Thursday, May 16, 2013
When government turns on itself
This is interesting, the FBI may investigate the IRS over its targeting of conservative political groups filing for tax-exempt status but then who then investigates the FBI, the CIA? Obama has recently castigated the IRS for the scandal, will the IRS then audit Mr. Obama? I must've missed the smoking gun where the President ordered the IRS to go after the Tea Party movement but conservative commentators are acting like this is so. I'm sorry m'am, just the facts. AG Eric Holder didn't know his deputy authorized subpoenas for all those AP reporter and editors' phone and interview records, that's interesting an underling having more power than the boss. Of course there's still Benghazi but allow me to say something about Brooklyn Federal Judge Edward Korman. I've been reading about him in the paper of late and he's the one who struck down all age restrictions and prescription requirements for the Plan B morning-after pill. It's not really his decision that struck me, it's to be expected but his reaction to those dissenting parties including the Obama Administration that gets me. He's one of the most hubristic judges I've ever heard about acting like he's the final arbiter on a contentious social issue and doesn't seem particularly keen on the right to appeal (his decisions that is) which is a cornerstone of our democracy blasting HHS Sec'y Sebelius and anyone really who disagrees with him and he just seems to me to be off the rails, off-center from a judicial temperament pov. Did you hear Chris Matthews' latest rant about conservative criticism of his beloved president? he's still pushing the racism angle that old yellowed dog-eared card and it's funny but people like him never seem to get laryngitis. Tawana Brawley had a fundraiser the other day, did you give? Lingering question though, will the IRS audit those rogue FBI agents?
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You have to be a lawyer to figure out those PAC, 501s and other groups vs taxes. Apparently, you don't have to pay taxes if the group focuses on education and betterment, but if you back a candidate with $$$, you are taxable. ...I think...
ReplyDeleteThat's what I thought so where does the Tea Party get off?...
ReplyDeleteIMO, the SCOTUS decision in the
ReplyDeleteCitizens United case
opened a Pandora's Box. Pacs and superpacs where donors are unlimited and anonymous are pouring
hundreds of millions into political
campaigns. It cuts both ways-we
note the recent SC election of Mark
Sanford, where the dem candidate got very heavy outside the state support/Karl Rove's hundred million
in the presidential race.
...ain't good...
Dem and Republicans, a pox on both their houses.
ReplyDeleteListening and watching President Obama has been like watching a bad low-budget film. Whether on religious freedom, gay marriage, or abortion, the president is consistently secular-although he professes Christianity; it has been painful to see the president accelerate the deterioration of the American family by these policies he promotes.
ReplyDeleteThe president repeats time and time again that he is fighting for a woman’s right to choose; Pro Choice activists, like the president, use this phrase to make what they really mean sound better. Be not mistaken, “a woman’s right to choose” is a code phrase for the unfettered right to murder unborn children, removing any restrictions on killing babies and allowing teens of any age to use the Plan B abortion pill without a prescription or parental consent. Liberals have gotten away with defining what is morally reprehensible (e.g. murder) as a medical justice issue for women.
The president is duplicitous in his phraseology and his liberal agenda to promote the murder of the unborn is without shame. For the first time in U.S. history on April 26, 2013, our sitting president gave the keynote address to the Planned Parenthood National Conference. For those of you who may be asleep, Planned Parenthood is responsible for nearly one-third of the abortions performed in the United States each year and receives approximately $500 million per year from the American taxpayer to subsidize their den of horrors.
In his keynote address, the president waged war against anyone who would stand in the way of “a woman’s right to choose” and vowed to stand with the organization all the way. While giving his unqualified endorsement for the organization, he spoke against reasonable restrictions to abortion, including state laws requiring parental involvement for minors and informed consent for adults. He referred to these restrictions as “absurd” but curiously failed to acknowledge the atrocities occurring in abortion clinics across the country. The Kermit Gosnell murder trial currently unfolding in Pennsylvania screamed for some explanation for the president’s unqualified support for abortion when women are dying and crying babies born alive are murdered. The president made no mention of it in his keynote address.
So let’s put the president’s remarks and Planned Parenthood in context. The Planned Parenthood mission is the contemporary example of a demonic agenda to destroy communities and black families in particular for profit. It has nothing to do with a woman’s right to choose and all to do with an ideology that devalues life in general and devalues black life specifically.
First, in 2001, 2002, and 2003, the president prevented the passage of the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act when he was a state senator in Illinois. As chair of the Health and Human Services Committee, Obama refused to allow the measure to make it to the floor for a vote. That legislation would have protected an infant born alive after a failed abortion. So the president’s keynote address to Planned Parenthood is consistent with his liberal ideology that fails to give legal status to a baby whether in the womb or born alive on the abortionist’s table.
President Obama stands shoulder-to-shoulder with racists that have systematically devalued black life. With its roots in the Eugenics Movement, the American Eugenics Society began right after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect. The goal of white elites was to shrink the black population by controlling the birth rate. Forced sterilization and other drastic measures were used on blacks
The white elites feared that the freed slaves would now become an economic burden after their freedom and thereby increasing their taxes; they feared intermarriage, increases in crime and in the prison population. Eugenics was their answer. With Hitler’s use of eugenics to exterminate the Jews, the term “eugenics” became unpopular and “negative eugenics” followed. The idea was now to create an environment that would convince blacks to limit the number of their children and in effect commit “race suicide.” This movement was carried out by racist Margaret Sanger who in 1942 renamed the American Birth Control League to Planned Parenthood.
ReplyDelete“We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all,”[1] Sanger said in 1922.
Now, blacks make up 13% of the population but black women (ages 15-44) are responsible for having 40.2% of all abortions in the United States.[2] The abortion rate among black women is five times that of white women in the United States, according to the Guttmacher Institute. It is no coincidence that Planned Parenthood clinics are predominantly located in black and low income communities.
If it were about a woman’s right to choose, pregnancy crisis clinics that offer a variety of healthcare services for women would receive commensurate federal and state funding. The truth is, if a pregnancy crisis clinic refuses to do abortions or refuses to refer out for abortions, federal and state funding is not available in most states. Planned Parenthood lobbies against such funding for these clinics because they provide non-abortive alternatives. Most pregnancy crisis clinics must survive on private funding alone.
Planned Parenthood is in the abortion business and is subsidized by the U.S. taxpayer. 55 million babies have been aborted since Roe v. Wade in 1973; 16 million of those were black babies. It’s about making money on the backs of the poor. Take it from a former Planned Parenthood clinic director, Abby Johnson.
“Abortion was a product Planned Parenthood was selling, not an unfortunate necessity that they fought to decrease,” said Johnson who is now a Pro-Life advocate.
The president along with his abortion advocates are not really warring against Pro-Life advocates as the president claims. On the contrary, the Bible says that the fruit of the womb is a reward from God. (Psalms 127:3). It also says God hates the hands that shed innocent blood. (Proverbs 6:16-19).
Mr. President, we people of faith wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Ephesians 6:12). You, Mr. President, your hands and the hands of your comrades in the struggle for the so-called “woman’s right to choose,” wrestle against God. I pray you see abortion through God’s eyes. Amen.
The world knew differently and now the truth is being heaped on the head of the Obama administration like hot coals. As reported by Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard, we now know that the CIA report was altered twelve times to shade the truth of the attack removing references to the Ansar al Sharia Brigade responsible for the attack, or terrorism. Recall Obama’s campaign slogan for his 2012 re-election bid: “General Motors is Alive; Bin Laden is Dead.” Admitting that terrorism was still on the move did not fit into the re-election campaign narrative and so the administration, the president included, lied for months after the attack. The truth is still not in them.
ReplyDeletePlanned Parenthood - where's Al Sharpton?
ReplyDelete(yawn)
ReplyDeleteI got a new computer yesterday, a HP Envy m6. It has Windows 8. I am totally boondoggled.
It is unbelievable the corruption and the blatant disregard for the Constitution by the Obama administration, truly disgusting.
ReplyDeleteIt's just that Saty I never got the sacred status given to Planned Parenthood. I know Beth and he did go on the record early on that his Administration would be the most transparent and ethical. BB as yet doesn't seem to have any buyer's remorse.
ReplyDeleteApart from the fact that PP provides essential health services for women who would otherwise have no real affordable access to those services? And I do not mean abortion, I mean health services.
ReplyDeleteAnd so, thoughts on Oklahoma? It occurs to me that if people shouldn't be allowed to build houses in hurricane prone areas, the entire Midwest should be deemed unsuitable for housing.
ReplyDeleteI'm just sayin.
And let me just point out in response to this:
ReplyDeleteWhether on religious freedom, gay marriage, or abortion, the president is consistently secular-
And so he should be. This is not a theocracy. We are not as a nation governed by the Bible. We are not all Christian and the government in America is specifically forbidden to promote any specific religion.
If you'd like to live in a theocracy, may I suggest Afghanistan?
Utah is one of over 30 states that
ReplyDeletebans gay marriage. Salt Lake City
leads all cities in percent of
gay couple raising kids . go figure...
Let me catch up here! Planned Parenthood - isn't it unusual though that a group or anybody really should be immune to criticism? I mean everybody gets criticized today...For me their abortion work and it's a large slice of what they do no pun intended but for me that taints the rest of what they do like a bank robber who also works in a soup kitchen:)
ReplyDeleteOklahoma, I've been thinking about this and I actually agree 100% with what you say. When you look at the meteorological history of the region and it's damn consistent there's a large swath of land out the Midwest that imo is perfectly uninhabitable. I understand folks who grew up there and have roots there but I'd move out if I could and not having ever lived in those parts I sure as hell if I were gonna start over wouldn't buy a house anywhere near there. Just sayin':)
ReplyDeletePP again, I've heard it pointed out that Obama is the first president to actually keynote one of their conferences. It's hard to argue by doing this that Obama is not pro-abortion. It'd be like going all the way to LA to keynote the Adult Video Awards show but then to tell the public you're against porn.
ReplyDeleteYou'd think Oklahoma was in tornado alley, but it has been revealed that the warm air mass,
ReplyDeleteoccluded cold front, winds aloft
air/moisture ratios are not the
cause. The reverend Fred Phelps and his
clan of primates know why the
tornado struck.
Getting back to Saty's points about PP before we have fun with Phelps the IRS is being heavily criticized these days, the FBI continues to be criticized, CIA, any branch of gov't really and of course the Church. Charitable organizations have been criticized (remember Covenant House and Fr. Bruce Ritter?) but for some reason PP should not be taken to task ever. I'm just not getting the sacred cow status.
ReplyDeleteWhat I don't get with these guys is why after a tragedy of this sort does it always have to come down to gay shit? I mean why can't God be against the death penalty and maybe he's pissed at the Jodi Arias jury? maybe he hates wealth imbalances or everything being made in China. WHY does it always hinge on Gays?
ReplyDeleteWe got pneumonia goin round. I'm workin on a good case of it, think I'll be well in by the end of next week.
ReplyDeleteThey're drawing MMR titers on everyone who can't prove they've been vaccinated. My boss comes to me, wants me to produce medical records. Go to the HD, she says. I'm like, let's think about this, 1968, State of NY/County of NY/City of NY/Borough of Manhattan, and I need a certified copy of the court order of my name change just to prove I'm the person in the record. Are you high? says me. Oh, it's tied to your SSN, she says. No. I wasn't born with a SSN. I got mine when I was 14 and went to get workin papers.
Needless to say: titer drawn. Hundreds of state employees going through this, and all because of the freakin granola non vaccinating people that I truly love but damn.
Bureaucracies but always hinge on the letter of the law. Let's say you go to your local bank to withdraw money, they all know you there but they still have to ask you for 3 or 4 forms of ID.
ReplyDeleteMy bank doesn't.
ReplyDelete..but with the new Idaho GOP war
on voter fraud, I had to present my driver license to vote for
schoolboard last week, even though I knew the election ladies and the schoolboard. Not that I would mind, but damn, my license photo
is horrid.
My bank doesn't either....not in Oxford, Roxboro (2 branches), Butner or Creedmoor. And the SECU in Butner and Roxboro know me too. Maybe it's a rural phenom.
ReplyDeleteAs a matter of fact now that I contemplate it I almost always get greeted by name when I roll up to the drive through or (less frequently) walk in the door.
ReplyDeleteYall Yankees just rude is all.
And yes, I had to show my license too when I went to vote. I really need a new picture; it was before I lost all this weight and it was a rainy day, and I look quite a lot like a homeless crack whore. I actually keep waiting for someone to question whether it's actually me.
ReplyDeleteNever took a good license photo. Once I had to go through a few years with my license in my wallet showing my eyes closed. I think now you have more options like maybe let's do this again.
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