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Football Upsets Bowl Weeks
UPDATE: ALLSTATE BCS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
#1 LSU 0, #2 Alabama 21 Alabama scored ONE TD and the rest were FGs. You call this a championship game!
UPDATE: DISCOVER ORANGE BOWL
#15 Clemson 33, #23 West Virginia 70!!!
UPDATE: ALLSTATE SUGAR BOWL
#13 Michigan 23, #11 Virginia Tech 20 OT
UPDATE: ROSE BOWL GAME PRESENTED BY VIZIO
#5 Oregon beats #10 Wisconsin 45 to 38, but makes it interesting by allowing Wisconsin to get the ball to the Oregon 20 with 02 seconds to go in the 4th. Congrats Ducks!!!
UPDATE: OUTBACK BOWL
#17 Michigan St 33, #16 Georgia 30 3OT
UPDATE: AutoZone LIBERTY BOWL
Georgia Tech coming in to the game at 8-4 from the ACC met Utah (7-5) from the PAC-12. The game ended in regulation tied at 24 after Utah scored 14 unanswered points in the 4th. Georgia Tech scored first in OT with a field goal and Utah won with a TD!
UPDATE: BELL HELICOPTER ARMED FORCES BOWL
BYU (10-3) beats Tulsa (8-5) 24 to 21 to avoid upset. BYU scores winning touchdown with 11 seconds on the clock.
UPDATE: MILITARY BOWL
Toledo coming in at 8-4 facing Air Force at 7-5. Score was tied 28-28 at the half; 35-35 at the end of three. Toledo scored making it 42 to 35. Air Force scored and went for two and lost 42 to 41.
FAMOUS IDAHO POTATO BOWL
Ohio Bobcats (10-4) trailing Utah St (7-6) 17 to 23, score with 1:49 left in 4th Quarter and win 24 to 23.
BEEF ‘O’ BRADY’S BOWL ST. PETERSBURG
Florida Int (8-5) lost to Marshall (7-6) 20 to 10.
Sometimes, When the Light by Lisel Mueller
Have you grown so “old” that you’ve forgotten what she writes about?
Sometimes, When the Light by Lisel Mueller
Sometimes, when the light strikes at odd angles
and pulls you back into childhood
and you are passing a crumbling mansion
completely hidden behind old willowsor an empty convent guarded by hemlocks
and giant firs standing hip to hip,you know again that behind that wall,
under the uncut hair of the willowssomething secret is going on,
so marvelous and dangerousthat if you crawled through and saw,
you would die, or be happy forever.
Biden Calls Corzine
Biden says after the new regime took over they talked about a “Bank Holiday.” That’s when they close the banks, devalue the currency, and then let you have some of that new currency. Then he says they called Jon Corzine, formerly of Goldman Sachs, for financial advice. Financial advice from a man who just ran MF Global into the ground and stole over $1.2 billion of investors money.
Now Gerald Celente tells us to expect a “Bank Holiday” in the first quarter of 2012. You can listen to Celente at King World News.
When Does Life Begin?
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), chair of the Democratic National Committee, said Thursday that for states to enact constitutional amendments that say human life begins at conception is “an extreme and radical step.”
My, my! I’m an extremely radical person!
Compromise Is A Four Letter Word!
Politicians lately talk about compromise, as in “Can’t we both give a little.” And when you stick to your principles, you are said to be intransigent and arrogant. Obama has been one speaking that way about Republicans. They won’t agree to tax increases. Now Minnesota guv Dayton agrees to a solution that would stop the shutdown in his state:
The governor said compromise was “totally lacking” on the other side, saying he exhausted all efforts and “I was basically negotiating with myself.”
Compromise is overrated. How do you compromise on core beliefs? How do you compromise on abortion? How do you compromise when you believe government is too big or spends too much money? How do you compromise when the country is bankrupt, but someone wants to continue spending money we don’t have?
The War Against Girls
The WSJ has a book review of “Unnatural Selection,” Ms. Mara Hvistendahl. The author writes that selecting male babies and aborting females since the 1970s has resulted in the killing of 163 million girls. The Book Review is titled “The War Against Girls.” Hvistendahl’s main worry is that the Christian Right will use this information to take away our right to choose.
She believes that something must be done about the purposeful aborting of female babies or it could lead to “feminists’ worst nightmare: a ban on all abortions.”
A feminist’s worst nightmare would actually be another 163 million girls deliberately killed. There are consequences for us all if this continues. Societies that have an imbalance, more men than women are violent places:
There is indeed compelling evidence of a link between sex ratios and violence. High sex ratios mean that a society is going to have “surplus men”—that is, men with no hope of marrying because there are not enough women. Such men accumulate in the lower classes, where risks of violence are already elevated. And unmarried men with limited incomes tend to make trouble. In Chinese provinces where the sex ratio has spiked, a crime wave has followed. Today in India, the best predictor of violence and crime for any given area is not income but sex ratio.
Actions have consequences, and we will soon reap what we’ve sown.
What’s Behind The Defunding Of Planned Parenthood?
The U.S. House approved an amendment Friday to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood by a vote of 240-185 with 11 Democrats voting for the amendment, and seven Republicans voting against.
Already voters on the left are mad as hell and are circulating a petition to condemn the action and urge the Senate to vote against defunding. They support Planned Parenthood by saying the bill will “…bar Planned Parenthood health centers from all federal funding for birth control, cancer screenings, HIV testing, and other lifesaving care.”
“Why are Republicans so heartless?” they ask.
Maybe we should take a look at the conservatives position. In an old report titled “Planned Parenthood
(Or “Planning Family Size Through Abortion”?)”
- Planned Parenthood killed 244,628 babies in its clinics in calendar year 2003, the highest number in its 89-year history.
- Planned Parenthood took in $810 million in the 2003-2004 fiscal year (ending 6/30/04), with $306.2 million coming from “Clinic Income” and $265.2 million coming from “Government Grants and Contracts” The rest ($238.6 million) came from “Private Contributions and Bequests” and other sources.
- PPFA’s Annual Report shows that the group generated more than $1.038 billion in Fiscal Year 2007-2008, which is an increase of nearly two percent from the previous reporting period.
- Planned Parenthood admits that it slaughtered 305,310 preborn human beings in 2007 alone (up nearly 5.4 percent from 2006)
- PPFA’s income includes a hefty and ever-increasing check from American taxpayers. In Fiscal Year 2005- 2006, government funding increased by nearly 10.8 percent over the previous reporting period. In Fiscal Year 2006-2007, taxpayers gave another 10.3 percent. In Fiscal Year 2007-2008, taxpayers gave nearly 3.8 percent more to Planned Parenthood, bringing the total to $349.6 million. The most recent figures show that almost 33.7 percent of PPFA’s annual revenue comes from taxpayers.
Now I’m a little squeamish about using words like “Killed” and “slaughtered” to describe abortions, but the numbers are staggering and we the taxpayers are providing about 1/3 of their funding.
We need to take a look at these “Eight Great Deceptions of Planned Parenthood” and seek answers before we continue funding 1/3 of the budget of Planned Parenthood:
(1) Deception: Planned Parenthood claims to advocate the freedom of women to choose if and when they will have children, without government interference.
Fact: From the beginning, Planned Parenthood has sought mandatory population control measures. Over the years it has proposed our government implement “compulsory abortion for out-of-wedlock pregnancies,” federal entitlement “payments to encourage abortion,” “compulsory sterilization for those who have already had two children,” and “tax penalties” for existing large families.
(2) Deception: Planned Parenthood claims to serve the needs of poor women and low-income families.
Fact: Planned Parenthood has always targeted minorities, the unwanted, and the disadvantaged for family limitation, contraception, abortion, and sterilization. Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger’s “charity” was “to eliminate the stocks” that she felt were most detrimental “to the future of the race and the world.”
(3) Deception: Planned Parenthood claims to be a privately funded, non-profit family planning organization.
Fact: Planned Parenthood helps ban families, not plan families. As an association of over 300 separately incorporated organizations worldwide, a vast portion of its funding comes right from American taxpayers’ pocketbooks. In 1993 alone, almost $160 million came from the Title X appropriations of the Public Health Service Act and from 18 other federal statues!
(4) Deception: Planned Parenthood claims its system of birth control is safe and effective.
Fact: Absolutely none of Planned Parenthood’s birth control systems are 100% effective — from the pill or diaphragm to the IUD. A teen practicing “safe sex” with condoms has nearly an 87% chance of pregnancy. The Planned Parenthood system virtually guarantees women will get pregnant and in the end be “forced” to fall back on Planned Parenthood’s ultimate birth control practice — abortion.
(5) Deception: Planned Parenthood claims that it is in the forefront of the battle against sexually transmitted diseases.
Fact: Through Planned Parenthood’s distribution of non-barrier birth control contraceptives to 80% of its clients, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, herpes, hepatitis, granuloma, chancroid, and even AIDS are being encouraged. Recent studies indicate the use of Planned Parenthood-favored birth control devices may actually enhance the risk of sexually transmitted diseases.
(6) Deception: Planned Parenthood claims that sex education is a necessary and effective means of preventing teen pregnancies.
Fact: Planned Parenthood’s sex education programs have backfired, actually increasing teen pregnancies. A 1986 Louis Harris poll of teens who took “comprehensive” sex education have a 50% higher rate of sexual activity that their “unenlightened” peers.
(7) Deception: Planned Parenthood claims its efforts to provide abortion services have at last removed the specter of dangerous back alley abortions from our land.
Fact: Abortions may be legal, but they are not safe. A UCLA study by two obstetrical and gynecological professors conclude “abortion can be a killer.” Other complications are at least partially responsible for the steep rise in female medical care costs over the last decade.
(8) Deception: Planned Parenthood claims that its birth control, sex education, and abortion juggernaut is essential to control rapid population growth.
Fact: Instead of worrying about Planned Parenthood’s “population bomb,” many researchers are concerned about a “birth dearth.” Fertility in the U.S. has been steadily declining for two decades. The worldwide birthrate is now falling faster than the mortality rate for the first time in recorded history.
I am a libertarian and I believe a woman has a right to choose! I would not choose abortion. I would put the child up for adoption. I am not in favor of abortion in the third trimester via partial birth slaughter. I am not in favor of tax payer funding for an organization that performs abortions. That’s me. If you are of the opposite opinion, that’s ok, I understand, just contribute on your own and don’t make me pay through my taxes.
Michele Malkin has been a critic of Planned Parenthood for a long time. Here are two posts of her’s on the subject:
De-fund the predators of Planned Parenthood
Dead Baby, Dead Fish!
Some damn sad items today. In Oregon, Korena Elaine Roberts allegedly hit a pregnant Heather Snively over the head then cut into the woman’s womb and took her baby. Snively died either from blunt force trauma or the cut to the abdomen. The baby is also dead. We don’t know how the baby died, but EMS was sent to revive a new born after a call to 911 by Roberts.
Prosecutors consider this terrible crime to be one murder, because the baby technically is not alive or an individual since it was not separated from the mother. A Republican legislator is trying to introduce a bill to make this a two person murder, the mother and the baby, but is running afoul of those who think passage would ban abortions.
In Seattle, some are upset that dead fresh fish are being thrown about for entertainment at the tourist attraction Pike Place Fish Market. They’ve been invited to entertain at the American Veterinary Medical Association convention.
Chief executive Ron DeHaven said the Schaumburg, Ill.-based organization had thought inviting one of Seattle’s top tourist attractions — the fish-throwers at the Pike Place Fish Market — to the event would be a great “team-building experience.”
However People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) raised concerns about the ethics of using dead fish as props at a veterinary event. Apparently PETA thinks throwing the fish is disrespectful and wants rubber fish substituted.
Who on earth has time to worry about dead fish, when we need a way to punish those who kill babies.
Weasel Words
In the words of Homer Simpson:
“Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals … except the weasel.”
First, I am fighting Eminent Domain. When the state says, as in NC, “The bill, a response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Kelo case, prohibits the condemnation of private property unless it will be used for an exclusive public use such as government purposes, public utilities or to eliminate blighted areas. Did you note the weasel words: unless, public use and blighted?
Second, I am fighting abortion in the third trimester. They want us to believe that no babies fetuses are delivered with all but the head showing and killed in the third trimester. Then they want us to believe that no doctor would order such a procedure except for “preserving the life or health of a mother”. Note the weasel words.
Third, I am fighting against UN sponsored ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). The treaty imposes limitations “on measures we might take to ensure our national security and homeland defense. If, for instance, foreign vessels operating on the high seas do not fit into one of three categories (i.e., they are engaged in piracy, flying no flag or transmitting radio broadcasts), LOST would prohibit U.S. Navy or Coast Guard vessels from intercepting, searching or seizing them,”…
Weasel words that take away our sovereignty. Read what Phyllis Schlafly thinks about the treaty.
Fourth, I am fighting against UN sponsored Convention on the Rights of the Child (CORC). CORC is a direct slap at families that prefer homeschooling to the statist schools. The governments wants all children to be indoctrinated in statist thinking and cannot control what is being taught in the home. So now we have CORC that apparently been approved byall countries except Somalia and the US.
The Brussels Journal wrote
Until two years ago, we never encountered any problems with the authorities concerning our family’s home education. In fact, compared to neighbouring countries, Belgium was very tolerant of homeschoolers. In 2003, however, the Flemish regional parliament decreed that all homeschoolers are obliged to sign a document in which they promise to rear their children along the lines of the UN Convention. The latter undermines the authority of parents and transfers it to the state.
The document the homeschoolers are made to sign also states that government inspectors decide whether families comply with the UN’s ideology. Furthermore, it contains a clause in which the homeschooling parents agree to send their child to an official government recognized school if the inspectors report negatively about them twice.
Let’s look at the CORC document. First, we have high sounding words:
Bearing in mind that the peoples of the United Nations have, in the Charter, reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights and in the dignity and worth of the human person, and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
Then, “a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years” consider
Article 19
1. States Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, while in the care of parent(s), legal guardian(s) or any other person who has the care of the child.2. Such protective measures should, as appropriate, include effective procedures for the establishment of social programmes to provide necessary support for the child and for those who have the care of the child, as well as for other forms of prevention and for identification, reporting, referral, investigation, treatment and follow-up of instances of child maltreatment described heretofore, and, as appropriate, for judicial involvement.
Note all the weasel words.
In April, 2008, John Stossel reported
A California appellate court, ruling that parents have no constitutional right to homeschool their children, pinned its decision on this ominous quotation from a 47-year-old case, “A primary purpose of the educational system is to train schoolchildren in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare.”
What worries many about CORC is that government officials can decide if your child is suffering neglect or is abused because you are not instructing them in the proper core statist philosophies. The upshot is: your child can be taken away from you and placed in a foster home where the child can get the proper education. It’s for the children and the public’s safety.
The fear by some is that Barack Obama favors the UN and will have a democratic controlled congress that will ratify these two measures.
I’m afraid these highsounding documents are filled with weasel words that can be interpreted any way the state wants. One more reason to have judges appointed by someone who believes a strict interpretation of the Constitution.
