The Culture of Death, post-Schiavo. The slippery slope continues...

If it is one thing that I have observed in my 46 3/4 years on this earth, it's that leftists, if nothing else, are a patient lot.

They will take their victories on an incremental basis. Since the advent of Roe v. Wade in 1973, the "culture of death" leftists have slowly, yes, incrementally, acculturated the public to the idea that innocent life is disposable. Starting with making the concept of early-term abortions socially tolerable and then acceptable, the "culture of death" leftists have gone on to incrementally acculturate the populace to an ever-widening variety of heinous practices; including making late-term abortions, Mengelian experiments on human embryos, and even hastening the death of incapacitated adults socially acceptable. But if you think that this incrementalism has run its course, think again:

Allow 'active euthanasia' for

disabled babies, doctors urge

By Francis Elliott, Whitehall Editor

Published: 05 November 2006

Doctors are urging health regulators to consider allowing the "active euthanasia" of severely disabled newborn babies.

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology has put forward the option of permitting mercy killings of the sickest infants to a review of medical ethics.

It says "active euthanasia" should be considered for the overall benefit of families who would otherwise suffer years of emotional and financial suffering.

Deliberate action to end infants' lives may also reduce the number of late abortions, since it would allow women the chance to decide whether their disabled child should live.

"A very disabled child can mean a disabled family. If life-shortening and deliberate interventions to kill infants were available, they might have an impact on obstetric decision-making," the college writes in a submission to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

When one is god-less, one tends to fill the void by playing the part himself, and invariably failing miserably at it.

Nothing illustrates that concept better than this news story.

As an educator who works with some severely disabled children, I am here to say that every life has value. Every life has purpose. I have worked with some severely disabled children who are more loving, and yes, more human than the many pointy-headed arrogant intellectuals who claim to know better.

To value life based solely on outward functionality and/or arbitrary level of/ contribution to society, rather than on its inherent sacredness, is to engage in the same god-less mentality that led to the gas chambers at Auschwitz, the Stalinist purges, the killing fields in Cambodia, and every instance of man's inhumanity to man since time immemoriam.

Only this time it's man's inhumanity to children.

Welcome to a brave new world.

GUILTY!

Sentenced to death by hanging. Story here.

Saddam was on trial with seven co-accused:

• Awad Hamed al Bander, former chief judge in Saddam's Revolutionary Court, has been sentenced to hang
• Saddam's half-brother Barzan al Tikriti, head of the feared Mukhabarat intelligence service, was sentenced to hang
• Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan was sentenced to life in prison
• Three Ba'ath party officials were sentenced to 15 years in prison
• Abdullah Kazim Ruwayyid, former Ba'ath official, given15 years
• Mizhar Abdullah Ruwayyid, former Ba'ath official, given 15 years
• Ali Dayih Ali, former Ba'ath official, given 15 years
• Mohammed Azawi Ali, a Ba'ath party official in Dujail, was cleared.

Saddam is in the middle of a second crimes against humanity trial and the appeal against the Dujail death sentence will start on Monday, taking two months.

This one says it all...

ChicagoRay hits it spot on...

Weeelll... Isn't that special?

From here:

Six Arab states join rush to go

nuclear

By Richard Beeston, Diplomatic Editor

Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, UAE and Saudi Arabia seek atom technology
THE SPECTRE of a nuclear race in the Middle East was raised yesterday when six Arab states announced that they were embarking on programmes to master atomic technology.

The move, which follows the failure by the West to curb Iran’s controversial nuclear programme, could see a rapid spread of nuclear reactors in one of the world’s most unstable regions, stretching from the Gulf to the Levant and into North Africa.

The countries involved were named by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Saudi Arabia. Tunisia and the UAE have also shown interest.

Something needs to be done about Iran, to send a clear message.

Now.

Those caring, compassionate dems...

From Chicagoray:

TVC Condemns TN Democrat For Distributing Flyer Belittling Special Olympics Kids: "Washington, DC, -- “Tennessee State Representative Craig Fitzhugh should be ashamed of himself for allowing his campaign office to distribute a flyer belittling Special Olympics children,” said Traditional Values Coalition Chairman Louis P. Sheldon, today. “This disgusting flyer is an insensitive attack against children with disabilities.”
"
Rep. Fitzhugh’s office, which is shared by the Kerry-Edwards campaign, has been distributing a flyer showing a Special Olympics child with President Bush’s face superimposed on the head of the disabled youngster. The headline reads: “Voting for Bush Is Like Running In The Special Olympics: Even If You Win, You’re Still Retarded.”

“This kind of mean-spirited material has no place in an election campaign,” said Rev. Sheldon. “In my 40 years of involvement in politics, I’ve never seen anything so despicable as this flyer. Rep. Fitzhugh should not only apologize to the disabled community and to his opponent Dave Dahl, he should fire whoever is responsible for distributing this ugly attack piece.” more

I know that this was in the 2004 elections, but this was the first time I saw this.

As an educator who works with handicapped children, I can only standt aghast at the mean-spiritedness and downright nastiness of a party who claims to be "compassionate" and "tolerant."

There is no excuse for this.

This is just another glaring example that the democrat party is far from the "compassionate" and "tolerant" souls that they claim to be.

Cindy Sheehan isn't the only Gold Star Mother...

A delegation of Gold Star Families made a secret trip to Iraq to support our troops and their war effort.

Chicagoray has the details.

The real "truth" about John Kerry...

The thing about it is, this guy, in reality, represents the mainstream of today's democrat party. He was their Presidential candidate in 2004, and hopes to be again in 2008.

Is this the party you want representing you in Washington?

Think long and hard before casting that vote.

Livin' in a KOS-Kids' Paradise...

With the "irrational exuberance" being displayed by the left with regard to the upcoming elections, I thought this song parody to be fitting:

I fleck spittle on my puter thru the Underground and KOS
I take a look at the posts and hope there's no loss..
Cause I've been puffin on my bong and doin' shrooms so long
That even my kitty thinks my mind is gone

But I ain't never dissed a wingnut that didn't deserve it
Me be treated like a moonbat yo-that's unheard of.
You better watch how you thinkin, or how you talkin' yo-
Cause my homies at the ACLU will be stalkin' ya

I really hate to trip, but I gotta hope
That the judges don't catch me when I try to vote--twice!
I'm the kinda leftist little KOS-kids wanna be like
On my puter at night
Fleckin' spittle on their web site!

been spending most our lives
Living in the KOS-kids' Paradise
Common sense we'll sacrifice
Living in the KOS-kid's Paradise
Bashin' Bush is our device
Living in the KOS-kid's Paradise
Fleckin' spittle once or twice
Living in the KOS-Kids' Paradise


Look at the situation, they got us facin
Our candidates can't think cuz all their minds are wasted
Still we gotta be down with the DNC
So we watchin' CNN with the rest of the homies!


I'm a educated fool, wit power on my mind
Protest sign in my hand and crazed look in my eye
I'm a doped-out moonbat, don't confuse me with no facts!
Bush lied-people died, Rove is evil to the max!


Power ain't nuthin but a 'lection away
We gotta win, do-or-die ah, what can I say?
We ain't won in 8 years will it be eighteen more?
The way things is goin I don't know

Tell me why are we -- so blind to see
We've a collective intelligence of a tree..

been spending most our lives
Living in the KOS-kids' Paradise
Common sense we'll sacrifice
Living in the KOS-kid's Paradise
Bashin' Bush is our device
Living in the KOS-kid's Paradise
Fleckin' spittle once or twice
Living in the KOS-Kids' Paradise

LA Times and the WAPO, Reuters and the AP
Minute after minute, takin' points fron the DNC
Them homies cookin stories designed to help our guys
They cookin' all the polls, and servin up all the lies..

They say the 'pubs 'll lose, but no-one cept us believes 'em
But if they're not buyin' it, how the hell can we reach 'em?
I guess we can't -- I guess we won't
I guess they front; that's why I know we outta luck, fool

been spending most our lives
Living in the KOS-kids' Paradise
Common sense we'll sacrifice
Living in the KOS-kid's Paradise
Bashin' Bush is our device
Living in the KOS-kid's Paradise
Fleckin' spittle once or twice
Living in the KOS-Kids' Paradise

Tell me why are we -- so blind to see
We'd be better off with a chim-panzee!
Tell me why are we -- so blind to see
Our homies are vapid as can be!

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Filed under Moonbat Adventures, Song Parodies

Judi Dutcher--rocket scientist?

"Like--she's so--blonde!"

You could see the look on Hatch's face, mouthing the words she should say, with a terrified expression.

Heh.

More on ACORN...

The Wall Street Opinion Journal reports:

Acorn officials bill themselves as nonpartisan community organizers merely interested in giving a voice to minorities and the poor. In reality, Acorn is a union-backed, multimillion-dollar outfit that uses intimidation and other tactics to push for higher minimum wage mandates and to trash Wal-Mart and other non-union companies.

Operating in at least 38 states (as well as Canada and Mexico), Acorn pushes a highly partisan agenda, and its organizers are best understood as shock troops for the AFL-CIO and even the Democratic Party. As part of the Fannie Mae reform bill, House Democrats pushed an "affordable housing trust fund" designed to use Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac profits to subsidize Acorn, among other groups. A version of this trust fund actually passed the Republican House and will surely be on the agenda again next year.

Acorn and its affiliates have pulled some real stunts in recent years. In Ohio in 2004, a worker for one affiliate was given crack cocaine in exchange for fraudulent registrations that included underage voters, dead voters and pillars of the community named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey. During a Congressional hearing in Ohio in the aftermath of the 2004 election, officials from several counties in the state explained Acorn's practice of dumping thousands of registration forms in their lap on the submission deadline, even though the forms had been collected months earlier.

Since ACORN is a nationwide organization, it is prudent that everyone in the nation know exactly what type of scofflaws are operating among them.

Face it. The liberal democrat message does not ring with a majority of American voters. One only has to notice the recent, not-so-inconspicuous absence of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid from the national spotlight to put two and two together on that. The only way that liberal democrats can win nationally is to

1. Run as conservatives. and/or

2. Perpetrate voter fraud.

Pretty sorry state of existence, if you ask me.

(h/t NAM blog)

Hatch, or un-Hatched?

Like Jean Francois Kerrie did with his comments earlier this week, Mike Hatch continues to give us glimpses of his megalomaniacal, unstable personality; and proves more and more that he is unfit to take the responsiblity of the governorship of the State of Minnesota:

Mike Hatch had two angry exchanges Thursday with newspaper and television reporters covering his gubernatorial campaign, but today he denied a published report that he had labeled one of the reporters a "Republican whore."

In an interview on Minnesota Public Radio this morning and in comments later to reporters, Hatch acknowledged what both political supporters and opponents have long said: That he sometimes loses his temper.

"I showed a temper, and I've got one…And I've got a right to express it," Hatch said in the radio interview. (emphases added)

This is yet another area where Mike Hatch not only falls short of being rational, but is downright sociopathic. Much to his amazement, I'm sure, Mike Hatch has NO RIGHT to express his temper in a manner that intimidates and bullies others. The fact that the State's top law enforcement official, not to mention a candidate for the highest office in the State of Minnesota, feels entitled to do just that is more than emblematic of his unbridled arrogance.

Like Jean Francios Kerrie, Mike Hatch has an arrogant "Royal We" entitlement mentality. Beneath his smiling exterior is an arrogant, Machiavellian, ruthless, "me first, dammit!" attitude, that should show any thinking person that rather than seeking to serve others, Hatch is in it only for himself.

This implosion, along with many others in Hatch's not-so-stellar political career, should only cement the notion that he is not now, nor will he ever be ready for prime time.
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I never thought it could happen...

But I heard the male version of Hillary Clinton tonight. To be more specific, Independence Party Candidate for U.S. Senate Rob Fitzgerald. I heard Fitz speak this evening on the Candidate forum in Rochester, Minnesota--

Give a listen to this guy, and tell me he's not like nails on a chalkboard.



He makes Gilbert Godfried sound like Jenny Lind.

Let the democrat voter fraud begin...

From here:

Four Voter Fraud Indictments Handed Up

by Bob Priddy

Four members of the community activist group ACORN have been indicted on election fraud charges by a federal grand jury in Kansas City. They're accused of providing false information on voter registration applications filed with the Kansas City Election Board. A spokesman for ACORN says the group turned in three of the people to authorities and provided the FBI with information for the investigation.

Hmmm.. democrat voter fraud in an election.

Knock me over with a feather.

Kerry apologizes...sort of...

Upon seeing his party's chances for winning a congressional majority going down in flames (not to mention being relegated to persona non grata status by some of his own party brethren), a heretofore defiant Jean Francois Kerry today experienced a "come-to-Jesus" moment, and finally saw it fit to issue an apology for the disparaging remarks made two days ago:

After two days of pressure from Republicans and even some Democrats, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) on Wednesday issued an apology for comments he made Monday that appeared to insult American soldiers.

"I want to make it clear to anyone in uniform and to their loved ones: my poorly stated joke at a rally was not about, and never intended to refer to any troop," Kerry said in a statement posted on his website.

"I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member or American who was offended," he said.

This is quite the turnaround, given that just earlier today on Imus, the famously defiant and elitist Kerry refused to take responsibility, and instead engaged in a series of verbal pirouettes and disjointed phrases the likes of which would make even a seasoned ballerina nauseous :

Sen. John Kerry: "(Laughter) I'm not going to let these guys distort something completely out of its context solely for the purpose of avoiding responsibility which is what they're doing. Look, everybody knows I botched a joke, it's not the first time anybody's done that Don."

Imus: "Certainly not the first time you've done it."

Sen. John Kerry: "Not the first time I’ve done it but on the other hand, it's just a disgraceful thing when people try to assert that somebody like me who has spent thirty-five years of my life fighting for veterans, standing up for veterans, fighting for their combat pay, fighting for Agent Orange recognition, fighting for their armor, fighting for their up-armored humvees, fighting for them to have a strategy that wins, fighting to honor them, that the notion that this comment was directed at them is an insult by these guys. And they know it; I mean that's really the bottom line here. See, look, this is a great volunteer Army, and the word volunteer Army means you have to be smart to get in it. They know that, everybody knows. You can't get in the military today if you're not capable and not smart. This comment couldn't have been directed at them because you can't get into the military by doing badly at school. This was directed at the people who didn't do their homework, didn't listen to history, didn't listen to their own advice, and they owe the American people an apology, now you know I’m coming back to Washington today so that I’m not a distraction because I don't want to be a distraction to these campaigns, and the point is simply they owe America an apology for this disaster in Iraq. And I hope they're going to provide it."

You're probably wondering why I'm giving Jean Francois such a hard time over this. After all, he did apologize.

Well, when one extends a sincere apology, one usually doesn't attach a "but" to that apology, and allows the apology stand on its own. But not Jean Francios:

In his statement Wednesday, Kerry continued his criticism of the Bush administration, saying that Republicans "would rather talk about anything but their failed security policy. I don't want my verbal slip to be a diversion from the real issues."

Some "apology."

John Kerry, elitist...A "botched joke?"

From CNS:

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) says comments he made Monday that appeared to imply that American troops were uneducated were a "botched joke" intended to insult President Bush.

[SNIP]

His comment was "clearly a remark that was directed at this administration."

Okay--let's take another look at that "remark", shall we?

"Education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't you get stuck in Iraq."

If that was a remark directed at the Administration, I fail to see the link.

At a news conference in Seattle Tuesday, Kerry refused to apologize, and accused Republicans of distorting his comment in a "classic GOP, textbook Republican campaign tactic."

Even if Jean Francios Kerrie's remark was a "botched joke" directed against the Bush administration (which I don't believe for a second), shouldn't the mere outcry by veterans and family members of deployed soldiers give this arrogant twit a clue that an apology may be in order? Mr. Kerry will be in Minnesota tomorrow campaigning for Tim Walz and the Minnesota DFL party. In response, Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Joe Repya today issued the following statement regarding John Kerry's visit:

"The men and women serving in the uniform of our nation are not fodder for politicians to joke about. By insulting veterans and active members of the United States military as uneducated losers, John Kerry owes an apology to all the brave men and women who have ever worn the uniform of our country. As a 2005 veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, I call on Tim Walz and the DFL Party to immediately denounce Kerry's deeply offensive remarks and rescind their invitations for Kerry to campaign in our state tomorrow."

As a parent of a deployed soldier, I'm really getting tired of the seditious, over-the-top comments by Kerry, Murtha, et. al., that continue to go unchallenged, especially during a time of war. Being the elitists that they are, they operate under the assumptions that either:

1.They exist in a vacuum, and their words bear no consequence; and/or
2. They know that their words bear consequence, but in their arrogance, couldn't give a damn.

Personally, I'd put my money on the latter.



BTW--Ace of Spades is handing it to Mr. Runny Ketchup, in spades...