I had the most interesting discussion today with someone on a Facebook group; this person made the following statement regarding Barack Obama's opposal to a ban that would make partial birth abortions illegal:
"Okay, let's tackle the abortion issue. When I said nobody supports partial birth abortion, I meant just that. Don't confuse the law that wants to ban it with the actual act itself...."
I was dumbfounded. I find it amazing that there are people in this world that actually live by this sort of logic; by this sort of idealogy.
It's simple logic here.....if someone (and in this case, Barack Obama) wants to BAN a law that would PREVENT the act of partial birth abortions, then whether or not the person has verbally said he or she supports partial birth abortion is IRRELEVANT.....the statement is in the action!
If the man opposes a law that would BAN partial birth abortions, that man is supporting a person's so-called "RIGHT" to partial birth abortion. Why else would he take the trouble to publicly OPPOSE the ban? It's ridiculous to even try to argue that someone would say "Well gee....I don't like the ban on partial birth abortion.....and I also don't support partial birth abortion." It doesn't work that way........the ban doesn't involve anything else BUT partial birth abortion and to say that though he opposes the ban AND at the same time is NOT for partial birth abortion is absolutely ludacris.
On the topic of abortion, and for all you pro-choicers out there (including, God-forbid, the possible McCain VP pick Tom Ridge), explain to me please what IS abortion, anyway....if it isn't taking away someone's life. It is just the removal of some superferlous tissue; some annoyance in the form of a blob inside a woman's body? Ok, ok....the big argument here is "When does it become a life, etc. etc. Some scientists have determined, or so they say, that at a certain week in the pregancy it is officially a life. Some doctors claim that it is until the "fetus" is exiting the birth canal....THEN it is a child. (So, to all you partial birth supporters out there......when does it become a child to YOU?)
Here's my argument....here's my case. Regardless of whether or not you are a Christian; regardless of when you believe that a fetus "becomes a child".....regardless of any of the "fine print," would you, or would you not agree that the so-called "tissue" inside the woman's body will, after the usual span of 9 months, exit into the world and grow up as a human? You'd probably say yes, correct? So, wouldn't taking that fetus and throwing it away being essentially throwing away that fetus' chance at life outside the womb? Hmm?? There you have it.......regardless of what you think.....that is something that one HAS to admit. Regardless of when a person believes a fetus becomes a life.....(and let's use Barack Obama here)....he has to admit that if his mother had decided that that "lump of tissue" inside her was, well, just a little annoyance easily removed, then the now presidential candidate would NOT have exited the womb into the world to grow and up one day run for president. (darn) RIGHT? Right.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
"Some Gave All," and let us honor them with the presentation of the facts.
"Some gave all."
I received this message from my grandfather, and I found it to be extremely eye-opening. I want as many people as possible to read this, as it sheds light once again upon the fact that so very often we are fed "facts" that are simply NOT true. As a service to all the men and women serving in the U.S. military (including my brother) protecting the freedoms not only of this country but of others as well, I ask you all to read this and even research it if you would like (you will find the link for the Congressional Research Service at the end of this email), and understand once and for all that we need not believe everything we hear from the media. We need to understand that in order to obtain the truth, we need to be researching the primary sources, not just the paper thrown on your doorstop each morning.
-Mary
-Mary
"True Death Stats for Servicemen"
The source for the data is a report prepared for Congress, link at the bottom. Please take time to read the email and the source document.
Military Losses, 1980 thru 2007
Whatever your politics, however you lean, and however you feel about the current
administration, this report should open some eyes.
As tragic as the loss of any member of the US Armed Forces is, consider the following statistics: The annual fatalities of military members while actively serving in the armed forces from
1980 through 2006 - by any cause.
1980 .......... 2,392 ( Carter Year )
1981 .......... 2,380 ( Reagan Year)
1984 .......... 1,999 ( Reagan Year)
1988 .......... 1,819 ( Reagan Year)
1989 ......... 1,636 ( George H W Year )
1990 .......... 1,508 ( George H W Year )
1991 .......... 1,787 ( George H W Year )
1992 ......... 1,293 ( George H W Year )
1993 .......... 1,213 ( Clinton Year)
1994 ........ 1,075 ( Clinton Year)
1995 .......... 2,465 ( Clinton Year)
1996 .......... 2,318 ( Clinton Year)
1997 .......... 817 ( Clinton Year)
1998 .......... 2, 252 ( Clinton Year)
1999 .......... 1,984 ( Clinton Year)
2000 ...........1,983 ( Clinton Year)
2001 ............ 890( George W Year )
2002 .......... 1,007 ( George W Year )
2003 .......... 1,410 ( George W Year )
2004 .......... 1,887 ( George W Year )
2005 ............ 919 ( George W Year )
2006.............. 920 ( George W Year )
2007............. 899 ( George W Year )
Clinton years (1993-2000): 14,107 deaths
George W years (2001-2007): 7,932 deaths
If you are surprised when you look at these figures, so was I. These figures mean that the loss from the two latest conflicts in the Middle East are LESS than the loss of military personnel during Bill Clinton 's presidency; when America wasn't even involved in a war! (Unless you include Bosnia or the disgrace of Mogadishu , Somalia when Clinton failed to respond to terrorists : remember 'Blackhawk Down'?)
And, I was even more shocked when I read that in 1980, during the reign of President (Nobel Peace Prize winner) Jimmy Carter, there were 2,392 US military fatalities! From what? How? I think that these figures indicate that many members of our Media and our politicians will pick and choose the information on which they report. Of course we all know that they present only those 'facts' which support their agenda-driven reporting. But why do so many of them march in lock-step to twist the truth? Where do so many of them get their agenda? Obviously there is one shared agenda. Could it be from the most powerful Democratic family of the decade?
If you are surprised when you look at these figures, so was I. These figures mean that the loss from the two latest conflicts in the Middle East are LESS than the loss of military personnel during Bill Clinton 's presidency; when America wasn't even involved in a war! (Unless you include Bosnia or the disgrace of Mogadishu , Somalia when Clinton failed to respond to terrorists : remember 'Blackhawk Down'?)
And, I was even more shocked when I read that in 1980, during the reign of President (Nobel Peace Prize winner) Jimmy Carter, there were 2,392 US military fatalities! From what? How? I think that these figures indicate that many members of our Media and our politicians will pick and choose the information on which they report. Of course we all know that they present only those 'facts' which support their agenda-driven reporting. But why do so many of them march in lock-step to twist the truth? Where do so many of them get their agenda? Obviously there is one shared agenda. Could it be from the most powerful Democratic family of the decade?
Do you want further proof of the media spin and bias? Consider the latest census of Americans. It shows the following FACTS about the distribution of American citizens, by race:
European descent .........................69.12%
Hispanic...........................................12.5%
Black ................... ..........................12.3%
Asian................. .............................. 3.7%
Native American.................................1.0%
Other...................................................2.6%
Many media lead us to feel the military death ratio is off balanced compared to the distribution by race in America.
Here are the fatalities by RACE over the past three years in Iraqi Freedom.
Do the comparison yourself.
European descent (white) ............74.31%
Hispanic........................................10.74%
Black ............................................ 9.67%
Asian.............................................. 1.81%
Native American............................. 1.09%
Other............................................... 0.33%
I was surprised again. Our mainstream media continues to spin these figures (for political gain). Nothing more. It's all about politics.
I hope that during the time between now and November, intelligent Americans can decipher: the facts from the spin, the spinners from the leaders, those who seek even more power from those that seek justice, and the dividers from the uniters.
Over the next months, let's be good listeners and see and hear who tries to divide our nation; and who wants to unite our nation. Who wants to control how our money is spent and who wants our money spent the way we would spend it. Who seeks power and who seeks justice? Who spins the facts and who is genuine.
(These statistics are published by Congressional Research Service, and they may be confirmed by anyone at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf )
'History does not entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.' - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thursday, August 7, 2008
“The complacency of fools will destroy them.”
I had the blessing of a rare phone call from my brave brother fighting in Iraq last night; and his comments about the things going on over there moved me to anger when I think about how uninformed the world as well as the American people are when it comes to forming their opinions of our presence in the middle east, and the job our brave soldiers do on a daily basis.
It angers me when the media, knowing that the majority of the population doesn't have a soldier in the family to inform them otherwise, decides to report whatever they please concerning the war; regardless of whether or not it is fact-based.
It angers me that pompous politicians like Harry Reid make comments about the war from their comfortable seats on Capitol Hill, without ever bothering to dig deep and get the facts.
It angers me when people like Barack Obama, who has somehow managed to squeeze a gigantic following in this campaign out of his mere 143 day record in the Senate, go over there to Iraq, SEE that our troops are performing at superhuman levels and are making the surge work (the evidence of which is shown in the greatly decreased violence in most Iraqi provinces, the decrease in troop casualties, and an end to virtually most ORGANIZED terror activities!) and yet they come back to the states and LIE about it so they get a better public opinion...
Well folks, it's not about getting a good opinion from the uninformed American public and the WORLD; to be quite honest, I don't care if the world hates us at all. Let them hate! It is their loss. We are doing the right thing by defending our freedoms and annihilating the threats to freedom for others.
Let's take a trip back in time and remind ourselves of the countries (Excuse me if this sounds egotistical, but it is most certainly true.) that would not exist as sovereign nations today had it not been for American efforts and sacrifice; even if those countries have forgotten this and "imploded" on their own.
If it wasn't for the U.S.:
Most of Europe would be speaking German
China and/or Japan would control most of Asia and the Pacific Island countries
The middle East would be completely and totally overrun by the (thankfully) late Hussein, the current threat, Ahmadinejad, and a handful of other radical groups.
The list goes on! I could spend all day on the different conflicts in which we have participated in defending a country's sovereignty, freedoms, and rights.
Back in 2001 OUR freedoms were threatened, and the world tells us that WE are wrong for fighting for OUR safety? It is absolutely ridiculous. I have had the opportunity to live abroad, and host students from around the world in my home, and I find it AMAZING that some of these people from countries that WE defended; countries that WE helped pull away from the evil grasps of fascism, radicalism, marxism, socialism, extremism and communism, have the GALL to stand up and say that they dislike (even at times HATE) the U.S. and its leaders for going into two countries that openly aided, harbored, and FUNDED terrorists who carried out the gruesome 9/11 attacks on our nation. I'd say over 3,000 people dead is reason enough to FIGHT BACK. I wanna say "What business, if any, is it of the ignorant anti-American crowd?"
Call us the world police; go right ahead. If no one else will STAND UP FOR FREEDOM anywhere and everywhere, why shouldn't the U.S. use its resources to help defend that freedom of the oppressed people and in turn secure the safety of future generations of Americans? I want to share here in this blog a piece written by an American. It is a piece reflecting a variation of a speech that General Patton supposedly gave; a speech portrayed in the movie. This piece, however, reflects modern times and fits the issues perfectly.
"...."Now I want you to remember that this war on terror as well as our presence in the Middle East, is necessary and inevitable. To those who can’t understand that, they need to spend more time on the History Channel, and LESS time in the dang chat rooms. In this time of nuclear weaponry, we cannot afford to WAIT for the fight to come to US. You NEED to understand that. This political correctness stuff’s a bunch of crap. This generation is so stinkin' spoiled and lazy, they wouldn’t know a REAL threat to their freedom, until it interrupted the power source to their X-Box, and killed a half a million people! “The complacency of fools will destroy them.” That’s written in the Bible. My God, I really wonder where we’d be today if some of our current members of congress were residing during World War II."
Contemplate that.
It angers me when the media, knowing that the majority of the population doesn't have a soldier in the family to inform them otherwise, decides to report whatever they please concerning the war; regardless of whether or not it is fact-based.
It angers me that pompous politicians like Harry Reid make comments about the war from their comfortable seats on Capitol Hill, without ever bothering to dig deep and get the facts.
It angers me when people like Barack Obama, who has somehow managed to squeeze a gigantic following in this campaign out of his mere 143 day record in the Senate, go over there to Iraq, SEE that our troops are performing at superhuman levels and are making the surge work (the evidence of which is shown in the greatly decreased violence in most Iraqi provinces, the decrease in troop casualties, and an end to virtually most ORGANIZED terror activities!) and yet they come back to the states and LIE about it so they get a better public opinion...
Well folks, it's not about getting a good opinion from the uninformed American public and the WORLD; to be quite honest, I don't care if the world hates us at all. Let them hate! It is their loss. We are doing the right thing by defending our freedoms and annihilating the threats to freedom for others.
Let's take a trip back in time and remind ourselves of the countries (Excuse me if this sounds egotistical, but it is most certainly true.) that would not exist as sovereign nations today had it not been for American efforts and sacrifice; even if those countries have forgotten this and "imploded" on their own.
If it wasn't for the U.S.:
Most of Europe would be speaking German
China and/or Japan would control most of Asia and the Pacific Island countries
The middle East would be completely and totally overrun by the (thankfully) late Hussein, the current threat, Ahmadinejad, and a handful of other radical groups.
The list goes on! I could spend all day on the different conflicts in which we have participated in defending a country's sovereignty, freedoms, and rights.
Back in 2001 OUR freedoms were threatened, and the world tells us that WE are wrong for fighting for OUR safety? It is absolutely ridiculous. I have had the opportunity to live abroad, and host students from around the world in my home, and I find it AMAZING that some of these people from countries that WE defended; countries that WE helped pull away from the evil grasps of fascism, radicalism, marxism, socialism, extremism and communism, have the GALL to stand up and say that they dislike (even at times HATE) the U.S. and its leaders for going into two countries that openly aided, harbored, and FUNDED terrorists who carried out the gruesome 9/11 attacks on our nation. I'd say over 3,000 people dead is reason enough to FIGHT BACK. I wanna say "What business, if any, is it of the ignorant anti-American crowd?"
Call us the world police; go right ahead. If no one else will STAND UP FOR FREEDOM anywhere and everywhere, why shouldn't the U.S. use its resources to help defend that freedom of the oppressed people and in turn secure the safety of future generations of Americans? I want to share here in this blog a piece written by an American. It is a piece reflecting a variation of a speech that General Patton supposedly gave; a speech portrayed in the movie. This piece, however, reflects modern times and fits the issues perfectly.
"...."Now I want you to remember that this war on terror as well as our presence in the Middle East, is necessary and inevitable. To those who can’t understand that, they need to spend more time on the History Channel, and LESS time in the dang chat rooms. In this time of nuclear weaponry, we cannot afford to WAIT for the fight to come to US. You NEED to understand that. This political correctness stuff’s a bunch of crap. This generation is so stinkin' spoiled and lazy, they wouldn’t know a REAL threat to their freedom, until it interrupted the power source to their X-Box, and killed a half a million people! “The complacency of fools will destroy them.” That’s written in the Bible. My God, I really wonder where we’d be today if some of our current members of congress were residing during World War II."
Contemplate that.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Ridin' the gravy train towards the middle......
Once again the "Ultra-Liberal" of the left dons his flip-flops. WHAT a surprise!
This isn't called changing one's mind.......it's called going with the flow of public opinion. Obama is quickly realizing that his radical ways and leftist ideas are really only flying with a select croud....the truly uneducated and those who believe several thousand studio hours equals some certificate to broadcast what's "good for the country" to the public. (Hollywood). That leaves quite a crowd; those known generally as "grass roots America," and McCain is very quickly closing in on, if not surpassing (according to a few polls) the messiah himself.
"We can't drill our way out of the problems we're facing," he said, tapping the podium for emphasis. (June 20th, 2008, Fox News)
"Barack Obama thinks the U.S. should tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to alleviate high gas prices." (August 4th, 2008, Fox News)
Ok, so will someone please explain to me how this works......one day a bigger supply of oil would not help us out of this problem, and the next day, "The campaign today said Obama now believes that the current oil prices constitute the same affect as an emergency" and he now says that we should tap into our strategic oil reserve. How does this work?? How is pulling a few barrels of oil out of our reserve any bit different than DRILLING for the billons of barrels that we have at our disposal at a pinpoint of land (2,000 acres out of millions, to be exact) that we have in ANWR and the thousands of miles of stretches of offshore that we have available to us far beyond the visibility of ANY enviromentalist wacko walking the beaches in ultra-liberal California or Florida...etc. Even if the visual aspect doesn't play in to their opposing the offshore drilling, for crying out loud, as if Katrina wasn't enough proof that those rigs are spillproof! The largest, most destructive hurricane that area has possibly EVER seen, and not a drop spilled into the pristine waters off the shores of our southern states.
The point is, (going back to my original subject) Obama is ridiculous if he thinks the American people are dumb enough to not catch his ever growing list of flip-flops. They are (his interesting attempts at moving towards the middle), at every turn, becoming more and more blatent and more and more obvious! It is as if he isn't even trying to cover up the fact that he and his campaign hold (on average) 2-4 different positions on every issue! Obama is trying to bring extremism to this country....and is quickly failing. This is obvious when one considers the plain and simple fact that IF his leftist extremism was working in his obvious goal of turning the United States into the newest member of the "countries that tried socialism/communism/facism and failed" club, then why is he now scrambling to retract his words in such a way that he DOESN'T appear to be a bumbling bafoon in order to move towards the center and attract that "grass roots America" crowd he thought he had in the bag? It is not because America is not ready for this new radical ideas; it is not that they are being dooped by the media (au contrair......if anything, the media is trying to doop Joe Public into thinking Barack is "change we can believe in"); but rather it is the plain and simple fact that this country was built on certain ideals; ideals that Obama's policies will all but erase; ideals such as "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness".......this he would only agree to as long as it said "Life, Liberty, as long as their pursuit of happiness is approved by me" Sheesh.
This isn't called changing one's mind.......it's called going with the flow of public opinion. Obama is quickly realizing that his radical ways and leftist ideas are really only flying with a select croud....the truly uneducated and those who believe several thousand studio hours equals some certificate to broadcast what's "good for the country" to the public. (Hollywood). That leaves quite a crowd; those known generally as "grass roots America," and McCain is very quickly closing in on, if not surpassing (according to a few polls) the messiah himself.
"We can't drill our way out of the problems we're facing," he said, tapping the podium for emphasis. (June 20th, 2008, Fox News)
"Barack Obama thinks the U.S. should tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to alleviate high gas prices." (August 4th, 2008, Fox News)
Ok, so will someone please explain to me how this works......one day a bigger supply of oil would not help us out of this problem, and the next day, "The campaign today said Obama now believes that the current oil prices constitute the same affect as an emergency" and he now says that we should tap into our strategic oil reserve. How does this work?? How is pulling a few barrels of oil out of our reserve any bit different than DRILLING for the billons of barrels that we have at our disposal at a pinpoint of land (2,000 acres out of millions, to be exact) that we have in ANWR and the thousands of miles of stretches of offshore that we have available to us far beyond the visibility of ANY enviromentalist wacko walking the beaches in ultra-liberal California or Florida...etc. Even if the visual aspect doesn't play in to their opposing the offshore drilling, for crying out loud, as if Katrina wasn't enough proof that those rigs are spillproof! The largest, most destructive hurricane that area has possibly EVER seen, and not a drop spilled into the pristine waters off the shores of our southern states.
The point is, (going back to my original subject) Obama is ridiculous if he thinks the American people are dumb enough to not catch his ever growing list of flip-flops. They are (his interesting attempts at moving towards the middle), at every turn, becoming more and more blatent and more and more obvious! It is as if he isn't even trying to cover up the fact that he and his campaign hold (on average) 2-4 different positions on every issue! Obama is trying to bring extremism to this country....and is quickly failing. This is obvious when one considers the plain and simple fact that IF his leftist extremism was working in his obvious goal of turning the United States into the newest member of the "countries that tried socialism/communism/facism and failed" club, then why is he now scrambling to retract his words in such a way that he DOESN'T appear to be a bumbling bafoon in order to move towards the center and attract that "grass roots America" crowd he thought he had in the bag? It is not because America is not ready for this new radical ideas; it is not that they are being dooped by the media (au contrair......if anything, the media is trying to doop Joe Public into thinking Barack is "change we can believe in"); but rather it is the plain and simple fact that this country was built on certain ideals; ideals that Obama's policies will all but erase; ideals such as "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness".......this he would only agree to as long as it said "Life, Liberty, as long as their pursuit of happiness is approved by me" Sheesh.
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