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Brad Johnson / ThinkProgress:
Access To Birth Control Is A Fundamental Component Of Climate Survival
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Right Wing News
When Bill Clinton picked Sotomayor in June 1997, many conservatives believed her confirmation would put her in a fast track to the Supreme Court. The Wall Street Journal editorial called her a liberal judicial activist. Rush Limbaugh said Clinton was putting her on a rocket ship to the Supreme Court. A vote to confirm her to the Circuit Court, many Republicans believed, would make it hard to vote against her if she was nominated to the Supreme Court.
Republicans, led by Majority Leader Trent Lott, delayed Sotomayor’s confirmation vote for more than a year. When the vote finally happened, 29 Republicans — including most conservative stalwarts like Mitch McConnell, Phil Gramm, Jon Kyl and even John McCain — voted no.
Santorum joined every Democrat in the Senate and 24 other Republicans in voting yes.JUST MORE PROOF THAT SANTORUMANIACS WHO THINK RICK IS A MORE RELIABLE CONSERVATIVE THAN MITT ARE MISTAKEN.
1 - Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired a rocket at a southern Israeli farming region late on Friday night.
The rocket slammed into an area between two residential homes in the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council, and sent shrapnel flying in several directions.
The shrapnel struck as civilians sat in a living room in one of the homes, and penetrated the structure. An electric pole was also damaged in the attack, cutting power to the homes.
No injuries were reported.
2 - IAF aircrafts struck four terror targets in the Gaza Strip Saturday night, in response to a Kassam rocket that was fired from Gaza a few hours earlier at the Eskol Council area.
Hospital officials in Gaza said that the air strike killed a Palestinian civilian, a guard in his 50s or 60s at an animal farm east of Gaza City. His caravan was hit by a missile and his adult son was wounded, the officials said.
The IDF reported that it accurately hit four targets along the Strip; a terror tunnel in southern Gaza, a terror tunnel in the center and a third terror tunnel and weapons manufacturing site in the North. It confirmed that airplanes returned safely to their bases.This is a microcosm of the conflict: ARABS INDISCRIMINATELY ATTACK ISRAELI CIVILIANS - WITH NOT STRATEGIC GOAL OTHER THAN TO INFLICT TERROR, AND THE IDF RESPONDS BY TARGETING TERRORISTS.
GLOBAL JIHAD EXTENDS INTO ARGENTINA - AND HAS FOR SOME QUITE TIME:According to the Chinese news service Xinhuanet, "A former member of the Iranian espionage services testified Wednesday that his country was behind the 1994 attack on a Jewish center in the Argentinian capital which left 86 dead."
"The attack on a Jewish center building on July 18, 1994 left a total of 86 people dead and more than 500 injured."
Why? The attack "was intended to avenge the Argentine government's failure to supply nuclear materials to Iran, as promised in the past."2006: Former Iran leader wanted in Argentina
Anti-dhimmitude from Argentine prosecutors.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentine prosecutors asked a federal judge on Wednesday to order the arrest of former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani and seven others for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center that killed scores of people.
The decision to attack the center "was undertaken in 1993 by the highest authorities of the then-government of Iran," prosecutor Alberto Nisman said at a news conference.
He said the actual attack was entrusted to the Lebanon-based group Hezbollah.2011: "In Argentina, we have seen graffiti written in Arabic calling for jihad which coincided with the visit of Iranians here"
While the world focuses on the resurgence of Islamic supremacism in the Middle East, the jihad is advancing in South America as well. More on this story. "Al Qaeda in Brazil?," by Jaime Daremblum in The Weekly Standard via Mexidata, April 11:
The Brazilian magazine Veja is reporting that al Qaeda members have established an active presence in South America's largest country, as have militants associated with Hezbollah, Hamas, and other terrorist groups. They are apparently engaged in fundraising, recruitment, and strategic planning. Earlier this week, Aldo Donzis, a leading figure in the Argentine Jewish community, spoke to the JTA news agency and voiced alarm about the revelations.
"We have high concern about fundamentalist movements in Latin America and about recruitment activities of fundamentalist movements," Donzis said.
1 - Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos told lawmakers to back a deeply unpopular EU/IMF rescue in a vote on Sunday or condemn the country to a "vortex" of recession.
2 - Eurozone ministers say MPs must approve it before Greece receives €130bn (£109bn) in bailout funds. They are also demanding further budget cuts of €325m before Wednesday's meeting of the Eurogroup, when Brussels is due to decide whether to give Greece the money it desperately needs.
The politicians in Athens had little choice. Unemployment figures released last week showed that the number out of work had risen to 20.9 per cent, while Greece's manufacturing output fell by 15.5 per cent in the year leading up December. Behind closed doors EU officials were debating suggestions that Greece exit the eurozone and drawing up plans for an "orderly default".IMHO, AN ORDERLY DEFAULT WAS THE GOAL ALL ALONG; WHAT WE'VE SEEN THESE LAST FEW MONTHS WAS ALL THEATER MEANT TO PREPARE THE MARKETS FOR AS SOFT A LANDING AS POSSIBLE.
An Egyptian security official says that three South Korean women were released a day after being kidnapped in the Sinai peninsula by a group of armed tribesmen.Was that before or after they left the area that they told this? I don't know, but reports like these can't be taken at face value. And if the tourists had been Jewish, there's every chance fate would be worse. With the rising of Islamofascism in Egypt, even Sinai is not a safe place to visit anymore.
The head of security in South Sinai Maj. Gen. Mohammed Naguib said that the three women and their Egyptian tour guide were released on Saturday after tribal elders pressured the captors to release them.
He says the captors had kidnapped the women on Friday to pressure Egyptian authorities to release their detained relatives.
It was the latest in a series of kidnappings in Sinai. The peninsula has seen a surge in lawlessness over the last year, but abducted tourists are rarely harmed.
Two American women kidnapped last week said afterward that their captors served them tea and dried fruit.
1 - Syrian protest centres came under renewed fire and a general was gunned down in Damascus on Saturday as the bloodshed showed no signs of abating, even spilling over into Lebanon.
2 - Two people were killed and at least eight wounded in street battles in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli Saturday, a security source said, during a second day of clashes between supporters and opponents of Syrian Pr'esident Bashar al-Assad.
The coastal city is dominated by Sunni Muslims who support the 11-month uprising against Assad in neighboring Syria, and is also home to members of Assad's Alawite minority. The two communities frequently clash, but tensions have heightened since the outbreak of unrest in Syria.
Residents said rocket-propelled grenades were fired from the Sunni Muslim district of Bab al-Tabbaneh toward the Alawite district of Jebel Mohsen Friday, but caused no injuries.
Saturday, Reuters Television footage showed gunmen taking cover on street corners and firing volleys of automatic gunfire.THIS IS SIMPLY JUST MORE MUSLIM INTERNECINE MADNESS: WHEN THEY AREN'T TRYING TO KILL NON-MUSLIMS, THEY KILL EACH OTHER.
A brothel in Austria has become a temporary homeless shelter.
Peter Laskaris, owner of Vienna's Red Rooms Laufhaus, is offering up a free bed, a hot shower and a meal to ten people every night.
However, he insisted that "other services are not included".
"We are not really doing much business in the current cold weather anyway and it is the school holidays - a lot of people are off away with their families," he said.
"Lots of our rooms are empty and it seemed a shame not to use them for a good cause. In these cold temperatures nobody should be left out on the streets."
Laskaris added that he is currently in talks with other brothels to do the same as temperatures in the city reach as low as -20 degrees.I WONDER IF HIS REGULAR PATRONS LIKE THE IDEA OF USING A ROOM FOR INTIMATE RELATIONS THAT HAD BEEN USED BY A HOMELESS THE DAY BEFORE?
Haniya reassures Iran: Hamas will never recognize Israel Gaza prime minister reiterates Hamas's long-held stance on occasion of Iran's commemoration of its 1979 Islamic revolution.
TEHRAN - Hamas "will never recognise Israel," its Gaza prime minister said Saturday in a speech in Iran that is likely to complicate Palestinian efforts to form a unity government in the teeth of opposition from Israel.
"They want us to recognise the Israeli occupation and cease resistance but, as the representative of the Palestinian people and in the name of all the world's freedom seekers, I am announcing from Azadi Square in Tehran that we will never recognise Israel," Ismail Haniya said.THIS IS WHY PEOPLE WHO STILL THINK THAT ISRAEL SHOULD MAKE CONCESSIONS TO THE SO-CALLED PALESTINIAN ARABS ARE ANTI-SEMITIC AND/OR INSANE.
A new article from Noam Scheiber at TNR -- adapted from a forthcoming book of his -- sheds new light on the fumbling, dysfunctional economic team that Obama had in place during the first two years. It's a depressing read.THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT ABOUT WHICH OF THE REMAINING CANDIDATES HAS THE PROVEN ABILITY TO ASSEMBLE AND LEAD A COMPETENT ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL TEAM.
President Barack Obama announced Friday that the administration will not require religious-affiliated institutions to cover birth control for their employees.When one gets treatment under the coverage provided by a health insurance policy, the employer never directly pays for that treatment. Employees don't go to the employer's management office for their healthcare needs but instead to the doctor or other provider.
Capping weeks of growing controversy, Obama said he was backing off a newly announced requirement for religious employers to provide free birth control coverage even if it runs counter to their religious beliefs.
Instead, workers at such institutions will be able to get free birth control coverage directly from health insurance companies....
An explosion ripped through an area in the northern port city of Tripoli late Friday, causing panic hours after clashes broke out between armed Lebanese over Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, a security source said.
The blast occurred near Al Jinan University in the mainly Muslim-Sunni neighborhood of Abi Samara, causing material damage and setting some parts of the campus on fire, the source, who requested anonymity, told dpa.
"Initial investigation showed that there is an arms depot in the area," the source said without giving details to whom this depot belongs.COULD IT BELONG TO HIZB'ALLAH? AND MIGHT'VE THE IDF BEEN INVOLVED IN THIS EXPLOSION?
EUROPEAN markets fell yesterday as a deal on Greek debt unravelled, raising the possibility that the debt-ridden country could imminently default and leave the euro.
An agreement between Greek politicians on a series of cuts that took weeks to negotiate was dashed within hours as European finance ministers demanded even more austerity before releasing the next tranche of bail-out funds.
But with scenes of rioting in Athens and cabinet members resigning in protest at the humiliating terms demanded by the EU, it is far from certain that the Greek parliament will vote through even the original cuts this weekend.GREEKS RIOT AS EUROZONE REJECTS £2.5BN CUTS PLAN:
ATHENS exploded into violence yesterday as the Greek people reacted furiously to the rejection of the country’s austerity plans by eurozone finance ministers.
Greek political leaders had agreed a deal including £2.5billion cuts but Brussels said it was not enough.
Riots raged through the capital while mass demonstrations gripped Greece’s next biggest city, Thessaloniki.
Some 20,000 protesters gathered in Syntagma Square, outside the parliament in Athens, during a general strike. Hooded youths hurled firebombs and stones at police, who responded with tear gas.
The turmoil hit global markets with the FTSE 100 in London down 43.08 points at 5852.39. Greece now has less than a week to meet three conditions in return for £107billion in aid to stave off bankruptcy.
The other eurozone countries have demanded Greece finds another £300million in savings, passes its cuts package in parliament and secures written guarantees the plans will be implemented even after a new government is elected in April.WB Yeats; (excerpt from The Second Coming):
By ABC News
Sep 21, 2011 3:59pm
Is Nicolas Cage a Vampire from the Civil War Era?
... THEN IT WAS JOHN TRAVOLTA:
Could Nicolas Cage be a vampire? A Civil War era photo that bears an eerie resemblance to Cage has sparked rumors that the actor is a real-life vampire.
The 150-year-old photo of a man who looks remarkably like Travolta has been put up for sale on eBay.
Lookalike: The 1860 photo of John Travolta looks very similar to a shot taken of the Grease star in 1980
He is a member of the Church of Scientology, which believes in reincarnation and asks some members to sign one billion year contracts of service.
And one photograph collector in Ontario, Canada, claims he has found a picture of John Travolta from a previous incarnation in 1860.
Union General Isaac I. Stevens, seated on a porch in March of 1862, near Beaufort, South Carolina. Stevens, formerly the first governor of Washington Territory, was killed in action at the Battle of Chantilly on September 1, 1862 after picking up the fallen regimental colors of his old regiment, shouting "Highlanders, my Highlanders, follow your general!" Charging with his troops while carrying the banner of Saint Andrew's Cross, Stevens was struck in the temple by a bullet and died instantly.
Turkey has torpedoed an Israeli plan to contribute an Israel Navy missile ship to a NATO mission in the Mediterranean Sea, in what would have been the first time Israel actively participated in one of the Western military alliance’s operations.
Diplomatic and defense officials told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that Turkey had decided to prevent Israeli participation in the long-term operation – called Active Endeavor – following the Israel Navy raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in 2010 in which nine Turkish nationals were killed.
Diplomatic officials said that ever since its success, Turkey had been seeking to scuttle greater Israeli participation in the alliance.UNDER THE ISLAMIST AKP - (WHICH STILL RUNS TURKEY AND IS SLOWLY BUT STEADILY ENDING KEMALISM AND TURKEY'S SECULAR DEMOCRACY AND REPLACING IT WITH AN ISLAMIST TYRANNY) - TURKEY HAS BEEN EXPLICITLY ANTI-WEST EVER SINCE REFUSING TO ALLOW U.S. MILITARY TRANSIT THROUGH TURKEY BEFORE THE IRAQ WAR - - - A MAJOR AFFRONT TO OUR ALLIANCE AND OUR STRATEGY FOR DEFEATING SADDAM.
Chinese authorities say they are investigating after one of the country's top police chiefs spent a day at a US consulate, state media reports.
Wang Lijun entered the consulate in Chengdu on Monday and left the following day, Xinhua news agency said.
The US State Department earlier confirmed Mr Wang had visited, fuelling speculation he had been seeking asylum.
Mr Wang gained national recognition after spearheading a crackdown on organised crime in Chongqing. But he was removed from his post and is now on leave because of "stress", according to Chinese officials.I BETCHYA HE FOUND THE CORRUPTION RAN RIGHT UP TO THE HIGHEST ECHELONS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY.
Wang, 52, headed Chongqing’s police force from 2009 until last week, overseeing a crackdown on gangs that raised the profile of his patron Bo Xilai, Chongqing’s Communist Party secretary.
Wang’s loss of his police portfolio and the Feb. 8 announcement that he was undergoing treatment for stress, indicate that China’s leaders have spurned Bo and his development model, which focused on increased state-led social spending, political analyst Li Cheng said in an e-mail.
“The Chongqing model is over,” Li, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, said in reference to Bo’s strategy, which also included a resurgence of songs and sayings lionizing socialism and Chairman Mao Zedong. “It means a landscape change in Chinese elite politics.”STAY TUNED...
1 - The Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday demanded that Egypt’s military rulers cede control of the government, stepping closer to a long-anticipated confrontation between the ruling generals and the Islamist-dominated parliament.
2 - The country that witnessed the Arab world’s most sweeping revolution is foundering. So is its capital, where a semblance of normality has returned after the chaotic days of the fall of Tripoli last August. But no one would consider a city ordinary where militiamen tortured to death an urbane former diplomat two weeks ago...ARAB SPRING?! NOPE.
Asian applicants to the University of Michigan in 2005 had a median SAT score that was “50 points higher than the median score of white students who were accepted, 140 points higher than that of Hispanics and 240 points higher than that of blacks.” That study also found that “among applicants with a 1240 SAT score and 3.2 grade point average in 2005, the university admitted 10% of Asian-Americans, 14% of whites, 88% of Hispanics and 92% of blacks.” ...
... after California abolished racial preferences, the percentage of Asian-Americans accepted at Berkeley [CALIFORNIA] increased from 34.6% in 1997, the last year of legal affirmative action, to 42% entering in fall 2006.RTWT.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
The Boston Globe 2/1/2008
Mitt Romney picked up two endorsements today, one in a Super Tuesday state, the other in a state where he hopes to be still competing once its primary rolls around
The other endorsement is from former US Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, which doesn't vote until April 22. McCain hopes to have the nomination wrapped up by then.
Santorum, however, appealed to Republicans voting on Super Tuesday.
SANTORUM 2/1/2008: "In a few short days, Republicans from across this country will decide more than their party's nominee. They will decide the very future of our party and the conservative coalition that Ronald Reagan built. Conservatives can no longer afford to stand on the sidelines in this election, and Governor Romney is the candidate who will stand up for the conservative principles that we hold dear,"
This January marks the 70th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference where the Nazi elite decided upon the deadly fate of millions of Jews in Europe.While this is chilling to learn about, and we must definitely thank the author for bringing this up, I honestly find it sad that she feels she just has to resort to the classic citation of fascist ideologies like those as "extreme right" if not "anti-liberal". Especially considering that she herself cited the Nazis by the full name they were known for - National Socialism - and not just by the acronym-like name seen more often.
No doubt this anniversary will be honoured – even in Austria, despite the fact that its ideological and practical involvement in the “Final Solution” is still talked of by some of its citizens and political leaders in terms of Austria as “the first victim” of National Socialist imperalism.
Conferences will be held, memorials organized and TV documentaries broadcast to commemorate the occasion. Talking about dead Jews has become business as usual – if not an obsession – in the successor states of the National Socialist empire.
While many nations will mark the international Holocaust remembrance day on January 27th, the very day Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army, a different kind of event will also take place on that very date here in Austria.
Vienna’s Hofburg Palace, official residence of the Austrian president Heinz Fischer, will host – as in previous years – the annual ball of the infamous Vienna Korporationsring, an association of German-nationalist fraternities who maintain a gateway between the extreme right, namely the Austrian Freedom Party(FPOE), and the neo-Nazis. In past years this ball has served as a networking event for Europe’s extreme right.
The history of these fraternities (“Burschenschaften”) reaches back to the 19th century, the birth years of a German nationalism that was based on a “völkische” ideology which was antisemitic as well as antiliberal at its core.
“I wrestle with gender-based abortion more than any other reason [for having an abortion]…From a macro perspective, I don’t think it is a good idea for us to be eliminating women. But if you look at it at the individual level, which is what we do, I don’t have any right to say that one person’s reason is better or worse than another’s.”SO... IN THE MIND OF THESE "PRO-CHOICE" FOLKS:
Greek PM Lucas Papademos has failed to secure the support of his coalition for a raft of new austerity measures, after more than seven hours of talks.
He met officials from three parties to try to secure a deal leading to a fresh bailout package.
The main stumbling block was proposed pension cuts, reports said.
According to unconfirmed reports in the Greek media, the measures were aimed at trimming 3.2bn euros (£2.7bn; $4.2bn):
THE GREEK RETIREMENT AGE IS 61. AND 14% CAN RETRIED AT AGE 50.
- Minimum wage to be cut by 22% from 751 euros per month to 600 euros.
- Supplementary pensions to be reduced by 15% but basic pensions also likely to be cut
- 15,000 public sector jobs to go by end of 2012
- But holiday bonuses, known as 13th and 14th month salaries, expected to be saved
After days of maneuvering, Greek political leaders reached a tentative deal on Thursday on a package of tough austerity measures demanded by Greece’s financial backers in return for the country’s latest bailout.It's tentative, I think it will collapse like the others. Stay tuned...
Vahrenholt’s skepticism started when he was asked to review an IPCC report on renewable energy. He found hundreds of errors. When he pointed them out, IPCC officials simply brushed them aside. Stunned, he asked himself, “Is this the way they approached the climate assessment reports?”For a comedy of errors, witness American Physical Society president Robert Byer's response to the 16 climate skeptics who recently criticized his organization's statement on climate change in the Wall Street Journal. It should serve as a Vahrenholtian moment for APS members. Here is Byer's complaint:
The APS statement is unequivocal. It notes that "global warming is occurring." ... The statement does not declare, as the authors of the op-ed suggest, that the human contribution to climate change is incontrovertible.See how up-to-speed the APS is? Byers is aware that climate skeptics don't deny global warming—that they only question whether this warming is attributable to human action—and so he assumes that the critics must have accused the APS of claiming that human attribution is incontrovertible. But if he had actually read the skeptic article that he presumes to correct, he would know otherwise. They explicitly questioned the statement that "global warming is occurring." How did Byers miss this sentence:
Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now.It may be incontrovertible that the planet WAS warming, past tense. But the claim that the planet is incontrovertibly STILL warming is nothing short of bizarre.
In September, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever, a supporter of President Obama in the last election, publicly resigned from the American Physical Society (APS) with a letter that begins: "I did not renew [my membership] because I cannot live with the [APS policy] statement: 'The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now.' In the APS it is OK to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible?"Giaever is directly quoting the APS statement. The quote is not out of context. There are no omitted ellipses. It is APS itself that jumps directly from the claim of incontrovertible warming to the claim that greenhouse gases must be reduced, implicitly attributing the proclaimed warming to human GHG production. Nobody can blame Byers for taking this quote to imply that APS also considers human attribution to be incontrovertible, but it is quite amazing that he somehow fails to realize that it is in fact a quote.
The Nose Touch - In essence, the nose touch gesture is a sophisticated, disguised version of the mouth guard gesture. It may consist of several light rubs below the nose or it may be one quick, almost imperceptible touch. Like the mouth guard gesture, it can be used both by the speaker to disguise his own deceit and by the listener who doubts the speaker’s words.
Body Language of Lies:• Physical expression will be limited and stiff, with few arm and hand movements. Hand, arm and leg movement are toward their own body the liar takes up less space.
• A person who is lying to you will avoid making eye contact.
• Hands touching their face, throat & mouth. Touching or scratching the nose or behind their ear. Not likely to touch his chest/heart with an open hand.
These 7 cues will tip you off to whether someone is being less than honest with you.
October 18, 2007
How many times has your business suffered because you trusted the wrong person? If you're like most people, you've been lied to thousands of times.
Deception hurts in many ways. There's the emotional stress from being betrayed, the loss of self-confidence and the increased suspicion or even paranoia. Not to mention the financial cost.
A deceptive supplier may promise that a shipment will arrive by your deadline, all the while knowing that delivery by the promised date is impossible. Trusting this supplier could cost your company thousands of dollars or more. Deceptions like this can be deadly to a growing business.
But you don't have to be a victim. Here are seven subtle cues that often mean a person isn't being completely honest with you.
1. Nose touch: We have erectile tissues in our noses, which engorge with blood when we lie. This causes a tingling or itching sensation that requires a nose touch to satisfy. The absence of a nose touch doesn't guarantee truth, but the presence of a nose touch often means deception. Of course, sometimes a person will touch his or her nose because of a non-deceptive cause, such as a cold. With some practice, you can quickly learn to distinguish a deceptive nose touch from something innocent.HOW DO YOU KNOW OBAMA IS LYING?
I BETCHYA BARRY HUSSEIN SOETORO OBAMA AGREES WITH WHAT CASS WROTE HERE AT THIS LINK, TOO: THE US CONSTITUTION SUCKS; THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONSTITUTION RULES!Punditarian rightly commented earlier:
The purpose of the Constitution is not to grant or guarantee rights to the people. The rights of man are an endowment from the Creator. The purpose of the Constitution is to create a government whose powers are specifically limited, and which is required always to respect the rights with which we are endowed.EXCERPT FROM 1971 PAPER IN THE NEJM:
Since the left does not accept that there is a Creator capable of endowing His creations with inalienable rights, they typically concoct vast, turgid constitutions that grant to the subjects of the state all sorts of theoretical rights, none of which the state actually respects or promotes.
ABSTRACT
From man's primary right - the right to his own life - derive all others, including the rights to select and pursue his own values, and to dispose of these values, once gained, without coercion. The choice of the conditions under which a physician's services are rendered belongs to the physician as a consequence of his right to support his own life.
If medical care, which includes physician's services, is considered the right of the patient, that right should properly be protected by government law. Since the ultimate authority of all law is force of arms, the physician's professional judgment - that is, his mind - is controlled through threat of violence by the state. Force is the antithesis of mind, and man cannot survive qua man without the free use of his mind. Thus, since the concept of medical care as the right of the patient entails the use or threat of violence against physicians, that concept is anti-mind - therefore, anti-life, and, therefore, immoral.RTWT.
"... an examination of Mr. Santorum’s earmark record sheds light on another aspect of his political personality, one that is at odds with the reformer image he has tried to convey on the trail: his prowess as a Washington insider.
A review of some of his earmarks, viewed alongside his political donations, suggests that the river of federal money Mr. Santorum helped direct to Pennsylvania paid off handsomely in the form of campaign cash."MORE:
There’s no way to know for sure how many earmarks Santorum requested, since lawmakers weren’t required to attach their names to earmark requests until 2007. (Santorum served in the Senate from 1995 to 2007.) The Club for Growth, in its presidential white-paper series, claims that Santorum “requested billions of dollars forpork projects,” while the Perry campaign is alleging that Santorum requested over $1 billion in earmarks. Steve Ellis, vice president ofTaxpayers for Common Sense, views the $1 billion–plus figure as a plausible estimate. “As a matter of fact, I would probably peg it probably a little higher,” he says.FOX: RICK PERRY AGREES
Rick Perry is unleashing a new line of attack against his GOP rival Rick Santorum, calling out the former senator as a Washington insider addicted to earmarks.
"Rick Santorum is a friend and I've got great respect for him but when he talks about fiscal conservatism every now and then it kind of leaves me scratching my head," Perry said during a campaign stop in Washington, Iowa.
"I love Iowa pork but I hate Washington pork, and Senator Santorum, he loaded up his bills with Pennsylvania pork. He said in 2009 I'm very proud of my earmarks, I put them in my bills and I will defend earmarks. Well Senator Santorum, I'm going to give you that opportunity because earmarks are the gateway drug to the spending habits they have in Washington, DC."SANTORUM IS A CAREER POLITICIAN AND WASHINGTON INSIDER AND LOBBYIST AND NO FRIEND OF THE TEA PARTY.
