Algore Finally Finds A Climate Related Job Worthy of His Talents

Source: Open Thread

Star Laugh Trek

Nuns With Good Habits Meet Oprah

I have written 2 posts about The Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist (Now, Here is a Good Vocation Crisis!, Nuns with Good Habits: Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist). From 4 members in 1997 they hve grown to nearly 100 members. Well, they are drawing attention from the secular world. Oprah is doing a show that looks at them. Naturally, she doesn't get it. Here is how she is marketing it:



But then given the fact that Oprah has had Joan Chittister on a past show as an example of a "modern nun" why should she? Sorry Oprah, the life of these sisters is a secret only to those who don't want to know the truth about what it truly means to be a Catholic Religious in today's world.

This will be a chance for people to acually see some real nuns who ARE faithful to the Magesterium. Even w/ the attempts by Oprah to sensationalize it, I a sure the Dominicans did their best to witness to their love of God & being true Brides of Christ. & they will see a surge of interest in joining from young women as well. I am also sure that Oprah will get some criticism from those who are not happy to see the truth about what a real nun is get out. & I am willing to bet that most of that criticism will be in the form of put downs. & that will simply be because they know they can't argue with the fact that God is blessing these Dominicans because they are faithful.

As an aside, today marks the 13th Anniversary of the founding of their community.

The Real American Dream

"The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become."

--Ronald Reagan

Our Tax Dollars At Work, to Suppress Free Speech

Remember the big to do last year when it came out that Janet Napolitano & Homeland Security defined Pro-lifers as terrorists? What it did was to give us a bit of insight into the Obama administration mindset. That is why I am not surprized to read that this investigation took place.

The Obama administration is so sold out to the abortion industry that it sees pro-lifers as a bigger threat than any real terrorists, domestic or foreign. & like the pro-aborts, they want to silence us for speaking out. & forgive me if I sound a bit parnoid, but I doubt the veracity of DHS' claim to have destroyed every copy.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ADMITS ITS WRONGLY TRACKED ABORTION GROUPS IN WISCONSIN

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor

Madison, WI (LifeNews.com) -- The Department of Homeland Security admitted today that it improperly conducted a threat assessment on pro-life and pro-abortion groups in Wisconsin. The assessment came before an expected rally last year in response to the University of Wisconsin Hospital board decided to allow abortions.
In February 2009, pro-life advocates planned to protest the hospital's decision to open up a new Madison Surgery Center doing abortions.
The Associated Press reported today that the department said in a memo that it "destroyed all of the copies of the assessment after an internal review found it violated intelligence gathering guidelines about 'protest groups which posed no threat to homeland security.'"
AP indicated the assessment was reportedly only shared with the director of Wisconsin's intelligence-sharing center and local police in Middleton, Wisconsin, the site of the rally.
Today, a pro-life organization in Wisconsin informed LifeNews.com of its concerns.
In response to an open records request by the Alliance Defense Fund and Pro-Life Wisconsin, the Middleton Police Department and the Wisconsin Department of Justice, along with the Department of Homeland Security all refused on February 4 to release copies of the threat assessment.
Pro-Life Wisconsin officials told LifeNews.com that the assessment was "inappropriately shared" and should never have targeted pro-life groups.
“The majority of Americans identify themselves as pro-life, and the Middleton Police Department has shown they are out of touch with this peaceful majority,” said Peggy Hamill, state director of the pro-life group. “Pro-lifers are not a minority of the population, nor are they second-class citizens. We refuse to let our First Amendment rights be silenced.”
A few months later in 2009, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights concluded the investigation was an improper use of department resources.
The conclusion said the department inappropriately directed against activities protected by the First Amendment, in which law enforcement inappropriately engaged in “the collection, retention and dissemination of U.S. person information regarding protest groups which posed no threat to homeland security and… violated [DHS] Guidelines.”
Hamill said DHS destroyed its copies of the report, but the Middleton Police Department retained its copy.
In January 2010 the Alliance Defense Fund, on behalf of Wisconsin pro-life advocates, asked the Middleton Police Department for a copy of the report pursuant to Wisconsin’s open records laws.
The Middleton Police Department refused to disclose the report and further said that the DOJ similarly refused to authorize disclosure of the report, despite the fact that DHS had already determined that the report was an improper investigation of freedom of speech activities.
“This move by DHS illustrates the Obama administration’s goal of silencing pro-lifers. It is disturbing that a local police department has apparently tapped into the security apparatus of the federal government to potentially obstruct free speech,” Hamill concluded.
“Last year, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano unjustly included pro-lifers in a report on domestic terrorism, and here we see her words in action," she said.

The A-Trek

Iowa May Be A Leader In Ethical Stem Cell Research

3 years ago under the leadership of (alledgedly) Catholic Speaker of the House Pat Murphy, Iowa passed a law that allowed cloning. Naturally Pat Murphy lied & tried to claim it wasn't. I publicly confronted him & called him aliar. I nearly got arrested for doing so. The whole support for his denial was that he was told it wasn't by a expert group from the Uof I in Iowa City, that promotes embryonic stem cell research. Talk about a conflict of interest. Well enough about the background to this story. The good news is that there is an alternate to what the Uof I researchers want to do getting off the ground here in Iowa. In the Uof I's back yard at that.

I am refering to The John Paul II Stem Cell Research Institute (JP2SRI). Here is a video they put out to introduce themselves:

(From their website) The John Paul II Stem Cell Research Institute (JP2SRI) is a non-profit research institute whose mission is to advance research and education on stem cell research in a manner consistent with a pro-life bioethics. JP2SRI is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity, as defined by the Internal Revenue Service. The Institute strictly focuses on adult and cord blood stem cell research and education. The Institute's goal is to focus on reducing the barriers of translate basic research into clinical research. JP2SRI mission is to coordinate research activities between the Institute, academia and industry and to find treatment solutions for patients with disorders that could potentially benefit from adult and umbilical cord stem cells.
JP2SRI was founded by Dr. Alan Moy. Dr. Moy is a physician-scientist whose previous academic appointment was at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and College of Engineering. He is also the Founder and President of Cellular Engineering Technologies Inc., a biotechnology company located in Iowa, which focuses on preclinical industrial applications in adult and umbilical cord stem cell research. Dr. Moy is currently a practicing physician in private practice and holds an Adjunct Associate Professor position in the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa.

The JP2SRI is hoping to locate its research activities at the BioVenture Facility in Coralville, IA. That center is owned by the U of I. Like I was saying about their own back yard. They are currently running a Capital Campaign so they can build a 16,000 square foot facility there.

The Center has received 2 important Vatican endorsements from Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, President of the Pontificium Consilium Pro Familia & Emmience Javier Cardinal Lozano Barragan, President of the Pontificio Consiglio Per La Pastorale Della Salute. In addition Do No Harm: The Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics , a group that promotes ethical stem cell research.

The Institute is affiliated with Mercy Hospital of Iowa City, which provides discarded adult tissue (fat, adult skin, foreskin, adult peripheral blood, umbilical cords and umbilical cord blood). The research is approved by Institutional Review Board and is in compliance with State and Federal regulations. They currently have several studies underway & are looking for elligible participants. They also are providing support for scientists with adult stem cells who will collaborate with the Institute to satisfy FDA preclinical requirements for specific clinical diseases. The current support will be in the form of adult stem cells and tissue culture media. The research is approved by Institutional Review Board and is in compliance with State and Federal regulations.

I have had a link to the JP2SRI up for a long time. They deserve our support. If you are able to give, esp for their building campaign please follow the link to the donation page. I really think Iowa can be the leader in ethical stem cell research. OK, I am a bit prejudiced, but that doesn't mean that I am wrong. I will not apologize for being a cheerleader for my home state. Iowa can be the leader in showing the rest of the world that the true hope in stem cells is not by using embryonic cells. The true hope is found in umbilical & adult cells.

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Note: Full disclosure requires me to admit tht I know 1 of the Board members. I am refering to Janine Idziak, Ph.D., Professor of Ethics, Loras College. Several years ago I took Medieval Philosophy here at Loras & she taught the class. & I do see her occasionally even now.

The Infamous Tebow Ads

Here is the Super Bowl Ad that had all the pro-aborts up in arms:



& here is the Pre-game Super Bowl Ad:



All the overblown reaction by the pro-abort gang to these ads has suceeded in doing only the following for them:
1. Showing how anti-family they are

2. Showing how anti-women the really are

3. Showing how anti-life they really are

4. Showing how anti-life they really are

5. Showing how anti-free speech the are

Here is the Fox News report from a few days ago:



Did you notice how Jehmu Greene repeated all the Pro-abort lies about crisis pregnancy centers? Fake ultra sounds??? Negative pregnancy tests???? What the????? To be fair, their idea of a pregnancy center is a place that only ends them. Which again shows how anti-choice & anti-life the Pro-abort gang really is. & what is even sadder is to see Jehmu Greene aiding & abetting in the pro-abortion racist agenda aimed at eliminating blacks. & she is the 1 who is doing the dividing.

After all the big to do from the anti-life, pro-abortion gang all they have left is plenty of egg on their faces. But they will never admit that, they will do what they always do when proven wrong, or proven evil, ignore, deny or attack the messenger rather than admit the truth.

Here is more coverage about the ad:
WATCH THE FOCUS ON THE FAMILY TIM TEBOW PRO-LIFE SUPER BOWL COMMERCIALS (contains text of the ads)
PRO-LIFE ADVOCATES APPLAUD FOCUS ON THE FAMILY'S TIM TEBOW SUPER BOWL AD
POLL: BACKERS OF TIM TEBOW PRO-LIFE SUPER BOWL AD OUTNUMBER OPPONENTS BY 15%
COLTS COACH CLYDE CHRISTENSEN SPARED FROM ABORTION LIKE TIM TEBOW
Clash of the Abortion Titans: Planned Parenthood Launches 'Pro-Choice' Football Ad (Note that once again PP is using blacks to help eliminate blacks, people their founder called inferior & a stand that PP has never renounced.)

I Want to Live

Back in 1977 John Denver released an album entitled I Want to Live. The album took its name from 1 of the songs on 2nd side of the record. In 1978 he released the song as a single. & while the song was actually written about children who were suffering from malnutrition, war etc, I always hear something different. What I hear is the voice of the unborn being snuffed out by abortion. I especially hear that voice in the chorus:

"I want to live, I want to grow
I want to see, I want to know
I want to share what I can give
I want to be, I want to live"

I know that he didn't intend it to be such a strong song calling for the right of every child to be born, but IMHO that is exactly what this song says. As the last verse says:

"no more killing

No more wasting life away

It is simply an idea

And I know it’s time has come"

How much longer are we going to deny every child the right to experience life? How long are we going to ignore those voices? How much longer are we going to deny those unborn children the right to live? How much longer will they be denied the right to enjoy life as the childen in this video are able to????

Every time I hear this song it tears at my heart & brings tears to my eyes to think of how many children are being murdered every day. I hear their voices crying out "I WANT TO LIVE!"

Yes it is time for"no more killing. No more wasting life away. It is simply an idea, And I know it’s time has come!" Past it rather!

Maybe Now We Can See A Space Station Like That in 2001: A Space Odyssey

This may be 1 of the few upsides of Obama's new budget. In the past, while early on exploration was underwritten by the government or its leaders (Columbus, Vespucci, Cabot & those non-Italianos as well), eventually private enterprize took over the show. I would rather see the money currently going to Planned Parenthood & other promoters of the "culture of death" be spent on space exploration. Even better, that money be allowed to be kept by businesses in the 1st place instead of being wasted by the government in any way shape or form as it is now.

For those who miss the point of the title, i would refer you to the part in 2001 where Dr. Floyd travels to the space station on his way to the Moon. The shuttle he took was run by PanAm. The hotel was a Hilton & the phone company was AT&T (Bell). We are now 9 years past 2001 & we are nowhere near that picture painted in the movie. Maybe now we will be a step closer.

NASA's 7 new space pioneers are companies

WASHINGTON – A half century ago the Mercury Seven embodied America's space future. Now it's the merchant seven — space companies for hire.
Mimicking a scene 51 years ago when the Mercury astronauts were revealed, NASA's boss beamed Tuesday as he introduced the "faces of a new frontier:" representatives of the seven companies that NASA is funding to develop future private spacecraft.
And more money is coming. In President Barack Obama's proposed budget, he not only killed his predecessor's $100 billion moon program, he proposed spending $6 billion over five years to develop private space taxis. NASA would then pay them to carry astronauts to the International Space Station.
Some of the players include companies run by Internet pioneers Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Elon Musk of PayPal. Bezos runs Blue Origin, a Kent, Wash., company that until Tuesday had only talked about going into suborbital space; now it will compete to go into orbit as a space taxi. Musk runs SpaceX of Hawthorne, Calif. and already has built a rocket called Falcon and a capsule called Dragon.
Others include Boeing Co. of Houston; Paragon Space Development Co. of Tucson, Ariz.; Sierra Nevada Corp. of Sparks, Nev.; United Launch Alliance of Denver, and Orbital Science Corp. of Dulles, Va.
NASA on Tuesday detailed $50 million worth of seed grants for development of a space taxi to Boeing, Sierra Nevada, Paragon, United Launch and Blue Origin.
A year ago, the space agency gave $3.5 billion in contracts to Orbital Science and SpaceX for 20 commercial cargo resupply flights to the space station. Both are likely to develop crew taxis too, with Musk of SpaceX saying he could fly astronauts within three years of a final contract. And he said he could do it for $20 million a head, less than half the price NASA pays Russia for astronauts flying on that country's Soyuz capsule.
NASA administrator Charles Bolden and officials from the companies said just because space will become for-profit, safety will not be forgotten, as some congressional critics worry.
"It's all about crew safety," United Launch Alliance President Mike Gass said. Gass's company got a $6.7 million NASA grant so the firm's Atlas and Delta rockets could be better monitored to provide safety for any astronauts sitting on capsules on top of them. Bezos' Blue Origin received $3.7 million from NASA to work on a new type of launch escape system for a crew on top of a rocket.
"I know personally the great challenges involved in sending humans into orbit and have lost friends in trying to do so," said Bolden, a former shuttle commander. "I pledge to you that I will make it my job everyday to ensure that everything is done efficiently and safely."
There won't be just one winner, officials said. NASA hopes there will be multiple spaceships carrying crews, pushing costs down and safety up. There may be even more than just these seven, Bolden said.
With the dramatic changes ordered by the Obama administration, NASA is going back to its pre-Apollo 1959-60 roots, when it was a research-and-development powerhouse more than an engineering factory, said Harry Lambright, a professor of public policy at Syracuse University.
"It turns NASA inside out; it takes it back to the old days, pre-Apollo days," Lambright said. He called it a gamble that might not work.
What's happening is part spin, part needed reinvention, said American University space policy and historian Howard McCurdy.
"Clearly what they're trying to do is it make it look positive. Instead of making it a story of cancellations, it's a story of new beginnings," McCurdy said. "It probably is in some ways as dramatic as the appointment of the first new astronauts."
Ken Bowersox, a former astronaut and now a SpaceX vice president, was one of those introduced and said he couldn't help but notice the parallel to the Mercury astronauts — right down to the number seven.

More here: NASA: Good night moon, hello new rocket technology

Note: This article talks about Congressmen howling about lost jobs. What it will result in, if truly allowed to go as it should, as more private sector jobs than those currently being lost. & the costs of the new technology will be a lot less that what we are currently spending as well. More for less. Pretty good I would say.

The Love Starship Enterprize

The Real Story behind the Recently Overturned Tillman Act

The dirty little secret the Democrats don't want you to know was recently revealed by Justice Clarence Thomas in answer to a question at an at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Fla. (Justice Defends Ruling on Finance )

"Go back and read why Tillman introduced that legislation,” Justice Thomas said. He was referring to Senator Benjamin Tillman. “Tillman was from South Carolina, and as I hear the story he was concerned that the corporations, Republican corporations, were favorable toward blacks and he felt that there was a need to regulate them.”

Did you get that, it was to prevent blacks from gaining political power as well as keeping them from getting ahead. Once again we see the true racist roots that are still feeding the Democratic Party over 200 years later. Let's remember it was the Democratic party of Jefferson (originally called Republican or Democratic by its founders. It then became the Democratic-Republican & finally just the Democratic party, the name we know it as today) that supported slavery, that gave rise to the KKK, disenfrancised blacks in the Post-Reconstruction South (1890s) & is the home of the abortion industry & its racist agenda. Remember, the modern Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an anti-slavery party. It was the 1 that gave the blacks the vote. It was the Republicans who got through the Voting Rights Act & has worked to see that blacks are treated as equals, not a 2nd class citizenry that has to rely on the benificence of their Democratic elite masters running things.

Source: Justice Clarence Thomas Explains Corporate Policical donations via Dad29 (The Dixiecrats Were Consistent )

Sadly, I Can See More US Bishops Doing This Long Before Taking On Pro-abortion Catholic Politicians

In this liberal PC era I would have no doubt that if Papa Benedetto implimented a similar policy for all Church property then you would see a huge majority of Catholic Bishops enforcing this. Well maybe they would make an exception for pro-abort Dems, but you can be ure any Republican politician who is Catholic even carrying a single cigarette that was found anywhere near a Catholic Church would be excommunicated instantly.

Pope Urban VII's papacy began on September 15, 1590. It ended with his death from malaria less than two weeks later.
Although he didn't spend much time as the head of the Catholic Church, Urban VII was around long enough to make his feelings on tobacco known. He banned all tobacco "in the porchway of or inside a church, whether it be by chewing it, smoking it with a pipe or sniffing it in powdered form through the nose." The penalty for breaking his edict? Excommunication.
Urban VII's crackdown is considered to be history's first public smoking ban. Various papal bans on smoking stuck around until 1724, when tobacco-loving Pope Benedict XIII gave Catholics the thumbs-up to light up again.

Source: King, Sultan, pope crack down on smoking

Religious Should Be Countercultural, NOT Mirroring & Embracing Secular Culture

Not much I can add to this article, it says it all pretty well.


U.S. Sisters in Crisis after Embracing “Secular Culture”: Vatican Cardinal

By Hilary White
ROME, February 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Some religious orders in the U.S. and most western countries are in a state of “modern crisis” because the members of the order have embraced “secular culture” and abandoned traditional religious practices, the head of the Vatican’s office for religious life has said.
But, said the cardinal, the religious life in the Catholic Church should be presenting an alternative to the “dominant culture,” “which is a culture of death, of violence and of abuse,” rather than mirroring it.
Cardinal Franc Rodé, the prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, which is undertaking a review (known as a “visitation”) of the active religious life for women in the U.S., was speaking to a conference on religious life sponsored by the Archdiocese of Naples on Wednesday.
He said, “The crisis experienced by certain religious communities, especially in Western Europe and North America, reflects the more profound crisis of European and American society. All this has dried up the sources that for centuries have nourished consecrated and missionary life in the church.”
“The secularized culture has penetrated into the minds and hearts of some consecrated persons and some communities, where it is seen as an opening to modernity and a way of approaching the contemporary world,” the cardinal added.
In November last year, Cardinal Rodé forthrightly said that it is feminism that has created the crisis in the religious orders. In an interview with Vatican Radio, he said he had been “alerted” by an unnamed representative of the Church in the U.S., “to some irregularities or deficiencies” in the way the religious sisters were living.
“Above all, you could speak of a certain secularist mentality that has spread among these religious families, perhaps even a certain 'feminist' spirit,” the cardinal said.
Late last year, the increasingly loud complaints about the ongoing visitation from a small number of American communities prompted several public comments from the cardinal defending the Vatican’s decision to investigate the sisters’ lives. For some years now, Rodé has called on the sisters to refocus their communities on the “founding charisms” or original purpose of their orders.
The deterioration since the 1960s into radical feminism and leftist politics of most of the religious orders in the U.S., especially those of women, has not gone unnoticed in Rome. In 2008 at a meeting of religious men and women in Boston, Cardinal Rodé said that today there are some in religious life “who have chosen paths that have carried them away from communion with Christ in the Catholic Church, even though they have decided to physically ‘be’ in the Church.”
This assertion was bolstered in 2007 at a meeting of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), a keynote speaker, Dominican Sister Laurie Brink, said that the more liberal congregations of sisters were leaving behind “institutional religion” and “moving beyond the Church, even beyond Jesus.”
What she called a “sojourning” order “is no longer ecclesiastical,” she said. “Religious titles, institutional limitations, ecclesiastical authorities no longer fit this congregation, which in most respects is Post-Christian.”
These statements were cited by the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) when it launched a doctrinal investigation into the beliefs and teachings of orders that are members of LCWR. The Apostolic Visitation being conducted by the Congregation for Religious is separate from the CDF investigation, but the latter has been excoriated as an “inquisition” by the same religious orders that have objected to the Visitation.
Read related LSN coverage:
Dissident U.S. Nuns Unlikely to Change, Even in Face of Vatican Inquiry and Shrinking Numbers: Experts

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/apr/09042201.html

Star Trek: The Scottish Generation

Maybe It Is Global Warming That Is To Blame

Or it is just POed at being demoted from a full blown planet.

I highly doubt that it is global warming that is to blame, esp since Pluto is at the point in its orbit where it is moving farther away from the sun. But what it does show is how little we still understand about weather dynamics on earth or any other planet. Climate change is a part of every planet that has an atmosphere. Earth has undergone periods when it has been warmer as well as colder than it is now. & we have no idea of what is really causing the changes.

The fact that Pluto's climate change is occuring much faster than expected despite the fact there is no life there should give us even more pause to question the definitive pronouncements of those who have changed the crisis from cooling in the early 70s to warming a decade or so ago to climate change now. Remember, these are the people who can't always get a 3 day forcast right. & it is the same programs they use to predict this.

I'll say it again, we do need to be good stewards. But this i not about being good stewards, this is about using fear to advance a political agenda that looks more related to the "culture of death" than actually protecting the planet. Esp when you have Planned Parenthood climing on board as well as some leading proponants calling for lowering the birthrate of those in 3rd world nations.

Hubble sees Pluto changing color, ice sheet cover

WASHINGTON – Spurned Pluto is changing its looks, donning more rouge in its complexion and altering its iceball surface here and there.
Color astronomers surprised.
Newly released Hubble Space Telescope photos show the distant one-time planet — demoted to "dwarf planet" status in 2006 — is changing color and its ice sheets are shifting.
The photos, released by NASA Thursday, paint a Pluto that is significantly redder than it had been for the past several decades. To the layman, it has a yellow-orange hue, but astronomers say it has about 20 percent more red than it used to have.
The pictures show icy frozen nitrogen on Pluto's surface growing and shrinking, brightening in the north and darkening in the south. Astronomers say Pluto's surface is changing more than the surfaces of other bodies in the solar system. That's unexpected because a season lasts 120 years in some regions of Pluto.
"It's a little bit of a surprise to see these changes happening so big and so fast," said astronomer Marc Buie of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. "This is unprecedented."
From 1954 to 2000, Pluto didn't change in color when it was photographed from Earth. But after that, it did. The red levels increased by 20 percent, maybe up to 30 percent, and stabilized from about 2000 to 2002, Buie said. It's not as red as Mars, however, Buie said.
Buie said he can explain the redness, but not why it changed so dramatically and so recently. The planet has a lot of methane, which contains carbon and hydrogen atoms. The hydrogen gets stripped off by solar winds and other factors, leaving carbon-rich areas on the surface, which tend to be red and dark.
The Hubble photos were taken in 2002 and the analysis took a few years. But why Pluto changed so quickly was such a mystery that Buie held off for years on announcing what he had found, worried that he might be wrong. However, since Pluto's moon Charon hadn't changed color in the same telescope images, he decided the Pluto findings weren't an instrument mistake.
His analysis also found that nitrogen ice was shifting in size and density in surprising ways. It's horribly cold on Pluto with, paradoxically, the bright spots being the coldest at about -382 degrees Fahrenheit. Astronomers are still arguing about the temperatures of the warm dark spots, which Buie believes may be 30 degrees warmer than the darker areas.
Part of the difficulty in figuring out what is going on with Pluto is that it takes the dwarf planet 248 years to circle the sun, so astronomers don't know what conditions are like when it's is farthest from the sun. The last time Pluto was at its farthest point was in 1870, which was decades before Pluto was discovered. Unlike Earth, Pluto's four seasons aren't equal lengths of time.
Buie's explanation makes sense, said retired NASA astronomer Stephen Maran, co-author of a book on Pluto. "Pluto is interesting and poorly understood, whether it qualifies as a planet or not," he said.

Name That Priest

There was a long line, as usual, in front of the confessional. Although two other priests were also hearing confessions, all the lines were long. The woman waiting in line was next. She had been trying for three weeks to get to confession but without success. It seemed every time she would be thwarted by time running out and the priest being called to say Mass or some other pastoral responsibility. How could she keep her biweekly confessional commitment if she could not find a priest with the time to hear it?

Yet again, it seemed that time was running out and she would miss her chance. But wait, now she was the very next person in line. As she waited, a gentleman walked into the church and waited right outside the door of the confessional where she was waiting. Disheartened, she realized that this time would be no different. Sure enough, as soon as the penitent left the confessional, the man knocked on the door and the priest opened to see what was wanted. “Father, it is time for your meeting in the lounge.” Sadly, the woman waited to hear the priest's response. The priest turned and looked to see how many persons were waiting in line. He looked into the eyes of the woman with a gentleness hard to explain. There must have been at least five or more people waiting.

After a brief pause, he turned to the man and said, "Please, ask them to be so kind as to wait a little longer." He then turned and entered the confessional to hear more confessions. The woman entered the confessional and began to thank him for staying, trying to control her tears of thankfulness. It was Father Hardon, as you probably guessed long ago.

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Father believed so strongly in the fruits of a good confession that he would go every day. When he was teaching the classes at Domino’s Farms in Ann Arbor, he urged the students that every time they saw a priest, to go and ask him to hear their confession. "It is good for them. It helps them grow in holiness."

He would hear confessions anywhere. In fact, Marlene Elwell, traveled with Father to meet Mother Teresa in Washington, D.C. Mother Teresa was going to appear at the national prayer breakfast. Marlene explained that she and Father Hardon had a connecting flight back to Detroit. As they were waiting to board the plane, Father Hardon said he would be right back, that he was going to the bathroom. As time passed, no Father Hardon. As time came to board the plane, still no Father Hardon. Where was he? He missed his flight. She was frantic.

Once in Detroit she waited for the next flight and sure enough here comes Father Hardon.

"Father, what happened? I was so worried. I could not find you anywhere."

"Oh," he said. "There was a man in the bathroom who wanted me to hear his confession. It took some time. He hadn't been in forty years."

Stories of Father Hardon and the Sacrament of Confession (H/T: Dad29 Maybe Abp. Listecki Could Send a Letter to His Priests... )

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I could have also labelled this why I definitely think he will be declared a saint by the Catholic Church someday. But I do have to add that i personally have seen the fruit of his work in how it affected a priest from Illinois I know. This priest spent some time with Fr. Hardon back in the 90s. & it is clear to me that Fr. Hardon's lessons were not wasted on him.

In 2005, while still in St. Louis, The Most Rev. Raymond Leo Burke, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura and Archbishop Emeritus of St. Louis initiated his cause. The Father John A. Hardon, S.J. Archive and Guild is responsible for the promotion of his cause. The website also has a link to The Real Pressence Eucharistic Education and Adoration Association that he was associated with. the Association promotes Eucharistic Adoration as well as promoting authentic Catholic teaching about the Eucharist. In 1974 Fr. Hardon founded the Institute on Religious Life to foster and strengthen vocations to the consecrated life. He founded several other apostolates as well.

Fr. Hardon also wrote a catechism back in the 70s that was the textbook for a class I took in college. I still have that catechism & will regular refer to it. He was a very prolific writer.

Like Archbishop Sheen, Fr. hardon did much to promote the Catholic Church & her teachings. Like Archbishop Sheen, I believe he will 1 day be declared a saint. With all that is going on these days to undermine authentic Catholic teaching as well as the Catholic Church herself (from without as well as within), we need to have faithful sons & daughters like Fr. Hardon held up as a beacon showing us the way to Jesus.

Name the Country Papa Benedetto Is Refering To

"That task requires a readiness to grapple firmly with the challenges presented by the increasing tide of secularism in your country. Support for euthanasia strikes at the very heart of the Christian understanding of the dignity of human life. Recent developments in medical ethics and some of the practices advocated in the field of embryology give cause for great concern. If the Church’s teaching is compromised, even slightly, in one such area, then it becomes hard to defend the fullness of Catholic doctrine in an integral manner. Pastors of the Church, therefore, must continually call the faithful to complete fidelity to the Church’s Magisterium, while at the same time upholding and defending the Church’s right to live freely in society according to her beliefs."

If you said the he was refering to Scotland you would be correct since this is taken from his address for the Scottish Bishops ad Limina visit that he gave on Friday. However in light of what has been occurring here in the USA the US Bishops would do well to heed what he said as well.

The Old Farmer's Almanac Predicted the DC Snow

OK, I will admit that the Old Farmer's Almanac wasn't thinking of the 30+ inches predicted, but they did predict the area would be hit by snow.

Here is what it had for the DC area (Region 2 Atlantic Corridor) in the Annual Weather Summary: November 2009 to October 2010: "While precipitation will be below normal, slightly above-normal snowfall will occur in many parts of the region.

& here is the weather for the next few days: Feb 6-10: Rain to snow, then sunny, seasonable; Feb 11-14: Snow showers, then sunny, very cold; Feb 15-18: Snow, then rain, milder;

& there is more snow to come the rest of Feb as well as March according to the OFA.

My only question right now is "Where is Algore?" as this seems to be the kind of weather he brings with him when he is talking about global warming.

I'm Surprized "Sundance" Even Showed It

I highly suspect the only reason it was even shown was that it was done by a pro-abort gang in the 1st place. What gets me is their mendacity in presenting it as 1 thing to Fr. Euteneuer & the PCC. n the other hand, the fact that Fr. Euteneuer's sermon on the devil & his part in the abortion industry made me laugh. I am sure quite a few people did squirm. I am also sure that some seeds were planted that may bear fruit in a way that the filmmakers don't expect. & yes, I agree with Fr. Euteneuer's comment about who is running things in Hollywood as well.

Sundance and the Dance of Death

Honestly, the last place I ever imagined seeing my face was on the big screen at the Sundance Film Festival. I actually appeared in a documentary film last week called "12th and Delaware" which attempted to show the struggle between life and death in the real-life scenarios of abortion-minded women. The name of the film derives from the street names on an ordinary corner in Ft. Pierce, FL where extraordinary things happen every day. On one side of the street is a death camp (i.e., an abortion mill) and on the other side is a center of life, the Pregnancy Care Center (PCC), which I helped found in 1999. I still serve on the Board of the PCC, and my greatest privilege is listening to the first-hand accounts of the miracles that happen there everyday. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of babies have been spared from a violent death at that abortion mill - and their mothers spared the agony of suffering from an abortion because of the work of Pregnancy Care Center.

The film did not win any Sundance honors or Academy nominations, but then again, the greenie avatars that frequent these rarified environments were not likely to be thrilled with a subject that most of them just want to go away. After all, abortion is an ugly business and even the most avid abortionists and left-wing radicals don't want to draw too much attention to it.

We agreed to do the documentary for the purposes of telling the story of the heroic work of crisis pregnancy centers all over the world. As in all dealings with those who favor abortion, however, a cloud of deceit blanketed the film project right from the very beginning even though the directors came dressed as "objective" reporters. They promised us that the film was to center solely on the ministry and good work of the Pregnancy Care Center, but they began secretly filming at the abortuary across the street in order to get a "balanced" perspective, and of course they did not tell us of it until the movie actually premiered. Since the abortion center and its workers knew from the beginning that the PCC was being filmed, their responses, attitudes and actions were of course well-constructed to present a Hollywood-type view of abortionists as compassionate helpers of women. In one scene, for example, the abortion clinic owner, whose name is - appropriately - Candace Dye, hastily decides on camera to give one of her clients a $50.00 discount on her abortion. Can you imagine an abortionist giving away her profits? Now that is genuine acting.

Despite the mendacity of the pro-abortion media, the story of the heroism of the women who work in pregnancy care centers needed to be told. The extraordinary commitment of the women in the crisis pregnancy ministry undoubtedly makes them the unsung heroes of the pro-life movement. Best of all, the film highlights the uniquely creative and positive response of the movement that loves both the woman and the baby but does not make a single cent helping them. No one in the abortion business can say that - something else curiously left out of the film!

Anne Lotierzo, the director of the Pregnancy Care Center was the protagonist of the story and could not have given a better example of the profound zeal for the welfare of the abortion-minded women and their babies that is typical of pregnancy center directors. She told me once about a young woman who came into the PCC in error, thinking it was the abortion clinic where she had an appointment to abort that very morning. When Anne told her it was not, she began to sob. Through her tears she looked up and cried, "I was up all night talking to God. I haven't lived a good life, I have ignored Him but I knew He would listen. I said, 'God, give me a sign, just give me just one sign that you want this baby!' This is it, this is the sign." The young woman went on to make a complete change of life, returned home to another state into the loving embrace of her parents who were thrilled with their new grandson.

Anne and her team are there on the front lines of the battle between life and death, and they meet women in the last desperate moments before an abortion to let them know that it's not too late to choose life. That's reality, not a reality show. The pregnancy care ministry is a real-life drama, not a documentary, and I know that God rewards them for all their heroism.

By the way, I forgot to tell you about my scenes in the film. The filmmakers came to a pro-life Mass and talk I did in IL last year and filmed me giving my main stump speech about the role of the devil in the grisly abortion business. I can only imagine the faces of the movie industry big-wigs when they were forced to listen to one of my homilies at Sundance! Come to think of it, maybe that's why the documentary didn't win any awards: the people in the rabidly pro-abortion movie industry don't like anyone saying bad things about their boss.

Sincerely,

Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer,

President, Human Life International

Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration

Our Founding fathers in a slightly different light:



H/T: Paul the Regular Guy (Too Late )

More of the Iceberg Is Being Revealed As I Said

& it just gets uglier by the minute. Although I will admit that much this story tells of what was going on there isn't surprizing to me. I have come across bits & pieces here & there. But this puts them together in a way that I am sure will not make those trying to cover up things very happy.

A TV Show That Might Mke Me Decide to Get Cable Again

Director - Roger L. Simon
Joe Jones (lead singer) played by Alfonzo Rachel
Backup Singer - Al Sonja Schmidt
Backup Singer- Laura Orrico
Backup Singer- Sharise Parviz
Background Dancer - Jamie Alexander
Background Dancer- Michele Stanton
Background Dancer- Miki Yamashita
Background Dancer- Ivette Badgley
Editor/VFX - Justin Folk
Musical Director - Boris Zelkin
Producer- Jonathan Atlas
Choreographer: Frankie Anne

SURPRIZE!!!!! Obama Got 1 Thing Right in His State of the Union Address

Last week in his SOTU address Obama criticized the Supreme Court ruling saying its recent ruling might open the door to foreign donations. Well he should know, he has been the recepient of 1 of an illegal foreign donation when running for president. In this case it is from his Aunt Zeituni Polly Onyango who is here illegally as well. According to the Boston herald she donated $260 to her nephew’s campaign for president - which is also against the law because she’s not a U.S. citizen. (Obama’s auntie still freeloading)

After illegally overstaying her visa, which she admits, she applied for asylum in 2003. The judge turned her down. Did she go? No, instead she ignored the deportation order & filed an appeal. Once again she was told: It’s illegal for you to stay. She has again filed an appeal claiming political turmoil in Kenya where she is from. OK, in 2007 there were some problems with the election, but they have been long since worked out. There is no turmoil

Meanwhile she is living in taxpayer-subsidized housing intended for citizens and legal immigrants. She also gets a stipend from a city program. Apparently that is where she got the money for the donation from.

If Obama is so concerned with illegal contributions from foreigners maybe he better start by cleaning up his own house. Then worry about others.

This Is Too Graphic???????????

Let's see now. We have shows about housewives having affairs, ads for Girls Gone Wild that are pornographic, Dexter, a show that has a serial killer as a hero etc.

Yet a Candian TV station says this is too graphic.

Am I missing something???? I've seen more blood & gore on a typical Law & Order show than here. This station runs Family Guy. & THAT SHOW CAN BE DOWNRIGHT GROSS. What this is is cowardice in the face of a few pro-aborts. You can bet that if they got even 10 or 100 times more letters from Christians protesting something they would still run it.

Canadian Station Pulls Pro-Life Ad – Too “Graphic”

KELOWNA, B.C., February 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – CHBC, the Kelowna local television station that drew national coverage this week after agreeing to air a pro-life ad, has changed its mind, claiming that the ad is too graphic.
The ad was sponsored by Kelowna Right to Life (KRTL), who got the news of its cancellation yesterday. “The reason they gave is that it's simply too graphic for a television commercial,” said Marlon Bartram, KRTL's executive director. The station told Bartram that they had received between 12 and 18 complaints from people who demanded the ad not run.
“So a handful of abortion activists have persuaded a major media outlet to once again censor the truth of what is the most important social, moral and human rights issue of our time,” he said in a press release. “The bottom line here is that this outlet is compromising the fundamental purpose of media: to seek out the truth and present it in a fair, balanced, and thorough manner. Although Global TV has been very good about running our ads for some time now, it appears as though they have sided with abortion activists this time."
KRTL has been inundated with e-mails about the ad, Bartram told LifeSiteNews (LSN), with approximately ten positive responses to every negative one. “We received a number of comments saying (the ad) was not graphic, it was well done and even beautiful,” he told Kelowna.com.
The ad has drawn criticism for its inclusion of what has been called a “graphic anti-abortion image.” It portrays an adult hand holding the hand of a baby, and as the camera pans out, it reveals that the hand is, in fact, that of a baby killed by abortion. The ad begins with the slogan: “All those against abortion, raise your hand.”
“In a sense it's graphic, but there's much, much more graphic images that are shown on TV these days,” he told LSN. “If you're going to ban this image, you're going to have to ban every crime show that's out there. You're going to have to ban advertising for upcoming movies, ... video games, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Half the content on TV will have to be banned if this sets the standard.”
The ad was produced by Priests for Life, based in New York, and Bartram told LSN earlier this week that he believes it would have been the first time an aborted child appeared on Canadian television.
While he says he's “disappointed” at the cancellation, he's been pleased at the exposure generated by the national and even international media coverage. “It's getting out there nevertheless, even though it's not running in our market for the time being,” he said. “It's probably been seen by more people already than it would have been if it had just ran in our small market here.”
Before the ad was cancelled, Derek Hinchliffe, CHBC's news director, told The Province that it would be wrong for them to refuse the ad, as it was approved by the Television Bureau of Canada. "It has met with their approval, so if we were to say, ‘No, we're not going to run it,’ we would have been offensive," he said.
“700 living, unborn, human children are violently killed by abortion every year in our community alone, and over 100,000 across Canada,” stated Bartram. “Its time the media does its due diligence, stop censoring the truth, and expose the horror of abortion for what it truly is.”

See the Facebook group: Let the Ad Run!
Contact Information:
CHBC (Global Okanagan)

342 Leon Avenue

Kelowna, BC V1Y 6J2

Phone: (250) 762-4535 Fax: (250) 868-0662

E-mail: comments@chbcnews.ca
Global TV Phone: 1-877-307-1999

E-mail: viewercontact@globaltv.com
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Canadian Group Airing Pro-Life Ad on Local TV Station

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/feb/10020104.html

Papa Benedetto - Doctrinal Fidelity Key to True Christian Unity

"First of all I wish to emphasize that your Congregation participates in the ministry of unity that is entrusted to the Roman Pontiff in a special way, through his commitment to doctrinal fidelity. This unity, in fact, is primarily a unity of faith, supported by the sacred deposit whose main custodian and defender is the Successor of Peter. Strengthening brothers and sisters in the faith, keeping them united in the confession of the Crucified and Risen Christ, is the first and fundamental task that Jesus conferred upon the one seated on the Chair of Peter. It is a binding service on which depends the effectiveness of the Church's evangelizing action to the end of time.

The Bishop of Rome, in whose potestas docendi your Congregation participates, is bound to proclaim ceaselessly: "Dominus Iesus" "Jesus is Lord". The potestas docendi, in fact, entails obedience to the faith so that the Truth which is Christ may continue to shine out in its grandeur and resonate in its integrity and purity for all humankind, and thus that there may be one flock gathered round the one Pastor. "

Address given by Papa Benedetto To participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (January 15, 2010)

To Me This Is the Equivalent of the Mafia Bragging to the Media About the # of Hits It Did Last Year

Not only are they calling evil good, they are bragging about it. It comes to over 2500 abortions a day. Sick, sick sick!!!!! & what is sicker is they are saying that advancing their eugenics racist agenda to eliminate those they see as inferior is something to be proud of, not ashamed.

FYI, like Margaret Sanger in the USA, Mary Stopes was a huge promoter of eugenics. She bemoaned the abolition of child labour for the lower classes. She said that those from "an inferior stock" (as she saw the poor) should work. & like Sanger, a fan of Hitler. She also disinherited her son when he married a woman who was myopic because her prospective grandchildren might inherit the condition.

So, as you can see, her organization is implimenting her agenda like PP is Sanger's. That agenda is clearly the "culture of daeth" agenda. & it is INTRINSICLY EVIL plain & simple.

ABORTION BUSINESS MARIE STOPES DID 920K ABORTIONS IN 43 COUNTIRES IN 2009

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Britain-based abortion business Marie Stopes international announced today that it did 920,000 abortions in 43 countries in 2009. The British equivalent of Planned Parenthood said it experienced the largest annual growth in the organization's 33-year history, according to the figures it released today.
MSI indicated most of its work takes place in developing countries and in rural areas or urban slums where is says the "need" for abortion is at its greatest.“MSI continues to expand and evolve while maintaining our principles and our commitment to quality,” MSI’s Chief Executive Dana Hovig bragged. “Our focus on improving the quality, efficiency and impact of our programs globally has produced the third consecutive year of robust growth."
The 920,000 medical and surgical abortions represented a 56% increase on the previous year’s figures.
The numbers provide additional proof of the inability of aggressive promotion of contraception to prevent abortions as MSI also distributed record numbers of contraception, birth control, and morning after pills.
While bring about the demise of millions of unborn children and injuring countless women physically or because of mental health issues following abortion, MSI claims it was able to avert maternal deaths by doing the abortions.
"MSI family planning and reproductive health services across 43 countries averted ... nearly 35,000 maternal deaths, reducing global maternal mortality by about six percent," the abortion business claimed.
That comes even as research data continues to show that nations where women and children are protected from abortions see the lowest maternal mortality rates.
Hovig attributed MSI’s 2009 results in part to increased investment by international donor partners such as the Netherlands Ministry for Development Cooperation and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
“The decision of the Dutch Government and UNFPA to increase their investment in MSI has had a direct effect on our ability to expand [abortion]," she said.
The increased UNFPA donations are concerning because pro-abortion American President Barack Obama has forced Americans to send millions to the pro-abortion agency, which also work with population control officials in China.
The new report indicates that, in 2009, Marie Stopes International added 55 clinics to an existing network of 560 clinics, and hundreds more outreach sites in rural areas.
MIS expanded its BlueStar social franchising network, launched in 2007, to over 1,000 private sector franchisees in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, Madagascar and Vietnam.
The abortion business bragged that it now represents 20% of all modern method contraceptive use in Malawi, Sierra Leone and Tanzania, and 10% of all use in Kenya, Nepal, the Philippines, Uganda and Yemen -- developing relationships that will turn women into future abortion customers.
The abortion business infused over 1.6 million women or men with long-acting and permanent methods of contraception, a 33% increase on 2008.
The abortion numbers will likely rise if MSI has any chance to increase them.
“Achieving record results in 2009 cannot be an excuse for complacency,” said Hovig. “Quite the contrary, there is so much for all of us to do."

The Growing CCHD Scandal

(The Judas League is at it again)

I will admit that I haven't done to much lately about the CCHD scandals. It seems like something new is coming out faster that I can keep up. So I would suggest that you follow LifeSiteNews, LifeNews, & esp Reform CCHD Now Coalition for updates.

I have to say that I honestly think that what has been seen so far is only a small tip of the iceberg that is this growing scandal. & the damage done as it all comes out will make the sinking of the Titanic look like a toy boat going under in comparison.

1 of the recent LifeSiteNews reports that really got me, but didn't totally surprize me was their report that Sr. Mary Ann Walsh, the USCCB's media director had criticized another report recently released by the Bellarmine Veritas Ministry (BVM), in an interview with Our Sunday Visitor without reading it 1st. (U.S. Bishops' Media Director Who Exonerated Exec Admits to Not Reading Key Report) I thought that Sr. Mary Ann Walsh should have gone a long time ago for her weak & wishy washy comments that did more at times to undermine that uphold Catholic Teaching. & this latest is more proof.

As I have said before, this scandal is a lot like the Development and Peace scandal involving the Candian CCB. It is apparant that the USCCB staff & some Bishops learned nothing from the failure of CCCB staff & some Bishops to downplay or deny the problems. & the more the USCCB tries to deny, downplay or cover-up, the worse the scandal is going to be. Sadly, I doubt if we will see much transparency, cooperation or clean-up beyond the minimum until it reaches major crisis mode.

That having been said. I honestly think that God is working to bring all this out in order to clean up the USCCB so it can function as it was meant to function & not for a cover for liberal Bishops to promote their anti-Catholic agenda.

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PS, I also highly recommend following the Real Catholic TV news & Vortex videos for excellent coverage & commentary.

An Idea Who's Time Has Come

& why not? If people can stamp "I grew hemp" on the Dollar bill, why not this. The only problem I see is with the way the economy is going who will have any $20 to spend.

Actually, there are 2 other small problems, the current make-up of Congress, & the fact that Biden would then be president if Obama was impeached & convicted. But those problems are not insurmountable, esp if things go the way they should in Novemeber & the right Republican becomes Speaker of the House.

H/T: Cavey @ Lair of the Catholic Cavemen (Death By A Thousand Paper Cuts )

Memo to US Bishops: This Applies to You As Well

From the address Papa Benedetto gave to the English & Welsh Bishops on Monday for their ad limina visit:

"I urge you as Pastors to ensure that the Church’s moral teaching be always presented in its entirety and convincingly defended. Fidelity to the Gospel in no way restricts the freedom of others – on the contrary, it serves their freedom by offering them the truth."

No Surprize, Obama Budget Propsal Funds Abortion & Planned parenthood

I don't think any of us in the Pro-life movement are surprized by this. But it does confirm a few things I have said before.

1. That he lied to papa Benedetto about wanting to reduce the number of abortions.

2. What I said about trying to sneak parts of ObamaCare through in other ways. ObamaCare & its massive funding to Planned parenthood may be on hold, but he is finding other ways to at least insure PP gets the money it needs to promote its racist eugenic 'culture of death' agenda & maintaining its obscene hire for murder profits while doing so. My amico Cavey (The Lair of the Catholic Cavemen) regularly calls Obama the "South-Side Stooge". This budget is proof of the veracity of that nickname, only a stooge would aid & abet an organization working to eliminate those of African ethnicity like him.

OBAMA'S NEW BUDGET CONTAINS MASSIVE FUNDING OF ABORTION, PLANNED PARENTHOOD

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 2, 2010

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama released his FY 2011 budget on Monday and it contains provisions that will force Americans to pay for abortions in the United States and promoting abortion abroad. The budget takes advantage of Congress having overturned the ban on abortion funding in the nation's capital.
Obama's FY 2010 budget contained a new policy allowing public funding for abortion in the District of Columbia and Congress eventually approved overturning the Dornan amendment that had long banned funding.
Page 1248 of Obama's proposed budget requests that public funding for abortion in the District of Columbia be continued.
As was the case last year, the Obama budget also proposes overturning another ban on abortion funding -- concerning the Legal Services Corporation.
Congress has previously approved budgets that retain a long-standing prohibition on the Legal Services Corporation, which provides legal help to lower-income Americans, providing legal counseling to any person or entity “that participates in any litigation with respect to abortion.”
Page 1284 of the proposed budget Obama submitted to Congress includes a change to that law that would result in LSC funds going to people or groups that engage in abortion litigation provided that LSC funds are not used directly for the litigation.
Still, the concern for pro-life advocates is that the money is fungible and LSC is essentially reimbursed for providing legal advice and support for people or groups that are in lawsuits related to obtaining abortions.
Obama proposed this pro-abortion funding in his previous budget but members of Congress agreed on retaining the current abortion funding ban.
Obama's budget also continues funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) which promotes abortion worldwide and has worked hand-in-hand with the population control officials in China who have promoted forced abortions and sterilizations to enforce their one-child family planning policy.
Current law called Kemp-Kasten states that no funds may be made available to any organization or program that “supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.”
However, the Obama administration reversed a ruling by the Bush administration stating that the UNFPA violated this law by working with the Chinese officials.
The proposed budget retains the Kemp-Kasten provision, but does not apply it to the UNFPA.
On page 918, the Obama budget deletes conditions on UNFPA funding if Kemp-Kasten is not applied. That makes it so millions of dollars of taxpayer funds will flow to the UNFPA without current reporting and accounting requirements.
As a result, U.S. contributions to UNFPA will be used for activities in China and the UNFPA may receive taxpayer funding even if they pay for abortion."
The Obama administration also proposed deleting UNFPA funding conditions in the proposed FY10 budget, but Congress retained the conditions in the last budget it adopted.
Obama's budget also proposes large increases in the already massive funding the Planned Parenthood abortion business receives.
The FY 2010 budget funds the Title X family planning program, which sends large sums of money to Planned Parenthood, at $317,491,000. On page 461, the Obama administration requests an increase of roughly $10 million for a total of $327,356,000 for Title X.
Also, the 2010 budget provides $648,457,000 for family planning/reproductive health on an international scale -- which also sends massive amounts of tax dollars to Planned Parenthood. The FY11 budget request does not specify a funding level for international family planning but the amount is not expected to be lowered and could be increased by Congress.
ACTION: Contact your member of the House at http://www.house.gov/ and urge opposition to the Obama budget because of its abortion funding. You can also call 202-224-3121 to reach any House member.

Now If It Was an Abortion Clinic Worker Who Had Been Attacked By a Pro-Lifer

UPDATE: Planned Parenthood Still Silent on Escort Assault of Lila Rose
by David Daleiden
In mid-December, Planned Parenthood escort Gerard Nordley verbally and physically assaulted Live Action president Lila Rose while she was leading a group of high schoolers sidewalk counseling at a local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic. Gerard approached Lila calling her “stupid” and “piece of crap” as she attempted to talk to him, and he then slapped her hand, knocking literature and a bible to the ground.
Blogger Cassy Fiano reports that over a month after the incident took place, Planned Parenthood still refuses to comment. Cassy says she “called their public relations department repeatedly for over a month” and “let message after message,” yet Planned Parenthood never responded by phone or e-mail. Get the full story here.
Come to think of it, can anyone remember the last time Planned Parenthood actually apologized for doing anything wrong?

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In answer to that question, not only do they NOT apologize, they lie, deny or cover up. Or all of the above.

As the article from HotAir that Daleiden links to starts out: " Lila Rose is a well known pro-life advocate. As the president and founder of Live Action, she’s done a lot of really amazing work exposing Planned Parenthood for what they really are: an evil organization looking to profit off of the slaughter of the unborn by any means necessary. They’ll manipulate women into getting abortions. They’ll lie about the science. And time after time, they’ve been proven to look the other way when cases of alleged statutory rape are presented to them. All of this has been exposed to be light thanks to the hard work of Lila Rose. Whether you are for or against abortion is really irrelevant — every parent in America should be against Planned Parenthood for the crimes they commit and the lack of ethics possessed by this organization." (emphasis mine) Lila Rose assaulted by Planned Parenthood escort

Philosophical Question of the Day - 2 Feb 2010

Should I Take 5?



or

Take the "A" Train?



Then there always is the Chatanooga Choo Choo!



(Hope you don't mind my "jazz"ing things up a bit!)

Why Not the Same Outrage

A couple of days ago I was listening to a radio program that looks at what was the big hits of a certain year at this time. They were focusing in on this time of year in 1969.

The host pointed out that the number of US dead in Vietnam had just reached 30,000. To put that in perspective, my Dad was sent by the Air Force to Vietnam in Jan of 1962. & the US had already been there for a while. The announcer went on to talk about how this number was causing people of all political persuasions to become very vocal about ending the war.

Fast forward to 2010. Each day at least 3200 unborn children are killed in the USA via abortion. It takes a little over 9 days for that number to equal the number of dead in Vietnam.

9+ years = 30,000 dead, huge outrage esp by media.

9+ days = 30,000 dead, except for Pro-lifers & a few media the outrage is missing

What's wrong with this picture?????

I think we know some of the answer. Back then the media was against the war. Remember that Walter Cronkite's turning against it in '68, even though we were winning was a huge factor in LBJ's deciding not to run for reelection. Now, except for some of those at FOX,, talk radio & the alternate media, the MSM is pro-abortion. Look at their coverage of the March for Life that downplayed numbers, lied about the ages, esp the women, etc, in what little they did provide. (CNN’s Rick Sanchez Not Sure Who’s Protesting At Annual Pro-Life March in D.C.) Notice esp how they ignored the Silent No More people.

The MSM knows that if they reported things accurately then people would know over 50% of America opposes abortion. If they showed the truth about abortion & what it does, they know that even more people WILL TURN AGAINST IT.

That is why the US media has not wanted to run this Priests for Life ad:

Thankfully at least 1 station in Canada is willing to. (Canadian TV to air pro-life ad rejected in US) This ad is a part of the PFL America Will Not Reject AbortionUntil America Sees Abortion! campaign.

This is why the pro-aborts are so upset about the upcoming Tebow ad. The media & the whole abortion industry knows that if the truth gets out there people will turn more & more against abortion.

That is why we have to keep getting the message out. We need to show people what abortion is & what it does, to the unborn child as well as the parents. I know some people are not to happy with the graphic pictures. However, if you notice it, most of those who are unhappy are por-abortion & hide behind their children seeing those pictures (while usually letting them watch stuff just as bad on TV).

I remember the picture of the young girl in Vietnam who was burned by napalm. ( Phan Thị Kim Phúc) The pictures we are using today to show what abortion does are, IMHO, the equivalent of that picture. People must know the horror of what abortion really is. & that is why the MSM & the abortion industry tries to silence us, tries to hide those facts (the pictures & ultra-sounds) or tries to deny them. & again, why we must (undergirded as always by prayer) keep telling the truth.

He's So Vain!

I think I have finally found out wo Carly Simon was singing about in You're So Vain, Obama.

Check this out & note the numbers:

Well Carly?????

Why the Liberal Pro-Abort Left is Afraid of the Tebows

This is an excellent analysis of the reaction by the Pro-abortion, radical feminist left to the upcoming Super Bowl Ad by Focus on the Family with the Tebows. It also provides historical perspective as well.

The Tebow Family Scares Liberals
By Star Parker
February 1, 2010

Why are pro-abortion groups so up in arms about the Tim Tebow ad that CBS will run during the Superbowl?
According to the press release of Focus on the Family, the Christian organization sponsoring the ad, University of Florida football star and Heisman Trophy winner Tebow and his mother, Pam, "will share a personal story centered on the theme of "Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life."
The Tebows are devout Christians, and Pam gave birth to Tim despite advice from her doctor to abort because of illness during her pregnancy.
Since the script is not publicly available, all we know is the family story and knowledge that the ad passed muster with CBS.
We spoke with Focus on the Family spokesman Gary Schneeberger and asked if the ad in any way speaks to the politics of abortion. The answer was an emphatic "no."
According to Schneeberger, it's "not selling, it is celebrating" and is about the "love between a mother and a son."
So what's provoking the letter writing campaign of feminist groups to CBS to pull the ad? Why would the National Organization for Women call this "offensive to women" or would the Women's Media Center call it "divisive?"
Sure, there's no question that Focus on the Family is pro-life and opposes legal and readily accessible abortion. But CBS wouldn't be running this ad if its focus was political advocacy.
So what's bothering these women?
Two things.
First, the enabler of human brutality is de-humanization. Pro-abortionists know that our existing legalized-abortion regime can only continue as long as we keep the human face off abortion.
It's why ultrasound has revolutionized this world. When young women who have doubts about taking their pregnancy to term see the live child within them, they overwhelming decide to give birth. You don't have to preach. They see that this is life and they know what to do.
I have written in the past that if the personal ultrasound experience could be conveyed to public consciousness, the abortion holocaust would stop.
The Tebow story will put this human face on abortion for the 150 million or so who will watch the Super Bowl. Nothing could be scarier for the culture of death.
When Harriet Beecher Stowe published "Uncle Tom's Cabin," she put a human face on slavery. When the American public understood that slaves were human beings, the capacity to tolerate slavery was punctured.
Abraham Lincoln supposedly said to Stowe when he met her in 1862, "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war."
Last week Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at Auschwitz, the former Nazi death camp in Poland. It marked the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the camp, where over one million, mostly Jews, were murdered.
The six million who were slaughtered in the Holocaust in Europe challenges comprehension. But the meaning of this changed when in the 1950s Anne Frank's diary was published. When the public at large read the thoughts and feelings of this young girl, recorded in hiding before she went to her death with her family, the human face of the Holocaust emerged.

The second aspect of the Tebow ad that scares abortionists is that it shows that love arises from personal responsibility. This beautiful story of a mother and son shows that love is not about political claims but about individuals taking responsibility for their life and knowing that life is about more than self. It is caring for others and knowing that you are part of something bigger than just you.
At a time of great spiritual unrest in our country, I believe this courageous initiative taken by the Tebows and Focus on the Family will be well received.
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Star Parker is is an author and president of CURE, Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education. Her books include "White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay."