A SOUND WAY TO DECREASE THE NUMBER OF ABORTIONS

WASH POST:

On June 6, Cheryl Smith took her last $600 and drove her teenage daughter from Baltimore to Severna Park to get an abortion. When they got there, a receptionist told them the clinic had changed hands. The abortion provider had moved a few miles away, she said, but the new clinic would offer a pregnancy test and sonogram for free.

The Smiths stayed. After they saw a picture of the fetus at 21 weeks with arms and legs and a face, their thoughts of termination were gone.

... ultrasound exams have proven effective in convincing women to stay pregnant. A 2005 survey by Care Net, a Sterling-based network of about 1,000 antiabortion pregnancy centers in the United States and Canada, found that 72 percent of women who were initially "strongly leaning" toward abortion decided to carry their pregnancies to term after seeing a sonogram.

THEY DON'T SEE A SONOGRAM; THEY SEE A BABY. A BABY. A BABY HUMAN. THEIR BABY. THEIR CHILD. THEY SEE THEIR CHILD'S FACE. AT 21 WEEKS - WHEN MANY ABORTIONS ARE PERFORMED - THE BABY HAS A FACE. THE FACE PROBABLY LOOKS LIKE MOMMY'S AND DADDY'S. IT'S NOT A FACELESS FETUS. IT'S A BABY.

The additonal information the sonogram provides disrupts the denial upon which pro-abortion arguments are based. That's why this process works. It empowers the mother to see her pregnancy is not mere inconvenience, but motherhood. And it proves that adoption is the best answer to an unwanted pregnancy, not an abortion.

[ASIDE: AS I HAVE BLOGGED BEFORE: One day, a woman might also have the choice of freezing her embryo, and then implanting it when she wants the baby. Or donating it.]

REMEMBER: 9/11 WAS DIABOLICAL AND THE WAR AGAINST THE EVIL-DOERS MUST GO ON

Would anyone care to really deny this fact: the 9/11 attacks were diabolical. Not political. Not anti-colonial. Not a counter-attack. But diabolical. Evil.

I know that Leftists have a hard time with this concept, because as post-modernists and moral relativists they pretend that there is not really any such a thing as evil. To Leftists, morality is in the eye of the beholder.

But not to realists. To realists, 9/11 was diabolical. The perpetrators - who portray themselves as religious fanatics - are false prophets, purveyors of an evil creed, an evil creed responsible for nearly all the terror in the world, and for the deaths of more Muslims than any other creed ever. They are evil. They believe that it is right to murder one's own daughter in order to restore honor to one's family. They are evil.

On the upcoming anniversary of 9/11, we should remember that the evil people who attacked us on that day cannot be reasoned with, or appeased, or negotiated with. They must be wiped off the face of the earth.

As Bush said on 9/20/01 - (excerpts):

Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated. Americans are asking, why do they hate us? They hate what we see right here in this chamber -- a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms -- our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.

They want to overthrow existing governments in many Muslim countries, such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. They want to drive Israel out of the Middle East. They want to drive Christians and Jews out of vast regions of Asia and Africa.

These terrorists kill not merely to end lives, but to disrupt and end a way of life. With every atrocity, they hope that America grows fearful, retreating from the world and forsaking our friends. They stand against us, because we stand in their way.

We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions -- by abandoning every value except the will to power -- they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies. (Applause.)

Americans are asking: How will we fight and win this war? We will direct every resource at our command -- every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence, and every necessary weapon of war -- to the disruption and to the defeat of the global terror network.

This war will not be like the war against Iraq a decade ago, with a decisive liberation of territory and a swift conclusion. It will not look like the air war above Kosovo two years ago, where no ground troops were used and not a single American was lost in combat.

Our response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated strikes.

Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen.

It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success. We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest. And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make.

Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.

... This is not, however, just America's fight. And what is at stake is not just America's freedom. This is the world's fight. This is civilization's fight. This is the fight of all who believe in progress and pluralism, tolerance and freedom.

We ask every nation to join us. We will ask, and we will need, the help of police forces, intelligence services, and banking systems around the world. The United States is grateful that many nations and many international organizations have already responded -- with sympathy and with support. Nations from Latin America, to Asia, to Africa, to Europe, to the Islamic world. Perhaps the NATO Charter reflects best the attitude of the world: An attack on one is an attack on all.

The civilized world is rallying to America's side. They understand that if this terror goes unpunished, their own cities, their own citizens may be next. Terror, unanswered, can not only bring down buildings, it can threaten the stability of legitimate governments. And you know what -- we're not going to allow it.

... I ask for your patience, with the delays and inconveniences that may accompany tighter security; and for your patience in what will be a long struggle.

... After all that has just passed -- all the lives taken, and all the possibilities and hopes that died with them -- it is natural to wonder if America's future is one of fear. Some speak of an age of terror. I know there are struggles ahead, and dangers to face. But this country will define our times, not be defined by them. As long as the United States of America is determined and strong, this will not be an age of terror; this will be an age of liberty, here and across the world.

... I will not forget this wound to our country or those who inflicted it. I will not yield; I will not rest; I will not relent in waging this struggle for freedom and security for the American people.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Fellow citizens, we'll meet violence with patient justice -- assured of the rightness of our cause, and confident of the victories to come. In all that lies before us, may God grant us wisdom, and may He watch over the United States of America.

AMEN. God Bless Our Troops, and Our Commander in Chief. And May God Continue to Bless America.

HARRIET MYERS vs RICHARD ARMITAGE - a lesson in character

When it became clear that for many on the Right the Harriet Myers nomination was GWBush's "no new taxes" moment, and that it was hurting him politically, Harriet Myers did the honorable thing and withdrew her name.

When it became clear that the Plame Affair was damaging the GWBush and Cheney and Rove and the entire White House AND the war in Iraq, Armitage stayed quiet - letting Bush and Cheney and Rove twist in the wind. For years.

Myers - for all her faults - has character. Armitage (like his ol' boss Powell) is a pathetic weasel with none. MORE HERE.
COMPLETE ROUND UP HERE.

MORE PROOF THEY MURDERED TERRI SCHIAVO

NYTIMES:

A severely brain-damaged woman in an unresponsive, vegetative state showed clear signs of conscious awareness on brain imaging tests, researchers are reporting today, in a finding that could have far-reaching consequences for how unconscious patients are cared for and diagnosed.

In response to commands, the patient’s brain flared with activity, lighting the same language and planning regions that are active when healthy people hear the commands. Previous studies had found similar activity in partly conscious patients, who occasionally respond to commands, but never before in someone who was totally unresponsive.

The term and the condition "vegtative state" may turn out to be entirely bogus.

AND IT MAKES ME WONDER:

WHAT WAS TERRI THINKING AND FEELING AS THEY STARVED HER TO DEATH?

WHAT WOULD TERRI'S BRAIN-IMAGING TESTS HAVE SHOWN?

We'll never know. Her estranged and very Left-wing husband made sure of that.

SCIENTISTS DISCOVER ANOTHER NATURAL SOURCE FOR INCREASES IN LEVELS OF ATMOSPHERIC GREENHOUSE GASES

BBC:

Thawing Siberian bogs are releasing more of the greenhouse gas methane than previously believed, according to new scientific research. Scientists from Russia and the US measured methane bubbling from a number of thawing lakes. ... Methane's contribution to present-day global warming is second only to CO2.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that atmospheric concentrations are about two and a half times those seen in pre-industrial times. "Thaw lakes in north Siberia are known to emit methane, but the magnitude of these emissions remains uncertain," the scientists write.

"We show that methane flux from thaw lakes in our study region may be five times greater than previously estimated." ... Using radiocarbon techniques, the researchers showed that some of the escaping methane molecules had been formed more than 40,000 years ago.

Er, um... the methane was obviously frozen during the last Ice Age. Before that it was er... um... WARMER. And before that... cooler. You see, fluctuations of global climate are natural and pre-date industrialism and all other possible anthropogenic causes. The current warming trend may very well be an entirely - or juts mopstly - NATURAL event. And completely unavoidable.

This article points out once again that climatoloigist don't know more than they know. As in my previous posts about iron-deficient plankton and the old age of most trees in the Amazon, it proves that the models climatologists use are quite approximate - too the point of admitted gross inaccuracy. It's like they're just guessing!

MY POINT: If global warming is natural, the enacting draconian tax measures in order to limit industrialism in the hope/wish/prayer of slowing global warming is STUPID, and it won't accomplish a dang thing - except to cede power to governments and bureaucracies: whiuch just happens to be EVERY LEFTIST'S DREAM; (in fact, to the Leftiust, it's a TWOFER: they get to raise taxes AND cut industrialism).

OH, AND BTW: Even IF the thawing lakes are releasing MORE methane than previosuly estimated, and even IF this feedback is accelerating global-warming IT DOESN'T PROVE IT'S ANTROPOGENIC. It may all be natural.

DEMOCRAT DOVES PROMISE TO ABANDON IRAQ AS THEY DID SOUTH VIETNAM AND THE CONTRAS

CLICK HERE FOR PROOF. I predict that cutting off funding for the defense of the nascent democracy in Iraq will be the first thing "Speaker Pelosi" does. The second will be to start impeachment hearings.

I ask you two questions:

IS THAT WHAT THIS NATION NEEDS RIGHT NOW!? WILL THESE ACTIONS HURT THE ENEMY, OR AID AND ABET THE ENEMY!?

I'LL ANSWER YOU THIS WAY: if you want to help Osama and Hizballah, then vote Democrat.

BTW, the analogy is quite apt: the last US combat troops left South Vietnam on 3/29/73 (Vietnamization was working, then - AS IS IRAQIAZATION WORKING NOW). Saigon did not fall to the Marxist totalitarians of North Vietnam - in violation of the Peace Treaty - until 4/30/75 - TWO YEARS LATER ... and right after the Democrat doves who controlled Congress cut off the SVG froom all funding. They did the same thing to the Contras in 1982.

The Democrat doves will cut fiancing to Iraq and throw them to the tyrannical, jihadoterrorist wolves.

You know, if these Left-wing doves (who NOW control the Democrat Party) had been in power in 1950's, then they would have abadoned the South Koreans! These doves would've even let Krushchev keep nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962! And not even tried to air-lift suppiles to Berlin as Truman did in 1948.

These courageous acts were too confrontational for the doves. Thank God that THEN, Democrats still had some folks who believed in a robust national defense. Hawkish Democrats like Truman and JFK. THIS IS NOT TRUE ANYMORE - NOT NOW THAT LIEBERMAN IS GONE.

And that's why I feel it might even get worse: I feel the Democrat doves will also cut support for Afghanistan, and suspend our special alliance with Israel, too - all in the name of appeasement - in the name of "trying to appear more even-handed", as if Israel and and democratic Afganistan were the moral equivalents of Al Qaeda and Hizballah!

This is why I feel the stakes are so very high in the coming election. I hope America doesn't retreat by electing a Democrat Party majority in EITHER the House or the Senate. It would be like re-electing Chamberlain in 1940!

HERE'S A LINK TO A WONDERFUL SHORT VIDEO - WITH TOUCHING IMAGES AND STIRRING WORDS AND MUSIC - WHICH PUTS THE CURRENT CROP OF DOVE-O-CRATS INTO THE PROPER PERSPECTIVE.

UPDATE: Here's a link to even more proof that the Democrat Party is now controlled by Left-wing doves and anti-Semites.

IS LEBANON WITH US OR AGAINST US?

"Reuters":

Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said on Wednesday that Hezbollah's continued detention of Israeli soldiers violated the Security Council resolution, and that Lebanon must act to release them unconditionally. "UN Security Council Resolution 1701, on which the cease-fire is based, calls unequivocally for an unconditional and immediate release of the soldiers being held hostage," he said.

"The continued holding of our soldiers is a grave violation of the cease-fire. A continuation of this violation will have consequences."

What will the consequencs be if there is a "buffer zone" populated with third party nations between the IDF and Hizballah? How might the IDF attack? I don't know. Will they ask that sanctions be placed on Lebanon and that all the aid money pledged to rebuild the shia south of Lebanon be put on hold? Probably this is the next move.

And at what point will Bush and Condi apply the same policy to Lebanon as it did to Afghanistan? We told the Taliban to give up al Qaeda or else. We should tell the same thing (more or less) to the Lebanese government: disarm Hizballah, and return the hostages, ... OR ELSE.

We should have one policy regarding states which harbor terrorists. Either a nation is with us or against us. If the Lebanese government won't disarm Hizballah and get the IDF soldiers released, then they should placd under sanctions and then - if that fails - bear the full brunt of an IDF and US military response.

ANNAN TO APPOINT ANTI-SEMITE AS MEDIATOR

JPOST:

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has decided to appoint his former special adviser Lakhdar Brahimi to mediate a possible agreement for swapping Lebanese prisoners in return for freeing the reservists Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, The Jerusalem Post has learned. Brahimi recently publicly expressed his support for talking directly with Hizbullah.

YUP: Lakhdar is BAD GUY: he's a cronie of Korrupt Kofi. He favors negotiating with jihadoterrorists, and he's an anti-Semite who once bragged that he had never shaken the hand of a JEW, and called Sharon a TERRORIST. And, his daughter was a correspondant in CNN's discredited (pro-Saddam) Baghdad bureau. And he played a terrible role in post-war iraq. AND OH YEAH: he thought it was fine to over-throw jihadis in his own country (Algeria, but not elsewhere) - which makes him nothing but a hypocrite. More on this s---bag HERE.

IRON-CLAD ELECTION PREDICTION: NO MATTER HOW THE GOP DOES, THE MSM WILL SAY, "BUSH LOST"

According to the MSM, Bush will lose - no matter what; it's a foregone conclusion. Here's how they'll spin it:

IF THE GOP DOES WELL, THEN THE MSM WILL SAY IT WAS IN SPITE OF BUSH'S LOW APPROVAL RATINGS AND A RESULT OF LOCAL ISSUES, CONCLUDING THAT "ALL POLTICS IS LOCAL." BUSH WILL WRITTEN OFF AS A LAME DUCK WHOSE NEOCON POLICIES WERE FINALLY REJECTED BY HIS OWN PARTY AND THE ELECTORATE. THEY WILL TALK ABOUT MCCAIN, AND MCCAIN, AND MCCAIN. AND HILLARY.

IF THE GOP DOES POORLY, THE MSM WILL BLAME BUSH AND NEOCON POLICIES. AND THEY WILL TALK ABOUT MCCAIN, AND MCCAIN, AND MCCAIN. AND HILLARY.

For a good technical analysis of the horse race click HERE. And always read Michael Barone and Jay Cost.

HAS OSAMA FINALLY BEEN CORNERED AND TRAPPED?

VOA:

... a NATO spokesman, Major Quentin Innesm said allied forces are closing in on Taleban guerrillas, pushing them into what he called "a bit of a trap."

FOX/AP:

U.S. artillery and airstrikes killed between 50 and 60 suspected Taliban militants on Tuesday, the fourth day of a NATO-led offensive in southern Afghanistan, a NATO spokesman said. ... NATO has already reported more than 200 Taliban killed in the operation. ... He said there had been no NATO or Afghan troop casualties.

UK TIMES:

The leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan will attempt today to bury their differences and agree a joint strategy to combat Islamic militants operating on both sides of their border.

As Nato forces fought an estimated 700 Taleban rebels in southern Afghanistan, President Musharraf prepared to make his first visit to Kabul for nearly two years, where he hopes to repair relations with President Karzai.

“We hope it will be a major, positive step for relations between the two countries and for co-operation in fighting terrorism,” a spokesman for the Afghan Foreign Ministry said. Yesterday Pakistan took a big step towards ending the fighting in the lawless Waziristan region when it signed a peace deal with tribal leaders. The agreement commits local militants to halt attacks on both sides of the border.

In return Pakistan will reduce its military presence and compensate tribesmen whose relatives have been killed or whose properties have been damaged. A key provision of the deal is that tribesmen will expel foreign fighters from the area. The region is believed to be a haven for al-Qaeda fighters and members of the former Taleban regime in Afghanistan. Without a base in Pakistan their operations could be seriously disrupted.

The timing of the Paki/Waziri deal and the Paki-Afghani deal and the very high death rates for the Taliban (in the current NATO operation), and the understated quote from the NATO spokesman make me feel that Osama has finally been cornered.

UPDATE: HERE'S MY REASONING:

• The NATO op - which they define as a trap - is a very large op and it's coming up against a very determined and very large contingent of Taliban. Perhaps they are defending Osama and or Zawahiri.
• The Pakistan deal with the jirga/tribes of Waziristan has been portayed by many as a bad deal for us, but perhaps it isn't. If the tribes won't give safe haven to alQ then alQ must go to Afghanistan where NATO is waiting. If the tribes do not expel alQ then the deal is broken. In which case there is NO LOSS for us.
• Musharraf is meeting with Karzai - this rapprochement is essential and good for our side; it would not occur if Karzai thought Pakistan was making a destabilizing deal with the Waziri tribes.
• And don't forget that this big NATO action comes on the heels of numerous alQ biggies being taken down in the last 6 weeks. Which probably means that very good intel was acquired and is being exploited everywhere - even Pakistan and Waziristan and Afghanistan.

That's why I say, STAY TUNED.

ARMITAGE PROVES LIBBY OBSTRUCTED NOTHING

NYTIMES:

An enduring mystery of the C.I.A. leak case has been solved in recent days, but with a new twist: Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the prosecutor, knew the identity of the leaker from his very first day in the special counsel’s chair, but kept the inquiry open for nearly two more years before indicting I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, on obstruction charges.

Now, the question of whether Mr. Fitzgerald properly exercised his prosecutorial discretion in continuing to pursue possible wrongdoing in the case has become the subject of rich debate on editorial pages and in legal and political circles.

So, er, um... since Fitzgerald KNEW who the leaker was - and that the leak was NOT A CRIME, then WHAT EXACTLY WAS OBSTRUCTED!? Nothing. Zero. Zilch. Bupkus. Nada - as in "not a" damn thing.

The feds should drop the charges aganinst Libby and investigate FITZGERALD for abuse of power.

A TRUE AMERICAN HERO AND HIS DEEDS GO UNREPORTED - UNTIL NOW

LONSBERRY/ VIA NRO:

Accounts of American valor are dismissed by the press as propaganda, yet accounts of American difficulties are heralded as objectivity. It makes you wonder if the role of the media is to inform or to depress - to report or to deride. To tell the truth, or to feed us lies.

TO READ AN ACCOUNT OF TRUE AMERICAN VALOR YOU'LL HAVE TO CLICK HERE - BECAUSE YOU'LL NEVER SEE IT IN THE MSM.

2006 AND 1938

QUESTIONS:

CAN THE WEST LEARN FROM ITS MISTAKES? CAN WE ACCEPT THE FACT THAT THE WORLD WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE HAD WE STOPPED HITLER IN 1938? CAN WE STOP IRAN NOW, OR MUST WE SUFFER THROUGH THIS CENTURY'S VERSION OF WW2 - ONLY NUCLEAR?

ANSWER:

LOYOLA/NRO: Churchill understood, as so many pseudo-pacifists did not, that allowing Germany to alter the status quo in a way that gave it a huge offensive advantage guaranteed that the Nazis would attack when they were ready. He understood that the last moment for effective self-defense was Munich in 1938—when there was no imminent attack. The choice was preemption or appeasement. And likewise the choice Bush faces now. Waiting until an attack might be imminent is suicide.

Will Bush be another Chamberlain, or will he be another Churchill? There are plenty of Chamberlains around: Kofi getting an agreement from Assad to prevent Hizballah from are-arming comes to mind - as only the most recent of a whle series of Chamberlainesque acts, (like making deals with Kim Jong Il and letting Moki alSadr live).

Bush has until December 2008 to preemptively take out Iran's nuke assets. Between now and then he does niot have to run the table, but he has to keep the initiative. We are killing the enemy in Afghanistan, and things are getting better in Iraq. But if the GOP loses the House, the ALL BETS ARE OFF. WHY?! Because the Left-wing doves who run the Democrat Party and the House will do to the Iraqis and the Afghanis and the Israelis what they did to the South Vietnamese: cut funding, abandon them.

AND YEAH: I believe that the new New Democrat Party will abandon Israel because the new New DemocratParty is controlled by their wacky Left which believes the Mearsheimer crap. Which is why I think the GWOT will be won or lost in this years mid-term election. If the Democrats win then Osama wins.

WHICH POLITICIANS BELIEVE THAT BUSH IS EXACERBATING JIHADOTERROR?

TWO SETS OF POLITICIANS BELIEVE THAT BUSH'S "FORWARD-LEANING" POLICIES IN THE GWOT ARE ACTUALLY EXACERBATING JIHADOTERROR. HERE'S WHAT ONE ACTUALLY SAID:

"As America claims to be fighting terrorism, it implements policies that cause the intensification of terrorism and institutionalised violence,"

Who said that? Was it John Kerry or Ned Lamont? Was it Russ Feingold or Teddy Kennedy? Was it Glenn Greenwald or Markos Moulitsas? NOPE. None of the above. It was Mullah Khatami, the former frontman for the Iranian tyranny. And, it's exactly what the Democrat Left says. Which says EVERYTHING you need to know about the Democrat Left: they are aligned with our enemy. UPDATE: JAWA agrees:

Terrorists Love the Left:

If Islamofascism and the Religious Right have so much in common, then how come the terrorists never quote Pat Robertson? Instead, they are constanting quoting icons of the Left to support their positions. They even use clips from Fahrenheit 9/11 in this propaganda film. And when American Taliban Adam Gadahn decides to name drop, it isn't Jerry Falwell that he cites for moral authority. It's George Galloway, Robert Fisk, and Seymour Hersh.

GO TO JAWA: THE ACTUAL POST HAS THE HYPERLINKS WHICH PROVE THE IDEOLOGICAL LINKS BETWEEN THE LEFT AND THE ENEMY! MORE HERE.

EUGENICS, EUTHANASIA AND THE LEFT

Leftists might be best defined as people who want to predetermine outcomes - they don't trust the marketplace, or individuals; they want the state to pick winners and losers. (If that's too oblique, then read two books by Hayek and call me in the morning!)

The ultimate outcome which a Leftist can control is LIFE AND DEATH. And when presented with this choice, the Leftist almost always come down on the dark side:

they favor abortion on demand; they favor euthanasia, and they favor life sentences for convicted MURDERERS.

Recently, Leftists in Massachusetts argued in favor of euthanizing/murdering a little girl who was in a coma as a result of child abuse. The Left argued - as they did in the Schiavo case - that she was "virtually brain-dead". People who wanted her to live won the legal battle. And now she is continuing her remarkable comeback. MORE HERE.

Also in the news this week is a new practice made available - RIGHT NOW - to people undergoing IVF, (but it could just as easily be made available to people conceiving naturally); it's called PGD - pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and it amount to SCREENING a propsective embryo/family member for potential diseases before implantation. EXCERPT:

[Critics say that...] It raises the specter of eugenics, they say, in the most personal terms. “It’s like children are admitted to a family only if they pass the test,” said Denise Toeckes, 32, a teacher who tested positive for a BRCA mutation. “It’s like, ‘If you have a gene, we don’t want you; if you have the potential to develop cancer, you can’t be in our family.’ ”

Other critics oppose preimplantation diagnosis on the grounds that it could be used to select against homosexuals, women or people with disabilities. It reduces people to their genes, they say, and paves the way for the pursuit of children designed to suit parental ideals and for discrimination against those born with perceived imperfections.

I think this is an apt description. This is eugenics, and it's amoral at best.

[ASIDE: Why does the Left consistently come down on the dark side!? Why do they favor euthanasia and abortion and appeasing the enemy!?

It's because they are moral relativists: lacking any belief in any universal truth or in universal and innate/God-given human rights, they have nothing that they feel is worth fighting for - or dying for --- OR EVEN LIVING FOR. Most Leftists just want third-party pay/universal healthcare, third-party pay retirement, and the right to have sex with anything that turns them on: whether it's the same gender or underage.

This moral relativism is, IMHO, a result of post-modernism. Post-modernism was an overreaction to WW1: confronted by that war's horrific casualties, post-modernists rejected nationalism, colonialism, capitalism and the West. This was when intellectuals began to become fixated with anti-West/anti-bourgeoise ideologies: Dadaism, Surrealism and Marxism. And it reignited their fixation on "primitive" culture and the Third World; they began to romanticize both, just as they demiograted traditonal Western values and mores. It's why the Left aggrandizes the murdererous thug and totalitarian Che.

Post-modernism and its concommittant moral relativism are currently predominant only because the Left has dominated the MSM and the Academy - and the perennial bureacracies within US State Department and the CIA - since the 1930's. This is why we must end the domination of the MSM over the newscycle, and why we must bring political parity back to the Academy. Only after the Left's stranglehold on these two organs of propaganda is ended will Leftism be relegated to the ashheap of history where it belongs.

Why am I so sure that Leftism will then vanish? Because without their stranglehold on the MSM and the Academy they will be forced to compete with post-Marxist/POST-post modernist philosphies ON AN EVEN PLAYING FIELD, and they will certainly, absolutely lose that competition.]

ZAWAHIRI VIDEO: CONVERT OR DIE

Zawahiri and his American stooge Adam Wutzhisname appeared together on a new video offering Americans two choices: convert or die.

This might be a warning/offering required by Islam before an impending mega attack. Maybe not. Or it might be a warning before a mega attack which is still years away. Who can say?

Anyhow, I think they left out a third choice for cowards: vote Democrat.