Pro-"Choice" Violence

BTW, the article below noted the March for Life was a peaceful protest. Here's some pro-choice violence for you (aside from the 48.5 million butchered babies since 1973, of course):

Michigan Man Assault Pregnant Woman, Kills Baby for Refusing Abortion

Wisconsin Woman Victimized in Attempted Forced Abortion Wants Bond Money

Kansas Legislator Apologizes for Assaulting Pro-Life Advocate at Rally

Wisconsin Pastor Murdered for Refusing to Give Grandson Abortion Money

Woman Whose Parents Kidnapped Her for Forced Abortion Speaks Out

Iowa Man Charged With Assaulting Pro-Life Advocate at Clinton Rally

Here are only a few recent articles on child molesters using abortion to hide their crimes and abortion clinics covering it up or not reporting it:

Connecticut Sees Fourth Case of Abortion Used to Hide Sexual Abuse Crimes

Coach in Abortion-Rape Coverup Was Banned From Sports, Not Arrested

March for Life, crazy pro-choice response

Another successful, inspiring March for Life yesterday in the bitter cold! (Pro-choicers only do a march about once every 10 years, in the spring)

Aside from being shocked that the media even acknowledged the hundreds of thousands in town for the event, I found the wording from the NAG leader in this USA Today article very interesting:

Abortion foes protest 35th year of 'Roe'
Peaceful protest in D.C. lauded by President Bush

...Several dozen women marched in support of abortion rights. "In the last 35 years the anti-choice groups have grown more vicious, lashing out against the landmark Supreme Court decision as part of their on-going campaign to eviscerate it," National Organization for Women President Kim Gandy said in a statement. ...

Geez, you'd think someone who supports the vicious evisceration of babies from the womb would use different language to distract from that fact.

She might as well have said pro-lifers were protesting Roe v. Wade "as part of their on-going campaign to:

• "cut it up and vacumm it out,"
• or "tear it from the womb, limb by limb,"
• or "rip it out, feet first, and stab it in the back of the head to suck out its brains."

Hey, at least we only want to eviscerate a court ruling.

Women Deserve Better Than Abortion

I enjoyed this refreshing perspective about the lawyer who argued for abortion in Roe v. Wade from a Feminists for Life email. I couldn't find a link to it, so I'll quote it in its entirety.

By the way, the number of yearly abortions has fallen to a thirty year low of "only" 1,200,000. That adds up to about 48.5 million people missing in the US since 1973. We've gone too far.

Weddington's Betrayal of Women

Serrin M. Foster

President
Feminists for Life of America

On the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, many will focus on the undeniable humanity of the unborn child now seen clearly by millions through sophisticated sonograms on Oprah as well as in Life and Newsweek cover stories.

Meanwhile, I will be reflecting on the impact of the choice made by attorney Sarah Weddington in 1973.

As her arguments for abortion before the Supreme Court made clear, Weddington saw the discrimination and other injustices faced by pregnant women. But she did not demand that these injustices be remedied. Instead, she demanded for women the “right” to submit to these injustices by destroying their pregnancies.

Weddington rightly pointed out the unmet needs of students: “…there are many schools where a woman is forced to quit if she becomes pregnant.” But Weddington didn’t argue against pregnancy discrimination or even for alternate solutions for a pregnant student.

Weddington did no better for women in the workplace. “In the matter of employment, she often is forced to quit at an early point in her pregnancy. She has no provision for maternity leave… She cannot get unemployment compensation under our laws, because the laws hold that she is not eligible for employment, being pregnant, and therefore is eligible for no unemployment compensation.”

For women with serious medical needs, she further noted: “There is no duty for employers to rehire women if they must drop out to carry a pregnancy to term. And, of course, this is especially hard on the many women in Texas who are heads of their own households and must provide for their already existing children.”

Weddington clearly saw the bind low-income women face when experiencing unplanned pregnancy: “At the same time, she can get no welfare to help her at a time when she has no unemployment compensation and she's not eligible for any help in getting a job to provide for herself.”

Weddington repeatedly said that women need “relief” from pregnancy, instead of arguing that women need relief from these injustices.

What if Weddington had used her legal acumen to challenge the system and address women’s needs?

By accepting pregnancy discrimination in school and workplace and the lack of support in society for pregnant women and parents, especially the poor, Weddington and the Supreme Court betrayed women and undermined the support women need and deserve.

Since then, millions of women have paid the price, struggling in school and the workplace without societal support. After all, when “it’s her body, it’s her choice,” it’s her problem.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortion in America, half of all abortions are performed on college-age women.

Since 1994, Feminists for Life has worked to address the unmet needs of pregnant and parenting students and staff on college campuses. For the past decade FFL’s Pregnancy Resource Forums on campuses across the country have revealed the still-unmet needs of pregnant and parenting students — especially a lack of housing, child care, telecommuting options, maternity coverage and medical riders for additional children. FFL found there is rarely a central place on campus for pregnancy and parenting resources. Even when resources are available, they are often not publicized. For pregnant and parenting students kept in the dark about the help they need and deserve, perception is their reality.

This March, which is Women’s History Month, Feminists for Life is helping college students make history for women by hosting Rallies for Resources on campuses across the country — so that women don’t feel driven to choose between sacrificing their children or their education and career plans.

The proposed Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pregnant and Parenting Student Services Act, a bipartisan effort led by Senators Elizabeth Dole and Ben Nelson and Representatives Marcy Kaptur and Sue Myrick, would make grants available for up to 200 colleges and universities to host pregnancy resource forums, create resource centers on campus, and communicate available support on and off campus.

There was one thing Weddington got right. “Whether she's unmarried; whether she's pursuing an education; whether she's pursuing a career; whether she has family problems; all of the problems of personal and family life, for a woman, are bound up in the problem of abortion.”

Abortion is a reflection that we have not met the needs of women.

Thirty-five years after Weddington capitulated to inherently unfair practices against pregnant and parenting women, those on both sides of the abortion debate should unite and say “no” to the status quo. Clearly women deserve better.

Scoop your poop for Jesus!

Holding Jesus Hostage

Anonymous residents on Lindy Lane claim Jean Mansel isn't picking up after her dogs, so to entice her to do so, they took something close to her heart.

Those residents say their Mansel's wiener dogs leave their leavings in their yard.

So, they stole her 80 pound statue of Jesus.

..."The note reads:

“We are holding Jesus ransom until you clean up the poopie from your wieners and trust us we see you take your wieners for long walks w/out picking up their poopie in our yards. This has upset us dearly so please clean up all the weiner poopie, if you want to see Jesus unharmed. Sincerely, Lindy Lane Residents.”

Two Daily Mail horror stories!

Girl, 18, confesses in TV documentary: 'I've slept with 50 men in TWO years'

...The youngster told her 45-year-old mother, who is separated from Cheryl's father, how she picked up men, including a drug dealer, by trawling online dating and networking sites in internet cafes.

...In a televised confrontation with her mother, the teenager drew a series of stick men to represent her dozens of partners and appeared shocked when Debbie Tunney revealed she had only had three sexual partners in her life.

The 18-year-old said: "We had to write our numbers on a board for the show and the initial for each partner's name. I couldn't believe my mum had only had sex with three men.

"It made my number seem really high and it was worse because I could only remember about 40 of their names. I have decided not to sleep around any more."

Astonishingly, given her admission that she did not always use condoms, the young woman tested negative for sexually transmitted diseases.

She said: "That is so weird. How did that happen?"

Fatal Attraction

I lost everything after succumbing to the office piranha's seduction

The office Christmas party loomed, and with Ellen heavily pregnant, Colin decided to go on his own.

It was a decision he was to regret. "Clare was there, we both had a bit to drink and we ended up at a hotel," he recalls. "I realise now I should never have gone on my own to this party. Clare looked wonderful and I could no longer resist."

By 4am the day after, however, and as Colin put his key into the front door of his home, he was already regretting his night of passion. "As soon as I glimpsed the Christmas decorations in the front room that Ellen had done with the boys I felt a huge stab of guilt," he says.

...When I tried to tell her it was over, she would beg me not to go, and cry. She threatened if I didn't leave Ellen and marry her, she would kill herself. Once, she acted as if she were carrying out her threat, running across the road and was almost hit by a car."

...At work, the writing was on the wall. "People were horrified I could have had an affair while Ellen was pregnant. Pressure was put on me to go, and I felt so humiliated and ashamed that I had no alternative but to leave."

...Colin has another job, although he says the affair has set his career back several years.

"Since this woman threw herself at me I've been a broken man. We had a good marriage, but like many men I was tempted - and now I am paying a higher price than I could ever have imagined."

Weird pictures today

Hop on board! Meet Thailand's easy-riding biker frog

This is "Nong Oui", Thailand's amphibian answer to the Hell's Angels.

There is nothing the black-spotted frog likes better than taking her Harley out for a spin - even if she is a bit of a poseur.

Bride has wedding cake made into life-size model of herself

For one bride, her perfect wedding had to have that extra layer. So American Chidi Ogbuta had a life-size wedding cake made in her own image.

Standing over 5ft tall, the spectacular cake, made up of butterscotch and polymer clay, was an exact replica of the bride in her wedding dress.

More Knutette

I'm going to die from cuteness!

Polar bear cub saved from mother's jaws snoozes happily in the care of its new keeper

Animal lovers can breathe a sigh of relief at this sight of the tiny polar bear cub neglected by its mother, sleeping happily in the home of a helper who will now rear it.

The yet-unnamed baby seemed in grave danger when its mother Vera, began violently swinging it around by the scruff of its neck.

The 8lb baby had to be rescued by keepers at the zoo in Nuremberg amid concerns its mother would harm or even kill it.

...An attempt to force the bears to raise their cubs as nature intended has already led to two others being eaten by their confused mother, Wilma.

New Knut!

Too cute!

Knutette? Nuremberg Zoo Opts to Rear Polar-Bear Cub by Hand

Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Nuremberg Zoo is preparing for a stampede of visitors and seeking marketing help after keepers decided to hand rear a baby polar bear to save it from injury.

The new bear's name will be chosen in a public competition, Deputy Mayor Horst Foerther told a televised press conference in Nuremberg. The cub was removed from the polar-bear enclosure at the age of four weeks after its mother Vera took her baby out of the cave and dropped it several times from a dangerous height.

``The cub had no chance of being properly reared by its mother, so with heavy hearts we decided we would have to intervene,'' said Dag Encke, the director of the zoo

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The new butterfly ballot conspiracy

How sad for the state of our democracy that we have citizens for whom ballot order can change election outcomes.

Ballot Changes Cited in Vote's Discrepancy With Polls

Without a doubt, a big source of the discrepancy between the pre-election surveys and the election outcome in New Hampshire is the order of candidates' names on the ballot and in the surveys.

Our analysis of all recent primaries in New Hampshire showed that there was always a big primacy effect — big-name, big-vote-getting
candidates got 3 percent or more votes more when listed first on the ballot than when listed last.

...Thus, I'll bet that Clinton got at least 3 percent more votes than Obama simply because she was listed close to the top.

...More importantly, if New Hampshire had rotated name order in the voting booth as it has always done in the past, the race would probably have been too close to call without a recount and might even have been an Obama victory.

Overheards that made me LOL

... Without the Ball-Gag.

Middle-aged man: I like these hats they're selling. Oh, look at the one on her head! That looks warm.
Forlorn wife: That's her real hair. She has dreadlocks.
Middle-aged man: Oh, my! You can't take me anywhere.

--Union Square

Overheard by: Dizzle
via Overheard in New York, Dec 20, 2007

That's the "Big Three" of Medication, All Right

Little grandson: Yo! He gonna go get some dicks!
Ghetto grandma: Where you learn to talk like? [To other passengers] I'm sorry. He needs his medication.
Little grandson: Dicks! Bitch! Coca-Cola!

--N train
via Overheard in New York, Dec 22, 2007

Where Conspiracy Bloggers Come From

Kid: Hey, where does the line start?
Mom: All the way over there.
Kid: Dear God. My glasses have fooled me yet again!
via Overheard Everywhere, Dec 27, 2007

Kohl's
Howell, New Jersey

Justifiably Indignant?

White male customer: I want a small black coffee.
East Indian female cashier: Do you want cream and sugar in that?
White male customer: No, I want it black.
East Indian female cashier: Black?
White male customer, pointing at picture of black man in ad on the wall: Yes, black! I want it to look like that guy!

--Dunkin' Donuts, 53rd & Lex

Overheard by: next in line

via Overheard in New York, Dec 29, 2007