Gosnell in whiteface—George Tiller

“ObamaCare is being constructed by Kathleen Sebelius, former governor of Kansas and friend and collaborator with the late George Tiller, who was assassinated by a distraught anti-abortion activist in a case well-covered and widely publicized across the country. Tiller, another specialist in late-term abortion, was no different in essence from Gosnell. It is claimed that he destroyed the lives of his victims while their heads were still in the vaginal canal, making the process legal (according to Justice Ruth Ginsburg, among others). His premises were cleaner, and he had superior methods of disposing of the remains, not finding it necessary to mince them and flush them down the toilet. But he was a Gosnell in whiteface all the same.”
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/if_obama_had_an_uncle.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook#ixzz2TM65S8jb

But hard to swallow

I don’t really believe he’ll be impeached—FDR, JFK, LBJ all used the IRS to go after their enemies, but only the Republican Nixon resigned. He actually cared about the reputation of the office.

What goes around. . .

The media  ignored the Tea Party complaints that the IRS was targeting them--3 years.  The media wouldn't dig into the Benghazi story.  Now that DoJ is targeting journalists, whoa Nellie!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/acting-irs-commissioner-repeatedly-failed-to-tell-congress-that-tea-party-groups-were-targeted/2013/05/13/4009e25c-bc2c-11e2-b537-ab47f0325f7c_story.html

EPA and FOIA

Another scandal for Obama administration? The EPA waives fees for leftist environmental groups under Freedom of Information Act, but not for conservative groups who sometimes have to go to court to get information. IRS, DoJ, WH, State, now EPA. Who's next? http://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/washingtonbureau/2013/05/14/conservative-group-accuses-epa-of.html

Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) found that the EPA waived fees on 75 out of 82 FOIA requests made by environmental groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council and Greenpeace. But it denied fee waivers on 14 of CEI’s 15 FOIA requests. Other conservative groups also were often denied fee waivers, according to CEI.

Change one letter

PREP for sex

Obamacare funnels $75 million annually into Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), “which must be used exclusively for Planned Parenthood-style “comprehensive” sex education programs where no type of sex is wrong and the only sexual behavior PP considers “unsafe” is becoming pregnant.”

“Hidden within Obamacare, Section 2953, Title II, Subtitle L : “Personal responsibility education” states that $75 million a year will be divvied to public schools across the nation under the covert name PREP which stands for Personal Responsibility and Education Programs.

PREP is the cover for Planned Parenthood’s involvement in sex education in public schools. Planned Parenthood has become a “partner agency” with certain middle schools to assist in developing curriculum that explains how to maintain a good sexual health and working with national marketing firms to create adverts that appeal to teenagers.”

http://www.occupycorporatism.com/how-the-dark-side-of-the-abortion-industry-influences-policy-education/

You’re not paranoid if they really are out to destroy you!

Just low level IRS workers in Cincinnati, Ohio

Since 2009 they’ve been working on this.  But it was a bit above those Cincy workers pay grade.

“So where did "lower level IRS employees in Cincinnati" get the idea to impede Tea Party Constitution groups?

Let's review the possibilities: President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi; Former DNC Head Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Senator John McCain, Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA), Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO); New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg; USA Today's DeWayne Wickham; MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews; ABC's Brian Ross and George Stephanopoulos; The New York Times' Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd, Nicholas Kristof and Thomas Friedman; The Washington Post's Richard Cohen, Dana Millbank, and Eugene Robinson; and the Editors of the Wall Street Journal.

And these are just the tip of the iceberg, the fountainhead of the fabricated cascade of false information meant to destroy the Tea Party movement, Patriot, Constitution and Small Government groups.”

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/05/those_crazy_lone-wolf_low_level_irs_employees.html#ixzz2TIAVyhSE

Morphing

White House Briefing—going badly for Carney

Poor Jay Carney. Benghazi is far worse than Watergate, and yet he tells US to check our history (Tuesday, May 14, press conference). Has to stand in front of the nation which doesn't believe a word and then gripe that the Benghazi tragedy is just a political side show by the Republicans, that the IRS story is an "if" and that Obama doesn't support the leaks snooping by Department of Justice and Eric Holder, his best bud.  He lamely whines about the "worst recession since the Great Depression." (That's code for this is all Bush's fault.)

Obama made clear yesterday he has been lying through his teeth about who did what when by "rewriting" the history of the last 8 months. On Sept. 25 he was still blaming a video for Sept. 11 attack. Hillary blamed a video in “comforting” the families and swore to get the film maker; Rice blamed a video on 5 talk shows. They all knew it wasn't true. Then he repeated that lie when he knew it was a planned terrorist attack and not a video when he told it on Sept. 25 at the United Nations, which he circuitously denied yesterday:

"That is what we saw play out in the last two weeks, as a crude and disgusting video sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world. Now, I have made it clear that the United States government had nothing to do with this video, and I believe its message must be rejected by all who respect our common humanity. It is an insult not only to Muslims, but to America as well -- for as the city outside these walls makes clear, we are a country that has welcomed people of every race and every faith."

Why doesn’t Obama speak out about the biggest news story? Because

When Barack Obama was an Illinois state senator, he voted against legislation that would have protected children born alive after botched abortions on a number of occasions. That's why there is not a peep from him about Kermit Gosnell (who was found guilty of 4 murders yesterday)  snipping the spine of born alive babies. He believes in the intention of the abortion, not the result. He was quick to speak out on an gay NBA player who'd hid in the closet for 20 years, quick to call Sandra Fluke about her demands for birth control at a Catholic university, and quick to malign the Boston police on behalf of his buddy Louis Gates, whose neighbors had called about a break-in.  But defend a helpless baby? No.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/13/kermit-gosnell-found-guilty-murder

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/jury-in-kermit-gosnell-trial-hung-on-two-charges/2013/05/13/b4444bdc-bbda-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/19/gosnell-abortion-clinic-worker-admits-snipping-spines-of-10-babies/

Worse than Nixon’s enemies list—and much bigger

Maybe the news about the IRS being used as a personal tool for the Obama campaign to put up road blocks for fund raising for patriot groups will cover up the news about 1) Benghazi cover up and gun running, 2) Department of Justice snooping and listening in on reporters, 3) the ghoulish Kermit Gosnell abortion murders, and 4) the news that 17 of the nation’s largest insurance companies indicate that with Obamacare, on average, premiums will grow 100% when the law is fully implemented.  Some will soar more than 400%.

Some conservative talking heads are speculating that with three huge scandals (not counting the insurance cost increase since we’ve known for years that would be a disaster), the Obama administration is in trouble. I don't see it. Democrats are incredibly loyal, much more so than Republicans. I used to be a Democrat and when I became a Republican in 2000 it was a big shock to see what wafflers Republicans are since Democrats will go to the grave wrong, but proud to be a Democrat.  Romney lost in 2012 not because of the youth vote or the Hispanic vote but because Republican and Libertarian Christians stayed home and pouted. It's very frustrating. There's a streak of perfectionism in evangelical and fundamentalist Christians that won't be moved.

It’s hard to keep track

IRS snooping on conservatives.  Justice snooping on reporters. Cover ups of Benghazi.  Whistleblowers intimidated.   But . . . he has enough time to call and congratulate a gay basketball player for finally coming out of the closet after a season in which he scored 4 points.

The President is in CYA mode

It's not often you can catch the President in 3 lies in just one paragraph of a news conference. Who believes him that the IRS is an independent agency? It's part of the Treasury Dept. which means (his) Executive branch. He said, "if it is true," but the IRS representative already admitted it late Friday afternoon hoping it would be buried the the week-end news dump. He said he read about the IRS scandal in the newspaper, but his chief counsel had known for 3 weeks that the sh*t was about the hit the fan. Where in the world is this guy when all hell's a popping and why do his staff hide things from him? He knew about the gay basketball player who made 4 points last year and called him.

The earliest reports of harassment by the IRS began in the fall of 2009 by patriot groups, 9/12 groups and others. Lengthy forms requested not only names of board members, but names of their family members; screen shots of their participation at social networking sites. Some of these groups are very small--maybe 20 people in a community. So they just didn't apply for the tax exempt status rather than hire a lawyer. It was pure intimidation and harassment and against the law.

Have a lovely day

Had a lovely brunch at our daughter’s home.  Photos are just so-so.

In 2000 the Dutch legalized prostitution

“Twelve years on, and we can now see the results of this experiment. Rather than afford better protection for the women, it has simply increased the market. Rather than confine the brothels to a discrete (and avoidable) part of the city, the sex industry has spilt out all over Amsterdam — including on-street. Rather than be given rights in the ‘workplace’, the prostitutes have found the pimps are as brutal as ever. The government-funded union set up to protect them has been shunned by the vast majority of prostitutes, who remain too scared to complain.

Pimps, under legalisation, have been reclassified as managers and businessmen. Abuse suffered by the women is now called an ‘occupational hazard’, like a stone dropped on a builder’s toe. Sex tourism has grown faster in Amsterdam than the regular type of tourism: as the city became the brothel of Europe, women have been imported by traffickers from Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia to meet the demand. In other words, the pimps remained but became legit — violence was still prevalent but part of the job, and trafficking increased. Support for the women to leave prostitution became almost nonexistent. The innate murkiness of the job has not been washed away by legal benediction.”

Sin has a way of doing that—makes the bad worse.

You can cross Holland off the cruise list.

When he was a Senator, he grasped the problem

Liturgical abuses in Latin America

“In Latin America, beside the beautifully and carefully celebrated Masses associated with the major popular devotions, liturgical abuses are still alive and constitute a massive problem in the region.

It is not a situation of omitting or changing the rubrics here and there. The liturgical problems are much more serious. They consist of events like priests “concelebrating” the Mass with the youth at the rhythm of tropical songs in Colombia; “consecrating” cakes with Guayaba marmalade in Venezuela; a “reggae” Mass in Panama; or a priest celebrating with vestments portraying Batman and Robin while squirting holy water with a green-and-red water pistol in Mexico.”

Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/pope-francis-and-the-liturgy/#ixzz2SzPmeBDx

Welcome to happy clappy Protestantism.

Democrats aren’t blind—just devoted followers

"The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, said organizations that included the words “tea party” or “patriot” in their applications for tax-exempt status were singled out for additional reviews." [Today's Washington Post] Now, do you recall the comments Obama made at OSU’s graduation  a week ago about those who fear tyranny in government? And the IRS goes after patriot groups because they aren't leftists?

I was a Democrat when Nixon fell from grace and resigned. Watergate was a burglary; no one died. He did the honorable thing—something unknown in government today—to protect the reputation not of himself, or his party, but the office of the presidency.  I didn't know a single Republican who stood by him--they were ashamed that such disgrace had fallen on their guy. Not so with Democrats and Benghazi. I don't know a single Democrat who has abandoned their slavish devotion to Obama. It reminds me of abused wives/girlfriends who keep going back for more after they get out of the hospital and he's released from jail.

Waiting for new glasses

My cataracts are gone, but I’ll need some sort of prescription so that I don’t have to carry around reading glasses (currently using 3 pair, and seem to always be looking for them).  The first few weeks my close up vision was fine, but has slipped some, and distance still has some astigmatism.  When we were at the lake 2 weeks ago, I found a pair from 1989. I’m still adjusting to color—particularly anything in the blue spectrum. According to what I’ve read, some people with cataract removal experience more purple.