Is This Man Authorized To Determine Who Lives and Who Dies?

The debate about a woman's right to choose is a discussion long drawn out. Although Roe vs. Wade was a liberal Supreme Court decision giving women the right to terminate their pregnancy for no reason, there have been restrictions on late term abortions and partial birth abortions in many states. The Church's stand on abortion has always been the same as reiterated by the First Presidency after the Roe vs. Wade ruling in 1973:

"The Church opposes abortion and counsels its members not to submit to or perform an abortion except in the rare cases where, in the opinion of competent medical counsel, the life or good health of the mother is seriously endangered or where the pregnancy was caused by rape and produces serious emotional trauma in the mother. Even then it should be done only after counseling with the local presiding priesthood authority and after receiving divine confirmation through prayer."

Now comes Barack Obama, presidential candidate. Obama's experience is that of a part time few term state assemblyman and a US Senator for 143 days. Many state that there is not enough of Obama to know in order to make a choice based on experience. However, his position on abortion is plain - he is in favor of killing children for convenience.

In Obama's state of Illinois, abortion is legal. Additionally, "live birth abortion" was legal, where if a baby to be aborted survived the abortion or was induced to be delivered, the baby was just left to die. Here is the congressional testimony of Jill Stanek, a nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois:

But what was most distressing was to learn of the method Christ Hospital uses to abort, called induced labor abortion, now also known as "live birth abortion." In this particular abortion procedure doctors do not attempt to kill the baby in the uterus. The goal is simply to prematurely deliver a baby who dies during the birth process or soon afterward.

To commit induced labor abortion, a doctor or resident inserts a medication into the mother’s birth canal close to the cervix. This medication irritates the cervix and stimulates it to open early. When this occurs, the small second or third trimester pre-term, fully formed baby falls out of the uterus, sometimes alive. By law, if an aborted baby is born alive, both birth and death certificates must be issued. Ironically, at Christ Hospital the cause of death often listed for live aborted babies is "extreme prematurity," an acknowledgement by doctors that they have caused this death.

It is not uncommon for a live aborted baby to linger for an hour or two or even longer. At Christ Hospital one of these babies lived for almost an entire eight-hour shift. Some of the babies aborted are healthy, because Christ Hospital will also abort for life or "health" of the mother, and also for rape or incest.

In the event that an aborted baby is born alive, she or he receives "comfort care," defined as keeping the baby warm in a blanket until s/he dies. Parents may hold the baby if they wish. If the parents do not want to hold their dying aborted baby, a staff member cares for the baby until s/he dies. If staff did does not have the time or desire to hold the baby, s/he is taken to Christ Hospital’s new Comfort Room, which is complete with a First Foto machine if parents want professional pictures of their aborted baby, baptismal supplies, gowns, and certificates, foot printing equipment and baby bracelets for mementos, and a rocking chair. Before the
Comfort Room was established, babies were taken to the Soiled Utility Room to die.

One night, a nursing co-worker was taking a Down’s syndrome baby who was aborted alive to our Soiled Utility Room because his parents did not want to hold him, and she did not have time to hold him. I could not bear the thought of this suffering child dying alone in a Soiled Utility Room, so I cradled and rocked him for the 45 minutes that he lived. He was between 21 and 22 weeks old, weighed about 1/2 pound, and was about 10 inches long. He was too weak to move very much, expending any energy he
had trying to breathe. Toward the end he was so quiet that I could not tell if he was still alive. I held him up to the light to see through his chest wall whether his heart was still beating. After he was pronounced dead, we folded his little arms across his chest, wrapped him in a tiny shroud, and carried him to the hospital morgue where all of our dead patients are taken.

Critics of this process rightly claimed that allowing a living being to die was murder, but he Illinois State Attorney General said there was no law against it. The legislature then drafted a bill to outlaw such practices; Barack Obama opposed it and voted against it. His reasoning was that the bill would infringe on Roe vs. Wade. Another draft was submitted keeping Roe vs. Wade intact but outlawing the process of letting a living child die; again, Obama voted against it. Three times this bill came before the Illinois senate; three times Obama voted against it.

Although Obama stated the only reason he voted against the Illinois bill was
because the language would eliminate all abortions, his campaign has now had to admit this is not true, that two of the bills contained the same language as the Federal bill, which kept Roe vs. Wade intact. In 2002, President George W. Bush signed into Federal law the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which stopped the killing process and closed the loophole that Obama wanted kept open.

Obama at first stated he would have voted for a bill that contained the language of the Federal bill, but none did. He called those criticizing him "liars." Now his
campaign has admitted that the Illinois bills did indeed contain the same language as the Federal bill, but Obama voted against it anyway.

Obama thinks babies are disposable, to be killed when it poses an inconvenience. In a town hall speech he stated that if his daughters made a mistake, he didn't want them to be "punished with a baby." Obama has taken upon himself the role of God, not only in his campaign but in his belief that he has the right to decide who lives and who dies.

Pour Another Round, Harry!

Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada) held a soiree in Washington to celebrate the release of his book “The Good Fight.” Senator Reid, who states that he is a Latter-day Saint, feted his guests with plenty of alcohol, serving “watermelon-tinis” during the event held at The Source restaurant at the Newseum in Washington. According to Anne Schroeder Mullins of the Politico, the party was managed by Marc Adelman, who Reid described as “my court jester.”

Mullins wrote in an email that although Reid himself drank water, not only were alcoholic drinks served, but there was a whole theme of drinks with special Harry names. A staffer at Senator Reid’s office didn’t seem too conflicted by the fact that Reid, who claims to espouse the LDS doctrine of eschewing any form of alcoholic beverage, served it up in apparently large quantities to his guests at his book signing party. “Not everyone there was Mormon,” said the staffer (We don’t think she could spell let alone understand the word ‘hypocrisy”).

Compare and contrast Reid’s pandering away of his principles to that of Admiral Paul Yost, Commandant of the US Coast Guard in 1987. Yost, who is LDS, hosted many parties because of his ranking position in the Coast Guard. However, they served nothing stronger than sparkling grape juice when they entertained. “When people come to my house, they don’t expect to have a drink,” said Yost. When he became Admiral, a senior officer’s wife asked Yost’s wife whether or not the Yosts would begin serving alcohol at their parties. “I just told her we would be doing the same thing we had always done,” said Mrs. Yost. “It wouldn’t change because Paul had a higher rank.” Apparently you can succeed in Washington without sacrificing your standards.

Mullins also confirmed that Reid jokingly called her publication “a s*** of a magazine,” using profanity for all to hear. Not only is Reid a failed example of maintaining his principles by having alcohol served at his party, but his use of profanity negates any possible example that a faithful Mormon could have on such a large group of people. As Mullins said regarding Reid’s potty mouth, “to each his own, right? I mean he does work on CapHill, the college of all adults.” Indeed, it appears Reid has no qualm behaving publicly at the expense of his beliefs. Unlike Admiral Yost, Reid is willing to change his values to go along with the crowd.

As Harmon Killebrew said, “I wish all of our Latter-day Saint youth knew this—you don’t have to go along with the crowd when the crowd is wrong.” How do we expect the youth to know when the adults we hold as LDS examples don't know, or don't care?

Global Warming Theory Falling Apart Faster Than An Iceberg

     
What do you do if natural data contradicts your absurd "global warming" theory and that the earth is not warming due to man's interference?

a. Admit your hypothesis was wrong and apologize.
b. Petition the government to stop spending federal (our) money on this hoax.
c. Claim that what it means is that the earth is really just going to stop and take a break from global warming, but it will be back!

The most absurd answer of course is c. And that is precisely what scientists are claiming now that their man made global warming, oops "climate change" has turned out to be oh so very wrong.

According to the online Daily Telegraph:

"Researchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they now expect a "lull" for up to a decade while natural variations in climate cancel out the increases caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions.

Melting icebergs: The study predicts the IPCC's 0.3ºC temperature rise for the next decade may not happen
The average temperature of the sea around Europe and North America is expected to cool slightly over the decade while the tropical Pacific remains unchanged.

This would mean that the 0.3°C global average temperature rise which has been predicted for the next decade by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may not happen, according to the paper published in the scientific journal Nature."(emphasis added).

You mean the IPCC received a Nobel Peace Prize for something they got wrong? But of course to cover their backside they now predict it will resume in, uh, 2015, yeah that's the ticket! That way they can make a federal money grab to gear up for that disastrous day in 2015 when it will start again. Try this: go to a bank and request a huge loan. Tell them that you projected a huge increase in business this year to provide collateral, but natural trends will stop your income until 2015. But of course the bank should give you the loan anyway because using the same science that miscalculated business this year is the same science claiming your business will really take off in 2015.

See how far that gets you other than a boot out the door, which is the only thing these global warming wacko activists and scientists deserve.

William F. Buckley Passes Away at Age 82

America has lost one of its finest writers and thinkers. Bill Buckley was one of the great founders of the modern conservative movement. He brought conservative thought into the political mainstream, and helped lay the intellectual foundation for America's victory in the Cold War and for the conservative movement that continues to this day. He will be remembered for his principled thought and beautiful writing — as well as his personal warmth, wit, and generous spirit. His legacy lives on in the ideas he championed and in the magazine he founded — National Review.

Laura and I send our prayers to Chris Buckley, the Buckley family, and all who loved this good man.

How Far Does "Tolerance" Take Us?

This is a picture of a lovely young woman, Banaz Mahmood, a 20 year old girl living in Birmingham England. At least she used to. When Banaz refused to live in an arranged marriage and fell in love with another man, her father ordered her to be killed. On the orders of her 52-year-old father and uncle, Ari Mahmod, 50, she was strangled with a bootlace by Kurdish assassins, her body stuffed in a suitcase and buried six feet down in the garden of a house belonging to an associate in Birmingham.

Two of the murderers, who fled back to Iraq after this horrific so-called "honour killing", have since boasted of raping Banaz before she died in January 2006.

This was an instance of an approved "honor killing" under supposed sharia law.

The acceptance of barbaric and inhumane cultural habits are not only being tolerated by the left but are actually being enabled. Sharia law is supposedly based on the Koran but contains Machiavellian punishments found nowhere in the Koran and manufactured by intolerant Muslims. This law allows "honor killings," where girls can be stoned to death for simply being in the presence of another man. Other cases have resulted in lashings and death sentences for being in the car alone with a male not a relative. According to an article in The Times of London;

According to the human rights ministry in northern Iraq, 598 women have been burnt, beaten, shot, strangled, thrown from tall buildings, force-fed with lethal drugs, crushed by vehicles, drowned, decapitated or made to kill themselves so far this year, exceeding the 553 recorded for the whole of 2006.

One would expect a civilized society would renounce this barbaric practice and the "law" which allows it. Instead, many notables are claiming that allowing it is inevitable, or that banning such a law is offensive to the culture who practices it. Observe:

Times of London: "The Archbishop of Canterbury came under fierce attack last night from the Government, his own Church and other religions after he advocated the adoption of parts of Sharia, or Islamic law, in Britain."

ABC News: A lecturer in Islamic law at Sydney's University of Technology says a Sharia council is an option for Australia.

CBC News: Misuse of Shariah doesn't mean it should be excluded from Canadian civil law

Front Page Mag: France is Not a Western Country Anymore

These are a few examples of how the politically correct and testosterone-less governments in the west are cow towing to the many muslim immigrants they have brought in. In our own California schools, episodes of sex segregation in elementary school, allowing muslim prayer during class time and many other accommodations not given to other religions are being documented. Just try to get release time LDS seminary in California schools and the salivating cry of "separation of church and state" will be bellowed in your face. Yet tolerance is given to muslims. Why?

Helaman from the Book of Mormon describes how the Nephites and their culture and laws began to deteriorate; one instance was failing to punish those responsible for crimes and who were taking over governments:

But behold, Satan did stir up the hearts of the more part of the Nephites, insomuch that they did unite with those bands of robbers, and did enter into their covenants and their oaths, that they would protect and preserve one another in whatsoever difficult circumstances they should be placed, that they should not suffer for their murders, and their plunderings, and their stealings

And thus they might murder, and plunder, and steal, and commit whoredoms and all manner of wickedness, contrary to the laws of their country and also the laws of their God. (Helaman 6:22,23)

Some feebly try to argue that Sharia law is a peaceable law which merely resolves family disputes. The problem is, these family disputes are settled by:

Stoning a 17 year old girl to death for having a boyfriend.

Gang raping a new bride after her wedding because of a relative's actions.

Sodomizing a 12 year old boy for being in the presence of a woman from another tribe,
his sister is raped when she pleads for mercy.

Pushing a 16 year old girl off of a balcony as an honor killing.

Arresting an American businesswoman sitting with a male coworker (not her husband) in a public Starbucks coffee shop.

Killing your 16 year old daughter for refusing to wear a hijab

Need we go on? If you avoided reading those articles because they aren't fun to read, then you remain ignorant on what relaxing our laws and standards to allow Sharia law will do to our society. The left wing, politically correct sharia apologists who would have us change our constitution to allow child murders and rapes as a "custom" of immigrants should be thwarted at every step. Of course they don't start that way. It begins with "cultural concessions" such as preferential treatment, turning a blind eye to impropriety, building prayer rooms at airports, putting foot washing sinks in schools, that's how it creeps in. The agenda is clear. The Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, is a group devoted to instilling Muslim culture in America. Their chairman Omar M. Ahmad is quoted as saying:

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth."

He who hath eyes to see, let him see. That's our view.

Romney Bows Out; Lib in Sheep's Clothing McCain Lingers On

Mitt Romney has suspended his campaign, in effect bowing out of the 2008 Presidential race. A combination of prejudice against a Mormon candidate and Washington insiders blocking the man from the outside led to his low delegate total. Mike Huckabee, who will never be nominated and is hoping for the position of White House dog catcher, assisted McCain by taking delegates a from MCCain to beat Romney. Perhaps this was good; it gave Americans a true view of how the shady backroom shenanigans of old time politics are still very much with us today.

Mark Halperin, conservative columnist, came out with his Ten Things Mitt Romney Could Have Done Differently:

1. Could have run less as a social conservative and more as a can-do technocrat.

2. Could have delivered his religion and faith speech earlier in his campaign.

3. Could have run negative ads against McCain (backlash and ire be darned).

4. Could have recognized that his biggest problem was a perceived lack of humanity, and addressed it with humor, purpose, and authenticity.

5. Could have put his wife and sons more front and center in the campaign.(just kidding)

6. Could have taken a risk and separated himself more from President Bush.

7. Could have identified Huckabee as a genuine threat before it was too late to stop the Arkansan’s momentum — in Iowa and beyond.

8. Could have consistently presented his own personality—disciplined, ambitious, take-charge, impersonal, passionate about his family and his religion—rather than tried to fit himself into a series of established Republican templates.

9. Could have insisted his warring advisers either make peace with each other or quit the campaign.

10. Could have regularly addressed one or two policy issues and/or themes that he really believed in — like change, anti-Washington, the economy.

Liberals Love McCain, Conservatives Love Romney. What a Surprise.

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