Marching to the Beat

Breast Cancer Abortion Link

How often do we pick up the newspaper or tune into a news station and hear about a supposed link between a behavior and a disease or risk of something life threatening happening to one who indulges in the things reported?  I would say pretty regularly.  From cell phone use causing brain cancer to the consumption of peanut butter causing some kind of cancer if you make little kids eat it for lunch when they are growing up; there are countless reported links to diseases being suggested and reported.

Some of these reported links are credible and by credible I mean there are studies that have been made that are quite legitimate and we, the consumer, should take heed to give our attention to the reports, especially if they are backed up by research.  "As of October 2000, twenty-eight out of the thirty-seven studies in the world-wide literature indicate an increased risk of breast cancer associated with induced abortion".  The Planned Parenthood Federation is also on record with this statement made in 1994: " "Interruption during the first trimester of a first pregnancy causes a cessation of cell differentiation, which may result in a subsequent increase in the risk of cancerous growth in these tissues."  Indeed, consider this statement made by the lead author of the only study on the breast cancer abortion link commissioned by the National Cancer Institute: "Dr. Janet Daling, lead author of the only published study specifically commissioned by to investigate the link between abortion and breast cancer reports highest risks (more than double) were observed when the abortion was done at ages younger than 18 years, or 30 years of age or older. 
Daling, who is believed to be a strong supporter of abortion says, "I have three sisters with breast cancer and I resent people messing with the scientific data to further their own agenda, be they pro-choice or pro-life. I would have loved to have found no association between breast cancer and abortion, but our research is rock solid and our data is accurate."

When it comes to women's health you would think that women's advocates and breast cancer research centers as well as physicians groups would broadcast an alert and alarm with regard to this information.  Instead it is stone cold silent.  It should give women pause, I think, to wonder why there would be this wall of silence from those who profess to be concerned with the threat that breast cancer is to women! 

Let's cut to the heart of the matter.  Having abortion remain legal is of paramount importance to quite a few groups of great influence in the matter of a link between abortion and breast cancer; so important that this information is surpressed and hidden.  The leaders of this great evil of information shut down (and denied) are those who are supposed to care to women (and children)!!  They also have the Big Media on their side, because if our BM was the objective news reporters that they are supposed to be, they would be reporting the news of this link and the many studies done to prove it out and let people decide for themselves. 

But there we have it, right?  Because we are not talking about a tiny little possible maybe link and we need more studies to prove it out, but we are talking knowledge about this link dating back as far as (at least) 1986!  It seems a tragedy that so many people are willing to turn a blind eye to the truth so that they can continue to champion abortion as some kind of women's right of passage into modern times, denying that there is a price to pay for such a sin against our own unborn children.

http://www.bcpinstitute.org/home.htm

http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/start/

Some Of What Our Military Realizes That Some Americans Won't

Link: World Magazine AP News - Weekly News, Christian Views.

And that is that we are not only needed in Iraq, but we are supposed to be there.  This is not about oil, corporations, big bucks, or politics, but about terrorism, terrorism that sprung 911 on our country and should have awakened every American citizen to how much we are hated by the extreme of the extreme of these terrorists.  Our failure to step up to the plate as far back as the Carter Administration has brought us to this point and the mistakes made in foreign policy in subsequent administrations as well as our refusal to react strongly to the World Trade Center bombing in '93, and as many as a dozen terror attacks against Americans as well as many other peoples around the world today by terrorists, seeing these as acts of war and not some sort of isolated police actions.  Too bad we aren't as united as these networks seem to be in this country today.

Why so many of my fellow citizens insist on making all these false accusations against our president instead of banding together with him, understanding clearly that their objective is to destroy completely our very way of life-and I don't mean our self indulgent lifestyles, but rather our freedom to criticize who we will as so many do our president.  And while we are so hung up on pointing fingers at others, dividing ourselves into separate camps that hate the other, those who seek to kill us grow stronger.

Afghanistan and Iraq are the battlefields of a war that has an enemy with no cleariy defined country, and they are where we need to be.  By these actions we have moved the battle to the enemy's door, placing ourselves in an offensive position.  Our military knows why we are there in Iraq and also still in Afghanistan as well, as they understand the importance of not pulling out and coming home just because politicians and American's who seem to hate their own country say so.

We have a military that should be supported not just because they are our men and women but because they are fighting a war against terrorism; the very terrorism that brought down the Twin Towers and killed 3,000 innocent American citizens, two of them people that I knew.  Our President said "enough is enough" and we went into Iraq.  Those Democrats who today speak as if it were wrong seem to forget they once supported the decision.  The facts do speak for themselves in that the reasons for the decision have not changed and truly existed; they were not a lie and attempts to portray our President as a liar and our reasons for going into Iraq fabrications by him, via the willing vehicle of Big Media, do not change the truth.

Written records speak for themselves.

The Iraqi Sacrifice

Link: World Magazine AP News - Weekly News, Christian Views.

This morning I came on line to read the news and was confronted once again with the bad news coming out of Iraq as reported by our media.  But I would like to take this opportunity to say that the media may be producing a poll that says whatever they say it says in order to give a negative spin on anything to do with the USA in Iraq, but the truth is that if a poll was taken asking the Iraqi people if they would rather govern themselves as opposed to living in fear of living as they wish, we may have received a different answer.  ;-)

Well, the point of this post is to take a moment to remember those Iraqi's who gave their lives so that their country and people will remain free and self-governing.  We are not talking about soldiers in a war either, though many police and police trainees have been killed in these cold blooded, murderous attacks on the citizens of these struggling nation, but we are talking women and children as well.

Today our President, for the first time that I have personally been aware of, made mention of this incredible sacrifice the Iraqi people have made for their country.  He gave a number of 30,000 lives lost in this war; 30,000!!  They have been blown apart, burned, kidnapped, beaten and raped, and terrorized in ways very few American citizens can imagine at all. 

I know that there are far more people that support the war in Iraq than the news likes to be reminded of, but there needs to be even more support, because there are so many reasons why we should, the main one being that this people want to be free!  We will not be there forever and we are not there in vain and most certainly for now the Iraqi people need us. 

It is my prayer that those who have been so critical of our presence there will realize that they are doing a great deal of harm to the moral of the US military as well as the Iraqi people themselves.

Open note to the Iraqi people: Your sacrifice will not go unremembered or appreciated by the freedom loving people of your nation who will come after you, nor by people like me who understand that freedom is not free.

I have a 'toon' to post that I must upload, so I will enter it later.

Shasta

I haven't been here in quite some time and there are just so many things I can write about.  In fact, I could write all day on one thing or another.  For instance, the Supreme Court vacancies, the arrogance of the Democratic Party Leadership, the ACLU's constant and continual assault on American citizens who acknowledge God in the public square, the excessive amounts of taxpayer dollars spent to bring condoms, 'safe' sex education, and abortion to third world countries who need antibiotics far more desperately and don't want anyone telling them how many children they can have and why, as well as all the money spent to have major blow out concerts to nobly, but misguidedly, call attention to world poverty and insist that taxpayers pour more money into mismanaged programs that are supposed to be dealing with this issue already, instead of putting their own money where their message is, but I will let those issues wait a bit.

Instead I would like to call attention to a most remarkable young lady named Shasta Groene.  She has endured what I as an adult shudder to even think about having to endure a small part of.  This young lady has provided police with detail after detail of her ordeal and because of her courage will be assured that her family's killer will never know freedom again. 

I, of course, only have the news reports and the pictures of her with her dad that have been released to the media to go by, so mostly I am expressing my opinion about Shasta and her situation. 

As I listen to various reporters discuss what traumas Shasta will have to deal with due to the repeated brutal assaults as well as what she has witnessed, they all express the hope that she will get the help that she needs, and she is going to need a lot. 

To that end, I will not forget this young lady, but will keep her in thought and in prayer; that she will overcome all of it and live a victorious life of triumph over evil, an evil that lives side by side with all of humanity, and one that threatened to devour her, but did not.  She has escaped its tenacious grip and my prayer is that she gets the help she needs to shake it free from her heart and minid as well. 

What The News Downplays About Elections Such As Iran's

Ever since Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979, the country, rather than attaining the supposed heaven on earth experience, it has been anything and everything but.
I could not find the figures for the unemployment rate, but the news out of Iran is that the government continues to repress religion as well as its own economy.  Socially the people suffer as well, with homelessness, prostitution and drug addiction plaguing the a great deal of the population.  Both AIDS and suicide are prevalent and many of the people are both frustrated and in despair. 

Iran is ruled by s 'supreme leader' known as the Ayatollah Khamenei, and 12 Ayatollahs as a 'Council of Guardians', who can, by the way, totally reject any and all legislation brought forth by the Iranian people should these men consider it "un-Islamic."  Recently the country held their 7th Presidential elections, which totally exclude any females from being candidates.  Angry, as well as hopeless and helpless in the face of the supression of eligible and qualified women from the election process, and such obvious rejection of the country moving forward on behalf of their population, women and reformists both boycotted the polls.  The Islamic and anti-Americanism in addition to the efforts by the Basij Islamic militia to mobolize the former, brought conservatives out in great numbers.  However, the moderate candidate was beat easily and the runner up is even more into fundamental Islam that the incumbent that was appointed by the Ayatollah!!

It seems to me that the news media, especially in a free society such as ours and the press throughout all of Europe, has the opportunity to report this news out of Iran with as glaring a headline as the ugliness occuring in that nation right now brings to mind to even a layperson such as myself.  Yet they choose not to, instead simply reporting that Iran held elections, yawn, nod, sigh, with very little else to report along with that news. 

Our news media abounds with report after report of how the American people are becoming increasingly fed up with our involvement in the affairs of the Iraqi's, a nation who just as easily could be living in the same despair as the Iranians are these days.  Yet, because of the presence of Iraq's American, British, Australian, and other allies from a smattering of other countries, they have something the Iranian people do not have: hope. 

Tell us again, Big Media, how wrong it is for the US to be in Iraq today.  Better yet, ask some Iraqi women who are now enjoying the fruits of the sacrifices of American troops on their behalf; ask them if they would rather live under the Islamic government such as their neighboring Iranian women live, or as they live now in Iraq, despite the obstacles caused by those very same Islamic fundamentalist fanatics? 

Nah, the Big Media just wants more stories of casualites, of terroristic murders, of sabatoged pipelines and water supplies, of no phone service or electicity, of more polls showing the disatisfaction of American citizens enslaved to a McDonald's mentality, a media that continues to present lopsided reporting out of Iraq, especially as regards casualties.

A long time ago there was a song put out called: War.  It said: War, huh, what is it good for?  Absolutely, nothing!  I say: while war is not desirable, it certainly is to the benefit of freedom loving people to have the option of having war as an option in the fight for freedom.  War, huh, what is it good for?  Fighting for Freedom, that's what it's good for. 

The Reprephensible and Irresponsible Behavior of Newsweek

However does a magazine with such a large circulation and that enjoys an excellent reputation allow themselves to stoop so low due to their disrespect for the Bush Administration and our involvement in Iraq, to publish a bold lie such as they did regarding the Quran and prison detainees? 

Innocent mistake?  Maybe.  Maybe not.  The end result however, has been deaths of innocent people; not to mention an outcry for some USA apologetic groveling heard all the way around the world!

Funny how quickly (and stupidly) people pick up on the offensiveness of the flushing of the Quran, but not one article (that I could find) was written questioning the sense of flushing someone's holy book to get them to talk.   If someone flushed my Bible, I might get mighty ticked off, but it wouldn't make me inclined to talk.

Speaking of which, if the authorities of any Christian detainee flushed said Christian's Bible, where would the media be?  Would it even be reported?  And if it was, who would care?  Who would be bent out of shape?  Who would become violent over the disrespecting of a Christian's holy book and have every major newspaper printing stories of church leaders demanding an apology; among other demands? 

My point?  Doesn't it seem to be a lopsided situation?  Are Muslims and the Quran the only religious people and religious book deserving of respect and tolerance?

Media Deception

Today the AP gives front page status to a headline stating that former NY Governor Mario Cuomo is cautioning the Republicans against changing the filibuster rules.  The news item continues to share with its readers the wisdom that Mr. Cuomo puts forth in the weekly Democratic Party's radio address; the likes of which seem to be geared for nothing short of scaring people into thinking that the Republicans are trying to destroy the Senate, its traditions, and in the end of course, our Constitution.  He makes the ludicrous statement that the Republicans

"are threatening to claim ownership of the Supreme Court and other federal courts, hoping to achieve political results on subjects like abortion, stem cells, the environment and civil rights that they cannot get from the proper political bodies"

and further:

the country will experience "exactly the kind of `tyranny of the majority' that James Madison had in mind,"

Firstly, even someone like myself, who is the layest of the layperson, knows that the reason why the Democrats are creating this unprecedented judicial filibuster is because they themselves are, by employing this spoiled-bratish "I can't get my way so no one can play" tactic, seeking to claim ownership of the Supreme Court and other federal courts!!!  The are filibustering these nominess, not on the basis of their records, which are exemplary, but because they do NOT want anyone who doesn't support abortion seated on the Federal Bench!  And anyone who agrees with the Democrats is devoting front page news headlines (AP, ABC, NBC, etc.), columns, and countless op eds to trying to paint the Republicans as tyrannical, anti-American people! 

This is simply not true.  The judicial filibuster, employed by the Senate Democrats, is itself unprecedented and destroys hundreds of years of the Senate tradition of 'advising and consenting' the Presidental court appointees.  In fact, this is the right of the sitting president, that he gets to pick the judges of his choice.  Rarely, if ever, has anything remotely resembling what is happening now, EVER happened in the Senate.  So the Democrats who are employing this filibuster are the ones who are attempting to reduce our judiciary to 'tyranny', if of only the few, tyranny just the same.

Not only that people, but by invoking the 'nuclear' option to break this ridiculous freeze on the President's nominees, it does nothing but that, break the Democratic filibuster babies' hold on highly qualified, overwhelming approved by the American Bar and many of their peers, judicial nominees and allow them to go to the floor of the Senate for an up and down vote, the very thing that the Democrats DO NOT want, because they KNOW these exemplary candidates will get the votes THEY NEED to sit on the Federal Bench!  IT DOES NOT AFFECT THE LEGISLATIVE FILIBUSTER AT ALL!!  NOT A WHIT. 

The media does the nation and its people a grave disservice by printing stories such as the one they did today.  Either they themselves are unaware of the facts of the situation, or they are and have the same agenda as the filibustering Democratic Senators.  We, the readers of such nonsense do ourselves and our country a grave disservice if we believe what the media puts forth as the truth pertaining to this situation. 

In the News

While I am not in agreement overall with the spending package recently passed by our Congress-which I think included a pay raise for members; that would be Democrats and Republicans-I was glad to see that a conscience clause was included for health care professionals to opt out of being required to have any part in the performing of, recommending for or paying for abortion in all its ugliness.  The amendment, known as the Hyde-Weldon amendment was included in this $388 billion dollar spending package that did nothing for reducing the deficit, was certainly a bill that was long overdue and a worthy inclusion.

Very quickly, however, a hue and cry was raised by  California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, California Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, and Planned Parenthood, who are threatening to file a lawsuit stating that this conscience clause amendment is "an unacceptable attack on women's rights and state sovereignty." 

First of all, these people have no problem with trampling all over the rights of said health care providers who do not agree with abortion, or the rights of the silent and helpless unborn baby who is the innocent victim of this violent crime via the womb of women.   

It would seem that those who support abortion, and the invented right to it, would force doctors and other health care professionals to be a part of something they don't agree with and see as outright murder!  They have no problem with 'rights' then; indeed they care nothing for others rights. 

Another amazing example of audacity and blatant disregard for anyone else's rights is the recent decision by some employers in the state of Massachusetts to do away with domestic partner benefits in light of that state's unconscionable decision to allow same-sex couples to marry. 

The howl from pro-homosexual groups before was that it is not fair for employers to offer benefits such as spousal health insurance coverage, only to married couples, because homosexual couples were not allowed to marry by law.  The direct result of that loud and media driven complaint was that some governments, businesses (corporations) and universities offered what is now known as  "domestic partner benefits" for same-sex couples.

With marriage between homosexuals now allowed in that state some businesses had the nerve to withdraw the domestic partner benefits in light of the fact of same-sex couples being allowed to marry. 

What is the problem, you might ask?  Well, the cry for homosexual activists is that they now want the right not to marry, and still receive benefits of course.

Any way you look at it the truth should be evident: what this group of people is interested in is not partaking of the vows of marriage-but the availability of a whole range of relationship choices which have one common denominator: that the taxpayer and the consumer foot the bill.

How Polls Make Me Uneasy

The headlines scream at me again this morning:

Poll: Americans doubt voting process.

Other polls along the way of this election time have shown as often as they can get away with it, that John Kerry and President Bush are running virtually neck and neck. This is simply not true. Yes, there is a desperate attempt to get people (especially young ones) to vote for John Kerry while sneering at President Bush, but the truth about the election race does not rest in polls.

For instance, say ABC news takes a poll on who people are going to vote for. They seek and select who they are going to ask, crunch the numbers and find a neck and neck race. Never mind that they skipped over and eliminated those they suspect might vote a certain way. You know that they are going to look for those areas and people that disdain the President. It is a shame too, because their commercial says we should trust them to bring us the news, and thus the truth thereof. But there is no truth in their reporting. The weather guy, as long as he is referring to the doppler, is the only one you can really trust to try and leave his bias behind.

I have personally never been witness to such a level of hostility and double standard from the news media, be it print or television, as I have witnessed in this election year. If I relied on the news for the real news, I would be in big trouble and major despair. Every time that I see another poll in the headlines, I get a sick feeling in my stomach and that uneasy feeling that the wrong man (John Kerry) will be in the White House. Then I remember that first, God is on the throne and He will always be, regardless of who is President, and second, the polls do not an election win. (nor the truth do they tell) Remember, they want to sell newspapers more than anything else.

I guess what I am trying to say is that polls are not the true representation of people's voting habits. Not only that, but our election process is not by 'popular' vote, but by the Electoral College, thank God, or we would cease to be the constitutional republic we were meant to be. There are many things happening in our government of late that are clear indications we have ceased even a pretense of running the government the way it was intended, but that too, is another post. 8-)