ConservativeChristianRepublican-Report - 20091026

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Promoting "God's Holy Values and American Freedoms"!



"Daily Motivations"

Biggest question: Isn't it really 'customer helping' rather than customer service? And wouldn’t you deliver better service if you thought of it that way? -- Jeffrey Gitomer



"Daily Devotions" (KJV and/or NLT)

Don't repay evil for evil. Don't retaliate with insults when people insult you. Instead, pay them back with a blessing. That is what God has called you to do, and He will bless you for it. (1 Peter 3:9)

Could you forgive your tormentor?

The soldier spent much of the Second World War in a Japanese prison camp, where he was starved and beaten. He was finally allowed to read a Bible for a few weeks. DeShazer, a non-believer, devoured every single word, especially Romans 10:9, which led him to accept God's mercy and give over control of his life to Jesus.

Accepting God's mercy is one thing; true commitment is another. DeShazer was shoved inside his cell one day, and his foot caught in the door. The guard twisted and mashed the foot rather than freeing it, and the prisoner screamed in painful rage. But as he suffered, the memorized words of Jesus flooded his mind: "But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you!" (Matthew 5:44) Was it possible? Jacob DeShazer was about to give his faith the ultimate test.

When he cordially greeted his persecutor in Japanese the next day, he received only a puzzled look. Each day, he smiled and asked about the guard's family. Eventually a true friendship grew between the men, and the guard would occasionally bring him a sweet potato or some other gift

After the war the American corporal returned to Japan to extend God's love to his former enemies. Thousands of local people came out of curiosity to see the prisoner who could forgive his captors. Eventually, Jacob DeShazer even opened a church in the city he had once bombed.



"The Patriot Post"

"[L]et them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." -- Thomas Jefferson



Political Futures

"This year's awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama can only hasten the decline in prestige of an award that has already gone to people like Yasser Arafat, UN General Secretary Kofi Annan (who presided over the Iraqi oil-for-food scam) and the fabulist Guatemalan activist Rigoberta Menchu. For this year's Nobel, the deadline was February 1, barely ten days after Mr. Obama had assumed the presidency. Though the Nobel committee of five Norwegian politicians presumably considered the evidence over the summer, it's fair to say their award represents little more than wishful thinking that Mr. Obama's diplomatic efforts will ultimately bear fruit. Other U.S. Presidents have won Nobels, but for actual accomplishments. Teddy Roosevelt helped broker a peace treaty between Russia and Japan. Woodrow Wilson worked to build a lasting peace after the end of World War I, however unsuccessful that effort later proved. Even Jimmy Carter won the Peace Prize in 2002 after more than two decades of humanitarian efforts as a former president. The Nobel Committee is said often to make its final decision at its last meeting just before the announcement. If so, President Obama has gotten a consolation prize for the failure of the U.S. to secure the 2016 Olympics. But that won't take away the sense that his award has more to do with political correctness than the realities of peace. Reading the Nobel Committee's explanation of its decision, President Obama appears to have won this year's prize because he's not his predecessor, George W. Bush.." -- Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund



Insight

"After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." -- French historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)



Government

"A pattern has emerged. Liberal citizens and politicians during the Bush years were permitted to speak out against the Iraq war, root for an American defeat, and cheer with the news of each dead American, and they were labeled patriots. An American speaks out against Obama's socialist policies and he is labeled anti-American. A liberal is able to chant anti-Bush slogans and compare him to Hitler and he is exercising his right to free speech. An American questions Obama's judgment both domestically and on the international stage and he is called a racist. I have attempted to point out to liberal friends and family that if they simply took the vast majority of offensive statements, policies, or actions of Obama over the past nine months and imagined them emanating from Bush, they would see the hypocrisy in their stance -- to no avail. They are content to sit back and watch this administration gut the Constitution, usurp power wherever it can find it, ignore the intent of the founders of this country and the successes of the free market economy which helped lead us to the position of the only world's superpower. But they will wake up in a few years to find that their children are not safe from harm's way, their grandchildren will be working off the enormous debt incurred by this government and will never achieve the economic success of their grandparents, and when they need medical care, they will be waiting in line like the Europeans and Canadians who used to turn to the US in times of emergency. Yet they will have their civil rights, for as long as Bush is not the one authorizing the wiretapping of their cell phones, all is good. Another bottle of champagne anyone?" -- columnist Lauri Regan



Re: The Left

"[Liberals lie that] America's lower life expectancy compared to countries with socialist health care proves that their medical systems are superior. President Obama has too much intellectual pride to make such a specious argument, so instead we have to keep hearing it from his half-wit supporters. These Democrats are all over the map on where precisely Americans place in the life-expectancy rankings. We're 24th, according to Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Barbara Boxer; 42nd, according to Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell; 35th, according to Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson; and 47th, according to Rep. Dennis Kucinich. So the U.S. may have less of a 'life expectancy' problem than a 'Democratic math competency' problem." -- columnist Ann Coulter



The Gipper

"This democracy of ours which sometimes we've treated so lightly, is more than ever a comfortable cloak, so let us not tear it asunder, for no man knows once it is destroyed where or when he will find its protective warmth again." -- Ronald Reagan



Liberty

"The White House insists that the president is hard at work on what to do about Afghanistan, and whether to send more troops to fuel a 'surge' like the surge that prevented a collapse of the West's attempt to rescue Iraq from barbarism and restore a fragile semblance of civilization. The brave young Americans put in harm's way in that godforsaken corner of the world often feel abandoned in a hopeless cause, so the president should feel the pressure to act, and quickly. But the problem is 'multilayered,' his spokesman says. Translated into real English, that means 'he hasn't yet figured out which layer of public opinion to appease, and which layer to disappoint.' He'll do something as soon as he figures out which disappointed layer would squeak loudest and scream longest." --Washington Times editor emeritus Wesley Pruden



For the Record

"On March 27, flanked by his secretaries of defense and state, the president said this: 'Today I'm announcing a comprehensive new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.' He then outlined a civilian-military counterinsurgency campaign to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan. ... The general in charge was then relieved and replaced with Obama's own choice, Stanley McChrystal. And it's McChrystal who submitted the request for the 40,000 troops, a request upon which the commander in chief promptly gagged. The White House began leaking an alternate strategy, apparently proposed (invented?) by Vice President Biden, for achieving immaculate victory with arm's-length use of cruise missiles, Predator drones and special ops. The irony is that no one knows more about this kind of warfare than Gen. McChrystal.. He was in charge of exactly this kind of 'counterterrorism' in Iraq for nearly five years, killing thousands of bad guys in hugely successful under-the-radar operations. When the world's expert on this type of counterterrorism warfare recommends precisely the opposite strategy -- 'counterinsurgency,' meaning a heavy-footprint, population-protecting troop surge -- you have the most convincing of cases against counterterrorism by the man who most knows its potential and its limits. And McChrystal was emphatic in his recommendation: To go any other way than counterinsurgency would lose the war. Yet his commander in chief, young Hamlet, frets, demurs, agonizes.. His domestic advisers, led by Rahm Emanuel, tell him if he goes for victory, he'll become LBJ, the domestic visionary destroyed by a foreign war. His vice president holds out the chimera of painless counterterrorism success.. Against Emanuel and Biden stand Gen. David Petraeus, the world's foremost expert on counterinsurgency (he saved Iraq with it), and Stanley McChrystal, the world's foremost expert on counterterrorism. Whose recommendation on how to fight would you rely on?" -- columnist Charles Krauthammer



The Last Word

"I can't agree with my colleagues here on CONTENTIONS that a) Barack Obama should reject the Nobel Peace Prize or b) be embarrassed by it. The Nobel Committee chose him wisely because he does, in fact, represent the organization's highest ideals. He is an American president queasy about the projection of American power. He is an American president who rejects the notion of American exceptionalism. He is an American president eagerly in pursuit of legitimacy to be granted him not by those who voted for him but by those who do not cast a vote and who chafe at American leadership. It is his devout wish that America become one of many nations, influencing the world indirectly or not influencing it at all, rather than "the indispensable nation," as Madeleine Albright characterized it. He is the encapsulation, the representative, the wish fulfillment, the very embodiment, of the multilateralist impulse. He is, almost literally, a dream come true for the sorts of people who treasure and value the Nobel Peace Prize. It's the most obvious choice, once you think about it, since Michael Moore won an Oscar for Bowling for Columbine." -- columnist John Podhoretz



"The Web"

Normandy Second World War 1944. Then and Now (108 Pics) http://www.picsroll.com/2009/09/normandy-second-world-war-1944-then-and.html#



A fifth grade teacher in a Christian school asked her class to look at TV commercials . . ..

http://www.emmitsburg.net/humor/archives/kids/kids_3.htm

. . . and see if they could use them in some way to communicate ideas about God. Here are some of the results:

GOD is like BAYER ASPIRIN ... He works miracles.
GOD is like a FORD ... He's got a better idea.
GOD is like COKE .... He's the real thing.
GOD is like HALLMARK CARDS ... He cares enough to send His very best.
GOD is like TIDE .... He gets the stains out that others leave behind.
GOD is like GENERAL ELECTRIC ... He brings good things to life.
GOD is like SEARS .... He has everything.
GOD is like ALKA-SELTZER ... Try Him, you'll like him.
GOD is like SCOTCH TAPE ... You can't see him, but you know He's there.
GOD is like DELTA .... He's ready when you are.
GOD is like ALLSTATE ... You're in good hands with Him.
GOD is like VO-5 HAIR SPRAY ... He holds through all kinds of weather.
GOD is like DIAL SOAP ... Aren't you glad you have Him. Don't you wish everybody did?

Submitted by Andy, Gettysburg, Pa.



Palin backs Hoffman in NY-23

Sarah Palin, as expected, is “right” in her endorsement of Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. From The Hill: While Gingrich endorses Scozzafava in NY-23 race, others are turning to Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, “Already, the Club for Growth, Concerned Women of America, evangelical leader Gary Bauer, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) and a host of other GOP supporters and lawmakers have sided with Hoffman, who has recently posted gains in preliminary polls.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/63455-gingrich-endorses-scozzafava-in-ny-23-race#

Newt Gingrich is “wrong” on his endorsement of Republican Party Dede Scozzafava! On October 16, 2009, Newt Gingrich endorses Dede Scozzafava in NY-23 House race http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/newt_gingrich_endorses_dede_sc.html. How does Newt Gingrich and/or another person who says they are in support of civil rights and “Life” support Republican Party candidate Dede Scozzafava? Dede Scozzafava supports abortion! It appears Dede Scozzafava is a true Liberal Republican In Name Only (RINO); one of several who are destroying the fiscal and social thread values, which the GOP Platform supports. By electing a radical Liberal Republican is more damaging to the GOP, and supporting a more Liberal Democrat Party on Capitol Hill.

The Republican Party leaders, and all citizens who believe in God, must vote to support fiscal and Judeo-Christian values as founded by our founding fathers. When we do that, everyone wins.

Newt Gingrich should apologize and withdraw his endorsement now. In lieu of a retraction and an apology, Conservatives must take a much longer look at Newt Gingrich as any nominee for President. - oyh

Democrat Party Bill Owens is just another Liberal Democrat.

By ANDY BARR
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28641.html

Photo: AP Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin on Thursday endorsed Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman over Dede Scozzafava, the Republican Party's choice, in the special election for New York’s 23rd congressional district.

“The people of the 23rd Congressional District of New York are ready to shake things up, and Doug Hoffman is coming on strong as Election Day approaches! He needs our help now,” Palin wrote in a statement that will be posted on her Facebook page late Thursday.

“I am very pleased to announce my support for Doug Hoffman in his fight to be the next Representative from New York's 23rd Congressional district. It's my honor to endorse Doug and to do what I can to help him win, including having my political action committee, SarahPAC, donate to his campaign the maximum contribution allowed by law,” Palin continued. “Our nation is at a crossroads, and this is once again a 'time for choosing.'”

Scozzafava has been plagued throughout her campaign by grassroots conservative activists who have questioned her credentials, and Palin is the latest in a slew of prominent national conservatives who have weighed in for Hoffman.

In her statement, the GOP's 2008 vice-presidential nominee sounded a clear anti-party tone.

“Best of all, Doug Hoffman has not been anointed by any political machine,” Palin wrote. “Doug Hoffman stands for the principles that all Republicans should share: smaller government, lower taxes, strong national defense, and a commitment to individual liberty.”

“Political parties must stand for something. When Republicans were in the wilderness in the late 1970s, Ronald Reagan knew that the doctrine of ‘blurring the lines’ between parties was not an appropriate way to win elections,” she added, launching into an attack of the Republican Party.

“Unfortunately, the Republican Party today has decided to choose a candidate that more than blurs the lines, and there is no real difference between the Democrat and the Republican in this race. This is why Doug Hoffman is running on the Conservative Party's ticket,” she wrote. “Republicans and conservatives around the country are sending an important message to the Republican establishment in their outstanding grassroots support for Doug Hoffman: no more politics as usual.”



New York Republican Dede Scozzafava's Campaign Funded by Pro-Abortion Groups

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor

http://www.lifenews.com/state4524.html#

Albany, NY (LifeNews.com) -- The New York special election for Congress has become a cause of sorts for pro-life advocates because of the intricacies involved and the need for pro-life votes in Congress. But, abortion advocates are also weighing in and they are supporting pro-abortion Republican Dede Scozzafava.

The election pits Scozzafava against Democrat Bill Owens, who is also pro-abortion, and pro-life Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman.

Because they normally don't have much of a chance to win and with one of the major party candidates typically having a pro-life stance, pro-life groups rarely support third party candidates.

That is not the case in New York, where pro-life groups are decidedly in Hoffman's corner because both Owens and Scozzafava back abortion.

Now, new reports indicate abortion advocates are backing Scozzafava.

Scozzafava’s fundraising reports indicate much of her campaign's funding has come from pro-abortion groups, with the Planned Parenthood PAC giving her $1,000 and New York Choice PAC kicking in another $2,500.

In fact, donations from liberal political groups total more than half of the money Scozzafava has received for her campaign.

Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman raised $48,000 during that time period, with much of it coming from residents of the congressional district. Democrat Bill Owens has raised $60,000.

Scozzafava came under fire this week for calling the cops when a reporter from the Weekly Standard magazine asked her about abortion.

The Life and Liberty PAC, a conservative organization committed to electing pro- life candidates and defeating pro-abortion supporters, is one of the pro-life groups backing Hoffman.

Opening with audio of President Obama saying "an acorn doesn't fall far from the tree," the radio spot, titled "Acorn" takes aim at "Republican" candidate Dede Scozzafava, calling her "one liberal acorn falling right from Barack Obama's liberal tree."

Blasting Scozzafava for backing abortion "up to the day of delivery," the ad notes that Scozzafava was rated only 15 percent conservative last year.

Describing the embattled GOP candidate as "Acorn's Choice, Not Our Choice," the spot, aimed at conservative voters, is designed to drive Republicans to Hoffman, who is closing on Scozzafava and Owens in recent polls.

"And here there are three distinct choices: a Barack Obama liberal, a left-wing so-called Republican who agrees with Obama on virtually everything, or a solid conservative ready to stand tall," he said.

Hoffman is pro-life while Owens is pro-abortion and both are vying with Scozzafava to represent the New York district that came open after an Obama appointment.

Former presidential candidate Fred Thompson has endorsed Hoffman as has the pro-life women's group Susan B. Anthony List.

“The Susan B. Anthony List Candidate Fund is proud to endorse Doug Hoffman for Congress,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the group.

“He will be a passionate advocate for women and the unborn who will reflect the growing pro-life views of his district and the country," she said. "As we face the greatest threat since Roe v. Wade, abortion mandates in health care reform, Congress needs Doug’s pro-life leadership.”

“Dede Scozzafava’s support for the extreme abortion agenda is out of step with New York’s 23rd District," she said. "She already embraced the Planned Parenthood abortion on-demand agenda in the New York State Legislature, and they awarded her their Margaret Sanger Award."

"Dede Scozzafava is an abortion radical who does not represent the views of the growing majority of pro-life American women. The lives of women and their unborn babies are on the line, and the Susan B. Anthony List Candidate Fund is ready to defend them at the ballot box in New York and across the country," Dannenfelser continued.



Hoffman Bid in NY-23 Becomes National Conservative Crusade

by John Gizzi

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34040#

With only two weeks to go, conservative businessman Doug Hoffman’s race in New York’s 23rd congressional district is becoming a top priority among conservatives nationwide.

The insurgent conservative’s gains may be due to Hoffman’s pro-life, anti-bailout, and anti-spending platform -- or disgust with liberal GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava and the means in which she was given the nomination by ten Republican county chairmen – or both.

Just this week, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Tex.) announced his support for Hoffman. Armey, a key player in the tea party tax protests nationwide on September 12, will jet to the upstate New York district on Thursday (October 22nd) to appear with the Conservative hopeful.
Armey’s stand puts him at odds with his old comrade in the House GOP leadership, former Speaker Newt Gingrich, who upset conservatives by endorsing the liberal Scozzafava a week ago.

This latest endorsement comes on the heels of the Club for Growth’s announcement of a new wave of TV ads on behalf of Hoffman. In addition, the conservative grassroots organization National Republican Trust PAC has just endorsed Hoffman, with Trust Executive Director Scott Wheeler telling reporters: “New York’s out-of-touch GOP party hacks chose the most liberal nominee possible in a backroom meeting without any input from the voters of New York.”

Late support for Hoffman is coming from coast to coast. At the Western CPAC Conference in Newport Beach, California this weekend, I talked to numerous California conservative activists who not only were aware of the New York contest but had sent money or were planning to send money to Hoffman. American Conservative Union Chairman David Keene devoted much of his luncheon address to the Western CPAC to denouncing national and state party leaders for the deal that gave the nomination to Scozzafava.

“We’re getting tons of small donations from around the country,” Hoffman spokesman Rob Ryan told me when I spoke after returning from California.

Meanwhile, Scozzafava had to play defense last week. She came under fire for her position on the Americans for Tax Reform pledge not to vote for a tax increase or any new taxes if elected to Congress. The state assemblywoman signed the ATR pledge October 15 two weeks after the Adirondack (N.Y.) Daily Enterprise reported (October 3rd) her adamant stand that she wouldn’t sign the pledge. And the Watertown (NY) Daily Times reported on October 19th that Scozzafava feels the ATR pledge “doesn’t bind her hands” on supporting the federal stimulus bill or earmarks.

With days to go before the balloting, watch for more “name” conservatives as well as more small donors to rally to the Hoffman banner in what is shaping up as a defining moment for the modern conservative movement.



Sunstein urges: Abolish marriage

Adviser compares institution to country club membershipBy Aaron Klein

© 2009 WorldNetDaily

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=113802#

The U.S. government should abolish its sanctioning of marriage, argued Cass Sunstein, President Obama's regulatory czar.
Cass Sunstein

Sunstein proposed that the concept of marriage should become privatized, with the state only granting civil union contracts to couples wishing to enter into an agreement.

Sunstein explained marriage licensing is unnecessary, pointing out people stay committed to organizations like country clubs and homeowner associations without any government interference.

"Under our proposal, the word marriage would no longer appear in any laws, and marriage licenses would no longer be offered or recognized by any level of government," wrote Sunstein and co-author Richard Thaler in their 2008 book, "Nudge: Improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness."

In the book – obtained and reviewed by WND – Sunstein explains his approach would ensure that "the only legal status states would confer on couples would be a civil union, which would be a domestic partnership agreement between any two people."

He proposed marriage not be recognized by the government. Marriages would instead be "strictly private matters, performed by religious and other private organizations," he wrote.

"Governments would not be asked to endorse any particular relationships by conferring on them the term marriage," added Sunstein.

Sunstein slammed current government recognition of marriage as "an official license scheme."

"When the state grants marriage it gives both maternal and symbolic benefits to the couples it recognizes. But why combine the two functions? And what is added by the term marriage?" he asked.

Sunstein explained terminating the issuance of state marriage contracts would not affect the commitments of those in the "partnership."

"People take their private commitments serious," Sunstein wrote. "Members of religious organizations, homeowners' associations, and country clubs all feel bound, sometimes quite strongly, by the structures and rules of such organizations."

Take organs from 'helpless patients'

Sunstein's proposal regarding marriage is hardly the only controversial section of his book. WND reported last week that in the same book, Sunstein defended the possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission.

He also strongly pushed for the removal of organs from deceased individuals who did not explicitly consent to becoming organ donors.

Sunstein and Thaler discussed multiple legal scenarios regarding organ donation. One possibility presented in the book, termed by Sunstein as "routine removal," posits that "the state owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain hopeless conditions, and it can remove their organs without asking anyone's permission."

"Though it may sound grotesque, routine removal is not impossible to defend," wrote Sunstein. "In theory, it would save lives, and it would do so without intruding on anyone who has any prospect for life."

Sunstein continued: "Although this approach is not used comprehensively by any state, many states do use the rule for corneas (which can be transplanted to give some blind patients sight). In some states, medical examiners performing autopsies are permitted to remove corneas without asking anyone's permission."

Sunstein's example of medical examiners removing corneas, however, applies only to patients who are already declared deceased.

After defending the position, Sunstein conceded the "routine removal" approach "violates a generally accepted principle, which is that within broad limits, individuals should be able to decide what is to be done with and to their bodies."

Still, Sunstein did not add that the removal of organs from a living individual should be banned.

Also in the same book, CNSNews.com previously noted Sunstein argued for removing organs from deceased patients who are not registered as organ donors, a policy not without precedent. Spain and some European Union countries have been debating accepting a law of implied consent.

Writes Sunstein: "A policy that can pass libertarian muster by our standards is called presumed consent."

"Presumed consent preserves freedom of choice, but it is different from explicit consent because it shifts the default rule," he writes. "Under this policy, all citizens would be presumed to be consenting donors, but they would have the opportunity to register their unwillingness to donate, and they could do so easily. We want to underline the word easily, because the harder it is to register your unwillingness to participate, the less libertarian the policy becomes."

Sunstein continues: "Although presumed consent is an extremely effective way to increase the supply of organs available for transplant, it may not be an easy sell politically. Some will object to the idea of 'presuming' anything when it comes to such a sensitive matter. We are not sure that these objections are convincing, but this is surely a domain in which forced choosing, or what is referred to in this domain as mandated choice, has considerable appeal."

Sunstein advocates making it mandatory for all citizens to register either as an organ donor or as unwilling to donate their organs.

"Mandated choice could be implemented through a simple addition to the driver's license registration scheme used in many states. With mandated choice, renewal of your driver's license would be accompanied by a requirement that you check a box stating your organ donation preferences. Your application would not be accepted unless you had checked one of the boxes. The options might include 'yes, willing to donate' and 'no, unwilling to donate.'"

Government must fund abortion

Sunstein is not shy about his view concerning rights to life or abortion.

WND reported that in his 1993 book "The Partial Constitution" Sunstein argued the government should be required to fund abortion in cases such as rape or incest.

"I have argued that the Constitution .... forbids government from refusing to pay the expenses of abortion in cases of rape or incest, at least if government pays for childbirth in such cases," Sunstein wrote.

The Obama czar asserts that funding only childbirth but not abortion "has the precise consequence of turning women into involuntary incubators."

Sunstein argues that refusing to fund abortion "would require poor women to be breeders," while co-opting women's bodies "in the service of third parties" – referring to fetuses.

Sunstein wrote he has no problem with forcing taxpayers to fund abortions even if they morally object to their money being used for such a purpose.

He wrote: "There would be no tension with the establishment clause if people with religious or other objections were forced to pay for that procedure (abortion). Indeed, taxpayers are often forced to pay for things – national defense, welfare, certain forms of art, and others – to which they have powerful moral and even religious objections."



US Reagan

http://ericlogan.posterous.com/three-new-navy-ships

Seeing it next to the Arizona Memorial really puts its size into perspective... ENORMOUS!

When the Bridge pipes 'Man the Rail' there is a lot of rail to man on this monster: shoulder to shoulder, around 4.5 acres. Her displacement is about 100,000 tons with full complement.

Capability

Top speed exceeds 30 knots, powered by two nuclear reactors that can operate for more than 20 years without refueling

1. Expected to operate in the fleet for about 50 years

2. Carries over 80 combat aircraft

3. Three arresting cables can stop a 28-ton aircraft going 150 miles per hour in less than 400 feet

Size

1. Towers 20 stories above the waterline

2. 1092 feet long; nearly as long as the Empire State Building is tall

3. Flight deck covers 4.5 acres

4. 4 bronze propellers, each 21 feet across, weighing 66,200 pounds

5. 2 rudders, each 29 by 22 feet and weighing 50 tons

6. 4 high speed aircraft elevators, each over 4,000 square feet

Capacity

1. Home to about 6,000 Navy personnel

2. Carries enough food and supplies to operate for 90 days

3. 18,150 meals served daily;

4. Distillation plants provide 400,000 gallons of fresh water from sea water daily, enough for 2,000 homes

5. Nearly 30,000 light fixtures and 1,325 miles of cable and wiring 1,400 telephones

6. 14,000 pillowcases and 28,000 sheets

7. Costs the Navy approximately $250,000 per day for pier side operation

8. Costs the Navy approximately $25 million per day for underway operations (Sailor's salaries included).



USS BILL CLINTON

The USS William Jefferson Clinton (CVS1) set sail today from its home port of Vancouver , BC .

The ship is the first of its kind in the Navy and is a standing legacy to President Bill Clinton 'for his foresight in military budget cuts' and his conduct while holding the (formerly dignified) office of President.

The ship is constructed nearly entirely from recycled aluminum and is completely solar powered with a top speed of 5 knots. It boasts an arsenal comprised of one (unarmed) F14 Tomcat or one (unarmed) F18 Hornet aircraft which, although they cannot be launched on the 100 foot flight deck, form a very menacing presence.

As a standing order there are no firearms allowed on board.

This crew, like the crew aboard the USS Jimmy Carter, is specially trained to avoid conflicts and appease any and all enemies of the United States at all costs.

An onboard Type One DNC Universal Translator can send out messages of apology in any language to anyone who may find America offensive. The number of apologies are limitless and though some may seem hollow and disingenuous, the Navy advises all apologies will sound very sincere.

In times of conflict, the USS Clinton has orders to seek refuge in Canada .



USS BARACK OBAMA

Don 't ask



"The e-mail Bag"

Bud, the cowboy

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.

The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"

Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his
location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.

The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.

Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."

"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.

He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"

"You're a Congressman", says Bud.

"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"

"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep. . .

Now give me back my dog.