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Whirled Views 02.29
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Good morning. Eight years ago today the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King won 11 Oscar awards.
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Thought for today: Do you love Him? Feed His sheep.
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Donna, I saw your question at the end of yesterday’s Whirled Views. I have no idea about it. I don’t think it is a schism so much as it is growth now that there are enough Anglican churches to form diocese in North America. Part of Anglicanism is the apostolate tradition–meaning that each bishop has been ordained by a bishop who was ordained—-by a bishop who was ordained by Jesus. We needed the Bishops of South Africa to maintain that tradition.
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Tychicus @2 Great thought for the day!
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Tychicus, I am reading the letters of C.S. Lewis. Where I am in them he keeps commenting on Tolkien’s “Other Hobbit.” It is fascinating to hear Lewis’ thoughts and the thoughts of the other Inklings on LOTR as it is being written. Also interesting to see how long it takes good writers to write great books while their profession is something else. In this cross section of letters Lewis is writing “The Problem of Pain.”
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How about this for QoD: If you have a book in you what would it be about?
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Tychicus, nice reminder that March is my church’s month to stock the pantry at Ecumenical Ministries.
For those of you who do this sort of thing–remember if someone is coming to a food pantry that coffee is and expense they may not can justify. How would you like to go without your morning cup. Diapers are expensive, wipes too.
Adios, I do have a story rattling around in my head. I have some of the scenes in my head. I just am not a writer and I would rather run naked through town than reveal something as deeply personal as what I would write—I know, I know, hard to believe about me because I come across as such an open book anyway…
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When I was teaching in South Central Los Angeles I could/should have written/edited a “History of the Crips.” It would have been the stories of the children I taught. Their families, their history.
I am glad I didn’t write it.
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Bob Buckles, I always used to laugh that I was going to write my family’s story. I figured it would be a best seller on the fiction list.
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SP5 Buckles,
I hope you drew hazardous duty pay or imminent danger pay for that teaching tour!
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Attention all units, be on the lookout for..
http://www.wvoc.com/cc-common/mainheadlines3.html?feed=146213&article=9828063
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An interesting read.
Abortion
http://alcuin-constant.blogspot.com/2012/02/one-dead-four-wounded-in-ohio.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Alcuin+%28Alcuin%29
I wonder what the “ProChoice” posters have to say about this point of view?
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#10 Sawgunner
Yes, I did. Adios’ husband is still teaching in Compton, a couple of miles away. The area is just as nice as where I taught.
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A few years ago, so the story goes, the LAPD chased a whole bunch of Gangsters out of LA. Would you care to guess where they ended up? Compton is patrolled by the LA Sheriffs Department, as is the area where I taught.
My school was the place the “Crips” started. Now I live a couple or three miles from Pelican Bay State Prison, the CA Super Max. One of the men at church is retired but was the Captain in charge of the SHU (Security Housing Unit). I would not be surprised to have some of my former students there.
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Happy Leap Day!
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SOME GOOD NEWS. Stick with me, I promise I have a point.
OK. True confession time. You all know I read a lot. I read what is termed “Women’s Fiction”. A more accurate name is Trash Novels. I don’t have romance in my real life so I read about other people meeting and falling in love. All right, it isn’t the most high-brow literature I could read. Sue me.
I have a couple of authors I like to read. I read J.D. Robb’s In Death series about a cop in New York City starting in 2054. I can’t wait for the next Robin Carr book to come out about her Virgin River folks in Humboldt County, California (a new one came out yesterday which is why I was still awake at 2 am). I love Debbie MacComber’s stories of her people in Cedar Cove, Washington. Susan Mallery writes about the man shortage in Fool’s Gold, California. Linda Lael Miller’s McKettrick Cowboys. Jennifer Crusie writes with a man who is a former Green Beret and the dialogue is snappy and downright funny. I also love Susan Elizabeth Philliips because the men she creates are just too humorous, with very wry senses of humor.
What strikes me most in reading these books lately is the value placed on children. An unplanned pregnancy? Abortion is NEVER even mentioned as an option. The heroine is always determined to keep her baby. The hero always ends up excited about it. It is never viewed as on obstacle to the path to everything working out. A single mother ALWAYS makes it clear to the love interest that she is a mother first and her children come first. The love interest always respects her for doing this.
Like it or not, these books represent women’s fantasies of what the “Perfect Romance” would be. The books are books written FOR women BY women. Love conquers all and abortion isn’t an option. As a matter of fact, in all the years I have read these books I cannot remember a single instance when a pregnancy was terminated or a child was unwanted.
OK, so you don’t worry too much about me…currently on my night stand is my recently found King James Bible, Teen-Proofing by John Rosemond, Unlimited Favor by Joseph Prince, How to Succeed at Being Yourself by Joyce Meyer, A History of the Old South, Colonial Mobile, and the Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe (It is really funny to ask people in Baltimore how to get to the Poe House). I don’t think I have watched TV since sometime last November. Oh, and a certain published author we all know and love has emailed me her draft that I have been reading.
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This year is flying by already! Just like last year. It’s almost March. Then it’ll be summer. Then fall. Then Christmas again.
We’ve had several homicides so far this year in our area. The latest was yesterday, a mother and 19-year-old daughter killed possibly/probably by daughter’s charming 23-year-old boyfriend (who had a Grim Reaper tattoo and the word “DISTRAUGHT’ tattooed across his chest).
He was arrested in Mexico sometime overnight.
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Good Morning!
I had oral surgery yesterday and today, I look like a chipmunk. I’m a tad bit sore..not to mention I’m feeling a little loopy, but, hopefully the doc is correct that I will feel back to my “normal” self by this afternoon….
Qod…the book within me is about a girl lost, then found, by her Saviour…tis a beautiful story….
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The Washington Free Beacon reports that Obama’s proposed defense budget calls for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for the healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian defense workers’ benefits untouched. causinsg a major rift within the Pentagon…
Crony Cutting
- higher medial costs for military families bringng us one step closer ro a slinge-payer system of health care. But the members of public unions won’t be asked to sacrifice. They are too important to the Democrat Party.
Charlotte Hays writes at Independent Womens Forum: One of the things that bugged me about Michelle Obama’s otherwise admirable outreach to military families was the underlying notion that they are somehow part of a giant victim class.
And they would be if the cash-strapped Obama administration’s defense budget is approved.
http://iwf.org/blog/2787129/Crony-Cutting-
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DonnaJ 17, I also feel that way about this year’s speedy calendar – plus I have a b’day coming up and my 50th high school reunion this Summer. Bitter-sweet. Don’t know yet if I’ll go. The years add up so quickly and I thank God I’m still here to count them
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Jillanne, sounds like a Good News story we’d all love to read. I hope your DDS is correct about the timing. Hang in there. Amen.
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Based on my job, I’d say everyone has at least one book in them, half of those people are writing books and sending them to me AND a majority are about one of the following:
abused childhoods
recovering from alcoholism
dealing with breast cancer
Mafia-types
paranornal adventures, usually featuring 14 year old boys.
I have written ten novels with various subjects (though, curiously, they almost all seem to involve large families, foreign languages, mysterious pasts, pregnancy and music).
The story closest to my heart, however, is my spiritual memoir which is about living a crazy domestic life while trying to follow the Creator of the Universe around the world.
It’s all about out-of-the-box daily worship.
Got through our Webinar successfully last night and collapsed in bed with a magnificent cold. I’m now up, 10.5 hours later . . . !
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For some reason “romance” novels never held much interest for me.
I think I must have missed getting the romantic gene or something.
But I do like political novels & suspense: Michael Connelly, Dean Koontz, John Grisham, etc.
Jillanne, hoping your cheeks deflate soon.
Sounds painful, but it must feel good to have it behind you.
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Is Chas still in Florida?
Pastor Roy, when are you going to Disney World? (Our Disneyland is better because it’s the original, though.)
This is my second morning drinking coffee. I felt so perky yesterday that I decided I’d make some again today.
Wheeeee. It really does make a difference.
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Humor: for those of you who don’t get insulted enough in real life, now you can read some of Martin Luther’s pithy . . . well, it’s not called the Lutheran Insulter for nothing:
http://tyler.rasmussen.name.s80883.gridserver.com/luther/
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Bob, the History Channel had a terrific piece on the history of the Crips and the Bloods. It was fascinating, especially when I think of all the time I have spent on Pirus Street in Compton while not realizing its sinister significance. As far as he has been able to track it, he has more former studens in honest jobs and college than dead or in prison, but the former tend to keep in touch more. But the atmosphere has changed much in Compton in the last few years. Public schools getting better, parents taking education more seriously and LA County Sheriffs keeping more cops on the street. It really does take a village.
P.S. Hubby has not been in the cross fire or even seen any shootings this academic year
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I have read most of John Grisham, all of Robert Ludlum (even the one’s he didn’t write), Rick Bragg, Winston Groom, Jonathan Kellerman, Faye Kellerman, all of the Bones books I could find and almost all of the Scarpella books—nothing like a grisly murder and the police or forensic work to solve it.
It is funny how we get characters in our minds and “see” them. Somehow I got Milo Sturgis as a big black LA cop in my mind. When I re-read the first Alex Delaware book I found out he was white!
As I have told you I will read almost anything but a text book.
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My book would be about a couple who meet through a dog rescue foundation. For about a year they would meet at rest-stops and coffee shops to hand off dogs along major Interstate routes. They would talk on the phone a lot as they were driving, eventually they would discover they had a lot more than dogs in common…the book would end with a proposal with the reader left to imagine what happened next…OK maybe an epilogue descibing a wedding at a nice simple country church…and that is enough about how my mind works.
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Kim (28), someone has to get murdered somewhere in that plot to make it really sing.
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But no dog can die.
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How about one of the rescued dogs is discovered because someone murdered the dog abuser. Perhaps a PETA whacho?
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Pastor Roy, when are you going to Disney World? (Our Disneyland is better because it’s the original, though.)
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Hoping for the end of May. Donna. The reason my wife wants to go to Fl. no family living there.
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Ha. I had to read that twice, Pastor Roy; at first I thought you were going to Fla because family was there. But on a second read I see that NO family is there, thus the choice.
Kim, we’re gettin’ there. I like the PETA part, adds a little political intrigue. And perhaps a trial as well.
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Adios’ QoD: Since I was a teen, I have written down chapter headings for books I will write someday. The first time I did it was to consolidate my ideas for finishing The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel. I spent my teen years reading Dickens and Edwin Drood was the last one I read. I could just see how it ought to continue, and I though one day I would get hold of Dickens’ notes and finish it.
I also planned a history book (I have recently revived the idea but with a theme), an allegory (I think I lost the notes for it) and I have had in mind for years a Dickensian novel set in modern times. I have been writing stories in my mind since I was a tiny child, but I seldom put them to paper – it dulls them somehow.
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Nicholas saw all the roll coaster.. He ask me how tall am I? most are around 44 inches an he is very close to it. I hope an pray he meets it. He loves roll coasters.
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I’m like Phos. I have the imagination for the story, but I spent years in technical writing and having teachers and professors slash through what I wrote so that it looked like they slit their wrists with a paper cut.
Were I to really write my “book” it would read something like A and B drove up and down the interstate for almost a year exchanging dogs. They talked a lot. Eventually they got married. The end.
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Sigh. Sounds perfect.
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Last night as I was driving along at almost 11:00 p.m. with my husband as we returned home from work I saw a wrecker with a vehicle loaded on it and that prompted reminiscing about the many times we have been in that situation. You know it is bad when the wrecker that comes to pick up your car has a problem and it, too, must be towed away. That was one of our experiences. Perhaps it would be fun to put together an anthology of wrecker stories. I think the stories could be literal or figurative.
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My book would have the working title of “Growing up as a Puerto Rican descendant in an American Middle Class neighborhood in a father-only household before such were common, before “latch-key kid” was coined”. Or something boring along that line.
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What does a red light on a wireless router mean?
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Peter, have you read Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire? It’s one of my favorite books.
You’d be surprised what can come out of a memoir.
Oh, no! Why did I say that? Another writer?
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Depends on which “slot” is red.
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Donna #24 Yes
We are Planning o go home tomorrow.
Busy now. Just catching up on mail and the blog. I’m sorry Kim missed her sale.
Fla is nice, but I’m a home boy.
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Can’t we just impeach this clueless clown and be done with it?
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/holder-1st-amendment-allows-govt-force-catholics-buy-sterilization-contraception
“Holder: 1st Amendment Allows Gov’t to Force Catholics to Buy Sterilization-Contraception-Abortion Insurance”
“The Justice Department will defend against any legal challenge to the new Obama administration mandate to force employers to provide abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization and contraception, even if it goes against their conscience, Attorney General Eric Holder told a House subcommittee Tuesday.
The Department of Health and Human Services rule, part of Obamacare, violates the freedom of conscience for Catholics and other religious groups that expressed their objections to the mandate, opponents say. Already there is litigation asserting that the rule violates the First Amendment’s guarantee to free exercise of religion.
“I think I would respectfully disagree in the sense that I don’t think the rule that HHS promulgated was one that ran counter to the religious prohibitions that are contained in the First Amendment,” Holder said.
“That’s especially true looking at the compromise the president and Secretary [Kathleen] Sebelius put in place,” Holder told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies.”
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So if it’s as we’re always told, womens health, that concerns Dems, why pull this garbage? You already know the answer of course. It’s only ever really about abortion, womens health doesn’t ever enter their thoughts. They will now make womens health suffer in order to protect their Precious.
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/29/obama-killing-womens-health-program-to-fund-planned-parenthood/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lifenews%2Fnewsfeed+%28LifeNews.com%29
“The Obama Administration is showing its loyalties. And it is not to women. It is to Planned Parenthood.
The Texas Legislature and Governor Rick Perry have authorized the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to continue the Medicaid Women’s Health Program (WHP). The program, which the HHSC points out provides preventative health services to more than 100,000 low-income women annually, is set to expire in March 2012. Those services include contraceptives, STD testing, and screening for hypertension, diabetes, and breast and cervical cancers,
The HHSC has applied to the Obama Administration for an extension of the program through 2013, with the condition that no funding go to organizations that perform or promote elective abortions or are affiliated with such organizations. Of the more than 1,000 certified WHP providers across the state, this rule excludes fewer than 100 Planned Parenthood providers. The State has an interest in not promoting abortion when it promotes birth control. the fact that Planned Parenthood performs many thousands of elective abortions every year in its 14 abortion facilities in Texas was not lost on the Legislature.
Unfortunately, the Obama Administration has threatened to deny renewal of the WHP if Texas does not fund Planned Parenthood as a provider. President Obama seems to care more about Planned Parenthood than about women’s health.
Last June the Texas Legislature overwhelmingly passed Senate Bill 7, which allows for the renewal of the WHP, on a Senate vote of 21-9 and a House vote of 96-48. The bill prohibits the state from contracting with entities that “perform or promote elective abortions or affiliate with entities that perform or promote elective abortions.”
Federal law allows Texas to exclude Planned Parenthood. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott issued an opinion declaring that federal law allows states to exclude abortion providers and their affiliated organizations from Medicaid.
There are ample alternate WHP providers in Texas who are not involved in abortion. These physicians and clinics typically offer comprehensive primary and preventative care in addition to family planning. These providers could become the medical home for low-income women. The Obama Administration is about to deny WHP funds to these quality providers, and to the women they serve, just because Texas wants to fund these without funding Planned Parenthood.”
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This deals with Newts comments from the last debate, and also to info I posted here when the Abortion President was running against McCain. It’s sad that this info has been out for 8-10 years, and our uncurious MSM has yet to ask any questions about it. Obama doesn’t just support abortion. He supports infanticide. This man is sick.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/292204/obama-s-infanticide-votes-patrick-brennan
“In last Wednesday’s debate, when the Republican candidates were asked about their positions on birth control, Newt Gingrich parried with one of his usual tactics, a fusillade against the mainstream media. He told CNN’s John King, “You did not once in the 2008 campaign, not once did anybody in the elite media ask why Barack Obama voted in favor of legalizing infanticide. If we’re going to have a debate about who is the extremist on these issues, it is President Obama, who, as a state senator, voted to protect doctors who killed babies who survived the abortion.”
Two points of Gingrich’s barrage warrant assessment. First, did Barack Obama, as a state senator, vote “in favor of legalizing infanticide,” by voting “to protect doctors who killed babies who survived the abortion”? And second, has no one in the elite media ever discussed his record on the issue? Yes; and no, but essentially yes.”
“Gingrich’s assertion rests on then–State Senator Obama’s opposition, in 2001, 2002, and 2003, to successive versions of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, an Illinois bill that was meant to provide protection for babies born alive after attempted abortions. The bill gave them protection as legal persons and required physicians to provide them with care, rather than allowing doctors to deal with them as they would, literally, with medical waste. In 2008, Obama’s campaign repeatedly claimed that he opposed the bill because it was unnecessary, since Illinois law already provided protection for infants born alive. However, as Ramesh Ponnuru pointed out on NRO at the time, this extended only to babies whom physicians deemed to have “sustainable survivability.” Thus infants who were not expected to survive could be killed or left unattended to die. Obama, Ponnuru wrote, “did not want the gap filled.” (The National Right to Life Committee has a report on Obama, Illinois’s legal loophole, and its horrific consequences here.)
Obama maintained at the time, with support from Planned Parenthood of Illinois, that the bill wasn’t really about protecting infants’ lives or mitigating their suffering, but was in fact a backdoor attempt to restrict abortion. The argument (which is constitutionally dubious, anyway) goes that, by providing legal protection and “recognition as a human person” for a pre-viable infant, the law could be used to threaten Roe v. Wade. Thus, at the time of Obama’s votes, and then during the course of the 2008 campaign, Obama claimed that he would have supported a law like the 2002 federal born-alive statute, which stated explicitly that it could not be used to dispute the legal status of fetuses prior to their birth.
In committee in 2003, however, Obama voted against a version of the Illinois bill that contained the same protection included in the federal bill (which passed 98–0 in the U.S. Senate). Thus, Obama’s tenuous constitutional argument doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.”
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Good afternoon all..
Haven’t been here in awhile >.<
I'm hoping to be able to get my permit soon.. I've decided I'd like to try and learn to drive.
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Just to let you know how God looks out for idiots…
The closing I lost due to the bank dragging it’s feet would have been a real blow to my budget. I found out on Friday that it was looking shaky. On Thursday before that I showed property to someone I had been working with almost two years. We wrote a contract on Saturday. WE CLOSE TOMORROW!!!! It’s a wash.
So I can only conclude God knew I was going to lose sale A and replaced it with sale B!
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The Senate will vote Thursday on Obama’s HHS contraceptive mandate.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/29/senate-vote-to-block-hhs-mandate-on-religious-organizations-tomorrow/
“Get your dialing fingers ready. Roll Call reports that the Senate will hold a floor vote on an amendment by Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) to impose a religious-conscience exception to the HHS mandate announced by Barack Obama and Kathleen Sebelius last month. The bill will come in the form of an amendment to the troubled transportation bill — which either complicates or simplifies the issue for the White House, depending on one’s perspective:
The Senate will vote Thursday on a conscience clause amendment to release religious organizations from government mandates in health care, Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) said today.
The amendment, proposed by Sen.Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) in response to an Obama administration policy that helps provide contraception coverage for women, is supported by a wide range of Republicans and has become a popular target for Democrats. It also has put more moderate New England Republicans facing re-election, such as Sens. Scott Brown (Mass.) and Olympia Snowe (Maine), in a tough spot.
Scott Brown himself disagrees with that assessment. Brown wrote earlier this month that he supports an exemption in the law for religious organizations, just as Ted Kennedy insisted on providing in his own health-care proposals. In fact, Brown feels so strongly about it that he’s now campaigning on the issue, running radio ads in Massachusetts. The pressure in this case falls mainly on red-state Democrats in the Senate who have to stand for re-election in the fall in areas where religious liberty will be a big issue, including in Blunt’s own state of Missouri where Claire McCaskill will have to answer for her vote on the subject.”
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I swear I posted something a few minutes ago, but it didn’t show up.
Hi, I haven’t been here in awhile, hope you are all doing well.
I’ve decided I’m going to try to get my learners permit and learn to drive.
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These 2 will probably be the next appointees to Obama Czar positions. Like minds and all.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/28/journal-defends-its-publication-of-an-article-advocating-after-birth-abortion/
“The editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics today defended his decision to publish an article in which two ethicists advocated “after-birth abortion.” What was truly surprising about the article, editor Julian Savulescu writes, is not that the authors find infanticide morally permissible — but, rather, that opponents to infanticide would react to the article with vehemence. From Savulescu’s defense:
What is disturbing is not the arguments in this paper nor its publication in an ethics journal. It is the hostile, abusive, threatening responses that it has elicited. More than ever, proper academic discussion and freedom are under threat from fanatics opposed to the very values of a liberal society.
What the response to this article reveals, through the microscope of the web, is the deep disorder of the modern world. Not that people would give arguments in favour of infanticide, but the deep opposition that exists now to liberal values and fanatical opposition to any kind of reasoned engagement.
Savulescu might have a point that some of the responses to the article crossed the line. Of those he quoted, a couple were overtly racist and at least one was an outright death threat to anyone who would willingly perform an “after-birth abortion.” But that he doesn’t see the arguments forwarded by the authors as evidence of “the deep disorder of the modern world” is far more disturbing than comments thoughtlessly dashed off by justifiably outraged opponents of infanticide. The Blaze outlines the article’s original arguments:
The authors go on to state that the moral status of a newborn is equivalent to a fetus in that it cannot be considered a person in the “morally relevant sense.” On this point, the authors write:
“Both a fetus and a newborn certainly are human beings and potential persons, but neither is a ‘person’ in the sense of ‘subject of a moral right to life’. We take ‘person’ to mean an individual who is capable of attributing to her own existence some (at least) basic value such that being deprived of this existence represents a loss to her.
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Merely being human is not in itself a reason for ascribing someone a right to life. Indeed, many humans are not considered subjects of a right to life: spare embryos where research on embryo stem cells is permitted, fetuses where abortion is permitted, criminals where capital punishment is legal.”
Giubilini and Minerva believe that being able to understand the value of a different situation, which often depends on mental development, determines personhood. For example, being able to tell the difference between an undesirable situation and a desirable one. They note that fetuses and newborns are “potential persons.” The authors do acknowledge that a mother, who they cite as an example of a true person, can attribute “subjective” moral rights to the fetus or newborn, but they state this is only a projected moral status.”
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I loved Carlos Eire’s memoir. It made a lost era come alive. As the son of a judge he had quite a lot of privilege and a carefree youth prior to Castro. It was telling how the family housekeeper spoke of how the family would lose all their house when Castro took power. The idealization of envy is at the root of so much class envy politics in 1961 or 2012.
When Eire wrote the book the Elian Gonzales crisis was in full swing.
The only other salient point is how Eire’s father chose to send his wife and sons on ahead of him to the USA. He said he’d stay behind and take care of their house until the dictatorship ended. He finally emigrated to the USA in 76. Young Carlos was I believe part of the Operation Pedro Pan project. It was only when he got to Fla that he realized he was a minority. I believe he is a religon prof at Yale today.
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The Real – That is beyond disturbing. Welcome to Sparta, citizens, where the weak and unworthy are eliminated.
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He is, Sawgunner, but his father never came to the US; stayed in Cuba with the moldering house and art. It took Carlos a long, long time to get over the fact his father, apparently, chose possesions over the family.
He wrote another memoir published last year, Waiting for Eternity in Miami, which is a darker story of what happened to him, his brother, and his mother in the US.
I corresponded with Eire after he wrote the first book, and he commented that his life was saved by Thomas a Kempis’ Imitation of Christ which taught him, among other things, about the dangers of materialism. See preceeding paragraph.
Eire describes the feeling of separation from God in such a chilling way in the second book . . . it’s lent out at the moment, or I would post it. A soul separated from God is tragic, cold, lonely and forsaken.
Quite an artist with words, Carlos Eire. I recommend both his memoirs.
Which reminds me–Bob, don’t you think it’s interesting God put you so close to a potential mission field?
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Kim, you encouraged me greatly by pointing out that even God has a plan B sometimes
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Or our Bs were His As all along!
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“We take ‘person’ to mean an individual who is capable of attributing to her own existence some (at least) basic value such that being deprived of this existence represents a loss to her.”
Heaven help the author of this statement when they reach the point that they can no longer fend for themselves against the state they helped create. Because I sure won’t want to…
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Welcome back, Courtney. Learning to drive is always a good idea. I think that in the U.S. everyone should learn to drive. Even if you don’t have a car, it’s helpful to have the skill in an emergency and of course having a driver’s license ID is handy.
Kim, Yay, God!
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MiM @56: The quote makes me think that these ‘ethicists’ have never seen a newborn fight for air or cry for food. Newborns’ survival instincts are fully intact.
I have been reading Plato’s Rebuplic and have got past the place where he talks about eliminating the undesirable offspring. I have no doubt that Greek scholars throughout history considered such statements from the ancient philosophers as quaint, part of a Grecian worldview that no longer exists in our more advanced world. Well, apparently, we have just caught up to the Greeks and Romans – they seem to have been much more advanced than us in exposing their infants.
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AJ @ 50 – that is so over-the-top that it reads like a parody. Heaven help us.
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California bill would allow nurses and midwives to perform early abortions
Published February 29, 2012
| NewsCore
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/29/california-bill-would-allow-nurses-and-midwives-to-perform-early-abortions/#ixzz1nnYdKbLg
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“Study: Sleeping Pills Linked with Early Death” Title of British Medical Journal article.
I would love to write a book for the lay public describing how to get good sleep without sleeping aids.
Although, ultimately sleep is a gift from God (Ps 127)
Or a Geography book from a biblical worldview. National Geographic has excellent materials and photos, but unfortunately also advance opinions that are ridiculous to people who think and not just follow current fads (evolution, big bang etc)
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Pastor Roy, your post #60 is so disturbing because it goes so completely against what I have always been taught about midwifery.
In my perfect life I would be a doolah (sp?) I don’t want any responsibility and I don’t want to be PERSONALLY involved in birthing but I do so love to be in the room when a baby is born.
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# 49 Good for you Frankie. I know you will do well in learning to drive. I still remember my driver’s education teacher in High School. The things he taught me have kept me safe all these years.
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One of our local Top 40 stations, which was privately owned, has been sold. Today it is on the air for the last time. They are going back through all the years to 1958 and having former DJ’s come on to share memories. If it weren’t so sad, it would really be fun to listen to. This morning they had some of the DJ’s and music from when I listened to it. BG was really impressed that I knew one of the DJ’s and had worked with him before he went into radio. I quit listening (on purpose) a long time ago when all they played was Bitney and Rap Crap.
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Now they’re back to Good-bye Norma Jean…DJ’s are telling funny stories about the owner of the station.
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http://mobile.al.com/advbirm/pm_29179/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=ZzCtTXGD
Please keep this in your prayers.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/29/us-davyjones-idUSTRE81S1T520120229
Then there is this. I have to admit that some time back in the 80’s on one of those “reunion tours” someone I knew took me to see the Monkeys.
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Not surprising.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/29/chu-to-congress-were-not-interested-in-lowering-gas-prices/
“Hey, at least Energy Secretary Stephen Chu gave an honest answer. When asked by Rep. Alan Nunnelee whether the Obama administration wants to work to get gas prices to come back down, Chu replied that they’re not focusing on that — and that higher gas prices mean more of a push for the alternative energy sources the administration wants to push:
“We agree there is great suffering when the price of gasoline increases in the United States, and so we are very concerned about this,” said Chu, speaking to the House Appropriations energy and water subcommittee. “As I have repeatedly said, in the Department of Energy, what we’re trying to do is diversify our energy supply for transportation so that we have cost-effective means.””
““But is the overall goal to get our price” of gasoline down, asked Nunnelee.
“No, the overall goal is to decrease our dependency on oil, to build and strengthen our economy,” Chu replied. “We think that if you consider all these energy policies, including energy efficiency, we think that we can go a long way to becoming less dependent on oil and [diversifying] our supply and we’ll help the American economy and the American consumers.””
I’ll translate that for ya. “We have more bundlers to reward with “green” money, so we’re only focusing on the alternatives.” Fixed it for ‘em.
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Davy Jones, lead singer of popular 1960s TV rock group ‘The Monkees,’ dies of a heart attack at 66, TMZ reports.
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My sister in law has gotten into the home she was hoping to get.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzA_qmJkmLY
For Pastor Roy
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I will have to watch it when I get home tonight Kim
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Kim @62: According to some preliminary research that I have been doing on the subject, historically midwives were also abortionists. I haven’t been able to determine how widespread it was, or what is meant by abortion. I know missionaries who worked in Africa, and they said the midwives had to do some pretty terrible things in order to save teen mothers who had dead or dying babies lodged in birth canals that were too small for them. In my opinion, that isn’t abortion, but I suppose it could be defined as such.
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Oh look, Fannie’s into the taxpayer wallet again. Hey what’s another 5 billion right?
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/fannie-asks-govt-almost-4-152028535.html
“Mortgage giant Fannie Mae said Wednesday that it lost money in the fourth quarter and is asking the federal government for nearly $4.6 billion in aid to cover its deficit.
Washington, D.C.-based Fannie said it lost roughly $2.4 billion in the October-December quarter, stung by declining home prices. Revenue was about $4.5 billion.
The government rescued Fannie and sibling company Freddie Mac in September 2008 to cover their losses on soured mortgage loans. Since then, a federal regulator — the Federal Housing Finance Agency — has controlled their financial decisions.
Taxpayers have spent more than $150 billion to prop up Fannie and Freddie, the most expensive bailout of the 2008 financial crisis. The government estimates that figure could top $259 billion to support the companies through 2014 after subtracting dividend payments.
Fannie has received more than $116 billion so far from the Treasury Department, the most expensive bailout of a single company.
Fannie’s bailout money totaled roughly $16.4 billion in 2011 after accounting for dividend payments. That’s up from about $7.3 billion in 2010 but down from about $32.5 billion in 2009.
Fannie officials say losses have increased in recent quarters for two reasons: Some homeowners are paying less interest after refinancing at historically low mortgage rates; others are defaulting on their mortgages.”
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#46 The Real AJ
“Obama doesn’t just support abortion. He supports infanticide. This man is sick.”
Please stop calling people sick. This is not sickness, you can’t catch it, you can’t pass it on. It is not sick, it is evil.
All of us should stop using the term sick. We should use the correct term, evil.
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If Obama isn’t the most clueless president we’ve ever had, then he’s the most evil…
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Speaking of which, as a supposed “christian” he’s racked up quite a score against Christians, their allies, their symbols and their causes- all while staunchly defending Islam. Quite a summary here:
http://anotherslownewsday.wordpress.com/obamas-faith/
Tip of the hat to NobodyImportant over on the Obama Before He Was Famous thread.
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@50 The Real,
That article sounds like Scroop Moth wrote it. He has used some of the same ideas in comments before.
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You all remember how much I hate my MAC computer? The hard drive just died. The last thing I did was a burn a CD of all my Civil War notes (104 items), but I forgot to e-mail the last written chapter of my novel.
Geniuses at the Apple store, who have not seen the computer yet but have heard all that I did over the phone with one of their techs, are estimating $225 to install a new hard drive. The computer, which has driven us crazy since the day the nuclear engineer and his hapless wife (me) brought it home, is four years old.
Love the screen, love iphotos, love the screensaver feature which constantly displays family photos. Other than that, I can live without a MAC. So, should I replace the hard drive, assuming that the only problem (logical decision for me), or but something else that the family will like instead of intuitively fight with all the time?
Er, what would you buy if you were replacing a computer these days? An I-pad3? A laptop? Nothing at all? Suggestions welcome.
And I promise, I won’t go near ANY of your appliances . . . !
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‘Bout time. No use having standards if you don’t abide by them.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/29/10541571-woman-priest-denied-me-communion-at-moms-funeral-because-im-gay
“Barbara Johnson knew last Saturday, the day of her mother’s funeral, would be difficult. But she and her lesbian partner of 20 years had no idea that the priest at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Gaithersburg, Md., would be a source of her grief.
Johnson, 51, of Washington, D.C, walked into the church, mourning the mom she described to msnbc.com as “a really cool woman; she was 85 going on 58.”
When Johnson and her partner arrived at the church – which her mom had attended, and her dad, too, before he died years prior – they were summoned by Rev. Marcel Guarnizo, a man they were meeting for the first time. He didn’t express his condolences, Johnson said, instead curtly getting down to business.
Johnson had painfully written a eulogy; her niece had also penned one. “We only allow one eulogy,” Guarnizo informed them, despite the fact that the church’s music director had told them otherwise, Johnson told msnbc.com. Johnson said she asked her partner to plead with Guarnizo to allow for two while she was called away for her pallbearer duties.
The day, already tense, was about to get significantly worse. Johnson said the priest denied her Communion at her own mother’s funeral, telling her he couldn’t give it to her because she was gay.
When it came time to hand out bread and wine, Guarnizo “issued a strong admonition that only Catholics in a state of grace can receive Communion,” Johnson told msnbc.com. “I went up. I was standing next to my mother’s casket and he covered the bowl, and said, ‘I cannot give you Communion because you are with a woman, and in the eyes of the church, that is a sin.’ I stood there with my mouth open in a state of shock for – I don’t know how long.”
But he wasn’t finished, Johnson said. Guarnizo had finally agreed to allow two eulogies, but she said family members told her that he proceeded to walk out of the service in the middle of Johnson’s dedication to her mother – something he didn’t do during her niece’s eulogy.
As the final insult, Johnson told msnbc.com, Guarnizo failed to attend her mother’s burial: “When the funeral home director appears, he says, ‘Father Marcel has taken ill. He says he has a migraine and is unable to accompany your mother’s remains to the cemetery.’ This was, for me and my family, his most egregious act.””
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My oldest daughter, Lindsey, has inflammation on the growth plate on her heel. This can cause severe pain. The condition resolves itself once the child goes through her pubescent growth spurt, which is usually within one year of the pain. The only thing to do to help it is to rest it, so they put her in a boot for the next four weeks. No riding lessons, P.E., etc. The doctor said it sometimes takes 6+ months to heal, but suggested trying it for one month to see what kind of results we get. Hopefully, one month will be enough to produce the desired results.
I would write a memoir, but I lack the discipline required to do so. Plus, while my family is living, it wouldn’t seem right. I’d love to be a great writer; I have much respect for writers and enjoy reading more than any other activity.
I was somewhat of a “wild child” before becoming a Christian and have always been so grateful to God that I didn’t face pregnancy as a teenager. I’m afraid I might have gotten an abortion to avoid facing my parents and know I’d have had terrible, gut-wrenching regret about it. God was so merciful to me. The whole partial-birth abortion thing makes me sick to my stomach. And we wonder why so many people have such little regard for human life…
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Well, earlier today I said I laughed about writing my family’s story and that it would be a best seller on the fiction list. The final chapter was just written. No one has the power to hurt you like family. My grandmother’s estate is being settled. The property has finally sold. Guess who is being cut out?
While I am making it without my father’s portion it would have been nice to have the nest egg put aside for Baby Girl. No one can hurt you like family. While I am not some spoiled brat, it does hurt that my stepmother ended up with most everything from my father and now I will not inherit my father’s portion of my grandmother’s estate.
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Kim,
I’m sorry. Please don’t see it as being “cut out,” though–probably it isn’t meant as a slight, but she’s dividing among her children, and thus you ended up “not qualifying” because you are instead a grandchild. I suspect that if she’d thought it through or had good counsel, she’d have done it differently. It isn’t “personal,” in other words, I suspect.
(And your legacy of having grandparents who knew you and loved you is greater.)
Was her will written before or after your father’s death? In other words, did she write it in a way that (accidentally) excludes you, or are your aunts and uncles considering only living siblings to be inheritors? I would think that if it was written before your father’s death, that he would be included and it would be considered a post mortem part of his estate, unless he is deliberately excluded by name. I’m no expert on estate law, though, never having received an inheritance except a small one when my mom died (my last ancestor).
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My grandparents were married 20 yrs, divorced 20 yrs, and married 20 years. I have cards from the “mistress” for baby’s first everything and every milestone in my life from “another granny”. I was the “apple of my grandfather’s eye” until the remarriage. My grandfather wrote the will and said that only living children would inherit. My grandmother although we had grown closer was too senile to change the will after his death. One aunt is in charge of everything. My grandmother died January 1, 2008 and my father died June 11, 2008. He left everthing to me (that wasn’t in my stepmothers name). Legally his estate should inherit and as the survivor of the estate I should inherit, but that isn’t how it is happening. There is no legacy of grandparents who loved me really.
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I had no one else to call who would understand so I called ex-husband. He told me to have a good cry but quite frankly he didn’t understand why I had gone back to them. They never really cared about me and this was the 3rd or 4th time they had turned their backs on me and hurt me. He was kind about it. It goes all the way back to childhood when they all knew the torment of an alcoholic mother I was living with and not one of them would lift a finger to offer any encouragement. 3/4 of them had to pass my house each weekend to get to their beach houses but never offered to take me with them. I am alone in this situation. I will cry and pout and nurse my wound tonight and tomorrow I will put on my big girl clothes and do the next thing on my list.
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Kim,
Ask a local lawyer about this inheritance. Don’t just take your aunt’s word for it.
Unfortunately, people show their real inner self when it comes to inheritances.
I am sure you have run into a good, honest lawyer in your real estate dealings. Ask him/her.
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Kim, I’m sorry. Legally they should have no grounds to shut you out, nor morally . . . but it might not be worth fighting for other reasons, and you’ll have to decide.
Prayed for you just now, though. And I am sorry they didn’t love you well when they had a chance.
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88!
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I hear, this is just what I heard mind you, that we are going to have company! We are sooo excited!
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Michelle? Did I mention to you that we have a guest room here in Idaho? But I am afraid we may be busy that weekend… (pats appliances protectively)
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I’m not going to Idaho anytime soon, so you’re safe. Tennessee and Kentucky, however, watch out!
My son’s comment: “What is it with you and computers, Mom? I’ve owned computers for 14 years and never had any of the crashing problems you’ve had.”
I tell you, it’s a magic touch . . . I did, however, managed to get the fax machine to work this afternoon, but I was sort of praying . . . .
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Are any of our left side of the country posters familiar with this nonsense? Is this stupid little inedible fish really being allowed to destroy 26 billion worth of economic activity? It’s insane.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/29/obama-ill-veto-bill-that-will-provide-water-to-californias-central-valley/
“I’ve called the judicially-imposed drought in California’s Central Valley “the Dust Bowl Congress created” through its creation of the Endangered Species Act, invoked in this case by the Delta smelt, a fish that’s not suitable for eating. Once a breadbasket for the nation, the cutoff of irrigation water to the Central Valley has destroyed agriculture and tens of thousands of jobs as a tradeoff for the endangered fish. Now, however, voices of sanity in Congress have begun to speak on the man-made economic and agricultural disaster, as Rep. Devin Nunes builds support for his Sacramento-San Joaquin Water Reliability Act:
Nunes’ Sacramento-San Joaquin Water Reliability Act goes to a vote in the House Wednesday and if it passes, it will guarantee that water the farmers paid for finally gets to the parched Central Valley. It will put an end to the sorry stream of shriveled vineyards, blackened almond groves and unemployed farm workers standing in alms lines for bagged carrots from China.
The insanity of the current policies against some of America’s most productive farmers in one of the world’s richest farm belts is largely the work leftist politicians from the wealthy enclaves of the San Francisco Bay Area. This group has exerted its political muscle on the less politically powerful region that produces more than half the fruits and vegetables consumed in the U.S. — with $26 billion in annual sales.
“The bill restores the flow of water and establishes a framework for meaningful environmental improvements. It is a repudiation of the left’s assault on rural communities, which began with the decimation of the West’s timber industry and now is focused on Central Valley agriculture,” Nunes told IBD.
The stand-alone bill, H.R. 1837, marks the first time Central Valley water shortages and the federal role in creating them will be considered directly in Congress.
That in itself is a damning indictment of the federal government, whose laws have created the disaster in California. This first came to light more than two years ago, when Sean Hannity featured it on his national television show. The delay in addressing it makes the financial situation worse with each passing day for farmers in the Valley, and for workers who now have to subsist on government handouts rather than earnings from productive jobs.”
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Here’s what IBD has to say on it. This is interesting because Obama has already threatened veto. This has to be helping fuel rising food costs.
http://news.investors.com/article/602480/201202271921/rep-nunes-visalia-brings-water-to-california-.htm
“In the past, said Nunes’ spokesman Andrew House, these water bills have been buried in omnibus spending legislation. Forcing politicians to stand up and be counted should end the backroom deals that benefit special interest groups.
House also said the bill has bipartisan support and should pass in the House. Maybe that’s why the left is screaming bloody murder and rousting its environmental allies for a scare campaign about “agribusiness” and the supposedly omnipotent hand of “Big Almond.”
In reality, even local environmental groups and the scientific community are on board, as well as the moderate Democratic Congress members whose districts are most directly affected by the policies.”
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One more before I get out of the way for the race to 100.
It’s a new week, so you know what they means, right? You guessed it, another “green” failure, funded of course by taxpayers. Is anybody starting to maybe catch on as to why the private money for experiments like this just isn’t avaiable? They know a sucker bet when they see it. Only thing gained was some temp jobs, and a whole lotta payback for Obama bundlers. Which was the purpose all along.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/29/report-stimulus-backed-solar-company-lays-off-70-percent-of-workforce/
“Further evidence that when government officials usurp the role of the free market to choose winners and losers, they inevitably shuffle taxpayer dollars across the table to … losers. The Heritage Foundation’s Lachlan Markay reports:
President Obama used a weekly address in July 2010 to tout his stimulus package’s support for the solar industry. One of the companies he mentioned specifically, Abound Solar, just announced that it will lay off 70 percent of its workforce.
Abound would “creat[e] more than 2,000 construction jobs and 1,500 permanent jobs,” Obama claimed, and would be integral to the administration’s quest to “create whole new industries and hundreds of thousands of new jobs in America.”
But a year and a half later, the company’s staff numbers only 120. It announced Tuesday that it would lay off 180 full time and 100 part time employees, halt solar panel production, and delay the construction of a manufacturing plant in Indiana.
Just how much money went to Abound Solar through the Energy Department’s 1705 renewable energy loan program? So far, the company has drawn $70 million of its $400 million loan. The company won’t be able to draw more until it resumes production.
Meanwhile, natural gas advocates now seek federal subsidies (and make suspect donations to liberal think tanks as a part of their quest). Haven’t we learned our lesson? In an excellent editorial today, The Wall Street Journal editorial board explains that subsidies for natural gas are, in principle, no different than subsidies for solar. Furthermore, the board argues, the many advantages to natural gas are more reasons to oppose government intervention in the industry than to support it:
The natural gas shale revolution is a blessing for the U.S., but its very abundance and low cost mean that it could be a commercially viable substitute for oil without taxpayer handouts. At current prices, a gallon of transportation fuel from natural gas costs about one-third to one-half less a gallon of gas from oil. That’s a big nonsubsidized cost advantage.”
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OK wait, one more. For real this time. Maybe.
On the same vein as 94.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/28/va-ag-cuccinelli-the-epa-has-violated-the-law-here/
“The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is considering challenges this week to the Environmental Protection Agency’s determination that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are pollutants and subject to federal regulation.
In addition to suits on the part of a number of companies and business groups, Virginia and 14 other states charge that the EPA violated its own rules by using data from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), rather than internal research, in order to make the initial greenhouse gas endangerment findings. The states also charge that the EPA violated the law by failing to reopen hearings in light of new data.
“It is our view that the EPA has violated the law here,” Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said on a conference call with reporters on Tuesday. “We don’t file lawsuits because we don’t like policies. We only file lawsuits if they break the law, and here the EPA has broken the law by relying on — among other ways — by relying on IPCC data rather than doing its own research.”
Two years ago, Cuccinelli petitioned to have the EPA reconsider its 2009 “Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Finding for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act” in light of the release of the Dec. 2009 “Climategate emails” and reports that the IPCC might have manipulated their data.
“We are in court because the EPA has refused to do even that,” Cuccinelli said of the EPA’s failure to consider additional data.”
“Cuccinelli pointed out that last September, the EPA’s inspector general issued a report noting that the agency violated its own requirements for data quality by using the IPCC’s data for the Endangerment Finding.”
““This is clearly a political agenda — not a protecting-the-planet agenda,” Cuccinelli said. “They did this with no regard for economic impact and, of course, more importantly for us, in violation of the law, again, by improperly delegating its research authority to the United Nations’ IPCC and those scientists — most of whom are offshore — and refusing to consider the newly discovered information.””
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Yep, just like the Tea Party.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/02/occupy-idiot-catches-on-fire-suffers-second-degree-burns-when-he-torches-historic-colorado-town-hall-video/
“Kyle Lawrence, a Colorado Springs Occupier, remains in a Denver Hospital burn unit with second degree burns that he received when he was caught on fire during the arson that leveled the Historic Green Mountain Falls Town Hall.”
To quote the website Weasel Zippers,
“Number of Tea Partiers who set themselves on fire during an arson attempt still zero.”
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Talkin’ to myself…………..
OK fine, I’m done. You know, I can see 100 from here. Nah, G’nite all.
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Well, yeah, you can see 100 after you hogged half the thread.
What’s with all these people going to Tennessee after I leave?
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99!
Good night.
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Good night! (100?)
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96….“Kyle Lawrence, a Colorado Springs Occupier, remains in a Denver Hospital burn unit with second degree burns that he received when he was caught on fire during the arson that leveled the Historic Green Mountain Falls Town Hall.”
This state’s going to pot!! 
I’m thinking he must have been smoking some of that MaryJane Colorado is attempting to legalize for recreational use ya know!
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—QOD: If you have a book in you what would it be about? —
If I wrote a book, it’d probably be for the purpose of sharing my testimony.
My mother says she ought to write a book about us. Says she’d call it “Leaky Pipes, Leaky Children, Leaky Dogs, and Leaky Husbands”…I mean, really, that does seem to be a recurring thing in my family….for one example, one of our past dogs developed incontinence in her old age. And my dad has been paralyzed from the waist down for going on a decade, so you can imagine the problems that causes.
Speaking of my dad, they found out that he has kidney stones…I guess that explains a lot of what was going on before he went to the ER. Anyway, he’s getting surgery in just a few hours.
Thank you for the prayers for him so far.
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