Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Bob McConnell on the Second Amendment
He's running for Congress in Colorado's 3rd District. Vote for the guy if you can.
This Little Piggie Goes "Wee, Wee, Weeeee...." - UPDATE
I'm only talking about this because the Alaska Dispatch picked it up. (Don't bother going there. I just linked because I had to.)
Behold this line from the den of Flying Pigs:
But today, it's soap opera day, mixed with hard legal facts which show again how secretive the Palins are when it comes to their personal dealings.Read that again. Note the word "personal." As in, "personal." The gall of those Palins to be "secretive" about their personal dealings.
They are apparently shocked that Levi's truck was seen outside of Bristol's condo. It's not like he has a son that lives there or anything....
Do they even listen to their boy? Levi said awhile ago that he was getting to see Tripp about once a week. They've been too busy hanging onto Sadie's every whining word to notice. I have hypothesized that Levi might be seeing Tripp without Sadie even knowing about it, especially since she and Bristol don't get along. Bristol has to deal with the kid's Dad; she doesn't owe anything to his sister. It's just a theory, but my theory about Sadie's MySpace captions turned out to be correct, so there.
Now the pigs turn to rooting around trying to figure out who actually owns Bristol's condo, (who cares?) and posting screen caps from Sadie's Facebook wall that detail some of her recent purchases. I thought the Johnstons were the poor little victims that were forced to move out of their house because they were broke and those mean ole' Palins didn't care. I never understood why Levi couldn't take some of his Playgirl money and help his mom make mortgage, but whatever.
Someone must have told Sadie about it because she made her FB wall private. LOL! Maybe now the Piggies will start wondering why she's being so "secretive" about her "personal" affairs.
Maybe we should find out who owns Levi's house. Or follow some of his lawyer money.
Nah. Just not that pathetic. Or mean, for that matter.
Here's a novel idea, you want to put your bacon to good use? Why don't you look into Obama and Tony Resco. There's a deal worthy of the likes of the Piggies.
Oh, look, it's Patrick:
UPDATE -
I don't know much about lawyer-type stuff, but apparently some of my C4P peeps do:
DoingTheDeal:
There is nothing untoward going on with Bristol and her condo... even though these scum try to gin up some controversy... all the Palins did was put all the paper work in the name of a legal entity run thru the family lawyer. Big deal... considering all the hate thrown at the Palins, I don't blame them. Think about it. These people spend all their time and energy on finding out regular information. It would be the same as finding out who your cable company was or what cell phone company you used. It is intrusive and aggravating, but it is all public information.
Lipstick:
The real story here is that SP raised her girl to be business savy.
Or, maybe, I don't know, Bristol is learning something in those business classes she is taking.
Let's see, the daughter of a private citizen buys a condo using legal protection etc through a LLC and what? This is a story? Was something illegal done? Is SP or Bristol a government employee?
I say to Bristol, good going. Way to use business and laws in a smart savy way...GIRL POWER!
Bean Counter:
Oh, this is such silly BS. Real estate transactions involving high profile people are handled like this all the time. Here in Nashville, if you go through real estate records looking for country music stars' homes, you won't find any records in any of their names, as there are corporate entities who are listed as the registered owner, usually it involves the person's attorney or business manager. Totally legit and nothing nefarious or mysterious.
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What's that Kenny Chesney trying to hide?
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Pro-Life and Pro-Woman
An article in Politics Daily by Marjorie Dannenfelser:
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For years, many feminists have told women facing a crisis pregnancy that the only way to continue a successful life is to have an abortion. Ms. Tobin mentions Sarah Palin's comments at the Susan B. Anthony List's Celebration of Life Breakfast:
To bolster her case that feminism rejects the pro-life position, Ms. Tobin quotes an opinion by Lynn Sherr and Ann Gordon, "experts" on Susan B. Anthony and early suffragettes. They argue that Susan B. Anthony spent "no time on the politics of abortion" and that to say otherwise is "empty talk."
What is remarkable is that neither Sherr nor Gordon make any attempt to link pro-abortion rights sentiment to the early suffragettes. After all, if being pro-choice is central to being pro-woman, wouldn't at least one suffragette have made that point? Rather, they try to deconstruct the significant evidence that early suffragettes across the board saw abortion as a direct affront to womanhood.
Conveniently, Ms. Tobin ignores our response in the Washington Post blog On Faith, where we point to numerous writings from Susan B. Anthony herself and her fellow feminists that show they did talk about protecting the unborn -- and frequently.
You can read the response here, quoting Victoria Woodhull, the first female presidential candidate, who told a newspaper of the day that "Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child, nor think of murdering one before its birth." (Wheeling, West Virginia Evening Standard, November 17, 1875)
While Ms. Tobin holds that what she calls truth "is probably too inconvenient for Palin and those who fill out her anti-abortion cohort," perhaps she can come up with the first shred of evidence of Susan B. Anthony agreeing with her pro-abortion rights fervor.
Early founders of the feminist movement like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who fought for the right of women to vote, also paved the way for women like Sarah Palin to enter public life. They celebrated the notion that women bring a unique perspective to public policy.
Women can be -- and are -- increasingly strong political actors who reject the liberal ideology of abortion-on-demand. The dramatic victories of Sharron Angle in Nevada and Carly Fiorina in California in two high profile Senate primaries are just the most recent examples.
At the heart of the matter is the fact that "feminists" like Ms. Tobin, insist upon one thing: feminism, whatever else it might entail, must include virtually unqualified support for abortion rights.
What gives them the authority to insist that there is a pro-abortion rights requirement for feminism? Certainly not majority opinion. Polling proves that women as well as men are moving in a pro-life trajectory. Certainly not the political positions of women seeking to lead this country, such as Angle and Fiorina.
There has been an explosion of strong successful pro-life women candidates. Certainly it can't be found in the writings of the early suffragettes. The response of Tobin, Sherr and Gordon is, at best, that they aren't nearly as pro-life as you portray them. These liberal feminists never show any proof that the early suffragettes approved of abortion, a practice that Susan B. Anthony herself called "child murder."
Following the June 8 primaries, it is clear that authentic, pro-life feminism resonates with increasing numbers of women. Abortion rights advocates should stop insisting on their ever more tenuous claim on the term "feminism" and applaud their pro-life sisters' efforts to move feminism in a more diverse, popular and traditional direction.
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For years, many feminists have told women facing a crisis pregnancy that the only way to continue a successful life is to have an abortion. Ms. Tobin mentions Sarah Palin's comments at the Susan B. Anthony List's Celebration of Life Breakfast:
"...feminist groups want to try to tell women... that no, you're not capable of doing both. You can't give your child life and still pursue career and education. You're not strong enough. You're not capable."Palin argues that this point of view is the antithesis of authentic feminism as it minimizes rather than encourages the full ability of women to embrace both motherhood and career.
To bolster her case that feminism rejects the pro-life position, Ms. Tobin quotes an opinion by Lynn Sherr and Ann Gordon, "experts" on Susan B. Anthony and early suffragettes. They argue that Susan B. Anthony spent "no time on the politics of abortion" and that to say otherwise is "empty talk."
What is remarkable is that neither Sherr nor Gordon make any attempt to link pro-abortion rights sentiment to the early suffragettes. After all, if being pro-choice is central to being pro-woman, wouldn't at least one suffragette have made that point? Rather, they try to deconstruct the significant evidence that early suffragettes across the board saw abortion as a direct affront to womanhood.
Conveniently, Ms. Tobin ignores our response in the Washington Post blog On Faith, where we point to numerous writings from Susan B. Anthony herself and her fellow feminists that show they did talk about protecting the unborn -- and frequently.
You can read the response here, quoting Victoria Woodhull, the first female presidential candidate, who told a newspaper of the day that "Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child, nor think of murdering one before its birth." (Wheeling, West Virginia Evening Standard, November 17, 1875)
While Ms. Tobin holds that what she calls truth "is probably too inconvenient for Palin and those who fill out her anti-abortion cohort," perhaps she can come up with the first shred of evidence of Susan B. Anthony agreeing with her pro-abortion rights fervor.
Early founders of the feminist movement like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who fought for the right of women to vote, also paved the way for women like Sarah Palin to enter public life. They celebrated the notion that women bring a unique perspective to public policy.
Women can be -- and are -- increasingly strong political actors who reject the liberal ideology of abortion-on-demand. The dramatic victories of Sharron Angle in Nevada and Carly Fiorina in California in two high profile Senate primaries are just the most recent examples.
At the heart of the matter is the fact that "feminists" like Ms. Tobin, insist upon one thing: feminism, whatever else it might entail, must include virtually unqualified support for abortion rights.
What gives them the authority to insist that there is a pro-abortion rights requirement for feminism? Certainly not majority opinion. Polling proves that women as well as men are moving in a pro-life trajectory. Certainly not the political positions of women seeking to lead this country, such as Angle and Fiorina.
There has been an explosion of strong successful pro-life women candidates. Certainly it can't be found in the writings of the early suffragettes. The response of Tobin, Sherr and Gordon is, at best, that they aren't nearly as pro-life as you portray them. These liberal feminists never show any proof that the early suffragettes approved of abortion, a practice that Susan B. Anthony herself called "child murder."
Following the June 8 primaries, it is clear that authentic, pro-life feminism resonates with increasing numbers of women. Abortion rights advocates should stop insisting on their ever more tenuous claim on the term "feminism" and applaud their pro-life sisters' efforts to move feminism in a more diverse, popular and traditional direction.
Happy Sunday!
Haven't done one of these posts in awhile. Been busy. Here are a few goodies for your Sunday morning.
First up, a couple of neat articles.
Really cool speech that Palin gave to the Alaska Right to Life dinner in November of 2007, an event also attended by Dr. Alveda King:
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As your governor, nothing is closer to my heart than the most promising and precious ingredient in this sometimes mixed up world of ours. That is Alaska’s children – those born and those (yet) to be born.
The Scriptures that define my faith also guide my beliefs when it comes to the value of human life. Psalm 139, many of you know. It says that God knit us together in our mothers’ wombs, that we are wonderfully and fearfully made and that God’s eyes saw our unformed bodies, ordaining all of our days before even one of them came to be.
I serve a God who creates and cherishes life and I believe, from the core of my being, that he has created everyone for a good purpose and that we have a destiny from the very beginning. So I do cherish and I will defend innocent life. As a woman, as a mother, as an Alaskan, as your governor, I will protect and serve the future of Alaska – your children – both born and (those) yet to be born.
I’m not going to judge or condemn anyone. Everyone has a different style about getting their word and beliefs out there. I’m just not wired to do that. I am not calloused about the issue of unplanned pregnancy. I sympathize and I empathize with those who are in that situation.
Someone in less than ideal circumstances finds out they are pregnant and they think, "Oh no, in an instant, my plans are ruined, my dreams are broken."
I’m not calloused to that. In fact, I understand. So I want to help and encourage those who are in that situation. But helping and encouraging is really hard in our culture, because our culture places too little value on honor and commitments and selflessness…
Mother Teresa once said, "It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you can live as you wish."
Our willingness today, in this culture, to be short sighted and to not consider the value and potential in every human life — even in situations like an unplanned pregnancy where circumstances are not ideal — that is a symptom of a culture with skewed priorities, a culture that has lost its way…
A culture that chooses to do harm to innocent life for convenience, that chooses to harm its very future by harming the promising element that can provide the hope that we need — a child — points to a culture that has lost its vision…
We must challenge, out of compassion, that shortsightedness we see all around us in this world. Our girls and our young women (need) to see how precious and valuable they are and be challenged to love and respect themselves and to honor their bodies and to protect that life which we are so privileged to help carry. As women, we are strong enough and sacrificial enough to do this. It is the way we are created…
Men need to learn to extend their strength to others. They too must be encouraged to selflessly become more responsible and to sacrificially own up to their responsibilities in less than ideal circumstances…
Together we need to cast that vision of life to our culture. We have to do it together.
Many of you know that the Alaska Supreme Court recently overturned a decision that had been made by our state legislature – the representatives, the law makers, that had reasonably required girls, 16 and under, to obtain parental consent before terminating the life of her child.
Remember that Alaska’s parental consent law was carefully crafted with a judicial bypass provision for those in abusive homes; for those who just couldn't’t go to a parent, such as at a critical time when a girl needed to tell an abusive parent that she was pregnant.
The legislature had already addressed that in this law. Alaska’s law was fully consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court precedent. In fact, right now, 26 states have parental consent laws and 15 states have parental notification statutes. We have nothing.
Yet our state supreme court struck down our act. The court rejected the legislature’s thoughtful balance, ignored our own case law and dismissed the legislature’s role in expressing the will of the people.
The Supreme Court, with their ruling, separated parents from their children, when these children are in their greatest time of need. They need parental guidance and support when they are facing such a critical decision.
Just because something is declared legal, does not make it right and it doesn’t make it best for the individual. What the courts intended to be a freedom for these young girls — to make this decision without parental consent, advise or guidance — actually erected a wall between the parent and the child. (This) totally cut the child off from their (parents’) wisdom and protection. That is the exact opposite of the law’s intent…
Our judges must interpret and defend the constitution and the laws that our legislature chooses to create and not seek to rewrite the laws.
This ruling, creating the situation where our kids are left to struggle alone in fear and heartbreak. I used the term, "outrageous," when I heard the ruling.
I know that some of you also have chimed in publicly and have expressed outrage and even confusion as to why Alaska’s Supreme Court would do this, when all these other states (allow) parental consent and parental notification.
As parents here in Alaska, we have to protect our children. It is our right and our responsibility. I call on you to support your administration and your legislature as we take the steps necessary to change what the Alaska Supreme Court just told us is best for Alaska, when we know it is not…
Those who do not see hope and promise, they kind of give up on this. That’s why I think we see rulings such as what we just saw. But those of you who do see hope and promise and believe purpose is given to our babies, let us make it our privilege and responsibility to peaceably act (and) speak up to protect children.
Our voices must be heard because theirs are not. We must work together to cast that vision of life and hope for our culture through peaceful but powerful leadership…
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I love Sean's speech as well:
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To restore a life-filled cultural view, we must begin with individual changes – individual changes of character and conscience…
I’ve taken this discussion to the men. I contend that masculinity has been warped.
We have misplaced the truth that being a boyfriend or a husband or a father means using strength to empower and protect and serve others, not to control or manipulate others.
(Masculinity) is not about getting our own way and our own selfish ends as men. Where men engage in self-seeking control and manipulation, is it any wonder that young women and girls get pushed to ever-increasing sexual exploitation?
Should we really be surprise when boys leave pregnant girlfriends or counsel them to get an abortion if they have never seen a man model honor, respect and personal responsibility?
Our boys must see authentic masculinity lived out by courageous men who ensure the well being of others first.
Our boys must see men honoring and protecting women as people of value rather than as sexual objects. Our boys must be told that courageous leadership means accepting responsibility and choosing restraint. (They must) respect women and girls by not putting them in places of compromise.
Now personally, I’m a work in progress. I don’t always look out for others first as I ought. But the good news is that I am not the man that I once was and I’m not the man I am going to be....
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And finally, check out this piece from yesterday in the New York Times.
Video of the day, a flashback:
And here are some more pics of the Palins at the Belmont, from Corbis and Horsephotos:
First up, a couple of neat articles.
Really cool speech that Palin gave to the Alaska Right to Life dinner in November of 2007, an event also attended by Dr. Alveda King:
-------------
As your governor, nothing is closer to my heart than the most promising and precious ingredient in this sometimes mixed up world of ours. That is Alaska’s children – those born and those (yet) to be born.
The Scriptures that define my faith also guide my beliefs when it comes to the value of human life. Psalm 139, many of you know. It says that God knit us together in our mothers’ wombs, that we are wonderfully and fearfully made and that God’s eyes saw our unformed bodies, ordaining all of our days before even one of them came to be.
I serve a God who creates and cherishes life and I believe, from the core of my being, that he has created everyone for a good purpose and that we have a destiny from the very beginning. So I do cherish and I will defend innocent life. As a woman, as a mother, as an Alaskan, as your governor, I will protect and serve the future of Alaska – your children – both born and (those) yet to be born.
I’m not going to judge or condemn anyone. Everyone has a different style about getting their word and beliefs out there. I’m just not wired to do that. I am not calloused about the issue of unplanned pregnancy. I sympathize and I empathize with those who are in that situation.
Someone in less than ideal circumstances finds out they are pregnant and they think, "Oh no, in an instant, my plans are ruined, my dreams are broken."
I’m not calloused to that. In fact, I understand. So I want to help and encourage those who are in that situation. But helping and encouraging is really hard in our culture, because our culture places too little value on honor and commitments and selflessness…
Mother Teresa once said, "It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you can live as you wish."
Our willingness today, in this culture, to be short sighted and to not consider the value and potential in every human life — even in situations like an unplanned pregnancy where circumstances are not ideal — that is a symptom of a culture with skewed priorities, a culture that has lost its way…
A culture that chooses to do harm to innocent life for convenience, that chooses to harm its very future by harming the promising element that can provide the hope that we need — a child — points to a culture that has lost its vision…
We must challenge, out of compassion, that shortsightedness we see all around us in this world. Our girls and our young women (need) to see how precious and valuable they are and be challenged to love and respect themselves and to honor their bodies and to protect that life which we are so privileged to help carry. As women, we are strong enough and sacrificial enough to do this. It is the way we are created…
Men need to learn to extend their strength to others. They too must be encouraged to selflessly become more responsible and to sacrificially own up to their responsibilities in less than ideal circumstances…
Together we need to cast that vision of life to our culture. We have to do it together.
Many of you know that the Alaska Supreme Court recently overturned a decision that had been made by our state legislature – the representatives, the law makers, that had reasonably required girls, 16 and under, to obtain parental consent before terminating the life of her child.
Remember that Alaska’s parental consent law was carefully crafted with a judicial bypass provision for those in abusive homes; for those who just couldn't’t go to a parent, such as at a critical time when a girl needed to tell an abusive parent that she was pregnant.
The legislature had already addressed that in this law. Alaska’s law was fully consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court precedent. In fact, right now, 26 states have parental consent laws and 15 states have parental notification statutes. We have nothing.
Yet our state supreme court struck down our act. The court rejected the legislature’s thoughtful balance, ignored our own case law and dismissed the legislature’s role in expressing the will of the people.
The Supreme Court, with their ruling, separated parents from their children, when these children are in their greatest time of need. They need parental guidance and support when they are facing such a critical decision.
Just because something is declared legal, does not make it right and it doesn’t make it best for the individual. What the courts intended to be a freedom for these young girls — to make this decision without parental consent, advise or guidance — actually erected a wall between the parent and the child. (This) totally cut the child off from their (parents’) wisdom and protection. That is the exact opposite of the law’s intent…
Our judges must interpret and defend the constitution and the laws that our legislature chooses to create and not seek to rewrite the laws.
This ruling, creating the situation where our kids are left to struggle alone in fear and heartbreak. I used the term, "outrageous," when I heard the ruling.
I know that some of you also have chimed in publicly and have expressed outrage and even confusion as to why Alaska’s Supreme Court would do this, when all these other states (allow) parental consent and parental notification.
As parents here in Alaska, we have to protect our children. It is our right and our responsibility. I call on you to support your administration and your legislature as we take the steps necessary to change what the Alaska Supreme Court just told us is best for Alaska, when we know it is not…
Those who do not see hope and promise, they kind of give up on this. That’s why I think we see rulings such as what we just saw. But those of you who do see hope and promise and believe purpose is given to our babies, let us make it our privilege and responsibility to peaceably act (and) speak up to protect children.
Our voices must be heard because theirs are not. We must work together to cast that vision of life and hope for our culture through peaceful but powerful leadership…
-----------------
I love Sean's speech as well:
-----------------
To restore a life-filled cultural view, we must begin with individual changes – individual changes of character and conscience…
I’ve taken this discussion to the men. I contend that masculinity has been warped.
We have misplaced the truth that being a boyfriend or a husband or a father means using strength to empower and protect and serve others, not to control or manipulate others.
(Masculinity) is not about getting our own way and our own selfish ends as men. Where men engage in self-seeking control and manipulation, is it any wonder that young women and girls get pushed to ever-increasing sexual exploitation?
Should we really be surprise when boys leave pregnant girlfriends or counsel them to get an abortion if they have never seen a man model honor, respect and personal responsibility?
Our boys must see authentic masculinity lived out by courageous men who ensure the well being of others first.
Our boys must see men honoring and protecting women as people of value rather than as sexual objects. Our boys must be told that courageous leadership means accepting responsibility and choosing restraint. (They must) respect women and girls by not putting them in places of compromise.
Now personally, I’m a work in progress. I don’t always look out for others first as I ought. But the good news is that I am not the man that I once was and I’m not the man I am going to be....
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And finally, check out this piece from yesterday in the New York Times.
Video of the day, a flashback:
And here are some more pics of the Palins at the Belmont, from Corbis and Horsephotos:
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