling points to her was that by providing birth control, they were reducing abortion rates. All three of Abby's pregnancies -- the two that ended in abortion, and the one that is now her daughter -- occurred despite the use of birth control.
Abby also raises the verboten topic of post-abortion guilt, writing that many of the women she counseled suffered guilt for years after having abortions.
'Choice' has become the idol our society worships, not only in discussions around abortions, but in all aspects of life. We want to choose whether to stay married, or get married, or have premarital sex, or abort our babies -- instead of obeying God's laws.
Abby told me that when she saw the image of the baby on the ultrasound monitor she thought, 'So that's "choice." But what I actually saw was the taking of a life.'"
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
"Not Guilty By Reason of Spittle"
Is there never an end to these stories of Islamic monsters attempting and often succeeding in harming their female "loved" ones all in the name of Islam? The prophet Mohammed must be so proud.
Religion of peace, indeed. President Obama demands that we respect Islam. No possible way!
Read about the latest savage act, via Jihad Watch:
Arizona: Accused Islamic honor murderer says he ran over his daughter by accident while spitting at another woman
"Not guilty by reason of spittle! This utterly contemptible defense contradicts Almaleki's earlier statement: in November 2009, the Arizona Republic reported (thanks to Pamela Geller) that, according to state prosecutor Stephanie Low, Faleh Almaleki admitted that he ran over his daughter on purpose: 'By his own admission, this was an intentional act and the reason was that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family. This was an attempt at an honor killing.'
'Iraqi dad's "spit" defense in Ariz. "honor slay,"' by Rita Delfiner for AP, January 25:
A fanatical Iraqi-born Muslim charged with killing his beautiful daughter because she wanted to live a normal American life whined yesterday that he ran her over by accident -- because he was concentrating on spitting at another woman.
Faleh Almaleki -- whose murder trial began in Phoenix -- sent his Jeep crashing into daughter Noor Almaleki, 20, on Oct. 20, 2009, in a parking lot after she left his abusive home to live with her boyfriend's family and refused an arranged marriage, officials said.
Prosecutors have called the woman's death an 'honor killing,' referring to a practice in some Islamic countries in which someone -- often a woman who is believed to have shamed the family -- is killed.
The unforgivable 'shame' Noor brought on her father was a taste for fast food, texting her friends with the greeting 'dude' and liking clothes from Forever 21, according to a report in Marie Claire magazine.
Almaleki's lawyer said his client was only trying to demonstrate his disgust with the woman standing next to Noor -- her boyfriend's mother -- and wound up hitting them both.
But a prosecutor said in opening remarks that Almaleki was so enraged by his daughter's Westernization that he 'revved and raced' his car directly at his child.
'Noor wanted to live her life like those her own age, but the defendant would not allow it,' said Laura Reckart.
After Almaleki moved in with her boyfriend's family, her father told the dad that if Noor didn't leave, 'something bad was going to happen,' a court document said....
Noor was in a coma for two weeks before dying, while Khalaf survived.
Almaleki -- who fled to Mexico, then London, where he was arrested -- has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault and leaving the scene of an accident.
Yes, after he 'accidentally' ran over his daughter, he decided it was a perfect time for a vacation in Mexico and England."
Religion of peace, indeed. President Obama demands that we respect Islam. No possible way!
Read about the latest savage act, via Jihad Watch:
Arizona: Accused Islamic honor murderer says he ran over his daughter by accident while spitting at another woman
"Not guilty by reason of spittle! This utterly contemptible defense contradicts Almaleki's earlier statement: in November 2009, the Arizona Republic reported (thanks to Pamela Geller) that, according to state prosecutor Stephanie Low, Faleh Almaleki admitted that he ran over his daughter on purpose: 'By his own admission, this was an intentional act and the reason was that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family. This was an attempt at an honor killing.'
'Iraqi dad's "spit" defense in Ariz. "honor slay,"' by Rita Delfiner for AP, January 25:
A fanatical Iraqi-born Muslim charged with killing his beautiful daughter because she wanted to live a normal American life whined yesterday that he ran her over by accident -- because he was concentrating on spitting at another woman.
Faleh Almaleki -- whose murder trial began in Phoenix -- sent his Jeep crashing into daughter Noor Almaleki, 20, on Oct. 20, 2009, in a parking lot after she left his abusive home to live with her boyfriend's family and refused an arranged marriage, officials said.
Prosecutors have called the woman's death an 'honor killing,' referring to a practice in some Islamic countries in which someone -- often a woman who is believed to have shamed the family -- is killed.
The unforgivable 'shame' Noor brought on her father was a taste for fast food, texting her friends with the greeting 'dude' and liking clothes from Forever 21, according to a report in Marie Claire magazine.
Almaleki's lawyer said his client was only trying to demonstrate his disgust with the woman standing next to Noor -- her boyfriend's mother -- and wound up hitting them both.
But a prosecutor said in opening remarks that Almaleki was so enraged by his daughter's Westernization that he 'revved and raced' his car directly at his child.
'Noor wanted to live her life like those her own age, but the defendant would not allow it,' said Laura Reckart.
After Almaleki moved in with her boyfriend's family, her father told the dad that if Noor didn't leave, 'something bad was going to happen,' a court document said....
Noor was in a coma for two weeks before dying, while Khalaf survived.
Almaleki -- who fled to Mexico, then London, where he was arrested -- has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault and leaving the scene of an accident.
Yes, after he 'accidentally' ran over his daughter, he decided it was a perfect time for a vacation in Mexico and England."
"A Huge Turnabout for King"
New York Congressman Peter King huffed and puffed about how he was going to investigate radical Islam in the U.S., and then what did he do when given the opportunity to fulfill his promise? He caved to the pressures of the Islamic community. What a wimp!
Who's looking out for America? Certainly not Peter King. If we want the job done, we need to call upon the only representative with the courage to confront the Islamists, and that is my hero, the new congressman from southern Florida, Lt. Col. Allen West.
Read about the caving by King, via Human Events:
King’s Hearings On Muslim Radicalization: Useless
by Robert Spencer
"What has happened to Peter King? The New York congressman’s much-anticipated and controversial hearings on 'radicalization' within the American Muslim community are shaping up to be useless, or worse. King said Tuesday, according to Politico, that 'he’s not planning to call as witnesses such Muslim community critics as the Investigative Project on Terrorism’s Steve Emerson and Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer.' Instead, King plans to call people with 'the real life experience of coming from the Muslim community,' including, of all people, Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN).
In 'King Abdicates' in The American Thinker Thursday, Pamela Geller pointed out that Emerson 'knows who all the players are and what groups and cells they are affiliated with,' and that 'for King to acquiesce in his marginalization is almost criminal.' Ellison, conversely, Geller noted, is 'infamous for his pro-Hamas rallies and his pilgrimage to the Hajj in Saudi Arabia, paid for by the Muslim Brotherhood.'
A peerless and pioneering anti-terror researcher versus a Muslim Congressman who accepted a financial gift from an organization dedicated, according to a captured Muslim Brotherhood internal document, to 'eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within.'
Again: what has happened to Peter King?
These hearings are shaping up to be a waste, and worse than a waste. King is apparently rattled by the full-court press of Islamic victimhood rhetoric from Islamic supremacist spokesmen and pressure groups, and is allowing them to set his agenda. By excluding Emerson, he is acquiescing in their Alinskyite marginalization of him and other antijihadists who have nothing to apologize for or be embarrassed about in their work to expose and resist the advance of the global jihad and Islamic supremacism, but who are targeted in ongoing Islamic supremacist defamation campaigns designed to discredit and sideline them (including myself).
This represents a huge turnabout for King. Last October, he charged that 'people who are in mainstream Islam, leaders of mosques, leaders of Muslim organizations…do not come forward and denounce, officially denounce, officially cooperate with the police against those extremists and terrorists.' Again in December, he said: 'When I meet with law enforcement, they are constantly telling me how little cooperation they get from Muslim leaders.'
Now King, belying his earlier statements about the non-cooperation of Muslim authorities in the U.S., says that in his hearings he is going to go to those very authorities: 'The idea was to make the hearings have an impact,' he tells us. 'With all due respect, whether it is Steve Emerson, or me, or [Daniel] Pipes, or [Frank] Gaffney, people have heard from us before -- we are outsiders talking about the community. If I can get people from within the Muslim community to talk about the extent of radicalization, that is a lot more effective.'
King in December said he was willing to be defamed as a 'bigot' if that’s what it took to expose jihadist sentiments and activity in the Muslim community in the U.S. Ellison apparently took him up on that, calling him a bigot and saying: 'I’m willing to engage with Congressman King and say, "Look, you want to talk about these things, let’s do it responsibly." Let’s investigate this thing in the right way, let’s talk about how we’re gonna make America safer and enlist Muslim Americans to help safeguard our country and look at anybody that might get radicalized.'
So the Muslim Brotherhood's favorite congressman is going to help Peter King understand the causes of the radicalization of American Muslims. Is he aware of Ellison’s Muslim American Society-funded hajj, and of the Muslim American Society’s connections to the Muslim Brotherhood? If King is unaware of all this, and of the smear campaign of Brotherhood groups in America against people like Emerson -- a campaign he is now abetting -- he is dangerously clueless. If he is aware of it, but is bowing to the public pressure the Islamic hate machine has brought upon him because of his hearings, he is not only clueless but cowardly as well.
Either way, his hearings are shaping up to accomplish nothing positive."
Who's looking out for America? Certainly not Peter King. If we want the job done, we need to call upon the only representative with the courage to confront the Islamists, and that is my hero, the new congressman from southern Florida, Lt. Col. Allen West.
Read about the caving by King, via Human Events:
King’s Hearings On Muslim Radicalization: Useless
by Robert Spencer
"What has happened to Peter King? The New York congressman’s much-anticipated and controversial hearings on 'radicalization' within the American Muslim community are shaping up to be useless, or worse. King said Tuesday, according to Politico, that 'he’s not planning to call as witnesses such Muslim community critics as the Investigative Project on Terrorism’s Steve Emerson and Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer.' Instead, King plans to call people with 'the real life experience of coming from the Muslim community,' including, of all people, Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN).
In 'King Abdicates' in The American Thinker Thursday, Pamela Geller pointed out that Emerson 'knows who all the players are and what groups and cells they are affiliated with,' and that 'for King to acquiesce in his marginalization is almost criminal.' Ellison, conversely, Geller noted, is 'infamous for his pro-Hamas rallies and his pilgrimage to the Hajj in Saudi Arabia, paid for by the Muslim Brotherhood.'
A peerless and pioneering anti-terror researcher versus a Muslim Congressman who accepted a financial gift from an organization dedicated, according to a captured Muslim Brotherhood internal document, to 'eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within.'
Again: what has happened to Peter King?
These hearings are shaping up to be a waste, and worse than a waste. King is apparently rattled by the full-court press of Islamic victimhood rhetoric from Islamic supremacist spokesmen and pressure groups, and is allowing them to set his agenda. By excluding Emerson, he is acquiescing in their Alinskyite marginalization of him and other antijihadists who have nothing to apologize for or be embarrassed about in their work to expose and resist the advance of the global jihad and Islamic supremacism, but who are targeted in ongoing Islamic supremacist defamation campaigns designed to discredit and sideline them (including myself).
This represents a huge turnabout for King. Last October, he charged that 'people who are in mainstream Islam, leaders of mosques, leaders of Muslim organizations…do not come forward and denounce, officially denounce, officially cooperate with the police against those extremists and terrorists.' Again in December, he said: 'When I meet with law enforcement, they are constantly telling me how little cooperation they get from Muslim leaders.'
Now King, belying his earlier statements about the non-cooperation of Muslim authorities in the U.S., says that in his hearings he is going to go to those very authorities: 'The idea was to make the hearings have an impact,' he tells us. 'With all due respect, whether it is Steve Emerson, or me, or [Daniel] Pipes, or [Frank] Gaffney, people have heard from us before -- we are outsiders talking about the community. If I can get people from within the Muslim community to talk about the extent of radicalization, that is a lot more effective.'
King in December said he was willing to be defamed as a 'bigot' if that’s what it took to expose jihadist sentiments and activity in the Muslim community in the U.S. Ellison apparently took him up on that, calling him a bigot and saying: 'I’m willing to engage with Congressman King and say, "Look, you want to talk about these things, let’s do it responsibly." Let’s investigate this thing in the right way, let’s talk about how we’re gonna make America safer and enlist Muslim Americans to help safeguard our country and look at anybody that might get radicalized.'
So the Muslim Brotherhood's favorite congressman is going to help Peter King understand the causes of the radicalization of American Muslims. Is he aware of Ellison’s Muslim American Society-funded hajj, and of the Muslim American Society’s connections to the Muslim Brotherhood? If King is unaware of all this, and of the smear campaign of Brotherhood groups in America against people like Emerson -- a campaign he is now abetting -- he is dangerously clueless. If he is aware of it, but is bowing to the public pressure the Islamic hate machine has brought upon him because of his hearings, he is not only clueless but cowardly as well.
Either way, his hearings are shaping up to accomplish nothing positive."
Monday, January 24, 2011
The Secret Assassination Attempt in Missouri
A left-wing nutjob attempts to murder a Missouri governor, and the American Pravda doesn't feel the need to share this story with the public? Imagine if it were a conservative Tea Partier who had tried such a stunt. We would be bombarded with 24/7 news coverage discussing how conservative rhetoric leads to violence.
All Americans should be appalled by the corruption of the American Pravda. These individuals deserve to lose their jobs and stand in soup lines for their very survival.
Read about the cover-up in Missouri, via the American Thinker:
Left wing climate of hate and assassination
Jack Cashill
"Successful propaganda is composed of equal parts deception and suppression, and the apparatchiks in the mainstream media are much better at the latter.
They may have erred in pushing the Arizona assassination attempt beyond its ideological limits last week, but they succeeded brilliantly a few months earlier in suppressing news of a nearly lethal attempt by a genuine leftist.
In September 2010 Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was scheduled to speak at Penn Valley Community College in Kansas City.
At some point, wearing black clothes and a bullet-proof vest, 22 year-old Casey Brezik bolted out of a classroom, knife in hand, and slashed the throat of a dean. As he would later admit, he confused the dean with Nixon.
The story never left Kansas City. It is not hard to understand why. Knives lack the political sex appeal of guns, and even Keith Olbermann would have had a hard time turning Brezik into a Tea Partier.
Indeed, Brezik seems to have inhaled just about every noxious vapor in the left-wing miasma: environmental extremism, radical Islam, anti-capitalism, anti-Zionism and Christophobia, among others.
In his 'About Me' box on Facebook, Brezik listed as his favorite quotation one from progressive poster boy, Che Guevara. The quote begins 'Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism' and gets more belligerent from there.
On his wall postings, Brezik ranted, 'How are we the radical(s) (left) to confront the NEW RIGHT, if we avoid confrontation all together?'
As good as his word, Brezik's marched on Toronto in June 2010 to protest the G20 Summit, where he was arrested, charged, and deported. 'MISSION ACCOMPLISHED,' he boasted.
Like many on the left, Brezik seemed to have found religion.
In reference to an article about Terry Jones and his proposed Quran burning, Brezik posted on the day before his planned assault, 'This is now a Holy war. Scriptures have been desecrated. War U can't handle. Make a choice and quick.'
No doubt, Brezik is something of a whack job, but the various rages that he acquired -culminating in Sudden Jihadi Syndrome - are those to which our students are exposed on a daily basis. For the last century or more, it is the progressive fever swamps that have nurtured most of the world's hate and virtually all of its violence, including, paradoxically, radical Islam.
As Casey Berzik cried out with multicultural flair, 'El Futuro es La REVOLUCION!' But if an assassin strikes in a media vacuum, and no one hears him, can there ever be a revolution?"
Chances are you never heard this story either.
From Weasel Zippers:
Lefty Shooting Victim James Fuller: Republicans Should be Tortured, Their Ears Severed and Turned Into a Necklace…
"Typical lefty psychopath.
(Fox Nation)- 'James Eric Fuller, 63, who was shot in the knee, had told The Post on Friday, the day before his arrest, that top Republican figures should be tortured — and their ears severed.
“There would be torture and then an ear necklace, with [Minnesota US Rep.] Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin’s ears toward the end, because they’re small, female ears, and then Limbaugh, Hannity and the biggest ears of all, Cheney’s, in the center,” Fuller said.
Also on Friday, Fuller stopped by the home of gunman Jared Lee Loughner and told a neighbor he was going to forgive the shooter, The Associated Press said.
On Saturday, Fuller was carted away for a psychiatric exam after disrupting the town hall meeting by taking a photo of Tucson Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries and shouting, “You’re dead!”'"
A little bonus: The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010
All Americans should be appalled by the corruption of the American Pravda. These individuals deserve to lose their jobs and stand in soup lines for their very survival.
Read about the cover-up in Missouri, via the American Thinker:
Left wing climate of hate and assassination
Jack Cashill
"Successful propaganda is composed of equal parts deception and suppression, and the apparatchiks in the mainstream media are much better at the latter.
They may have erred in pushing the Arizona assassination attempt beyond its ideological limits last week, but they succeeded brilliantly a few months earlier in suppressing news of a nearly lethal attempt by a genuine leftist.
In September 2010 Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was scheduled to speak at Penn Valley Community College in Kansas City.
At some point, wearing black clothes and a bullet-proof vest, 22 year-old Casey Brezik bolted out of a classroom, knife in hand, and slashed the throat of a dean. As he would later admit, he confused the dean with Nixon.
The story never left Kansas City. It is not hard to understand why. Knives lack the political sex appeal of guns, and even Keith Olbermann would have had a hard time turning Brezik into a Tea Partier.
Indeed, Brezik seems to have inhaled just about every noxious vapor in the left-wing miasma: environmental extremism, radical Islam, anti-capitalism, anti-Zionism and Christophobia, among others.
In his 'About Me' box on Facebook, Brezik listed as his favorite quotation one from progressive poster boy, Che Guevara. The quote begins 'Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism' and gets more belligerent from there.
On his wall postings, Brezik ranted, 'How are we the radical(s) (left) to confront the NEW RIGHT, if we avoid confrontation all together?'
As good as his word, Brezik's marched on Toronto in June 2010 to protest the G20 Summit, where he was arrested, charged, and deported. 'MISSION ACCOMPLISHED,' he boasted.
Like many on the left, Brezik seemed to have found religion.
In reference to an article about Terry Jones and his proposed Quran burning, Brezik posted on the day before his planned assault, 'This is now a Holy war. Scriptures have been desecrated. War U can't handle. Make a choice and quick.'
No doubt, Brezik is something of a whack job, but the various rages that he acquired -culminating in Sudden Jihadi Syndrome - are those to which our students are exposed on a daily basis. For the last century or more, it is the progressive fever swamps that have nurtured most of the world's hate and virtually all of its violence, including, paradoxically, radical Islam.
As Casey Berzik cried out with multicultural flair, 'El Futuro es La REVOLUCION!' But if an assassin strikes in a media vacuum, and no one hears him, can there ever be a revolution?"
Chances are you never heard this story either.
From Weasel Zippers:
Lefty Shooting Victim James Fuller: Republicans Should be Tortured, Their Ears Severed and Turned Into a Necklace…
"Typical lefty psychopath.
(Fox Nation)- 'James Eric Fuller, 63, who was shot in the knee, had told The Post on Friday, the day before his arrest, that top Republican figures should be tortured — and their ears severed.
“There would be torture and then an ear necklace, with [Minnesota US Rep.] Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin’s ears toward the end, because they’re small, female ears, and then Limbaugh, Hannity and the biggest ears of all, Cheney’s, in the center,” Fuller said.
Also on Friday, Fuller stopped by the home of gunman Jared Lee Loughner and told a neighbor he was going to forgive the shooter, The Associated Press said.
On Saturday, Fuller was carted away for a psychiatric exam after disrupting the town hall meeting by taking a photo of Tucson Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries and shouting, “You’re dead!”'"
A little bonus: The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010
Second Grade Sex?
I certainly hope this is not true because if it is, America is in more trouble than I thought.
Read from SF Gate, via One News Now:
2nd grade teacher suspended after reports of classroom sex
OAKLAND, Calif. – "A second-grade teacher in Northern California was placed on leave while a school and police investigated accounts by students that classmates engaged in oral sex and stripped off some of their clothes during class, officials said Friday.
The investigation was under way at Markham Elementary School in Oakland, where the principal notified parents of the situation in a letter Thursday.
'We believe if the reports are true, there was a serious lapse of judgment or lack of supervision in the classroom,' said Troy Flint, a spokesman for the Oakland Unified School District. 'We're investigating how could this have happened. It seems unthinkable to us, just the same way it does to the public.'
The male teacher, whose name has not been released, told investigators he did not see any of the acts that authorities suspect occurred last week. The teacher is barred from campus at least until the investigation is completed.
The principal learned of the allegations Wednesday after a student gave an account to a teacher's assistant, Flint said.
'Upon hearing these reports, we immediately launched an investigation which, to date, suggests that the reports have merit,' Principal Pam Booker wrote in the letter to parents. 'We have interviewed all the student participants who were implicated, as well as their teacher, and we continue to investigate the matter aggressively.'
One incident involved several students who partially undressed and acted disruptively during class, while the other involved students who engaged in oral sex, district officials said.
'I apologize for this and assure you that we are collaborating with counselors and parents to provide support to those involved, address any concerns and take whatever actions are necessary to ensure that a similar act does not occur again,' Booker told parents in the letter.
Counselors were at the school Friday to speak with students.
District officials emphasized the students were not accused of any wrongdoing.
'It's an incident of kids expressing their natural curiosity that went too far because an adult didn't step in,' Flint said.
Some parents said they were outraged when they received the letter and saw the story on the news.
'It kind of scares me to know that the teachers aren't really watching them," said Ane Musuva, who has two children at Markham. "I don't want my kids growing up in this type of environment.'"
Read from SF Gate, via One News Now:
2nd grade teacher suspended after reports of classroom sex
OAKLAND, Calif. – "A second-grade teacher in Northern California was placed on leave while a school and police investigated accounts by students that classmates engaged in oral sex and stripped off some of their clothes during class, officials said Friday.
The investigation was under way at Markham Elementary School in Oakland, where the principal notified parents of the situation in a letter Thursday.
'We believe if the reports are true, there was a serious lapse of judgment or lack of supervision in the classroom,' said Troy Flint, a spokesman for the Oakland Unified School District. 'We're investigating how could this have happened. It seems unthinkable to us, just the same way it does to the public.'
The male teacher, whose name has not been released, told investigators he did not see any of the acts that authorities suspect occurred last week. The teacher is barred from campus at least until the investigation is completed.
The principal learned of the allegations Wednesday after a student gave an account to a teacher's assistant, Flint said.
'Upon hearing these reports, we immediately launched an investigation which, to date, suggests that the reports have merit,' Principal Pam Booker wrote in the letter to parents. 'We have interviewed all the student participants who were implicated, as well as their teacher, and we continue to investigate the matter aggressively.'
One incident involved several students who partially undressed and acted disruptively during class, while the other involved students who engaged in oral sex, district officials said.
'I apologize for this and assure you that we are collaborating with counselors and parents to provide support to those involved, address any concerns and take whatever actions are necessary to ensure that a similar act does not occur again,' Booker told parents in the letter.
Counselors were at the school Friday to speak with students.
District officials emphasized the students were not accused of any wrongdoing.
'It's an incident of kids expressing their natural curiosity that went too far because an adult didn't step in,' Flint said.
Some parents said they were outraged when they received the letter and saw the story on the news.
'It kind of scares me to know that the teachers aren't really watching them," said Ane Musuva, who has two children at Markham. "I don't want my kids growing up in this type of environment.'"
Saturday, January 22, 2011
News Out of Pakistan
Monsters are not exclusive to the Hard Left in America. The Muslim world sure has its share of them.
News from the land of Pakistan where killing Christians has become a national sport, via Weasel Zippers:
Pakistan: Islamic Cleric Orders Baby Born Out of Wedlock Stoned to Death…
"KARACHI (AFP) – 'The lifeless bodies of two tiny babies are being given their final bath before burial in Karachi, after they were left to die in the southern Pakistani city’s garbage dumps.
“They can only have been one or two days old,” says volunteer worker Mohammad Saleem, pointing at the two small corpses being gently washed by his colleagues at a charity’s morgue.
In the conservative Muslim nation, where the birth of children outside of marriage is condemned and adultery is a crime punishable by death under strict interpretations of Islamic law, infanticide is a crime on the rise.
…The number of dead infants found last year — 1,210 — was up from 890 in 2008 and 999 in 2009, says the Edhi Foundation manager in Karachi, Anwar Kazmi.
Kazmi recounts the discovery of the burnt body of a six-day-old infant who had been strangled. Another child was found on the steps of a mosque having been stoned to death on the orders of an extremist imam who has since disappeared, he says.'"
More from Weasel Zippers:
Pakistan: Man Hacks Wife, Daughter to Death to Protect Family “Honor”…
"Nothing to do with Islam.
GHAZIABAD: 'Police on Tuesday arrested an accused of murdering his wife and daughter in the name of ‘honour.’
According to police, the accused after killing his wife, mother of seven, had hid her body in a heap of woods in a cattle shed and was arranging to burry it when police after having information from their sources found the body. Police arrested the accused and recovered the murder weapons – a hammer and meat cleaver.
The accused has confessed that he killed his wife on suspicion of having illicit relations with another man. He also confessed that he had killed his daughter three months back.
Ghaziabad SHO Atif Zulfiqar said that after receiving information of murder of a woman, he deputed three cops to find out truth and arrest the accused. He said that they went in civvies and succeeded in arresting the accused – Rehmat Ali, husband of deceased Allah Rakhi.
He said the accused had hid the body in a heap of woods and was in a chance to remove it to some other place to burry it. He said the accused killed his wife with repeated strokes of the meat cleaver on her sensitive parts. He said later he pressed her head with a hammer.'"
If you've stayed informed about the barbarity in the Islamic world, these two stories would not shock you. Offend you? Yes, but shock you? No way! However, this next story, though it does not fall under the monster category, I find quite astonishing.
From the Free Republic:
More Pakistani Teens Choosing Gay and Lesbian Sex ( Will it become a 'Muslim' thing!)
"A trend toward gay and lesbian sex in Pakistani society is rapidly emerging among teenage boys and girls.
In Pakistan's so-called Islamic society, it is a great transgression even to discuss homosexuality, yet youths have been heading toward a sexual mutiny for a decade and a half.
The new generation of Pakistan has rejected all the norms, values, and ethics of a Muslim society. They are totally Westernized and have adopted all the Western societies' norms and values.
In much of Pakistani society, being a lesbian or gay is considered one of the most corrupt and shameful acts, and the society curses it; but despite this hard reality, many young girls and boys are indulging in homosexual relations.
Pakistani society has a number of classes and social divisions, separated by social status, as well as economic, religious, ethnic, and cultural divisions.
The elite class of the country, called the aristocrats by the lower and middle classes, has little to do with the religion in broader aspect of the masses, and they turn themselves toward each and every culture. Among this group, homosexuality is not viewed as objectionable or bad.
Among religious Pakistanis, however, homosexuality — in Islam the proper terminology for homosexuality is sodomy — is a great sin and one of the most distressing acts in Islam.
In this religious society such acts are hidden. Websites of gays and lesbians in Pakistan can be accessed, and the users of these websites can get connected with each other for the fulfillment of sexual desires.
Young college and university boys and girls who cannot take part in sexual intercourse with the opposite sex often turn to gays and lesbians in Pakistan.
The number of lesbians in Pakistan has increased at an alarming rate owing to the increasing percentage of females in Pakistan. According to the government's population census, females make up 52 percent of the total population, but NGOs place the percentage of females in the population closer to 60 percent."
Get all the gory details here.
News from the land of Pakistan where killing Christians has become a national sport, via Weasel Zippers:
Pakistan: Islamic Cleric Orders Baby Born Out of Wedlock Stoned to Death…
"KARACHI (AFP) – 'The lifeless bodies of two tiny babies are being given their final bath before burial in Karachi, after they were left to die in the southern Pakistani city’s garbage dumps.
“They can only have been one or two days old,” says volunteer worker Mohammad Saleem, pointing at the two small corpses being gently washed by his colleagues at a charity’s morgue.
In the conservative Muslim nation, where the birth of children outside of marriage is condemned and adultery is a crime punishable by death under strict interpretations of Islamic law, infanticide is a crime on the rise.
…The number of dead infants found last year — 1,210 — was up from 890 in 2008 and 999 in 2009, says the Edhi Foundation manager in Karachi, Anwar Kazmi.
Kazmi recounts the discovery of the burnt body of a six-day-old infant who had been strangled. Another child was found on the steps of a mosque having been stoned to death on the orders of an extremist imam who has since disappeared, he says.'"
More from Weasel Zippers:
Pakistan: Man Hacks Wife, Daughter to Death to Protect Family “Honor”…
"Nothing to do with Islam.
GHAZIABAD: 'Police on Tuesday arrested an accused of murdering his wife and daughter in the name of ‘honour.’
According to police, the accused after killing his wife, mother of seven, had hid her body in a heap of woods in a cattle shed and was arranging to burry it when police after having information from their sources found the body. Police arrested the accused and recovered the murder weapons – a hammer and meat cleaver.
The accused has confessed that he killed his wife on suspicion of having illicit relations with another man. He also confessed that he had killed his daughter three months back.
Ghaziabad SHO Atif Zulfiqar said that after receiving information of murder of a woman, he deputed three cops to find out truth and arrest the accused. He said that they went in civvies and succeeded in arresting the accused – Rehmat Ali, husband of deceased Allah Rakhi.
He said the accused had hid the body in a heap of woods and was in a chance to remove it to some other place to burry it. He said the accused killed his wife with repeated strokes of the meat cleaver on her sensitive parts. He said later he pressed her head with a hammer.'"
If you've stayed informed about the barbarity in the Islamic world, these two stories would not shock you. Offend you? Yes, but shock you? No way! However, this next story, though it does not fall under the monster category, I find quite astonishing.
From the Free Republic:
More Pakistani Teens Choosing Gay and Lesbian Sex ( Will it become a 'Muslim' thing!)
"A trend toward gay and lesbian sex in Pakistani society is rapidly emerging among teenage boys and girls.
In Pakistan's so-called Islamic society, it is a great transgression even to discuss homosexuality, yet youths have been heading toward a sexual mutiny for a decade and a half.
The new generation of Pakistan has rejected all the norms, values, and ethics of a Muslim society. They are totally Westernized and have adopted all the Western societies' norms and values.
In much of Pakistani society, being a lesbian or gay is considered one of the most corrupt and shameful acts, and the society curses it; but despite this hard reality, many young girls and boys are indulging in homosexual relations.
Pakistani society has a number of classes and social divisions, separated by social status, as well as economic, religious, ethnic, and cultural divisions.
The elite class of the country, called the aristocrats by the lower and middle classes, has little to do with the religion in broader aspect of the masses, and they turn themselves toward each and every culture. Among this group, homosexuality is not viewed as objectionable or bad.
Among religious Pakistanis, however, homosexuality — in Islam the proper terminology for homosexuality is sodomy — is a great sin and one of the most distressing acts in Islam.
In this religious society such acts are hidden. Websites of gays and lesbians in Pakistan can be accessed, and the users of these websites can get connected with each other for the fulfillment of sexual desires.
Young college and university boys and girls who cannot take part in sexual intercourse with the opposite sex often turn to gays and lesbians in Pakistan.
The number of lesbians in Pakistan has increased at an alarming rate owing to the increasing percentage of females in Pakistan. According to the government's population census, females make up 52 percent of the total population, but NGOs place the percentage of females in the population closer to 60 percent."
Get all the gory details here.
Will He Or Won't He?
Take this, Mr. President. Our newly-elected House of Representatives doesn't take too kindly to the fact that ObamaCare provides for federally-funded abortions, even though our dishonest president denies this fact. No executive order trumps the law, Mr. President. Ya thought us little hillbillies wouldn't catch on to that little trick, didn't ya?
President Obama may find himself in a quandary because the GOP-led House has introduced a bill banning federal funds to be used for abortions. What to do? Would he veto such a bill? Americans wouldn't be too pleased if their newly moved-to-the-center president chose to use their hard-earned dollars to fund abortions, now, would they?
Read from Fox News:
Republicans Introduce Bill to Ban Federal Funding for Abortion Procedures
"Calling it a top priority of the Republican agenda, House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday gave a top designation to a bill introduced by New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith that would ban the use of any federal funds from being used for abortions.
The 'No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,' given the numerical designation H.R. 3 to emphasize its prominence, would make permanent in existing law any language that bans abortion. It also would provide medical workers with 'conscientious protections' that allow them to refuse to participate in abortion procedures against their will.
The legislation will 'ensure that the taxpayers -- through huge majorities clearly show do not want their money being used to pay for abortions -- no longer are coerced into using taxpayer funding to subsidize the killing of an unborn child and the warping of his or her mother,' Smith said in a press conference with Boehner on Capitol Hill
'Our members feel very strongly about the sanctity of human life. We listened to the American people. We made a commitment to the American people under the Pledge to America and we're continuing to fulfill our commitment,' Boehner said.
Separately, Reps. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., and Daniel Lipinski, D-Ill., are introducing a bill to prohibit any money from the new health care law from going to fund abortions.
Saying there is a lot of 'doubt' about where the Obama administration stands on abortion and the new law, Boehner noted that language crafted in 2009 by then-Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak would have banned payments for abortions with money provided by the government to individuals seeking health insurance. That language was dropped from the final legislation.
The new legislation 'will make clear taxpayer funding of elective abortions is not the policy of this government,' Boehner said.
Lipinski, a pro-life Democrat who had major objections to the health care bill's abortion components, voted against the House version of the bill but for the Senate-passed 'reconciliation' that didn't include the Stupak language.
He also voted against repealing the law Wednesday.
'We all know repeal is going nowhere,' he said. 'We should use our time to make fixes to the law.'
Smith said a third bill by Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., would add to the limitations on federal funding for abortions by cutting off federal money from going to Planned Parenthood. Smith called the health care group 'the largest abortion network in the world,' performing 324,000 abortions each year and deriving up to $1 billion each year from fees for services paid by federal, local and state governments.
'When there's no public subsidy for abortion, the number of abortions drop by about 25 percent,' Smith said, citing right-to-life movement research."
President Obama may find himself in a quandary because the GOP-led House has introduced a bill banning federal funds to be used for abortions. What to do? Would he veto such a bill? Americans wouldn't be too pleased if their newly moved-to-the-center president chose to use their hard-earned dollars to fund abortions, now, would they?
Read from Fox News:
Republicans Introduce Bill to Ban Federal Funding for Abortion Procedures
"Calling it a top priority of the Republican agenda, House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday gave a top designation to a bill introduced by New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith that would ban the use of any federal funds from being used for abortions.
The 'No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,' given the numerical designation H.R. 3 to emphasize its prominence, would make permanent in existing law any language that bans abortion. It also would provide medical workers with 'conscientious protections' that allow them to refuse to participate in abortion procedures against their will.
The legislation will 'ensure that the taxpayers -- through huge majorities clearly show do not want their money being used to pay for abortions -- no longer are coerced into using taxpayer funding to subsidize the killing of an unborn child and the warping of his or her mother,' Smith said in a press conference with Boehner on Capitol Hill
'Our members feel very strongly about the sanctity of human life. We listened to the American people. We made a commitment to the American people under the Pledge to America and we're continuing to fulfill our commitment,' Boehner said.
Separately, Reps. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., and Daniel Lipinski, D-Ill., are introducing a bill to prohibit any money from the new health care law from going to fund abortions.
Saying there is a lot of 'doubt' about where the Obama administration stands on abortion and the new law, Boehner noted that language crafted in 2009 by then-Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak would have banned payments for abortions with money provided by the government to individuals seeking health insurance. That language was dropped from the final legislation.
The new legislation 'will make clear taxpayer funding of elective abortions is not the policy of this government,' Boehner said.
Lipinski, a pro-life Democrat who had major objections to the health care bill's abortion components, voted against the House version of the bill but for the Senate-passed 'reconciliation' that didn't include the Stupak language.
He also voted against repealing the law Wednesday.
'We all know repeal is going nowhere,' he said. 'We should use our time to make fixes to the law.'
Smith said a third bill by Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., would add to the limitations on federal funding for abortions by cutting off federal money from going to Planned Parenthood. Smith called the health care group 'the largest abortion network in the world,' performing 324,000 abortions each year and deriving up to $1 billion each year from fees for services paid by federal, local and state governments.
'When there's no public subsidy for abortion, the number of abortions drop by about 25 percent,' Smith said, citing right-to-life movement research."
A Baby Killer Worse Than George Tiller
I would imagine most have heard about the monster in Philadelphia who is charged with murdering seven unborn babies and one woman. No Kathleen Sebelius to the rescue in this case. Yet, the fact that Pennsylvania health officials looked the other way while all this took place is truly appalling.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell is a man after President Obama's own heart. The two share a total disregard for babies who dare to survive a botched abortion. Though Obama never stuck scissors in such babies, he did indeed vote three times for their death.
Read more about the monster from Philadelphia, via One News Now:
Pa. abortion doc charged with 8 counts of murder
"A Philadelphia abortion doctor has been charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a woman patient and seven babies who prosecutors say were born alive and then killed with scissors. The charges against Dr. Kermit Gosnell follow a long grand jury investigation.
District Attorney Seth Williams says state regulators ignored complaints and failed to visit the clinic since 1993. Williams says the women were subjected to squalid and barbaric conditions at Gosnell's Women's Medical Society, which was shut down last year. Gosnell has been named in at least 10 malpractice suits, including one over the death of a woman who died of sepsis and a perforated uterus.
A doctor who gave abortions to minorities, immigrants and poor women in a 'house of horrors' clinic was charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 69, made millions of dollars over 30 years, performing as many illegal, late-term abortions as he could, prosecutors said. State regulators ignored complaints about him and failed to inspect his clinic since 1993, but no charges were warranted against them given time limits and existing law, District Attorney Seth Williams said. Nine of Gosnell's employees also were charged.
Gosnell 'induced labor, forced the live birth of viable babies in the sixth, seventh, eighth month of pregnancy and then killed those babies by cutting into the back of the neck with scissors and severing their spinal cord,' Williams said.
Two listed numbers for Gosnell in Philadelphia have been disconnected. Defense lawyer William J. Brennan, who represented Gosnell during the investigation, noted that the doctor served patients in a low-income city neighborhood for decades. 'Obviously, these allegations are very, very serious,' Brennan said.
The grand jury said the woman who died was a patient who came to Gosnell's clinic for an abortion and died of cardiac arrest because she was given too much Demerol. Gosnell wasn't at the clinic at the time, but directed his staff to administer the drug to keep the woman, a healthy 41-year-old woman, sedated until he arrived, prosecutors said.
Gosnell has been named in at least 46 malpractice suits, including one over the death of a 22-year-old mother who died of sepsis and a perforated uterus in 2000. Many others also involve perforated uteruses. Gosnell sometimes sewed up the injury without telling women their uteruses had been perforated, prosecutors said.
Gosnell charged $325 for first-trimester abortions and $1,600 to $3,000 for abortions up to 30 weeks. Abortions are legal up to 24 weeks gestation in Pennsylvania, although most doctors won't perform them after 20 weeks, prosecutors said.
Some women came from across the mid-Atlantic for the illegal late-term abortions, authorities said. White women from the suburbs were ushered into a separate, slightly cleaner area because Gosnell believed they were more likely to file complaints, Williams said.
'People knew near and far that if you needed a late-term abortion you could go see Dr. Gosnell,' Williams said.
Few if any of the sedated women knew their babies were born alive and then killed, prosecutors said. Many were first-time mothers who were told they were 24 weeks pregnant, even if they were further along, authorities said.
Gosnell got his medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and is board certified in family practice. He started, but did not finish, a residency in obstetrics-gynecology, authorities said.
'He does not know how to do an abortion. He's not board certified,' Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore said. 'Once he got them there, he saw dollar signs and did abortions that other people wouldn't do.'
Patients were subjected to squalid and barbaric conditions at Gosnell's Women's Medical Society, where Gosnell performed dozens of abortions a day, prosecutors said. He mostly worked overnight hours after his untrained staff administered drugs to induce labor during the day, they said.
Early last year, authorities went to investigate drug-related complaints at the clinic and stumbled on what Williams called a 'house of horrors.' Bags and bottles holding aborted fetuses 'were scattered throughout the building,' Williams said. 'There were jars, lining shelves, with severed feet that he kept for no medical purpose.'
The clinic was shut down and Gosnell's medical license was suspended after the raid.
Gosnell and four workers were charged with murder, while five others were charged with controlled drug violations and other crimes. None of the employees had any medical training, and one, a high school student, performed intravenous anesthesia with potentially lethal narcotics, Williams said.
All 10 defendants were taken into custody, authorities said."
Michelle Malkin adds:
[...]
"They weren't the only ones who adopted a see-no-evil stance:
- The Pennsylvania Department of Health knew of clinic violations dating back decades, but did nothing.
- The Pennsylvania Department of State was 'repeatedly confronted with evidence about Gosnell' -- including the clinic's unclean, unsterile conditions, unlicensed workers, unsupervised sedation, underage abortion patients and over-prescribing of pain pills with high resale value on the street -- 'and repeatedly chose to do nothing.'
- Philadelphia Department of Public Health officials who regularly visited Gosnell's human waste-clogged offices did nothing.
- Nearby hospital officials who treated some of the pregnant mothers who suffered grave complications from Gosnell's butchery did nothing.
- An unnamed evaluator with the National Abortion Federation, the leading association of abortion providers that is supposed to uphold strict health and legal standards, determined that Gosnell's chamber of horrors was 'the worst abortion clinic she had ever inspected' -- but did nothing.
Meanwhile, the death racketeers have launched a legislative and regulatory assault across the country on pro-life crisis pregnancy centers from New York City to Baltimore, Austin and Seattle that offer abortion alternatives, counseling and family services to mostly poor, vulnerable minority women.
Already, left-wing journalists and activists have rushed to explain that these abortion atrocities ignored for four decades by abortion radicals and rationalizers are not really about abortion. A TIME magazine writer argued that the Philadelphia Horror was 'about poverty, not Roe v. Wade.' A University of Minnesota professor declared: 'This is not about abortion.'
But the grand jury itself pointed out that loosened oversight of abortion clinics enacted under pro-choice former GOP Gov. Tom Ridge enabled Gosnell's criminal enterprise -- and led to the heartless execution of hundreds of babies. Mass murder got a pass in the name of expanding 'access' and appeasing abortion lobbyists.
As the report made clear: 'With the change of administration from [pro-life Democratic] Gov. Casey to Gov. Ridge,' government health officials 'concluded that inspections would be "putting a barrier up to women" seeking abortions. Better to leave clinics to do as they pleased, even though, as Gosnell proved, that meant both women and babies would pay.'
Deadly indifference to protecting life isn't tangential to the abortion industry's existence -- it's at the core of it. The Philadelphia Horror is no anomaly. It's the logical, bloodcurdling consequence of an evil, eugenics-rooted enterprise wrapped in feminist clothing."
Dr. Kermit Gosnell is a man after President Obama's own heart. The two share a total disregard for babies who dare to survive a botched abortion. Though Obama never stuck scissors in such babies, he did indeed vote three times for their death.
Read more about the monster from Philadelphia, via One News Now:
Pa. abortion doc charged with 8 counts of murder
"A Philadelphia abortion doctor has been charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a woman patient and seven babies who prosecutors say were born alive and then killed with scissors. The charges against Dr. Kermit Gosnell follow a long grand jury investigation.
District Attorney Seth Williams says state regulators ignored complaints and failed to visit the clinic since 1993. Williams says the women were subjected to squalid and barbaric conditions at Gosnell's Women's Medical Society, which was shut down last year. Gosnell has been named in at least 10 malpractice suits, including one over the death of a woman who died of sepsis and a perforated uterus.
A doctor who gave abortions to minorities, immigrants and poor women in a 'house of horrors' clinic was charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 69, made millions of dollars over 30 years, performing as many illegal, late-term abortions as he could, prosecutors said. State regulators ignored complaints about him and failed to inspect his clinic since 1993, but no charges were warranted against them given time limits and existing law, District Attorney Seth Williams said. Nine of Gosnell's employees also were charged.
Gosnell 'induced labor, forced the live birth of viable babies in the sixth, seventh, eighth month of pregnancy and then killed those babies by cutting into the back of the neck with scissors and severing their spinal cord,' Williams said.
Two listed numbers for Gosnell in Philadelphia have been disconnected. Defense lawyer William J. Brennan, who represented Gosnell during the investigation, noted that the doctor served patients in a low-income city neighborhood for decades. 'Obviously, these allegations are very, very serious,' Brennan said.
The grand jury said the woman who died was a patient who came to Gosnell's clinic for an abortion and died of cardiac arrest because she was given too much Demerol. Gosnell wasn't at the clinic at the time, but directed his staff to administer the drug to keep the woman, a healthy 41-year-old woman, sedated until he arrived, prosecutors said.
Gosnell has been named in at least 46 malpractice suits, including one over the death of a 22-year-old mother who died of sepsis and a perforated uterus in 2000. Many others also involve perforated uteruses. Gosnell sometimes sewed up the injury without telling women their uteruses had been perforated, prosecutors said.
Gosnell charged $325 for first-trimester abortions and $1,600 to $3,000 for abortions up to 30 weeks. Abortions are legal up to 24 weeks gestation in Pennsylvania, although most doctors won't perform them after 20 weeks, prosecutors said.
Some women came from across the mid-Atlantic for the illegal late-term abortions, authorities said. White women from the suburbs were ushered into a separate, slightly cleaner area because Gosnell believed they were more likely to file complaints, Williams said.
'People knew near and far that if you needed a late-term abortion you could go see Dr. Gosnell,' Williams said.
Few if any of the sedated women knew their babies were born alive and then killed, prosecutors said. Many were first-time mothers who were told they were 24 weeks pregnant, even if they were further along, authorities said.
Gosnell got his medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and is board certified in family practice. He started, but did not finish, a residency in obstetrics-gynecology, authorities said.
'He does not know how to do an abortion. He's not board certified,' Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore said. 'Once he got them there, he saw dollar signs and did abortions that other people wouldn't do.'
Patients were subjected to squalid and barbaric conditions at Gosnell's Women's Medical Society, where Gosnell performed dozens of abortions a day, prosecutors said. He mostly worked overnight hours after his untrained staff administered drugs to induce labor during the day, they said.
Early last year, authorities went to investigate drug-related complaints at the clinic and stumbled on what Williams called a 'house of horrors.' Bags and bottles holding aborted fetuses 'were scattered throughout the building,' Williams said. 'There were jars, lining shelves, with severed feet that he kept for no medical purpose.'
The clinic was shut down and Gosnell's medical license was suspended after the raid.
Gosnell and four workers were charged with murder, while five others were charged with controlled drug violations and other crimes. None of the employees had any medical training, and one, a high school student, performed intravenous anesthesia with potentially lethal narcotics, Williams said.
All 10 defendants were taken into custody, authorities said."
Michelle Malkin adds:
[...]
"They weren't the only ones who adopted a see-no-evil stance:
- The Pennsylvania Department of Health knew of clinic violations dating back decades, but did nothing.
- The Pennsylvania Department of State was 'repeatedly confronted with evidence about Gosnell' -- including the clinic's unclean, unsterile conditions, unlicensed workers, unsupervised sedation, underage abortion patients and over-prescribing of pain pills with high resale value on the street -- 'and repeatedly chose to do nothing.'
- Philadelphia Department of Public Health officials who regularly visited Gosnell's human waste-clogged offices did nothing.
- Nearby hospital officials who treated some of the pregnant mothers who suffered grave complications from Gosnell's butchery did nothing.
- An unnamed evaluator with the National Abortion Federation, the leading association of abortion providers that is supposed to uphold strict health and legal standards, determined that Gosnell's chamber of horrors was 'the worst abortion clinic she had ever inspected' -- but did nothing.
Meanwhile, the death racketeers have launched a legislative and regulatory assault across the country on pro-life crisis pregnancy centers from New York City to Baltimore, Austin and Seattle that offer abortion alternatives, counseling and family services to mostly poor, vulnerable minority women.
Already, left-wing journalists and activists have rushed to explain that these abortion atrocities ignored for four decades by abortion radicals and rationalizers are not really about abortion. A TIME magazine writer argued that the Philadelphia Horror was 'about poverty, not Roe v. Wade.' A University of Minnesota professor declared: 'This is not about abortion.'
But the grand jury itself pointed out that loosened oversight of abortion clinics enacted under pro-choice former GOP Gov. Tom Ridge enabled Gosnell's criminal enterprise -- and led to the heartless execution of hundreds of babies. Mass murder got a pass in the name of expanding 'access' and appeasing abortion lobbyists.
As the report made clear: 'With the change of administration from [pro-life Democratic] Gov. Casey to Gov. Ridge,' government health officials 'concluded that inspections would be "putting a barrier up to women" seeking abortions. Better to leave clinics to do as they pleased, even though, as Gosnell proved, that meant both women and babies would pay.'
Deadly indifference to protecting life isn't tangential to the abortion industry's existence -- it's at the core of it. The Philadelphia Horror is no anomaly. It's the logical, bloodcurdling consequence of an evil, eugenics-rooted enterprise wrapped in feminist clothing."
The Dirty Little Secret About Abortion
The feminazis of America care nothing about the welfare of women. Don't fall for their lies. They care for one thing and one thing alone: promoting and protecting their liberal agenda. If they cared about women, they would be hysterical over the horrors Muslim women face at the hands of the males in their lives who are supposed to love and protect them. They would also be enraged by the unfair treatment prominent conservative women must endure from the American Pravda. However, their silence on both issues is deafening, and thus they expose their hypocrisy.
Not only are these liberal feminists hypocrites, they are willing to permit uninformed females to undergo abortions when there is evidence of an increased risk of breast cancer. Every woman deserves to hear the truth before making the decision to abort her baby. Here all along we pro-lifers thought an abortion cost one life when in many cases it costs two.
Read from Life News:
Abortion Has Caused 300K Breast Cancer Deaths Since Roe
"A leading breast cancer researcher says abortion has caused at least 300,000 cases of breast cancer causing a woman’s death since the Supreme Court allowed virtually unlimited abortion in its 1973 case.
With tens of millions of abortions since the high court’s decision and research confirming abortion increases the risk of contracting breast cancer, undoubtedly a large number of breast cancer cases, caused by abortion, have occurred over the last 38 years.
Professor Joel Brind, an endocrinologist at Baruch College in New York, worked with several scientists on a 1996 paper published in the Journal of Epidemiol Community Health showing a '30% greater chance of developing breast cancer' for women who have induced abortions. He recently commented on how many women have become victims.
'If we take the overall risk of breast cancer among women to be about 10% (not counting abortion), and raise it by 30%, we get 13% lifetime risk,' Brind explains. Using the 50 million abortions since Roe v. Wade figure, we get 1.5 million excess cases of breast cancer. At an average mortality of 20% since 1973, that would mean that legal abortion has resulted in some 300,000 additional deaths due to breast cancer since Roe v. Wade.'"
Read it all.
Not only are these liberal feminists hypocrites, they are willing to permit uninformed females to undergo abortions when there is evidence of an increased risk of breast cancer. Every woman deserves to hear the truth before making the decision to abort her baby. Here all along we pro-lifers thought an abortion cost one life when in many cases it costs two.
Read from Life News:
Abortion Has Caused 300K Breast Cancer Deaths Since Roe
"A leading breast cancer researcher says abortion has caused at least 300,000 cases of breast cancer causing a woman’s death since the Supreme Court allowed virtually unlimited abortion in its 1973 case.
With tens of millions of abortions since the high court’s decision and research confirming abortion increases the risk of contracting breast cancer, undoubtedly a large number of breast cancer cases, caused by abortion, have occurred over the last 38 years.
Professor Joel Brind, an endocrinologist at Baruch College in New York, worked with several scientists on a 1996 paper published in the Journal of Epidemiol Community Health showing a '30% greater chance of developing breast cancer' for women who have induced abortions. He recently commented on how many women have become victims.
'If we take the overall risk of breast cancer among women to be about 10% (not counting abortion), and raise it by 30%, we get 13% lifetime risk,' Brind explains. Using the 50 million abortions since Roe v. Wade figure, we get 1.5 million excess cases of breast cancer. At an average mortality of 20% since 1973, that would mean that legal abortion has resulted in some 300,000 additional deaths due to breast cancer since Roe v. Wade.'"
Read it all.
Thirty-Eight Years Since Roe v. Wade
I'm back, folks!! After three weeks of minimal politics, I am refreshed and committed to continuing the exposure of the evil policies of the Left. They have a special place in their heart for the murdering of innocent unborn children. Add that to their disdain of Bible-believing Christians, and I think the perfect Bible verse that sums up where they stand comes from Proverbs 8:35-36:
"For those who find me find life and receive favor from the LORD. But those who fail to find me harm themselves; all who hate me love death."
Two years ago on the Roe v. Wade anniversary, I wrote the following:
(Note: The numbers have not been updated since Jan. 2009.)
Since Roe v. Wade was approved into law in 1973, over 50 million babies have been aborted in the United States; that is a staggering number. In fact, 50 million babies are aborted world-wide each year. The U.S. ranks third in the number of abortions annually with 1.3 million. China leads with 11 million, followed by Russia with 6 million. It is an absolute abomination in the eyes of God; He grieves over each and every one of these wasted lives. These innocent babies were sacrificed because of inconvenience and selfishness.
The number of Americans killed in all our major wars is as follows:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_casualties_of_war
Revolutionary War……………………...25,000
War of 1812.……………………………20,000
Mexican War…………………………… 13,283
Civil War……………………………… .625,000
Spanish American War…………………..2,446
World War I…………………………… 116,516
World War II………………………….. .405,399
Korean War ……………………………..36,516
Vietnam War……………………………. 58,209
Persian Gulf War…………………………….299
War Against Terror………………………..4,850
Total………………………………......1,307,518
This 1.3 million death count in all our major wars since the founding of our nation is basically equal to the number of babies aborted in just one year in the United States. Please read these figures again and consider carefully the significance of what America has done to its young.
The following statistics come from the Movement for a Better America:
http://www.movementforabetteramerica.org/abortionindex.html
1) The ratio of abortions in the U.S. compared to American soldiers killed in Iraq is 1,750 to 1.
2) There is a 488% greater risk of suicide among women who have had abortions compared to those delivering a live baby.
3) There is a 100% increased risk of breast cancer among women who aborted one baby; it increases to 300% with two or more abortions.”
Approximately one-third of America’s younger generation is missing. They will never enter the work force, (think what 50 million extra workers would do to help solve our Social Security crisis), never marry, or have families of their own. Think of the potential that has been wasted. Perhaps one of these 50 million would have been the one to find a cure for cancer or AIDS or would have contributed greatly to society in some other way.
Why aren’t Americans more outraged? The same individuals fighting for abortion rights have protested against the death penalty for convicted murderers; have expressed outrage at Michael Vick for his harsh treatment of animals--an appalling act, but surely a human life should have more value than that of a dog; and fought against drilling for oil in ANWR because it may disturb the caribou and other Alaskan wildlife. We need to re-examine our priorities in this country because, based on our actions, human life apparently has very little value.
For those who have had an abortion, my intention is not to bring condemnation, but instead to inform as to the tragedy of abortion. It is an irreversible act that one must live with, and it is an act that many, many women sadly regret. However, the good news is that we have a merciful God that can forgive the sin of abortion and is waiting with open arms to do so.
On this 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade let us pause from our daily activities and pay homage to the millions of lives destroyed so senselessly. The Declaration of Independence states that we have certain unalienable rights, life being one of them. What about the rights of an unborn child to take his first breath of fresh air?
Ultrasound is evidence that a pregnant woman is not carrying just a mass of tissue, but instead, a human life. Shouldn’t those unalienable rights apply to an unborn child, as well? Take a stand, pro-lifers; it is time more of us defend those who are unable to defend themselves.
"For those who find me find life and receive favor from the LORD. But those who fail to find me harm themselves; all who hate me love death."
Two years ago on the Roe v. Wade anniversary, I wrote the following:
(Note: The numbers have not been updated since Jan. 2009.)
Since Roe v. Wade was approved into law in 1973, over 50 million babies have been aborted in the United States; that is a staggering number. In fact, 50 million babies are aborted world-wide each year. The U.S. ranks third in the number of abortions annually with 1.3 million. China leads with 11 million, followed by Russia with 6 million. It is an absolute abomination in the eyes of God; He grieves over each and every one of these wasted lives. These innocent babies were sacrificed because of inconvenience and selfishness.
The number of Americans killed in all our major wars is as follows:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_casualties_of_war
Revolutionary War……………………...25,000
War of 1812.……………………………20,000
Mexican War…………………………… 13,283
Civil War……………………………… .625,000
Spanish American War…………………..2,446
World War I…………………………… 116,516
World War II………………………….. .405,399
Korean War ……………………………..36,516
Vietnam War……………………………. 58,209
Persian Gulf War…………………………….299
War Against Terror………………………..4,850
Total………………………………......1,307,518
This 1.3 million death count in all our major wars since the founding of our nation is basically equal to the number of babies aborted in just one year in the United States. Please read these figures again and consider carefully the significance of what America has done to its young.
The following statistics come from the Movement for a Better America:
http://www.movementforabetteramerica.org/abortionindex.html
1) The ratio of abortions in the U.S. compared to American soldiers killed in Iraq is 1,750 to 1.
2) There is a 488% greater risk of suicide among women who have had abortions compared to those delivering a live baby.
3) There is a 100% increased risk of breast cancer among women who aborted one baby; it increases to 300% with two or more abortions.”
Approximately one-third of America’s younger generation is missing. They will never enter the work force, (think what 50 million extra workers would do to help solve our Social Security crisis), never marry, or have families of their own. Think of the potential that has been wasted. Perhaps one of these 50 million would have been the one to find a cure for cancer or AIDS or would have contributed greatly to society in some other way.
Why aren’t Americans more outraged? The same individuals fighting for abortion rights have protested against the death penalty for convicted murderers; have expressed outrage at Michael Vick for his harsh treatment of animals--an appalling act, but surely a human life should have more value than that of a dog; and fought against drilling for oil in ANWR because it may disturb the caribou and other Alaskan wildlife. We need to re-examine our priorities in this country because, based on our actions, human life apparently has very little value.
For those who have had an abortion, my intention is not to bring condemnation, but instead to inform as to the tragedy of abortion. It is an irreversible act that one must live with, and it is an act that many, many women sadly regret. However, the good news is that we have a merciful God that can forgive the sin of abortion and is waiting with open arms to do so.
On this 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade let us pause from our daily activities and pay homage to the millions of lives destroyed so senselessly. The Declaration of Independence states that we have certain unalienable rights, life being one of them. What about the rights of an unborn child to take his first breath of fresh air?
Ultrasound is evidence that a pregnant woman is not carrying just a mass of tissue, but instead, a human life. Shouldn’t those unalienable rights apply to an unborn child, as well? Take a stand, pro-lifers; it is time more of us defend those who are unable to defend themselves.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Happy New Year
I hope you all have a happy new year. Let's hope and pray that the economy will improve this year and that we will see more people back to work and able to provide for their families without depending on the government, though with Obama in charge, I don't have a lot of confidence in this occurring.
I will be taking a three week break from blogging. This is something I feel the Lord is leading me to do. If anyone wants to leave comments, I will be happy to post them.
I will be taking a three week break from blogging. This is something I feel the Lord is leading me to do. If anyone wants to leave comments, I will be happy to post them.
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