Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Nuns With Good Habits Meet Oprah
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.
Labels: Nuns With Good Habits
The Real American Dream
Our Tax Dollars At Work, to Suppress Free Speech
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
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.
Monday, February 08, 2010
Iowa May Be A Leader In Ethical Stem Cell Research
(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.
Labels: Stem Cell Research
The Infamous Tebow Ads
& 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
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.
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
"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"
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!
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Maybe Now We Can See A Space Station Like That in 2001: A Space Odyssey
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.
The Real Story behind the Recently Overturned Tillman Act
Sadly, I Can See More US Bishops Doing This Long Before Taking On Pro-abortion Catholic Politicians
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.
Religious Should Be Countercultural, NOT Mirroring & Embracing Secular Culture
U.S. Sisters in Crisis after Embracing “Secular Culture”: Vatican Cardinal
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
Saturday, February 06, 2010
Maybe It Is Global Warming That Is To Blame
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.
Labels: ClimateGate
Name That Priest
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.Name the Country Papa Benedetto Is Refering To
The Old Farmer's Almanac Predicted the DC Snow
& 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;
I'm Surprized "Sundance" Even Showed It
Sundance and the Dance of Death
Friday, February 05, 2010
More of the Iceberg Is Being Revealed As I Said
Labels: Reform CCHD
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
This 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)
Global TV Phone: 1-877-307-1999
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Canadian Group Airing Pro-Life Ad on Local TV Station
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Papa Benedetto - Doctrinal Fidelity Key to True Christian Unity
To Me This Is the Equivalent of the Mafia Bragging to the Media About the # of Hits It Did Last Year
LifeNews.com Editor
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."
Labels: Marie Stopes International
The Growing CCHD Scandal

PS, I also highly recommend following the Real Catholic TV news & Vortex videos for excellent coverage & commentary.
Labels: Reform CCHD
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
An Idea Who's Time Has Come

Memo to US Bishops: This Applies to You As Well
No Surprize, Obama Budget Propsal Funds 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.
Labels: ObamaCare, Planned Parenthood
Now If It Was an Abortion Clinic Worker Who Had Been Attacked By a Pro-Lifer
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?
Labels: Planned Parenthood
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Philosophical Question of the Day - 2 Feb 2010
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
He's So Vain!
Well Carly?????
Why the Liberal Pro-Abort Left is Afraid of the Tebows
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.
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."












