Blogging ideas for December 2008

Before Facebook, I carried a blog notebook in my purse, and would jot ideas down to research and comment on. At the end of the year, I'd evaluate what I DID NOT write about. December 2008: Here's several for that year:

"Abstinence is 100% successful in controlling the spread of AIDS and in reducing poverty, but it's a political wasteland with the pro-abortion crowd. There's no money in abstinence." 

"There are 39,000+ runners in the NYC marathon--26 in the 80-90 year old division. In my dreams!!!" 

"Theresa Hogan has an op-ed saying don't make this a single issue election--abortion. Why not? I might not word it that way but we do need a leader with character, not one who gets a 100% rating from NARAL."

"In NY the UN Secretary [Ban Ki-moon--Korea] looks up from his latte and polished desk and says he's "concerned" that women and children are being raped; homes burned and sons murdered. Someone buy this puppet a ticket to the Congo."

"In Jos Nigeria clashes of ethnic violence have killed over 400 and displaced over 7,000--mainly Christians by Muslims. I'm not going to say it was buried in the back pages of the paper because the victims were Christians, but I will say it was because they were Africans. But when you've killed millions by taking DDT away from them, what's a few more? Where are the happy-clappy, sappy-crappy one-globe folks when you need them?"

"Recipe for Buckeye Pie"

My interests and opinions haven't changed much in 17 years--politics, people and pie.

Note: I had to look up a Congo war in 2008, because the almost continuous wars in Congo had killed about 6 million since the late 90s. It was 2008 Nord-Kivu campaign. Killing thousands of Africans doesn't get a lot of press in U.S. media because they can't find a white policeman to blame it on.

Pelosi gets a 100% rating from NARAL

"Church leaders have been pleading with Pelosi for years, inviting her to repent and return to full communion with the Church. But she has been unwilling to let Catholicism inform her worldview. Even when personally corrected about her pro-choice views by Pope Benedict XVI in a private meeting in which he reminded her of her duty to protect life, the Speaker remained unmoved.

In the press conference following their conversation, she argued that all males—implicitly placing the pope and male Congressional members on the same plane—should refrain from interfering with abortions: “I love the pope. I have the highest regard for the pope…. But I don’t think that a lot of guys should be calling the shots.”

In a May 2022 interview with The Seattle Times, she confirmed that she believes her own judgment trumps the Church when it comes to abortion:

The very idea that they would be telling women the size, timing or whatever of their family, the personal nature of this is so appalling, and I say that as a devout Catholic…. They say to me, “Nancy Pelosi thinks she knows more about having babies than the Pope.” Yes I do. Are you stupid? . . . 

In 2021, Speaker Pelosi brought to the House floor and voted for the “Women’s Health Protection Act,” which codifies the right to abort a baby up until the moment of birth for any reason.

While delivering remarks to the House in support of WHPA, she condemned political forces that “don’t want in vitro fertilization” and “stand in the way of reproductive health and guidance in terms of family planning, birth control and the rest,” calling all efforts to limit such evils an “intrusion into the privacy of a family’s life.”

Additionally, Speaker Pelosi cited her Catholic faith as she voiced her support of this radical bill that directly contradicts Catholic moral teaching. She told the House of Representatives:

I come to this as a Catholic mother of five in six years and one week and with the joy that all that meant to us. But with the recognition that it was my husband and I – our decision. It was our decision. And we should not, in this body or in that Court, be making decisions for the women in America." https://catholicvote.org/public-scandal/

She may be many things, but she's not a Catholic anything.

 

Men need abortions, too—NARAL

"Women aren't the only people who get pregnant or the only people who need to access abortion." —NARAL.  Only in a Democrat world. The irony is in this article they are referring to transwomen as men who might need abortions. https://rewire.news/article/2019/03/01/women-are-not-the-only-ones-who-get-abortions/

Donald Trump is a wild card on abortion; Hillary Clinton is not

 Trump is a wild card on abortion, and unknown, in my opinion. Mrs. Clinton is not. She will allow abortion for any reason, any time, and any place. Has the boyfriend left--there goes the baby. Has a new test discovered the baby will have club feet and no football career? Outta here. Changed your mind on sex? Bye, bye, little girl. Just as Mr. Trump tells his base what it wants to hear, so Mrs. Clinton is telling her base what they want to hear also, and unfortunately what she believes to the bottom of her dark, dark soul.

Bernard Abramson, founder of NARAL, aborted about 60,000 babies, but later changed his mind and became very active in the pro-life movement. He had been an atheist and later converted to Catholicism in the 90s, although he was pro-life long before his conversion. He's the narrator on the most famous anti-abortion film, "Silent Scream." People do change. Norma McCorvey, the Roe in Roe v. Wade, which legalized killing millions of Americans, never actually had an abortion because the feminist lawyers just used her for their case, but she did believe in it. She also became an active pro-lifer many years later. People do change. I don't think Mrs. Clinton will. She's a pathological liar, a criminal, and a hater of women and the unborn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gON-8PP6zgQ

NARAL supports killing babies

Why would these women be surprised and outraged that NARAL aborts the Clinton campaign as it hops a ride on the Obama bandwagon?

"NARAL blogs are being overwhelmed, and many state affiliates are angry at the national group’s decision [to go with Obama].

Emily’s List is furious. And Martha Burke, former chair of the National Council of Women’s Organizations, tells Stein she is “disappointed”: “It feels like they are abandoning a known ally for a less committed candidate because they want to jump on a bandwagon. I think the pro-choice community should stick by a woman who has stuck by them.”" Huffington Post