Thursday, December 30, 2010

Life v death - LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report 12/28/10 #5050 (o'bamacide)

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Top Stories • Republican Party Chair Michael Steele to Join Pro-Life Debate
• Obama Solidifies Democrats for 2012, Palin Lacks Support
• Mitch Daniels: Truce Directed at Liberals, Not for Social Conservatives
• Pro-Abortion Obama EEOC Nominee Chai Feldblum Approved

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• "Voluntary" Death Panels May Forgo Assisted Suicide Talk • Nebraska Bill Bans Telemed Abortions Using RU 486 Drug • Chief Rabbis in Israel Oppose "Abortion Epidemic" • Catholic Bishop Right to Push Back Against Culture of Death
• Pennsylvania Parental Consent Abortion Law Gets Legal Aid • Alaska Governor Wants Court to Reconsider Teen Abortion Law • Canadian Supreme Court Decision Could Lead to Cloning Research ---> Please consider making an end-of-year donation to support LifeNews.com.

Pro-Life Leaders Want Congress to Overturn Death Panel Regs
Washington, DC | 12/30/10 12:22 PM

Leaders in the pro-life community are angrily responding to the news that the Obama administration added "death panels" to the ObamaCare implementation.

Republican Party Chair Michael Steele to Join Pro-Life Debate
Michael Steele, the embattled chairman of the national Republican Party, says he will participate in a January 3 debate co-sponsored by a leading pro-life organization.
Steele confirmed today to the Daily Caller, a conservative news web site that is sponsoring the debate with the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List and Americans for Tax Reform, that he will face off with five rivals seeking to lead the party against pro-abortion President Barack Obama.

The confirmation is surprising because some party insiders speculated Steele would not participate but would defend his record in private before the 168 members of the Republican National Committee who will determine the chairman of the party and lead its efforts to fundraise for get out of the vote efforts supporting what is expected to be a pro-life nominee facing Obama in 2012.

Because the position is so important in terms of representing the Republican Party's pro-life views as a spokesman and setting up the presidential election, which has monumental abortion implications, the SBA List has been active in the debate. It has urged pro-life advocates to contact RNCDebate.org to urge pro-life questions be asked and it conducted a series of interview questions with most of the chairman candidates on pro-life issues. Full story at LifeNews.com
Obama Solidifies Democrats for 2012, Palin Lacks Support

A new CNN poll released today shows pro-abortion President Barack Obama is solidifying his support as he heads into the year leading up to he expected re-election bid.
On the other hand, the survey finds former vice-presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin not coalescing Republican voters behind her potential bid for the GOP nomination to take on Obama.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll (pdf) found 78 percent of Democrats say they want to see Obama become the Democratic Party's standard-bearer again in 2012 compared with 19 percent saying they would prefer someone else. The 19 percent number is the lowest since March, when CNN began asking the question of voters nationwide.

Meanwhile, the Public Policy Polling institute released a new poll today as well with more bad news for Palin.

"We've polled Palin's favorability in ten states over the last couple months. In Alaska just 33% of voters have a favorable opinion of her to 58% with a negative one," polling direct Tom Jensen explains. "The only place where fewer voters see her positively than her own home state is dark blue Massachusetts." Full story at LifeNews.com

Mitch Daniels: Truce Directed at Liberals, Not for Social Conservatives
Indiana governor Mitch Daniels has given yet another interview in which he talks about a social issues truce he put forward this summer that upset pro-life conservatives.
The interview with WANE follows on the one he gave the Indianapolis Star in which he appeared to shift position and suggest the truce was meant for liberals, not social conservatives concerned about issues like abortion.

In the Star interview, Daniels suggested the truce was meant for liberal activists like those who favored repealing the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy — and he continued that line of thinking in the WANE question and answer session.

Asked if the truce "wasn't anything to alarm social conservatives" he responded, "First of all, it wasn't directed to them. It was directed as much to people who, for instance, are very aggressively trying to change the definition of marriage… Stand down for awhile. Let's save America." Full story at LifeNews.com

Pro-Abortion Obama EEOC Nominee Chai Feldblum Approved
Lost in the shuffle in the last week of the most recent session of the Senate was news that another one of President Barack Obama's pro-abortion nominees was confirmed.
The U.S. Senate last week confirmed four of President Obama's long-pending nominations to positions at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, including the nomination of pro-abortion activist Chai Feldblum as a commissioner.

The EEOC enforces federal laws barring discrimination in employment and the Obama appointment could impact abortion as it relates to employment issues as could impact abortion as it relates to employment issues.

Feldblum isn't known by most Americans, but she worked for the pro-abortion Human Rights Campaign Fund and, from 1986-1987, was a legislative counsel for the pro-abortion ACLU. Full story at LifeNews.com

"Voluntary" Death Panels May Forgo Assisted Suicide Talk

The debate over the death panels that appear to have been added back to the ObamaCare law continues and the complexity of federal regulations is causing considerable confusion.
Early reports indicated the death panels, the annual discussions authorized under ObamaCare at taxpayer expense where physicians confer with patients about end-of-life decisions, indicated they could possible include a discussion of assisted suicide in the three states where one may be obtained.

But a key word — making the discussions voluntary — appears to have eliminated that possibility as does the fact that the discussions will center on advanced directives, which can't include assisted suicides.

"These things can become very complicated–and finding anything in federal law and regulations is increasingly difficult," pro-life bioethics attorney Wesley J. Smith writes today after conducting additional research on the death panels. Regarding them allowing assisted suicides, he says, "The answer appears to be: Probably not, at least, not yet." Full story at LifeNews.com

Nebraska Bill Bans Telemed Abortions Using RU 486 Drug

A proposed law in Nebraska would stop the telemed abortion process currently employed at Planned Parenthood centers in neighboring Iowa from expanding there.
Telemed abortions are those where women visit an abortion center and don't meet in person with a physician before taking the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug, as the FDA suggests. Instead, they are only given access to a doctor over a Skype computer connection before being prescribed the drug that has killed potentially dozens worldwide and injured more than 1,100 in the United States alone as of 2006, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

The legislative proposal would prohibit Nebraska physicians from prescribing and dispensing the abortion drug via the Internet, which Planned Parenthood of the Heartland has done in Iowa in more than 2,000 cases since mid-2008. Full story at LifeNews.com

Chief Rabbis in Israel Oppose "Abortion Epidemic"
Yona Metzger and Shlomo Amar, the chief rabbis in Israel, are calling on Israeli residents to fight the "abortion epidemic" they say is ravaging the country.
The two Jewish leaders sent a letter to all rabbis across the country, according to a CBN News report, citing a portion of the Torah from Exodus that relates the story of Hebrew midwives refusing an edict from Pharaoh to drown newborn children by throwing them in the Nile River.

Jews point to the teachings in the first chapter of the book of Exodus when Hebrew midwives Pu'ah and Shifra refuse to listen to the King of Egypt's order to kill all male babies. "But the midwives feared God and did not as the king of Egypt commanded," the scriptures say. Full story at LifeNews.com

Catholic Bishop Right to Push Back Against Culture of Death
by Gerard Nadal
Bishop Thomas Olmsted, of the Phoenix, Arizona Diocese took the extraordinary step last week of removing Saint Joseph Hospital's Catholic status.

The measure comes after last May's confrontation between Sister Margaret McBride, the hospital's administrator who gave permission for an 11-week pregnant woman with a severe case of pulmonary hypertension to have an abortion, and Bishop Olmsted who notified her in private that her actions were formal cooperation in the child's death, and therefore incurred a latae sententiae (automatic) excommunication.

Much confusion swirls around this case, and needs to be cleared in the interest of defending the good name of a good bishop. Full story at LifeNews.com
Pennsylvania Parental Consent Abortion Law Gets Legal Aid

Attorneys representing pro-life legal groups are giving aid and support to a parental consent law that requires minor teens to get their parent's permission for an abortion.

Officials with the Alliance Defense Fund and Americans United for Life submitted a friend-of-the-court brief to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in the first-ever review of that court of the pro-life law. The groups are representing the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, the Pennsylvania Family Institute and nearly 70 state legislators who support the law protecting a parent's right to be involved in their child's decision regarding abortion. Full story at LifeNews.com

Alaska Governor Wants Court to Reconsider Teen Abortion Law
Alaska Governor Sean Parnell asked a court last week to reconsider its decision from earlier this month to severely weaken a parental notification law.Superior Court Judge John Suddock let the law voters approved in August stand but weakened it to the point that pro-life groups say it is now ineffective.

He said abortion practitioners should not face prison sentences for failing to comply with it. He also removed a section allowing parents to file a civil lawsuit against abortion practitioners who don't comply seeking financial damages. Full story at LifeNews.com

Canadian Supreme Court Decision Could Lead to Cloning Research
Canadian pro-life advocates are concerned a recent decision by the Supreme Court of Canada could pave the way for grisly research involving cloning and merging different species.
Last week, on a split 4-4-1 decision, the nation's high court left what pro-life advocates say is a legal void that could lead to cloning research involving the fusing of humans with animals and results in the destruction of human embryos — unique human beings just days into their existence. Full story at LifeNews.com

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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

observation: "London Obituary" on 'common sense'

From: baja Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010

Sad but true!

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Life v death - MTV to Air Abortion Special (o'bamacide)

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MTV to Air Abortion Special, Media Yawn

By Erin R. Brown | December 28, 2010 | 17:40

article source: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/erin-brown/2010/12/28/mtv-air-abortion-special-media-yawn

MTV aims to make a profit airing a show about a pregnant teen deciding to abort her baby, and the best media writers can muster is to call it a "sensitive issue."

An MTV Special to be aired at 11:30pm Dec. 28, "No Easy Decision" is a half-hour program that follows a teen mom's tragic decision to abort her child. The media coverage leading up to the program's air date has merely glossed over the murderous reality that is abortion, and used terms like "sensitive issue," "wrenching decision" and "ostracized party guest" to downplay the severity of infanticide.

The most egregious example of glossing over the impact of abortion comes from Linda Lowen at about.com. Lowen twists the media's lack of interest in abortion into some fantasy victimhood like a socially awkward teen at a party.

"If the TV and film industry threw a party and invited all of the biggest social ills – alcoholism, drug addiction, domestic violence, rape, drunk driving, infidelity, bullying, child pornography – as guests, abortion would be persona non grata, the unwanted person," Lowen wrote. "That's because in the world of mainstream media, depicting abortion on film or TV is akin to inviting a socially ostracized party guest whose mere presence is guaranteed to start a fight."

Willa Paskin of New York Magazine casually mentions that abortions are considered "taboo" and that the teen featured on the special has pregnancy decision to make. "[The MTV Special] will focus on Markai, a young woman who appeared in16 and Pregnant, as she decides what to do about her second pregnancy," Paskin wrote. "Abortion has generally been taboo on television (with characters having miscarriages or changes of heart instead, though they've become a little more common of late), and the late air time is a nod to that."

Sunny Pepper at Examiner.com at least acknowledged that there are consequences to an abortion, but failed to acknowledge the loss of life in the process. "With its new special, 'No Easy Decision', MTV will document the decision-making and consequences following a young teen who wrenches with the decision of abortion after getting pregnant a second time."

Entertainment Weekly's Jennifer Armstrong described a teen's decision as a "sensitive issue" and called it the ending of a pregnancy instead of loss of life. "After documenting dozens of teen mothers' heart-wrenching stories via its hit '16 and Pregnant' and 'Teen Mom' series, MTV will tackle the sensitive issue of abortion with a separate special called 'No Easy Decision,' EW has learned exclusively," Armstrong wrote. "Dr. Drew Pinsky will also talk with young women who, like 27 percent of teens who end up with unplanned pregnancies, have chosen to end them." Her article was also linked to on CNN.com

Nice that these media writers choose to characterize the killing of a human being as "no easy decision" or "sensitive issue" – lip service to appease those oppose infanticide.

MTV has done this special in direct collaboration with Exhale, a non-profit post-abortion support group that will feature live blogging and a twitter campaign during the special's airing.

o'illegal - Yah!!! Right!!! Example of the use of propaganda. Say a lie and keep repeating it.

From: baja Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 Subject: Yah!!! Right!!! Example of the use of propaganda. Say a lie and keep repeating it.

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2010/12/janet_napolitanos_response_to.php

Janet Napolitano's Response to Border Agent's Murder Outrages Arizona Cattle Growers' Association

By James King, published: Mon., Dec. 20 2010, Phoenix New Times, photo source: www.newsbusters.org

An Obituary printed in the London Times - Interesting and sadly rather true

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
- Why the early bird gets the worm;
- Life isn't always fair;
- and Maybe it was my fault.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge). His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.

Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife, Discretion, by his daughter, Responsibility, and by his son, Reason.

He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers;
I Know My Rights
I Want It Now
Someone Else Is To Blame
I'm A Victim

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.

     Janet Napolitano says the murder of a border patrol agent doesn't mean drug violence is "rampant" along the U.S./ Mexico border.
   Following the tragic murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry last week by a suspected "rip crew" near Nogales, U.S. Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano tried to downplay the amount of drug violence spilling over the border in an interview with the Arizona Republic's editorial board.
   "It would be wrong to conclude from Terry's death, as well as the killing of longtime southern Arizona rancher Robert Krentz, that drug violence is on the rise or rampant along the border," Napolitano told the board while in Arizona last week.
   An Arizona ranchers' organization finds Napolitano's assessment out of touch and out of line.
   "In reading the Republic story about Secretary Napolitano's reaction to the murder of Agent Terry north of Nogales last week, I was struck almost dumb by her characterization of the murder and mayhem that is occurring daily on both sides of our border with Mexico as ordinary crimes," says Arizona Cattle Growers' Association president Steve Brophy.
   "What country in the world would tolerate illegal crossings of countless tons of drugs each year over that same area? And, what country in the world would tolerate its own secretary of homeland security dismissing that as 'everyday crime'? As long as we do tolerate it, we deserve what we have gotten, even though Rob Krentz and Agent Terry didn't deserve what happened to them," he continues.
   During the same meeting, Napolitano touted her agency's efforts in thwarting the cartels. She told the board "we're seizing more currency, we're seizing more drugs, we're seizing more guns, and so those numbers are going up."
   As the group points out, Napolitano's analysis of the increase of drugs and money seized at the border is strange when she tries to argue drug activity there isn't "rampant."
   So, the cattlemen have made Napolitano an offer:
   "The Arizona Cattlemen's Association invites the Secretary to meet with our members to explain and help us understand the armed gunmen and drug mules that cross our ranches daily. Explain to us how two murders in Arizona and several shootouts between drug cartels and law enforcement is not an increase in violence along the border."
   Your move, Janet.

Monday, December 27, 2010

osama laughter - o'cop-a-feel TSA: Grandma Got Molested At The Airport. The Terrorists Are Winning! (Youtube "sing-a-long" 3m24s)

The TSA/DHS body scanner's "backscatter" image can be blacked out so as to only reveal & highlight potential illegal objects. Why haven't the machines been modified? Obviously o'who?'s "three blind mice" (TSA, DHS, and the W.H.) choose not to do so? Why? -- rfh

"A State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands -- even for beneficial purposes -- will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished." -- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English philosopher and economist

video source: http://www.youtube.com/v/2Qdb6wC0Iz4

BUMBLING OBAMA DRAGGING US INTO REAL DISASTER
PREAMBLE:
While a Moslem student, under Oba-Hussein's support of Islam, sues a teacher for mentioning ham (food) in class and parents being asked to sign permission slips for their children to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to our nation in school, our Marxist- Islamist President ignores our safety and security and pushes through a HORRIBLY flawed START nulcear treaty with Russia (which out-maneouvered him in the details), prefering to push his self-gratifying aims and allowing America to face destruction by HIS actions.

   While his Homeland Security denies any problems on our borders, where admittedly MILLIONS of illegal entries happened without them being checked or asked for identification, where not just drugs but biological weaponry crosses with impunity but so do TERRORISTS!
   Wikileaks has divulged how the Obama Administration knew that Manuel Zelaya was an anti-democratic anti-Semitic pig whose goal was to become ruler for life like his buddy Hugo Chavez. But, Team Obama decided to support him for the greater good of Latin American relations. Barack Obama even cut off aid to Honduras in order to appease tyrant Hugo Chavez.
   Either Obama and his team - formal or the czars - are a total bunch of MORONS or they have an anti-America agenda by supporting , facilitating and encouraging our enemies - whether the Marxist ones like Chavez or the Islamic ones who have infiltrated (through his help) the highest levels of our government and high positions in our MILITARY.
   The equally idiotic Democrat Majority in the now FORMER Congress, that demanded we pass Bills to see what is in them (not knowing themselves for what they were voting) voted to pass the totally flawed START treaty (with a dozen traiterous Republicans) that now prevents us from defending ourselves against EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) nuclear weapons that can reach us from Venezuela.
   Note: EMP's do not kill or easily harm humans BUT wipe out electronic circuitry (in factories, banks, vehicles, traffic light controls, even your microwave oven, thus bringing commerce, transporation and financial structures to a halt and destroying America more certainly - or at best as certainly - as Hiroshima type of explosive weapons.
   With Oba-Hussein's real track record, not his self-proclaimed one, is it any wonder that approaching on nearly half of Americans think he is a Moslem, not a Christian like 95% of them, and does NOT share the same ideals and principles and love of America they do.
   His actions underline and give credence to this opinion!
   Note: Iran Shahab 3 and newer Shahab 4 missiles can EASILY reach the southern part of the USA and Iran is spanning the globe to find and hire nuclear scientists to develop nuclear WEAPONS capacity.

link source: http://noiri.blogspot.com ANTI-MULLAH
"I PREFER TO DIE ON MY FEET THAN LIVE ON MY KNEEs." من مرگ ایستاده روی پای خود را بر زندگی خم شده روی زانو ترجیح میدهم

Stop Granny’s pat-down

By Iain Murray, BostonHerald.com, Op-Ed, Tuesday, December 28, 2010

article source: http://news.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/20101228stop_grannys_pat-down/srvc=home&position=also

John Pistole, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, recently told The Atlantic in an interview that “we’ll never eliminate risk” of terrorist attacks on aviation.

He’s right, which is why the TSA’s policy of treating everyone as an equal risk is so misguided. It has led to the outrages of the past few weeks and the public backlash against the TSA. We need to scuttle the TSA’s equal-risk policy in favor of one that concentrates on genuine potential risks.

Pistole sounds reasonable, presenting the TSA’s current policies as the best we can do in trying circumstances.

The trouble is in the policy’s application. The individual performance of TSA officers is highly variable.

The case of the “Baywatch” actress singled out for additional screening is particularly interesting for the TSA’s response. An agency spokesman said that “people who are celebrities shouldn’t be surprised if and when they’re recognized.” This makes no sense. If they’re recognized as not terrorists, then why should they have to go through enhanced security without additional information that they may be a threat? Perhaps terrorist “chatter” that day suggested that a former “Baywatch” star might be planning a mid-air atrocity, but I seriously doubt it.

To end these outrages and to bring accountability back to airport screening, the TSA’s monopoly as a nationalized screening industry must end. A 2007 study for the TSA found that private screeners consistently outperformed the TSA bureaucrats, so the TSA suppressed it, earning the agency censure from the Government Accountability Office. Airports should be allowed to opt out of the federal system and hire their own screeners, who will be more responsive to customers, and must comply with federal regulations.

In addition, to cut down on lines and speed up the process, certain categories of passengers should be given a degree of dispensation from screening. As international security guru Edward Luttwak put it, “easily recognizable groups that not even the most ingenious terrorists could simulate” should not be viewed as equal in risk to other groups or individuals. Examples include “touring senior citizens traveling together (a category that contains a good portion of all American, European and East Asian tourist traffic), airline flying personnel who come to the security gate as a crew, families complete with children.”

As Luttwak suggests, the critical question would be whether members of those groups “recognize each other as such.”

Another solution would be the institution of a robust frequent-traveler system that would enable members who undergo extensive background checks to bypass security, or at the very least not have to remove shoes and belts before going through. Airlines, which employ up to 150 people each to run their frequent flyer schemes, could be given this responsibility to avoid it becoming yet another government bureaucracy.

In the end, detecting terrorists at the airport could become more like detecting shoplifters. It would lead to an unpleasant experience for the guilty and a pleasurable experience for the rest of us. It might even attract people back on to planes and reassure us that the federal government can read the Fourth Amendment. Even John Pistole might see the benefits of that.

Iain Murray works for the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

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