Religiolitics: September 2012

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

A Vote For Abortion

Last week a former abortionist ...

who admits to having committed around 1200 abortions, appeared before a U.S. House subcommittee.

A short while later ...

the Democrats rejected a bill

that would have stopped this evil in DC.

This past year, we have witnessed the worst
forms of the evil of men on the Internet.

Only yesterday ... the Chinese government driving a street flattening machine over a man who was protesting the unfair confiscation of his home. The brutal murder of our Ambassador to Libya by Islamic crazies. Chainsaw be-headings by drug cartel maniacs on our Mexican border to serve as a warning. And innocent Christians being burned alive by Sunni Muslims in Nigeria.

Evil men and their evil deeds are ...
alive and well in our world today.

As evil as these acts are, how could they be any worse than the killing and dismemberment of live fully formed babies as clearly explained by the abortion doctor above? This testimony was before a congressional committee earlier this year. (Please note that it's difficult to listen to this clip, but there are no actual pictures of the evil.)

These abortions are carried out every day.
That is 3,425 babies murdered today and
two dead babies each and every minute.

We need to keep this in mind when we go to the polls.
The vote for or against these abortions is ongoing as well.

The Democrats in congress overwhelmingly voted against limiting the worst form of these killings including partial birth abortions ...

The Democrats cast these votes ...
even after listening to this doctor's testimony.

And of course, if re-elected President Obama's deliberate and certain pro-abortion judicial appointments will continue and expand this evil daily throughout the next American generation.

On the other hand, a victory that will lead to the reduction in the number of these late term abortions is only one supreme court appointment away.

We must stop the ongoing cold-blooded murder of these innocent babies.

This is the most important issue facing all American voters.

A vote for Democrats is a vote for Abortion ...

A vote for Abortion is a vote for murder.

The congressional hearing was on the so-called Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would have banned abortions after 20 weeks in D.C., based upon the fact that unborn babies can experience pain at that stage of pregnancy.

Dr. Anthony Levatino, who has since turned his life around and is now pro-life, was speaking in favor of the ban. And his testimony is perhaps the most brutal explanation you will ever hear for why abortion is evil - plain and simple.

For those who may be tempted to write off Levatino’s testimony because he’s just “another pro-life nutjob,” it’s interesting how his testimony has eerie echoes to that of notorious late-term abortionist Leroy Carhart, who is still involved in the gruesome trade.

During a preliminary injunction hearing in a US District Court in 1997 on the issue of late-term abortions, Carhart testified that he would sometimes dismember advanced-stage unborn babies during abortions, while the babies were still alive. Carhart described in detail the process of grasping the limb of the baby to be removed, and then twisting it off.

When asked if the babies usually die during the process of dismemberment, Carhart responded,

“I don’t really know. I know that the fetus is alive during the process most of the time because I can see the fetal heartbeat on the ultrasound.”

If these babies were killed during the commission of the robbery or assault of a woman ... it is murder.

How can these evil deeds ever be
considered as anything other than ...

cold-blooded murder?

"For You formed my inward parts;

You wove me in my mother’s womb ...

My frame was not hidden from You

When I was made in secret,

And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;

Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;

And in Your book were all written

The days that were ordained for me,

When as yet there was not one of them."

Psalm 139: 13-16

Obama Versus Obama

Obama Versus Obama

Thomas Sowell -- Sep 25, 2012 -- Townhall.com

Many voters will be comparing Mitt Romney with Barack Obama between now and election day. But what might be even more revealing would be comparing Obama with Obama. There is a big contrast between Obama based on his rhetoric ("Obama 1") and Obama based on his record ("Obama 2").

For example, during the 2008 election campaign, Obama 1 spoke of "opening up and creating more transparency in government," so that government spending plans would be posted on the Internet for days before they passed into legislation. After he was elected president, Obama said, "My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government."

This Obama 1 sounds like a very good fellow. No wonder so many people voted for him.

But then there is Obama 2. He passed a mammoth ObamaCare bill so fast that even members of Congress didn't have time to read it, much less the general public. It was by no means posted on the Internet for days before the vote, as promised.

The Constitution of the United States requires transparency as well. When people are nominated by a President to become Cabinet members, the Constitution requires that they be confirmed by the Senate before they can take office, so that facts about them can become known before they are given the powers of their offices.

Although President Obama complied with this requirement when he appointed Cabinet members, he also made other appointments to powerful positions created by Executive Orders -- people aptly called "czars" for the vast, unchecked powers they wielded, in some cases greater than the powers exercised by Cabinet members.

These "czars" never had to be confirmed by the Senate, and so had no public vetting before acquiring their powers. We had unknown and unaccountable rulers placed over us.

Another aspect of transparency was the Constitution's requirement that Congress pass a budget every year. The Democratically controlled Senate during the Obama administration has not passed a budget for three consecutive years.

Passing a budget makes the administration tell the public what it will pay for, what it will have to cut to reduce the deficit -- and how big the deficit will be if they don't cut anything. By not even passing a budget, Obama 2 and his party are in effect saying to the public, "It is none of your business." Transparency?

In his oath of office, Barack Obama swore to see that the laws are faithfully executed, as all Presidents do. But that was Obama 1. Once in the White House, Obama 2 proceeded to explicitly waive the enforcement of laws he didn't agree with.

The immigration laws are a classic example. Failing to get Congress to pass some version of amnesty, Obama 2 simply issued an Executive Order exempting certain classes of illegal immigrants from the immigration laws on the books.

Too many people have gotten sucked into a discussion of whether it is a good or a bad thing for people brought into the country as children to be exempted. But the whole reason for Constitutional government is to have all three branches of government agree on what the laws of the land shall be.

Obama 2 has decided instead that if Congress doesn't do what he wants, he will do it by himself through Executive Orders.

If any President can unilaterally change the law, we are not likely to have the same freedom under rule by presidential fiat as under Constitutional government. This is especially dangerous in a President's second term, when he need no longer have to consider what the voters want. With a couple more Supreme Court appointments he can permanently change the very nature of American government.

One of the most dangerous examples of a lack of transparency was inadvertently revealed last March when Obama 2, unaware that a microphone was on, told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that, after he is reelected, and never has to face the voters again, he will have the "flexibility" to make a deal with Russia on missile defense systems.

In other words, Obama will be able to make a deal with a country that has been America's most implacable and most formidable adversary for more than half a century -- a deal he couldn't make if the voters knew about it before the election. Think about that chilling prospect, and what it reveals about the real Obama.

Obama Versus Obama -- Thomas Sowell -- Sep 25, 2012 -- Townhall.com

Monday, September 24, 2012

25 Questions For Obama

25 Critical Questions

for ABC-NBC-CBS-NYT-

NPR-CNN-WASHPO-LAT ...

to ask Obama

President Obama's idea of speaking to the American people is to go on network talk shows, put on a big smile and basically say nothing. These are the questions America needs answered.

The president has had four years to come up with answers ...

What are your plans ... President Obama?

Hello Mainstream media. Thanks for coming. I invited you here to ask when is the last time any of you fearless pros asked the president as direct and challenging a question as these two hardballs he faced last week at Univision, the Spanish language network:

"I think up to 100 Mexicans might have died (in Operation Fast and Furious) and also American agent Brian Terry. There's a report that 14 agents were responsible for the operation, but shouldn't the attorney general, Eric Holder…have known about that and if he didn't, should you fire him?"

"You promised [immigration reform] and a promise is a promise. And with all due respect, you didn't keep that promise."

Those are some respectful zingers doing just what the press is supposed to: holding political leaders accountable for their words and actions. So, can you think of any tough question you’ve put to him lately? As in, sometime this term?

You don’t really want to look like lap dog sycophants, do you? Good. Then here are a few suggestions:

Ask him if his policies toward the Middle East may have contributed to current violence there.

Specifically, did his decision to pressure Mubarak out of Egypt and to forcibly remove Qaddafi from Libya enable radical elements hostile to the US to rise to power?

Ask him if his overall approach to engaging the Muslim world has produced positive results.

Ask him why, after the attacks on Egyptian, Libyan, and other embassies, his administration immediately asserted the fiction they were spontaneous demonstrations of religious grievance at an obscure internet clip critical of Mohammed.

Ask why for over a week it denied there was a deliberate targeting of America by terrorist groups on the anniversary of September 11th. Ask him if it’s true the State Department had warnings of likely attacks in the Middle East at least 48 hours before they occurred.

Ask him, with or without warnings, why are American embassies in some of the most dangerous places on earth essentially unguarded? Will secretary of State Clinton be held accountable for this failure to protect American personnel?

Speaking of Obama team players, will any of you professional skeptics ask Harry Reid if he plans to apologize to Mitt Romney for falsely accusing him of paying no taxes for 10 years? And if he doesn’t, then why not?

Will any of you ask the president how he can serve all Americans, as he pointedly told David Letterman is his job, if he doesn’t even know what the national debt is or what he has added to it?

When the president declares he “saved the auto industry,” will you ask him if he thinks Ford Motor Company and the American plants of Toyota, Honda, and Nissan aren’t also part of the American auto industry?

Ask him—if Chrysler and GM couldn’t pay their bills--what he thinks would have happened if bankruptcy law had been allowed to operate in a normal way? Would Americans’ demand for cars have been less? Wouldn’t Chrysler’s and GM’s assets have been sold in an orderly way to leaner competitors or start up companies, who would have created new jobs and joined other suppliers to serve the American market?

Will you ask if it isn’t it more accurate to say he saved the ruinous pay, benefits, and pensions of the United Auto Workers that GM and Chrysler employed, and did it by lawlessly ripping equity out of the hands of secured creditors and bondholders and gifting it to the labor unions?

And, isn’t it true that the happy talk a while back about GM paying back its loans was highly misleading, as in essentially false? That wasn’t income from auto sales, was it, just federal stimulus grants that GM turned around and handed back to the government? And don’t taxpayers still hold a major chunk of GM ownership in billions of devalued stock? And isn’t the company’s survival still very much in doubt?

Will you ask him if this is really a success story, or likely a terribly costly, vote-buying boondoggle that just hasn’t played out yet?

Those are just a few starters. If you all think about it, there are a lot of fastballs you could throw over the left edge of the plate—if your peripheral vision reaches there.

Shawn Mitchell Townhall .com 9/24/2012

And here are a few more questions Bob West would like to ask.

The Islamic Jihadist enemies are now rioting in over 25 locations throughout the Middle East. Isn’t this clear evidence that your policies in dealing with these radicals is a dismal failure?

Ask him why did you vote against the Keystone Pipeline when it is clear that thousands of good jobs would have been created and it clearly would help our neighbor and help get off of mid-east oil?

Ask why do you refuse to assist our border states in the closing of our borders?

And why have you sealed your college transcripts and your passport records?

Here is a zinger ... What did you mean when you told the Russian president, Medevev; “This is my last election, after my election I will have more flexibility” Does this mean you plan to force a hidden agenda on America? If not tell us now … what are your plans for us after the election that we do not know about?

We need to know this one. With 53% of college graduates either unemployed or working at a job that doesn’t require a degree. How will America turn this economy around to provide real private sector jobs for our graduates?

Now lets go where the rubber meets the road. Is it true that you believe America would be better off with $10 a gallon gas and at double our current energy costs?
If not, what did you mean when you said with your plan, energy prices must necessarily skyrocket?

Cap and trade is your stated plan for energy. Since the majority of Americans don’t want cap and trade, why has your administration chosen to regulate it into existence?

And Why MR. President … when you said you would unite America, did you decide to force your healthcare plan down the throats of the more than 50% of Americans who do not want it?

Isn’t the printing of money a hidden tax on all Americans in the form higher prices for all goods and services? Doesn't this money printing harm and deceive the poor most of all?

You said no new taxes for the middle class and then you passed a number of taxes … why did you lie?

No more roads and bridges or shovel ready rhetoric. What is your plan to stimulate private sector jobs?

Since your plan to increase taxes on the rich will have basically no impact on the deficit. And the printing of 40 billion in phony money each month is suicidal … What is your real solution for the American economy?

Every hour in America two viable babies are aborted late term. Since these babies would live if delivered Cesarean or otherwise doesn’t it bother you that these babies are being murdered? What is your plan to defend the rights of these unborn citizens?

You said; “we are gonna punish our friends and reward our enemies” … How can you serve all Americans when you plan on punishing 50% of the nation because they do not agree with you?

There are so many more questions to ask Obama. Hopefully Romney will be ready. We certainly cannot rely on the mainstream media to be objective or do their job.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Ignorance ...

Hmmmm .... this man on the street clip clearly points out
a key problem that Romney and responsible Americans everywhere are faced with ...

IGNORANCE.

I am definitely not a fan of Howard Stern.

But every once in a while,
his sick sense of humor ...

helps clarify the problems we face.

Man On The Street Interviews

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Obama Flag ...

This one says it all ...

No need for commentary here

Remember WHEN ...

Seven Lies In Under Two Minutes

Looking back ... over the past four years

there is so much to remember

just ...

Remember

WHEN ...

WHEN - he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done ...