Obamacare declared unconstitutional — Excerpts From Judge Vinson Obamacare Ruling | RedState.
This isn’t over, of course, but it is an encouraging sign. I wonder how long it will take to get to the Supreme Court? I wonder why Congress didn’t anticipate this? It isn’t like they weren’t warned.
False teacher Chuck “Jesus is not the only way” Currie is boo-hooing because listener complaints resulted in some progressive “Christian” ads being pulled.
Living the Questions is a respected resource of video curriculum for progressive Christian communities around the world. The Portland radio spots advertised a new series called “Saving Jesus” with the seemingly balanced introduction:
“Ever feel like Jesus has been kidnapped and taken hostage by the Christian Right? Or maybe even worse, simply cast aside as irrelevant by those on the secular left?”
via Why Are Portland Radio Stations Banning Progressive Christian Advertising?.
If you can watch the video at his link (the FDA has approved it as a substitute for Syrup of Ipecac) you’ll find fakes like Brian McLaren, John Dominic Crossan, Marcus Borg and others making up a god then pretending to worship it.
See the comments section where Chuck says that if you don’t vote for oxymoronic “same-sex marriage” — which, of course, is nowhere to be found in the Bible — then you have kidnapped Jesus and held him hostage. What a self-parody.
It is almost comical watching people dismiss the virgin birth because that somehow takes Mary’s power away. That’s the kind of thinking you get when they worship radical feminism instead of seeking the real God on his terms.
In fact, that’s the core problem with all these false teachers and seriously confused people: They refuse to seek God on his terms and instead they make up their own god. They are either members of the “Jesus Seminar” or ideological siblings who think they get to literally vote on which verses of the Bible belong there. But just because they find a few verses they agree with doesn’t make them Christians any more than finding a few verses they like in the Quran makes them Muslims.
I respect the religious freedom of these fake Christians to make and publish all the ads they like, and I respect the freedom of the radio stations to pull them if their customers are offended by such nonsense.
I just wish that Chuck Currie et al weren’t so dishonest and would just make up a new name for their religion. They are the ones who “stole” the name of Jesus. The real Christians accept the Jesus of the Bible whether we like all the verses or not.
Jesus doesn’t need to be saved, we do. Jesus doesn’t need to be saved, He does save. And these fakes will never tell you that.
Ensuring women have all the necessary information before having abortions is a perfectly logical requirement. The pro-choice movement goes into hysterics over things like this, of course, just like they oppose common sense rules like parental notification (your child can’t take an Advil at school without your permission and a multi-step process, but the school can take them to have your child undergo a risky medical procedure that kills your grandchild?!).
Why don’t pro-choicers trust women to make good decisions with the information available? Do they think they are too fragile to know the truth? The real reason for their opposition is that they know that when women see ultrasounds they are much less likely to have abortions.
Also note that this is a case where a politician accomplishes something for the pro-life movement. I know some politicians of both parties use issues like this in a cynical way just to raise funds. They prefer that it not be fully settled. But legislation like this will save lives.
Some critics have said the bill isn’t an emergency, but I say that if lives are at stake then it is an emergency.
Others say it may traumatize the woman. But the pro-aborts typically insist that abortion is never traumatizing. These women may see ultrasounds of other babies in the future. Couldn’t that traumatize them as well? And if it is just a “blob of tissue” being removed, how would that be traumatic?
UPDATE: I wanted to add these important thoughts from commenter Roxanne. They further highlight the benefits of this law. If people really care about “safe” abortions then they would require ultrasounds.
As Abby Johnson mentioned in a side note in “Unplanned’, ultrasounds are the safer way to do abortions – but clinics don’t like the extra cost and time (which cuts down on the number of abortions that can be done in a given day).
If a baby really were like a tumour, you would demand an ultrasound, right? You would want to know exactly what it is that’s in there and the risks of taking it out. If women really were capable of making their own decisions, you wouldn’t use this foolish version of “informed consent,” in which the onus is on the patient to find out everything that she needs to know, while the doctor gives her tests and information only under legal duress; you would make the information available to her, trusting her to understand it and use it.
P.S. If nothing else, go to the link to see the latest caption in the Wintery Knight’s “Unborn baby scheming about ______” series. I always laugh at whatever he comes up with for the Mr. Burns look-alike unborn human being.
Via Republican Governor Rick Perry demands sonograms before abortions « Wintery Knight.
Texas governor Rick Perry is throwing his weight behind legislation to require doctors to show women a sonogram of their unborn child before having an abortion, declaring the issue a legislative “emergency.”
As an emergency item on the legislative agenda, the state congress will have the option of voting on the measure within the first 30 days of the current legislative session.
In addition to the sonogram, the bill would also require doctors to give mothers a detailed description of their child and his state of development, including the presence of limbs and internal organs. Mothers will also listen to their children’s heartbeat, and must be given information about abortion alternatives no less than 24 hours before the abortion occurs.
Perry’s decision to fast track the legislation was announced at a speech before the Texas Rally for Life, held on Saturday in Austin, the state capital.
“Nearly 40 years have passed since the tragedy of Roe vs. Wade was decided by the United States Supreme Court, and since then, fifty million, fifty million children have lost their chances,” Perry told the crowd.
“That is a catastrophic number. That’s twice the population of this entire state. It’s pretty hard to imagine people of good conscience sitting idly by through this, and in Texas we haven’t. We have actively worked against that Roe vs. Wade decision. We have taken great strides in protecting the unborn.”
I. THE MOST EFFECTIVE SINGLE SENTENCE:
Extensive and repeated polling agrees that the single most effective message is:
“Gays and Lesbians have a right to live as they choose,
they don’t have the right to redefine marriage for all of us.”This allows people to express support for tolerance while opposing gay marriage. Some modify it to “People have a right to live as they choose, they don’t have the right to redefine marriage for all of us.
Some sample Q&A. Learn these easy answers and stop being silent on this key issue.
1. Are you a bigot? “Why do you want to take away people’s rights?”
“Isn’t it wrong to write discrimination into the constitution?”A: “Do you really believe people like me who believe mothers and fathers both matter to kids are like bigots and racists? I think that’s pretty offensive, don’t you? Particularly to the 60 percent of African-Americans who oppose same-sex marriage. Marriage as the union of husband and wife isn’t new; it’s not taking away anyone’s rights. It’s common sense.”
2. Isn’t the ban on gay marriage like bans on interracial marriage?
A: “Bans on interracial marriage were about keeping two races apart so that one race could oppress the other. Marriage is about bringing two sexes together, so that children get the love of their own mom and a dad, and women don’t get stuck with the enormous disadvantages of parenting alone.” “Having a parent of two different races is just not the same as being deprived of your mother—or your father.”
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Sharks Are Not Misunderstood Dolphins, and Islam Is Not a Religion of Peace – Kevin DuJan from Hillbuzz is writing for the American Spectator now.
No matter how many times the delusional fools in the American media try to convince you otherwise, sharks are not misunderstood dolphins, and Islam is not a religion of peace.
I think that even the media knows this, on some level, because I’ve noticed that few journalists ever cover Islamic terror attacks the way they’d report on other murder sprees and tragedies committed by non-Muslims.
In the case of the latter, great effort is made to explain precisely why someone like Jared Lee Loughner picked up a gun, killed six, and injured a dozen more in his assassination attempt on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. His parents, friends, teachers, distant relatives, acquaintances, and kindergarten teacher, and a kid who sat next to him for an hour and a half on the ride to summer camp fifteen years ago, are all scrutinized for clues into his behavior, then blamed for being bad influences on him. The media stokes an abusive outrage against these people — the parents in particular — for not catching the warning signs that could have prevented these murders. Simultaneously, the media and the left join together in politicizing the tragedy, invoking Rahm Emanuel’s corollary to the Alinsky Rules for Radicals that no good crisis should go to waste. This means that in addition to the people a murderer like Loughner actually knew, the entire conservative movement in this country must also be held responsible for this single man’s actions, including peopleLoughner never met, spoke to, or even knew much about, like Governor Sarah Palin.
When a Muslim commits an act of mass-murdering terrorism, in contrast, the left does not camp out in front of the shooter/assassin/bomber’s home and scrutinize every person he ever in his life came in contact with and blame them all for his actions. Instead, the media personalities report on acts of terrorism the way they do shark attacks.
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Obamacare wavier count: 729 organizations, including many unions, plus 4 whole states (that, coincidentally, the President needs to win re-election). If the unicorn-rich bill was so swell, why all the waivers? And is the media aggressively researching the connections to the politically connected companies and why they are getting waivers?
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Joseph Smith, false prophet – Glenn has a great series on the many failed prophecies (62 at last count) of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism. Failed prophecies = failed prophet, i.e, don’t follow him.
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Pro-gay groups upset that supermarket “censors” US magazine with Elton John, his gay lover and their surrogate child – only they still sold the magazine, they just covered the picture to protect children.
I saw that at the grocery store last night. How disgusting. Deliberately bringing a child into a motherless, perverse relationship. Such narcissism and selfishness on behalf of Elton and those who are so thin-skinned that they have to force their views on little children.
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From the Your President Thinks You Are Stupid category: He has raised discretionary spending 84% and is “committing” to cutting it by less than 1%, and you are to believe that he’s a cost-cutter. Check.
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Miracle of life video – highlights some crucial scientific facts about the unborn, namely that they are human beings from conception.
See Governor Christie is actively courting Illinois businesses to move to New Jersey (and he is not the only Governor to take advantage of Pat Quinn’s chronic stupidity) – Ah, the free market at work! That pesky law of unintended consequences will get you every time. Make your state difficult to do business with and people and companies will leave.
This works on the national level as well. If you raise taxes and raise barriers to effective commerce, capital funds will go elsewhere and take their jobs with them. And that lowers tax bases that further erode employment, and the spiral continues.
These are basic economic principles that a 7th grade Junior Achievement student can grasp yet these highly paid politicians cannot. Like horrible chess players, they can’t think one simple move ahead. And more and more people will suffer for their ignorance.
And the mainstream media will look the other way. Again. And Congress will keep giving them hundreds of millions of your tax dollars. See After all, sex traffickers need Planned Parenthood, too – Jill Stanek.
This time PP is trying to get ahead of the embarrassment, but they are fumbling because they don’t know the content of the videos. Apparently they don’t just aggressively and systematically hide statutory rape, they are willing to hide underage sex workers (slaves would be a more accurate term). Why do people expect decent, law-abiding behavior from those who kill innocent human beings for a living?
P.S. I agree with Planned Parenthood’s view: “An abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun” At least that was their view in this 1964 advertisement. Did they learn anything about science in the few years after that when they changed their minds? Of course not. Science couldn’t be more clear: A new human being is created at conception.
(Got the picture from Glenn)
The disingenuous / lazy media and politicians are at it again with Social Security “trust fund” myth:
WASHINGTON – Sick and getting sicker, Social Security will run at a deficit this year and keep on running in the red until its trust funds are drained by about 2037, congressional budget experts said Wednesday in bleaker-than-previous estimates.
The massive retirement program has been suffering from the effects of the struggling economy for several years. It first went into deficit last year but had been projected to post surpluses for a few more years before permanently slipping into the red in 2016
This year alone, Social Security will pay out $45 billion more in retirement, disability and survivors’ benefits than it collects in payroll taxes, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said. That figure nearly triples — to $130 billion — when the new one-year cut in payroll taxes is included.
via Social Security fund now seen to be empty by 2037 – Yahoo! News.
But there is no trust fund. No. Trust. Fund. As I’ve noted before, anyone claiming there is such a thing is ignorant and/or trying to deceive you.
The government does not have the capability to set aside funds in a bank account like we do. When the Social Security funds come in they are spent on Social Security, or, as they have done for decades, on other spending projects they didn’t want to raise taxes to fund. Decades of dishonesty and financial mismanagement by both parties are becoming more visible.
If Social Security taxes stopped today there wouldn’t be a penny saved to meet the commitments the government made. It is the world’s largest Ponzi scheme.
If some of these Social Security funds went to private investments that you could control then that would limit how much the politicians could abuse. But they don’t want to lose control, so they play on your fears that something bad will happen.
Yes, the market could crash and you could lose your investments. It is a risky world. But think about this: Whether your private account crashed or not it isn’t like the government is saving our taxes today to pay out tomorrow. Either way the payouts they will make 10 years from now will come from taxes paid 10 years from now.
Simply put, we can’t lose by having at least part of current contributions devoted to private accounts. The politicians will lose because they’ll have to find a way to fund current spending, or not spend the money at all.
Don’t let fear-mongering by politicians fool you. The system has been broken for a long time. Democrats didn’t want you to be informed and Republicans didn’t try hard enough to inform you. But it isn’t that complicated.
You will often find skeptics and theological Liberals trying to dismiss your views because they are driven by or merely align with your religious views. They invoke the oft-misunderstood “separation of church and state” notion (for the 237th time, that phrase is not in the Constitution). But the 1st Amendment protects religious speech, it doesn’t restrict it.
Aside from that, here are some quick and easy replies when people try to dismiss your pro-life, pro-real marriage, etc. views. You are simply pointing out that the issue isn’t religious views, it is them being unwilling to argue the issues on their merits. They are trying to dismiss your views without having to respond to them.
1. “Do I have to vote opposite of my religious views or be silent about them? Christianity teaches me not to kill atheists and steal their stuff. So am I “forcing my religious beliefs on you” if I support laws against theft and murder?”
This argument shows how they are just dismissing your views because they disagree with them. They have no issue with your religious views in principle, just the ones they disagree with – which means religion isn’t the issue.
2. “Do you protest the religious speech of theological Liberals? I can point you to countless false teachers and religious types who insist that God is pro-abortion, pro-gay theology, pro-open borders, pro-wealth redistribution, etc. Can you show me where you are just as active in dismissing their religious views as you are mine?”
This points out their hypocrisy in claiming to oppose religious views when they really just oppose religious views they disagree with. Again, it shows that religion isn’t the issue. I’ve yet to find one person crying “separation” against theological Liberals.
3. “My arguments (for pro-life, pro-real marriage, etc. positions) didn’t even mention religion. But if you want to bring Jesus into this I’ll be glad to.”
I can and do argue for many of these issues without using “religion.” I save the biblical arguments for those claiming to be Christian, or I am at least very careful in keeping the arguments separate. For example, to advance the pro-life view I just need the irrefutable scientific fact that the unborn are unique, living human beings from conception and some simple philosophy (we shouldn’t destroy innocent human beings for 99% of the reasons given for abortion).
When opponents will reflexively use the anti-religion card I have fun pointing out that I haven’t used religious arguments. But hey, if they want to talk religion that would be great! This argument shows them that they are mired in stereotype-land and are just trying to dismiss opposing views without doing the hard work of responding based on facts and logic.
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Have fun with these! Use them gently.
False teachers (1) and other Liberals try to monopolize the term “social justice,” but given that they support taxpayer-funded abortions (not to mention any abortions), that is a sickening perversion of the term. What is more foundational to justice than the right not to be crushed and dismembered just because you are unwanted?
See Rescuing women trapped into abortion is ‘real social justice’ say pro-life youth leaders | LifeSiteNews.com for some people who are trying to reclaim the term.
(1) False teachers include people like Jim “the Gospel is all about wealth redistribution” Wallis and race-baiting Chuck “Jesus is not the only way” Currie
See The American Spectator : Religiously Demanding Obamacare Abortion Funding. Supporting legal abortion is bad, but requiring pro-lifers to pay for it is even worse. Yet that’s what many religious types are doing in the name of compassion. Apparently they are anti-choice when it comes to whether people must pay for the abortions of others.
One way to spot false teachers (A) is to see what religious leaders blaspheme God by claiming He is pro-abortion.
Mostly Mainline Protestant groups founded RCRC (originally less euphemistically called the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights) in 1973 in the immediate wake of Roe v. Wade to ensure widespread religious backing for the U.S. Supreme Court’s overthrow of state restrictions on abortion. For years RCRC was based in the United Methodist Building on Capitol Hill, which is the headquarters for most Mainline Protestant lobbies. The primary author of Roe v. Wade was Justice Harry Blackmun, himself an active United Methodist. RCRC in its early years got funding form the Playboy Foundation and later from philanthropies like the Ford Foundation. In recent years RCRC has been headed by a black Baptist pastor and has emphasized outreach to historic black denominations. But revealingly, no historic black denominations belong to RCRC, whose membership primarily includes nearly all white denominations like the United Methodist Church, the Episcopal Church, the United Church of Christ, and the Presbyterian Church (USA).
We should do the following as often as possible:
1. Remind those theological Liberals that the policies they support result in a 3-to-1 ratio of black abortions to white. And they have the nerve to play the race card against us?
2. Do not let them get away with euphemisms like “reproductive choice,” especially in their names. It is a scientific fact that the unborn are human beings, so abortions are done for the sole purpose of killing human beings that have already reproduced. So reproductive “choice” or “rights” would only apply to birth control. Whether they mislabel themselves out of ignorance or duplicity, we should never miss a chance to call them on it.
(A) False teachers include people like Jim “the Gospel is all about wealth redistribution” Wallis and race-baiting Chuck “Jesus is not the only way” Currie
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